This tournament will mark the 10th anniversary of StarCraft as a leading title on IEM and will again invite the world’s best SC2 players to compete in Poland this winter for their share of a US $250,000 prize pool.
Tickets will go public on October 31st. Premium tickets to the StarCraft II tournament Feb 28 - Mar 1 will be available for 500PLN, including a goodie bag, free drinks during the matches (only non-alcoholic, Spodek Arena only) and seating in the front row to guarantee visitors a premium viewing experience.
Below, you'll find everything you need to know about qualifying and playing at the tournament.
Online Qualifiers
There will be 4 global qualifiers, all consisting of 2 stages. 11 players who will top the second stages of the qualifiers will be invited to the group stage (Ro24):
3 from KR qualifier #1
2 from KR qualifier #2
3 from EU Qualifier
3 from NA qualifier
*All qualifiers are open to all participants, with no regional restrictions regarding citizenship or residence, but they will be held in the Battle.net regions they are announced. KR = Asia, EU = Europe, NA = Americas.
How will the Qualifiers work:
Stage 1 - Open for all
Single elimination bracket - Bo3
Deciding matches (Ro16) - Bo5 (top 8 qualify to the closed qualifier)
Stage 2 - 16 players (8 qualified from stage 1, 8 from regional WCS results: Asia+Oceania / Europe+Africa / Americas
Double elimination bracket - Bo3
Deciding matches - Bo5 (top 3 qualify to the main event group stages (Ro24) - except the second KR server qualifier)
Note: Not all casters listed here will cover all stages of the competition, keep your eyes open for the streams listed on the TL Calendar event on the right side of the website.
Alright folks! Today we kick off the IEM Qualifiers. The list of approved casters is updated, and we should be getting some solid action today, at 7pm EDT!
I wish information on qualifiers like these were more accessible. Who am I watching play/cast? I don’t see why that information can’t be released earlier
For the first day of each qualifier it will be a bit harder to get this kind of information because we have quite the open bracket, and a diverse amount of casters. But for the second day, that is closed qualifier, things end up being far better.
One thing we did was to ask all casters to get their TL accounts updated and attach to the event here on the TL Calendar, so you will know who is streaming today by looking at it.
Polt is like in 4-5 stream How am I suppose to watch 5 game at once?
Edit: oh I almost forgot... hype!!!!!!
Re edit: Elazer-Super-Polt-Dream in the same bracket chunck Creator-Maru and sOs too hahaha We should get Rogue-Zest, Dear should get TY, INno get soO if he can get pass Clem (cause of course he does), Stats should get Parting, Trap should get either Bunny or Patience
All in all a sick lineup that the NA elite now has to contend with in the final qualifier. Good for them that they (except Scarlett and Special, I guess) will have server advantage.
All in all a sick lineup that the NA elite now has to contend with in the final qualifier. Good for them that they (except Scarlett and Special, I guess) will have server advantage.
Pretty sure Special and Scarlett are still in Mexico/Canada?
All in all a sick lineup that the NA elite now has to contend with in the final qualifier. Good for them that they (except Scarlett and Special, I guess) will have server advantage.
Server advantage didn t help them last year either. And you forgot that 2020 is the year of Clem, wouldn t call it that insane of an upset And Skillous practises quite a bit on Korean server, as he gets higher ping on EU than on KR. So maybe he prepared some snipe builds from meeting Rogue on ladder there Risky does realy suprise me tough..
TY's TvZ is kinda weak, wouldn't be surprised if he lost to soO tbh.
Also speaking of upsets Polt beat Elazer.
That's not an upset, unless you're assuming TvZ favors Zerg right now, then maybe I can see that it is.
Polt has been getting back into form for a good while now.
It was literally his 5th tournament match since coming back from the military. He was gone from the scene for almost 3 years and his performance on ladder doesn't put him in a position where beating Elazer was anything but an upset either. Unless you have a really low opinion of Elazer.
On January 08 2020 00:27 Xain0n wrote: Polt beating Elazer was a huge upset, but given they played on NA server I am more surprised by Skillous beating Rogue.
The pairings for the second stage of the qualifiers seem pretty good for korean players.
Rogue played surprisingly poorly that series (against a Skillous that arguably also didn't play up to his usual level). Some of his decision like trying to cancel a third with a mass ing counterattack after getting surprised by DTs, and not bringing an overseer along were quite bad.
Really makes you wonder how Trap manages to never win a series against his teammate nowadays.
Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
Serral doesn't even play in GSL because he is convinced he has to play EU and international events being european xD He will definitely play in EU qualifiers next week.
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
Serral doesn't even play in GSL because he is convinced he has to play EU and international events being european xD He will definitely play in EU qualifiers next week.
Tbf there is "some sort of BS" that means that Dark gets invited rather than soO.
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
Serral doesn't even play in GSL because he is convinced he has to play EU and international events being european xD He will definitely play in EU qualifiers next week.
Tbf there is "some sort of BS" that means that Dark gets invited rather than soO.
