C-OSL Ro64

Group A will kick off the Ro64's, it's still a question though rather these games will be picked for the live cast. The two FoR members in the group jmdjj and Haneul (who's studying overseas in S.Korea) will battle against Zerg and Protoss, jmdjj's ability should make him the strong favorite in the group. Although Haneul wasn't a favorite going into his preliminaries group, he qualified easily with a no-loss record, a strong indication of his skill level, he will be going up against ex-fan favorite FRDS_feng, definitely a spectacular match in the making. On the other hand lovexiaoppp is a player that's not well known, I had even mistaken him for chinappp, against the strong jmdjj his chances are slim, luckily he still has good chances against the two other protoss' in the group. He can still use the ZvP advantage to qualify out of the group.
Over-all the predictions are that the two FoR players qualify hand in hand out of this group with a strong showing.

This is a group with all 3 races represented and all of them in dominant form. Xiaozi is a seasoned veteran, 迷糊 was once a top 3 non-korean terran, 瑞格格 was once indominable, and princeOfStar is also a fan favorite. Everyone has potential and would bring exciting matches, but in terms of their form, 迷糊 coming out of the group shouldn't be a problem, as to the other 3, even though 瑞格格 qualified with out noted difficulty, his skill has decreased by quite alot, so the second place should be a fight between Xiaozi and PrinceOfStar, personally I want a non-protoss to qualify, so I'm picking lower and xiaozi.

Before the match 小新(bisu) wanted me to keep collecting karma for him (it's a Chinese joke where you keep dissing / praising a player for the opposite effect, for example if you want someone to succeed then you say that he's a terrible player who can't win etc), so the first to get disqualified should be him. Next up HS_one who is one of the korean fighters(won against koreans recently) should be able to capture a qualifying spot. And StoRm4ever should be able to use the ZvP advantage in this group to get the second qualifying spot. And unfortunately Li_WJ I don't even know much about, so he is scapegoated this time, but maybe since I massed karma for you you would also qualify?

"Headwash"(not sure where this nick came from)-hyung battling against "dumb-jwa" (S2's nick name in China), s2zerg always talk to me about how his ZvZ is so "bugged" (i.e. good), but I feel that this time his chances aren't great, so the frst one to win the ZvZ should be the player to qualify. And also 五竹 should be feeling tremenduous pressure from fans to qualify out of this group, 805 player is so mysterious, with a lvl 12 VS account but a 28-5 record (85%) in STL, it's quite a tense moment for 五竹妹子(younger sister, 五竹 is a girl). The final results should be between s2zerg and 五竹.

Xiaoxiaoma is goign to help gg type gg, Jaystar running into "Flame"-hyung, in the end will the horse rider (ma means horse in chinese) prevail or the one carrying a gun (jaystar's nick amounts to something like "sniper") prevail? Or would both players qualifying be the most favorable result? Regardless the two favorites are Jaystar and xiaoxiaoma, ofcourse agony)gg and 278346174 won't just sit and wait for their demise, from my predictions, a black horse (pun) emerging from this group is very likely, so I will predict gg and 278346174 to qualify. Predictions being too logical isn't fun, Please flame me~

Plu D7 team's "ace" player (oldest legend player)'s participation is key, making it into the Ro64 is already satisfying enough, so you can go rest (drop out of the tournament)... You understand. On the other hand 117 has been in great condition recently, making it out of the preliminaries against zergling (player), so you can't help but be worried for D7's ZvP. On the other hand woailaopo will run into fierce terran Jois from FoR, you can only say that everyone is stressed, wives aren't useful so they are resorting to husbands (woailaopo means "I love wife" in chinese, and Jois is married). So this group 117 and Jois should qualify, regardless of rather the competition is an old veteran or a new comer, sorry~ Now is the period of the "middle"-man's dominance (prime time players).

I'm going to throw my arms up here, regardless of rather you are a veteran or a star, I just want Zergs to qualify, there are way too many protoss'. Even though Startoss and forget are both strong, ZK-hyung is even stronger, not too familiar with 999 but you can also qualify~ Work hard guys I don't want to see a Ro8 with all protoss. (Protoss is by far the most populated/active race in China)

Danh Dang Dang (bell sounds) Can we get a re-count (regroup)??? There are only 11 terrans in the Ro64 and a 4 terran group appears? It is to commemorate the now defunct Chinatttt (a bankrupt Chinese motocycle company)? So in this group there are 2 of the top 3 terrans, leilei and AQ, and also aPriL and deyidexiao (means smirk in Chinese). "Laugh"-hyung has also gotten good records in on-line tournaments, so he won't give up the spot easy. Regardless there will be 2 terrans who are disqualified from this group, in terms of ability, leilei and AQ come out on top. Good luck. P.S: You should all count yourselves lucky that China's top TvT HighDrak isn't in the group, else your dreams would be crushed.

