EPTDream, DongRaeGu, TaeJa, Bomber, TOP, SortOf, and Cloudy were among the notable players who were eliminated in qualifiers. Code S Season 1 is set to begin on February 2nd with the first RO32 match.
Code S Qualifiers conclude (2019 Season 1)
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Dream, DongRaeGu, TaeJa, Bomber, TOP, SortOf, and Cloudy were among the notable players who were eliminated in qualifiers. Code S Season 1 is set to begin on February 2nd with the first RO32 match.
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DeFNos
Netherlands11 Posts
Too bad he had to do that over SortOf | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
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Toua
Denmark318 Posts
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Snarosc
France66 Posts
Very sad for Bomber, who was in Scarlett and Keen's group... Wished he'd make it. And I hope he'll train to make it to S2 and not just give up on coming back. Sad about DongRaeGu aswell, after losing in the qualifying match in both days, especially after taking out Dark in Day1 ...  | ||
Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
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lechatnoir
392 Posts
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Akio
Finland1838 Posts
 Also I am extremely hyped to see Leenock this season, last season he was looking super good but everyone kind of forgot after he lost one-sidesly to TY in the ro8, due to his surgery. (Not saying he would have 100% won, but it would have been more close) Leenocktopus fighting~ | ||
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On January 26 2019 20:48 Nakajin wrote: What's up with Classic, I tought he was gone? 2019 is his last year. | ||
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Charoisaur
Germany16038 Posts
On January 26 2019 20:40 opisska wrote: Man, driving out the foreigners has surely helped the new blood to get in! Well the returners made it harder for them to qualify but at least they have a better chance now than if there were an additional 10 top foreigners in the qualifiers. | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
On January 26 2019 21:35 Charoisaur wrote: Well the returners made it harder for them to qualify but at least they have a better chance now than if there were an additional 10 top foreigners in the qualifiers. C'mon, this was somewhat acceptable as an opinion before we had any actual data, but how can you say this with a straight face after we had a qualifier almost devoid of foreigners, with just one spot being taken by a foreigner and yet ZERO new people? | ||
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Charoisaur
Germany16038 Posts
On January 26 2019 21:37 opisska wrote: C'mon, this was somewhat acceptable as an opinion before we had any actual data, but how can you say this with a straight face after we had a qualifier almost devoid of foreigners, with just one spot being taken by a foreigner and yet ZERO new people? I don't know what's so hard to understand about what I wrote. With MC, Fantasy, DRG, Dream, Bomber and TaeJa there are 6 ex top players who weren't in the qualifiers the last two years. It's not that much of a surprise no newcomers qualified. If the semi region lock would have been in place last year already the chance for new players to qualify would have been much higher. Acting like the foreigner invasion didn't hurt korean new blood is just disingenuos. TLDR The last two years there was place in Code S for newcomers if it wasn't for foreigners. Now unfortunately not anymore because the player pool increased with the returners. But they still have a better shot than they would have without the semi-region-lock. | ||
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rednusa
651 Posts
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
On January 26 2019 21:42 Charoisaur wrote: I don't know what's so hard to understand about what I wrote. With MC, Fantasy, DRG, Dream, Bomber and TaeJa there are 6 ex top players who weren't in the qualifiers the last two years. It's not that much of a surprise no newcomers qualified. If the semi region lock would have been in place last year already the chance for new players to qualify would have been much higher. Acting like the foreigner invasion didn't hurt korean new blood is just disingenuos. TLDR The last two years there was place in Code S for newcomers if it wasn't for foreigners. Now unfortunately not anymore because the player pool increased with the returners. But they still have a better shot than they would have without the semi-region-lock. I am already curious where are you going to move the goalposts next year (assuming there is a GSL 2020, that is). | ||
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Cricketer12
United States13990 Posts
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SaintTieum
South Africa22 Posts
 Bunny is through. | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
Yay!!!!! One more year of Classic | ||
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Zzoram
Canada7115 Posts
On January 26 2019 21:59 rednusa wrote: With Scarlett qualifying, is she removing herself from WCS? This is the biggest question for me out of these results. Maybe she feels strong enough to go for glory over easy WCS points and money. GSL Code S actually potentially pays out a lot better than WCS though. If Scarlett makes it to the Ro16 GSL (not guaranteed she will) that’s the same money as 5-6th place for WCS America (she definitely would). | ||