Inviting the Blizzcon champ has been standard for the last few years I think. It at least happened last year when Serral was the Blizzcon champ. Pretty sure Rogue got invited after the 2017 Blizzcon as well.
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
Serral doesn't even play in GSL because he is convinced he has to play EU and international events being european xD He will definitely play in EU qualifiers next week.
Tbf there is "some sort of BS" that means that Dark gets invited rather than soO.
Inviting the Blizzcon champ has been standard for the last few years I think. It at least happened last year when Serral was the Blizzcon champ. Pretty sure Rogue got invited after the 2017 Blizzcon as well.
Yeah, it s been the standart procedure. Blizzcon champ gets seeded to Katowice and Katowice Champ gets Seeded into BlizzCon
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
I guess he is invited in the 2nd stage EU Qualis, which gives him like a 98% chance to qualify Wonder more about Reynor, I would have guessed he is invited there , too. Maybe he just wanted to play some sweet Starcraft and crush some NAoob dreams
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
I guess he is invited in the 2nd stage EU Qualis, which gives him like a 98% chance to qualify Wonder more about Reynor, I would have guessed he is invited there , too. Maybe he just wanted to play some sweet Starcraft and crush some NAoob dreams
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
I guess he is invited in the 2nd stage EU Qualis, which gives him like a 98% chance to qualify Wonder more about Reynor, I would have guessed he is invited there , too. Maybe he just wanted to play some sweet Starcraft and crush some NAoob dreams
He said on twitter this qualifier was his only shot because he couldn’t play in the EU one. Does he mean because of ping because he is in Korea or something, or because he is traveling to his new team during EU qualifier?
What happened to TY wtf, worst upset than Clem - INno...
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
I guess he is invited in the 2nd stage EU Qualis, which gives him like a 98% chance to qualify Wonder more about Reynor, I would have guessed he is invited there , too. Maybe he just wanted to play some sweet Starcraft and crush some NAoob dreams
He said on twitter this qualifier was his only shot because he couldn’t play in the EU one. Does he mean because of ping because he is in Korea or something, or because he is traveling to his new team during EU qualifier?
What happened to TY wtf, worst upset than Clem - INno...
Some sort of combination of playing bad and ping that also embarassed Rogue and Stats. But unlike them TY had lower bracket to redeem himself.
On January 08 2020 11:50 sudete wrote: Neeb just left a game against TY that looked pretty even - feels like idra all over again
Game wasn't actually even at all. BCs are way better than tempests especially if there's only a handful of each.
On January 08 2020 10:40 JJH777 wrote: Did Serral choose to skip this and wait for the EU qualifiers? Kind of a ballsy decision if so. Or did the organizers pull some sort of BS that let them invite him over the player who won the last Katowice?
I guess he is invited in the 2nd stage EU Qualis, which gives him like a 98% chance to qualify Wonder more about Reynor, I would have guessed he is invited there , too. Maybe he just wanted to play some sweet Starcraft and crush some NAoob dreams
He said on twitter this qualifier was his only shot because he couldn’t play in the EU one. Does he mean because of ping because he is in Korea or something, or because he is traveling to his new team during EU qualifier?
What happened to TY wtf, worst upset than Clem - INno...
He just couldn't play on that day, nothing SC2 related afaik.
On January 08 2020 19:32 Elentos wrote: 53 check-ins. 23 Koreans actually showed up to play. And some of those are amateur players.
It is top 3 to qualify or nothing. I gues if you see no chance whatsoever to make it and you don t want to take it as practise tournament, there is no reason to sign up to in the 1st place as a Semi-Pro Korean.. Edit: and for foreigners it is probably the easiest to get to round 2 but the hardest to actually qualify with server disadvantage
On January 08 2020 21:07 JanDe wrote: Did Inno forfeit or really lost 0:3 to noname? omg
He lost. Zoun's a good player but if you don't watch online tournaments you wouldn't have seen him since Proleague.
Can't remember I heard of him ever and I really follow scene from beggining. Maybe if he's that SKT guy but with no particular role. Actually so nice to see "new blood" taking out favorites.
On January 08 2020 21:07 JanDe wrote: Did Inno forfeit or really lost 0:3 to noname? omg
He lost. Zoun's a good player but if you don't watch online tournaments you wouldn't have seen him since Proleague.
Can't remember I heard of him ever and I really follow scene from beggining. Maybe if he's that SKT guy but with no particular role. Actually so nice to see "new blood" taking out favorites.
He played very few games in Proleague, for PRIME and SKT. Recently he's been doing well in Olimoleagues and such.
Meanwhile the bracket reported Patience 3-1 DRG but the match is now at 2-2.
On January 08 2020 21:20 sneakyfox wrote: Some good upsets here too:
TaeJa 2-0 Cure Zoun 3-0 Innovation DRG 2-0 Bunny
DRG beating Bunny probably surprises me the least there because it happened in GSL qualifiers at some point this year too. Cure continues to disappoint outside of Kung Fu Cup and Olimoleague. Also Impact lost to Toodming?
