| Afriken United States. February 26 2012 05:57. Posts 9 | Profile # |
Extremely glad to be going to another IPL! Everyone should hop on the player/spec passes before they gone, because this is going to be one hell of an event.
Someone should frontpage this for the win! |
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| lolsil United States. February 26 2012 05:58. Posts 36 | Profile # |
finally a lan here at home in las vegas.
will be there to support my team gosu boys~ |
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| careohx February 26 2012 06:23. Posts 262 | Profile # |
| Eh IdrA some1 so unprofessional shouldnt be invited. |
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| Razakel Ireland. February 26 2012 06:27. Posts 466 | Profile # |
On February 26 2012 06:23 careohx wrote:
Eh IdrA some1 so unprofessional shouldnt be invited.
IPL feels like the champions of their previous events should be invited, seems reasonable to me. |
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| rOse_PedaL Korea (South). February 26 2012 06:30. Posts 440 | Profile Blog # | |
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| d9mmdi Germany. February 26 2012 07:12. Posts 179 | Profile Blog # |
| Bad format as we all know by now (because of the anticlimatic finals). Alternative: play out the tournament to top 2 from groups and top 2 from open, then switch to single elimination (alternativly top4 from each). It is still fair cause in group stage you can also afford a loss or even 2 and still advance. |
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| Bagration United States. February 26 2012 08:52. Posts 11502 | Profile Blog # |
On February 26 2012 07:12 d9mmdi wrote:
Bad format as we all know by now (because of the anticlimatic finals). Alternative: play out the tournament to top 2 from groups and top 2 from open, then switch to single elimination (alternativly top4 from each). It is still fair cause in group stage you can also afford a loss or even 2 and still advance.
But that makes it very hard for a player from the open bracket to get anywhere, as only top 2 rather than 8 make it out. The double elimination format does help ensure that the best players have a better chance of making it to the finals. |
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| Rorschach United States. February 26 2012 09:16. Posts 608 | Profile # |
| I wonder if they will do any promo codes like they did for IPL3........ |
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| Bagration United States. February 26 2012 11:15. Posts 11502 | Profile Blog # |
| I still can't believe that this thread is not featured. Sure there is ASUS ROG and MLG going on, but this is IPL 4! This needs to be hyped man! |
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| Gamegene United States. February 26 2012 11:18. Posts 6845 | Profile Blog # |
| holy shit talk about Liquid vs EG! |
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| Bagration United States. February 26 2012 11:24. Posts 11502 | Profile Blog # |
On February 26 2012 11:18 Gamegene wrote:
holy shit talk about Liquid vs EG!
Definitely, only missing Incontrol and Lzgamer, and Idra and Puma already qualified. Hopefully some other foreigner teams sign up en masse. |
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| Hopelessnoob Singapore. February 26 2012 11:28. Posts 1859 | Profile # |
| Holy shit.The whole Liquid team including NONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D I think liquid will do very well |
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| KiF1rE United States. February 26 2012 11:32. Posts 847 | Profile Blog # |
On February 26 2012 05:57 Afriken wrote:
Extremely glad to be going to another IPL! Everyone should hop on the player/spec passes before they gone, because this is going to be one hell of an event.
Someone should frontpage this for the win!
If it wasn't so sudden and expensive travel I would... But I fear that if I happen to come across the funds, they will be gone lol... If only there was some way to get help to get there by volunteering for some work or something, But I want to compete as well =/
I was always hoping I would have a few months to figure out how to plan this, and not be so close to MLG columbus.Last edit: 2012-02-26 11:35:10 |
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| Gamegene United States. February 26 2012 11:39. Posts 6845 | Profile Blog # |
On February 26 2012 09:16 Rorschach wrote:
I wonder if they will do any promo codes like they did for IPL3........
That was because they didn't have enough people buying the damn tickets.
I hope they don't release any. That would be a good problem to have. |
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| grush57 Korea (South). February 26 2012 11:43. Posts 2544 | Profile # |
| 40K for first place, wow! |
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 Alex.IGN United States. February 26 2012 12:19. Posts 1047 | Profile # |
Hey all, we are now 50% SOLD OUT ON PLAYER PASSES! I highly recommend purchasing yours shortly if you want to compete!
