Grubby
BEFORE MATCH:
A Match vs Grubby. The first thing that comes to mind is
"pp". "pp" is a term which was occasionally used all the way back in Starcraft when I was still young (6 years back!). Except for gg, gl and hf you had "pp". It means Perfect Play, you would say it if you thought your enemy owned you in every aspect of the game.

Grubby makes (generally) less mistakes than you, has better timing, thinks further ahead and understands the game better. Which leaves not much room for winning. If your micro is not on par (which mine obviously isn't), the best way to win is to surprise. However Grubby showed in the past to be perfectly able to counter surprises because his overall knowledge of wc3 and decision-making.

Therefore the only way I can approach this game is by not minding the fact that I will make more mistakes, but trying to use the strength (imbalance?) of my race in such a way that even perfect play cannot beat it. :)

AFTER MATCH:
Well, Grubby didn't play for 2 weeks which left for me the opportunity to grab a map. Overall grubby still proved to be too much, gg's.

iZi
BEFORE MATCH:
To be very personal, I have seen iZi in three different ways.

The first time I had played with iZi his name was SW]easy_kill[, and it was when I was joining ]SW[ (Spirit Warriors) to become sW-Grubby- instead of just Grubtor. He was the clanmember with the MOST games by far, with stats something like 5000-3000 or whatever. So I looked up to him =) and he was a good e-buddy. That was like 7-8 years ago in Starcraft.

The second phase of knowing him was not so nice, cuz he changed his name to iZi and I hardly knew him anymore. This was in Warcraft. =)

The 3rd phase seems to me now in the EPS Netherlands. We have had matches against each other, and sometimes they were pretty close when I switched race. When I play Orc, it seems it is still hard for him to muster the necessary confidence. It will be fun to play against him, because I have not practiced for two weeks (busy with house) and he seems quite motivated. Hopefully I will stand a chance =)

Greets,
Grubby

AFTER MATCH:
iZi proposed system of rdm vs rdm, in the first game I lost quite badly as he did a towerrush for which i didnt scout at all. I don't really know what my game plan was that game.

The second game I showed what kind of weak race Orc really is.

Lastly in the 3rd game we went real races and izi tried a TM strat on EI which was pretty dangerous, but i was able to fend off the AP push!