ShoWTimE has won the second WCS Seasonal Championships, emerging victorious over Nerchio in a tight series that went to all seven maps. Strong harassment defined Nerchio's style throughout the series, and his nydus / drop multitask tore ShoWTimE apart in the series opener on Dusk Towers.
The German protoss quickly struck back though, demonstrating great army control with his preferred chargelot archon composition. It was anachronistic at times to see heavy sentry usage against a hydra-centric style from Nerchio, and it allowed him to seize the next two maps.
The two WCS heavyweights traded maps for the rest of the series. Another strong nydus play delivered the goods for Nerchio on Invader, while a proxy Dark Shrine on Ulrena caught the zerg completely by surprise. ShoWTimE seemed to have done enough on Prion Terraces to seal the series, but after taking out Nerchio's third, the protoss lost his whole army out on the map.
It all came down to one final map on one of the least predictable maps in the pool—Korhal Carnage Knockout. In the end, it was a strategy from the opening days of Legacy that sealed it for ShoWTimE—a mass adept / phoenix attack. The phoenixes lifted the queens, while the adepts tore through the squishy hydralisk core. With his army in tatters, and adepts scattered over his bases razing his mineral lines, Nerchio was forced to GG.
ShoWTimE now joins Polt, Zest and Dark in securing his spot for the WCS Global Playoffs later in the year.
On May 17 2016 01:49 Charoisaur wrote: so many terrans in the top 8 wow
Imagine if Polt wasn't playing WCS, foreign Terrans are too weak .
*cough* MarineLorD and MajOr really helped the quota *cough*
On May 17 2016 01:51 Solar424 wrote: Is there a rule that WCS events in France have to end on the stupidest map ever? Last year Secret Spring, this year KCK.
It's because of the map vetoes. Player 1 gets a map pick, then player 2, etc. and game 7 is the map nobody wants to play on. And with the current map pool, you have a good chance of ending on a really stupid map.
On May 17 2016 01:42 HolydaKing wrote: Kinda crazy that no German ever won something nearly as big. Congarts Showtime!
Almost no non-Koreans have won something this big in the past few years though.
That's true, but many other European countries have players that placed first at decent international tournaments. Spain has Vortix who won a couple high calibre tournaments, France had Stephano and still has other good players who won some things, Poland has Nerchio and Sweden had Thorzain/Naniwa. Hasuobs, Socke and TLO seem to be the most accomplished German players and the winnings of the earlier two are almost only from German tournaments, while TLO sadly didn't win aside from one small tour in 2011.
And with that, ShoWTimE becomes the first player in more than 4 years to win a Premier tournament coming from a country that has a color other than blue, red, white or black in its flag!
On May 17 2016 01:42 HolydaKing wrote: Kinda crazy that no German ever won something nearly as big. Congrats Showtime!
considering that almost all koreans are disqualified from the tournaments for being korean (except like 3 people) it is no wonder that non-koreans are winning.
On May 17 2016 01:58 Sholip wrote: And with that, ShoWTimE becomes the first player in more than 4 years to win a Premier tournament coming from a country that has a color other than blue, red, white or black in its flag!
Congratulations!
a premier tournament that has disqualified almost all players of that particular country.. yay
On May 17 2016 01:42 HolydaKing wrote: Kinda crazy that no German ever won something nearly as big. Congrats Showtime!
considering that almost all koreans are disqualified from the tournaments for being korean (except like 3 people) it is no wonder that non-koreans are winning.
On May 17 2016 01:58 Sholip wrote: And with that, ShoWTimE becomes the first player in more than 4 years to win a Premier tournament coming from a country that has a color other than blue, red, white or black in its flag!
Congratulations!
a premier tournament that has disqualified almost all players of that particular country.. yay
On May 17 2016 01:58 Sholip wrote: And with that, ShoWTimE becomes the first player in more than 4 years to win a Premier tournament coming from a country that has a color other than blue, red, white or black in its flag!
Congratulations!
a premier tournament that has disqualified almost all players of that particular country.. yay
Of course most Premier winners had been Koreans, but since April 2012 players from the following countries have won Premiers: South Korea, Poland, France, Norway, Taiwan and the Netherlands. They all have those four colors in their flags
EPT
ShoWTimE has won the second WCS Seasonal Championships, emerging victorious over 
Nerchio in a tight series that went to all seven maps. Strong harassment defined Nerchio's style throughout the series, and his nydus / drop multitask tore ShoWTimE apart in the series opener on Dusk Towers.
Polt, 
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