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The second GSL Code A season of the year kicked off with Groups A and B, featuring three former GSL finalists in  Acer.INnoVation,  Samsung_RorO, and  Seed looking to make their way back to Code S. However, only INnoVation was able to punch his ticket to Code S as the night would give way to a series of upsets.
MVP.TAiLS was the player who put in the most surprising performance on the night, going 4-0 in Group A with wins over both RorO and SKT_Classic to advance in first place. TAiLS had just switched to the Korea region after spending four seasons in WCS Europe without ever reaching the live Ro16, and few expected such a strong showing out of the MVP Protoss. Classic, who finished in the Ro16 of the previous Code S season, defeated RorO in the final match to secure second place in Group A.
In Group B, INnoVation was able to take care of business, defeating SKT_Dark and CJ_Sora to take the first place. The two players defeated by INnoVation would end up vying for the second place spot in the group, resulting in Dark defeating Sora 2-1 to earn his second consecutive Code S appearance.
Hot6ix Code S Season 2 Players
Seeded from Season 1 (8): Zest, soO, Life, Rain, sOs, herO, PartinG, Maru
Code A Winners (4/24): TAiLS, Classic, INnoVation, Dark
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Good to see Tails doing so well! I remember watching him be a GSTL phenom so it is fantastic to see some solid individual league success! Tails Fighting!^^
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hmm Innovation defeating Sora 2-0 huh? Too bad his vZ isn't as invincible as it once was but 2-0 is still a good feat imo unless Sora's vT is his worst mu. Tails winning is an upset imo especially since he knocked out both roro and classic. Classic wasn't as unexpected though. His lategame vZ seems on key.
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VERY Surprised TAiLS made it out.... But Group B went exactly how i would of hoped it would.
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Sora and RorO out is unexpected, imho.
But TAilS???
Wow, NEVER thought he would beat Classic...
Grats!
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Sora just hasn't looked the same since WCG run. Really disappointing, I hope he can turn it around sometime because he was definitely one of the more enjoyable players to watch when he was on. Grats to the winners who advanced, glad the Chintoss was able to make it out.
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Poor Seed. What is this, his 5th or 6th time qualifying and still can't get past the ro48
EDIT: In a row, that is.
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YAY INNO. Time to win GSL.
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Happy for Innovation. Hope he's back to his rightful place.
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I am kind of glad I couldn't sleep last night. Watching Innovation crush (mostly) his way back into Code S was great.
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I've missed most of the Sora hypetrain but it was nevertheless sad to see watch his reaction after the final loss
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bit surprised that Roro didn't make it.
Dark winning was good to see.
Seed makes the news a bit sad but good luck to everyone in the group.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish Roro. Won because of winfestor/gglord, once those got nerfed in hots he was rightfully banished into oblivion, only to claw his way back via neo winfestor/gglord: swarmhost turtle.
The sooner players like that are forced into retirement the better it will be for the game
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On April 10 2014 06:24 DavoS wrote:
Roro?
Nogo.
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On April 10 2014 06:26 fishjie wrote:
Good riddance to bad rubbish Roro. Won because of winfestor/gglord, once those got nerfed in hots he was rightfully banished into oblivion, only to claw his way back via neo winfestor/gglord: swarmhost turtle.
The sooner players like that are forced into retirement the better it will be for the game
Yeh, now we have to do something about those dirty Terrans. Too many skilled protoss players are falling to their imba winner mines.
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On April 10 2014 06:29 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2014 06:26 fishjie wrote:
Good riddance to bad rubbish Roro. Won because of winfestor/gglord, once those got nerfed in hots he was rightfully banished into oblivion, only to claw his way back via neo winfestor/gglord: swarmhost turtle.
The sooner players like that are forced into retirement the better it will be for the game Yeh, now we have to do something about those dirty Terrans. Too many skilled protoss players are falling to their imba winner mines. User was warned for this post
This will inevitably happen to every player that rose fast during eras when their races are powerful. As a zerg I agree there are lots of patch zergs out there but same with terrain/ toss like seed, sniper, sora, stardust. Randomly start owning during their races op period and once its patched they just disappear, or as blind ppl call it " not doing as well"
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On April 10 2014 07:46 DaftFunk wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2014 06:29 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:On April 10 2014 06:26 fishjie wrote:
Good riddance to bad rubbish Roro. Won because of winfestor/gglord, once those got nerfed in hots he was rightfully banished into oblivion, only to claw his way back via neo winfestor/gglord: swarmhost turtle.
