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3 Times-a-Charm
Main Team 5 Action 2 BisAnG 3 Crazy-Hydra 8 JangBi (captain) 5 P7GAB(Wooki) 3 Reality 4 KT Rolster
Anti Team 2 Bisu 8 Rain 3 s2
I expect KT to own this round with so many good players. BisanG and Reality are filler (both are going to play according to the starter thread). Hopefully they'll give some points. JangBi is my captain because he was good last round, seems to get better and likely is going to be Khan's ace
Anti-team: Wanted to choose Taeja because he can't play due to wrist injury but I can't pick him so I picked Rain (high points, didn't do so well last round). Bisu doesn't get any play. s2 disappointed me in round 1.
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Throatwobbler Mangrove
Main Team 7 Effort 6 Innovation(Bogus) 4 Light 2 Motive (captain) 5 P7GAB(Wooki) 4 Terminator(Sang) 2 Samsung Khan
Anti Team 2 Bisu 7 free 4 soO
I went for a quite balanced line-up, investing in players who all get to play and preferably in earlier sets than late ones, didn't make the mistake of captaining someone expensive who then starts losing and I can't trade him. Team is Samsung Khan because WJS's price skyrocketed and Khan players started actually looking a bit better, it's not impossible to imagine 4 of them winning, atleast again lamer teams. With Jangbi/RorO, who are starting to look really good Ace choices, they only need 1 win from some dinosaur-clad WoW-nerd to have a good chance at winning. I didn't but either in my team because it's Samsung Khan and they never seem to realize that you can keep winning. Effort 7 pointer, because he is solid, gets to play Ace-matches and has good chances against non-protoss at least. Light,Innovation for 10 e-bucks is a bargain IMHO, both all-killed last round so their overall skills should be really good to go into the standard format. Wooki for a 5 makes me feel a bit uncomfortable but he all-killed too and gets to play Best first round, who probably doesn't have too hot PvP. Terminator started last round well but then kinda fizzled. I believe he'll be back. Seriously, it's just a cool name. Motive is my captain because he'll probably get to play first or second a lot, he doesn't seem all that bad. He also gets to play soo on the first round, and soo's ZvP doesn't look too hot, Motive even has a kill on him.
e. Anti-team free really looked like crap most of the time although he got a lot of wins. I think his success made him overperform towards the end of R2. Also, getting a 7 pointer allowed me to field my super-ace Bisu. soO's there too, I think Flash has used his skill-sucking device on him as well.
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Nerd ballers
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Main Team 5 Action 5 herO[jOin] 6 Innovation(Bogus) 2 Major 5 P7GAB(Wooki) (captain) 5 Stats 2 Team 8
Anti Team 3 hyvaa 2 Mini 8 Rain
New Thoughts: I went over the numbers again, and came to the conclusion that having a reeaaally high value player like fantasy, Flash or hydra might not payoff in the PL-Format. So i cut hydra and started again
Action --> KT Rolster. 5 Points. Zerg. Do i need to say more? 5 points is not that much, he has good winrate and plays on the team that will win the most. Also he seems to be the number one zerg, ranked higher than CH, so i decided to bench CH for now HeroJoin --> On a downward spiral right now, but still one of the better players in PL and i think he will do well for a 5 pointer. Bogus --> I needed an Ace player, since i cut hydra, so i went with the cheapest ace player, Bogus fucked me up big time, when i put him in my main team last round, but i hope he will do well this time. He seemed to be in much better shape last week. Major --> Same old Same old. Needed a cheap player. Team 8 looks pretty decent. He said he will get playtime in Round 3 if everything goes according to his plan. So I went full foreigner and bought him. Will propably hurt me but oh well Wooki/Stats --> I think they make for a excellent backbone and i predict that they will score a whole lot of points. Team 8 --> So i could afford the players I wanted. I think they will do better than EG-TL
Anti: Rain --> Bad form lately, hope he continues to dissapoint, altough i am aware, that he's a pretty big risk hyvva --> Didn't do anything to impress me Mini --> He lookes atrocious most of the time.
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PAHTING
Main Team 5 Dear 7 Effort 1 Leta 4 Light 1 Snow 8 ZerO (captain) 4 KT Rolster
Anti Team 2 Bisu 3 Bong[S.G] 8 Fantasy
Feel like not going for the biggest names, all-kill format suited me better tho. ZerO and Effort will deliver, their teams might not. Fantasy feels not all too powerful atm, a lot of points for him so he makes my anti complete.
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Watchers
Main Team 6 Innovation(Bogus) 6 Jaedong (captain) 5 P7GAB(Wooki) 3 Reality 4 soO 4 Terminator(Sang) 2 Samsung Khan
Anti Team 2 ABLM(check) 3 s2 8 sOs(Shy)
Bogus is the STX ace for only 6 points, i trust in him, also JD is only 6 points. I went with all good/decent players this time instead of 1 or 2 big names. I havve been impressed by P7GAB's play so he was a must. Also looking at the first match, i expect most, if not all, to win them.
