The Code S RO16 groups were finalized after another live Group Nomination in the GSL studio. Once again, reigning champion Maru was able to use his #1 seed powers to land his Jin Air teammates in favorable groups, with the exception of Rogue who found himself in this season's group of death.
Dark was the loser of the night, lamenting his decision to take GuMiho as the towel Terran made the inexplicable decision to take BlizzCon champion Rogue. In turn, Rogue selected INnoVation to round out a brutal RO16 group.
Meanwhile, Maru showed that Serral's win at GSL vs. The World had done little to change his opinion of other foreigners, using his #1 seed powers to select both Neeb and Reynor as opponents.
The first RO16 group will be played on Wednesday, Aug 15 9:30am GMT (GMT+00:00) (group to-be-determined).
The question is now how to schedule things. Master%27s Coliseum/3 offline finals in Shanghai from 24th to 26th. One player attending that is in every group, so ideally no group would be on the 25th.
Putting on early predictions: Maru, Impact/Reynor Dark INnoVation (honestly this group is the hardest to pick) Leenock (anyone?) Trap TY $O$
Anyone wanna hit me for siding out their favorite players? Thoughts though? I can't believe Maru had to switch Reynor and TY. Not sure if I heard it correctly but Maru wanted a team kill between TY and Stats.
suddenly im not to crazy with this selection process. it feels too favored for the prev champ, but maybe that's more a reflection of maru's dominance. anyways its gonna be hard to top gsl vs world. GO REYNOR!!!!!!!
On August 09 2018 01:06 agripsss wrote: suddenly im not to crazy with this selection process. it feels too favored for the prev champ, but maybe that's more a reflection of maru's dominance. anyways its gonna be hard to top gsl vs world. GO REYNOR!!!!!!!
It may seem favoured for the prev champ. Yet out of 35 GSLs, there have only been two back-to-back champions (NesTea in 2011 and Maru in 2018). Maru may be the favourate to win season 3, but it's still unlikely that he does.
The WCS points are at stake for every player in group B except Rogue. Both Innovation and Guminho need to get out of the group in order for them to be qualified for Blizzcon this year while Dark barely makes to Blizzcon even if he is not favored to go first.
EPT
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