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Poland2038 Posts
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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Awesome news mate. Rain vs Last should be a great match. I generally pick Rain against Terrans.
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United Kingdom11877 Posts
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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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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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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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Poland2038 Posts
Hard to pull off with KSL2 finals taking place sometime in December
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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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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.
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But but... my Flash is the real world’s top StarCraft player. Pepehands
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Rain just showed his amazing PvT.
Last recently seems gosu too.
This is going to be amazing !
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Canada5556 Posts
Sounds great! Very glad to see this happening.
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OMG Nerd chills all over my body :O_
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Singapore50251 Posts
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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.
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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.
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fuck yeah HYPE!! good matchup choice
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Bisutopia18073 Posts
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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Very cool match, I love it.
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