For anti i wanted at least 1 players who wont play at all (ABLM has a 0-3 record so far, dont expect him to get picked) and a player who wont win as much, so i needed one 8 pointer. Think sOs wont do really well this round. And his first match is vs TY, and i think he will lose that (TY might went out in GSL,but he played good, almost picked him for my team, but it was him or P7GAB).
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KARAHara
Main Team 3 Bravo(hon_sin) 5 Dear 6 Innovation(Bogus) 2 Major 5 Soulkey (captain) 5 Stats 4 KT Rolster
Anti Team 3 Bong[S.G] 8 Hydra 2 SonGDuri
Stats and KT Rolster have shown that they are really good when preparing for 1 specific opponent in Round 1. Dear and BoguS from STX SouL seem to be in good shape towards the end of Round 2 and hopefully keep up their practice to do well in Round 3. Soulkey and hOn_sin from Woongjin Stars to get some good regulars from Woongjin Stars for some points as they should continue to be 2nd place team after KT Rolster. MajOr from Team 8th as filler with potentially getting send out towards the end of Round 3.
Hydra, SonGDuri and Bong from CJ Entus on anti so i only have to hope 1 certain team has to lose instead of keeping track of multiple teams. >.>
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Main Team 2 Bbyong 5 herO[jOin] 6 Innovation(Bogus) 4 Light (captain) 4 soO 5 Stats 4 Woongjin Stars
Anti Team 7 free 3 s2 3 TRUE(Alone)
Normally, I pick one or two expensive players and fill up with 3/4 pointers who have potential. This round, however, there are so many juicy picks in the 4/5 price range that I forwent picking any expensive players. Still, I ended up with two solid ace match candidates in Bogus and CJ_herO, and who knows if a coach won't send Light, soO or Stats to play the ace match on a good day. All of them should see plenty of play time. Also, there's Bbyong lol. Woongjin Stars is a very strong team with perhaps the greatest depth of all. The proleague format should fit them even better than the all-kill format. I expect them to end many matches before the ace match.
I'm not really happy with my anti-team. Free will certainly score points, but I hope he won't live up to his 7 point price on a team with stiff competition for a lineup spot. With Taeja unpickable for the anti-team, I didn't really find any satisfying options. I'm just gonna have to live in fear.
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DuckDiversPro
Main Team 3 Bravo(hon_sin) 7 HerO (captain) 3 JYP 4 Light 5 Revival 4 soO 4 Woongjin Stars
Anti Team 2 Bisu 5 herO[jOin] 6 Jaedong
First of choices for antiteam, that was way harder to do than last rounds (addmitedly i failed last time with stork suddenly winning alot). Bisu isnt playing this week and i doubt he will get played often, so basically 2 free points there. Decided to split the remaining 11 between two players rather than taking a high-risk move (no 8+). JD seemed weak against toss and Dear is on a roll lately (6 kills out of 7 for STX) so im counting on the win there for Dear to prevent the Dong from getting me points. herO is playing JangBi, PvP remains a tossup but i have faith in JangBi to also stop herO from winning. while SKT, EGTL and CJ might give me some small losses, i'd take that over someone who might win acematch. Main team then: JYP and Revival swapped value and JYP performed well round 1 and seems a good vP and vZ bet on most maps (and the occasional vT win even :O), Revival is prolly the 2nd zerg for EGTL (since stephano is hopping on and off the team?) and JD is mainy great for winning ZvZ's, so i hope revival keeps send out. For the combined value of 8, great pair of players to have on a team that might get a bigger winratio than .500 this time. Decided on the terran WJS duo of Bravo and Light, they're quite cheap but since they're the best terrans on WJS (imo), at least one of them seems guarenteed to play each week and WJS is my team as well cuz i expect them to win alot, so even if they dont play or lose they should give me some points. Had 11 points left and came to some hard choices; i wanted another toss and zerg (so my team is 2-2-2 and i can always trade first round should i want to). Opted for soO because he seems the strongest zerg on SKT, and should SKT win alot the +1 for that will balance out the ones i might get on Bisu. Im not expecting SKT to win alot again this round, they seem weaker than before, but now that they cant be stomped by 1 player they might end up winning some matches. Then i had to pick a toss player for 7 points and i'm still not sure about it - Stork, who showed good results last round all the time but was horrible in round 1 - or HerO? Right now i'm going with Stork but if everyone here is going HerO or can convince me to take HerO, i might swap them. Right now i took Stork because he destroyed my antiteam last round and i hope he keeps playing like that, and HerO might have to focus on GSL and foreign event much more than Stork, which could affect him or he might even miss some matches because he isn't in korea...
TL;DR Overall i tried to get many "midvalued" players, last rounds i always had 1/2 pointers and both times i ended up with only 1 point overall from them, so that sucked bigtime. The only 2value i have is Bisu and he's on anti so i hope it stays like that. Not sure about my captain - Stork or HerO. One of them becomes captain, the other is out. Suggestions/comments?
EDIT: swapped Stork out and HerO is in... might be the worst decision of all bad ones i have made, but well, HerO seems the most likely ace for EGTL unless the other team is pretty much guarenteed to play a zerg, whereas stork on KHAN also has JangBi
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