TY's TvZ is kinda weak, wouldn't be surprised if he lost to soO tbh.
Also speaking of upsets Polt beat Elazer.
That's not an upset, unless you're assuming TvZ favors Zerg right now, then maybe I can see that it is.
Polt has been getting back into form for a good while now.
It was literally his 5th tournament match since coming back from the military. He was gone from the scene for almost 3 years and his performance on ladder doesn't put him in a position where beating Elazer was anything but an upset either. Unless you have a really low opinion of Elazer.
Opposite. I have a high opinion of Polt. If he hadn't beaten Elazer I would have been disappointed.
TY's TvZ is kinda weak, wouldn't be surprised if he lost to soO tbh.
Also speaking of upsets Polt beat Elazer.
That's not an upset, unless you're assuming TvZ favors Zerg right now, then maybe I can see that it is.
Polt has been getting back into form for a good while now.
It was literally his 5th tournament match since coming back from the military. He was gone from the scene for almost 3 years and his performance on ladder doesn't put him in a position where beating Elazer was anything but an upset either. Unless you have a really low opinion of Elazer.
Opposite. I have a high opinion of Polt. If he hadn't beaten Elazer I would have been disappointed.
Elazer's ZvT is his weakest matchup, and he played from EU against NA but being disappointed if current Polt, who struggled to get past 6k for months, wouldn't have beaten him is, at best, not realistic.
Cheering for DRG, PartinG and Taeja. If either of those makes it through that would be fun. Other than that, Solar, TY and Stats are my favs out of the remaining players.
On January 09 2020 19:48 Elentos wrote: TaeJa vs Rogue is also a silly game.
Seriously this is just ridiculous. It's a series of death pushes from TaeJa that look unstoppable getting cleaned up by mass lings because he doesn't have hellbats left.
On January 09 2020 19:48 Elentos wrote: TaeJa vs Rogue is also a silly game.
Seriously this is just ridiculous. It's a series of death pushes from TaeJa that look unstoppable getting cleaned up by mass lings because he doesn't have hellbats left.
On January 09 2020 20:11 Jockmcplop wrote: Is Taeja on the way back??? My favourite ever player <3
Well he beat Cure and Rogue allready. but the later one was a Clown fiesta
Yeah I missed the games only saw the results. I just get nostalgic for the old days of SC2. Taeja's IPL all kills and the whole period around that time was so epic for terran fans. I hope he gets good again. Two results like that are definitely a good sign, even if the games were ridiculous
gg. TY better unit comp and army control but Taeja's macro is still insane. I don't know how you lose a thor/bc army against bio and still stay in the game for 10 minutes.
Teaja is kind of realy good already and not there yet at the same time. His game against TY is super close but he just lost 10+ SCVs to 2 libs. You re not seeing that very often, esspecially not, when there isn t that much else going on to distract. The Libs were not even arriving at the same time. And he still won the game. There s so much room for improvement still.
On January 09 2020 22:26 sneakyfox wrote: Yay Stats! Time to get hammered.
How was TY-soO g1?
TY went mech and decided to establish a foothold close to soO's 4th base. And they fought over that foothold for about 15 minutes. It was the slowest push imaginable.
On January 09 2020 22:26 sneakyfox wrote: Yay Stats! Time to get hammered.
How was TY-soO g1?
TY went mech and decided to establish a foothold close to soO's 4th base. And they fought over that foothold for about 15 minutes. It was the slowest push imaginable.
During that game Harstem built up a special connection to a thor that was originally stuck in TY's natural for like 4 minutes and then actually survived every fight for the rest of the game once he was freed. What a story.
But now TY is in the worst possible spot - up 2-0 in a best of 5.
On January 09 2020 22:48 Elentos wrote: During that game Harstem built up a special connection to a thor that was originally stuck in TY's natural for like 4 minutes and then actually survived every fight for the rest of the game once he was freed. What a story.
But now TY is in the worst possible spot - up 2-0 in a best of 5.
On January 09 2020 23:44 Kriasrub wrote: Mech vs. Zerg just looks so depressing in many cases. Not because there's an imbalance, but by the way many games go.
Yeah, I think we all think bio is much more fun but it's just not as good vs Z.
On January 09 2020 23:48 Nakajin wrote: Come on sOs, it's time to not suck. Just one time, one time, you can do it
Prize pool has increased, we all know sOs only wins when the first prize is 100k
The math has to be more complicated than that, he won other tournaments before. And now nothing in years. Maybe it literally involves alignment of the stars in a particular fashion.
The Lambo stream is really good. They offer good insight, they're still fun and they observe decently too. Sadly sOs didn't invite them for game 2.
On January 10 2020 00:08 Nakajin wrote: Remember when sOs was both a macro and cheese monster and not a mix of every herO and Zest defect? I finally understand how 2014 MKP fan felt
i sometimes think back to the glorious days when MKP played the most random nonsense strats and won anyway cause his macro and micro was so far ahead of everyone he faced in NA and EU. there was a build where he went bio+thors and quadruple upgrades from double engi bays and double armories and just rolled nerds. made no sense whatsoever. so much fun to watch.