The unparalleled "Gengda" (highdark) will tear through this group of new-comers (noobs), he has a history/skill set that's invincible, coming out of this group wouldn't have any problems. And Liangxu player is also a veteran, after being trumped by Gengda he should only be even more motivated and break out of the remaining 3 players. Poor jmjm and STILL, after trying to hard you still can't escape your tragic destiny, you can only blame the your timing, having a bad streak, being in the same era as Gengda, and getting placed in the same group.

This group has 3 terrans fighting against 1 protoss. Fa(means law in Chinese)-jwa (Lmarlboro), General C (OnlyCC) and "Deity" (ALL_ZR) are all well known players, and tudou also has strong potential. "Deity" should be able to capitalized on the TvT match up against veteran General C, it's an era where he's unbeatable is it not? On the other hand Fa-jwa's game against tudou could come down to any instant occurence. So predicting this group is very difficult, but I will go out on a limb here and say that Deity is destined for a tragic outcome, and that Fa-jwa and tudou qualify, General C will successfully play out the "best supporting male cast". According to playsc's karma theory, this prediction is very potent (Chinese jokes about reverse predictions).

Haha I'm here to collect Karma (again), this group has 猜猜 who's famous for zergling run-bys, crazy practice-bonjwa shiftzerg, veteran jedi (UDPzerg) and new comer key. Key is going to be fighting alone against shiftzerg which should be a complete disaster, and then getting owned by one of 猜猜 or jedi, and leaving the OSL stage with regret and sadness, so he can focus on doing the organizational work (C-OSL organizer). And the drama between 猜猜 and Jedi isn't too important, what is important is that they both fight to keep out the despicable protoss' and qualify. This group doesn't have any uncertainties, so it doesn't even need to be predicted.

Players Angelkiss and 999 - kiss-hyung being a "soysauce" (meaning noob) player who was grouped with me in the preliminaries - being eliminated shouldn't be surprising at all. On the other hand is a struggle between macro beasts, there are people who say "happy" (my1hero) -hyung can get to 200 supply at 10 minutes, some people who say that he can get to 200 supply at 9 minutes, from my understanding it's actually 300 supply at 8 minutes, so Vulture is going to lose, even though making it out of the bracket eventually isn't a problem. In this group the player who unconventionally swapped a "1" for a "l" in their name (my1hero and vu1ture) should qualify first.

Jaiotou vs Oldpig is one of the few TvZ match ups, personally I favor oldpig; on the otherside of the bracket is 疯子 (fengzi) against 273, judging by the recent games where Fengzi is performing spectacularly against korean players, he should qualify with out any uncertainty. So with out any ado with a conserved estimation, 疯子 and oldpig will qualify.

This group is just terrifying, "royal roader" qingfeng against 皮-hyung (pige), 皮-hyung you are already a star player, why are going harassing qingfeng? Just let him have his royal road, okay? And guoqian vs zdy is also two star players, after examining carefully, it seems that China BW's #1 player zdy-hyung will win, and be again C-OSL's #1 favored contestant (half joking), and bring us more Vods of him owning noobs, ofcourse this time the show is even higher level, it will be him owning strong players!
Predicting qingfeng and zdy to qualify, pige and guoqian will "get soysauce" (be the noobs).

This prediction is so easy to make, China's #1 PvP 东海(icydh) will qualify first, and China's #2 PvP 超神 (reinforced) will qualify second, China's #3 PvP kunhu is just tragic (being placed in this group), and could China's most amazing frontal assault 009-hyung be able to win in a straight up fight? This group is a match made in heaven, do not miss it.

The closing group will be the last battlefield for the Ro32, zhanhun (战魂) player is strong and could use his strong fundamentals to qualify for the Ro32, and tostar has also kept his edge (is a veteran). Other than zhanhun, the other three are all old names in the Chinese BW circle and will fight for the other qualifying spot. I will hazard a guess and predict that iloveyouwxy will successfully be disqualified, along with "sensei" (Royalabbey), leaving tostar to qualify for the Ro32 alone.