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Former champion Mvp and San meet with ToD and rookie uThermal tonight in WCS Europe

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On paper tonights group of WCS Europe is a sure thing: Jung ‚Mvp‘ Jong Hyun is a former champion and Kang ‚San‘ Cho Won was third last season while Yoan ‚ToD‘ Merlo never made it to the Round of 16 and Marc ‚uThermal‘ Schlappi hasn’t played a single match in WCS Premier League yet – any hopes for surprises? Maybe. Check the stats and trivia about WCS Europe Group D.

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Results

[san] 2:1 [uthermal]
[mvp] 1:2 [tod]
[san] 2:1 [tod]
[uthermal] 2:0 [mvp]
[tod] 2:1 [uthermal]

Final Standings

  1. [san]
  2. [tod]
  3. [uthermal]
  4. [mvp]

WCS is played in Double Elimination mode: A player who wins two matches advances, a player who loses twice is out

Trivia

  • [san] and [uthermal] met once in a tournament last August – San won 2:1
  • [mvp] and [tod] never met before
  • San is slightly positive in PvT and PvP lately but not extraordinary well
  • Mvp has only played two TvT in tournaments since September – both were in last seasons Round of 16
  • ToD is now on a 3-8 record in PvT but 6-3 in PvP
  • uThermal has a 16-6 record vs Protoss since March, his stats against Terran are even
  • Mvp was the champion in the very first season of WCS Europe back in 2013
  • San played his first ever WCS Premier League last season and immediately got third place
  • ToD never made it past the Round of 32 in two attempts
  • uThermal is one of seven rookies this season – four already played and two of them advanced to the Round of 16 ([harstem] and [yoda])
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NaNiwa forfeiting his IEM-match reminds me of ToD not playing because it is too hot

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So Johan ‚NaNiwa‘ Luccesi forfeited his match vs Polt in the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship yesterday – officially because the boxes for the players on the stage are not soundproofed. That is necessary because otherwise the audience could give hints to the players. Naniwa suspected that Polt scouted a proxy Rax because of the audiences reaction yesterday. By the way, the incident perfectly fits my portrait of NaNiwa i wrote a few days ago.

 

 

I don’t think we have to discuss that this is disrespectful behaviour towards the tournament, other players and viewers. But [naniwa] sure as hell is not the first professional gamer to act somewhere between funny and tragic at a big tournament. I was for example instantly reminded of [tod]. Today a well-known caster in Starcraft 2 he used to be a big player in Warcraft 3 for a long time. And he had some problems with tournament conditions as well. In a tournament in China (i think it was WEG Masters 2006, but correct me if i am wrong) he complained about the room being too cold, in WC3L semifinals 2007 it was too hot to play – and [tod] could rant about that for two full minutes

Do you know of more players refusing to play because of conditions at the gaming area?