So Hurricane and PartinG should get seeded to stage 2 for the 2nd Korean qualifier since TY and Stats advanced today. If soO also advances I guess Solar gets his seed. Or maybe Has for some clownage
On January 10 2020 00:41 Elentos wrote: So Hurricane and PartinG should get seeded to stage 2 for the 2nd Korean qualifier since TY and Stats advanced today. If soO also advances I guess Solar gets his seed. Or maybe Has for some clownage
How exactly is the seeding done? Do they just add the Asian circuit players with their circuit wcs points to the KR wcs list?
Also, Solar looks firmly in control of that series, don't think soO is getting out today.
On January 10 2020 00:41 Elentos wrote: So Hurricane and PartinG should get seeded to stage 2 for the 2nd Korean qualifier since TY and Stats advanced today. If soO also advances I guess Solar gets his seed. Or maybe Has for some clownage
How exactly is the seeding done? Do they just add the Asian circuit players with their circuit wcs points to the KR wcs list?
Also, Solar looks firmly in control of that series, don't think soO is getting out today.
I assume that's what they do yeah. With TIME being the exception, he got a higher seed than Stats because he did better at Blizzcon even though he had the least WCS points out of the seeded players.
Don't expect soO to win this either but never bet on a Korean Zerg in ZvZ.
On January 10 2020 00:41 Elentos wrote: So Hurricane and PartinG should get seeded to stage 2 for the 2nd Korean qualifier since TY and Stats advanced today. If soO also advances I guess Solar gets his seed. Or maybe Has for some clownage
How exactly is the seeding done? Do they just add the Asian circuit players with their circuit wcs points to the KR wcs list?
Also, Solar looks firmly in control of that series, don't think soO is getting out today.
I assume that's what they do yeah. With TIME being the exception, he got a higher seed than Stats because he did better at Blizzcon even though he had the least WCS points out of the seeded players.
Don't expect soO to win this either but never bet on a Korean Zerg in ZvZ.
Oh, okay. So it is a little bit confusing.
The only heartening thing about Korean ZvZ is that even if they keep on losing eventually someone will win and it ends
On January 10 2020 01:03 Elentos wrote: soO is 0 for 3 in qualifying matches now. That has to be an IEM record.
Aren't qualifying matches akin to finals, I wonder?
Finals with a chance of getting another final immediately.
I haven't found any instance where someone had 3 qualifying matches in the IEM Katowice qualifiers for the same event and lost them all. Can soO go even further beyond?
On January 10 2020 01:03 Elentos wrote: soO is 0 for 3 in qualifying matches now. That has to be an IEM record.
Aren't qualifying matches akin to finals, I wonder?
Finals with a chance of getting another final immediately.
I haven't found any instance where someone had 3 qualifying matches in the IEM Katowice qualifiers for the same event and lost them all. Can soO go even further beyond?
What, are you suggesting he goes for the famed 5-match grand slam?
Trap also had some tough luck. He Lost to Maru and then Zest in NA qualifier. Then he lost to Stats and Solar in Kr. So he only played the guys Who qualified later on.
On January 09 2020 22:11 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: TaeJa vs Armani game 3 was pretty amazing.
I didn't think so. Armani almost choked that away and Taeja never should have been in it for how badly his early game went.
That's what made it amazing. I counted TaeJa dead at least 5 times and Armani just never could get it done. That TaeJa clawed back and made it a game as impressive.
soO losing in three seperate qualifying matches is a bit of an oof. He's rich enough to still go to the main event regardless of qualification even if he doesn't make it in the next KR qualifier (I hope anyway).
On January 10 2020 09:29 Fango wrote: soO losing in three seperate qualifying matches is a bit of an oof. He's rich enough to still go to the main event regardless of qualification even if he doesn't make it in the next KR qualifier (I hope anyway).
On January 10 2020 09:29 Fango wrote: soO losing in three seperate qualifying matches is a bit of an oof. He's rich enough to still go to the main event regardless of qualification even if he doesn't make it in the next KR qualifier (I hope anyway).
I hope the military let him come
I assumed he can given the fact he's competing in the qualifiers to begin with.
Although it's fairly likely he doesn't know himself
This is ESL Pro Tour already seems like a massive success. There are currently around 7k viewers for the early stages of a qualifier. And yesterday there were similar numbers watching the ESL Open Cup.
On January 14 2020 06:20 Poopi wrote: Nice run from Bunny, but even if he qualifies tonight, I highly doubt he'd beat the invited players with such high ping :x.
Hopefully he closes it out vs DnS though
He won't because of ping but he wouldn't qualify if they were playing offline as well.
On January 14 2020 06:46 Nakajin wrote: Cure and Bunny did it! Quite comfortable for both of them, it's a shame not more Kr player tried. Obviously they probably won't make it tomorrow tho
A lot more signed up. But apparently playing with 300 ping at 3 AM in the morning is not for everyone.
