excellent write-up, zealously.
By far, your best work this year so far.
I especially love the Korean zombie apocalypse.
It made me laugh so loud that it actually scared my dog.
You're so witty!
<3

Musicus

Germany23570 Posts

April 22 2013 07:11 GMT

#27

ATC is great, I love everything about it so far and can't wait for the offline finals. Thanks for the amazing write up

luuk

Austria386 Posts

April 22 2013 09:33 GMT

#28

nice article. what i like about this tournament are the special revives and stuff. taketv doing a great job!

On April 22 2013 16:11 Musicus wrote:
ATC is great, I love everything about it so far and can't wait for the offline finals. Thanks for the amazing write up

the finals are offline? wow i didnt even know that! are they at takes place or what? O_O

boxerfred

Germany8360 Posts

April 22 2013 09:51 GMT

#29

harrr, I'm so gonna visit Take in his main base at Krefeld, Germany!

neocron

United Kingdom505 Posts

April 22 2013 09:58 GMT

#30

Great coverage!! Today at 3 pm CEST the next round starts between Millenium and Acer!

KalWarkov

Germany4126 Posts

April 22 2013 10:55 GMT

#31

Without a doubt the best foreign Teamleague there ever was.

v_lm

France202 Posts

April 22 2013 12:10 GMT

#32

Ahaha too bad u didn't emphasize the biggest upsets, that is K3 crushing Quantic, Millenium crushing Liquid 5-1 (not even mentioned lol) and Dayshi being the mvp of Millenium with a 5-3 record, losing only to Taeja, Lure, and Leyia (on a gamble from leyia), confirming the hope the French fans put on him after he all killed FXO EU during the qualifiers.

Taeja photoshops are funny but there is so much more to tell about this teamleague... computing the foreigner vs koreans winrates would be a start, because it might be close to 50 percent, quite a big thing to mention imo.

You emphasize the great successes of Mana, good, now what about Heart and Goswser who did really, really poorly ?

You can also compute the zerg winrates, pretty shcoking imo, give predictions, look at the current standings and ask :
How come mouse, Millenium, and K3 are better ranked than Liquid, Axiom, Acer, Quantic ? That and the fact that only 1 korean qualified for the WCS EU Premier LEague affter 3 failed tries could be the sign of EU rising...

Ramiz1989

12124 Posts

April 22 2013 12:25 GMT

#33

To be honest, damn good article. One of the better that I've read from this site. Keep it up, very nice way of writing!

v_lm

France202 Posts

April 22 2013 12:31 GMT

#34

To be honest, really good written article, but on the content I felt a tiny bit like a Starcraft fan reading a mainstream newspaper talking about Starcraft.

blacksheepwall

China1530 Posts

April 22 2013 13:00 GMT

#35

Thanks for taking the time to catch us all up on this. I've missed a bit of the action, but I've been trying to follow this.

Some surprising results so far.

Qaatar

1409 Posts

April 22 2013 13:05 GMT

#36

On April 22 2013 21:10 v_lm wrote:
That and the fact that only 1 korean qualified for the WCS EU Premier LEague affter 3 failed tries could be the sign of EU rising...

How is this relevant? Those qualifiers were played on EU, and guys like Harstem actually predicted that no Koreans would go through due to the crippling lag and the overall mediocre level of the 4 Koreans.

These KR-EU games are played on NA, and while it's impressive that Mana, Vortix, Lucifron, etc. have good win rates against Koreans on more even grounds (much more impressive than whatever happened in the WCS EU qualifiers), we already know that they're capable of doing such things. Not really anything out of the ordinary, at least for those 3 players. Just like MVP having a +12 differential not being much of a surprise either.

zmsFlood

Finland169 Posts

April 22 2013 13:26 GMT

#37

Good read, not the most in-depth analysis ever but still informative. Enjoyed the headers, I think you spent quite some time thinking about those..?