IEM Taipei - Open Brackets & Groups announced

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Yhamm

France7248 Posts

January 16 2015 18:53 GMT

IEM announced the Open Brackets and the Groups for the upcoming (Wiki)

IEM Season IX - Taipei (January 28th to February 1st)

Open Bracket #1:

jjakji -

Impact -

Sacsri -

Leenock -

TRUE -

Soulkey -

Has -

HerO
Open Bracket #2:

HyuN -

Check -

Revival -

DongRaeGu -

Patience -

Ian -

Daisy -

Snute

As I'm writing this, the news on IEM has been deleted, you can see the brackets on Liquipedia: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_IX_-_Taipei#Stage_1

Invited Players:

herO -

PartinG -

Rain -

Life

Qualified Players:
From Asia:

Maru -

San - ~~INnoVation~~ -

Classic
From America:

Polt -

Hydra
From Europe:

ForGG -

Kas
From Taiwan:

Sen

INnoVation cancelled his participation for personal reasons and was replaced by Classic, who finished 4th in the Asian Qualifier

The groups are as follow:

Group A

Sen vs Open Bracket
(T)

Polt vs

herO

Group B
(P)

Classic vs Open Bracket
(T)

Kas vs

Rain

Group C
(P)

San vs Open Bracket
(T)

ForGG vs

Life

Group D
(T)

Maru vs Open Bracket
(Z)

Hydra vs

PartinG

SetGuitarsToKill

Canada28396 Posts

January 16 2015 19:05 GMT

This thread looks much niced than DLO's.

This tournament is so devoid of Terran, and now Inno who's probably the best one isn't coming.

Koromon

United States304 Posts

January 16 2015 19:11 GMT

Is the pen mightier than the Classic?

Groups seem quite balanced so far? Hope one of the many Zergs makes it through into group B though.

Edit: And really really hope jjakji makes it through.

sharkie

Austria18635 Posts

January 16 2015 19:17 GMT

yessssss, no protoss in herO's group so far!
But Classic in instead of Innovation sucks

Olli

Austria24422 Posts

January 16 2015 19:17 GMT

Really happy to see Classic, was hoping he'd get invited. Sad to see INnoVation out but they found a damn good replacement.

Liman

Serbia681 Posts

January 16 2015 19:18 GMT

I guess we will see if Maru or Life can dethrone the king of IEM herO.
This will be good .

SuperHofmann

Italy1741 Posts

January 16 2015 19:19 GMT

Soulkey and Impact in the Open

Fighting!

The_Templar

your Country52797 Posts

January 16 2015 19:21 GMT

This is a very solid list of players. Should be very nice to watch.

AWalker9

United Kingdom7229 Posts

January 16 2015 19:26 GMT

Really nice open bracket
I hope Impact and Soulkey get out of the first bracket

Cricketer12

United States13996 Posts

January 16 2015 19:26 GMT

#10

Classic instead of inno sucks DONGRAEGU MOTHERFUCKER

gdarky

Latvia78 Posts

January 16 2015 19:27 GMT

#11

I hoped to see Inno.

Supersamu

Germany296 Posts

January 16 2015 19:30 GMT

#12

Will this be the first Premier Tournament to have 2015 S1 Maps? I am excited to see them in professional Play.
Also: I really wish more Tournaments had double elimination, I really dislike single elimination.

Redrot

United States446 Posts

January 16 2015 19:32 GMT

#13

Oh man, those open brackets are STACKED! Especially the 1st one.

Makes sense though since the entire tournament is stacked.

Blargh

United States2103 Posts

January 16 2015 19:35 GMT

#14

Da fk Innovation. Y u do dis 2 me???
But if it was PERSONAL, I suppose I'll just have to respect that...

Seriously though, Innovation cancelling makes me lose a lot of my interest in the tournament =/...

TheDwf

France19747 Posts

January 16 2015 19:37 GMT

#15

Blargh, only Zergs in the Open bracket and Bogus withdrawing

Edit -- haha, of course someone with the actual ID "Blargh" posted right above me!