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Thanks for the thread as usual!
So I know this is a long shot, but do any Poles or iem katowice regulars know where you can watch the games on Thursday in Katowice? Is there a barcraft or a sports bar that will show the sc2 games?
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SO hypeed!
Special gonna top group A, mark my words :D .
Group B is gonna be nuts, great great GREAT tourney so far loving it.
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France12738 Posts
Tough group for Maru, hope he manages to pull through.
Juanito is hella *ucked tho, but it'll be somewhat fun!
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i don't think maru's group should be deemed hard for him... he was 3-0 against Dark in 2018, 3-0 against neeb, he's not lost to leenock since 2013... maybe trap could somehow pull an upset, but realistically this shouldn't be a hard group for maru by any means
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On February 27 2019 19:03 herwo wrote:
i don't think maru's group should be deemed hard for him... he was 3-0 against Dark in 2018, 3-0 against neeb, he's not lost to leenock since 2013... maybe trap could somehow pull an upset, but realistically this shouldn't be a hard group for maru by any means I agree. Also there is not one there who is capable of doing what sOs did to him in Global finals. Trap might have some special builds planned since they are teammates, but that's it.
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For group A I predict the following:
1. Stats
2. Zest
3. Creator
and for group B:
1. Leenock
2. Dark
3. Maru
The second group is more of a wish though. Lambo getting through is too unrealistic, so let's go Leenock. =)
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Stupid, evil, disgusting Wednesday... why won't you end already?! The people wants Starcraft!
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United States32919 Posts
Reminder that the non-main stream matches on Twitch.tv/ESL and Twitch.tv/ESL_SC2b actually start at 11:45 CET, which is earlier than the main stream. Drop in early if you wanna catch some extra matches!
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France12738 Posts
I'm so fucking hyped, real shit starts now!
Another non productive day of work awaits tomorrow
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SpeCial and Creator gogogo
Don't remember when I was last this hyped about a tourney
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I hope Maru, Leenock and Neeb all make it out of B but sadly I'm sure Dark has something to say about that.
Patience to tip-toe out of group A to the surprise of many but not me
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France12738 Posts
Zest is gonna shit on Patience as a revenge
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Group A: Stats, Zest, Creator
Group B: Maru, Dark, Neeb
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Special demonstrated some pretty fantastic TvP against Classic at Blizzcon. He 2-0'd the arguably second best PvT player in the world, and people are thinking hes gonna struggle against Creator and Patience? idk about that one gents, I think the Dorito is being underestimated here.
To be fair, it will be difficult to play nothing but protoss at a high level because at SOME point youre gonna be repeating builds, but on the flip side all his protoss opponents are currently practicing PvP probably exclusively.
I think Stats, Zest, and Special make it out.
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On February 28 2019 02:39 Tempest wrote:
Special demonstrated some pretty fantastic TvP against Classic at Blizzcon. He 2-0'd the arguably second best PvT player in the world, and people are thinking hes gonna struggle against Creator and Patience? idk about that one gents, I think the Dorito is being underestimated here.
To be fair, it will be difficult to play nothing but protoss at a high level because at SOME point youre gonna be repeating builds, but on the flip side all his protoss opponents are currently practicing PvP probably exclusively.
I think Stats, Zest, and Special make it out.
Hasn't TvP changed quite a bit since Blizzcon? Would be sick if he made it out though.
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On February 28 2019 02:39 Tempest wrote:
Special demonstrated some pretty fantastic TvP against Classic at Blizzcon. He 2-0'd the arguably second best PvT player in the world, and people are thinking hes gonna struggle against Creator and Patience?
well he did lose 0-2 to patience in the online qualifiers of this event so the thought is not exactly groundless
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On February 28 2019 02:51 HolydaKing wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2019 02:39 Tempest wrote:
Special demonstrated some pretty fantastic TvP against Classic at Blizzcon. He 2-0'd the arguably second best PvT player in the world, and people are thinking hes gonna struggle against Creator and Patience? idk about that one gents, I think the Dorito is being underestimated here.
To be fair, it will be difficult to play nothing but protoss at a high level because at SOME point youre gonna be repeating builds, but on the flip side all his protoss opponents are currently practicing PvP probably exclusively.
I think Stats, Zest, and Special make it out. Hasn't TvP changed quite a bit since Blizzcon? Would be sick if he made it out though.
It most certainly has, that's true. It would be silly of me to claim it hasn't changed enough to make a difference, but overall im just trying to point out that special is a better caliber player than most people are willing to admit :D
Also special beat classic with fairly standard, macro style games ( I think he fake proxied tho), meaning he didn't take advantage of proxy aggression to win, which is the biggest change in the matchup since then. I think both Special and Ragnarok are better than people think, and I have them as the dark horsies in their groups
On February 28 2019 02:58 herwo wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2019 02:39 Tempest wrote:
Special demonstrated some pretty fantastic TvP against Classic at Blizzcon. He 2-0'd the arguably second best PvT player in the world, and people are thinking hes gonna struggle against Creator and Patience? well he did lose 0-2 to patience in the online qualifiers of this event so the thought is not exactly groundless
Oh rip. I didn't remember that.
Uh....
Ill pretend it was a fluke! :D
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On February 27 2019 18:00 Musicus wrote:
Thanks for the thread as usual!
So I know this is a long shot, but do any Poles or iem katowice regulars know where you can watch the games on Thursday in Katowice? Is there a barcraft or a sports bar that will show the sc2 games?
If you find nothing and feel desperate, hit the train, in just 3 hours you are at my place in Warsaw where we have plenty of screens (not much room around them though  )
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