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BLinD-RawR
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Simplistik
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Probably worst case scenario for him would be losing to some of well executed all-in from Barracks and then running into Effort in the Losers. | ||
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pseudosignal
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Would love Effort or Barracks to get out but I can't imagine a world where SoulKey doesn't progress. | ||
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Zergxhx
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Sabu113
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I think this is a phenomenal opportunity for Rush to show us great matches. Hoping he does well. | ||
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prosatan
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maybe if effort played with flash many training games... i agree with Sabu , he is amazing at his best , but i think he isn't close to his peak now.. | ||
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prosatan
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LB is the most important !! | ||
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iFU.pauline
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On September 08 2025 15:04 prosatan wrote: Rooting for effort with all my heart , but i think SK and rush will advance... maybe if effort played with flash many training games... i agree with Sabu , he is amazing at his best , but i think he isn't close to his peak now.. I think by now EffOrt knows with who he needs to train in order to get ready  | ||
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RowdierBob
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SK > Rax Rush > Effort SK > Rush Rax > effort Rush > Rax. SK is too good for everyone in this group. I don’t see how he trips up with the bo3 in the winners and losers. | ||
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RogerChillingworth
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Also BisuDagger should be banned for that other post putting Bisu over Best. It's like when people argued on behalf of Spiderman Enter the Spiderweb vs The Boy and the Heron that one year. Permanently banned. | ||
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Zografa
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Peeano
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Excited to see everyone's form today. Barracks needs to bring his S game and get lucky to advance. | ||
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prosatan
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you can watch till ASL starts! | ||
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thezanursic
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He also went out in a Ro4 a few seasons ago to JyJ who won the season, it's hard to argue he isnt the best right now, yet post KESPA getting Bonjwa status seems a bit harder, what would it take? 6 ASL wins? | ||
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Toshinou-Kyouko
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On September 08 2025 19:03 thezanursic wrote: I wonder if Soulkey gets Bonjwa consideration if he wins a few more ASLs. soulkey needs to overcome his fear of zvz first lol | ||
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prosatan
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On September 08 2025 19:01 Toshinou-Kyouko wrote: is larva punching the pikachu plushie again he won haha | ||
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Simplistik
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Simplistik
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iFU.pauline
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On September 08 2025 19:36 Simplistik wrote: I didn't really catch the details. Did SK get blindsided by the valks? I don't think he spotted armory so he didn't make scourges in time, just my guess. | ||
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BLinD-RawR
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On September 08 2025 12:45 Simplistik wrote: So, what are the odds of Soulkey tripping up here? Probably worst case scenario for him would be losing to some of well executed all-in from Barracks and then running into Effort in the Losers. the stage is set. | ||
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Peeano
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On September 08 2025 20:11 iFU.pauline wrote: My liquidbet... :D | ||
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prosatan
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Peeano
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On September 08 2025 20:13 prosatan wrote: Who won first game? Please a bit of LR... Rax, From the replay I saw he made a ball of M&M hid 2 valkyries long enough and then just marched to SK's natural. Sunks were not in time and the 11-13 mutas couldn't do shit, no scourges ready either. | ||
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prosatan
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On September 08 2025 20:18 Peeano wrote: Oh, oops, you mean Barracks vs Rush? No1 who cares to LR is really watching a TvT between these two, I imagine :/ Yes Peeano, rax vs rush first game | ||
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Gorsameth
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prosatan
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On September 08 2025 20:23 Gorsameth wrote: vulture wars, Barracks got a better run into the natural, snowballed into more vultures, killed rush.  LB is going down... | ||
