Offline qualifiers for 2018 GSL Super Tournament II will be held on September 18th
Qualifiers Application Period - September 7th, 2018 - September 13th, 2018 Thursday 23:59 (KST)
GSL Super Tournament II Qualifiers Offline Event: Date: September 18th(Tuesday) 2018 (KST) Location: AfreecaTV PC Bang, Hongik University, Seoul
Participation Requirements: - Must be at least 12 years old - Need to have a SC2 Battle.net account (cannot use your family's or friends' accounts) - Masters/Grandmaster league players (Any Region)
Match Format: - Bo3 / Double Elimination
Map Pool - 1Set Lost and Found - 2Set Blueshift - 3Set Acid Plant
Please send the following information to gsl@afreecatv.com for your application. - Full Name: - Birth date: - Country: - Phone Number or Skype ID: - Battle.Net SCII Account: - Ladder Score: - StarCraft II Character Name: - Team: - Race: - Email address:
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at gsl@afreecatv.com
On September 17 2018 19:26 Azhrak wrote: Anyone know the reasoning for only having three maps in the map pool? Why not let players decide the maps with vetoes?
I assume it's faster this way and allows the organizers to sway the racial distribution/balance in their desired way.
I just noticed that the text explaining the rules for the qualifiers and the brackets of the qualifiers are not the same. There is a lower bracket shown while the text says single elimination until round of 4.
TY has shown he probably the only person in the world who can stop maru and make it competitive. that last tournament went to game 7. if maru and ty played that GSL finals 10 times, i think TY could've won 30%-40%. whereas zest and gumiho were just straight up smashed. so this means that if TY gets sniped before he faces maru, then maru is basically gonna win another
On September 18 2018 03:44 fishjie wrote: TY has shown he probably the only person in the world who can stop maru and make it competitive. that last tournament went to game 7. if maru and ty played that GSL finals 10 times, i think TY could've won 30%-40%. whereas zest and gumiho were just straight up smashed. so this means that if TY gets sniped before he faces maru, then maru is basically gonna win another
On September 18 2018 03:44 fishjie wrote: TY has shown he probably the only person in the world who can stop maru and make it competitive. that last tournament went to game 7. if maru and ty played that GSL finals 10 times, i think TY could've won 30%-40%. whereas zest and gumiho were just straight up smashed. so this means that if TY gets sniped before he faces maru, then maru is basically gonna win another
Maru only goes 100% in GSL, more specifically GSL playoffs. In the other supertournament and GSL vs the World he was good but not the best. I'd be very surprised if Maru wins here.
TY has shown he probably the only person in the world who can stop maru
First they said only Rogue could do it, then they said only Stats, now only TY.
People judge skill from 1 particular match way too heavily.
At least it isn't a racial thing. You have one zerg, one protoss and one terran as potential rivals.
Honestly, in GSL playoffs, I think the only protoss this year to give Maru a run for his money was sOs. Rogue, Dark, and TY are the others who gave him a genuinely difficult time. I think any of these four players could still give him a close series, but I think sOs might have dropped off a little since then, and Rogue's performance level is totally unpredictable, and Dark may or may not have dropped off a touch in ZvT also. It might be a little deceptive to see that he scored the same vs Dark as he did vs Stats, because Maru was leagues ahead of Stats in that final, whereas Dark took him to the edge of his skill at times.
In Super Tournament, though, it's a different story. I expect a lot of players can be a threat to Maru here, including Stats and Classic, who I think he'd still completely destroy in a Code S playoffs series. I'm sure Maru will be playing to win, but I don't expect him to be at full strength. He could even get upset by someone totally unexpected.
TY has shown he probably the only person in the world who can stop maru
First they said only Rogue could do it, then they said only Stats, now only TY.
People judge skill from 1 particular match way too heavily.
At least it isn't a racial thing. You have one zerg, one protoss and one terran as potential rivals.
Honestly, in GSL playoffs, I think the only protoss this year to give Maru a run for his money was sOs. Rogue, Dark, and TY are the others who gave him a genuinely difficult time. I think any of these four players could still give him a close series, but I think sOs might have dropped off a little since then, and Rogue's performance level is totally unpredictable, and Dark may or may not have dropped off a touch in ZvT also. It might be a little deceptive to see that he scored the same vs Dark as he did vs Stats, because Maru was leagues ahead of Stats in that final, whereas Dark took him to the edge of his skill at times.
In Super Tournament, though, it's a different story. I expect a lot of players can be a threat to Maru here, including Stats and Classic, who I think he'd still completely destroy in a Code S playoffs series. I'm sure Maru will be playing to win, but I don't expect him to be at full strength. He could even get upset by someone totally unexpected.
The only reason sOs might pose a threat to Maru is probably because they're teammates, if he's a non-JAGW player he's gonna be destroyed by Maru even harder than Zest.
TY has shown he probably the only person in the world who can stop maru
First they said only Rogue could do it, then they said only Stats, now only TY.
People judge skill from 1 particular match way too heavily.
At least it isn't a racial thing. You have one zerg, one protoss and one terran as potential rivals.
Honestly, in GSL playoffs, I think the only protoss this year to give Maru a run for his money was sOs. Rogue, Dark, and TY are the others who gave him a genuinely difficult time. I think any of these four players could still give him a close series, but I think sOs might have dropped off a little since then, and Rogue's performance level is totally unpredictable, and Dark may or may not have dropped off a touch in ZvT also. It might be a little deceptive to see that he scored the same vs Dark as he did vs Stats, because Maru was leagues ahead of Stats in that final, whereas Dark took him to the edge of his skill at times.
