Kespa's here, it's a Reality

The final match, a TvP, Fantasy versus Jangbi, the rematch of the previous OSL Finals, and it was iconic. Jangbi breaking the Legend of the Fall some say, others say it was appropriate as it was the fall of Brood War, either way; JangBi came out on top, winning the last two OSL finals consecutively. Many fans of Starcraft II who had never tuned into a Brood War game came out to watch, myself included. We watched Flash come so close to leaving Brood War as the ultimate king, getting to the semi-finals, but he still kept his crown as the last Bonjwa of Brood War. Many people of our era played Brood War, but it was about time that the full transition to Starcraft II occurred.

At the current stage of the transition, the Kespa Players show great potential in Starcraft II, but like Foreigners vs GSL Players, they are not quite at that point where they can compete at the level of kings of GOM. None of the kings of Kespa are doing very well at this time, Jaedong, Flash, Fantasy, Zero, and Bisu all showing pretty poor results playing against the GOM players. In WCS’s South Korean Nationals Preliminaries, Flash took out SlayerS Brown, but lost to MVP Sniper, a player who lost in the first round of Code S last season. Zero lost to fellow Kespa player Snow, who surprisingly took out Nestea, but later lost to SlayerS Miya. Bisu ran into Fnatic’s Moon in the first round and was taken down easily. Fantasy was taken out 2-0 by Startale Pet, who has never had much notable success in SC2. Finally Jangbi, the reigning king of Brood War, managed to take down MVP Galaxy, and Fnatic Luvsic, but lost to fellow Kespa player Dear. Is this transition going to allow those who never had much success in Brood War to rise to the top in Starcraft II?

One player in particular has received much attention from the Starcraft II community for being the only Kespa player to make it out of the WCS Preliminaries, Samsung KHAN’s Terran player Reality. Reality has won five of his nine Starcraft II matches in the Proleague Hybrid Tournement; most impressively taking out GOM players TSL Shine, TSL Symbol, and compLexity Heart during the WCS Preliminaries.

With quite impressive TvZ, Reality managed to take out SlayerS YugiOh in the first round of the WCS South Korean Nationals, making his win rate in official Starcraft II matches around 80% in TvZ. If Reality had only Zerg players to face, the idea of him making top ten, would be far from unlikely. Unfortunately his other two matches, TvT and TvP are mediocre at best, both floating around 50%. In the round of two, knowing his stats, I had figured SlayerS Puzzle to have an easy 2-0, but Reality showed great effort forcing the decision to come down to the final game; unfortunately, he still couldn’t close it out and was defeated by Puzzle. Due to his placement in the bracket he will have to face up against the winner of IM MVP versus IM Happy; which unless a meteor came crashing onto his opponents computer, the chances are slim. I do wish Reality the best of luck, and hope he can turn out great games and victories over the GOM residents.

I want to end this article by mentioning Reality’s Zerg teammate RorO, who has also been showing great results in the WCS South Korean Nationals, taking out Startale Hack, and more surprisingly FXO’s juggernaut Leenock. RorO is only one match away from qualifying for the WCS Asian Championships and showing the world that Kespa players have the skills to compete with the best of the GOM players; that’s not just a possibility, it’s a reality.

Source: "Kespa's here, it's a Reality" from OMW Productions