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Format
- Single-elimination bracket:
- Round of 16 are Bo5.
- Quarterfinals are Bo5.
- Semifinals are Bo5.
- Finals are Bo7.
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[GSL] Super Tournament 1 - Day One
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51456 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16055 Posts
Rogue > Bunny Maru > Armani (3-0) herO > Trap Cheering for these results today. | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
seems like downsizing to me, and they're going really out of their way to do it too with this weird format | ||
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tigera6
3221 Posts
On January 17 2022 17:05 Die4Ever wrote: uhh I do not like this format for 2022... any player that wins their ro10 group is gonna show us less games, which means we probably won't even see that much from our champions seems like downsizing to me, and they're going really out of their way to do it too with this weird format Everybody still got to play the initial Ro20 group stage, and the full round robin Ro10 stage. Thats plenty of game to watch, and I think that give more games than the previous Code A + code S format, but I may be wrong. I actually kinda like it to be honest. | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
On January 17 2022 17:12 tigera6 wrote: Everybody still got to play the initial Ro20 group stage, and the full round robin Ro10 stage. Thats plenty of game to watch, and I think that give more games than the previous Code A + code S format, but I may be wrong. I actually kinda like it to be honest. well yea maybe more games overall, but more games vs the best players? getting rid of the quarterfinals for the top players hurts a lot IMO and it might make the group selection ceremony even more abusable for the #1 seed | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
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Heartland
Sweden24579 Posts
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2429 Posts
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tigera6
3221 Posts
On January 17 2022 17:59 swarminfestor wrote: Zest is hungry of championship but he has to face Rogue again in semifinal. Damn, a rough route for him. He would face Rogue in the Ro8, not the semi. Also, its a potential matchup against Maru in the semi that is scarier for Zest imo. | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16055 Posts
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2429 Posts
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2429 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33199 Posts
Money: Total prize money is the about the same, just $800 less than 2021 Studio days (my projection based on current info): exactly the same for Code S, but one ST removed, so saving four days of studio production cost Format: ridiculously convoluted, but the round-robin BO10 is an interesting variance-decreasing measure. will wait and see Sponsors: LG UltraGear monitors dropped from sponsorship | ||
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buzz_bender
445 Posts
And he loses one of them... -_-' | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16055 Posts
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Argonauta
Spain4902 Posts
On January 17 2022 18:37 Waxangel wrote: Initial impressions Money: Total prize money is the about the same, just $800 less than 2021 Studio days (my projection based on current info): exactly the same for Code S, but one ST removed, so saving four days of studio production cost Format: ridiculously convoluted, but the round-robin BO10 is an interesting variance-decreasing measure. will wait and see Sponsors: LG UltraGear monitors dropped from sponsorship Afreeca still rocking the best production quality of all SC2 tourneys out there. | ||
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Argonauta
Spain4902 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
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Argonauta
Spain4902 Posts
On January 17 2022 18:57 Die4Ever wrote: WHAT? Rogue definitely canceled baneling speed, but why? he didnt, Bunny killed the bane nest before speed was done. Rogue place it at the third he had to shack. | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
On January 17 2022 18:58 Argonauta wrote: he didnt, Bunny killed the bane nest before speed was done. Rogue place it at the third he had to shack. ohhh haha, yep that sucks | ||
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buzz_bender
445 Posts
On January 17 2022 18:49 Argonauta wrote: Afreeca still rocking the best production quality of all SC2 tourneys out there. For sure! I also love that they change up the style each season. I mean, the style for this ST looks good  ESL feels the same every season. | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
On January 17 2022 19:00 buzz_bender wrote: For sure! I also love that they change up the style each season. I mean, the style for this ST looks good ESL feels the same every season.the repetition of the ESL music... lol | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
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Argonauta
Spain4902 Posts