On January 14 2020 06:20 Poopi wrote: Nice run from Bunny, but even if he qualifies tonight, I highly doubt he'd beat the invited players with such high ping :x.
Hopefully he closes it out vs DnS though
He won't because of ping but he wouldn't qualify if they were playing offline as well.
Depends on bracket luck, he can't beat Serral but I can see him beat any other player offline from the invited players (although he wouldn't be favored vs some, more like 50-50 or 40-60 depending on form)
On January 14 2020 06:20 Poopi wrote: Nice run from Bunny, but even if he qualifies tonight, I highly doubt he'd beat the invited players with such high ping :x.
Hopefully he closes it out vs DnS though
He won't because of ping but he wouldn't qualify if they were playing offline as well.
Depends on bracket luck, he can't beat Serral but I can see him beat any other player offline from the invited players (although he wouldn't be favored vs some, more like 50-50 or 40-60 depending on form)
That lower bracket isn't impossible, Elazer and Lambo aren't known for their tvz and tvt can be a volatile matchup.
On January 14 2020 06:20 Poopi wrote: Nice run from Bunny, but even if he qualifies tonight, I highly doubt he'd beat the invited players with such high ping :x.
Hopefully he closes it out vs DnS though
He won't because of ping but he wouldn't qualify if they were playing offline as well.
Depends on bracket luck, he can't beat Serral but I can see him beat any other player offline from the invited players (although he wouldn't be favored vs some, more like 50-50 or 40-60 depending on form)
That lower bracket isn't impossible, Elazer and Lambo aren't known for their tvz and tvt can be a volatile matchup.
Qualifying over NA's top 3 and all the best players in EU would be a possible, yet very hard, feat for the best Bunny(HSC XVIII). I would be extremely surprised if he were able to do such a thing now and online.
On January 14 2020 06:20 Poopi wrote: Nice run from Bunny, but even if he qualifies tonight, I highly doubt he'd beat the invited players with such high ping :x.
Hopefully he closes it out vs DnS though
He won't because of ping but he wouldn't qualify if they were playing offline as well.
Depends on bracket luck, he can't beat Serral but I can see him beat any other player offline from the invited players (although he wouldn't be favored vs some, more like 50-50 or 40-60 depending on form)
That lower bracket isn't impossible, Elazer and Lambo aren't known for their tvz and tvt can be a volatile matchup.
Qualifying over NA's top 3 and all the best players in EU would be a possible, yet very hard, feat for the best Bunny(HSC XVIII). I would be extremely surprised if he were able to do such a thing now and online.
Well I said that before the second qualifier was drawn, obviously now seeing as he got the side of Serral, Neeb and Showtime it's pretty dead, but if you switch Bunny with Denver or Special it doesn't seem that impossible.
On January 14 2020 10:34 AzAlexZ wrote: Neeb vs Serral so early in the year already
Nvm Vanya beat Serral, according to Wardi
They just started playing.
huh... then why did Wardi say Vanya beat Serral... Edit: I must have misheard, Wardi probably said Vanya took one map and I thought he said Vanya took the series
On January 15 2020 04:22 starkiller123 wrote: Damn Cure 2-0 vs Showtime, he's been playing quite well for 4 in the morning lol
4 in the morning on 300 ping, beating one of the best non-Korean players. Also didn't get to stage 2 on NA or KR, much better conditions for him.
Weird.
I think there was an online qualifier in hots on the EU server where he 3-0'd snute (when snute was a top 3 foreign player) despite terrible ping. I remember it because he didn't even bother to mico his marines against banelings at all. Snute would wipe a group of a moved bio only for another group just as large to replace it. He has some truly monstrous macro.
On January 15 2020 04:22 starkiller123 wrote: Damn Cure 2-0 vs Showtime, he's been playing quite well for 4 in the morning lol
4 in the morning on 300 ping, beating one of the best non-Korean players. Also didn't get to stage 2 on NA or KR, much better conditions for him.
Weird.
I think there was an online qualifier in hots on the EU server where he 3-0'd snute (when snute was a top 3 foreign player) despite terrible ping. I remember it because he didn't even bother to mico his marines against banelings at all. Snute would wipe a group of a moved bio only for another group just as large to replace it. He has some truly monstrous macro.
It was a qualifier for IEM Katowice in 2015. On the same day Cure already failed NA and KR qualifiers, match vs Snute was his last shot.
On January 15 2020 05:12 Nakajin wrote: Clem's also out, no WESG and no IEM qualification for him.
Clem could very well qualify through the offline stage. Let's wait and see!
Yeah this goes for most European pros. Katowice also has a pretty good prize distribution which means players don't have to make deep runs in the tournament for the trip to be economically acceptable.
On January 15 2020 05:12 Nakajin wrote: Clem's also out, no WESG and no IEM qualification for him.
Clem could very well qualify through the offline stage. Let's wait and see!
Yeah this goes for most European pros. Katowice also has a pretty good prize distribution which means players don't have to make deep runs in the tournament for the trip to be economically acceptable.