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sparklyresidue
United States5523 Posts
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AlgeriaT
Sweden2197 Posts
On January 26 2019 21:59 rednusa wrote: With Scarlett qualifying, is she removing herself from WCS? This is what I want to know too. God damnit Blizz how about some clarity on this :/ | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
On January 26 2019 22:46 Zzoram wrote: This is the biggest question for me out of these results. Maybe she feels strong enough to go for glory over easy money. I think she repeatedly said that she likes it in Korea personally? So in that regard her decision to compete there since she is already living there isn't that weird. I mean WCS money is great, but is not even guaranteed for her in any regard considering she wasn't dominant for a long time and I would guess travelling round the WCS events isn't cheap either. Nevertheless, I still have a big respect for her for doing that. GSL is still the top competition and no matter what foreigner fans say, WCS players just play in their own gated kindergarten playground. Yes, Serral would have been probably be a serious contender for GSL if he played in it, but he is a huge outlier. | ||
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freelifeffs
97 Posts
still sad for DRG and dream :/ | ||
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Vutalisk
United States680 Posts
Great to see MC and PartinG made it. Love to see them live on stage. | ||
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Vutalisk
United States680 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On January 26 2019 23:14 Vutalisk wrote: Pretty much all usual names made it except for Trap. Great to see MC and PartinG made it. Love to see them live on stage. Trap is in! | ||
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blunderfulguy
United States1415 Posts
On January 26 2019 23:22 Vutalisk wrote: BTW, so is it not true GSL blocking foreigners? Look like Scarlett made it and she is in WCS Winter too. Doesn't look like it is a problem. Seems like it's with WCS Challenger Circuit and GSL/WCS Korea Circuit, Winter is outside of that. It's weird though, loads of people are wanting some official statement. | ||
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silverkeops
France18 Posts
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RealityTheGreat
China564 Posts
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Serimek
France2274 Posts
On January 26 2019 22:46 Zzoram wrote: This is the biggest question for me out of these results. Maybe she feels strong enough to go for glory over easy WCS points and money. GSL Code S actually potentially pays out a lot better than WCS though. If Scarlett makes it to the Ro16 GSL (not guaranteed she will) that’s the same money as 5-6th place for WCS America (she definitely would). Chances to go to BlizzCon are thinner in Korea though. | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On January 26 2019 21:42 Charoisaur wrote: I don't know what's so hard to understand about what I wrote. With MC, Fantasy, DRG, Dream, Bomber and TaeJa there are 6 ex top players who weren't in the qualifiers the last two years. It's not that much of a surprise no newcomers qualified. If the semi region lock would have been in place last year already the chance for new players to qualify would have been much higher. Acting like the foreigner invasion didn't hurt korean new blood is just disingenuos. TLDR The last two years there was place in Code S for newcomers if it wasn't for foreigners. Now unfortunately not anymore because the player pool increased with the returners. But they still have a better shot than they would have without the semi-region-lock. Let's then take a look at what happened in Code S qualifiers last two years! I am listing which foreigners qualified and at the expense at which korean player, considering qualifier matches only(and ignoring the foreigner who lost when there was no korean player in the qualifier match); It's unlikely that someone losing to a foreigner in the first matches could have proceed to beat the other koreans players who ultimately eliminated said foreigners in the qualified, if those were absent. S1 2017-Scarlett instead of Seed; S2 2017-SpeCial, Scarlett instead of Hurricane, herO. S3 2017-SpeCial, Scarlett, TIME, Elazer, NoRegreT instead of Seed, Myungsik, Zest, Prince, Impact. S1 2018-Scarlett, NoRegreT, SortOf instead of Patience, Patience(lol), Rookie. S2 2018-Scarlett, Zanster, SortOf, Elazer instead of Bunny, Ragnarok, herO, Hurricane. S3 2018-Reynor, Neeb, SpeCial instead of Trust, Byul, Patience ; S1 2019-Scarlett instead of Bomber. Foreigners qualified nineteen times in seven seasons; I don't think that's too massive of a representation However, the koreans who were denied their Code S spot were mostly mid-level players who don't always pass the qualifiers and former champs past their primes or in a slump; only twice a foreigner took the place of a korean up and comer: Elazer beating Prince and SortOf beating Rookie. | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
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Kalera