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2429 Posts
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2429 Posts
On January 17 2022 19:15 Argonauta wrote: and with this lose, Rogue secured for himself the Katowice title. And it does correlates with his downhill performances in between Blizzcon 2017 and Katowice 2018. | ||
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tigera6
3221 Posts
On January 17 2022 19:15 Argonauta wrote: and with this lose, Rogue secured for himself the Katowice title. He will come to IEM with God aura radiating, beating the shit out of everyone, and screaming in the interview that every matches were 3-0, 5-0 and 7-0 to him. | ||
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DBooN
Germany2727 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
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darklycid
3375 Posts
On January 17 2022 19:56 Die4Ever wrote: so what's with the return of BCs? they seem so popular against zerg again suddenly, is it because of Gumiho? Maybe because of map sizes. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17610 Posts
On January 17 2022 20:01 deacon.frost wrote: I love how Arty said that he hasn't seen many swarmhosts games against mech the last year while 2 days ago Maru showed why xD they definitely don't watch Dreamhack, or any other tournament | ||
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Javah
France739 Posts
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Argonauta
Spain4902 Posts
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tigera6
3221 Posts
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buzz_bender
445 Posts
Hah! Maru in his interview: "I'm not confident in my Zerg matchup..." Yeah right! | ||
Poopi
France12761 Posts
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tigera6
3221 Posts
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parksonsc
175 Posts
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Poopi
France12761 Posts
On January 17 2022 18:37 Waxangel wrote: Initial impressions Money: Total prize money is the about the same, just $800 less than 2021 Studio days (my projection based on current info): exactly the same for Code S, but one ST removed, so saving four days of studio production cost Format: ridiculously convoluted, but the round-robin BO10 is an interesting variance-decreasing measure. will wait and see Sponsors: LG UltraGear monitors dropped from sponsorship Well I didn’t buy a LG monitor but a LG Oled TV, that counts right? Seems good to me overall, could be much worse, and the new format can be fun | ||
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buzz_bender
445 Posts
On January 17 2022 21:24 parksonsc wrote: Is this tournamenr for Maru to loose? Nah, there's still good contenders in Dark, Solar, and Cure. And as long as any Protosses are still in contention, Terrans always have a chance of losing against them. | ||
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tigera6
3221 Posts
On January 17 2022 22:00 buzz_bender wrote: Nah, there's still good contenders in Dark, Solar, and Cure. And as long as any Protosses are still in contention, Terrans always have a chance of losing against them. The thing is, all 3 of them will have to fight for the spot into the Grand Final, and Maru only have to beat one of them. As for Protoss, Zest has repeated nightmare about his losses to Maru, and herO might take a game but his long-game macro isnt rivaled to Maru yet. I would give Bunny a better shot because of how familiar he is with Maru play-style, and they probably practice together a whole lot. | ||
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RKC
2848 Posts
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Poopi
France12761 Posts
Pretty impressive given it's mostly on the new mappool | ||
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Schelim
Austria11528 Posts
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Durnuu
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
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Moonerz
United States442 Posts
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Zambrah
United States7192 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16055 Posts
On January 17 2022 23:24 Durnuu wrote: 3/4 today, my boy Classic nearly had it Bet the same way I did. Insert "Predator: Dillon! You son of a bitch" picture. | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8988 Posts
On January 18 2022 01:15 Moonerz wrote: Rogue is really making all the sacrifices to win Katowice isnt he? There's nothing in this world scarier to go against than Rogue playing like shit | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On January 18 2022 02:56 Nakajin wrote: There's nothing in this world scarier to go against than Rogue playing like shit Being a zerg and hearing Maru admiting to not know how to play against Zergs while winning against all the top zerg in the past few months. | ||
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Argonauta
Spain4902 Posts
On January 18 2022 03:50 deacon.frost wrote: Being a zerg and hearing Maru admiting to not know how to play against Zergs while winning against all the top zerg in the past few months. That's just lowkey trolling. Im sure he smirks when he says so | ||