For the Europeans, at any rate. The Koreans should rather want to get to the group stage at least.
On January 15 2020 05:12 Nakajin wrote: Clem's also out, no WESG and no IEM qualification for him.
Clem could very well qualify through the offline stage. Let's wait and see!
Yeah this goes for most European pros. Katowice also has a pretty good prize distribution which means players don't have to make deep runs in the tournament for the trip to be economically acceptable.
For the Europeans, at any rate. The Koreans should rather want to get to the group stage at least.
Yeah. Which is why we can all be happy if (somehow) no Europeans qualify directly, they should all show up in Katowice anyway.
Why does Terrans usually take the forward base as their third on WOS? Seems it's much better to take the one in front of the main which has a ramp and not completely open terrain in front of it. And it only takes one worker to remove the mineral wall.
On January 15 2020 05:44 Elentos wrote: Have these Korean Terrans just arrived at the conclusion that in 2020 mech is arse to the point it's not worth playing on 300ms ping anymore?
Yeah I thought BC mech was by far the strongest TvZ right now. All the more so considering the shitty ping.
On January 15 2020 05:44 Elentos wrote: Have these Korean Terrans just arrived at the conclusion that in 2020 mech is arse to the point it's not worth playing on 300ms ping anymore?
Seems like it and sadly we don't have Gumi anymore to do it anyway, we just have INno, Maru, TY, alive no1, alive no2 and alive no3.
Serral used 0 spellcasters and had worse upgrades and still only lost half the resources of Cure. I don't know that you can ever catch the swarm hosts (with 300ms ping) when there's double nydus spam and corruptors to protect them from the sky.
On January 15 2020 06:07 Elentos wrote: Serral used 0 spellcasters and had worse upgrades and still only lost half the resources of Cure. I don't know that you can ever catch the swarm hosts (with 300ms ping) when there's double nydus spam and corruptors to protect them from the sky.
On January 15 2020 06:07 Elentos wrote: Serral used 0 spellcasters and had worse upgrades and still only lost half the resources of Cure. I don't know that you can ever catch the swarm hosts (with 300ms ping) when there's double nydus spam and corruptors to protect them from the sky.
He's just way better, and zerg's pretty good
I'm just observing. Crux of that game was that he did 0 damage to Serral all game. TvZ isn't playable if you can't do damage relatively early, let alone if you do none all game.
On January 15 2020 07:09 Poopi wrote: So would both Cure and Special be able to play on KR in case Cure beats uThermal, or do they need to duke it out with both high pings? x)
They can play on KR then.
7 am in Korea too. And the one who loses here has to go at it again in the Korean qualifier in less than 12 hours.
On January 15 2020 07:44 Schelim wrote: What does DPG stand for btw? I keep thinking Dogg Pound Gang but i kinda doubt Cure kicks it with Kurupt and Daz Dillinger much
No, it actually is the Dogg Pound Gang, people were very surprised.
On January 15 2020 07:44 Schelim wrote: What does DPG stand for btw? I keep thinking Dogg Pound Gang but i kinda doubt Cure kicks it with Kurupt and Daz Dillinger much
No, it actually is the Dogg Pound Gang, people were very surprised.
Good to see Special made it, would have too cruel for him to lose not one but two qualifying matches last night only to drop out in the preliminaries today. Now he can get some sleep and get ready for the big crunch tomorrow.
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
Everything is fine until you decide that Astrea would have been the right guy to beat Serral twice.
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
Everything is fine until you decide that Astrea would have been the right guy to beat Serral twice.
wouldnt it only have to be once between astrea or neeb (assuming astrea beats zhu)?
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
Everything is fine until you decide that Astrea would have been the right guy to beat Serral twice.
wouldnt it only have to be once between astrea or neeb (assuming astrea beats zhu)?
Well, someone has to beat him twice.
Inno up 1:0 vs Rogue after a brutal 25min slugfest
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
Everything is fine until you decide that Astrea would have been the right guy to beat Serral twice.
wouldnt it only have to be once between astrea or neeb (assuming astrea beats zhu)?
Well, someone has to beat him twice.
Inno up 1:0 vs Rogue after a brutal 25min slugfest
True. What am i thinking lmao
I will change that statement to couldve beaten finland lawl
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
He's midgame Zerg GOAT. Lategame, not so much.
It took 16 days until the first GOAT discussion of 2020 ^^'
I just realized that only 2 ppl advance this time. Makes it so much harder for my boi Inno
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
He's midgame Zerg GOAT. Lategame, not so much.
It took 16 days until the first GOAT discussion of 2020 ^^'
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
We can add Elazer if you want. That still makes soo top 10.
I'm not gonna put guys like lambo, bly, and denver above soo tho lol. That's nuts imo
Missed your edit.
I would definitely put Lambo above soO in lategame. But Lambo wouldn't get there in as good a spot as soO though.
