Select > Catz Alicia > Cruncher Lowely > alive (A mixture of NASL lowely is an absolute beast also I'm certain the lag issues that rain has been complaining about must affect alive) Ret > Idra
As long as the koreans show up, they should win. And ret will most prolly beat Idra if he's still on his "lose a drone, leave the game" mentality.. looking forward to alive-lowely!
On June 03 2012 07:51 ZeroSC2 wrote: lol guys, lets face it. aLive is on a different level of skill than Lowely. One of the best Terrans in the world, and beat ThorZain 2-0
The rest were pretty much default loss except the match vs SeleCT (probably US-KR lag issues)
aLive should have been 5-1 here already, but it seems he doesnt care much about NASL...
Lowely did beat ThorZaiN as well and in other tournaments aLive lost to foreign zerg players like TLO or Catz. He is a top terran for sure, but his TvZ is not as good as his other MU´s. Then add a lag and a good preperation for Lowely and he has a chance to win this.
On June 03 2012 07:51 ZeroSC2 wrote: lol guys, lets face it. aLive is on a different level of skill than Lowely. One of the best Terrans in the world, and beat ThorZain 2-0
The rest were pretty much default loss except the match vs SeleCT (probably US-KR lag issues)
aLive should have been 5-1 here already, but it seems he doesnt care much about NASL...
Lowely did beat ThorZaiN as well and in other tournaments aLive lost to foreign zerg players like TLO or Catz. He is a top terran for sure, but his TvZ is not as good as his other MU´s. Then add a lag and a good preperation for Lowely and he has a chance to win this.
aLive keeps being the most underrated of the Top 5 Korean Terrans, even despite the fact he beat the hardest international tournament up to date.
In shape, only Mvp can compete with his TvT, only MKP with his TvP, and he did beat DRG and Leenock when on-fire.
On June 03 2012 07:51 ZeroSC2 wrote: lol guys, lets face it. aLive is on a different level of skill than Lowely. One of the best Terrans in the world, and beat ThorZain 2-0
The rest were pretty much default loss except the match vs SeleCT (probably US-KR lag issues)
aLive should have been 5-1 here already, but it seems he doesnt care much about NASL...
Lowely did beat ThorZaiN as well and in other tournaments aLive lost to foreign zerg players like TLO or Catz. He is a top terran for sure, but his TvZ is not as good as his other MU´s. Then add a lag and a good preperation for Lowely and he has a chance to win this.
aLive keeps being the most underrated of the Top 5 Korean Terrans, even despite the fact he beat the hardest international tournament up to date.
In shape, only Mvp can compete with his TvT, only MKP with his TvP, and he did beat DRG and Leenock when on-fire.
In shape he can beat everybody. But we don´t know in what shape he was during that game and his TvZ is by far his worst MU. I am not saying, that I would favor Lowely, I am just saying, that he has a chance, although it is not that high. If Catz was able to beat aLive not long time ago, Lowely should as well.
On June 03 2012 09:31 ZeroSC2 wrote: yea but aLive did beat CatZ 2-0 this season.
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If he did´nt, Lowely would be clearly favored. I just said, that he seemed vulnerable in TvZ before and that this is not as clear as it maybe seems. I would still say, that aLive has a ~70% chance to win, but there is a possibility, that he loses.
On June 03 2012 10:41 Xoronius wrote: That missread most likely costed Lowely the grand finals; if he had build 20 lings instead of those drones, he should have crushed this.
He should be fine if he beats IdrA next week right? Wouldn't that leave him top 2?
On June 03 2012 10:41 Xoronius wrote: That missread most likely costed Lowely the grand finals; if he had build 20 lings instead of those drones, he should have crushed this.
He should be fine if he beats IdrA next week right? Wouldn't that leave him top 2?
I don´t know, Ret and Alicia would be 6-2 as well, so it depends on map score. Maybe SeleCT can beat Ret next week, but I would´nt be so sure.
I think CatZ is always a wild card. You can never really guess how on the mark he is gonna be. But I think he definitely can and probably will take out Select here. Then again, select has been in recluse recently, who knows how good he has gotten
its just a sad truth that none of the players give a damn about the nasl. fails to turn up, cheese every game. i for one like watching nasl for some matchups, but when some players play like trash, then there is definately an issue.
On June 03 2012 11:03 ThePlayer33 wrote: its just a sad truth that none of the players give a damn about the nasl. fails to turn up, cheese every game. i for one like watching nasl for some matchups, but when some players play like trash, then there is definately an issue.
Some matchups are pretty solid. I always like Dimaga's games.
On June 03 2012 11:40 Hulavuta wrote: No Ret vs IdrA? What happened?
Ret didn't show up on time, IdrA was awarded a walkover. Good Guy Greg refused the walkover and the match will be played/casted tomorrow.
Hmm, strange that he would accept the walkover for aLive but not Ret. He must be really confident he can win.
EDIT: I don't think it's exactly bad manners to accept a walkover, more just like being extra nice to deny it. After all, you showed up and you made it to the commitment, you deserve to have it if the other person didn't. (I know there are emergencies but NASL usually defaults to rescheduling during emergencies IIRC)