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Poopi
France12761 Posts
On January 18 2022 03:50 deacon.frost wrote: Being a zerg and hearing Maru admiting to not know how to play against Zergs while winning against all the top zerg in the past few months. Well he lost several series to zergs! | ||
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t5Fab
182 Posts
On January 17 2022 20:07 Die4Ever wrote: they definitely don't watch Dreamhack, or any other tournament Yeah, honestly it has gotten a bit sad in the last years. They are really riding on past successes and not doing their due diligence. I still love the alchemy and jokes, but the core sounds so lazy by now: no idea of other tournaments, meta changes, strategies... mostly a play by play with short term predictions and lots of nostalgia | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On January 18 2022 07:25 t5Fab wrote: Yeah, honestly it has gotten a bit sad in the last years. They are really riding on past successes and not doing their due diligence. I still love the alchemy and jokes, but the core sounds so lazy by now: no idea of other tournaments, meta changes, strategies... mostly a play by play with short term predictions and lots of nostalgia I don't mind them losing the interest, but at least don't point to it. Just in the last week I've seen 4 TvZ mech games, 3 of them having swarmhosts, 2 of those lost. It's not a big sample, but mentioning it in a Maru game ignoring his 2 victories is just wrong. | ||
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buzz_bender
445 Posts
On January 18 2022 08:46 deacon.frost wrote: I don't mind them losing the interest, but at least don't point to it. Just in the last week I've seen 4 TvZ mech games, 3 of them having swarmhosts, 2 of those lost. It's not a big sample, but mentioning it in a Maru game ignoring his 2 victories is just wrong. To be fair to them, it is still *very* recent that the TvZ meta has shifted to mech and SH. It's really only the past 2-3 weeks. If I'm not mistaken, Maru is the one that really brought it in the highest level. I know Gumiho still plays mech more often than others, but really it's only Maru that has any success with mech, and it seems like Cure is also experimenting with it. But that's only within the last 2-3 weeks, and I can't expect them to be watching every tournament every single week. But overall, your points still stand though. They really haven't kept up with the SC2 scene outside of GSL. I agree with you that they should at the very least do a tiny bit of due diligence. | ||
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tigera6
3221 Posts
On January 18 2022 01:45 Zambrah wrote: lol, Maru basically got as lucky as humanly possible with Rogue and Trap getting knocked out immediately Dont think that would matter to be honest, Trap is on horrible shape and it would be hard for him to beat Maru at this form. Rogue would have been knocked out by Zest anyway , seem like he doesnt care about it and focus on IEM. | ||
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
On January 18 2022 01:45 Zambrah wrote: lol, Maru basically got as lucky as humanly possible with Rogue and Trap getting knocked out immediately Yeah Maru has definitely been getting lucky with brackets lately, but he gets a pass for having a history of maybe the worst bracket luck of anyone ever. | ||
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Lokol18
51 Posts
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Poopi
France12761 Posts
On January 18 2022 12:25 Lokol18 wrote: To those saying that maru is getting lucky with his brackets, let's not forget that just a couple of days ago he was paired against dark in the ro8 of dh last chance (the remaining players were solar, reynor, cure, zest, time, and drg) He is not lucky, people are just unlucky to meet him and he is so far ahead of the competition at this point that any player in front of him will be the underdog and you could consider Maru « lucky ». Winning Katowice is far from a sure thing though. He might win ST1 since Rogue could have blocked him but he lost to Bunny. | ||
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HeroSandro
521 Posts
On January 18 2022 12:25 Lokol18 wrote: To those saying that maru is getting lucky with his brackets, let's not forget that just a couple of days ago he was paired against dark in the ro8 of dh last chance (the remaining players were solar, reynor, cure, zest, time, and drg) I would rather talk about favorable brackets than players getting lucky. Everyone has people and matchups they would rather play than others. For the best players most brackets are favorable. For Maru i would say that every TvT is really favorable. The amount of really good terrans is quite low at the moment, and especially really good TvT terrans. | ||
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J. Corsair
United States470 Posts