But let's say soO barely takes the 10th spot in lategame ZvT. He then loses to Inno's top 3 TvZ. That's hardly proof that T has the upper hand in lategame.
Those soO-Inno games looked pretty much like you would expect from these players: soO plays good mid-game and then either closes it out, or loses in lategame.
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
Everything is fine until you decide that Astrea would have been the right guy to beat Serral twice.
wouldnt it only have to be once between astrea or neeb (assuming astrea beats zhu)?
Well, someone has to beat him twice.
Inno up 1:0 vs Rogue after a brutal 25min slugfest
True. What am i thinking lmao
I will change that statement to couldve beaten finland lawl
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
Everything is fine until you decide that Astrea would have been the right guy to beat Serral twice.
wouldnt it only have to be once between astrea or neeb (assuming astrea beats zhu)?
Well, someone has to beat him twice.
Inno up 1:0 vs Rogue after a brutal 25min slugfest
True. What am i thinking lmao
I will change that statement to couldve beaten finland lawl
On January 16 2020 21:25 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 16 2020 21:05 BerserkSword wrote:
On January 16 2020 20:56 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Poor Trap, killing everybody in the loser bracket only to lose to PartinG again in the qualifying match. He'll probably be sent out by JinAir though...
Impressive how PartinG gradually went back to top level, we might see a good result from him this year!
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
Foreign non-zergs need to step up their game!
Gabe must become even bigger
Showtime needs to reinforce his Mauer
Neeb must transform into a big red Firemonstertruck
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
Foreign non-zergs need to step up their game!
Gabe must become even bigger
Showtime needs to reinforce his Mauer
Neeb must transform into a big red Firemonstertruck
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
are you suggesting that Zerg is OP... but only outside Korea?
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
Everything is fine until you decide that Astrea would have been the right guy to beat Serral twice.
wouldnt it only have to be once between astrea or neeb (assuming astrea beats zhu)?
Well, someone has to beat him twice.
Inno up 1:0 vs Rogue after a brutal 25min slugfest
True. What am i thinking lmao
I will change that statement to couldve beaten finland lawl
On January 16 2020 21:25 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 16 2020 21:05 BerserkSword wrote:
On January 16 2020 20:56 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
are you suggesting that Zerg is OP... but only outside Korea?
Korea has a distinct lack of quality Zergs, especially since quite a few of them are extremely variable in terms of performance.
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
I mean he was and is good and would've likely won against Zhugeliang, but I really can't see that he would've done what neeb couldn't do that day and actually beat Serral.
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
Foreign non-zergs need to step up their game!
Gabe must become even bigger
Showtime needs to reinforce his Mauer
Neeb must transform into a big red Firemonstertruck
Special need to make a name for himself
Uthermal need to turn up the heat
Puck must find a way to the goal
Future has to take the next step
Kas need to make his case
Vindicta must play like he deserve the win
Ptitdrogo must grow bigger
Harstem need to put his captain hat on
Masa must have amass a trophy collection
Strange must brave the unknown
Seither must find lady luck and see-to-her needs
TIME needs to be better around the clock
Has has to invent some new kind of cheddar, maybe with goat milk?
Probe needs to bring his minerals to the nexus faster
On January 16 2020 20:01 Harris1st wrote: At one point I was sure Astrea had this.
I don't know why Astrea turned around and fought the ball of lurker hydra with chargelot archon.
I think Astrea wouldve taken the series if he had not done that. He wouldve had enough to hold on until mass carrier
Astrea has really started to ascend starting in 2019 though. I love mcanning but astrea shouldve been on team USA instead of him....I think US wouldve beaten finland with Astrea.
Everything is fine until you decide that Astrea would have been the right guy to beat Serral twice.
wouldnt it only have to be once between astrea or neeb (assuming astrea beats zhu)?
Well, someone has to beat him twice.
Inno up 1:0 vs Rogue after a brutal 25min slugfest
True. What am i thinking lmao
I will change that statement to couldve beaten finland lawl
On January 16 2020 21:25 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 16 2020 21:05 BerserkSword wrote:
On January 16 2020 20:56 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 16 2020 20:54 BerserkSword wrote: I'm honestly tired of this boring turtle terran style that players like TY and Inno are abusing.
The new thor is insane lol.
Uuhm yeah that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that soO's lategame is horrendous...
what do you mean by horrendous lol
Soo is no worse than a top 10 zerg lategame player in the world.
Well take your pick. The caster control, the clunky transitions (or lack thereof), the struggle in putting together compositions.
soO is precisely worse than top 10 zerg lategame players. Sub-top EU zergs like Elazer are better than soO at lategame. And it's not like soO even disagrees.
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
are you suggesting that Zerg is OP... but only outside Korea?
Korea has a distinct lack of quality Zergs, especially since quite a few of them are extremely variable in terms of performance.
Is that why soO won the last IEM and Dark was 3rd/4th? Or is that why Dark won the Blizzcon, GSL ST2, was 3rd/4th in GSL S3, 1st in GSL S2 and 3rd/4th in GSL S1? Is that why Rogue won GSL S3?
