On September 10 2018 22:47 dr3am_b3ing wrote: Greatest foreigner to ever come into Starcraft to date
that's a really hard claim to make when almost all the tournaments are region locked. The previous foreigners we would consider the best, people like Stephano, HuK, Naniwa etc were winning multiple tournaments with all the best koreans, akin to Serral's GSL vs The World. We will need to see more results like this before we can make such claims.
I disagree. Only Neeb and Stephano come close to Serral at this point. Neither one of those players dominated the feild so much
Serral so far got 1 win in a tournament with top koreans. Stephano got something like 10 top4 finishes (including 3 wins) in tournaments with top koreans. Hard to compare though, because there were more tournaments including foreigners and koreans back then, but the fact is that Stephano was kicking Koreans asses quite often, and Serral still needs to prove himself on global stage. He did it once, but imo that is way not enough to consider him the greatest foreigner of all time. However he may very well take the throne in the near future if he keeps playing like this.
You are still forgetting WESG and IEM Katowice where Serral finished top4 in both.
But in the end, there is indeed not a lot of data of Serral vs korean to talk about consistency. It could be just a peak. Blizzcon could be decisive in that regard though.
Blizzcon certainly will be decisive in that regard. I look forward very much to seeing how well he performs, and am sad it's still a couple months away.
Serral laddered with an amazeballs MMR of almost 7.4k. Proof that he's head and shoulders above everybody in EU and that despite gap closing that the Korean Ladder is definitely more competitive.
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