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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55566 Posts
December 17 2015 14:47 GMT
#21
On December 17 2015 23:46 Topin wrote:
cant wait to see some photos/interviews of ByuNjwa!

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
December 17 2015 14:48 GMT
#22
Guys Ro16 is a very small sample size for people to be crying imba look no terran.

By these stats obviously you'd thing ZvP was balanced.

Just saying.. small sample size and big fluctuation in skill.
"Wtf I come back and find myself in camp DinoMight all of a sudden, feels weird man." -Wombat_NI
Tien Vu
Profile Joined August 2015
184 Posts
December 17 2015 14:48 GMT
#23
I'm loving this PvZcraft2 game! Now it makes perfect sense that they are downsizing SC2 tourneys and leagues, because T is going to have barely any presence in the competitive scene!
insitelol
Profile Joined August 2012
845 Posts
December 17 2015 14:53 GMT
#24
So SSL S1 is about 15 games? i missed something right?
Less is more.
Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
December 17 2015 14:54 GMT
#25
I like this simple single elimination bracket. The league should have differed themselves from GSL and others long ago
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55566 Posts
December 17 2015 14:56 GMT
#26
On December 17 2015 23:53 insitelol wrote:
So SSL S1 is about 15 games? i missed something right?

It's 15 series, yes.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
SNSeigifried
Profile Joined April 2013
United States1640 Posts
December 17 2015 15:00 GMT
#27
Really sad to realize that Maru/TY/FanTaSy got fucked by ridiculously hard brackets and then Reality had to play ByuN in round 1 prob could of had 1-2 terrans more if brackets/sessions were split better but oh well
Icebound Esports
feanaro
Profile Joined March 2014
United States123 Posts
December 17 2015 15:06 GMT
#28
Interesting that for all the talk of the strength of zerg, they are almost perfectly proportionally represented. Even more surprising, the zergs who qualified were almost exactly the ones you would have expected in a HotS tournament, with the exception of RagnaroK beating Life.

Terran probably need some help in some form, but these brackets did them no favors: Maru, Bomber, Sorry and jjakji all got screwed over by being put in the same bracket as Byul and Soulkey, and TY got stuck in the Solar/soO bracket. Mainly what makes terran look bad is that only one got out in first place, and of people it was aLive. Is he actually good in LotV?

And of course the protoss lineup got shaken up considerably, as to be expected for them since metagaming insight is more volatile than the mechanics that dominate for the other 2. Still, I was surprised Trust and Hurricane advanced, while their teammates Zest and Dear did not.

Also, what happened to the Jin Air lineup? I get that some of them had tough brackets, but not even one made it through?
Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10103 Posts
December 17 2015 15:08 GMT
#29
On December 17 2015 23:47 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2015 23:46 Topin wrote:
cant wait to see some photos/interviews of ByuNjwa!

https://twitter.com/kenzi131/status/677491399449645057

loving every photo
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
VariusSC2
Profile Joined January 2011
Russian Federation4 Posts
December 17 2015 15:08 GMT
#30
Byun, Innovation FTW !!!!
argonautdice
Profile Joined January 2013
Canada2719 Posts
December 17 2015 15:09 GMT
#31
On December 18 2015 00:08 VariusSC2 wrote:
Byun, Innovation FTW !!!!

well at least one of them will be out in the round of 8
very illegal and very uncool
oGoZenob
Profile Joined December 2011
France1503 Posts
December 17 2015 15:13 GMT
#32
Of all the terran I expected to qualify, Alive was pretty low on the list ^^ But oh well, let's not blame everything on balance, that's a small sample of players in a completely new game, let's be patient
I like starcraft
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
December 17 2015 15:18 GMT
#33
On December 17 2015 23:54 Arceus wrote:
I like this simple single elimination bracket. The league should have differed themselves from GSL and others long ago

I agree that it should be different from GSL. But pls in an interesting way. Not like this
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
SlammerSC2
Profile Joined April 2013
77 Posts
December 17 2015 15:39 GMT
#34
Need less protoss, more terrans
Foxxan
Profile Joined October 2004
Sweden3427 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-17 15:44:40
December 17 2015 15:44 GMT
#35
Ah 7th of january, very good considdering these guys can then practice lotv.
Swisslink
Profile Joined March 2011
2954 Posts
December 17 2015 15:44 GMT
#36
Wait...
There are only 2 SSL per year and these 2 seasons are like... 15 series and that's it?
So all the players who do not qualify for GSL and aren't in the top 16, they're just done for half a year? Oo
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
December 17 2015 15:49 GMT
#37
On December 18 2015 00:44 Swisslink wrote:
Wait...
There are only 2 SSL per year and these 2 seasons are like... 15 series and that's it?
So all the players who do not qualify for GSL and aren't in the top 16, they're just done for half a year? Oo

SSL pretty much downgraded A LOT for next year. This is so horrible -.-
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
KappaKingPrime
Profile Joined May 2014
United States468 Posts
December 17 2015 16:23 GMT
#38
No Jin Air...
Ingvar
Profile Joined April 2015
Russian Federation421 Posts
December 17 2015 16:25 GMT
#39
Some thoughts:

Zerg line-up is reasonable. All qualified players are good besides Soulkey and RagnaroK - but RagnaroK is only here because Life had a strange meltdown.
Terran line-up is terrible - besides Inno, who was the best T at the end of HotS, and ByuN, who was the best T in/after beta, only aLive managed to qualify. Ok, Maru can have a bad day, but complete failure of Terran tier 2 - TY/Dream/FanTaSy/Bbyong/whoever - can't be brushed aside because it's "too early to tell".
Protoss line-up is unreasonable. There was 6 championship-level P in 2015 - sOs/Parting/Zest/Rain/Classic/herO. Only 2 of them managed to qualify but there is still 7 P in SSL. Out of those, Trust/MyuNgSiK/Hurricane/Patience were trash tier in Korea in HotS. There is no way all of them made a jump to the next level.

In semifinals and finals (I threw away quarterfinals to round out skill level) PvT is 5-1 (83%), ZvT is 7-4 (64%) and PvZ is 5-4 (56%) in series. Between this, GSL pre-season, Dreamhack and HSC there is enough sample size to warrant T buff (and maybe P nerf later).

I decide to cheer for 1) Classic 2) Solar 3) Byunnovation.

I hope 2 short SSLs means we will have more Korean events such as Kespa cup or GSL Super tournament with invites outside of starleagues circuit.
MMA | Life | Classic | Happy | Team Empire | Team Spirit
Namu
Profile Joined February 2011
United States826 Posts
December 17 2015 16:28 GMT
#40
that myungsik vs byun game was really awful, something really needs to be done about adepts in tvp...
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