Profile of AmiPolizeiFunk

lol nice vid Ivan. At least murica has one shining representative

I just realized that there are only 3 possible representative Finals match-ups:

EU vs EU
Russia vs EU
USA vs EU

The entire bottom bracket is EU

Well that was a design choice. We use .000-1.000 so that they look like batting averages like in MLB professional baseball. I'm a baseball fan It would be more clear if it said ".AVG" instead of "%" in the header, but we never bothered with that.

So I'm not quite sure what happened with the seeding. We all saw a different bracket for a short time, before it was drastically changed. I assume the first bracket (which was utterly terrible) got re-done because we all (with this thread and with PMs etc) convinced Stormless to convince Kyle to change it. Correct me if I'm wrong? Relic changed them enough for us to get a decent tournament (thank goodness for that), but their seeds still had some serious fails.

In my seeds, all 8 of the remaining players were in my "top 10" seeds. My big fail was ofc Luvnest, but upsets happen and that is normal. But let's look at some of Relic's seeds:

Seeding shadowwada at #30 (dead last... there were 2 no-shows) seemed like a troll move (a very unfair seed) to set him up against BartonPL (#3 seed whut?) in Round 1 amidst all of this cyberbullying drama. Great for the viewers, but a wack move from a tourney organizer/developer.

Relic's #6 seed, RtN.Dusty, lost in Round 1 (Ro32) to their #27 seed, wuFF.

Relic's #8 seed, RedXWings, lost to their #9 seed, VonIvan. Why RedWings would be seeded above VonIvan makes absolutely no sense, considering VonIvan's victories in ESL NA and his superior ladder position. Partly due to this, Ivan had the easiest road to the Ro8 (but got lucky that he didn't have to face a true top8 seed). VonIvan should have been a top8 seed himself (which would have had the same result... him not having to face one).

Relic's #7 seed, Talisman, lost to their #10 seed, DevM. Seeding DevM is hard, true, because of mixed results, but seeding him below Talisman should not happen.

Seeding Paul at #16 is questionable. Due to his bad seed, he had to face the #1 seed Jove in R2. In the original bracket that was published briefly, Paul was the #3 seed, and would have faced the winner of Momo vs. Overlord in R2. In the new bracket, he got Jove in round 2. I think Paul has a very legitimate right to complain.

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But all in all, we have 8 great players in the last 8, so we can all be thankful for that. I'm very very very glad that they changed the brackets to spread out more of the top players. We'll have a much better Ro8 coming up this weekend because of this last-minute change. It's a shame tho, that players like Wada and Paul got screwed.

Edit: Uploaded the first game, that one was really good.

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  Insane DevM

  Talisman VS DevM WCS 1

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So FLTA, you are Talisman, I assume?

Thx for sharing the first-person VOD... those are always really interesting.