GSL vs. The World 2019: Preview

On August 15 2019 17:33 Alejandrisha wrote:

seriously. what a crazy upset. anything can happen at this point and i would not be surprised.

On August 15 2019 21:30 TheOneAboveU wrote:

You made an account to post that? Really? But okay, I'll bite.
I don't think a majority of people expected Elazer winning vs. Dark, and Neeb vs. ShoWTimE was as close as possible (and both are a very reasonable pick to win here in my opinion). So yeah, not sure what you're getting at here.
If you're so much better than us at predictions, come and share yours beforehand next time.

On August 15 2019 22:13 HolydaKing wrote:

Idk if it has been 2 years, and even though I agree that at least the European top ZvZ players are stronger than the korean ones are, Dark losing to Elazer was not easy to predict. Elazer while good, is not on the level of Serral or Reynor in ZvZ.

On August 15 2019 21:30 TheOneAboveU wrote:

You made an account to post that? Really? But okay, I'll bite.
I don't think a majority of people expected Elazer winning vs. Dark, and Neeb vs. ShoWTimE was as close as possible (and both are a very reasonable pick to win here in my opinion). So yeah, not sure what you're getting at here.
If you're so much better than us at predictions, come and share yours beforehand next time.

On August 16 2019 15:02 bulya wrote:


I didn't made an account to post it. I posted it from work so I was probably logged in with my Reddit account rather then my main account on TL.

I wrote that because when I read it on Wednesday I was very surprised that nobody treated the Dark vs Elazer match as one that Elazer can win. Considering all the previous times Dark was knocked out of such an event (Blizzcon or GSL vs The World) was by a zerg player, and many times a foreign Zerg. Yes, that foreign Zerg was usually Serral, but Elazer did it as well in 2017.

On top of that most of the writers were quite certain that Stats doesn't have a chance vs Maru, or at least bet against Stats, even though Maru didn't really show anything good in recent times while Stats won the tournament in Finland just recently, and on top of that last year was the one who knocked Maru out of GSL vs The World. Another factor in favor of Stats was that he is in Maru's group in GSL, and I think in a TvP the Terran player has more to hide regarding his preparations, so not the best Maru would have showed up no matter what. All these arguments in total made me think from the get go that Stats is the favorite in that match.

With the other 2 the bets of the writers were going both ways and most of the betters got a single correct prediction by predicting correctly one of them. I was favoring Showtime in the PvP, but I didn't count out Neeb, so I'm not surprised I wasn't correct on this one.

With Time vs soO I didn't even have a prediction simply because I don't know Time's current form enough, all I knew was that its quite good based on his match vs Serral in Finland, while soO's form isn't great at all as he was knocked out of GSL season 3 in the RO32 and probably didn't take his preparations that seriously. Not having an idea of what form they are I could bet only based of my heart which said Time (I'm not a Time fan, but most times I'm in favor of the foreigner when it comes to KR vs foreigner, there are exceptions to it though), but I don't consider it as a correct bet as all I had is my heart there.

So its 2 correct bets out of 3 for me on Yesterday.

If you want some bets ahead of time, then I bet against all the Terrans today. I think I will be correct with at least 3 of these bets, but I agree that today's matches are easier to predict as Trap and Classic are very bold favorites, unlike yesterday's games where no match had such a clear favorite. There were favorites like Stats as I said, but not as clear as Trap and Classic today.

On August 18 2019 01:39 hexhaven wrote:
RIP all them predictions. You tried your best.