Detailed results and standings on Liquipedia Full bracket on ESL.eu
The WCS Europe online qualifiers came to an end with the Ladder Wildcard qualifier. Despite the qualifier having no regional restrictions and this having a number of notable Koreans like First and YoDa competing, six Europeans in mYi.ABomB, vega.VERDI, Mill.DieStar, hOpe , Liquid`Snute, and StakimaN managed to claim all of the qualifier spots.
Combined with the results from European qualifiers #1, #2, and #3, the full list of Challenger league players has been completed. You can see the full list of players on Liquipedia.
Each of the 24 players who make it through the qualifier will be matched up against one of 24 Premier League/Challenger players from the previous season in a single best-of-five series. The winner will qualify for the new Premier League season. The brackets or method of seeding have yet to be announced by Blizzard or ESL. A detailed description of the new WCS system can be found here.
YoDa beat an Italian player named Nogard in the RO128 but was knocked out by DIMAGA in the RO64.
Dragon had a bye in the RO128 and was knocked out by Bischu in the RO64
Patience beat a Bulgarian player named btmn in the RO128 and was knocked out by MaNa in the RO64
First had a bye in the RO128, beat a Polish player named pabe in the RO64 and was knocked out by DieStar in the RO32.
TAiLS had a bye in the RO128, beat White in the RO64 and was knocked out by Socke in the RO32.
So yeah, not only did not a single Korean qualify but none of them made it further than the RO32, and all of them were eliminated by foreigners. Weird.
God, I'm so sad fraer didn't make it, his bracket was very doable but I guess he still needs a bit more time to improve. Hopefully next season will be better and he won't stop playing because he didn't make WCS.
Congrats to everyone who made it in!
On January 13 2014 05:26 mikkmagro wrote: Would be great if TL does the 'Get to know your WCS Challenger' with players we know nothing about like StakimaN, ABomB, Lilbow and sLh.
Here's a pretty long interview with ABomB if anyone's interested.
ABomb is already fairly known, he made a name for himself during Hots Beta hitting top of the grandmaster league and beating several known name. Glad to see he is back in good shape
On January 13 2014 05:29 Dools1337 wrote: ABomb is already fairly known, he made a name for himself during Hots Beta hitting top of the grandmaster league and beating several known name. Glad to see he is back in good shape
Yeah, if you don't know ABomB, watch this game against Brat_OK from the HotS beta (from Husky's stream). It's worth watching even if you don't care about ABomB; it's a pretty awesome action packed game.
On January 13 2014 05:28 Yakikorosu wrote: For those curious how the Koreans did:
YoDa beat an Italian player named Nogard in the RO128 but was knocked out by DIMAGA in the RO64.
Dragon had a bye in the RO128 and was knocked out by Bischu in the RO64
Patience beat a Bulgarian player named btmn in the RO128 and was knocked out by MaNa in the RO64
First had a bye in the RO128, beat a Polish player named pabe in the RO64 and was knocked out by DieStar in the RO32.
TAiLS had a bye in the RO128, beat White in the RO64 and was knocked out by Socke in the RO32.
So yeah, not only did not a single Korean qualify but none of them made it further than the RO32, and all of them were eliminated by foreigners. Weird.
I think this is mainly due to the latency issues tbh. It seems that there is a huge delay on especially the EU server. Makes sense to me at least since the Koreans who are written here have quite an honorable reputation in the scene.
On January 13 2014 05:28 Yakikorosu wrote: For those curious how the Koreans did:
YoDa beat an Italian player named Nogard in the RO128 but was knocked out by DIMAGA in the RO64.
Dragon had a bye in the RO128 and was knocked out by Bischu in the RO64
Patience beat a Bulgarian player named btmn in the RO128 and was knocked out by MaNa in the RO64
First had a bye in the RO128, beat a Polish player named pabe in the RO64 and was knocked out by DieStar in the RO32.
TAiLS had a bye in the RO128, beat White in the RO64 and was knocked out by Socke in the RO32.
So yeah, not only did not a single Korean qualify but none of them made it further than the RO32, and all of them were eliminated by foreigners. Weird.
I think this is mainly due to the latency issues tbh. It seems that there is a huge delay on especially the EU server. Makes sense to me at least since the Koreans who are written here have quite an honorable reputation in the scene.
Probably true, but if you look at WCS EU 2013, plenty of Koreans made it into Premier without invites or anything. Kind of sad for First and YoDa in particular, they (apparently) left IM specifically to play in Europe even though they hadn't found a foreign team to join and now without even the chance to show their skills in WCS EU it might be hard for them to find one.
And europe holds? Diestar with some good looking TvP, not who i expected to see but still pretty awesome. And gl to ABomB, he was a fun toss to watch when HotS was in beta
On January 13 2014 05:28 Yakikorosu wrote: For those curious how the Koreans did:
YoDa beat an Italian player named Nogard in the RO128 but was knocked out by DIMAGA in the RO64.
Dragon had a bye in the RO128 and was knocked out by Bischu in the RO64
Patience beat a Bulgarian player named btmn in the RO128 and was knocked out by MaNa in the RO64
First had a bye in the RO128, beat a Polish player named pabe in the RO64 and was knocked out by DieStar in the RO32.
TAiLS had a bye in the RO128, beat White in the RO64 and was knocked out by Socke in the RO32.
So yeah, not only did not a single Korean qualify but none of them made it further than the RO32, and all of them were eliminated by foreigners. Weird.
I think this is mainly due to the latency issues tbh. It seems that there is a huge delay on especially the EU server. Makes sense to me at least since the Koreans who are written here have quite an honorable reputation in the scene.
Obviously latency plays a big part in KR vs EU matches, but it's still a bit of a weird decision to try and switch WCS regions from GSL to a region you have a terrible ping to.
And I'd say they still performed surprisingly badly, considering that players like Hyun have won countless online tournaments on the European server vs players who are considered similarly skilled or better than the ones the Koreans lost to today, or just look at Genius, duckdeok,etc. who made it in last year.
On January 13 2014 05:28 Yakikorosu wrote: For those curious how the Koreans did:
YoDa beat an Italian player named Nogard in the RO128 but was knocked out by DIMAGA in the RO64.
Dragon had a bye in the RO128 and was knocked out by Bischu in the RO64
Patience beat a Bulgarian player named btmn in the RO128 and was knocked out by MaNa in the RO64
First had a bye in the RO128, beat a Polish player named pabe in the RO64 and was knocked out by DieStar in the RO32.
TAiLS had a bye in the RO128, beat White in the RO64 and was knocked out by Socke in the RO32.
So yeah, not only did not a single Korean qualify but none of them made it further than the RO32, and all of them were eliminated by foreigners. Weird.
I think this is mainly due to the latency issues tbh. It seems that there is a huge delay on especially the EU server. Makes sense to me at least since the Koreans who are written here have quite an honorable reputation in the scene.
Obviously latency plays a big part in KR vs EU matches, but it's still a bit of a weird decision to try and switch WCS regions from GSL to a region you have a terrible ping to.
And I'd say they still performed surprisingly badly, considering that players like Hyun have won countless online tournaments on the European server vs players who are considered similarly skilled or better than the ones the Koreans lost to today, or just look at Genius, duckdeok,etc. who made it in last year.
Patience had no lag, he was just unlucky to meet MaNa ^^
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