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CJ.herO, Life, PartinG get IEM Taipei Wildcard - Page 2

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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
January 14 2015 07:09 GMT
#21
should be a good tournament
Moderatorhttp://i.imgur.com/U4xwqmD.png
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Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
January 14 2015 07:16 GMT
#22
Not very creative invites ;(
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
Ctesias
Profile Joined December 2012
4595 Posts
January 14 2015 07:18 GMT
#23
Solid invites. All three must be considered contenders for the championship - especially herO, since it's an IEM.
Flash | Mvp
AWalker9
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
United Kingdom7229 Posts
January 14 2015 08:20 GMT
#24
Hopefully herO takes it all!
soOjwa has returned to smite all that stand in his way
Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
January 14 2015 08:20 GMT
#25
meh always the same
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Phredxor
Profile Joined May 2013
New Zealand15076 Posts
January 14 2015 08:35 GMT
#26
Would be nice to seem some slightly less well known players getting invites, but I guess that wouldn't make sense for IEM. May as well give the invites to the big names.
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
January 14 2015 08:44 GMT
#27
On January 14 2015 16:16 DarkLordOlli wrote:
Not very creative invites ;(


invites are apparently there to "fix" the qualifiers results so not very surprising. still disappointing tho.
Zest fanboy.
Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2103 Posts
January 14 2015 08:47 GMT
#28
On January 14 2015 17:44 sAsImre wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2015 16:16 DarkLordOlli wrote:
Not very creative invites ;(


invites are apparently there to "fix" the qualifiers results so not very surprising. still disappointing tho.

They are fixing it wrong. The 3 Koreans who should have received invites:
Dark, Dream, and Guilty.
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
January 14 2015 09:02 GMT
#29
On January 14 2015 17:47 Blargh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2015 17:44 sAsImre wrote:
On January 14 2015 16:16 DarkLordOlli wrote:
Not very creative invites ;(


invites are apparently there to "fix" the qualifiers results so not very surprising. still disappointing tho.

They are fixing it wrong. The 3 Koreans who should have received invites:
Dark, Dream, and Guilty.


yeah i'd love to see up and coming players or even stars that don't go too much to foreigner tournaments (if they'd accept) but it makes more sense to them to invite known players and the IEM lord.
Zest fanboy.
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18573 Posts
January 14 2015 09:05 GMT
#30
Pretty sure cj herO and life will pull in viewers like crazy compared to other Koreans
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-14 09:09:26
January 14 2015 09:08 GMT
#31
On January 14 2015 18:05 sharkie wrote:
Pretty sure cj herO and life will pull in viewers like crazy compared to other Koreans


I'd say PartinG is still more popular than herO tbh, at least for the french viewers in general and it wouldn't surprised me if it was true almost everywhere.
Zest fanboy.
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
January 14 2015 09:14 GMT
#32
They're all going to bring in viewers and it's a perfectly understandable thing for IEM to do. For people like me who watch every single tournament though it gets a bit stale seeing the same core of people invited to every tournament.

But hey, there's always the Open Bracket.
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
January 14 2015 09:17 GMT
#33
On January 14 2015 18:14 DarkLordOlli wrote:
They're all going to bring in viewers and it's a perfectly understandable thing for IEM to do. For people like me who watch every single tournament though it gets a bit stale seeing the same core of people invited to every tournament.

But hey, there's always the Open Bracket.


Probably one of these IEM where the Open Bracket is actually more stacked than the actual tournament anyway :D
Zest fanboy.
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
January 14 2015 12:38 GMT
#34
On January 14 2015 17:47 Blargh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2015 17:44 sAsImre wrote:
On January 14 2015 16:16 DarkLordOlli wrote:
Not very creative invites ;(


invites are apparently there to "fix" the qualifiers results so not very surprising. still disappointing tho.

They are fixing it wrong. The 3 Koreans who should have received invites:
Dark, Dream, and Guilty.

