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On September 23 2011 05:10 Morphling_ wrote:
So If I'm looking at the format correctly, pool play is pretty much completely meaningless? All 16 players get slotted into a single elim tournament, all that a good pool play record will get you is a better seed?
At least in MLG doing good in pool play means less matches to win later..
Well, the way I see it is that you wouldn't want to leave anything up to chance in a 100.000 dollar tournament.
You take every little advantage you can get - including a higher seed if possible.
So even though it's non-elimination, players will hopefully give it their all to get that advantage that could be decisive in the end.
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Thanks TL and Hot_Bid. Looks good.
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LMAO IGN sure know how to set up a tourney. such quality.
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MC!!! :D Epic tournament incoming
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This is so sick, I can't wait
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hmmm, is team liquid teaming up with IPL in some way? don't think I've ever seen a countdown for an MLG or DH.
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Australia8532 Posts
Probably better to post this in the IPL thread but wouldn't it be a lot better to have the championship bracket double elim as well?
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United States530 Posts
We intend to stream every game from the championship bracket. Double elimination would not allow for that unless we scrapped the open live qualifier altogether. Single elimination does have its merits, though. Every game becomes super duper meaningful!
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I'll make every effort to watch this. I haven't followed IPL like I have MLG for some reason, maybe because they put out less hype before the big events, but IPL is a well run tournament for sure. The countdown ad there will help remind me, good move.
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France383 Posts
So HuK is half canadian half american ?
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On September 23 2011 08:08 MGN wrote:
So HuK is half canadian half american ?
About half of north america is actually canada o.O
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:O This is awesome. I can totally use this to keep up on all things IPL 3 related!
...oh wait, thanks to the wonderful people at IPL, I'm actually going to be working there!
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I do agree with the sentiments of some other that the group play isn't going to hugely meaningful. It'll be nice to not get last in your pool and avoiding one of the top 4 of the open bracket, and to a lesser extent further up in your group, but it's overall still not going to be very impactful. I'm sure they'll still be good games though.
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On September 23 2011 04:21 HawaiianPig wrote:Also, I'm really disappointed in everyone in this thread thus far. It's a thread about a portal made by HB... Anyway, here's what was happening behind the scenes that caused that linking mishap in the OP.
LOL @ the chair... Hahahahaha
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Wow. I love the prize pool distribution in this tournament. If you get top 16 in the open tournament you walk away with $1000. That's pretty damn spiffy even if you get properly crushed in the championship bracket. And every invite automatically gets $1000 to help defray travel costs.
IPL is off to a good start!
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teamliquid never fails to bring the best coverage :D
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i cant understand not to invite nerchio who 3-0ed idra etc but invite idra ... not fair so far
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On September 23 2011 18:16 CoR wrote:
i cant understand not to invite nerchio who 3-0ed idra etc but invite idra ... not fair so far
He's a bigger name than Nerchio. The invited players are big names apparently, as otherwise I'd not invite WhiteRa, Ret, Idra, MC or BoxeR.
What am I saying? There are stronger players than all of these...Mana is stronger than WhiteRa, heck HasuObs too tbh; Ret isn't even top 5 foreign zerg; Idra slumping for months hasn't won anything and instead stomped by NA players (used to be other way round  ); MC code B, nuff said; BoxeR is BoxeR and not Emperor anymore.
You get it now?
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