EPTPIG STY FESTIVAL 7.0! (19 Feb - 1 Mar)
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HeroSandro
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tigera6
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darklycid
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Argonauta
Spain4967 Posts
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Charoisaur
Germany16062 Posts
On March 01 2026 22:30 Argonauta wrote: Maru fumbling against mentally vs Serral, the illusion lasted few days. A lot of their previous games were extremely close too, it's just small details that decide those games edit: should've been response to darklycid | ||
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darklycid
3541 Posts
On March 01 2026 22:50 Charoisaur wrote: A lot of their previous games were extremely close too, it's just small details that decide those games edit: should've been response to darklycid Yea feels Like a daily Form Battle rn. | ||
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tigera6
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Charoisaur
Germany16062 Posts
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Antithesis
Germany1236 Posts
Thanks to Pig for putting together a lovely tournament as always. | ||
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Sent.
Poland9296 Posts
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tigera6
3483 Posts
On March 01 2026 23:21 Charoisaur wrote: feels like bo9 is too much for Maru, looked a lot less sharp towards the end of the series. Similar to their previous series where he relied on 2 rax to finish the series I dont think he did a single Mech build this game, nor went with any sharp timing push, and his defensive setup was lacking. Very generic build and was very greedy. Basically this was the Maru that lost to Serral 10 out of 11 matches in the past 3 years. | ||
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TeamMamba
204 Posts
Serral back to stomping Clem and Maru. Interesting there was no mech games as we saw Serral has struggled against it recently | ||
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Glorfindelio
223 Posts
Congrats to Serral--carrying the torch for us mere mortals once again. Absolutely loathe laddering as Z these days, but at least there's still some fleeting enjoyment in sc2 for me, lol. | ||
Waxangel
United States33592 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7150 Posts
Thank you PiG! Can't wait for 8.0! | ||
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Balnazza
Germany1281 Posts
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PiGStarcraft
Australia999 Posts
PiGFest 8.0 already over $6k prize pool - can't wait! If you missed any matches here's the PiGFest 7.0 playlist starting from Group A: | ||
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Waxangel
United States33592 Posts
On March 03 2026 06:27 Balnazza wrote: Man, Serral just hates good storytelling. This could have been an amazingly close comeback story of a "fallen champion", fighting back for the glory against his biggest rivals - instead he just slaps them off the server... Maru already got his lick back against Serral in LiuLi Cup tho. The narrative is more that we're still in a very high parity era where lots of players can win (I actually feel like it's been this way for 1 year+ now, with Serral winning EWC so convincingly being a bit of an outlier). | ||
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Topin
Peru10112 Posts
 Showtime played amazingly good and overall the players gave us a great show.  | ||
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PremoBeats
544 Posts
There is a theme evolving in Serral versus Maru. Similar to MC7, Maru is able to greed his way to victory one time, only to be dismantled after Serral figures it out. And I have to disagree with some commentators here, that Maru destroyed Serral in their first match. Imo, his openings already showed what transpired in the finals. He was simply too hesitant to finish Maru off. Thus, I overall liked their first encounter more, as it was a much closer match because of Serral's indecisiveness. Showtime played amazing and I am looking forward to the 8th iteration... keep em coming, PiG! On March 04 2026 08:56 Waxangel wrote: Maru already got his lick back against Serral in LiuLi Cup tho. The narrative is more that we're still in a very high parity era where lots of players can win (I actually feel like it's been this way for 1 year+ now, with Serral winning EWC so convincingly being a bit of an outlier). Mostly agreed on the parity, but let's not forget that Serral is the only Zerg to win a relevant tournament since mid 2024. | ||
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