As IPTL Season 1 steams ahead for it's finish, it's time for IPL to bring you the Grand Final match to both determine the winner and who earns the $9,000 in prize money.
Playoff Schedule: IPTL Season 1 Grand Final. StarTale v LG-IM: November 21
When: Thursday, Nov 22 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)
Format
LG-IM defeated StarTale in Group B, and both defeated formidable playoff opponents. Will LG-IM be triumphant again, or can StarTale take them out? For IPTL 2013 Season 1 the placements are set: MVP, StarTale, LG-IM and Evil Geniuses, Liquid, Prime and FXO will remain in Premier Division. The losers will be in Contender Division for IPTL Season 2. With SlayerS disbanding, Acer and Dignitas battled for who will remain in Contender division while Karont3 is promoted to Premier Division. The only match left will determine the Champion.
LG-IM and StarTale battle for the $9,000, fame and glory. The full prize distribution is:
StarTale AcE Avenge Bomber Curious Hack Harrier July Life PartinG Sound Squirtle SuHoSin TREME Aphrodite Virus Brain KingKong MisS Pet Sparta SoN Tiger Zero
The Grand Finals of the IPTL is on Thursday, Nov 22 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)
Startale has the sickest roster atm and that's sad to say from an IM prespective. Heart says IM, brain says Startale. Hope it's going to be a good one though !
On November 22 2012 06:34 HaXXspetten wrote: waitwhat this is fucking tonight? god fkn dammit, well no way I can stay up for this, got stupid particle physics test first thing tomorrow morning
sigh, well my heart goes out to StarTale all the fucking way, please don't break my heart again, we've been doing better lately, don't break the trend
On November 22 2012 06:34 HaXXspetten wrote: waitwhat this is fucking tonight? god fkn dammit, well no way I can stay up for this, got stupid particle physics test first thing tomorrow morning
sigh, well my heart goes out to StarTale all the fucking way, please don't break my heart again, we've been doing better lately, don't break the trend
On November 22 2012 06:34 HaXXspetten wrote: waitwhat this is fucking tonight? god fkn dammit, well no way I can stay up for this, got stupid particle physics test first thing tomorrow morning
sigh, well my heart goes out to StarTale all the fucking way, please don't break my heart again, we've been doing better lately, don't break the trend
Have to go with StarTale on this one, just an overall stronger line-up with some beastly players who manage to excel at team-leagues and single leagues.
On November 22 2012 07:17 Black Gun wrote: holy shit, i just jizzed my pants after looking at those rosters and the potential matches we might get to see.
I see like eight match-ups that could (or already have) turn out to be great GSL finals... And we get to watch them all play in a team league, and then again in a few days. Hype.
On November 22 2012 04:55 SeeKeR wrote: If LG-IM can just use their GSL champions, they should be able to win this 5-4. But then again, I'm not sure who they have that can take of Life.
They have Yonghwa.
On November 22 2012 07:30 darkmetabee wrote: How do you ensure there is no cheating? The only thing stopping teammates from watching/giving advice is good faith.
Teammates watching and giving advice isn't going to help the one playing it will only make him play worse.
On November 22 2012 09:14 Sumahi wrote: Ouch, this is looking not so good for Squirtle.
Its not so bad, he's forced a lot of scans, and while Yoda did killed 10 workers he also had at least that many chilling with his army for several minutes, and most of them didn't make it back home.
Shame that this didn't get enough hype, so many world class players to watch tonight. I really wanna see MC, that guy has been flying under the radar for a long time now.
If First loses here, they are going to lose IMO...I think mvp is inactive atm due to wrists issues...nestea isn't at the top anymore...I would prefer it if they hold Yonghwa to deal with the players besides Squirtle (parting, life, curious, etc)
On November 22 2012 09:36 .kv wrote: If First loses here, they are going to lose IMO...I think mvp is inactive atm due to wrists issues...nestea isn't at the top anymore...I would prefer it if they hold Yonghwa to deal with the players besides Squirtle (parting, life, curious, etc)
Basically it, unless YongHwa can somehow pull off an incredible comeback against Life, PartinG, Bomber, Curious and Hack.
On November 22 2012 09:52 yrt123 wrote: Wtf Mvp. Wasn't he gonna have wrist surgery :O
Playing a maximum of five games from the comfort of your own home to win a team league is different to flying across the globe to play a meaningless show match and a gruelling tournament that will be about as stacked as the GSL.
Plus, this could have been played a couple weeks ago anyway.
On November 22 2012 09:52 yrt123 wrote: Wtf Mvp. Wasn't he gonna have wrist surgery :O
Playing a maximum of five games from the comfort of your own home to win a team league is different to flying across the globe to play a meaningless show match and a gruelling tournament that will be about as stacked as the GSL.
Plus, this could have been played a couple weeks ago anyway.
maybe it's the upcoming all-kill that hurt his wrists
On November 22 2012 09:52 yrt123 wrote: Wtf Mvp. Wasn't he gonna have wrist surgery :O
Playing a maximum of five games from the comfort of your own home to win a team league is different to flying across the globe to play a meaningless show match and a gruelling tournament that will be about as stacked as the GSL.
Plus, this could have been played a couple weeks ago anyway.
maybe it's the upcoming all-kill that hurt his wrists
PartinG still doesn't look as scary as he used to. Maybe it's just the GSL still in my mind but some small things like ab unch of guardian shields up at once seem a bit off for him.
This might be IM's first IPLTAC/IPTL loss... but I think this might be Startale's first EVER team league win out of GSTL (where they were runner ups in the first and fifth GSTLs) KSL (runner up in all 3 KSL Team league events) and finally here they are about to change their stars.
Gives me hope that the curse of Kong can be broken, and that gives me hope for MKP.
Oh yeah Baby, Startale Protosses fighting <3 Finally a team title for the hands down best team in the world. Today IPTL, tomorrow GSTL, next week the world :D
Why hasn't this had any hype at all? I didn't even know that it was the grand finals before 5 min before it started, and that was only because I was gonna watch LO3 which started at the same time.
On November 22 2012 10:44 Torra wrote: Why hasn't this had any hype at all? I didn't even know that it was the grand finals before 5 min before it started, and that was only because I was gonna watch LO3 which started at the same time.
- For IPL TAC3 we had front page articles
- Lots of other stuff going on, It's super November and all.