EPTOn the other hand, with a slightly better decision making in g3 or g5 we'd have almost surely witnessed Serral lifting the IEM trophy...
He's young, let's hope his shape and motivation stay on top so that he can win Katowice 2020.
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On the other hand, with a slightly better decision making in g3 or g5 we'd have almost surely witnessed Serral lifting the IEM trophy... He's young, let's hope his shape and motivation stay on top so that he can win Katowice 2020. | ||
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YamiRi
152 Posts
 Serral is still good though.. He is just 1 game away from knocking out soO | ||
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tigon_ridge
482 Posts
I want to add: in the first game he lost, I think it was due to him not getting roach speed. I don't know if that was intentional. I remember yelling (in my mind), "Why no speed?!" | ||
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Harris1st
Germany6933 Posts
Don't let it bother you too much, you will get your crown back at WESG! Everyone has an off day now and then. Good luck next week | ||
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JasonOfAeson
33 Posts
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Rob-Zero
Germany459 Posts
Love to see you play, every game is auch high caliber play. Can't wait for WESG and WCS to come. Gogo Serral! | ||
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sertman
United States540 Posts
He'll probably still win every WCS EU - nobody can touch him - and be top 2 at BlizzCon | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On March 05 2019 07:13 sertman wrote: Serral got outplayed, but he is still the best player in the world. He got killed by a red hot soO who was bound by destiny to win that tournament. He'll probably still win every WCS EU - nobody can touch him - and be top 2 at BlizzCon He wasn't outplayed, I disagree. WESG is the closest stop! | ||
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D-light
Finland7364 Posts
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Sviru1
29 Posts
On March 05 2019 07:13 sertman wrote: Serral got outplayed, but he is still the best player in the world. He got killed by a red hot soO who was bound by destiny to win that tournament. He'll probably still win every WCS EU - nobody can touch him - and be top 2 at BlizzCon I don't think he was outplayed at all. He could have won he just didn't pull the trigger when he had to. I fact I think sOO was lucky a little bit. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany6933 Posts
On March 05 2019 19:31 D-light wrote: Anyone want a standard Serral interview? Well here's one from WESG. Career as a politician confirmed :D | ||
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tigon_ridge
482 Posts
One is complacency. He's already accomplished so much, so perhaps he's not as hungry as before. This loss may add to his hunger, at least. Second is extreme pressure from everybody around him. Korea's presence in the scene is as overwhelming as ever before, and everyone has an intense laser focus on one person to take on an entire country. Serral has in the past stated that he doesn't think too much about the "foreigner vs korean" aspect, but I'm sure he still feels that concentrated weight of hope and expectation from everybody. It can either motivate him, or really distract him. | ||
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Htime
58 Posts
Serral's previous greatness and his offline series streak hurt him in this tourney. Had he not had a nearly 1 year streak on the line, the outcome of the series vs Inno had no meaning and he would have 12-pool zergling rushed three times without a care. So much, maybe too much, of his effort was expended in the meaningless series, and that schedule is a taxing one, making that fatigue factor much larger. | ||
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YamiRi
152 Posts
On March 06 2019 11:48 tigon_ridge wrote: Just throwing out some hypotheses. I think there are two potential demons that are possibly plaguing Serral. One is complacency. He's already accomplished so much, so perhaps he's not as hungry as before. This loss may add to his hunger, at least. Second is extreme pressure from everybody around him. Korea's presence in the scene is as overwhelming as ever before, and everyone has an intense laser focus on one person to take on an entire country. Serral has in the past stated that he doesn't think too much about the "foreigner vs korean" aspect, but I'm sure he still feels that concentrated weight of hope and expectation from everybody. It can either motivate him, or really distract him. Try to watch more of his hype video from Starcraft 2 team This guy saw that winning a tournament is something you normally do He said that he just want to win a lot before retiring... so there is no way he is affected by the pressure.. he doesn't care whether you argued about him being the best player in the world or not... | ||
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MarianoSC2
Slovakia1855 Posts
Serral is still a godlike player, but it was just a matter of time until the top Koreans "figure him out" and start giving him losses from time to time. | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On March 06 2019 23:11 MarianoSC2 wrote: Wow these Serral fanboys... Serral got massively outplayed by both Innovation and soO. Innovation completely dismantled him in TvZ lategame (which is not that strange to be honest there arent many Zergs out there who could match the machine in the super late) and soO destroyed him with better micro and decision making. Also he made fewer mistakes. Serral is still a godlike player, but it was just a matter of time until the top Koreans "figure him out" and start giving him losses from time to time. Man, please. Serral played in a terribly passive way against Innovation in games that had nothing at stake(200 dollars?Wow) whereas Serral won three out of four macro games against him the last time they played in a final at HSC. On the other hand, soO had better decision making and made fewer glaring mistakes during the series but he definitely did not outmicro nor outplay Serral; you don't "destroy" someone by barely winning 3-2(or 2-1) in hard fought games, it's nonsense. It was just a matter of time before Serral was defeated because it's not human to keep winning forever whereas it is to have worse days than usual. It didn't seem like any of the top koreans in IEM reached a higher level of play than Serral's best, he should and would just need to get back to better focus and sharper decision making to win another tournament. | ||
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MarianoSC2
Slovakia1855 Posts
On March 07 2019 00:45 Xain0n wrote: Man, please. Serral played in a terribly passive way against Innovation in games that had nothing at stake(200 dollars?Wow) whereas Serral won three out of four macro games against him the last time they played in a final at HSC. On the other hand, soO had better decision making and made fewer glaring mistakes during the series but he definitely did not outmicro nor outplay Serral; you don't "destroy" someone by barely winning 3-2(or 2-1) in hard fought games, it's nonsense. It was just a matter of time before Serral was defeated because it's not human to keep winning forever whereas it is to have worse days than usual. It didn't seem like any of the top koreans in IEM reached a higher level of play than Serral's best, he should and would just need to get back to better focus and sharper decision making to win another tournament. Okay dude, stay deluded I dont really care  | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On March 08 2019 18:10 MarianoSC2 wrote: Okay dude, stay deluded I dont really care Aaah, I love this kind of enlightening criticism, well memed here. Did you even watch the series? Serral still looked better than soO in term of mechanics, he managed to stay in game 3 despite having a crippling deficit in supply and resources; however, soO didn't commit glaring errors as Serral did and he had a sharper decision making going for the win with the right timing, while Serral failed to realize he had a chanche for the killing blow at least twice. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany6933 Posts
On March 06 2019 23:11 MarianoSC2 wrote: Wow these Serral fanboys... Serral got massively outplayed by both Innovation and soO. Innovation completely dismantled him in TvZ lategame (which is not that strange to be honest there arent many Zergs out there who could match the machine in the super late) and soO destroyed him with better micro and decision making. Also he made fewer mistakes. Serral is still a godlike player, but it was just a matter of time until the top Koreans "figure him out" and start giving him losses from time to time. Massively outplayed? Completely dismantled? Destroyed him? Pretty sure we didn't watch the same games o.O The only thing I can agree with is, that soO made fewer mistakes. | ||
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nanaoei
3358 Posts
relatively speaking, that's still better than most . | ||
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