Group B

What a group!!!! This group is incredible, one of the strongest and most interesting groups we have had in the ro16 across all seasons. I am very excited, I dreamt about different possible outcomes that we could see, who beats who, who finishes where and it was such a riddle. There is so much history between all the players, playing against each other in WCS already in previous seasons, even history that goes back into Wings of Liberty, anybody remember MC vs Thorzain in TSL3?? You CANNOT miss this group tonight.

Vortix

I feel Vortix has a lot of enemies in this group, I am quite sure everybody is going to be gunning for him. I think he is a favourite to advance from this group into the ro8 despite his results maybe misleading you, he is playing remarkable, over the month he has looked incredible and solid across all 3 matchups.

The first game of the evening for Vortix will be against Babyknight. As mentioned earlier, there is a lot of history with Vortix and todays group - If you followed WCS Europe closely, you should be able to remember a nail biting series in Season 1 ro16 between Vortix and Babyknight to determine who moved into the ro8 or who was knocked out - Incredible series and I am 100% sure Vortix remembers this better than anybody and he could really put Babyknight in a difficult position if he was to able to beast him in the first game of the night. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Another season, another ro16, another reason for revenge. Vortix played against MC in Season 2s ro16 and beat him 2-0, we all know MC will also remember this and will want some revenge of his own, this matchup is highly likely to happen.. I wonder who wins this time?

MC

Jang Min Chul, a name every StarCraft fan should know. The highest earning StarCraft 2 professional player EVER! Currently sitting at about $389,000 in prize money and with a top 2 finish during this season would break $400,000! Incredible!! Rich baller!!

After some threats being eliminated already, MC surely must be one of the big favourites to win this entire tournament, up with there ForGG and MMA - I would be very surprised if the BossToss didn’t make it out of this group - He has a less focused version of Thorzain to play against first tonight, who according to his twitter is finding it hard to balance practice with study being back in school again. I remember in the ro32 during the winners interview, I asked MC if players like MMA or ForGG scared him and he simply replied along the lines of “Terran is easy for me”, is this MCs cocky attitude or truth? Either way, Thorzain gets the brunt of it tonight.

I think MC has his eyes on this outcome for this evening:



2-0 Thorzain and the revenge match vs Vortix hoping that he beats Babyknight.

MC a clear favourite to do well tonight, we are expecting big things from the ObamaToss who fell short to Duckdeok in the Grand Final last season, unfortunately letting his aggressive nature once again be his downfall when choosing to cheese which failed, instead of playing a normal game in the deciding game.

Thorzain

Swedens last hope for a successful season is right here and he finds himself in the hardest group of them all with the hardest player to go up against first… MC….. Thorzain also on top of that enters a group where he has lost vs every player during important parts of his playing career.

He has played against MC so many a time in his past, TSL3, MLG tournaments and others with a overall losing record 2-5 in series. Even though he hasn’t played against Vortix in Heart of the Swarm yet, his record in Wings of Liberty was 0-4 and then to top it all off he lost vs Babyknight in the ro32 in Season 2 WCS EU.

Even though stats are against him and he probably knows this is going to be a very difficult group, sometimes this can relieve some pressure going into battle - I hope Thorzain can do well tonight its just going to be very difficult, especially when your first game is against a player who is only looking at winning the entire tournament. Is Targa the real King in the North???

Babyknight

The legend killer is back (lol) ! - After a great Season 1 for him finishing top 8 when not to many people expected him to do that he is back in the ro16 again after failing to leave the ro32 in Season 2. This time he will make his offline debut playing for Millenium, clearly hoping to do his new team proud and impress.

His first game tonight will be against Vortix, a very difficult first game but one important factor to remember is that he has known he will play against Vortix for a while now. What strategies has he been working on to pick up another victory against the Spaniard.

I usually look at the first game a player plays and think its very important to win it but for Babyknight, I dont get this feeling weirdly. I look at the group and think Babyknight might lose vs Vortix, I feel Thorzain will lose vs MC which leaves us with a Babyknight Thorzain game id feel would go to Babyknight and then the final match between Babyknight and MC/Vortix which I think isnt disgustingly bad Babyknight.. Still with me?!! ^^ - I think he would learn from his loses again vs Vortix and well PvP anything can happen…

Difficult to call where I think Babyknight will finish as I feel this group looks like an MC/Vortix group? Anything can happen though, its StarCraft after all and these brains playing tonight will figure a way to survive in the World Championship Series.