Poll Favorite Ret Doubts He Will Defeat BRAT_OK

Looking at numerous polls, the favorite to win DreamHack Summer is Jos "ret" de Kroon. Holding a cutting edge Zerg as well as a remarkable Terran against his own Zerg, he is predicted to win the whole tournament. But Mr. Kroon himself is not so positive.

- I would've liked to have played games yesterday actually, I think the people who already have a lot of 'important games' behind them at this location will have an easier time keeping the rhytm and staying focussed...for me it will be my first games in 3-4 days and it will be a bo3.. and it decides wether im out or not, so it will be very important to be focussed from the start of the game, says ret.

The playoff maps were drawn earlier today and the first game of the Quarter-Finals will be played on Sin Chupung Ryeong, a map ret is not totally okay with. Saying it is a horrible map for Zerg versus Terran, he is predicting he will lose to Pavel "BRAT_OK" Kuznetsov.

- The matchup is probably my weakest... and with the map being chupung of course I would have preferred reverse, adds ret.

Not having to play the qualifier, ret had the whole day off yesterday which gave him time to focus on other things. Girls for example. Overall he likes the world's largest digital festival.

- It's pretty good, much bigger than I expected, the internet and computer setups are nice, and of course its great to meet all the people from starcraft.... also lots of hot Swedish girls here just wish they were older than 14, says ret.

Match is set to begin on 15:30 CET.

DreamHack Summer 2009 Playoffs

Quarter Finals

14:00