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gravity
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gravity
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DarkPlasmaBall
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On September 08 2025 20:34 gravity wrote: Fantasy GG timing from Barracks here. Agreed. 100+ supply down for quite some time there. | ||
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gravity
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gravity
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gravity
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DarkPlasmaBall
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On September 08 2025 20:46 gravity wrote: Wraiths might turn it around? That would be the only way imo, they've at least helped Rush gain a little ground now. | ||
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gravity
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RogerChillingworth
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ROFL | ||
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gravity
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Peeano
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On September 08 2025 20:58 RogerChillingworth wrote: This all happened cuz Soulkey sucks hard ass. lmao | ||
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prosatan
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BLinD-RawR
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RogerChillingworth
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Imagine being Rush and thinking you have scan but being 2 energy off and losing 2 tanks HOLY that's a broken keyboard. | ||
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gravity
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gravity
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BLinD-RawR
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nah I wanted him to gg faster so I jinxed myself by saying it. | ||
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SkelA
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Toshinou-Kyouko
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BLinD-RawR
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On September 08 2025 21:21 SkelA wrote: Soulkey never saw the expo? How is that even possible. champions curse finally hitting him after 4 seasons | ||
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iFU.pauline
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On September 08 2025 21:21 SkelA wrote: Soulkey never saw the expo? How is that even possible. Only creep was slightly showing on his screen. No red dot on minimap. He probably moved over using minimap. | ||
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Zergxhx
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TMNT
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gravity
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gravity
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gravity
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gravity
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fLyiNgDroNe
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build a defensive spore in your main force an unfavorable fight in the middle of the map taking 0 advantage of the spore | ||
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Gorsameth
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RowdierBob
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On September 08 2025 16:56 RowdierBob wrote: Another cakewalk for SK. SK > Rax Rush > Effort SK > Rush Rax > effort Rush > Rax. SK is too good for everyone in this group. I don’t see how he trips up with the bo3 in the winners and losers. Cakewalk. | ||
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SkelA
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gravity
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BLinD-RawR
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at least it wasn't actual cakewalk group you know? Soulkey didn't get PDPOP'd. | ||
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[sc1f]eonzerg
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Peeano
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On September 08 2025 21:39 RowdierBob wrote: Flash can make his comeback now the SK peak has passed :D Without Flash Effort can't get gold :/ | ||
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RogerChillingworth
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Toshinou-Kyouko
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> possibly jaedong/snow/larva ![[image loading]](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-p2rvS2nbzaXIJcBL-IOmB5Q-t500x500.jpg) | ||
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RogerChillingworth
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Peeano
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On September 08 2025 21:40 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote: Shit. SK reign in ASL just ended. But hey 4 ASL is unmatched anyway. And no shame in losing to Effort. Who better to end your reign i guess. You forgot about the loss to Rax to make this all happen already? Damn bro | ||
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iFU.pauline
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[sc1f]eonzerg
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On September 08 2025 21:44 Peeano wrote: You forgot about the loss to Rax to make this all happen already? Damn bro BO 1 is W.E | ||
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[sc1f]eonzerg
