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Two former GSL champions met wildly different fates in Friday night's games, as  SKT_Soulkey returned to Code S while  Dear fell down to Code B.
After having his five tournament streak of top eight finishes stopped last season, Soulkey ended up playing the first Code A of his entire career (he played his first Code S as a special KeSPA seed). Not surprisingly, the Code S regular was able to take first place in Group F and earn a return ticket. However, he did face a surprisingly spirited challenge from IM's Ruin, who very nearly advanced ahead of Soulkey. Unfortunately for Ruin, he started celebrating far too early in game three, using eleven pylons to draw an "S" on the map. He found himself desperately wanting for the 1,100 minerals not long after, and eventually tapped out to Soulkey's swarm hosts.
However, Ruin was not demoralized by his loss, and earned himself a Code S spot anyway by finishing in second place in the group. He even had the gall to perform another ceremony, planting a Nexus in  Samsung_Reality's natural after he was certain he had won the deciding game.
In Group E, the story of Dear's demise unfolded. After an understandable loss to ByuL, Dear went on to suffer a shocking 1-2 elimination at the hands of Journey.* Adding insult to injury, mousesports announced their release of Dear scarcely an hour after his banishment to Code B (Dear's release had been decided upon regardless of his Code A performance).
With Dear gone, both Samsung_Solar and IM_ByuL were able to advance to Code S. Solar earned his second consecutive Code S appearance, while ByuL made his return after over a year of competing in WCS America.
*Journey has been removed from SKT's Proleague roster, but it is unclear as to whether he has been released from the team or not.
Hot6ix Code S Season 2 Players
Seeded from Season 1 (8): Zest, soO, Life, Rain, sOs, herO, PartinG, Maru
Code A Winners (12/24): TAiLS, Classic, INnoVation, Dark, Bbyong, DongRaeGu, ParalyzE, YongHwa, Solar, ByuL, Soulkey, Ruin
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soulkey yes! solar go go go!
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well how did soulkey even still win that game...
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On April 12 2014 00:43 teddyoojo wrote:
well how did soulkey even still win that game...
Because there's no S in Ruin.
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after intense training in the hyperbolic time chamber that is America
Byul is back to Korea to kick butt and take some names!
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That S is going to follow him forever. Might as well own it, change name to RuinS
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
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I liked Artosis' idea of making a "B" more, but it made it so funny because Wolf-tosis were talking about doing something like that, then it happened.
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S for Soulkey.
Hope the 4 terrans left in Code A qualify so we can have atleast 2:2:1 racial distribution. My terran soul can't handle another Code S with only 3 terrans. ;( Flash, TY, FanTaSy & SuperNova 화이팅~!
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I really didn't think Dear would turn into the next Seed. Hopefully he doesn't :/
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United States97277 Posts
On April 12 2014 00:43 teddyoojo wrote:
well how did soulkey even still win that game...
Ruin took some terrible engagements and lost his 2 mining bases to roaches while he was on the other side of the map
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TLADT24920 Posts
Ruin with the bm lol. Also, poor dear. Being released from Mouz likely affected his mindset. Hope he's back with a vengeance!
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IMRuin we need this stuff in the SC2 scene...GG
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Why wouldn't he make an R for Ruin... S for Soulkey? What the heck...
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scarsely
Should be spelled "scarcely." Anyway, good read altogether. Sucks for Dear, seems like the kid has potential. Wish him luck in finding a new team!
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All 4 who advanced were who I was hoping for. My bad Starcraft 2 karma will strike sometime soon, I can feel it
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On April 12 2014 01:40 NKexquisite wrote:
Why wouldn't he make an R for Ruin... S for Soulkey? What the heck...
S for Code S?
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The best part of Ruin vs Soulkey game 3 was Ruin smiling in his booth during the last few minutes, all like 'I just made myself look like a huge jackass by doing that, didn't I?'
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On April 12 2014 01:40 NKexquisite wrote:
Why wouldn't he make an R for Ruin... S for Soulkey? What the heck...
Soulkey made the S with pylons
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