United States338 Posts
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On January 27 2019 01:46 Kalera wrote: I'm not sure you can extrapolate who was 'blocked' in that manner because all the groups would have been seeded very differently without all the foreigners in the qualifier. This was not my intention; I was just trying to point out who was directly prevented to qualify given the actual brackets(foreigners included). If the qualifying match was foreigner vs foreigner, i looked at the last korean defeated by the losing foreigner; of course the qualifiers would have been entirely different if no foreigner was present but the very composition of Code S could be very different. | ||
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Ej_
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It's just a matter of whether you feel the spot not occupied by KR pros should go to actual progamers (albeit not Korean) or KR amateurs. To elaborate on that, I also do not think the Korean scene can be nurtured in any way for the Korean amateurs to grow, the gap is massive and there's few amateurs willing to actually compete. | ||
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KelsierSC
United Kingdom10443 Posts
Dark, Losira and MC all getting through is sick though | ||
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William paradise
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On January 26 2019 22:46 Zzoram wrote: This is the biggest question for me out of these results. Maybe she feels strong enough to go for glory over easy WCS points and money. GSL Code S actually potentially pays out a lot better than WCS though. If Scarlett makes it to the Ro16 GSL (not guaranteed she will) that’s the same money as 5-6th place for WCS America (she definitely would). yea wish someone would clarify the situation | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
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Lorning
Belgica34432 Posts
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Gomas
Poland312 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17260 Posts
On January 26 2019 20:37 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote: Code S Season 1 is set to begin on February 2nd with the first RO32 match. is there a broadcast schedule for February 2019 ? EDIT: it goes from Feb 2 to April 13.. that is good news. Therefore, they are NOT cramming 1 season into 1 massive 3 day weekend of 14 hours per day of gaming. BIG WIN. | ||
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On January 27 2019 04:07 JimmyJRaynor wrote: is there a broadcast schedule for February 2019 ? Not yet, but there's two options basically. Either they go on break during the Ro32 for Katowice, or they condense it to finish beforehand. In the first case, GSL would probably be on the 2nd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 16th, and 20th. In the 2nd case, 2 extra dates would be added. E: Actually they could have a break on the 6th because the 5th is Lunar New Year | ||
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EEk1TwEEk
Russian Federation188 Posts
I wish him the best of luck in 2019, hope to see him back! | ||
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On January 27 2019 05:22 EEk1TwEEk wrote: Thought Dream is retired His military service either recently finished or is about to finish. | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
On January 27 2019 01:55 Ej_ wrote: Having said all of that, I don't think any amateur player has a hope of ever making Code S as long as there are 32 (ex-)pros in Korea. It's just a matter of whether you feel the spot not occupied by KR pros should go to actual progamers (albeit not Korean) or KR amateurs. To elaborate on that, I also do not think the Korean scene can be nurtured in any way for the Korean amateurs to grow, the gap is massive and there's few amateurs willing to actually compete. Well, look at those that qualified for both EU and NA WCS winter, perhaps EU in particular. Quite a few new youngsters there among the qualified, upcoming players like Goblin, SoulSpirit, Skillous etc., giving the old guard a hard time. Harstem was on the ropes to make it through. I bet they've all played Serral, Showtime, UThermal and the rest of the top dogs a few times on the ladder and learned a thing or two. Surely the same thing could happen in KR? | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
On January 26 2019 23:35 blunderfulguy wrote: Seems like it's with WCS Challenger Circuit and GSL/WCS Korea Circuit, Winter is outside of that. It's weird though, loads of people are wanting some official statement. That just sounds too weird. Is it a fact that foreigners were told off to compete in GSL? Did anyone tweet about it or something? | ||
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William paradise
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On January 27 2019 06:39 BaneRiders wrote: That just sounds too weird. Is it a fact that foreigners were told off to compete in GSL? Did anyone tweet about it or something? TIME maybe was told he couldn't compete in wcs though a email. | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
On January 27 2019 07:07 William paradise wrote: TIME maybe was told he couldn't compete in wcs though a email. That I don't get. Why could Sortof and Scarlet but not time?  | ||