Some highlights of the newest sales (didn't click on all of them, sorry if I missed you!):
LighT
xSix
Vile
KiWiKaKi
Buy your competitor passes ($40 per person) here: http://ipl4sc2.eventbrite.com/ |
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| EG.lectR United States. February 26 2012 12:20. Posts 565 | Profile Blog # |
| Gotta love the one month notice. |
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| Bagration United States. February 26 2012 12:21. Posts 11502 | Profile Blog # |
On February 26 2012 12:19 Alex.IGN wrote:Hey all, we are now 50% SOLD OUT ON PLAYER PASSES! I highly recommend purchasing yours shortly if you want to compete! Some highlights of the newest sales (didn't click on all of them, sorry if I missed you!): LighT xSix Vile KiWiKaKi Buy your competitor passes ($40 per person) here: http://ipl4sc2.eventbrite.com/
Glad to see Vile and Kiwikaki participating. More good news, this finally got featured on the main page. |
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| ChriseC Germany. February 26 2012 12:22. Posts 390 | Profile # | |
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| Wroshe Netherlands. February 26 2012 12:29. Posts 1023 | Profile # |
On February 26 2012 06:27 Razakel wrote:
Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 06:23 careohx wrote:
Eh IdrA some1 so unprofessional shouldnt be invited.
IPL feels like the champions of their previous events should be invited, seems reasonable to me.
I agree and I disagree.
You invite your most recent champion because you have some sort of a guarantee that he'll perform up to standards because of his fairly recent form when he got that title. This assumes however that you run your tournament sort of frequently.
IdrA's IPL1 victory will by then be a year ago. A lot of things happen within a year and some players completly vanish or get a lot worse compared to their earlier results. Just take a look at people like Jinro (GSL RO4), iNcontrol (4th at MLG), Naama (Dreamhack 2010 winner) and then try to say that a person's results from a year ago are a good indicator for somebody's skill today.
Having said all this though I can understand that they invited their old champions even though their recent results have been shaky; especially IdrA's recent performance (he hasn't won a single series ever since the NASL Finals at December 2nd) has been absolutely abysmal. However having said that both IdrA and WhiteRa are massive crowd drawers so from a money point of view this is a very good idea. At the end of the day IGN is a business and it would be stupid not to invite these very big names.
I'll elaborate a bit more on IdrA's recent performance as the current way this post can be perceived is quite incendiary.
+ Show Spoiler [Explanation on IdrA statement] +
1| NASL S2 Finals.
He wins 2-0 against Strelok, then falls against PuMa with 0-3.
-> Losing against PuMa is not something to be ashamed off, even though PuMa's TvZ hasn't been his best matchup.
2| WCG.
Falls in group phase, group filled with: Titan, dKiller, Orly, MasterOk, Kelevra and Capoch.
-> IdrA should definatly win aginst every single one of those players with the exception of Titan. Considering that he won his game against Titan he should have advanced easily.
3| GSL Code S.
Losing against NesTea and Lucky.
-> Going down against NesTea is ok and expected. Losing against Lucky should not have happened as Lucky's ZvZ up until then was fairly shaky.
4| GSL Code A.
Going down 2-0 against Avenge.
-> Avenge? Who?
5| MLG Winter Arena.
Gets eliminated in Loser's round 1 after losing against Oz and NesTea.
->Even in great form IdrA could realistically lose against these guys. Really tough luck with the bracket though.
6| Showmatches.
Both against Taeja and aLive he went down 4-0.
7| Team Leagues.
I don't value the Team Leagues that highly for getting an idea on someone's recent form as they are all Best of 1's. However when comparing his losses (ThorZain, HerO, Leenock, Sheth and oGs.Illusion) against his single victory (Axslav) the image that IdrA has been doing bad only gets reinforced.
TLDR:
In the end it's a good decision to invite back all their past decisions. One of them for his current form (Stephano) and two of them because they are fan favorites that will increase viewership by quite a lot. (IdrA and WhiteRa) |
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