They should just give Guilty three spots IMO.
Moderatorshe/her
TL+ Member
Yhamm
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
France7248 Posts
January 14 2015 12:41 GMT
#35
http://www.eslgaming.com/news/intel-extreme-masters-heads-taipei-its-first-event-2015

that's the source for Liquipedia, news done 6d ago
LiquipediaWe will have only each other at the last
ChaseTheSun
Profile Joined May 2014
United States61 Posts
January 14 2015 12:48 GMT
#36
On January 14 2015 15:35 banjoetheredskin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2015 15:26 ChaseTheSun wrote:
On January 14 2015 14:04 Blargh wrote:
On January 14 2015 13:17 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On January 14 2015 13:16 banjoetheredskin wrote:
On January 14 2015 13:13 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On January 14 2015 13:11 banjoetheredskin wrote:
On January 14 2015 13:09 Circumstance wrote:
There's always four. This is how IEM has worked for several seasons. 2 qualifiers from NA, 2 from EU, 2 from Asia, 1 from the host region (in this case, Asia), 1 from the host nation (in this case, Taiwan), 4 invited wildcards, 4 from the Open Bracket. If the fourth invitee isn't listed, they're either not yet announced by the ESL, or they may be foreign (there was one foreign wildcard in San Jose).

so is now a good time to start rumors about it being naniwa? :D

Sure, even though they wouldn't touch Naniwa with a 10 foot poll

they don't have to touch him as long as he has soundproofing

it's naniwa, he'll find out how the other guy is cheating no matter what.

I dunno, I could see why a pro player would be somewhat paranoid over whether someone was cheating or not. There is nothing more annoying than losing to some shithead cheater. Though, admittedly, it'd probably be quite satisfying being a shithead cheater too. Still, so long as it isn't too crazy (and I wouldn't say his IEM incident or his most recent Happy Russian stream incident were) then I'm fine with his accusations/paranoia.


What's the Happy stream incident?

After some suspicious decisions by Happy in G2 of his series against NaNiwa during WCS EU qualifiers (without looking at the replay and analyzing why Happy did what he did), NaNiwa called Happy out for ghosting because he had been informed that the Russian stream was only on 10 seconds delay, when all streams are supposed to have like 2-5 minutes or something. Therefore in G3 there was no Russian stream. People were just accusing NaNiwa of being a sore losing prick though because they didn't know the Russian stream didn't have the proper delay


Oh wow! I didn't hear about this! Thanks for the reply btw.

p.s. Guilty next bonjwa
AWalker9
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
United Kingdom7229 Posts
January 14 2015 13:03 GMT
#37
On January 14 2015 21:38 The_Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2015 17:47 Blargh wrote:
On January 14 2015 17:44 sAsImre wrote:
On January 14 2015 16:16 DarkLordOlli wrote:
Not very creative invites ;(


invites are apparently there to "fix" the qualifiers results so not very surprising. still disappointing tho.

They are fixing it wrong. The 3 Koreans who should have received invites:
Dark, Dream, and Guilty.

They should just give Guilty three spots IMO.


Boombox needs to get a spot
soOjwa has returned to smite all that stand in his way
messioso
Profile Joined June 2011
Denmark635 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-14 13:21:54
January 14 2015 13:19 GMT
#38
NaNiwa would be cool.

Things will be announced once the final TW qualifier is finished tomorrow.
Former ESL League Operations. I ran IEM/WCS for like 3 years or something. I did map vetos on a tablet. That guy.
Rocket-Bear
Profile Joined July 2014
3070 Posts
January 14 2015 13:43 GMT
#39
Slightly offtopic but Leenock is going to IEM Taipei as well for those who wanted to know idk.
Favorite players: Gh and Zai
dazed25
Profile Joined August 2014
3566 Posts
January 14 2015 15:15 GMT
#40
Very solid invites. IEM mainstay herO, worldchamp Life, and "local" boy PartinG.
Zest, Rain, Life, Stats, Flash, PartinG, herO
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