frozean has no chance. bisu should easily beat hero, but hero is something like his nemesis. hyuk vs kal should be pretty much a tossup. fantasy vs clam is very interesting, but i think clam will be rather discouraged than motivated by their osl game. getting buttraped so hard must affect his mental state.
3-1 skt, with bisu or hyuk dropping the game. edit: id bet stx is gonna send july as protoss-sniper if it goes to ace.
Best > Frozean - Best has been playing some pretty decent Starcraft recently, and when he's on his game, he's unquestionably better than Frozean. Bisu < by.hero - Bisu hasn't won a televised game against by.hero in 2009, and given how sloppy his current PvZ is, he's not gonna start now. Hyuk < Kal - IMO this is probably the hardest game of the set to predict. Hyuk is very likely to fail, but it's not like Kal's PvZ has been stellar recently either. Still, Kal is certainly the favorite. Fantasy > Calm - Calm's been playing pretty crappy this week, and TvZ is literally the only matchup Fantasy needs to play for the next week. Bisu > ??? - Bisu has a fair shot against any of STX's ace choices on Match Point, IMO. His PvP is on fire, so Kal would get stomped. The map is P-slanted enough in PvZ that he should be able to take any of their zerg choices. That leaves Hwasin and Frozean, neither of whom have ever had stellar TvP. By.hero would be their best shot against Bisu, but given a multitude of factors (by.hero's mediocre ZvT, Match Point being Terran-biased in TvZ, and Fantasy playing exclusively against Zergs), he has a slim chance if SKT decides to play Fantasy instead.
I actually prefer the oldschool OP to the recent graphics-laden ones
This match is hard to call; with the exception of Best vs Frozen, all the games could easily go either way. I hope Bisu digs out some amazing PvZ, because he'll probably be needing it. Actually I'd be happy if both PvZ's were won by P.
On November 28 2009 02:50 lone_hydra wrote: Yeah, but hero dropped his recent ZvP Bo3 vs. Movie as well. So both of them aren't doing to well in this matchup.
Except Bisu has only won 1 of 5 games he's ever played against by.hero. It goes beyond how each one is doing individually in the matchup. I think Bisu's even said in an interview that he can't play comfortably against by.hero's play style (it could have been Zero--he has the same record against each of them, and I can't remember which one made him more uncomfortable).
On November 28 2009 02:50 lone_hydra wrote: Yeah, but hero dropped his recent ZvP Bo3 vs. Movie as well. So both of them aren't doing to well in this matchup.
That series was more Movie's win than hero's loss. If Bisu can emulate that sort of PvZ here, he should have no problems.
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