Il Dongo is currently ranked 22nd: Liquipedia MLG Rankings

There's a fair chance there would be enough dropouts above 22nd for him to qualify for a pool seeding if Complexity want to bring him over. Of course, I'd rather he were focussed on winning the Code A final on the following Monday!

I would hope that 1 or 2 of the remaining invites would go to some Code B ladder monster rather than an established Code S or even A player. We'll see who's left after the Code A prelims. Not long to wait!

hitpoint

United States1511 Posts

August 01 2011 16:59 GMT

#102

Less Korean Terrans please. These two are fine and great, but no more.

Novalisk

Israel1818 Posts

August 01 2011 17:00 GMT

#103

With those 2, we need Nestea so we don't end up with another TvT grand finals.

Mitsuwa

United States793 Posts

August 01 2011 17:02 GMT

#104

Please bring the Tea. Too many regular T's.

JiYan

United States3668 Posts

August 01 2011 17:03 GMT

#105

no love for alicia =\

vx70GTOJudgexv

United States3161 Posts

August 01 2011 17:09 GMT

#106

MVP being invited bumps Sheth into the pool play phase, so that's a win-win imo.

Looking forward to see who the other two invites end up being, and hoping SlayerS sends MMA out, since he's got the second seed in MLG right now.

sc2guy

291 Posts

August 01 2011 17:10 GMT

#107

I am fine with Bomber and MVP since the former is an original invite and the latter is the current champion.

We should have
MC for the entertainment/taunts
July cos he is cute and I am not gay
NaDa cos he is a legend
MKP is a sentimental favourite.

Koshi

Belgium38797 Posts

August 01 2011 17:12 GMT

#108

Damned. Better bring Nestea to make sure we don't have a Terran champion this time!!

Powerhouses. I love it.

sitromit

7051 Posts

August 01 2011 17:13 GMT

#109

Sigh... more Terrancraft....

Jonas :)

United States511 Posts

August 01 2011 17:15 GMT

#110

On August 02 2011 02:12 Koshi wrote:
Damned. Better bring Nestea to make sure we don't have a Terran champion this time!!

Powerhouses. I love it.

I'd love to watch NesTea vs MVP. My god would I love that

Ravnemesteren

224 Posts

August 01 2011 17:17 GMT

#111

I dislike putting a korean in each pool. Its like giving 4 koreans "code S" for MLG for the season. And the whole player exchange is not working at all. It seems GOM wants foreigners to come to GSL. But instead we get koreans coming over to get the code S spot. Ganzi and Rain got through the open bracket and kicked ass. I love that they participate, but the invites seem to random. Its not like they have to get top 4 code S or top 4 code A to get into pool play... its just some random korean players.

And why O why 2 more terran players. Nearly all the broadcasted games from Anaheim was with korean terrans. I have gotten my share of blueflame hellion battles for this year. So many cool matchups we missed just to show EVERY damn korean game (well not all of them, but close). QXC played extremely well (seems like the all kill was justified), but he got knocked out by Demuslim (I used to looove his play, so I would have liked to see how he beat qxc).

But inviting Bomber and MVP is a bad idea unless they invite the same caliber toss and zerg. You need MC and Nestea to get up to MVP's level (when he is playing his best). So it feels kinda stupid if they continue with inviting several top terrans and 1-2 code-B from other races. You guarantee top 4-5 terran... which is super boring imo.

Best would be to invite all promising code B like DongRaeGu. Not GSL champs.

Kiangani

United States122 Posts

August 01 2011 17:18 GMT

#112

If you look at the scheduling for GSL August/MLG Raleigh it is possible for a GSL player to come and not miss any of their matches, however that might make them really tired/jet lagged for their Ro8 match.

PartyBiscuit

Canada4525 Posts

August 01 2011 17:19 GMT

#113

Really hoping that the remaining two invites will be one Zerg and one Protoss

ProxyKnoxy

United Kingdom2576 Posts

August 01 2011 17:20 GMT

#114

Why does it matter what race they are?

LeLfe

France3160 Posts

August 01 2011 17:21 GMT

#115

Mvp going to do it twiiiiiiiiice
hwaiting! <3

bounca

140 Posts

August 01 2011 17:22 GMT

#116

i'm happy mvp has a chance to defend his title
but obviously they're going to ask nestea, almost everyone that watches mlg wants him (it'd be dumb not to even just ask him)
so i'm sure it'll be up to him

lunchforthesky

United Kingdom967 Posts

August 01 2011 17:22 GMT

#117

On August 02 2011 02:17 Ravnemesteren wrote:
I dislike putting a korean in each pool. Its like giving 4 koreans "code S" for MLG for the season. And the whole player exchange is not working at all. It seems GOM wants foreigners to come to GSL. But instead we get koreans coming over to get the code S spot. Ganzi and Rain got through the open bracket and kicked ass. I love that they participate, but the invites seem to random. Its not like they have to get top 4 code S or top 4 code A to get into pool play... its just some random korean players.

And why O why 2 more terran players. Nearly all the broadcasted games from Anaheim was with korean terrans. I have gotten my share of blueflame hellion battles for this year. So many cool matchups we missed just to show EVERY damn korean game (well not all of them, but close). QXC played extremely well (seems like the all kill was justified), but he got knocked out by Demuslim (I used to looove his play, so I would have liked to see how he beat qxc).

But inviting Bomber and MVP is a bad idea unless they invite the same caliber toss and zerg. You need MC and Nestea to get up to MVP's level (when he is playing his best). So it feels kinda stupid if they continue with inviting several top terrans and 1-2 code-B from other races. You guarantee top 4-5 terran... which is super boring imo.

Best would be to invite all promising code B like DongRaeGu. Not GSL champs.

Not invited top Koreans in order to give foreigners a chance will completely cheapen the tournament.

The reason there's so many Terrans invited is because a disproportionately large number of top Koreans are Terrans, probably as high as 75%.

Even as a massive Koreans fanboy who prefers watching Koreans to foreigners every time I do agree it's a bit of a shame that there are no LAN's for just foreigners to compete at (online tournaments aren't the same excitement) but MLG is infinitely better since Koreans started coming.

Also the willing foreigners are doing much better out of the exchange than Koreans. Guys like Thorzain, Naniwa, Fenix and Sheth all got Code A spots from it (chances are none of them would have made it through the Code B sharkpool) and from this MLG we'll get a futher four, potentially Sjow, Socke, Moonan, Select and others, all of whom would struggle to qualify for Code A normally.

nicknt

185 Posts

August 01 2011 17:22 GMT

#118

the other 2 invites will probably be Nestea and then a protoss so probably Tester, Killer, Genius, Alicia or Puzzle depending on how they do in the GSL I think. They won't bring back someone they already invited (DRG, MMA, MC...).

Q8_Devil

United Kingdom63 Posts

August 01 2011 17:22 GMT

#119

they should invite nestea for god sake,
btw, i hate zerg and protoss since i'm terran but i don't want a tvt final for god sake

Indrium

United States2236 Posts

August 01 2011 17:23 GMT

#120

YES! Bomber!

This is an interesting format. First bring MMA. Then bring MVP who can beat MMA. Then bring Bomber who can beat MVP. Then bring... well, the list gets sparse. Nestea!