With the Season 2 Premier League wrapped up, WCS Europe moves on to the Challenger League where 24 players will earn spots in the Season 3 Premier League.
Challenger League Primer
Challenger League is comprised of 40 players: 8 from qualifiers, 8 from the previous season of Challenger League, and the 24 Premier League players who did not finish in the top eight.
Bracket Stage: 8 players earn Premier League spots
All the forty players are placed into a three round, single elimination tournament. Players who finished top 16 in the previous Premier League are seeded into the third and final round. The eight players who are victorious in the third round receive spots in the next Premier League.
Group Stage: 16 players earn Premier League spots
The 32 players who did NOT advance to the Premier League from the Bracket Stage move on to the Group Stage of the tournament, where they are placed into eight different four-man groups. Each group is played in GSL/Premier League double elimination style, with the top two players receiving spots in the next Premier League. The third place finisher receives a spot in the next Challenger League, while the fourth place finisher is eliminated and must requalify.
The winners move onto the round two, the round of 24. The losers are not eliminated yet, getting second chances to qualify through the group stage (up/down) of the Challenger League.
The next round, the Ro24, will be played tomorrow at 16:00 GMT (+00:00).
Damn Sase, so close. Strelok noo .-. San yay. Genius no! :[ Although, sLivko is a really really good player. TargA over ForGG as biggest upset in ro40?
On August 13 2013 12:02 slowbacontron wrote: Yay for San and Shuttle (is that the right Shuttle?)!
I really dislike the team MvP solely for the fact that their players with very little personality always seem to knock out fan favorites. Duck taking out MC and Naniwa, Monster taking out Hyun for the GSL, Tails for Sase. If they win could they at least be interesting?
On August 13 2013 12:21 Apollo_Shards wrote: I really dislike the team MvP solely for the fact that their players with very little personality always seem to knock out fan favorites. Duck taking out MC and Naniwa, Monster taking out Hyun for the GSL, Tails for Sase. If they win could they at least be interesting?
Did you actually forget to mention Sniper? Or did you mean Sniper beating Hyun? (Among many others)
On August 13 2013 12:33 slowbacontron wrote: Deokdeok has very little personality? Did you watch the Europe finals?
Even Sniper was ecstatic upon winning his GSL
I said little not shitty, at the very least I would hope they would be happy for winning a tournament. I havent seen or heard anything about Sniper since he won.
Showing basic human emotions doesnt really cut it for me.
On August 13 2013 12:21 Apollo_Shards wrote: I really dislike the team MvP solely for the fact that their players with very little personality always seem to knock out fan favorites. Duck taking out MC and Naniwa, Monster taking out Hyun for the GSL, Tails for Sase. If they win could they at least be interesting?
For me, it was the fact that half of the team decided to all change names. Now I can't keep track of them anymore. Now I have to play a game of match the WoL ID to the HotS ID. Duckdeok is still finale to me.
And changing your ID from Monster to NAKSEO? Oh dear, Monster was such a cool ID. At least DRG didn't decide to change his ID, that would have been confusing.
Well I won't criticize you based on your opinion of players, but I think you should give them a chance. Their good play is entertaining in itself. (Maybe not Sniper during infestor/BL era but for example Tails and his cool builds)
While I like the fact that those who lose aren't out yet and that my favourites still have a chance (unlike danger days in code A), it does take away from the excitement since there is so much less on the line. Still, hoping Sase, Thorzain, Genius, and Sortof are able to survive their up and down groups!
I would have loved to see more local heroes in the European challenger league such as NightEnd, LoWeLy, Harstem, SjoW, Snute, DeMusliM and MorroW just to mention seven European players that unfortunately aren't there. I managed to see some of Snute in the Red Bull Training Grounds 2, but that is about it this year. I've even seen less of DeMusliM. I was so exited by Sjow's performance in DH recently, and I got a glimpse of Harstem here and there in different tournaments, but I've hardly seen anything of LoWeLy this year so far.
LoWeLy has qualified a few days ago to represent Europe in the Hong Kong Esports Grand Finals next 31st August, defeating Socke and Harstem in the final rounds. Among other players will be Hurricane, Sen and MacSed.
Nobody says anything 'bout Starbuck? I guess you guys didn't watch his Qualifier games against Genius (Code S runner-up and BlizzCon 2010 winner). Go see them on youtube as he called out before the match his special tactics and unleashed them on the poor Korean's behind.
Go Starbuck!!! Bring diversity to the game please!
On August 13 2013 12:33 slowbacontron wrote: Deokdeok has very little personality? Did you watch the Europe finals?
Even Sniper was ecstatic upon winning his GSL
I said little not shitty, at the very least I would hope they would be happy for winning a tournament. I havent seen or heard anything about Sniper since he won.
Showing basic human emotions doesnt really cut it for me.
What do you want them to be? Fucking fake. They come from a culture were publicly displaying emotion isn't the cool thing that it seems to be in your head. Also how does it even matter? The kid spent the last 3 years of his life playing starcraft for 8+ hours a day, you don't even have to see his face to know how much that win means to him, and I'd much rather see him react the way he wants to react over some forced display of emotions because fans think it's cool.
On August 13 2013 12:21 Apollo_Shards wrote: I really dislike the team MvP solely for the fact that their players with very little personality always seem to knock out fan favorites. Duck taking out MC and Naniwa, Monster taking out Hyun for the GSL, Tails for Sase. If they win could they at least be interesting?
if you knew finale's story, you'd appreciate him a hell of a lot more
On August 13 2013 12:21 Apollo_Shards wrote: I really dislike the team MvP solely for the fact that their players with very little personality always seem to knock out fan favorites. Duck taking out MC and Naniwa, Monster taking out Hyun for the GSL, Tails for Sase. If they win could they at least be interesting?
You must not have been around for this (WARNING: MOLETRAP ALERT!):
On August 13 2013 11:55 Waxangel wrote: The winners move onto the round two, the round of 24. The losers are not eliminated yet, getting second chances to qualify through the group stage (up/down) of the Challenger League.
So, up/down is not a separate thing from challenger in the WCS format?
On August 13 2013 12:33 slowbacontron wrote: Deokdeok has very little personality? Did you watch the Europe finals?
Even Sniper was ecstatic upon winning his GSL
I said little not shitty, at the very least I would hope they would be happy for winning a tournament. I havent seen or heard anything about Sniper since he won.
Showing basic human emotions doesnt really cut it for me.
What do you want them to be? Fucking fake. They come from a culture were publicly displaying emotion isn't the cool thing that it seems to be in your head. Also how does it even matter? The kid spent the last 3 years of his life playing starcraft for 8+ hours a day, you don't even have to see his face to know how much that win means to him, and I'd much rather see him react the way he wants to react over some forced display of emotions because fans think it's cool.
It's ok to like players for different reasons. It will be ok, I promise.
EPT
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TAiLS 2 - 1 
Starbuck 2 - 1 
Dayshi 2 - 1 
I've even seen less of DeMusliM. I was so exited by Sjow's performance in DH recently, and I got a glimpse of Harstem here and there in different tournaments, but I've hardly seen anything of LoWeLy this year so far.