And Tasteless in g1 saying something like "Bunny is in trouble", 5 second later "yeah so zerg loses the fight, 5 seconds later Rogue GG's... Artosis "I don't want to be a Debbie downer, but I'm worried Rogue barely wins this game" after Bunny kills 11 drones... I wish they would stop with all the damn prognostication, it's become a trend and it is a lazy way to fill time and talk without providing any actual PBP. They think they have enough experience to slide by with it and they don't, because nobody does or ever will. Someone can always throw and miracle comebacks do happen. "Bunny gets in and kills 11 drones! Great start for him, let's see if he can parlay this advantage into something bigger!" Would be perfectly acceptable from them. They are still great, I just know how much better they can be. That's all. Great for Bunny and Maru looks incredible. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On January 18 2022 19:04 J. Corsair wrote: Great games... Tastosis really need to consider whether they want their job anymore. I am very forgiving and a fan of both of them, but missing the baneling nest kill and speculating as to why Rogue would cancel baneling speed... I was honestly shocked. And Tasteless in g1 saying something like "Bunny is in trouble", 5 second later "yeah so zerg loses the fight, 5 seconds later Rogue GG's... Artosis "I don't want to be a Debbie downer, but I'm worried Rogue barely wins this game" after Bunny kills 11 drones... I wish they would stop with all the damn prognostication, it's become a trend and it is a lazy way to fill time and talk without providing any actual PBP. They think they have enough experience to slide by with it and they don't, because nobody does or ever will. Someone can always throw and miracle comebacks do happen. "Bunny gets in and kills 11 drones! Great start for him, let's see if he can parlay this advantage into something bigger!" Would be perfectly acceptable from them. They are still great, I just know how much better they can be. That's all. Great for Bunny and Maru looks incredible. THe prediction part is quite hilarious for another reason. When you see the game is over but there's still time to play to finish the crazy advantage. All the casters pretend the losing player is going to get some miracle and win the game, nobody says - well, the game is over and the player X is waiting to collect his victory while the player Y is hoping for a miracle. But here we are predicting literally everything else xD I still remember one HotS game, where the 2-base Protoss lost 12 probes to a mine drop. EVERYBODY knew it's over. Protoss doesn't have anything to recover. The silence from Tastosis was defeaning, because what can you say - well, that was anticlimactic, he just missed a single medevac and lost the game?  Anyway, rant over :D | ||
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tigera6
3221 Posts
On January 18 2022 12:25 Lokol18 wrote: To those saying that maru is getting lucky with his brackets, let's not forget that just a couple of days ago he was paired against dark in the ro8 of dh last chance (the remaining players were solar, reynor, cure, zest, time, and drg) Well, Serral did win the DH Fall Global Final by dodging Dark and Clem on the bracket, was it because he lucky? or was it because "Serral is the GOAT"? I do feel like as long as Maru doesnt have to face a long line of Zerg players in the bracket stage, he should be favorable. My worst fear for Maru in IEM would be facing any of Rogue-Dark-Serral-Reynor consecutively in the bracket stage, even if he got a 60+% win rate against those guys, thats still a 20% chance to win against all of them to win a championship. | ||
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HeroSandro
521 Posts
On January 18 2022 19:38 tigera6 wrote: Well, Serral did win the DH Fall Global Final by dodging Dark and Clem on the bracket, was it because he lucky? or was it because "Serral is the GOAT"? I do feel like as long as Maru doesnt have to face a long line of Zerg players in the bracket stage, he should be favorable. My worst fear for Maru in IEM would be facing any of Rogue-Dark-Serral-Reynor consecutively in the bracket stage, even if he got a 60+% win rate against those guys, thats still a 20% chance to win against all of them to win a championship. I think Rogue, Dark and Serral are the top three players Maru would like to avoid in any case. | ||
Charoisaur
Germany15880 Posts
On January 18 2022 19:04 J. Corsair wrote: Great games... Tastosis really need to consider whether they want their job anymore. I am very forgiving and a fan of both of them, but missing the baneling nest kill and speculating as to why Rogue would cancel baneling speed... I was honestly shocked. And Tasteless in g1 saying something like "Bunny is in trouble", 5 second later "yeah so zerg loses the fight, 5 seconds later Rogue GG's... Artosis "I don't want to be a Debbie downer, but I'm worried Rogue barely wins this game" after Bunny kills 11 drones... I wish they would stop with all the damn prognostication, it's become a trend and it is a lazy way to fill time and talk without providing any actual PBP. They think they have enough experience to slide by with it and they don't, because nobody does or ever will. Someone can always throw and miracle comebacks do happen. "Bunny gets in and kills 11 drones! Great start for him, let's see if he can parlay this advantage into something bigger!" Would be perfectly acceptable from them. They are still great, I just know how much better they can be. That's all. Great for Bunny and Maru looks incredible. Nah disagree... Tastosis are still the GOAT casters and everything they do is good | ||
