It was legends night at WCS America as two great Zerg champions of Brood War and Wings of Liberty advanced from Group B. EG.Jaedong continued to show that he is a dominant player in any match where the words "grand finals" are not involved, making short work of the competition to advance without losing even a map.
On the other hand, the recently marriedIM_NesTeastruggled but advanced nonetheless, recovering from an early series loss against ROOT.ViBE to advance in second place.
Jaedong was impressive in his advancement, barely looking troubled at all by his opposition. After using muta-ling-bane to swarm over coL.TheStC in his initial match, he demolished ViBE in the winners' match with two quick zergling rushes. It was a performance that made Jaedong seem almost bored with the competition in the Ro32, looking forward only to the live rounds of the tournament and the prospect of finally winning a championship.
Eventual second place finisher NesTea got off to a rocky start with a 1 - 2 loss against ViBE, as he fell to the WCS 2012 USA champion's zergling-baneling attacks. However, Nestea was able to bounce back with a 2 - 0 win against TheStC in the losers match, winning with a roach-rush and a mutalisk base-trade to earn a rematch against ViBE in the final match of the night. There, Nestea was able to avenge his earlier loss with a 2 - 0 victory, fending off an aggressive baneling-zergling attack in game one, and out-dueling ViBE with mutas in game two.
VIBU , but at least he showed he could beat Koreans when he was on his game. Hopefully JD can win a tourney soon, it feels like he's already surpassed Flash if your based solely on recent performances.
On September 19 2013 23:49 paradoxOO9 wrote: Nice to see Nestea advance, he isn't going anywhere just yet! Only just realised that in WCS AM there are only Koreans so far
No Scarlett = no foreigner in the top 8 for AM. Sad but true. It's actually kind of silly how far ahead she is of the rest of the NA scene.
Why are you people talking about Scarlett? I thought Scarlett was doing a "break" from SC2, visiting China, not playing in the next months, etc... ? Or does she play WCS from China?
On September 20 2013 04:43 Caladan wrote: Why are you people talking about Scarlett? I thought Scarlett was doing a "break" from SC2, visiting China, not playing in the next months, etc... ? Or does she play WCS from China?
She said she was taking a month off I think? So they scheduled her group for the last date of all the groups (October 1st) so I think she might play? idk
On September 20 2013 04:43 Caladan wrote: Why are you people talking about Scarlett? I thought Scarlett was doing a "break" from SC2, visiting China, not playing in the next months, etc... ? Or does she play WCS from China?
She said she was taking a month off I think? So they scheduled her group for the last date of all the groups (October 1st) so I think she might play? idk
she's playing it's confirmed.
On September 20 2013 04:43 Caladan wrote: Why are you people talking about Scarlett? I thought Scarlett was doing a "break" from SC2, visiting China, not playing in the next months, etc... ? Or does she play WCS from China?
She will be back in time to play her group, her break is only until October.
On September 20 2013 04:43 Caladan wrote: Why are you people talking about Scarlett? I thought Scarlett was doing a "break" from SC2, visiting China, not playing in the next months, etc... ? Or does she play WCS from China?
She said she was taking a month off I think? So they scheduled her group for the last date of all the groups (October 1st) so I think she might play? idk
On September 20 2013 04:43 Caladan wrote: Why are you people talking about Scarlett? I thought Scarlett was doing a "break" from SC2, visiting China, not playing in the next months, etc... ? Or does she play WCS from China?
She will be back in time to play her group, her break is only until October.
Woohoo! And she has a pretty manageable group, with her ZvP her highest rated matchup on Aligulac and two foreigners. I don't think she'd necessarily agree that ZvP is her best matchup though.
On September 19 2013 23:49 paradoxOO9 wrote: Nice to see Nestea advance, he isn't going anywhere just yet! Only just realised that in WCS AM there are only Koreans so far
No Scarlett = no foreigner in the top 8 for AM. Sad but true. It's actually kind of silly how far ahead she is of the rest of the NA scene.
You mean most foreigners right? :D
Glad jaedong smashed his group, always makes me happy ^_^
On September 19 2013 20:30 Ravensong170 wrote: VIBU , but at least he showed he could beat Koreans when he was on his game. Hopefully JD can win a tourney soon, it feels like he's already surpassed Flash if your based solely on recent performances.
he got like 4/5 second places on the last 3 months .. and he always really high in tournaments so yeah
On September 20 2013 04:43 Caladan wrote: Why are you people talking about Scarlett? I thought Scarlett was doing a "break" from SC2, visiting China, not playing in the next months, etc... ? Or does she play WCS from China?
She said she was taking a month off I think? So they scheduled her group for the last date of all the groups (October 1st) so I think she might play? idk
she's playing it's confirmed.
On September 20 2013 04:43 Caladan wrote: Why are you people talking about Scarlett? I thought Scarlett was doing a "break" from SC2, visiting China, not playing in the next months, etc... ? Or does she play WCS from China?
She will be back in time to play her group, her break is only until October.
Woohoo! And she has a pretty manageable group, with her ZvP her highest rated matchup on Aligulac and two foreigners. I don't think she'd necessarily agree that ZvP is her best matchup though.
She hates Protoss enough to balance whine in LR threads :-P
But she's the best foreigner and currently a top-tier player, so I feel pretty good about her chances.
EPT
EG.Jaedong continued to show that he is a dominant player in any match where the words "grand finals" are not involved, making short work of the competition to advance without losing even a map.
coL.TheStC
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