 IGNProLeague September 11 2011 09:32. Posts 1147 | Profile # |
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The time has come for our seventh IGN Pro League Team Arena! This is a (follow closely) weekly winner's format team king of the hill showmatch series. For better clarification, check out our IPL Team Arena General Discussion thread!
When: September 12th, 2011 17:00 PDT[local] (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at September 13th, 2011 9:30 PDT)
Prizes
The first team to defeat everyone on the opposing team's roster (5 wins, or a best of 9) will earn $500 for their team to split however they want. To make things even more interesting, we are including a $100 bounty for each victory that a team earns, for new challengers to try and claim. For example, if a team wins 3 weeks in a row, they will have earned themselves $1,500 total, and have $300 worth of bounty on them. If a new team defeats them, they will earn the $500 for winning the week, as well as claim the $300 bounty.
Fnatic is the second team to win the IPL Team Arena, and they have earned themselves $1000 and a $200 bounty on their heads. Dignitas has always been a formidable clan war team and they are anxious for their chance to prove themselves this week. Here are their full rosters:
Dignitas SjoW SeleCT meRz PuReBall  Bischu BlinG Naniwa  Killer TanDongHo Apollo FnaticMSI Rain IefNaij KawaiiRice NightEnd TT1 ToD
New teams will be invited each week to take on the previous week's winner.
The First Match of the IPL Team Arena is on September 12th, 2011 17:00 PDT (we will also have a European re-broadcast as usual at September 13th, 2011 9:30 PDT)
Poll: Who Will Win?!DDignitas (61) 70% FnaticMSI (26) 30% 87 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win?!D (Vote): Dignitas
(Vote): FnaticMSI
Results!+ Show Spoiler [FnaticMSI vs. Dignitas Results] +NightEnd < Shakuras Plateau > Bischu
NightEnd < Xel'Naga Caverns > SjoW
NightEnd < Metalopolis > Killer
TT1 < Antiga Shipyard > Killer
KawaiiRice < Xel'Naga Fortress > Killer
KawaiiRice < Tal'Darim Altar > meRz
Rain < Dual Sight > meRz
Rain < Crevasse > BlinG
Congratulations FnaticMSI for their third win, taking the series 5-3 and earning $500!
Map List
Xel'Naga Caverns
Metalopolis
Shakuras Plateau
Crevasse
Tal Darim Altar
Dual Sight
Xel'Naga Fortress
Terminus
Shattered Temple
Daybreak
Antiga Shipyard
The first map will be on a set rotation, and then it is loser's pick.
Casters
This week's games will be commentated by CatsPajamas, HDStarCraft, and/or PainUser
We have already invited several teams and have more in mind, but if you would like your team to be considered for the IPL Team Arena as well, please send a letter of interest as well as a description of your team and a roster to iplquestions@ign.com!
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| last.resistance Canada. September 11 2011 09:38. Posts 543 | Profile # |
Is ToD allowed to play?
This is a pretty big match between two foreign titans, but the lack of Zergs in the Fnatic roster always jumps out at me. |
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| IGNProLeague September 11 2011 09:41. Posts 1147 | Profile # |
| Sure he is! The news was just announced, though, so it's unlikely he'll make an appearance. |
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| Icekommander Canada. September 11 2011 09:49. Posts 476 | Profile Blog # |
| Sjow Select Naniwa and TDH all have the ability to kill Rain. Given this seems to be the element that Reign and It's Gosu were missing, I think we'll have a new king on top of the hill tonight |
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| JiYan United States. September 11 2011 11:23. Posts 3587 | Profile Blog # |
On September 11 2011 09:49 Icekommander wrote:
Sjow Select Naniwa and TDH all have the ability to kill Rain. Given this seems to be the element that Reign and It's Gosu were missing, I think we'll have a new king on top of the hill tonight
Rain still has the ability to take out everyone on dignitas as well so dont count it against them. you also cant totally disregard fnatic's other players. theyre all quite able to take matches from any of dignitas' players.. |
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| Schmoooopy United States. September 11 2011 11:53. Posts 442 | Profile # |
| Rain is someone to be feared on Fnatic, but I think Dignitas has what it takes to take him out. Go Dignitas! |
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| RaiKageRyu Canada. September 11 2011 12:05. Posts 3947 | Profile # |
| Let's see if Rain cleans house again. |
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| Icekommander Canada. September 11 2011 12:19. Posts 476 | Profile Blog # |
On September 11 2011 11:23 JiYan wrote:
Show nested quote +On September 11 2011 09:49 Icekommander wrote:
Sjow Select Naniwa and TDH all have the ability to kill Rain. Given this seems to be the element that Reign and It's Gosu were missing, I think we'll have a new king on top of the hill tonight
Rain still has the ability to take out everyone on dignitas as well so dont count it against them. you also cant totally disregard fnatic's other players. theyre all quite able to take matches from any of dignitas' players..
True, but Rain is 6-0 in the IPL Arena, and the collected rest of the team is 4-8. The only other player even breaking even is Nightend (and Tod, but he hasn't played yet). So it seems like an outside chance at best that the other fnatic members will be a major force, although I'll concede that Tod and Nightend could bring some fire as well. But I still favour Sjow/Select/TDH/Naniwa over Tod/Nightend/Rain |
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| Xeris Iran. September 11 2011 12:44. Posts 16869 | Profile Blog # |
| Half of Dignitas is in Korea though |
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| sLBraemar Canada. September 11 2011 12:46. Posts 284 | Profile # |
| ToD Fighting, ToD all kill incoming! |
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| Devolved United States. September 11 2011 13:16. Posts 2646 | Profile # |
| Should be a good one, but didn't y'all say, or at least hint that Team Liquid was going to be next and then some Korean teams? Or am I totally off and just making stuff up? :o |
| | Flash, the last BW bonjwa and first bonjwa of SC2. |
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| JoshSuth United States. September 12 2011 02:59. Posts 1530 | Profile Blog # |
| Team Liquid's members are scattered all over the globe competing in many prestigious tournaments. We'll have them on as soon as humanly possible. =D |
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 Joshy.IGN United States. September 13 2011 02:05. Posts 513 | Profile # |
| Don't forget that this starts in just about 7 hours! Right now the poll favors Dignitas, any thoughts as to why? |
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| Soluhwin United States. September 13 2011 02:15. Posts 1111 | Profile # |
| Dignitas has much more flexibility in terms of who they can send out, and don't have to prepare XvZ at all. I'll have to cast my vote for Dignitas. |
| | "Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. Immortality may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean." - G.H.Hardy |
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| Spaceneil8 United States. September 13 2011 03:43. Posts 316 | Profile # |
| It would be nice if IGN would post the players that are sent out first for both teams. GSTL does that and it really helps build hype if we see who's sent put first. |
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| Neelia Germany. September 13 2011 04:08. Posts 599 | Profile # |
As the Poll title already says: D(ignitas) will take it!
gogogo |
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| Wanderville Honduras. September 13 2011 04:20. Posts 12 | Profile # |
| Its not only rain that has to be beaten... its also kawaiirice... he's been playin on the korean server and hes gettin some good results |
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| Amethyst21 Canada. September 13 2011 06:28. Posts 968 | Profile Blog # |
Dignitas has a deeper team, but doesn't seem like anyone can beat rain on IGN  |
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| Dexington Canada. September 13 2011 07:02. Posts 5867 | Profile Blog # |
| Fnatic easy, half of Dignitas is in Korea. |
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| GGzerG United States. September 13 2011 07:09. Posts 3513 | Profile Blog # |
| Fnatic with no Zergs.......Dignitas will win easy...... ^_^ |
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