ASL Season 16 starts August 14th

On July 19 2023 12:20 angry_maia wrote:
I really want Snow to win this season. It feels like he's been floating around as potentially the best in the world for a while now

On July 21 2023 21:07 Crimson)S(hadow wrote:
if flash comes back, i won’t mind another tvt finals

On July 25 2023 17:49 BlindingLight wrote:
Any news on the map pool?

On July 25 2023 22:23 TMNT wrote:
What if Flash comes back but the TvT finals is between two other Terrans lol.

On July 26 2023 02:33 Ideas wrote:


If rain is back too he has a good chance of making it to finals and then losing to flash

rooting for snow and soma though

On July 27 2023 23:36 prosatan wrote:
Only 3 players in the groups ?

On July 27 2023 23:59 marwin wrote:

This is the list of featured players (ex-pros or gosu amateurs) among the all others who have signed up.

On July 28 2023 03:27 prosatan wrote:
I wish Shinee, the terran player, was there too! And hyun also...

On July 28 2023 03:47 marwin wrote:

Shinee is banned from ASL, because he used to pass qualifications but refused to take part in main event.

On July 28 2023 04:40 Ideas wrote:
Just 1 player advancing to Ro24 from each group? Do losers get to try again in the next day? That's how it usually works right?

On July 28 2023 09:11 TMNT wrote:
looks like the groups Tyson revealed yesterday was completely off. Tyson Soulkey and Sea in group 1 now. Updating...

Damn challonge this year doesn't show the players real name, so you can only identify them by Blizzard IDs which makes it harder to spot "anonymous gosus"

On July 28 2023 09:31 TMNT wrote:
Group 1: Soulkey, Tyson, Scan, Sea, Skey (ACS champion)
Group 2: Rush, Effort, Noob, True, Ridesky
Group 3: Zelot, Bishop
Group 4: Royal, Beast, Killer, Pusan
Group 5: Firebathero
Group 6: Shuttle, Stork, Fleta
Group 7:
Group 8: Hyun
Group 9:
Group 10: YSC, Noble
Group 11: Rain
Group 12:

On July 28 2023 09:33 RJBTV wrote:


is that Bum Su nOOB or the other Noob?
Got a link to the challonge?

On July 28 2023 09:36 TMNT wrote:

There are two Noobs? It's the Bumsu one.
The challonge link should be easy to find, but I just watch Best's stream. He even got access to the discord channel of the groups lol. Here it is:
https://challonge.com/ASL_S16_A

On July 28 2023 09:42 RJBTV wrote:
Who is seed 12? the Blizzard id looks familiar.

On July 28 2023 09:49 TMNT wrote:

No idea lol. Takes some next level knowledge to identify players based on IDs. If not for Best's notepad I wouldn't know 똑똑한망치 is Sea lol.

On July 28 2023 10:06 RJBTV wrote:

can you enter the ID into bnet ladder and give me the name it gives back? i should know who it is based off that. i currently do t have access to my pc.

On July 28 2023 10:26 TMNT wrote:
Results:

Group 1: (Soulkey 2 vs 0 (Scan 1 vs 2 Motive)) vs (Tyson 2 vs 0 Sea)

Group 2: (Rush vs Bale) vs (Noob 0 vs 2 Effort)

Group 3: (Soma vs (Zelot 0 vs 2 Bishop)) vs (Piano vs ?)
upset in group 3: Ssak eliminated by an amateur Zerg

Group 4:

On July 28 2023 13:10 HOLYBATS wrote:
No official stream this time ?

On July 28 2023 11:42 RJBTV wrote:
ssak beasting in kcm, proleague and spons. loses to amateur zerg..

On July 28 2023 13:28 TMNT wrote:

Holy shit Soma lost the first game vs this guy in the finals of group 3. He's no joke.
Omg Soma was knocked out by that guy, 0-2.

We already have Soma Shuttle Ssak Effort and Shine waiting for day 2.

On July 28 2023 13:46 QOGQOG wrote:

Soma got knocked out? The others I can kinda understand, but that's a bit of a shock.