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On September 08 2025 21:43 RogerChillingworth wrote: Also not sure Soulkey has been playing that much recently. Not as if he threw the games, just not necessarily as hungry. Not a secret . And he was also unhappy with the mappool for this ASL. That said i have seen SK doing this no try hard for the last ASLs and winning all of them. But i always said that all you needed to make it harder to SK was to bring zergs lol. Funny enough zerg vs zerg is what denied SK and Larva reaching the ASL final for a long time. | ||
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[sc1f]eonzerg
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If you want to get eliminated pick me LOL | ||
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gravity
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edit: not much damage done though I guess | ||
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RJBTVYOUTUBE
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On September 08 2025 22:17 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote: And effort is like. Lol i was playing last night 2v2 Fighting spirit UMS with Calm and Mini and just eliminated SK and Rush in ASL. Soulkey mega sandbagged his prep. didnt play for 2 weeks and then played a lil bit since friday. somewhat expected this result given that mega inactivity and him dropping out of top 12 on eloboard. | ||
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Peeano
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On September 08 2025 22:16 Zergxhx wrote: King is back Lmao | ||
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SCRVN
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On September 08 2025 22:18 Peeano wrote: What if Effort faked his first game of the day just to take out SK? Sure, I said that only another Zerg can beat Soulkey. Barrack never wins SK in Bo2, Bo3, or any BOs. This map pool favors Zerg so much, so organizer want to see a new champion! | ||
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Zografa
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LightSpectra
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Uldridge
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On September 08 2025 23:09 Zografa wrote: huh that was one poor performance from SK, no? 'Twas written in the stars. | ||
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Toshinou-Kyouko
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On September 08 2025 22:24 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote: Lol apparently JD helped effort to practise and he didnt mention him in the interview, JD so mad right now LOL lmfao | ||
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Cricketer12
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M3t4PhYzX
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GGs WP  | ||
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RJBTVYOUTUBE
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On August 29 2025 17:40 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote: Soulkey did have periods where he looked amazing online, but these periods were never right before an ASL. Soulkey always gets into peak form whenever it is his time to play. Last four seasons he got progressively better online the deeper he got into the tournament, allegedly because his motivation increases along with his activity. What is different however is that after the first three wins he had a more dominant 2 months after in his online play. This time around the two months after he was not as dominant, and he was less active. We could take this as a sign of losing his competitive drive. I'd say it is too early to say, but it is not impossible. Also his two only competitors over these past two years, Light, and SnOw, and for the last season a peaking Best who doesnt count for this specific comparison, are at their lowest points of activity in years. Whether this decreased activity will hurt their performance or whether it was just enough to stay in form is something we will find out in the ro16. on paper this season is due to above reasons the perfect season for someone else to take the throne. SoMa, Bisu, Jaedong, Queen specifically come to mind with how the maps are rather zerg favored. Even Larva has a chance because his activity level is insanely high. | ||
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Stopthevirtualaddict
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On September 08 2025 21:39 Peeano wrote: SK 0-3 out in his own orchestrated group. He just gave up or not no power left. Should have gone sleeping instead of preparing on a rush. He actually was ahead in every game some even big leads. But he deserves the rest, he will come back. | ||
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laurasad
