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With the open brackets done and dusted, the competition got even more heated at the IEM Season XII World Championship. Things kicked off with Groups A and B of the round of 24, with a full THIRTY best of 3 matches on the schedule. By day’s end, half the round of 12 was decided, while six players found their tournament runs had come to an end.
Group A featured foreign hopefuls  SpeCial and  ShoWTimE, but the pair combined to go 2-16 against Koreans. Maru and TY jumped out to 3-0 starts, but Maru picked up a loss when they met in the fourth round of play. The Splyce Terran won his final match against SpeCial to move to 5-0, while Dear stormed back from a 1-1 start to finish the group in second place after defeating ShoWTimE, GuMiho and Maru in a row without dropping a map.
Group A: TY, Dear and Maru advance.
Group B was far more tightly contested, with the results uncertain headed into the final matches of the day. uThermal burst out to a 3-1 start, surpassed only by  Solar who won his first four matches as the only player to have an easy time in the group.
INnoVation, meanwhile, met Dark in an unusual match where both players had started 1-2 and were in danger of suffering an embarrassing early elimination. Dark took that match against his rival, then defeated uThermal to lock up a RO12 spot after his poor start. In the end, it all came down to INnoVation vs Hurricane, with Hurricane and uThermal contending for the 3rd place spot in the group. Hurricane pulled out a narrow 2-1 victory against the already eliminated INnoVation, securing his spot in the RO12 while sending uThermal out on map differential.
Group B: Solar, Dark and Hurricane advance.
IEM Katowice returns for the second day of group play on Friday, March 2 11:00 GMT (+00:00)
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I thought Showtime would perform better but sadly not, Hurricane and Innovation the biggest surprises so far I think. Hoping Zest,Rogue and Serral/Neeb make it out of Group C.
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corrected nevermind im fucking dumb.
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I was super impressed by Solar today, expected him to advance but not in such dominant fashion
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On March 02 2018 08:59 vult wrote:
Crazy to think that TRUE's one win was the deciding factor in uThermal not making it through LOL
No, uThermal was down 2 map score compared to Hurricane (-1 vs +1). Hurricane had one 2-0 win and one 2-0 loss. uThermal had no 2-0 wins and two 2-0 losses.
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It was Dark (and Inno) losing to Hurricane that ruined uThermals chances
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On March 02 2018 08:49 Zaros wrote:
I thought Showtime would perform better but sadly not, Hurricane and Innovation the biggest surprises so far I think. Hoping Zest,Rogue and Serral/Neeb make it out of Group C.
Foreign vT has always been rather suspect due to there being few good non-Korean terrans to practice with.
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I'd say, Maru played extremely well and was ruthless. But those games vs Dear, TvP... you know it, it's hard not to complain about.
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Based on the results, I dont think the rest of the world has caught up to Korean SC2 like everyone thinks. Yes there are a few individuals that are on their level like Scarlet, but were halfway through an all Korean championship bracket. 
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Innovation started the year of on a bad note. i can sense a SLUMP.
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On March 02 2018 10:32 engesser1 wrote:
I'd say, Maru played extremely well and was ruthless. But those games vs Dear, TvP... you know it, it's hard not to complain about.
I mean he had game 1 basically won.
That was one of the biggest throws I've seen in a while.
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On March 02 2018 14:33 Charoisaur wrote:Show nested quote +On March 02 2018 10:32 engesser1 wrote:
I'd say, Maru played extremely well and was ruthless. But those games vs Dear, TvP... you know it, it's hard not to complain about. I mean he had game 1 basically won. That was one of the biggest throws I've seen in a while.
let's say, he tired ... a little bit, not the best condition.
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On March 02 2018 10:52 tekrebel wrote:
Yes there are a few individuals that are on their level like Scarlet (
And by that you mean ZvZing your way to the finals, then abusing a broken mu, then dropping out in qualifiers in a first serious tournament? Scarlett is certainly capable of some good performance but consistency definitely isn't there.
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On March 02 2018 14:33 Charoisaur wrote:Show nested quote +On March 02 2018 10:32 engesser1 wrote:
I'd say, Maru played extremely well and was ruthless. But those games vs Dear, TvP... you know it, it's hard not to complain about. I mean he had game 1 basically won. That was one of the biggest throws I've seen in a while.
I don`t say he is not good, he is one of my favourite terrans since he started playing, but I guess he was overhyped this whole week. He did OK in GSL, last Terran, yes, but in the qualifiers he won against Stas and then lost against the other 2 koreans TY/Dear, came 3rd in the group.
I wouldn`t say about somebody who is loosing 2 games from 5 that is doing extremely well, he did just good. Basically he beat 2 foreigners who were in their off day (ussually they play much better) and Gumi who lost to all other koreans, so not that of a big win.
TY and Solar were much more impressive, going 5-0.
Expecting good results from Seral today, can`t wait.
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On March 02 2018 10:32 engesser1 wrote:
I'd say, Maru played extremely well and was ruthless.
This is Maru fanboys in a nutshell. He goes 3-2 while eating epic storms and mismicroing tanks, and it's 'extremely' good 
Wonder what it would have been if he had gone 5-0? 'SuperDuperMegaFreaking Incredible'?
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So sad innovation, special and Showtime are out. I was expecting great things from innovation and hoping special would do well.
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Innovation did some really weird moves. Idk if it's the jet lag or something else but those were such rookie mistakes that it looked like he was throwing on purpose. Is betting still a thing in Korea?
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On March 02 2018 19:22 algue wrote:Innovation did some really weird moves. Idk if it's the jet lag or something else but those were such rookie mistakes that it looked like he was throwing on purpose. Is betting still a thing in Korea?
lol jetlag. ever considered that 4/6 other players in his group were also experiencing "jetlag"?
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This is just how innovation plays in the first half of every year, he'll figure it out and probably win a GSL in October still.
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