When: Wednesday, Jan 23 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)
Format
Premier Division Group A is made up of four teams: StarTale, Evil Geniuses, FXO, and Prime. Group B contains LG-IM, MVP, Team Liquid, and Karont3. Both groups will play round robin against each other team in their group. When group stages are over, the top two teams from each Group will play in a playoff for the $9,000 first prize!
StarTale AcE Avenge Bomber Curious Hack Harrier July Life Sound SuHoSin TREME Aphrodite Virus Brain KingKong MisS Pet Sparta SoN Tiger Zero
Prime ByuN MarineKing Creator Maru Classic Lucy Bumblebee Kong
This match of the IPTL Premier Division Group A is on Wednesday, Jan 23 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)
The first map will be on a set rotation, and then it is loser's pick.
Casters
Today's games will be commentated by Kevin Knocke and Tim Frazier!
NOTE: We have changed the naming schema for this season of IPTL. We will now be naming our seasons by year (though I know you were all excited for IPTL XXVI). This will be IPTL 2013 Season 1.
Lol Startale roster still so big even after losing PartinG and Squirtle. I want Prime to win but... Life is zerg and he is the best of all zergs :d. And zergs seems to be Achilles heel for whole prime team (and ofc they have other very strong players like Bomber and Curious)
On January 23 2013 05:52 TommyP wrote: if Prime can beat life then prime will win.
Hmm, Bomber might pull out a great performance. And Curious might impress as well. Prime's roster is really looking depleted nowadays, so they have very little margin for error.
Virus retired, and July is in the military, I think. Those two will never (well, not in the foreseeable future) play in IPTL, and I don't think listing them is of any use.
Anyway, I don't see StarTale losing this. Between Hack, Bomber (BOMBING RUN), Curious and Life, possibly Avenge or Sparta, I don't think Prime can beat them on a normal day.
On January 23 2013 06:40 Zealously wrote: Virus retired, and July is in the military, I think. Those two will never (well, not in the foreseeable future) play in IPTL, and I don't think listing them is of any use.
Anyway, I don't see StarTale losing this. Between Hack, Bomber (BOMBING RUN), Curious and Life, possibly Avenge or Sparta, I don't think Prime can beat them on a normal day.
MKP fighting though </3
I remember MarineKing all killing ST 2 times in finals and the rivalry where Prime has more wins. Prime won 6 times (0 in IPTL, 3 in GSTL, 3 in KSTL) StarTale 4 times (2 in IPTL, 1 in GSTL, 1 in KSTL)
On January 23 2013 06:40 Zealously wrote: Virus retired, and July is in the military, I think. Those two will never (well, not in the foreseeable future) play in IPTL, and I don't think listing them is of any use.
Anyway, I don't see StarTale losing this. Between Hack, Bomber (BOMBING RUN), Curious and Life, possibly Avenge or Sparta, I don't think Prime can beat them on a normal day.
1. That all-kill coincided rather nicely with MKP's beastmode around last spring/summer 2. Startale's supporting cast (Hack, Avenge, BRAIN, Sparta) got better. 3. MKP, though still very good, is not currently the championship contender he was when the KSL Grand Finals took place 4. Prime's roster is looking very thin recently, with their players being highly inconsistent (the exception is called Creator) 5. Life. (6. I guess you have to mention, to Prime's advantage, that Parting and Squirtle are now gone)
In fact, after Life's breakout I don't think Prime has beaten StarTale in a team league, and Life is something insane like 10-1 (I admit I don't have exact numbers here, but something like that is what I seem to recall) against Prime players from GSL Season 4 and onward.
On January 23 2013 06:40 Zealously wrote: Virus retired, and July is in the military, I think. Those two will never (well, not in the foreseeable future) play in IPTL, and I don't think listing them is of any use.
Anyway, I don't see StarTale losing this. Between Hack, Bomber (BOMBING RUN), Curious and Life, possibly Avenge or Sparta, I don't think Prime can beat them on a normal day.
MKP fighting though </3
I remember MarineKing all killing ST 2 times in finals and the rivalry where Prime has more wins. Prime won 6 times. StarTale 4 times.
Next to EG and TL this is probably my favorite rivalry ^^.
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