Yeah, I can see the lack of good Zergs at 2019 there, they just didn't win GSL S1 and GSL ST1 and GSL vs TW, otherwise they won every big tournament in Korea and 2 World Championship Titles.
Edit> Actually, if you say Korea is lacking good Zergs, this just proves that 2k19 Zerg was super OP HA! Zerg OP confirmed.
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
Foreign non-zergs need to step up their game!
Gabe must become even bigger
Showtime needs to reinforce his Mauer
Neeb must transform into a big red Firemonstertruck
Special need to make a name for himself
Uthermal need to turn up the heat
Puck must find a way to the goal
Future has to take the next step
Kas need to make his case
Vindicta must play like he deserve the win
Ptitdrogo must grow bigger
Harstem need to put his captain hat on
Masa must have amass a trophy collection
Strange must brave the unknown
Seither must find lady luck and see-to-her needs
TIME needs to be better around the clock
Has has to invent some new kind of cheddar, maybe with goat milk?
Probe needs to bring his minerals to the nexus faster
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
Foreign non-zergs need to step up their game!
Gabe must become even bigger
Showtime needs to reinforce his Mauer
Neeb must transform into a big red Firemonstertruck
Special need to make a name for himself
Uthermal need to turn up the heat
Puck must find a way to the goal
Future has to take the next step
Kas need to make his case
Vindicta must play like he deserve the win
Ptitdrogo must grow bigger
Harstem need to put his captain hat on
Masa must have amass a trophy collection
Strange must brave the unknown
Seither must find lady luck and see-to-her needs
TIME needs to be better around the clock
Has has to invent some new kind of cheddar, maybe with goat milk?
Probe needs to bring his minerals to the nexus faster
You both should be ashamed of yourselves.
You're just jealous, Nazgul called to say we are-his-first TL pun makers while he wish he could have your pale-aunt-toss down a cliff.
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
Foreign non-zergs need to step up their game!
Gabe must become even bigger
Showtime needs to reinforce his Mauer
Neeb must transform into a big red Firemonstertruck
Special need to make a name for himself
Uthermal need to turn up the heat
Puck must find a way to the goal
Future has to take the next step
Kas need to make his case
Vindicta must play like he deserve the win
Ptitdrogo must grow bigger
Harstem need to put his captain hat on
Masa must have amass a trophy collection
Strange must brave the unknown
Seither must find lady luck and see-to-her needs
TIME needs to be better around the clock
Has has to invent some new kind of cheddar, maybe with goat milk?
Probe needs to bring his minerals to the nexus faster
You both should be ashamed of yourselves.
You're just jealous, Nazgul called to say we are-his-first TL pun makers while he wish he could have your pale-aunt-toss down a cliff.
People in work camps are less forced than that pun.
On January 18 2020 00:17 Nakajin wrote: You're just jealous, Nazgul called to say we are-his-first TL pun makers while he wish he could have your pale-aunt-toss down a cliff.
On January 17 2020 00:09 dbRic1203 wrote: So we have Maru, TY, Cure Zest, Stats, Parting Dark, Rogue, Solar from Korea and Serral, Reynor and Elazer from foreignerland..
Korea perfectly balanced! Gratz Blizz! Another job well done
Edit: Actually Dark was seeded. Zerg underpowered
Not a single non-zerg foreigner.
Foreign non-zergs need to step up their game!
Gabe must become even bigger
Showtime needs to reinforce his Mauer
Neeb must transform into a big red Firemonstertruck
Special need to make a name for himself
Uthermal need to turn up the heat
Puck must find a way to the goal
Future has to take the next step
Kas need to make his case
Vindicta must play like he deserve the win
Ptitdrogo must grow bigger
Harstem need to put his captain hat on
Masa must have amass a trophy collection
Strange must brave the unknown
Seither must find lady luck and see-to-her needs
TIME needs to be better around the clock
Has has to invent some new kind of cheddar, maybe with goat milk?
Probe needs to bring his minerals to the nexus faster
You both should be ashamed of yourselves.
You're just jealous, Nazgul called to say we are-his-first TL pun makers while he wish he could have your pale-aunt-toss down a cliff.
People in work camps are less forced than that pun.
Nah caus'in your mind, you can't keep up with the puns...
As usual some pretty significant differences between the brackets quality wise, #3 and #4 are bound to break some hearts. ESL is having a laugh with bracket 1 though, 1 Zerg out of 16 players.
On January 29 2020 07:09 Elentos wrote: As usual some pretty significant differences between the brackets quality wise, #3 and #4 are bound to break some hearts. ESL is having a laugh with bracket 1 though, 1 Zerg out of 16 players.
I think soO shouldn't have problems, bracket #4 is totally insane. Clem can do it but it won't be easy; TIME should be able to TvZ his way to the main stage but his recent results are not reassuring, Impact is a tough nut to crack.
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Reynor, 
Zest, 
Maru
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IEM Season XIV - Katowice
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HA! Zerg OP confirmed.