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J. Corsair
United States470 Posts
On January 18 2022 19:24 deacon.frost wrote: THe prediction part is quite hilarious for another reason. When you see the game is over but there's still time to play to finish the crazy advantage. All the casters pretend the losing player is going to get some miracle and win the game, nobody says - well, the game is over and the player X is waiting to collect his victory while the player Y is hoping for a miracle. But here we are predicting literally everything else xD I still remember one HotS game, where the 2-base Protoss lost 12 probes to a mine drop. EVERYBODY knew it's over. Protoss doesn't have anything to recover. The silence from Tastosis was defeaning, because what can you say - well, that was anticlimactic, he just missed a single medevac and lost the game? Anyway, rant over :DI know exactly what you mean lol. | ||
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buzz_bender
445 Posts
On January 18 2022 19:40 HeroSandro wrote: I think Rogue, Dark and Serral are the top three players Maru would like to avoid in any case. To be fair as well, Maru is also the one player that no one wants to face. | ||
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Husyelt
United States823 Posts
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HeroSandro
521 Posts
On January 18 2022 23:27 buzz_bender wrote: To be fair as well, Maru is also the one player that no one wants to face. I think Serral would take Maru any day over Rogue  | ||
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Zambrah
United States7192 Posts
On January 18 2022 19:38 tigera6 wrote: Well, Serral did win the DH Fall Global Final by dodging Dark and Clem on the bracket, was it because he lucky? or was it because "Serral is the GOAT"? I do feel like as long as Maru doesnt have to face a long line of Zerg players in the bracket stage, he should be favorable. My worst fear for Maru in IEM would be facing any of Rogue-Dark-Serral-Reynor consecutively in the bracket stage, even if he got a 60+% win rate against those guys, thats still a 20% chance to win against all of them to win a championship. Dont forget Jin Air people, Marus achilles heel has always been his teammates for the longest time. Even if Trap doesnt look particularly good at any given moment, or Rogue, or sOs, you never know when they'll just kind of show up against Maru for some reason. | ||
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RKC
2848 Posts
But feels like he got slightly lucky catching Rogue on an off-day. And the tournament is less epic and interesting without Rogue. Zest v Bunny is likely to be a clown fiesta - whoever advancing will likely be smashed by Maru in SF or Dark in finals. ST always throw up weird upsets. Not sure it's because the tournament is ill-timed (after GSL when players are burn-out or before a big tourney like Katowice where players want to hide prep). It's been ages where we had a truly epic final (last that I remember was Dark v Maru). | ||
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2429 Posts
On January 19 2022 12:44 RKC wrote: On one hand, feel happy for Bunny. A grinder like Solar who deserves a trophy. But feels like he got slightly lucky catching Rogue on an off-day. And the tournament is less epic and interesting without Rogue. Zest v Bunny is likely to be a clown fiesta - whoever advancing will likely be smashed by Maru in SF or Dark in finals. ST always throw up weird upsets. Not sure it's because the tournament is ill-timed (after GSL when players are burn-out or before a big tourney like Katowice where players want to hide prep). It's been ages where we had a truly epic final (last that I remember was Dark v Maru). I thought that some didn't like Rogue to be in the tournament just because he was accused of killing hype? Mostly it came from the exaggerated 'GOAT' fans but the true Zerg or Sc2 fans didn't care much as they just love having all these nerds playing in the tournament. In my opinion, Rogue vs Maru in recent ST2 tourney has surpassed the epic final we got from Dark vs Maru in term of excitements and quality of game offered. But, Dark vs Maru in WESG tourney was still embedded in my memory till to this date. | ||
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Zambrah
United States7192 Posts
On January 19 2022 17:06 swarminfestor wrote: I thought that some didn't like Rogue to be in the tournament just because he was accused of killing hype? Mostly it came from the exaggerated 'GOAT' fans but the true Zerg or Sc2 fans didn't care much as they just love having all these nerds playing in the tournament. In my opinion, Rogue vs Maru in recent ST2 tourney has surpassed the epic final we got from Dark vs Maru in term of excitements and quality of game offered. But, Dark vs Maru in WESG tourney was still embedded in my memory till to this date. I am some. Same for Maru, if they had both lost in the first round I'd have been pretty hyped for ST | ||
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encoded_evil
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