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The qualifiers for SSL's Season 2 Challenge were held today, to little fanfare. The system from the previous qualifiers was kept unchanged, meaning that players first went through a double elimination bracket stage. Afterwards, the 12 players that advanced through the brackets were put into GSL-style groups of 4, with the top 2 of each advancing to the Challenge stage.
The players who emerged victorious in the qualifiers were  Hush,  Bunny, jjakji,  Impact, Rogue and GSL finalist soO, so make sure to tune in to SSL Challenge when it begins to see your favorite players competing weekly!
Notable eliminations: Armani (no show), Billowy (no show), Creator, Losira, Super, Hurricane, Seed, Cure, MyuNgSiK, Forte, Trust, Ryung, Jim, MacSed
Additionally, GuMiho, TY and Curious did not sign up for unknown reasons, KeeN and Leenock were attending the  Game Land Invitational
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Cure lost to Gamja to be 100% focused on GSL S3 and secure a blizzcon spot
+ I can understand for TY because SSL challenge is just a big qualifier, and he will attend at 2017 Blizzcon so it's a little bit pointless when you dont know if SSL will be there in 2018.
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On June 18 2017 21:39 DieuCure wrote:
Cure lost to Gamja to be 100% focused on GSL S3 and secure a blizzcon spot
+ I can understand for TY because SSL challenge is just a big qualifier, and he will attend at 2017 Blizzcon so it's a little bit pointless when you dont know if SSL will be there in 2018.
Cure is just bad
Happy that soO made it, a bit disappointed that TY doesn't even try. Challenge should be fun though
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Australia18228 Posts
They should've put more money into Challenge, the effort to reward is not that great if you don't get into Premier
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Can be fun but there is a lot of matchs and you must deploy a lot of strategy for not so much
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On June 18 2017 22:18 Inflicted wrote:
They should've put more money into Challenge, the effort to reward is not that great if you don't get into Premier
That Zest won more than herO is just super dumb.
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Come on Rogue, this season of GSL was your warmup!
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Bunny 2-0'd soO in the group stage qualifier. A sign of weakness before the upcoming GSL final?
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On June 18 2017 22:56 PolarisSpark wrote:
Bunny 2-0'd soO in the group stage qualifier. A sign of weakness before the upcoming GSL final?
hiding builds?
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On June 18 2017 23:03 AzAlexZ wrote:Show nested quote +On June 18 2017 22:56 PolarisSpark wrote:
Bunny 2-0'd soO in the group stage qualifier. A sign of weakness before the upcoming GSL final? hiding builds?
Doubtful it's worth to actively hide builds, not like GuMiho was there or gets easy access to the replays. I'm more inclined to believe it involved some cheese.
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On June 18 2017 23:07 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On June 18 2017 23:03 AzAlexZ wrote:On June 18 2017 22:56 PolarisSpark wrote:
Bunny 2-0'd soO in the group stage qualifier. A sign of weakness before the upcoming GSL final? hiding builds? Doubtful it's worth to actively hide builds, not like GuMiho was there or gets easy access to the replays. I'm more inclined to believe it involved some cheese.
bunny is better at cheesing than gumiho?
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Bunny has had soO's numbers throughout all of LotV.
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On June 18 2017 22:18 Inflicted wrote:
They should've put more money into Challenge, the effort to reward is not that great if you don't get into Premier
Agreed
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I like Jjakji...but his bracket was a joke...
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On June 19 2017 07:20 SlyZBuckler wrote:
I like Jjakji...but his bracket was a joke...
Let's be honest none of them overworked themselves.
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On June 19 2017 07:28 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On June 19 2017 07:20 SlyZBuckler wrote:
I like Jjakji...but his bracket was a joke... Let's be honest none of them overworked themselves.
Except Cure.
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United States97276 Posts
too bad about Creator not making it
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On June 19 2017 09:56 Shellshock wrote:
too bad about Creator not making it
I'm more surprised Hurricane didn't make it, not to mention Ryung - even if he seems to be on bit of a slump
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Russian Federation183 Posts
Come on Rogue, you can do it!!!
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On June 19 2017 09:56 Shellshock wrote:
too bad about Creator not making it
Creator is still suffering from Artosis hyping him up in the GSL before he bombed out.
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Russian Federation183 Posts
btw, where can we see VODs og the qualifiers?
Or maybe at least matches they played?
Haven't found it in liquipedia
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On June 19 2017 18:36 EEk1TwEEk wrote:
btw, where can we see VODs og the qualifiers?
Or maybe at least matches they played?
Haven't found it in liquipedia
you can find the matches here. I don't think you get the VODs though.
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happy that impact made it.
btw is it sure that the format goes on, so that the challenge actually means something (except money)?
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EPT
