Shinhan Proleague - May 27th preview

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

May 26 2007 09:41 GMT

This preview was written not by me, but by MyCube (GTR-2-GO). He does not have news powers, so I am posting this in his stead. Enjoy! -haji

Another day, another set of games. This is proleague.
A few nice matches coming up today (these will be highlighted in italics).

14:00 KOR Time on MBCGame

Statistics:
SK Telecom T1 - 4th (5-4 Win/Lose, 22-17 Overall)
Star Performers: Midas (전상욱, T) 5-2, Canata (고인규, T) 5-1.
eSTRO - 12th (2-7 Win/Lose, 11-23 Overall)
Star Performers: UpMagic (신희승, T) 3-4, Tester (서기수, P) 3-4

Game 1. by.fantasy (T) < Monty Hall > UpMagiC (T)
A very interesting matchup. by.fantasy being dubbed by our TL.net community as a macro machine, while UpMagiC is already calling out praise with his innovative strategies.
Being the TvT it is though, and Monty Hall being a macro-favoured map, I would have to give this one to fantasy, unless UpMagiC pulls something incredible.

Game 2. Rumble (Z) < Python > Suny[fOu] (T)
Rumble has been in the dark lately, and I haven't seen much of Suny[fOu], so I'm going to give this one to Suny, because I assume he's new and fresh.

Game 3. IntoTheRainBOw (P)/GoRush (Z) < Chariots of Fire > CCoMa (Z)/Soha[saM] (P) Game 4.
SKT experimenting with their 2v2 team again. 2 Big names vs 2 Minors. I will give this one to SKT since I have never seen an established eSTRO 2v2 team.

Game 4. Canata (T) < Nemesis > SangHo[Shield] (P)
Canata has been on fire lately, being 5-1. SangHo, on the other hand, hasn't had much playing time from what I have seen. I will give this one to Canata, although there might be an upset.

Ace Match < Shin Peaks of Baekdu >
My gut feeling thinks that it would be Midas vs Tester.
The game can go either way IMO though. So I have no full answer to this prediction.

14:00 KOR Time on OnGameNet

Statistics:
OnGameNet Sparkyz - 3rd (6-4 Win/Lose, 21-18 Overall)
Star Performers: Luxury (박찬수, Z) 6-0, YellOw[ArnC]/ZeuS (박명수, Z, 전태규, P) 5-2.
Samsung KHAN - 1st (9-1 Win/Lose, 29-12 Overall)
Star Performers: StOrk (송병구, P) 7-1, JiHyun/Cuteboy (이재황, Z, 임채성, T) 4-1

Game 1. Sea.Leta (T) < Tau Cross > Stork (P)
I have not seen much of Leta (only 1 loss, in a TvT), but Stork has been performing excellent recently, so I can't pass not going his way this match.

Game 2. n.Die_Chalrenge (P) < Nemesis > JangBi (P)
This is going to be an excellent game. Two 3rd Generation Protoss' duking it out. Interesting because, Jangbi has shown brilliance at times, but can slip up dramatically when the pressure is on him, on the other hand, Chalrenge can get cocky.
I'm going with Chalrenge to please Hot_Bid.

Game 3. HoGiL (Z)/go.go[GsP] (T) < Vampire > JiHyun (Z)/CuteBOy[gm] (T)
Some Zerg I have never heard of and Bug Terran vs the 2nd star 2v2 team in JiHyun and CuteBOy. Not hard to say who will probably prevail.

Game 4. ClouD (T) < Geometry > firebathero (T)
The second matchup I found interesting. Cloud, who I haven't seen in weeks, and firebathero, who qualified 2-0 in his MSL group which included rA, Boxer and Canata. I am going to give this one to firebathero, but Cloud might have a chance.

Ace Match < Python >

My guesses it will be Luxury vs Stork. If so, this is going to be one awesome game, two star performers playing eachother.