The experts say that ToD, Grubby, Deadman and Insomnia will advance. Eight players, only two will advance to the offline finals. GosuGamers caught up with Zerter, Ciara and Zubie for predictions.
The group stage is finished and the first placed in each group have qualified for the offline finals at the CeBIT mass in Hannover, Germany. While DIDI8, LiiLD.C, NightWOlf and Creolophus can sit and roll their thumbs, the second and third placed players will go up against each other in relegation matches.
GosuGamers caught the WarCraft book Zerter for predictions, as well as the GosuGamers King of the Hill Ciara and the famous hugger Zubie.
| Extreme Masters Relegation Matches | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
  SK.Fire | vs. |  SK.Insomnia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zerter predicts: Based on recent performances Fire and Insomnia are about the same strength. In this clash between the two WCG 2003 champions i'm going with Fire based on gut feeling. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ciara predicts: Well fire_de is really strong with his towers but don't think they gonna work as well in human mirror so I bet insomnia gonna come out on top | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zubie predicts: Fire 2-1. fire likes towers more than inso. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
  MYM]Ciara | vs. |   SK.Deadman | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zerter predicts: Deadman vs. Ciara should be very interesting, Ciara knocked Deadman out of the World Cyber Games and should certainly be able to give him a run for his money. Deadman is usually the stronger player however, and that's why he is my favorite this time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ciara predicts: im the owner of deadman!! everyone knows this fact of life !! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zubie predicts: Deadman 2-0. deadman is nightelf. Ciara is orc. not even tinker can solve it | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 4K^Grubby | vs. |  SK.HoT | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zerter predicts: HoT upset versus Grubby before and should not be counted out. However, after Grubby spend two weeks preparing for nothing except Night Elf for the World War I think his match-up vs. Elf will be sufficient to take down HoT. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ciara predicts: HoT seems weak against orc which is not a good thing against a guy like Grubby so i see somewhat of a clear victory for Grubby. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zubie predicts: Grubby 2-0. Grubby is orc. HoT is elf. not even tinker can solve it | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SK.miou | vs. |  4K^ToD | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zerter predicts: Human vs. Human should be Miou's strongest match-up as his long time domination of the German scene shows. ToD is a class too high for him however, and will probally win convincingly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ciara predicts: Well miou is miou and ToD is ToD.... 0-2 for ToD.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zubie predicts: ToD 2-0. ToD is the base of human towerbuilding. doubt miou can overcome the imbalance! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
We also asked Creolophus, and he agreed on these choices.
- Will probably be close games and there could easily be some upset too, but I think Grubby, ToD, Deadman and Insomnia are so experienced and practice enough to qualify, says the Norwegian Night Elf, already qualified for the offline event.
Now, with the help of the experts, go place your bets in the link below!
Links
GosuGamers.net - Bet on the matches!
ESL.eu - Original news
ESL.eu - Group stage rankigs