When: Wednesday, Jan 11 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)
Format
Contender Division Group A is made up of four teams: Fnatic, Acer, NsHoSeo, and inFDreamteam Gaming. Group B contains TSL, ROOT, FXO EU, and Complexity. Both groups will play round robin against each other team in their group. When group stages are over, the top two teams from each Group will have a chance in the Up and Down matches to join Premier Division.
With TSL disbanded, none of their games will count towards the results of the division.
Team SCV Life RIP Symbol HyuN Value Punisher Shine RagnaroK Venus Mamuri Center
compLexity Minigun Heart qxc Ryan Ryze TriMaster Sasquatch
This match of the IPTL Contender Division Group B is on Wednesday, Jan 11 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)
The first map will be on a set rotation, and then it is loser's pick.
Casters
Today's games will be commentated by Tim Frazier and Andrew "Kibbelz" Dunne!
NOTE: We have changed the naming schema for this season of IPTL. We will now be naming our seasons by year (though I know you were all excited for IPTL XXVI). This will be IPTL 2013 Season 1.
On January 12 2013 04:50 DarkLordOlli wrote: Would be so hilarious if the final show we see from TSL ended in a Minigun all kill. Hilarious and super sad at the same time.
On January 12 2013 09:09 Shellshock1122 wrote: What are the results so far? I missed the first hour and it's already on game 6 but OP has nothing updated
On January 12 2013 09:09 Shellshock1122 wrote: What are the results so far? I missed the first hour and it's already on game X* but OP has nothing updated
On January 12 2013 05:05 Seeker wrote: Disbanded TSL vs Dying coL
Oh my... this is a depressing match up
coL lost all their Korean players, but they still have some good foreigners and they have teams for many other games. I dont think theyre going to die.
Though then you'd expect the playstyle if he's a practise partner... I dunno.
Maybe he got metagamed... Practice X way and then rush hellions in an official match.... or what was an official match at the time... plus it could have been Center's first cross-server match... Unless his KR account is called "TSLKiller".
Urmmm, this game can be described as insane. Sasquatch had a huge lead in mid-game and late-game, but ValuE expertly played his late-late-game. I really loved ValuE's WP harass, Feedback use and stalling techniques.
On January 12 2013 11:00 Larkin wrote: And lo, henceforth all will remember the epic battle of mediocre Protoss against a patchzerg, and the brutal war that lasted almost an hour.
Wouldn't exactly call ValuE's play there mediocre by any chance. Sure, he's no PartinG or HerO, but his late-late game tactics were phenomenal.
On January 12 2013 11:00 Larkin wrote: And lo, henceforth all will remember the epic battle of mediocre Protoss against a patchzerg, and the brutal war that lasted almost an hour.
Wouldn't exactly call ValuE's play there mediocre by any chance. Sure, he's no PartinG or HerO, but his late-late game tactics were phenomenal.
Sure, I was talking about him in general. You won't see him in Code S any time soon, that's for sure. It was more Sasquatch's inability to deal with DT/warpprism harass. I mean come on, he had a 4k 5k bank, and all he had to do was dump a few spores around his bases, set a muta or something on the warpprism.
It was a bit silly considering how he was battering Value at the beginning, denying his 3rd etc. I'm really happy Value won, as a Protoss who has been decimated by ling/bling/muta too many times.
On January 12 2013 11:06 Sumahi wrote: This is sad to watch. It's like attending a vigil.
Without the important people even attending (aka HyuN and Symbol).
TSL is using this opportunity to showcase their less successful players to foreign teams/observers... I wouldn't expect HyuN or Symbol to even come out if ValuE loses...
On January 12 2013 11:06 Sumahi wrote: This is sad to watch. It's like attending a vigil.
Without the important people even attending (aka HyuN and Symbol).
TSL is using this opportunity to showcase their less successful players to foreign teams/observers... I wouldn't expect HyuN or Symbol to even come out if ValuE loses...
I guess so, because having HyuN or even Symbol just would not be fair. It is a try-out process I suppose, but I doubt ValuE, Venus and Mamuri will find teams at all, especially Venus and Mamuri who have been close to inactive or retired.
On January 12 2013 11:13 Elite_ wrote: I was expecting Heart... These games must be much more recent than I thought.
On January 12 2013 11:07 PhoenixVoid wrote:
On January 12 2013 11:06 Sumahi wrote: This is sad to watch. It's like attending a vigil.
Without the important people even attending (aka HyuN and Symbol).
TSL is using this opportunity to showcase their less successful players to foreign teams/observers... I wouldn't expect HyuN or Symbol to even come out if ValuE loses...
I guess so, because having HyuN or even Symbol just would not be fair. It is a try-out process I suppose, but I doubt ValuE, Venus and Mamuri will find teams at all, especially Venus and Mamuri who have been close to inactive or retired.
I know for sure Mamuri is very active on ladder... HuK got matched up against him like 10 times in a row on his stream the other day... Unless someone is smurfing as "TSLMamuri" on the KR server for some reason.