EPTWas Maru expected to win? What do they say about his anticlimatic loss?
Serral wins the 2018 WCS Global Finals - Page 5
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
Was Maru expected to win? What do they say about his anticlimatic loss? | ||
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iamkaokao
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kottbullar
Australia490 Posts
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tilhorizon
Germany191 Posts
nice of him to thanks the guy helped him to win. he also sayd this after the montreal win over rayner even the best player in the world needs help in training in preperation in tactics and gameplan and lambo is his first choice | ||
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Luolis
Finland7190 Posts
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BjoernK
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Noa Greenini
265 Posts
The people who don't want to crown him the best foreigner of all time must have not watched the game. It looks completely different to what we're used to. He wins in a way that just doesn't work for anyone else consistently and that's also why he looks so scary. How do you counter a style like that. No doubt someone will figure it out, but to us mere mortals it looks crazy. No foreigner has looked so dominant, and only a few koreans. It seems like Serral tries out things in smaller tournaments and brings his A-game to Premiers, judging from the losses he's taken but I haven't seen all of those matches. Also, as some people have said: the elitism and doubting, even in the face of rapidly mounting evidence, from some posters makes it even better. I wish i didn't play Terran when I see Serral play.... | ||
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Latr02
United States268 Posts
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mierin
United States4943 Posts
On November 05 2018 12:15 kottbullar wrote: Perhaps the scariest thing about Serral is that you can see him improving after every series he's won (and lost). Yep. Won 3-1 against Dark in GSLvTW? 3-0 this time. 4-3 against Stats? 4-2 this time. Everyone really wanted a Maru/Serral match, but the game is not dead and there is plenty of time in the future for that to happen. | ||
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Boucot
France15997 Posts
On November 05 2018 13:13 BjoernK wrote: I would be very interested in Korean news/social media about Serral. What are they saying about his run and him as a player? There's a reddit post about it. | ||
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mierin
United States4943 Posts
"His autograph skills are poor" was my favorite :p | ||
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Titusmaster6
United States5937 Posts
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ReditusSum
79 Posts
On November 05 2018 08:42 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: I sucks to be Maru right now. Any other year in SC2 history winning all 3 GSLs would cement you as best player no questions asked, but now Serral throws some doubt on that. Well.. now that I'm looking at Serral's actual tournament wins, his run looks much less impressive. Obviously he gets props for winning the World Championship, but Maru is far, far ahead in my opinion. Maru won tournaments against objectively better opponents, Serral won the big, subjective story-line. | ||
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Sharkken
Jordan141 Posts
I think he should switch to Terran then Protoss and repeat the achievement  | ||
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RYZmooN
Canada575 Posts
On November 05 2018 14:34 ReditusSum wrote: Well.. now that I'm looking at Serral's actual tournament wins, his run looks much less impressive. Obviously he gets props for winning the World Championship, but Maru is far, far ahead in my opinion. Maru won tournaments against objectively better opponents, Serral won the big, subjective story-line. It's definitely not a Cinderella story because Serral was never the underdog (in a lot of people's mind). But I wouldn't take away from his opponents because all of his games were super exiting to watch. Kinda biased coz I'm a Zerg but still xD | ||
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phodacbiet
United States1740 Posts
On November 05 2018 14:04 mierin wrote: "His autograph skills are poor" was my favorite :p You have no idea... Serral signed my poster and it legit looked like I got a third grader to forge it. But it's okay because at least I know he's spending time practicing sc2 instead of writing. | ||
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Mountain_Lee
87 Posts
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Veluvian
Bulgaria256 Posts
In the beginning of the Grand finals I thought that Serral is great, but still he had no consistent experience with top korrean players. Now he made huge jump in the history. Congratulations and well deserved! | ||
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tagliatelle
Canada69 Posts
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SlammerIV
United States526 Posts
On November 05 2018 14:34 ReditusSum wrote: Well.. now that I'm looking at Serral's actual tournament wins, his run looks much less impressive. Obviously he gets props for winning the World Championship, but Maru is far, far ahead in my opinion. Maru won tournaments against objectively better opponents, Serral won the big, subjective story-line. As impressive as Maru was I think Serral was more impressive. Serral won two tournaments filled with top tier koreans in addition to four!! Straight WCS events. As good as Maru was this year it is undeniable that Maru failed to win several key matches, notably at GSL vs the World and Blizzcon. I don't think it is fair to call Maru the better player when he failed to defeat Serral on the latest patch. You can argue 3 GSl is impressive but I would say that the caliber of players that Serral defeated at Blizzcon and GSL are about equal and the 4 WCS match at least 1 GSL. | ||
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