On July 28 2023 13:55 HOLYBATS wrote:

Props to this player. BW needs new comers.

On July 28 2023 14:12 TMNT wrote:
Guys, a certain Lee Young Ho just popped out in Group 12. No information on ladder at all.

It's like a fresh account. It must be the one.

On July 28 2023 14:23 prosatan wrote:

This is it TMNT ! The return of GOD!

On July 28 2023 17:46 TMNT wrote:
Big names who have to fight in day 2: Soma, Effort, Ssak, Shuttle, Rain, Sharp, Shine, Barracks, Mong (probably), Free, Sacsri, Calm

That is 12 slots already.

Mini drawing 1 1 with Mong in the finals of group 12. Potentially another upset?

On July 29 2023 12:53 TMNT wrote:
Lmao Calm lost his first qualifier game against Chaelyn the female Zerg player. Gonna be the butt of the joke for years.

On July 29 2023 12:57 QOGQOG wrote:

Wow, he lost to a player who didn't qualify for LASL16. That's impressive.

On July 29 2023 13:03 TMNT wrote:
No, she doesn't play LASL, not that she doesn't qualify for LASL

On July 29 2023 17:06 TMNT wrote:
Wtf Ssak. All those performances in KCM and Proleague only to crash out of ASL qualifiers? Legitimately a god tier player upset.

The change from Vermeer + Sylphid to Retro + Dark Origin has reduced the number of Terrans qualified this season it seems.

On July 29 2023 18:09 TMNT wrote:
All eyes on Sea right now

On July 29 2023 20:56 ateriavia wrote:
sea's group was rigged lol

On July 29 2023 22:48 Lorch wrote:
No Flash, no Fantasy, feelsbadman.
On the other hand having Rain and Effort is absolutely amazing! Gonna be a sick season for sure.
Sea being back after such a long time is also awesome to see, his finals vs flash was some great tvt, esp the battlecruiser game.

Crazy how stacked these qualifiers still are after all those years. Could start ASL with a Ro64 and still have an amazing lineup of players.

On July 29 2023 23:34 RJBTV wrote:
The line-up is reminiscent of the early ASL seasons. Groups were awesome overall. Effort's group was criminally understacked though.

Ivory, Leta, Calm and Sea seem to be the weakest four players based on online performance over the past year. Actually got nothing to base Ivory's online performance on because he's that much of an unexpected "low tier" qualifier that I can't find any data anywhere...

Ample, Free, Killer seem to be the next in line skill wise followed by Stork, Mong, Sharp and Shuttle. After that most players are all very close in skill to each other until you get to Snow who has been extremely dominant in online play. But Online is different from on stage. At this point in time Snow seems to be favored along with Light and Soma, Maybe HerO. But as last season showed anything can happen.

On July 30 2023 14:37 TornadoSteve wrote:


You will be surprised to see how Leta has improved over the last few months

On July 30 2023 19:36 TMNT wrote:
These guys being the head of their respective SC university definitely helps getting them back to the competitive scene.

I believe Calm received ~20k usd in donation from his stream yesterday after qualifying for ASL. Mental.

On July 30 2023 19:36 TMNT wrote:
These guys being the head of their respective SC university definitely helps getting them back to the competitive scene.

I believe Calm received ~20k usd in donation from his stream yesterday after qualifying for ASL. Mental.

On July 30 2023 19:36 TMNT wrote:
These guys being the head of their respective SC university definitely helps getting them back to the competitive scene.

I believe Calm received ~20k usd in donation from his stream yesterday after qualifying for ASL. Mental.

On July 31 2023 16:20 Sonic_md wrote:
Results of the past 15 ASL seasons:
Terrans - 7 wins
Zerg - 4 wins
Protoss - 3 wins

Combinations in the final:
TvsP - 5 times
TvsZ - 4 times
TvsT - 3 times
PvsZ, ZvsZ, PvsP - 1 time each

Therefore, we need a final: PvsZ and the victory of the protoss!
Rivo, rivo, rivo, lego, plego, plego))

On July 31 2023 12:44 Zealgoon wrote:

I thought the university thing had ended? Is there a new season?