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On September 09 2025 01:22 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote: I didnt call it, but I did have a hunch: But that is not really true. Soulkey had a mediocre online performance before his first title, an okay online performance before his second title. He actually had insane performance right before the maps for SSL/ASL18 were released, but struggled to adapt to those maps, specially against Terran. In response, he abused crazy zerg in SSL (third title). Before his fourth title he had a good performance but not clearly above everyone else, although he had been less active the prior weeks, but it was expected he would get back in shape after increasing his activity. The main difference between ASL20 and all those other titles, I think, are lack of motivation to practice and hubris. Lack of motovation: he barely played any BW in the last 3 weeks. And let's be clear: he streamed for more than half of those days, but he played LOL and random crap instead of practicing. He also has very few games in cwal. All in all. He didn't give a crap about practicing. What Simplistik wrote in the preview for the ro16 is just plain wrong: SK's lack of online practice is not because he practiced offline, he just didn't practice at all. Not only was he inactive for the last 3 weeks, but also he lost to Best 2/7 before going inactive, and lost to bisu 3/4 just a few days ago in the only games between his inactivity period and ASL. And yet with all his more than mediocre recent performance and lack of practice, he took for granted that he would go to round of 4, and even had the luxury of not picking his best option (Sharp, see group selection on tastosis) out of pity instead of selecting the player that would maximize his chances of winning. I'm a Soulkey fan, but I'm glad he didn't win. He simply didn't deserve it. He had to be humbled and reality checked. | ||
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CicadaSC
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iopq
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Why would it be bo 1 in the first match? The first match decides just as much as any other match (since it decides whether you go to losers or winners match) but it's randomly bo1 | ||
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seRapH
United States9760 Posts
rest in pieces, liquibets | ||
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Peeano
Netherlands5089 Posts
On September 09 2025 06:17 iopq wrote: Can we discuss how the Ro 16 format is bullshit? Why would it be bo 1 in the first match? The first match decides just as much as any other match (since it decides whether you go to losers or winners match) but it's randomly bo1 The champ gets to pretty much cherry pick his own group AND the first match up. That is indeed kinda bullshit, but some call it privilege. And karma is great entertainment. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21748 Posts
On September 09 2025 06:17 iopq wrote: very simple.Can we discuss how the Ro 16 format is bullshit? Why would it be bo 1 in the first match? The first match decides just as much as any other match (since it decides whether you go to losers or winners match) but it's randomly bo1 5 best of 3s take to long. | ||
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iopq
United States948 Posts
On September 09 2025 06:47 Gorsameth wrote: very simple. 5 best of 3s take to long. Yes, but it privileges the first game as twice as important as the other games. Most other events do the opposite: Winners bracket bo3 (including first games), losers bo1 that way the person who moves on from winners bracket had to win two bo3 series | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21748 Posts
The games where someone advances or is eliminated is a bo3. I'd much rather have the current system then to have the elimination matches be a bo1 coinflip. | ||
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iopq
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Assumptions (what I simulated) 4-player GSL group (5 matches: M1, M2, M3 winners’, M4 losers’, M5 decider). Player A is the “target” (the strongest). A has per-game win probability p vs any other player. Matches between non-A players are 50/50 per game. All matches are Bo1 except the one you choose to be Bo3. Two variants: Variant 1 (M1 Bo3, M5 Bo1) — first match is Bo3, decider is Bo1. Variant 2 (M1 Bo1, M5 Bo3) — first match is Bo1, decider is Bo3. I simulated many groups (200k trials each) to estimate the probability A qualifies from the group. Results (probability A qualifies) per-game p (approx. Elo Δ) M1=Bo3, M5=Bo1 M1=Bo1, M5=Bo3 difference (B − A) 0.536 (Δ≈25) 56.26% 56.43% +0.17 pp 0.570 (Δ≈50) 62.18% 62.27% +0.09 pp 0.606 (Δ≈75) 68.05% 68.20% +0.15 pp | ||
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mtcn77
Turkey414 Posts
On September 09 2025 07:00 iopq wrote: I had ChatGPT do some simulations, so take it with a grain of salt, seems both variants are not that different Still, it says Bo1;Bo3(in other words as it stands right now) is better for Soulkey, whatever his chances may be for qualifying into Ro8. | ||
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RJBTVYOUTUBE
Netherlands939 Posts
On September 09 2025 04:15 laurasad wrote: But that is not really true. Soulkey had a mediocre online performance before his first title, an okay online performance before his second title. He actually had insane performance right before the maps for SSL/ASL18 were released, but struggled to adapt to those maps, specially against Terran. In response, he abused crazy zerg in SSL (third title). Before his fourth title he had a good performance but not clearly above everyone else, although he had been less active the prior weeks, but it was expected he would get back in shape after increasing his activity. The main difference between ASL20 and all those other titles, I think, are lack of motivation to practice and hubris. Lack of motovation: he barely played any BW in the last 3 weeks. And let's be clear: he streamed for more than half of those days, but he played LOL and random crap instead of practicing. He also has very few games in cwal. All in all. He didn't give a crap about practicing. What Simplistik wrote in the preview for the ro16 is just plain wrong: SK's lack of online practice is not because he practiced offline, he just didn't practice at all. Not only was he inactive for the last 3 weeks, but also he lost to Best 2/7 before going inactive, and lost to bisu 3/4 just a few days ago in the only games between his inactivity period and ASL. And yet with all his more than mediocre recent performance and lack of practice, he took for granted that he would go to round of 4, and even had the luxury of not picking his best option (Sharp, see group selection on tastosis) out of pity instead of selecting the player that would maximize his chances of winning. I'm a Soulkey fan, but I'm glad he didn't win. He simply didn't deserve it. He had to be humbled and reality checked. And even his ladder play was all as terran. He played more as terran in his prep than he played as zerg. | ||
