The Round of 16 is in the books and predictions (I leaned on Aligulac) were quite accurate (6-2; we both missed soO, picking Bbyong, and we both mistakenly took Soulkey rather than Maru). Protoss went 5-4, Zergs 2-3, and Terrans 1-1. Here are the brackets for the R8:
sOs Zest
Aligulac gives Zest the slight edge (51%); in similar circumstances (offline vs Korean Protoss) sOs is 7-2, but Zest is 5-0 (albeit not against players of sOs calibre--his win against Dear doesn't weigh as much these days). I like the upset here, so I'll go with sOs. [I was wrong here, as a Zest annihilated sOs 3-0.]
Rain herO
Aligulac predicts herO will win (65%) and I see no reason to argue. [Both Aligulac and I got this wrong, as Rain edged out herO 3-2.]
Life
Maru
Aligulac has Life as the heavy favourite (67%) and the Zerg player has a ridiculous record against Terrans in similar circumstances (16-4, but none against Maru); however, the Terran is 9-2 in the match-up of late and I thought Life struggled against Taeja at IEM, so I'll go with Maru here. [Aligulac stood strong as Life won 3-2.]
PartinG soO
Aligulac gives PartinG the biggest edge of the round (74%), but he's lost to soO twice and the Protoss has been awful in similar circumstances in HOTS (3-8). PartinG has been improving in the match-up, but I do think soO will win here. [My one success in this round, as soO beat PartinG 3-1.]
So Aligulac predicts Zest, herO, Life, and PartinG making it through, whereas I have sOs, herO, Maru, and soO. [Instead, Zest, Rain, Life, and soO made it through, so Aligulac was 2-2 and I was 1-3.]
This article is written by Peter Levi (@eyeonthesens)
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