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2008 Shinhan Bank Proleague Week 9
OnGameNet SPARKYZ vs KTF MagicNs
Spear < Blue Storm > 
815
Luxury < Andromeda > LuCifer
YellOw[ArnC]/Zeus < Hunters > YellOw/Reach
Chalrenge < Colosseum > 
Flash
Closer < Othello >
Results
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Spear > 815
Luxury > Lucifer (The tetrarchy of Hive tech--adrenal, plague, ultras, swarm--rapes the toss yet again
)
OGN > KTF
OGN 3:0 KTF
I expect Flash to take some brutal revenge on Luxury.
Predictions
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OnGameNet SPARKYZ vs KTF MagicNs
Spear < Blue Storm > 815 Luxury < Andromeda > LuCifer YellOw[ArnC]/Zeus < Hunters > YellOw/Reach Chalrenge < Colosseum > Flash Closer < Othello >
Results
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Spear > 815
Luxury > Lucifer (The tetrarchy of Hive tech--adrenal, plague, ultras, swarm--rapes the toss yet again
)OGN > KTF
OGN 3:0 KTF
I expect Flash to take some brutal revenge on Luxury.
Predictions
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Spear < 815 Tough one to call. 815 has beaten Much lately and lost to Stork on Katrina (which I will write off because Stork is a beast on Katrina so long as he isn't playing Flash). His game against much had some good mechanics and game sense so I'm not too worried about 815. As for Spear, his sole win in PvZ this year was against Savior on Hwarangdo, which is useless because 1) Savior is slumping 2) Hwarangdo has no nat gas which means that whatever BO/strategy the protoss uses can't be adapted to a more normal map. So I give the game to 815 because of the above reasons and also because it's Blue Storm.
Luxury > Lucifer This is also somewhat hard to argue. Luxury is on a good stretch right now, undeniably so. He probably is the stronger player in the matchup as well--Lucifer has gotten beaten this year by the likes of Type-B[s.g]... he's much better in PvT than PvZ; Lux, on the other hand, has beaten Bisu, Stork, and Daezang in PL. However, Lux is probably devoting most of his practice time to ZvT right now to cope with his upcoming OSL match against that other Lee Young Ho. If Lux can maybe spare a day or two of practice for this match he'll probably do fine; if not, I think Lucifer might be able to cook up something. Also, given that the map is Andromeda, the difficult third gas for the Z might give Lux some troubles if he doesn't prepare a build that can give him strong map control in the early mid-game.
2v2 I suck at predicting 2v2s so I'm not even going to try here. Although I think Reach and Yellow are probably the fan favorites.
Flash >>>> Chalrenge No contest here. It's colosseum--Flash beat freaking Jangbi here even after he let Jangbi 13 nex unopposed and Jangbi did razed 3 of Flash's expansions with recalls. Flash beat Yellow[Arnc] here after he was down 2 bases to 5. Enough said... Flash obviously knows all the mid and late-game army management tricks on this map. I expect him to do well here. I'd watch out for cheese from Chalrenge though; but given the long starting distances I don't think that well work well. Chalrenge is no Best... his PvT sucks.
ACE Match
Don't know who the coaches will send.
Luxury > Lucifer This is also somewhat hard to argue. Luxury is on a good stretch right now, undeniably so. He probably is the stronger player in the matchup as well--Lucifer has gotten beaten this year by the likes of Type-B[s.g]... he's much better in PvT than PvZ; Lux, on the other hand, has beaten Bisu, Stork, and Daezang in PL. However, Lux is probably devoting most of his practice time to ZvT right now to cope with his upcoming OSL match against that other Lee Young Ho. If Lux can maybe spare a day or two of practice for this match he'll probably do fine; if not, I think Lucifer might be able to cook up something. Also, given that the map is Andromeda, the difficult third gas for the Z might give Lux some troubles if he doesn't prepare a build that can give him strong map control in the early mid-game.
2v2 I suck at predicting 2v2s so I'm not even going to try here. Although I think Reach and Yellow are probably the fan favorites.
Flash >>>> Chalrenge No contest here. It's colosseum--Flash beat freaking Jangbi here even after he let Jangbi 13 nex unopposed and Jangbi did razed 3 of Flash's expansions with recalls. Flash beat Yellow[Arnc] here after he was down 2 bases to 5. Enough said... Flash obviously knows all the mid and late-game army management tricks on this map. I expect him to do well here. I'd watch out for cheese from Chalrenge though; but given the long starting distances I don't think that well work well. Chalrenge is no Best... his PvT sucks.
ACE Match
Don't know who the coaches will send.