On July 31 2023 22:43 Ideas wrote:
That's so cool. Is the goal of the university system to train up a newer generation of players (like a mentorship-style thing)? Or more of just a sort of "for fun" streaming event thing?

On August 01 2023 15:54 TMNT wrote:
Some brutal groups. As I said, tier 1 and tier 2 players going home after the first round is to be expected.

On August 01 2023 21:29 EnZo- wrote:
Is there any way to get the replays or vods from the qualifiers of ASL?

On August 01 2023 15:54 TMNT wrote:


Some brutal groups. As I said, tier 1 and tier 2 players going home after the first round is to be expected.

On August 02 2023 20:24 RJBTV wrote:
D:
Bisu/Rush >> Stork >> Ivory. Saw some sponmatches with Ivory and he doesn't seem to be on he same level. He has good early all in play but Bisu and Rush are both strong against that. There's potential for Ivory to upset stork, but neither Stork or Ivory can take on Bisu or Rush.

On August 02 2023 21:30 TMNT wrote:

Bisu is in general the better player (much better) compared to Stork. But in PvP I feel like you can't say anything unless it's Best playing. The skill gap between players seem to be blurred the most in PvP among all match-ups, if you know what I mean. For example if you compare Bisu's PvT and PvZ to someone like Shuttle, it's day and night, but if you look at the head to head record, Bisu only won 2 out of 3 times vs Shuttle, which means in a BO1 Shuttle can eliminate Bisu quite easily. Same for Stork.

On August 01 2023 18:28 vtv.Teacher wrote:
Does anyone have any informations about ivOry?

The way he beat Soma in the qualifier during day 1 was quite impressive (esp game 2 where he just literally stomped him out).

On August 03 2023 04:12 MaGic~PhiL wrote:


I think I never thought of any zerg ever of being amazing or impressive for winning a ZvZ (rofl)

On August 03 2023 04:12 MaGic~PhiL wrote:


I think I never thought of any zerg ever of being amazing or impressive for winning a ZvZ (rofl)

On July 31 2023 02:06 RJBTV wrote:


Sea specifically disbanded his previous team after he(and his team) got smacked around by Shuttle and his team. He got ridiculed for it by his fans. He wasn't playing brood war seriously enough. Since then he's been serious again.

On August 03 2023 04:12 MaGic~PhiL wrote:


I think I never thought of any zerg ever of being amazing or impressive for winning a ZvZ (rofl)

On August 03 2023 06:46 End1ess wrote:


I thought the Yuamseok University won the season 1 champion? As record goes all the champion team are disbanded.

On August 03 2023 04:22 RJBTV wrote:

+ Show Spoiler +


He displayed really good muta+scourge control.

On August 03 2023 22:08 TMNT wrote:
You mean his style is like Flash playing Zerg? But what was Flash's style with Zerg anyway?

By the way, after the qualifier ivory earned himself a series of games with the big names, but he lost all of them: 0-4 to Royal, 0-1 to Snow, 0-2 to Sharp, 0-2 to Shuttle, even 0-2 to Sea. Maybe he was just playing out of his mind on qualifier day.

On August 04 2023 00:12 bracala wrote:
Is there any official news about Flash health and reason he skip this ASL season?
I really hope crypto scandal wont affect his return...If someone is so stupid to invest money cause some streamer gamer told them on stream...

On August 03 2023 17:04 TMNT wrote:
Game 1 and 2 on Apocalypse
Winners and losers matches: each player ban 1 out of Tempest, Campanella, Invader
Final match: each player ban 1 out of Dark Origin, Retro, Polypoid

On August 04 2023 03:26 M3t4PhYzX wrote:

Thank You very much

On August 11 2023 23:55 oxKnu wrote:
Rain looks like he doesn't take it seriously when he joins those PL matches.

I was trying to recall what he was like earlier on in his career. I think the financial success kind of took the edge of his competitive spirit and he's just happy to be around for his fans.

Makes me appreciate Flash and Jaedong even more. Those guys were set awhile back but whenever they play they're still eager to destroy their opponents. Bisu and Rain give me the opposite vibes.