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Disappointed that Reynor declined, I hope it's not health related. Fingers crossed that America approved Time's visa.
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Reynor probably doesn't need the points to make it to Katowice. He's giving up seeding benefits but that extra seeding might not be worth it to him to travel to the states and play another tournament.
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Cool to see Cure participating, I thought he was too old to travel? Also hoping Time makes it, with a decent bracket I think he could make a deep run.
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On November 10 2022 04:02 Vindicare605 wrote: Reynor probably doesn't need the points to make it to Katowice. He's giving up seeding benefits but that extra seeding might not be worth it to him to travel to the states and play another tournament. It would impact the seeding in IEM, and you would prefer to be a top 4 seed for better draw in the group stage. Reynor, and Dark, missing DH Atlanta will let Serral and herO take over top 4 seed along with Clem and Maru.
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Bummer, but Reynor would only decline with a good reason so best wishes for him.
Stacked tournament, this will be great!
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I wonder if Reynor declined because he wants to focus on more practice cuz of his recent results. Man already qualified for Katowice so he wants to take some personal time off. Wishing you the best Reynor! Excited for the Tournament
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reynor is not vaccinated for covid so he cannot go to the us
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On November 10 2022 04:02 Vindicare605 wrote: Reynor probably doesn't need the points to make it to Katowice. He's giving up seeding benefits but that extra seeding might not be worth it to him to travel to the states and play another tournament.
If he is burned out or for other health reasons, it's obviously understandable. Other than those I can't imagine volunaritly giving up a big tournament like this. I mean these guys are living for the chance to prove themselves at tournaments and it's also basically their job
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On November 10 2022 23:19 Harris1st wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2022 04:02 Vindicare605 wrote: Reynor probably doesn't need the points to make it to Katowice. He's giving up seeding benefits but that extra seeding might not be worth it to him to travel to the states and play another tournament. If he is burned out or for other health reasons, it's obviously understandable. Other than those I can't imagine volunaritly giving up a big tournament like this. I mean these guys are living for the chance to prove themselves at tournaments and it's also basically their job you don't have to be able to imagine why and they don't have to explain it. they are people with entire lives you don't know about whereas you see them only as gamers. much more to life than competition and money
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On November 10 2022 23:19 Harris1st wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2022 04:02 Vindicare605 wrote: Reynor probably doesn't need the points to make it to Katowice. He's giving up seeding benefits but that extra seeding might not be worth it to him to travel to the states and play another tournament. If he is burned out or for other health reasons, it's obviously understandable. Other than those I can't imagine volunaritly giving up a big tournament like this. I mean these guys are living for the chance to prove themselves at tournaments and it's also basically their job I mean, my passion is writing software, and it's also my job, and I turn down work all the time for all kinds of reasons. Let the dude take a break, he doesn't owe us an explanation.
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On November 11 2022 00:00 AmericanUmlaut wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2022 23:19 Harris1st wrote:On November 10 2022 04:02 Vindicare605 wrote: Reynor probably doesn't need the points to make it to Katowice. He's giving up seeding benefits but that extra seeding might not be worth it to him to travel to the states and play another tournament. If he is burned out or for other health reasons, it's obviously understandable. Other than those I can't imagine volunaritly giving up a big tournament like this. I mean these guys are living for the chance to prove themselves at tournaments and it's also basically their job I mean, my passion is writing software, and it's also my job, and I turn down work all the time for all kinds of reasons. Let the dude take a break, he doesn't owe us an explanation.
Keep in mind that Reynor already this year made the trip to Korea (which I'm sure wasn't a simple ordeal) just to play in GSL and he ended that adventure with a very disappointing result.
If he doesn't want to make another cross continent trip to play in another tournament when he's already pretty much locked into going to Katowice then it makes sense to me why he'd want to sit this one out.
As others accurately put it, he's not just a gamer, he has a life and he's been burning very bright this year.
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On November 10 2022 23:18 BadBorz1 wrote:reynor is not vaccinated for covid so he cannot go to the us Ohh, that makes sense.
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This is nothing against any player, but the lack of caster at the site and some big name players missing really hurt the hype of the overall event. Sure it would still be fun and crowded (?) but its one of the rare occasions for the die-hard SC2 fan in the US to finally have an offline event and their experience wont be as amazing.
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Did they accidentally link TL Hero when it should be DPG's herO in the tweet?
I was very confused at first.
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On November 11 2022 13:23 Blargh wrote: Did they accidentally link TL Hero when it should be DPG's herO in the tweet?
I was very confused at first. TL HerO is back?
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On November 10 2022 23:18 BadBorz1 wrote:reynor is not vaccinated for covid so he cannot go to the us Any proof? That would be hella dumb on his part.
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On November 10 2022 23:18 BadBorz1 wrote:reynor is not vaccinated for covid so he cannot go to the us
Do you have a source for this?
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FYI in his interview at the Pig Sty Festival this morning, Reynor said that he really wanted to go to Atlanta, but was forced to back out due to personal reasons related to his family. He will be back for Homestory Cup though.
Prayers for whatever that might be! As people said above, progamers have lives, families, crises, etc, like everyone else.
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Missing Classic as well
Or am I missing something?
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I might be misunderstanding but, DRG qualified through the regional (GSL) and would not be present on a group stage 1/2 graphic.
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Whoopsie, I completely forgot DRG got top top 6 in GSL, my bad.
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I feel like the new format compared to last year makes this kind of thing less likely, but it is a bummer to not see Reynor or Dark playing. Still should be a good tourney though!
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On November 16 2022 13:40 rwala wrote: I feel like the new format compared to last year makes this kind of thing less likely, but it is a bummer to not see Reynor or Dark playing. Still should be a good tourney though! People wanted offline back but forgot that you almost never get every Single top Player for an offline Event. You can t have both the accesability from online play and the hype from offline play unfortunatly.. I m grad that there are still tons if 3rd Party Events ike the recent afreeeca thing running online, so we have a healthy Mix from both
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On November 16 2022 15:42 dbRic1203 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 16 2022 13:40 rwala wrote: I feel like the new format compared to last year makes this kind of thing less likely, but it is a bummer to not see Reynor or Dark playing. Still should be a good tourney though! People wanted offline back but forgot that you almost never get every Single top Player for an offline Event. You can t have both the accesability from online play and the hype from offline play unfortunatly.. I m grad that there are still tons if 3rd Party Events ike the recent afreeeca thing running online, so we have a healthy Mix from both
That's true, though I feel like at least now there's at least a chance that you could since the top guys can still compete in the open sign-ups if they have a bad prior regional and don't get top seeded in (like with the old IEM formats, which produced some great shows with all the top players).
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Well.. a top 5 candidate for a winner not attending a tournament sure sucks..
Oh well.. Still hope for some great games. Foreigners FIGHTING!
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Not that there's anything wrong with not attending, but does anyone know why Dark decided to skip Atlanta?
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On November 12 2022 07:28 Gescom wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2022 23:18 BadBorz1 wrote:reynor is not vaccinated for covid so he cannot go to the us Any proof? That would be hella dumb on his part.
why exactly?
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