MKP is the biggest wild card tonight he's been so hit or miss lately taking big losses but still showing sparks of brilliance, if he isn't on top of his game against Sen he's going to be in for some trouble.

ToAnyone

Canada326 Posts

March 31 2011 06:04 GMT

#102

go oGsMC!

leungwk01

United Kingdom1260 Posts

March 31 2011 06:06 GMT

#103

Looks a better thread compared to yesterday and hopefully it'll get updated with recommendation for each game.

MKP > Sen 2:1
TT1 > Moonglade 2:0
MC > Morrow 2:0
Anypro > Jinro 2:1

qoiN

Sweden576 Posts

March 31 2011 06:06 GMT

#104

Predictions:

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MKP < Sen (0:2)
Moonglade > TT1 (1:2)
MC > Morrow (2:1)
Jinro > Anypro (2:1)

Sen has been looking very strong lately and he'll easily be able to take down MKP with a 2:0

Moonglade vs TT1 is an interesting match, which will depend on TT1s strategies. Will be play heavy gateway or gateway/colossus? If he uses any kind of stargate build Moonglade will take this easily.

MC vs Morrow... MC the zerg abuser will take this series, but not 2:0. Morrow probably has a new fresh all-inish build that will be able to take a game, MC will not die to it the last game though and heavy gateway push wins him 2:1

Jinro vs Anypro, Jinros games has been a bit sloppy lately. Hopefully he recovers from that and he should be able to take the series 2:1, with a lot of trouble. What I'm afraid of is that Jinro might be too greedy with how fast the expands, and Anypro would not mind punishing it with a 4gate, I'm sure.

Flat Zerg

United States16 Posts

March 31 2011 06:08 GMT

#105

On March 31 2011 13:05 FallDownMarigold wrote:
So... I see that "foreigners" have overwhelming support here. I'm from the US, but I overwhelmingly support Korean players... Am I just weird? I want to see the Korean players dominate, save perhaps Jinro :D

If you watch GSL it makes sense that you'd want Koreans to win -- you see their personalities a lot and their faces when they win/lose. At least for me GSLWC is introducing me to some new faces. Before a few days ago I would never be able to pick out TT1 or Dimaga from a crowd. The koreans are easy to get to know, and if you don't know the foreigners you don't really want to see your favorite GSL players to get wrecked by a bunch of guys you don't even recognize.

The upside, though, is that all the foreigners are getting more exposure and fans now. And the next time they play I will recognize them.

keioh

France1099 Posts

March 31 2011 06:09 GMT

#106

I expect so much from Jinro. But it's a TvP and he doesn't seem so confortable with. Go Jinro Go !

Baby_Seal

United States360 Posts

March 31 2011 06:12 GMT

#107

From what I've seen of him, MC is a player that loves to craft these beautiful, perfectly timed attacks and crush his opponents with them. I feel like a player that can beat him is one that can mix it up and screw with standard timings a little bit, weakening MC's attacks (i.e. MC launches a fantastic 6 gate attack, only to be greeted with burrow roaches before he's used to seeing them).

I recall Morrow saying in an interview in the past that for training, he prefers to just focus on good general training rather than tailoring strategies to deal with a specific opponent. I hope that's not the case against MC, because if it is, I think MC's timings attacks and forcefields will dissect Morrow, and the series will be completely one-sided.

EDIT: Then again, Morrow does have the advantage of being a foreigner, so MC is less likely to know how to time attacks against a style that's likely to be a little different from standard, so I suppose Morrow does have a chance, just not a good one IMO.

Flat Zerg

United States16 Posts

March 31 2011 06:14 GMT

#108

Yeah, I'm interested to see a successful zergy solution to the MC timing attack.

FXOpen

Australia1844 Posts

March 31 2011 06:14 GMT

#109

Game 1 2-0 sen to win, im a huge sen fanboy love him to bits and he is just awesome. MKP i am a huge fanboy of also, but lately he is been mediocre

Game 2 2-0 Moonglade to win. Inside information ya know

Game 3 2-0 MC to win.. Morrow would have to push early to take down MC to be honest. His late game seems a bit mixed up, so if the game lasts longer than 15 minutes its GG morrow will lose.

Game 4 2-1 Anypro. Dno whats up with Jinro, huge fan of his, but lately I think there is some adaptation problems in his play. I feel he may win the first game, but after that I would give it to anypro, games will prob last around the 15 minute mark for anypro to win. If he lets games go longer, I would say 2-0 jinro.

nihlon

Sweden5581 Posts

March 31 2011 06:18 GMT

#110

I think it's likely Morrow will try to do some kind of blind hard-counter to MC or some strong all-inish play a little further in the game.. He's not expressed much confidence against Protoss and certainly not MC. Unfortunatly I think MC will be on top of his game after losing twice against foreigners in a short period of time (not the tsl).

TheBB

Switzerland5133 Posts

March 31 2011 06:24 GMT

#111

On March 31 2011 10:47 tdt wrote:

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It was a joke to see how many pathetic fools would choose 4.

Uh, there are four matches and a foreigner in each of them...

SmoKim

Denmark10299 Posts

March 31 2011 06:27 GMT

#112

MorroW taken down MC would be the coolest thing ever

rbx270j

Canada540 Posts

March 31 2011 06:28 GMT

#113

What seemed to be the key factor with anypro taking out Morrow is that Morrow was very proactive with Overlord scouting in the midgame, but as soon as his last Overlord went in and was killed, Anypro radically changed his production facility layout (read: adding a ton of gateways) and Morrow didn't find that out in time (if at all during the game), so anypro was able to basically have his entire army replenished in very few warp cycles. I think Morrow's ZvP looked worse in that game than it actually was.

Irave

United States9965 Posts

March 31 2011 06:39 GMT

#114

Have to think that Sen and TT1 will advance for the foreigners tonight. Wish the best for Jinro, but I'm just not quite sure.

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

March 31 2011 06:46 GMT

#115

Whoa this post is up early today. Good, such an event needs more hype. My picks

Sen>MKP: At MKP's current form, he isn't even a top 5 terran in Korea right now. Sen already beat MKP easily the first time and will do so again

TT1>Moonglade: Don't follow either of these players closely so I'm just going based off of what I saw at the Korea vs World showmatch

MC>Morrow: Poor Morrow. No explanation necessary

Jinro>Anypro: Jinro isn't confident in his TvP, but he's just straight up better than anypro.

FataLe

New Zealand4451 Posts

March 31 2011 06:54 GMT

#116

Good Luck all foreigners.

Nifel

706 Posts

March 31 2011 06:55 GMT

#117

On March 31 2011 15:54 FataLe wrote:
Good Luck all foreigners.

Aye. Best of luck to them. They'll need it. :X

dtz

5834 Posts

March 31 2011 06:57 GMT

#118

Sen > MKP

Moonglade > TT1

Morrow > MC ( heart > head )

Anypro > Jinro

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

March 31 2011 06:57 GMT

#119

I don't think it's weird because I'm the same. For people who mainly follow the GSL it's only natural to root for players we've seen play. That means I'm rooting for Moonglade, Jinro, and MC tonight. The only matchup I'm neutral in is MKP vs Sen since I happen to see several of Sen's games by chance during the gcpl and was impressed.

silentreality

Korea (South)222 Posts

March 31 2011 06:57 GMT

#120

Can't wait for today's matches!