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mtcn77
Turkey414 Posts
On August 29 2025 06:08 mtcn77 wrote: Wait till you see him in the quarterfinals. This guy beat Flash at his peak. Soulkey will have a hard time running away from him in the brackets. What do you say guys? I called it, or what! | ||
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Kraekkling
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mtcn77
Turkey414 Posts
On September 09 2025 07:56 Kraekkling wrote: the way SK dropped out today could have happened just as well in any of the previous seasons imo You just don't understand the pressure of playing in a Roaring Currents map pool. How many finals have Soulkey won in Bo7? I say close to 100% if we discount Sharp, sorry Sharp UwU. | ||
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BLinD-RawR
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On September 09 2025 06:47 Gorsameth wrote: very simple. 5 best of 3s take to long. Pretty much this. They're just trying to make sure everyone can get to at least the last train home. | ||
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SCRVN
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On September 09 2025 06:17 iopq wrote: Can we discuss how the Ro 16 format is bullshit? Why would it be bo 1 in the first match? The first match decides just as much as any other match (since it decides whether you go to losers or winners match) but it's randomly bo1 I agree with you, 5 Bo 3 is better than 2 Bo 1 + 3 Bo 3. Bo1 killed SK, it's not Barrack. This is one of the best format:  2018 Korea StarCraft League Season 1My opinion, I prefer Bo 2 to Bo 1 or Bo 3. In Bo 2, we will have win, lose, and draw. | ||
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Simplistik
2036 Posts
On September 09 2025 04:15 laurasad wrote: What Simplistik wrote in the preview for the ro16 is just plain wrong: SK's lack of online practice is not because he practiced offline, he just didn't practice at all. I'm happy to take responsibility for my mistakes, but I didn't write any Ro16 preview... | ||
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Stopthevirtualaddict
30 Posts
On September 09 2025 07:56 Kraekkling wrote: the way SK dropped out today could have happened just as well in any of the previous seasons imo How so? He literally was ahead in every game he played. With quite a margin. First game straight build order win with overlord even scouting efforts hidden base. Somehow didnt see it, eventhough we see in the life casting his screen switching to that overlord, creep visibile and suddenly send exactly at that point, on the height of the hatch his overlord to the right side back home or whatever. Even than 2nd game vs effort again literally quite ahead. Sees everything with overlord has build advantage decides to do a mass ling flood on a map with a tiny choke. Than gifts mutas randomly. Vs barracks barracks does nothing and goes for valk push, the thing that literally vs popular 6-5 seasons ago. I honestly thought barracks was a moron for playing literally the easiest game for SK, the anti terran late game god. But SK didnt even show up… Even efforts game was strange, strange sunken placements … I dont know what is going this season, but i find more than strange, the games we are having, like this isnt normal anymore… | ||
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chongu
Malaysia2589 Posts
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mtcn77
Turkey414 Posts
On September 09 2025 09:53 Stopthevirtualaddict wrote: How so? He literally was ahead in every game he played. With quite a margin. First game straight build order win with overlord even scouting efforts hidden base. Somehow didnt see it, eventhough we see in the life casting his screen switching to that overlord, creep visibile and suddenly send exactly at that point, on the height of the hatch his overlord to the right side back home or whatever. Even than 2nd game vs effort again literally quite ahead. Sees everything with overlord has build advantage decides to do a mass ling flood on a map with a tiny choke. Than gifts mutas randomly. Vs barracks barracks does nothing and goes for valk push, the thing that literally vs popular 6-5 seasons ago. I honestly thought barracks was a moron for playing literally the easiest game for SK, the anti terran late game god. But SK didnt even show up… Even efforts game was strange, strange sunken placements … I dont know what is going this season, but i find more than strange, the games we are having, like this isnt normal anymore… You have to understand he took the graceful fall. Notice, the worst thing that could happen right now is a Bo7 final game decider on Roaring Currents like in ASL 15. I think he didn't want his reputation tarnished. High level Starcraft is mostly mental fortitude and looks like Soulkey is afraid of losing in finals more than losing in brackets. He didn't want a rollercoaster of emotions on stage. | ||
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