The GSL Code S round of 32 continued with Group B, where former Code S champion GuMiho comfortably advanced in first place without a single loss. GuMiho showed the range of his TvZ arsenal in his series against Losira and Scarlett, going for hellbat timings, mech play, and some old-fashioned infantry + tanks. Patience advanced in second place, overwhelming both Losira and Scarlett with late-game Protoss armies.
Similar to Elazer in Group A, foreign player Scarlett was stopped just a single map win away from reaching the Code S RO16. Also like Elazer, her downfall came in the late game, as she was unable to find an answer against Patience's roving army of death.
GSL Code S continues on Wednesday, Apr 25 9:30am GMT (GMT+00:00) with Group C of the RO32, featuring sOs, TRUE, KeeN, and Solar.
Haven't watched the game, but I do think Gumiho is permanently underated. He is not a bad player. Bracket luck last year for his GSL win or not. It still means he is really good. Only Terran who really performed signficantly better this year was Maru.
What do you call someone who wins a championship right after their race was buffed to the heavens after doing nothing for years, then immediately falls back to earth when the race is brought back in line?
On April 21 2018 22:47 Boggyb wrote: What do you call someone who wins a championship right after their race was buffed to the heavens after doing nothing for years, then immediately falls back to earth when the race is brought back in line?
Yes. Good. Let the hate flow through you. Seriously though, people seem pretty salty that Scarlett has been doing well in GSL lately. Oh well, your loss. GGs to all.
On April 21 2018 22:47 Boggyb wrote: What do you call someone who wins a championship right after their race was buffed to the heavens after doing nothing for years, then immediately falls back to earth when the race is brought back in line?
On April 21 2018 22:47 Boggyb wrote: What do you call someone who wins a championship right after their race was buffed to the heavens after doing nothing for years, then immediately falls back to earth when the race is brought back in line?
Rogue?
There was an article written about Rogue on the topic. I doubt we'll ever see a similar one written about this player.
Both matches of Scarlett vs. Patience were among the worst games I have seen in a long time. It was 2 players competing to see who can make the biggest blunders. We saw Scarlett a-moving 7 Broodlords across the map, Patience sending 5 Tempests on a suicide mission into the Zerg base only for one of them to survive through no skill of his own, and then see that lone survivor take down almost all the remaining Broodlords because no one was paying any attention to a red-health capital ship wailing away at the most expensive unit in the army. 34 Mutas lost to randomly flying into Blink Stalkers and Archons. Initiating a base trade and then forgetting the win condition of a base trade in the process. The amount of units lost because neither side was paying attention to the minimap and alerts was mind-boggling.
Someone in the LR thread asked whether we could just end the group and let no one advance in 2nd place.
On April 22 2018 02:02 Nezgar wrote: Both matches of Scarlett vs. Patience were among the worst games I have seen in a long time. It was 2 players competing to see who can make the biggest blunders. We saw Scarlett a-moving 7 Broodlords across the map, Patience sending 5 Tempests on a suicide mission into the Zerg base only for one of them to survive through no skill of his own, and then see that lone survivor take down almost all the remaining Broodlords because no one was paying any attention to a red-health capital ship wailing away at the most expensive unit in the army. 34 Mutas lost to randomly flying into Blink Stalkers and Archons. Initiating a base trade and then forgetting the win condition of a base trade in the process. The amount of units lost because neither side was paying attention to the minimap and alerts was mind-boggling.
Someone in the LR thread asked whether we could just end the group and let no one advance in 2nd place.
The 7 broodlords was Losira, but yeah, pretty bad series by both players. Says more about Scarlett, I think, given her success last season and then not being able to make it out of the arguably easiest group in the Ro32
On April 22 2018 02:02 Nezgar wrote: Both matches of Scarlett vs. Patience were among the worst games I have seen in a long time. It was 2 players competing to see who can make the biggest blunders. We saw Scarlett a-moving 7 Broodlords across the map, Patience sending 5 Tempests on a suicide mission into the Zerg base only for one of them to survive through no skill of his own, and then see that lone survivor take down almost all the remaining Broodlords because no one was paying any attention to a red-health capital ship wailing away at the most expensive unit in the army. 34 Mutas lost to randomly flying into Blink Stalkers and Archons. Initiating a base trade and then forgetting the win condition of a base trade in the process. The amount of units lost because neither side was paying attention to the minimap and alerts was mind-boggling.
Someone in the LR thread asked whether we could just end the group and let no one advance in 2nd place.
The 7 broodlords was Losira, but yeah, pretty bad series by both players. Says more about Scarlett, I think, given her success last season and then not being able to make it out of the arguably easiest group in the Ro32
When you are favored, upsets work against you. Scarlett upset last season, now Scarlett gets upset. And so the circle continues.
EPT
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GuMiho comfortably advanced in first place without a single loss. GuMiho showed the range of his TvZ arsenal in his series against Losira and Scarlett, going for hellbat timings, mech play, and some old-fashioned infantry + tanks. 