The sooner players like that are forced into retirement the better it will be for the game Yeh, now we have to do something about those dirty Terrans. Too many skilled protoss players are falling to their imba winner mines. User was warned for this post This will inevitably happen to every player that rose fast during eras when their races are powerful. As a zerg I agree there are lots of patch zergs out there but same with terrain/ toss like seed, sniper, sora, stardust. Randomly start owning during their races op period and once its patched they just disappear, or as blind ppl call it " not doing as well"
Well, the others I agree with, but Stardust is still doing pretty well for himself.
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Nice people who weren't tail's fans have been tail's fans for years now, damn so quick to jump ship. Anyhow he's a very mechanical player, expert in rushing so gl to him, hope he continues to come up with some new stuff for everyone else to copy 
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On April 10 2014 07:46 DaftFunk wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2014 06:29 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:On April 10 2014 06:26 fishjie wrote:
Good riddance to bad rubbish Roro. Won because of winfestor/gglord, once those got nerfed in hots he was rightfully banished into oblivion, only to claw his way back via neo winfestor/gglord: swarmhost turtle.
The sooner players like that are forced into retirement the better it will be for the game Yeh, now we have to do something about those dirty Terrans. Too many skilled protoss players are falling to their imba winner mines. User was warned for this post This will inevitably happen to every player that rose fast during eras when their races are powerful. As a zerg I agree there are lots of patch zergs out there but same with terrain/ toss like seed, sniper, sora, stardust. Randomly start owning during their races op period and once its patched they just disappear, or as blind ppl call it " not doing as well"
Oh I was just fucking around (guess the mod didn't pick up on that either...).
RorO is obviously no patchzerg. My ruined FPL team at the hands of having him on my anti can attest to that...
In fact, few who were labeled as such back in WoL truly went extinct come HotS. Seed didn't really win his gsl when protoss were doing well either I'd say. Protoss never had a firm grasp on an era in WoL.
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On April 10 2014 06:26 fishjie wrote:
Good riddance to bad rubbish Roro. Won because of winfestor/gglord, once those got nerfed in hots he was rightfully banished into oblivion, only to claw his way back via neo winfestor/gglord: swarmhost turtle.
The sooner players like that are forced into retirement the better it will be for the game
User was temp banned for this post.
Roro is actually a very good player. TAILs has sick ball of cheese though.
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TAiLS made Classic look silly, and nice call by Wolf on TAiLS "swindling" his way to victory.
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On April 10 2014 06:26 fishjie wrote:
Good riddance to bad rubbish Roro. Won because of winfestor/gglord, once those got nerfed in hots he was rightfully banished into oblivion, only to claw his way back via neo winfestor/gglord: swarmhost turtle.
The sooner players like that are forced into retirement the better it will be for the game
User was temp banned for this post.
Dang, even as the founder of the Anti-RorO fan club, I think you're going a bit too far, mate.
On April 10 2014 07:46 DaftFunk wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2014 06:29 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:On April 10 2014 06:26 fishjie wrote:
Good riddance to bad rubbish Roro. Won because of winfestor/gglord, once those got nerfed in hots he was rightfully banished into oblivion, only to claw his way back via neo winfestor/gglord: swarmhost turtle.
The sooner players like that are forced into retirement the better it will be for the game Yeh, now we have to do something about those dirty Terrans. Too many skilled protoss players are falling to their imba winner mines. User was warned for this post This will inevitably happen to every player that rose fast during eras when their races are powerful. As a zerg I agree there are lots of patch zergs out there but same with terrain/ toss like seed, sniper, sora, stardust. Randomly start owning during their races op period and once its patched they just disappear, or as blind ppl call it " not doing as well"
I don't think Seed won a championship because of Protoss patches (and believe me, Protoss didn't have as many buffs as we currently have). If anything, Seed and other Protoss found new ways to play the game, and people had trouble figuring out the counters to them. Seed is more of a brainy player with pretty fun builds. If only he had the micro and heart of PartinG consistently...
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Whoops, I'm a double post noob now 
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TAiLS played amazingly last night
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Impressive and surprising performance from Tails, got to say. Still, glad that Classic and Innovation pulled through.
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Any chance of spoiler free thread names for those that haven't seen the games yet?
Anyway, saw the first group. Pretty happy for tails, but I think he will get murdered in r32.
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Damn, TAiLS was the last person I expected to get out of that group.
So sick.
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