Afreeca StarLeague Season 3 (Offline qualifiers till the finals) - Page 2

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Looks like we are going to have a real good distribution of races for the Round of 16. So far we have:

4 zerg
3 terran
4 protoss

With 5 spots left. Already that's looking to be better than last season when we only had 2 zerg in the round of 16. We just need at least 1 more T and 1 more Z to keep it from being Protoss heavy like the round of 24

(Z)herO vs (P)Lazy

(P)Rain vs (T)sSak

Is it just me or having outsider in the map pool feels incredibly unfair towards protoss

protoss is 25-26 on outsider in pro games. terran is the disadvantaged race.

fuck, sorry, looked at wrong stats. Outsider is indeed quite bad pvz - 39% winrate.

Looking at the games so far it seemed could be even worse than that. I think protoss players can have better results if they just did a standard greedy 1base cors/dt into nat nexus build. It defends well against almost everything and it seems the only build that can guarantee a gas expansion.

39% vs 61% (41-26) really is pretty bad. I just looked at 10 random maps I knew had been played quite a lot (>= outsider), and with the exception of ride of valkyries, where zvp is even worse (47-23), not a single matchup had more than 58% going one way. Honestly it's remarkable how balanced many of them are. Tau Cross is actually 64-64 tvz, 67-67 zvp, and 64-59 pvt.

feels naked for protoss when trying to expo haha

the expo behind gets harassed by lurkers like every single time, that expansion seems require cannons behind the mineral line and a lot of them

what about fighting spirit?

yup! cant wait for jaedong at ro16.

Larva vs. Movie. Who has the edge?

damn i forgot this one lol

(T)Last vs (Z)HyuN


(P)Movie vs (Z)Larva

Round of 16 Groups!!!



Clearly "Outsider" map grossly favors Z over P which is obvious given how many ZvPs gifted Zergs six spots here. I'm not complaining though, ZvZ is infinitely better than TvT

and tvz is the best matchup, and that we'll get plenty of.

Wonder if bisu makes it, very tough group for him, very entertaining group as well. All 4 can make it, soulkey was awesome in the team tournament and the other 3 have been among the best..
Flash on the other hand looks extremely comfortable. Group D is tough as well. And C is the only one I don't really care about, although it's nice if we can get 2 p's for later stage.

Wow very disappointed with the groups. We had a great distribution of races for final 16 and we have only 1 group with all 3 races. 2 groups with 3 of 1 race.

no surprises here