Bellum Gens Elite: Stara Zagora 2025

On June 04 2025 21:32 WombaT wrote:
Bracket watchTM for EWC qualification time!

For those unaware, this event awards an EWC qualification slot to the winner. If the winner is already qualified, it goes to the runner up. If the runner up is qualified, to one of the Ro4 players, etc. I feel the qualification battle isn’t going to come down to an event winner, or a finalist, but whoever is the best placed and hasn’t already qualified (Serral, Clem, Reynor, Zoun, trigger).

Of those, three are, if in shape a class above this field. I’d say Zoun and trigger are better than quite a lot of it, but not to that degree.

So with that said, I think a hell of a lot of how that qualification spot is determined is going to be quite influenced by brackets and paths.

Bracket Loser(s) - Definitely Lambo. Oof. I know it’s double elim, and I know stranger things have happened, but chances are realistically he’s going to lose his upper bracket life immediately to Serral and have to run the gauntlet from step one.

Bracket Winners(s) - The trio of Ryung, Gerald and Kristianer. It wouldn’t blow my mind if one of them beat Zoun. I’d favour him certainly, but I feel he’s the most vulnerable already seeded player, that’s gettable early. And this path doesn’t include another already qualified player for a little bit.

It’s no guarantee, but the further you get in the upper bracket, the better your shot and this is the easiest path IMO

Even if you get to just the upper bracket semi to be dismantled by Serral, you’ll still have fewer rounds. And it’s not impossible that one of the big hitters drops into the lower bracket to make your competition’s path even harder

On June 04 2025 21:50 Harris1st wrote:
A semifinals appearance is basically a guaranteed spot at EWC.

My money is on Showtime (best non-qualified player IMO) or Ryung (best bracket)

On June 04 2025 21:32 WombaT wrote:
Bracket watchTM for EWC qualification time!

For those unaware, this event awards an EWC qualification slot to the winner. If the winner is already qualified, it goes to the runner up. If the runner up is qualified, to one of the Ro4 players, etc. I feel the qualification battle isn’t going to come down to an event winner, or a finalist, but whoever is the best placed and hasn’t already qualified (Serral, Clem, Reynor, Zoun, trigger).

Of those, three are, if in shape a class above this field. I’d say Zoun and trigger are better than quite a lot of it, but not to that degree.

So with that said, I think a hell of a lot of how that qualification spot is determined is going to be quite influenced by brackets and paths.

Bracket Loser(s) - Definitely Lambo. Oof. I know it’s double elim, and I know stranger things have happened, but chances are realistically he’s going to lose his upper bracket life immediately to Serral and have to run the gauntlet from step one.

Bracket Winners(s) - The trio of Ryung, Gerald and Kristianer. It wouldn’t blow my mind if one of them beat Zoun. I’d favour him certainly, but I feel he’s the most vulnerable already seeded player, that’s gettable early. And this path doesn’t include another already qualified player for a little bit.

It’s no guarantee, but the further you get in the upper bracket, the better your shot and this is the easiest path IMO

Even if you get to just the upper bracket semi to be dismantled by Serral, you’ll still have fewer rounds. And it’s not impossible that one of the big hitters drops into the lower bracket to make your competition’s path even harder

On June 04 2025 21:55 WombaT wrote:

Ryung’s definitely in the best bracket quality wise IMO, although I dunno what shape his TvP is in these days. He’s certainly basically perpetually dangerous in TvT

Agreed on Showtime too for sure, although not a huge gap between him and some of the best of the rest

On June 05 2025 13:04 Die4Ever wrote:
Day 2 starts way earlier than Day 1 did, in

On June 05 2025 16:30 Kreuger wrote:


1200 cest. 1300 local time.

Says so on my screen. So 1h earlier then yesterday?