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The first week of WCS Europe's Challenger League ended with four more players advancing their way into the Premier League.
While three of the matches ended in one-sided sweeps, Bly won a narrow 3-2 comeback victory against Daisy. Bly's victory continued a string of European successes against Korean players that started in the wild card qualifiers, where no Korean players were able to make it through.
WCS Europe Challenger League will continue on February 4th.
Players currently qualified for Premier (20/32)
 Protoss: MC, Genius, Stardust, NaNiwa, Grubby, BlinG, Lilbow, Welmu, ShoWTimE
 Terran: MMA, Mvp, Happy
 Zerg: VortiX, Nerchio, TargA, FireCake, Starbuck, Slivko, TLO, Bly
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Only 5 Koreans in Premier right now. Interesting.
Still, that Terran line. Needs more heavy hitters.
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Why is there a nearly two week gap until the next set of matches start?
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TLO ! TLO ! TLO !
oh my the less terran gsl story all over again.
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On January 24 2014 08:55 Stress wrote:
Why is there a nearly two week gap until the next set of matches start?
DreamHack/ASUS ROG etc weekend
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Bly did an epic comeback!
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TLO games were hilarious.
He was trying harder not to lose than to win 
TLO TLO TLO ^^
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On January 24 2014 08:55 KanoCoke wrote:
Only 5 Koreans in Premier right now. Interesting.
Still, that Terran line. Needs more heavy hitters.
You can't have terrans without koreans. : (
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Showtime is top 3 toss EU
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Go go Bly! When I had to leave he was 2-1 down, amazing comeback.
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On January 24 2014 08:55 KanoCoke wrote:
Only 5 Koreans in Premier right now. Interesting.
Still, that Terran line. Needs more heavy hitters.
most the koreans are in America or Korea now lol
last season top 8 America was 7/8 korean
EU got much more country diversity, especially this year, should be less of a korean domination maybe
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I'm definitely happy with premier right now. There are enough Koreans to keep it interesting, but not too many that they'll win everything ez. Hope they bring good games!
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On January 24 2014 11:10 mikumegurine wrote:Show nested quote +On January 24 2014 08:55 KanoCoke wrote:
Only 5 Koreans in Premier right now. Interesting.
Still, that Terran line. Needs more heavy hitters. most the koreans are in America or Korea now lol last season top 8 America was 7/8 korean EU got much more country diversity, especially this year, should be less of a korean domination maybe
Well with YoDa not qualifying that would've been another Terran  but I think there is just a historical slump in good Terran numbers right now. It seems a lot of the really good Terran's are spread out, and not a lot of new ones stepping up. While a lot of up and coming zerg/protoss players have been stepping up recently.
I already know the response, it's "because protoss OP" but really you look at the Terran player list, and it's super top heavy, while there are hardly any following them that have either stepped up and taken some top spots, or new player's that have risen through the ranks to claim a top spot. I think we will see a substantial increase in Terran numbers sooner rather than later.
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I´m gonna cheer so hard for Happy this season. 
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On January 24 2014 14:19 GuiBz wrote:
Protoss domination!!
Winning 1 non mirror and losing 2 is domination?
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I'm happy for TLO
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Well done   Welmu! Can't wait for the Premier league.
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On January 24 2014 08:55 KanoCoke wrote:
Only 5 Koreans in Premier right now. Interesting.
Still, that Terran line. Needs more heavy hitters.
More than MMA and MVP? And Happy, probably best EU Terran?
Pretty big hitters man.
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Little statline I added together
Seeded players are 10-2 against qualified players, Lilbow and  Bly are the only qualified players to win
34-9 in maps for the seeded players, 6 of the 9 mapwins by qualified players won by Lilbow and Bly, the rest was won by 3 Terrans in TvZ
Matchups:
TvZ: 0-3 in series, 3-9 in maps (3 seeded players beat qualified players)
TvP: 1-2 in series 3-6 in maps (all seeded players won their matchup)
PvZ: 2-2 in series, 8-8 in maps (split 2-2 between seeded players and qualified players, qualified players won 3-2 each, seeded players won 3-0)
The other 2 series were PvP.
Most played maps:
10 times: Heavy Rain
9 times: Yeonsu
8 times: Frost
7 times: Polar Night
6 times: Habitation Station
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Twice: Daedalus Point
Once: Alterzim Stronghold
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I am really happy TLO made it but sad that Marrow didn't
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On January 24 2014 22:31 NovaMB wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Little statline I added together Seeded players are 10-2 against qualified players, Lilbow and Bly are the only qualified players to win 34-9 in maps for the seeded players, 6 of the 9 mapwins by qualified players won by Lilbow and Bly, the rest was won by 3 Terrans in TvZ Matchups: TvZ: 0-3 in series, 3-9 in maps (3 seeded players beat qualified players) TvP: 1-2 in series 3-6 in maps (all seeded players won their matchup) PvZ: 2-2 in series, 8-8 in maps (split 2-2 between seeded players and qualified players, qualified players won 3-2 each, seeded players won 3-0) The other 2 series were PvP. Most played maps: 10 times: Heavy Rain 9 times: Yeonsu 8 times: Frost 7 times: Polar Night 6 times: Habitation Station ....... Twice: Daedalus Point Once: Alterzim Stronghold
Don't worry Jjakji is about to put up some numbers for the qualifiers.
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On January 24 2014 16:48 DroopyFR wrote:Winning 1 non mirror and losing 2 is domination?
Yep, these were the only matches in the only region
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Happy TLO made it into premier
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i think WCS EU Terrans > GSL Terrans :D [wcs system killing GSL]
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Glad to see ShoWTimE advance. Best underrated player 
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On January 24 2014 22:29 Crownlol wrote:Show nested quote +On January 24 2014 08:55 KanoCoke wrote:
Only 5 Koreans in Premier right now. Interesting.
Still, that Terran line. Needs more heavy hitters. More than MMA and MVP? And Happy, probably best EU Terran? Pretty big hitters man.
There's a linguistic confusion here, I think. The word "more" could be used as an adverb modifying "heavy," or as an adjective modifying "hitters." In this case I think if it were modifying "heavy" KanoCoke would have said "heavier" rather than "more heavy," so I think "more" is modifying "hitters."
In other words, the fact that MMA, MVP, and Happy are indeed very heavy hitters is irrelevant. KanoCoke wishes the Terran heavy hitters to increase in quantity, not weight.
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Bly Good job )
gr8 comeback!!!
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