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ASL vs. KSL @ BlizzCon

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Ziggy
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
South Korea2105 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-10-18 10:01:26
October 18 2018 09:59 GMT
#1
https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/22596830

Looks like this year's StarCraft 1 BlizzCon exhibition match will pit Last, the champion of the first season of the KSL, against Rain, the winner of ASL5, in a Best of 5 series on November the 2nd at ~6:30PM PDT.

The top StarCraft: Remastered pro players in the world will step up at BlizzCon for a one-of-a-kind show match on the biggest stage in esports. In this “KSL vs. ASL” event, the reigning Korea StarCraft League (KSL) champion, Seunghyun “Last” Kim, and the current AfreecaTV Star League (ASL) king, Yoonjong “Rain” Jung, will face each other in a best-of-five exhibition match that should settle all debate on who is the world’s top StarCraft player. The battle will take over the StarCraft II stage at BlizzCon on Nov. 2 circa 6:30 p.m. PDT, following that day’s WCS Global Finals matches, and will be livestreamed on BlizzCon.com.

This isn’t the first time StarCraft: Remastered has been featured on a BlizzCon esports stage; Lee “Jaedong” Jae Dong and Kim “Bisu” Taek Yong played a throwback match in 2017. Bisu won that one-off, but this year’s StarCraft showcase comes with a little more heat, as Last and Rain bring the pride and reputations of entire leagues with them. Jaedong’s rooting interest in this one should be fun to sort out: he lost to Last in the inaugural KSL finals and was bounced out of ASL’s fourth season last year by Rain.

Which Korean StarCraft league will come out on top, and gain bragging rights for (at least) the next year? Tune in to the KSL vs. ASL show match at BlizzCon.com on Nov. 2 to find out.
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NoS-Craig
Profile Joined July 2011
Australia3119 Posts
October 18 2018 10:05 GMT
#2
Awesome news mate. Rain vs Last should be a great match. I generally pick Rain against Terrans.
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Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12022 Posts
October 18 2018 10:06 GMT
#3
This is awesome!
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FlopTurnReaver
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Switzerland1980 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-10-18 10:14:08
October 18 2018 10:13 GMT
#4
On October 18 2018 18:59 Ziggy wrote:
[...]that should settle all debate on who is the world’s top StarCraft player.

Riiight

But really cool they give us another awesome BW Showmatch. Hype!!
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Philozovic
Profile Joined August 2012
France1677 Posts
October 18 2018 10:23 GMT
#5
On October 18 2018 19:13 FlopTurnReaver wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 18 2018 18:59 Ziggy wrote:
[...]that should settle all debate on who is the world’s top StarCraft player.

Riiight

But really cool they give us another awesome BW Showmatch. Hype!!


They forgot to add "Human player", Flash is a god

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Colouss
Profile Joined November 2013
United States501 Posts
October 18 2018 11:59 GMT
#6
Why not also take the winners of KSL season 2 and ASL season 6 and do a 2-round exhibition match? If Last also happens to win both then we're good, and we could have a round-robin if Last wins KSL again and someone else wins ASL, but it'd be very nice to have something like a mini blizzcon for BW.
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Ziggy
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
South Korea2105 Posts
October 18 2018 12:03 GMT
#7
Hard to pull off with KSL2 finals taking place sometime in December
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Colouss
Profile Joined November 2013
United States501 Posts
October 18 2018 12:07 GMT
#8
On October 18 2018 21:03 Ziggy wrote:
Hard to pull off with KSL2 finals taking place sometime in December


Ahh, I didn't notice that. Thanks for the clarification. Hope they can make it happen next year though!
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Terra1
Profile Joined June 2018
Philippines312 Posts
October 18 2018 12:55 GMT
#9
On October 18 2018 20:59 Colouss wrote:
Why not also take the winners of KSL season 2 and ASL season 6 and do a 2-round exhibition match? If Last also happens to win both then we're good, and we could have a round-robin if Last wins KSL again and someone else wins ASL, but it'd be very nice to have something like a mini blizzcon for BW.


Would be nice indeed. But here's the thing:
KSL Season 2 has just started, and Blizzcon I believe starts in last week of October or first week of November.
Also, if ASL Season 6 winner is FlaSh (I just believe in FlaSh), then idk. From what I saw in the comments and posts before is that he's afraid of heights. That's why he was probably afraid every time he takes an airplane. There was a turbulence on the plane that he was riding.
imCHIEN
Profile Joined January 2016
14 Posts
October 18 2018 13:31 GMT
#10
But but... my Flash is the real world’s top StarCraft player. Pepehands
ZZZero.O
Profile Joined July 2011
Poland1521 Posts
October 18 2018 13:55 GMT
#11
Rain just showed his amazing PvT.
Last recently seems gosu too.

This is going to be amazing !
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Xxio
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada5565 Posts
October 18 2018 14:34 GMT
#12
Sounds great! Very glad to see this happening.
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AntiHack
Profile Joined January 2009
Switzerland553 Posts
October 18 2018 14:36 GMT
#13
OMG Nerd chills all over my body :O_
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Icarus2
Profile Joined March 2017
China109 Posts
October 18 2018 15:10 GMT
#14
(Wiki)2018 Blizzcon Invitational
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66202 Posts
October 18 2018 15:12 GMT
#15
nice!!
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Lorch
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany3684 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-10-18 15:24:12
October 18 2018 15:23 GMT
#16

Which Korean StarCraft league will come out on top, and gain bragging rights for (at least) the next year? Tune in to the KSL vs. ASL show match at BlizzCon.com on Nov. 2 to find out


If Flash continues to only play ASL, ASL will continue to be the OSL equivalent. Even if Last beats Rain, ASL will still be the most prestigious tournament, but nice try Blizzard.

Maybe next year we can get a bigger tournament with all ASL/KSL winners + some foreigners.
Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2748 Posts
October 18 2018 15:29 GMT
#17
This is going to be a great match.

I fear a bit for last, I remember his TvZ being near unbeatable. And Rain struggling with PvZ. But none of these matchups will be played.
FyRe_DragOn
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada2056 Posts
October 18 2018 16:06 GMT
#18
fuck yeah HYPE!! good matchup choice
aka DragOn[NaS]
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19257 Posts
October 18 2018 18:55 GMT
#19
On October 19 2018 00:29 Navane wrote:
This is going to be a great match.

I fear a bit for last, I remember his TvZ being near unbeatable. And Rain struggling with PvZ. But none of these matchups will be played.

I think it all depends on the maps. If Last gets to play on CB and FS then I'd put all my LB points on him.
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
October 18 2018 19:10 GMT
#20
Very cool match, I love it.
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