In Super Tournament, though, it's a different story. I expect a lot of players can be a threat to Maru here, including Stats and Classic, who I think he'd still completely destroy in a Code S playoffs series. I'm sure Maru will be playing to win, but I don't expect him to be at full strength. He could even get upset by someone totally unexpected.
The only reason sOs might pose a threat to Maru is probably because they're teammates, if he's a non-JAGW player he's gonna be destroyed by Maru even harder than Zest.
I actually am not sure about this. sOs naturally has the ability to throw anyone off center with unexpected play, but it could be that this was enhanced by them being teammates. It's just hard to say how much this actually influenced things. Whatever team he was on, sOs would have known that he had to get a huge early game advantage or he'd be dead. When it comes to taking down a superior opponent, I'd prefer sOs's ability to come up with something clever over anything Zest has shown us recently.
Loads of people aren't participating this time--seems like there's half as many participants as the previous supertournament. A bit odd considering the GSL season 3 participation was similar to GSL season 1 iirc.
On September 18 2018 13:54 ZigguratOfUr wrote: Loads of people aren't participating this time--seems like there's half as many participants as the previous supertournament. A bit odd considering the GSL season 3 participation was similar to GSL season 1 iirc.
maybe the afternoon session will have more people?
On September 18 2018 13:54 ZigguratOfUr wrote: Loads of people aren't participating this time--seems like there's half as many participants as the previous supertournament. A bit odd considering the GSL season 3 participation was similar to GSL season 1 iirc.
maybe the afternoon session will have more people?
I don't think so? If it's the same format as last time there's only three groups in the afternoon.
On September 18 2018 14:36 Colouss wrote: TaeJa 2-0'd Patience and is awaiting the loser of soO vs Stats. KeeN 2-0'd Rogue and now facing Dear for the qualifying match Solar 2-1 Cure and is now facing Classic for the qualifying match.
On September 18 2018 14:36 Colouss wrote: TaeJa 2-0'd Patience and is awaiting the loser of soO vs Stats. KeeN 2-0'd Rogue and now facing Dear for the qualifying match Solar 2-1 Cure and is now facing Classic for the qualifying match.
Solar 2-0'd Classic and qualifies! Classic is now playing Cure for the second qualifying spot. Impact 2-1'd TRUE and qualifies! TRUE is now waiting for the winner of sOs and Forte.
On September 18 2018 15:37 EXRNaRa wrote: Brackets are empty, BYEs everywhere. Why?
Because there aren't enough players to fill them.
It is pretty weird that there's so few players this time around (something like half the volume of the previous super-tournament) even considering the odd time in the year.
sOs 2-1'd TRUE and qualifies! Keeping his Blizzcon hope alive. Classic 2-1'd Cure and qualifies! I'm gonna be busy so I won't be live covering the afternoon groups. So if anyone wants to take over, be my guest.
On September 18 2018 15:40 Colouss wrote: sOs 2-1'd TRUE and qualifies! Keeping his Blizzcon hope alive. Classic 2-1'd Cure and qualifies! I'm gonna be busy so I won't be live covering the afternoon groups. So if anyone wants to take over, be my guest.
Well this is very disappointing that there is so many no shows maybe some have other engagements but they can’t all be busy to play in a major tournament
There is a chinese tournament 1 day before the super tournament. Parting and her0 are playing that so that's probably why they didn't show up. Solar and Impact as well but maybe they will cancel it to concentrate on ST.
Many players flat-out not signing up or not attending after signing up (but then playing Olimoleague). GuMiho putting his Blizzcon chances in the hands of other players, Inno and Dear throwing theirs away without even getting into the tournament.
Some real disappointing shit happened today. Some cool things, too, admittedly. Let's see how the bracket turns out.
On September 18 2018 23:28 Elentos wrote: Many players flat-out not signing up or not attending after signing up (but then playing Olimoleague). GuMiho putting his Blizzcon chances in the hands of other players, Inno and Dear throwing theirs away without even getting into the tournament.
Some real disappointing shit happened today. Some cool things, too, admittedly. Let's see how the bracket turns out.
i guess zest is looking for 6th spot in WCS korea to avoid Maru/Neeb. 4th spot would mean Serral... I think he favors Nerchio/Special.
On September 18 2018 23:28 Elentos wrote: Many players flat-out not signing up or not attending after signing up (but then playing Olimoleague). GuMiho putting his Blizzcon chances in the hands of other players, Inno and Dear throwing theirs away without even getting into the tournament.
Some real disappointing shit happened today. Some cool things, too, admittedly. Let's see how the bracket turns out.
i guess zest is looking for 6th spot in WCS korea to avoid Maru/Neeb. 4th spot would mean Serral... I think he favors Nerchio/Special.
Zest apparently just arrived late and was disqualified, he didn't purposely try to influence his WCS ranking. But still.
On September 19 2018 01:17 Zzzapper wrote: Assuming everyone in the ST has 50% to win each match, Gumi still has around 15% chance of going to Blizzcon, that's more than Solar.
Someone on Reddit apparently ran a simulation that basically elaborates on this:
"Ran a quick simulation of Blizzcon chances based on current point standings, coin flips and an unknown bracket
i guess zest is looking for 6th spot in WCS korea to avoid Maru/Neeb. 4th spot would mean Serral... I think he favors Nerchio/Special.
This way there is a good chance that he ends up in a group with Maru ,Neeb and Lambo which is the worst possible scenario for him. So obviously not intentional.
I hope Solar will get the last spot. Need one more zerg for the balance to the korea circuit (Maru is a one man army for terran!) There is enough Jin Air no need to Trap or sOs (except if he wins the whole thing...)
It's crazy to think soO could still go to blizzcon with the downward spiral of a year he's had. I hope he gets that 8th spot, but I would be pretty shocked if he did.
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