EPTI am curious whether that is a coincidence or whether it also works with some uncertainty?
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
I am curious whether that is a coincidence or whether it also works with some uncertainty? | ||
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
On November 01 2018 21:47 frazzle wrote: Looks like there is a mistake, Student meets Master Special vs TY sleeper prediction seems to be missing!  I think the best Semi we can hope for is Maru Special and TY Serral. Because then any final will be at least 90% max hype level. | ||
Poopi
France12906 Posts
On November 01 2018 22:50 opisska wrote: Looking at the Aligulac predictions, it's actually quite impressive how it has virtually no opinion of Serral. It gives 1:4 to any possible placement of his. Basically, if you ask Aligulac how Serral is going to do, the answer is: nah, whatever. I am curious whether that is a coincidence or whether it also works with some uncertainty? I'm pretty sure it's because his first round is almost even (#2 aligulac vs #3 and comparable ZvZ elo), and the future matches as well, because his path opponents are at the top as well. Whereas Maru has an easier "aligulac" path to the finals. | ||
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Rodya
546 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:04 Pandain wrote: I think the best Semi we can hope for is Maru Special and TY Serral. Because then any final will be at least 90% max hype level. I disagree. TvP has seen a meta shift all thanks to Maru. I want to see Stats show us how Protoss are supposed to play in this new meta. I suspect that sOs will have his own take on this but that it will ultimately fail. If he weren't going up against Maru (so that Maru and Trap would help him prepare) then I'd have more faith. TvP is the matchup to watch right now, in my opinion. I wish there was a protoss on the bottom side of the bracket. | ||
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:10 Rodya wrote: I disagree. TvP has seen a meta shift all thanks to Maru. I want to see Stats show us how Protoss are supposed to play in this new meta. I suspect that sOs will have his own take on this but that it will ultimately fail. If he weren't going up against Maru (so that Maru and Trap would help him prepare) then I'd have more faith. TvP is the matchup to watch right now, in my opinion. I wish there was a protoss on the bottom side of the bracket. You probably won't like what you see since Stats said he's trying to avoid terrans because "he hates proxies" | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
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Psychonian
United States2322 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:14 Fango wrote: This must be the least amount of faith people have ever had in Dark (in the last you years at least) He's in an absolutely disgusting bracket against the best ZvZ player in the world, and then if he manages that, either last year's world champion or the man who took Maru to the absolute brink in a bo7. He might be getting slept on just a little, but not a ton to be completely honest. If dark makes the finals I wil be very surprised. | ||
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Neneu
Norway492 Posts
A lot of magic can happen when two teammates fights, especially when they are such strong meta/strategy influencers as Maru and sOs. Also lets not forget that at blizzcon sOs tends to be in $O$ mode. | ||
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Psychonian
United States2322 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:17 Neneu wrote: Surprised nobody expects sOs to win over Maru considering the last tournament they fought, GSL Super tournament 1 month ago, sOs won 3 - 1 over Maru in the round of 8 and eliminated him from the tournament. A lot of magic can happen when two teammates fights, especially when they are such strong meta/strategy influencers as Maru and sOs. Also lets not forget that at blizzcon sOs tends to be in $O$ mode. I agree. I'm not sure I'd go as far as to favor sOs over Maru, but I certainly do give him a fighting chance. | ||
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Z3nith
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Fanatic-Templar
Canada5819 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:17 Neneu wrote: Surprised nobody expects sOs to win over Maru considering the last tournament they fought, GSL Super tournament 1 month ago, sOs won 3 - 1 over Maru in the round of 8 and eliminated him from the tournament. A lot of magic can happen when two teammates fights, especially when they are such strong meta/strategy influencers as Maru and sOs. Also lets not forget that at blizzcon sOs tends to be in $O$ mode. I watched Sos last weekend, and I'm still surprised that he advanced past Heromarine, never mind Maru. | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:17 Psychonian wrote: He's in an absolutely disgusting bracket against the best ZvZ player in the world, and then if he manages that, either last year's world champion or the man who took Maru to the absolute brink in a bo7. He might be getting slept on just a little, but not a ton to be completely honest. If dark makes the finals I wil be very surprised. Serral being the absolute best ZvZer is still debatable. He probably is, but if Lambo, Scarlett, and Reynor can all take him to the edge, Dark can certainly do more. Rogue hasn't done much of anything in the last six months, and Dark would almost certainly be favoured over TY given he usually does. Now I still think Serral will make the final, and likely win. But people seem to be counting out Dark entirely. He's still made 2 finals and 3 ro4s this year, and those were all events with other koreans. That's more than TY, Rogue, or Serral. | ||
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Fanatic-Templar
Canada5819 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:30 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: sOs is going to win the entire thing. His crap performance in group stage is a next level mind game I mean, if he starts playing well I'm actually fine with that. | ||
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Neneu
Norway492 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:25 Fanatic-Templar wrote: I watched Sos last weekend, and I'm still surprised that he advanced past Heromarine, never mind Maru. But you have to remember heromarine is not his teammate and that every time Maru and sOs fights, it is batshit crazy. Every single time. One cannot extract anything from previous performance at blizzcon of how he weill do against Maru. If it were against any other player I would agree, but not against Maru. | ||
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ParksonVN
Australia370 Posts
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Poopi
France12906 Posts
On November 01 2018 23:38 ParksonVN wrote: I'm so disappointed by how biased some parts of the community are. It's been 8 years of wonderful SC2 with countless fantastic moments and some people still say that it would be the best thing in the history of the game "for them" that Serral wins the Blizzcon ??? Best thing for what? A foreigner finally wins? Were you not that entertained when guys like MVP, Life, sOs, Inno, Taeja ... gave us their best games? If there is no Maru in finals I doubt I'd watch, except maybe if TY is in there. So not everyone wants Serral to win thankfully :o. | ||
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TheDougler
Canada8306 Posts
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
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