i think i will go to bed early today, i can't wait any longer

i can give u a nice deal on some heroin, interested?

will read! :))

Expectations: strenx // Amai

i'd love to see it happen

Good read. :')

Amai over dahang? Evil_ over noctis. You gotto be kidding me.

I'm not plussing this one :(

It's basically a guess. But given that neither has that much meaningful LAN experience it will be hard.

People always underestimate the difference between a LAN setting and online setting.

meaningful lan experience? are you fucking kidding me, the east european lans have better duel showing every single time than any american tournament has had except qcon

You realize there's a difference between those small east european LANs and the real shit where everyone who matters is at?

lol @ evil having no lan experience.

I think Amai is gonna suprise a lotta people !_!

Awaiting big surprise... !

I agree it's unlikely but Amai is pretty sick. If he can hold his own against Cypher every so often, why can't he beat DaHang?

Are you kidding me? If evil had a proper sponsorship and willpower/desire to go to western tournament's he'd be easily TOP5. He's extremely good and talented but people don't give much credit as he's kinda in a shadows all the time.

Some of his achievements On Russian field / in the time where there was 10x more good players than now days.

so what happened? seeing as hes russian im guessing drugs but :((

Remember that evil had no practise after car accident in last year and now he is just coming back to his previous condition

that was evil?
i thought ipKook had a car accident

Well he did attend ESWC 2004 where he was quite dissapointing.. He was as active then as he is now, and hyped aswell.

i would say you just dont know them well enough and misjudge them, not saying that they will win, but they very well could

Evil has much more chances than noctis, because noctis has no duel practise last time and evil has.

fox anyone ?

lallllllll evil and amai

no way:) period

Final results will be:
1. strenx
2. evil
3. Amai

You heard it here first

all 3 destroyed by rapha within 2-3 maps followed by cooller and cypher k thx

haha

Tournament is not ended, just wait.

uhm, yeah..... no.

Good joke! LOL!

good writeup for people who are not so familiar with the teams

damn those predictions are bad.
Did they flip a coin and randomly assign who would win?

Well, they are overrating Amai too much, but what else do you see wrong?

no? they not? dahang is awfull atm

Maybe he is, I don't know, but the usual DaHang in his normal shape will beat Amai for sure.

yeah i guess so... but after watching some of his recent demos hes in a bad shape...

:~)

Well, they are overrating Amai too much

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=2095774#pid2095774

Sorry, I meant to say underrating

ah, i c

Sorry, I meant to say underrating

ah, i c

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evil could win over noctis easily, he's really sick and can surprise.
but as for Amai...
Dahang plays the whole mappool at least 2h a day and clearly IS American top2 who goes to DH and prepares to play 1v1 first of all so he's not that rusty dueler like cooller
While Amai is only good at old maps like ztn/aero, he's easily beatable on new ones, gonna be smashed by dahang easily. Don't rly understand why he's so hyped on ESR lately, latest results? he's only 5-8 at ASUS, cmon... As for beating Cypher - these guys play together daily for like 4 years or longer, it's not hard to adapt and learn to your opponent in such a period of time just like Agent did versus Cooller for example.

Go play Cypher for a few years...get back to me when you beat him

dumb post is dump

A couple of things about the TDM article.
"Semi-annually"? You you must mean "bi-annually"?

Why is an article about TDM starting talking about how Sweden hasn't quite performed in Duel when we are the undisputed nations cups champions in TDM for at least two years running?

not exactly you, the people that played in the cup

c:

No. Sweden as a nation. That is what the nations cups are about.

"semi-anually" actually does mean "twice a year". I didn't think so, either.

On a side-note: did you know that "equivocal" means "ambigious" and "unequivocal" means "unambigious? This blew my mind when I found out about it.

equ-, equi- +
(Latin: same, similar, even, fair, uniform, identical)

yep. that's why "equivocal" should mean "unambigious", but in fact, it somehow means "ambigious".

you should invest a little more time reading other peoples' posts. ;)

orly?

/ignore

That is interesting. My mistake then.