Google Play ASL (Season 20) Announced

On August 02 2025 16:28 maybe wrote:
Paralyze is in with 2-1 agains Bisu in the final

Sharp vs Scan in Group 8 finals going on!

On August 02 2025 16:37 prosatan wrote:


spoilers please!

and also use this thread instead:

https://tl.net/forum/bw-tournaments/640901-asl20-online-qualifiers-day-1

On August 03 2025 20:59 Stopthevirtualaddict wrote:
How comes that these old stars like effort, larva,even Rain, Soma, Flash? players like those get into ASl first try after time.

while players like the scans, and even great consistent players like action hero and queen, Stork,
Etc. need multiple tries or cant make it one season, while literally been ro 4 or winners or beeing top active, on the meta game, all the time.

On August 03 2025 21:40 TMNT wrote:

To be fair, both Larva and Effort needed to go into second day this time. So did Rain before. Soma practically took no break during his military service because he got to stay at home, so there's no form loss. Flash is Flash.

But yeah, the gap between ex-Kespa pros and amateurs is enormous. It seems like if you weren't trained in pro houses during Kespa, you can never make up that gap on your own.

On August 03 2025 22:17 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:


Not true that you cant make it, but the chanes are definitely lower. SoMa iirc was not on a team. He had a license but didnt make it onto a team. Scan has no license and comes from a pure amateur background. Brain made it in and had license as toss and terran, but no team. ZeloT had no license and no team. Ssinz had no license and no team. Same for Ivory and Ddasik, Byul and Tinkle. Taenggu also no license and no team. The current era lacks talent cultivation. Aspiring players have to train themselves to reach higher levels, much harder than someone showing you how to do it step by step.

On August 04 2025 02:21 Stopthevirtualaddict wrote:



But i remember seeing some match from scan from the kespa era…

I think zelot and soma may be the most impressive ones. Somas case seems kind of special…

And zelot is a but like the average joe case methode.,.

On August 05 2025 18:26 GTR wrote:


soma - trainee with stx soul, didn't become pro in order to pursue higher education
scan - trainee with sk telecom, didn't become pro because he moved to the us
brain - trainee with cj entus, didn't become pro because his parents didn't want him to become one

so while you can say that a lot of these players weren't "pro", they were talented enough to have the eyes of the kespa teams on them.

On August 07 2025 05:01 Ideas wrote:
Soma definitely seems to be a special case of being the ONLY non-kespa pro to make the Ro8 in ASL and have any significant (being in ~top 20 players overall) success in this era as far as I can tell. I think scan and zelot are the only other non-kespa pros that have made Ro16 before?

On August 05 2025 18:26 GTR wrote:
soma - trainee with stx soul, didn't become pro in order to pursue higher education
scan - trainee with sk telecom, didn't become pro because he moved to the us
brain - trainee with cj entus, didn't become pro because his parents didn't want him to become one

so while you can say that a lot of these players weren't "pro", they were talented enough to have the eyes of the kespa teams on them.

On August 07 2025 05:24 TMNT wrote:
Brain's run in ASL9 is the most impressive out of all the "amateurs" in ASL history (excluding Soma). He actually topped his group in Ro24, beating tough opponents like Mind and Light. Even beat Soulkey in Ro16 and no shame in getting knocked out by Action. He was also invited to Major Proleague a lot at the time that's how the other pros rated him. Who knows what could have become had he stuck around since ? My bet is he couldn't do worse than Shuttle and Stork.