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[GSL] GSL vs. The World - Team Match & Finals
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Map Pool Stats vs SerralTeam Maru vs Team SerralCSS: FO-nTTaX Awesomeness: Panda Banner: GSL | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
 One thing that feels really special about Serral is how well-rounded he is. Almost every player is characterized by something--Stats is better at defense than offense, sOs is better at cleverness than mechanics, Zest is better at micro than macro, TY is better in the late game than the early and mid game, and so on. Even players that really are solid at every aspect of the game like Dark have tendencies we can latch upon--Dark likes aggression more than defense, roaches more than hydras etc. But with Serral it really feels that he's equally good at everything, equally favouring offense and defense, cheese and macro, early game and late game, and he doesn't even favour any particular composition. There are a few small differences like he's a bit more mechanical than clever, but even then he has smart builds. He's better at ZvP than ZvT, but how big the discrepancy is isn't obvious. I can't recall the last player we've had whose skill set has been so evenly distributed across the different aspects of the game. | ||
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TheDougler
Canada8320 Posts
Poll: Who Will Win? Team Serral (19) Team Maru (15) 34 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win? Poll: Teams Match Prediction Team Maru 9-0 (11) Team Serral 5-4 (8) Team Serral 6-3 (6) Team Maru 6-3 (6) Team Serral 9-0 (4) Team Maru 5-4 (3) Team Maru 7-2 (2) Team Serral 7-2 (1) Team Serral 8-1 (0) Team Maru 8-1 (0) 41 total votes Your vote: Teams Match Prediction (Vote): Team Serral 5-4 Here's the lineups:  2018 GSL vs. the World/Teams | ||
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JabuSeika
United States607 Posts
But this tournament, Serral has shown that he can be very aggressive and close games when he wants. I would give him the edge considering the state of ZvP. | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
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stardog
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
Stats 4-2 SerralLove that we're opening with Has vs Zest xD for the team match. Given the weird format I could see it going either way. Serral's team appears to be stronger overall so I guess I'll go with them. | ||
Soularion
Canada2764 Posts
On August 05 2018 07:07 JabuSeika wrote: Looking at Serral from WCS, I thought he was a defensive and reactionary player. Just with that Information, I would have given the edge to Stats. But this tournament, Serral has shown that he can be very aggressive and close games when he wants. I would give him the edge considering the state of ZvP. Yeah, he has a nice killer instinct too. I think he's maybe the best ZvP player in the world currently, and none of the top Koreans seem to have figured out the other side of the matchup right now, so I kind of think he'll win 4-2/4-1. | ||
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Phredxor
New Zealand15076 Posts
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Penev
28536 Posts
On August 05 2018 07:57 stardog wrote: Anyone knows how teams selection went? Maru picked 3 Koreans and 4 foreigners and Serral 3 foreigners and 4 Koreans alternately. | ||
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yubo56
690 Posts
On August 05 2018 09:04 Soularion wrote: Yeah, he has a nice killer instinct too. I think he's maybe the best ZvP player in the world currently, and none of the top Koreans seem to have figured out the other side of the matchup right now, so I kind of think he'll win 4-2/4-1. I agree, Serral's ZvP is a thrill to watch. I always see Polt playing when I watch, where he always has a secondary army (i.e. strong enough to beat warpins, probably equivalent to a 3-4 medivac's worth of units army). But with the unique tools of the matchup, notably lurkers in the midgame and brood lords in the late game, Serral is able to elevate that sort of counterattacking, multipronged aggression to the next level. I feel like the games where Koreans copy this style and fail (outside of early game cheese) it's when the protoss is able to squeeze out 5-6 carriers or tempest tech before the BL push hits (I recall a few of Dear's and Stats' games). I haven't been watching enough late game Serral ZvP to compare his hive timing to these few games, but I imagine heavier lair play would punish over-eager stargate tech, and I seem to recall Serral's impeccable lair tech play, so it seems like he has this failure point covered. I think this should be a really interesting match. Serral has so much momentum and is currently riding the crest of his own innovations, but Stats' adaptability and solidity cannot be underestimated. I always remember the cross finals immediately after Dark's first SSL win, the one where he pulled out baneling drops, and seeing Stats having all sorts of micro-adjustments to his play e.g. leaving 3 stalkers at every base, slightly different simcity/compositions, and he avenged his SSL loss. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like this as well, but it would definitely require quite a lot of preparation that may be difficult in a weekend tournament like this... | ||
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frazzle
United States468 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On August 05 2018 10:26 frazzle wrote: What was with Inno saying he heard Serral was 7200 MMR on Korea anyway? Was that a mistranslation, or was it just a "omg, i hear he's such a monster" joke? I checked sc2unmasked and saw nobody at that MMR in GM or Masters, and no non-Dark/soO/Rogue anonymous zergs that could even be close. Probably just a mistranslation or Inno misspoke. He has had 7200 MMR on EU. | ||
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Morbidius
Brazil3449 Posts
On August 05 2018 06:45 ZigguratOfUr wrote: I'm reading that poll not as '(GSL vs. The World) Champion', but as '(GSL) vs (The World Champion)'. One thing that feels really special about Serral is how well-rounded he is. Almost every player is characterized by something--Stats is better at defense than offense, sOs is better at cleverness than mechanics, Zest is better at micro than macro, TY is better in the late game than the early and mid game, and so on. Even players that really are solid at every aspect of the game like Dark have tendencies we can latch upon--Dark likes aggression more than defense, roaches more than hydras etc. But with Serral it really feels that he's equally good at everything, equally favouring offense and defense, cheese and macro, early game and late game, and he doesn't even favour any particular composition. There are a few small differences like he's a bit more mechanical than clever, but even then he has smart builds. He's better at ZvP than ZvT, but how big the discrepancy is isn't obvious. I can't recall the last player we've had whose skill set has been so evenly distributed across the different aspects of the game. We were robbed of a Maru vs Serral final. I feel the same way about Maru... he can cheese, he can macro, he can play mindgames and do trickery, can do insane multipronged harass or setup a deathpush at your front door. | ||
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
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AgonySC
7 Posts
On August 05 2018 07:20 Bagration wrote: If Serral could pull this one off, it'd be the 3rd Premier tournament in Korea won by foreigners in the past 20 months. That's pretty incredible, considering where the gap used to be How is a tournament that awards 0 WCS points "premier" lol | ||
Inflicted
Australia18228 Posts
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DieuCure
France3713 Posts
On August 05 2018 12:07 AgonySC wrote: How is a tournament that awards 0 WCS points "premier" lol Prizepool, offline, quality of the players. So funny lol. | ||
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FrkFrJss
Canada1207 Posts
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