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On January 27 2019 07:21 BaneRiders wrote: That I don't get. Why could Sortof and Scarlet but not time? Nobody gets it. Nobody will get it until we get the full rule set for 2019 WCS from Blizzard. If we're lucky we might have that by 2020. | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
On January 27 2019 07:24 Elentos wrote: Nobody gets it. Nobody will get it until we get the full rule set for 2019 WCS from Blizzard. If we're lucky we might have that by 2020. Well, let's have a glass of whisky in the meantime then... A bit OT, but perhaps related due to the communication difficulties we're suffering from: where is WCS EU and WCS NA taking place? The offline parts that is. | ||
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Shura
France54 Posts
On January 27 2019 07:20 Shellshock wrote: SHURRAAAAA Yes ? | ||
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Crocolisk Dundee
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On January 27 2019 02:41 Lorning wrote: Creator Seconding this. Hope he can show a similar performance as in Super Tournament 2 in 2018. | ||
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William paradise
1753 Posts
On January 27 2019 07:24 Elentos wrote: Nobody gets it. Nobody will get it until we get the full rule set for 2019 WCS from Blizzard. If we're lucky we might have that by 2020. lol that was just funny | ||
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Xamo
Spain884 Posts
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gophersnake
48 Posts
On January 26 2019 20:40 opisska wrote: Man, driving out the foreigners has surely helped the new blood to get in! Ya it's good to see the fresh korean talent finally rising up and getting to play on the big stage. No more 3 non-korean players robbing their scene of it's round of 32 money. | ||
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ShambhalaWar
United States930 Posts
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DjKniteX
United States243 Posts
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parrotpitaya
Germany37 Posts
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Kikirik1
45 Posts
On January 27 2019 01:42 Xain0n wrote: Let's then take a look at what happened in Code S qualifiers last two years! I am listing which foreigners qualified and at the expense at which korean player, considering qualifier matches only(and ignoring the foreigner who lost when there was no korean player in the qualifier match); It's unlikely that someone losing to a foreigner in the first matches could have proceed to beat the other koreans players who ultimately eliminated said foreigners in the qualified, if those were absent. S1 2017-Scarlett instead of Seed; S2 2017-SpeCial, Scarlett instead of Hurricane, herO. S3 2017-SpeCial, Scarlett, TIME, Elazer, NoRegreT instead of Seed, Myungsik, Zest, Prince, Impact. S1 2018-Scarlett, NoRegreT, SortOf instead of Patience, Patience(lol), Rookie. S2 2018-Scarlett, Zanster, SortOf, Elazer instead of Bunny, Ragnarok, herO, Hurricane. S3 2018-Reynor, Neeb, SpeCial instead of Trust, Byul, Patience ; S1 2019-Scarlett instead of Bomber. Foreigners qualified nineteen times in seven seasons; I don't think that's too massive of a representation However, the koreans who were denied their Code S spot were mostly mid-level players who don't always pass the qualifiers and former champs past their primes or in a slump; only twice a foreigner took the place of a korean up and comer: Elazer beating Prince and SortOf beating Rookie. Byul retire after that, and Patience is still patiently wait..... | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On January 27 2019 09:30 gophersnake wrote: Ya it's good to see the fresh korean talent finally rising up and getting to play on the big stage. No more 3 non-korean players robbing their scene of it's round of 32 money. Well the last season we saw how they robbed the ro32 mon... oh, wait a minute!! At least don't lie | ||
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brickrd
United States4894 Posts
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On January 27 2019 23:38 brickrd wrote: MC to win it all with 20 gateway allins Would be nostalgic and nice and all  | ||
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waiting2Bbanned
United States154 Posts
On January 26 2019 22:46 Zzoram wrote: This is the biggest question for me out of these results. Maybe she feels strong enough to go for glory over easy WCS points and money. I'm pretty sure her GSL record is way better than her abysmal WCS record, even in NA*. (*) probably the only progamer in the history of competitive Starcraft (BW & SC2) that statement has ever applied to | ||
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neptunusfisk
2286 Posts
On January 27 2019 23:38 brickrd wrote: MC to win it all with 20 gateway allins Or maybe losing a PvP finals to three versions of 4 gate + warp prism?? That would be nostalgia right there | ||
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aringadingding
479 Posts
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jarodtou
167 Posts
no new players, no foreigners showing up. at least I can be happy to see old players returning like DRG, MC, Parting.. etc | ||
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spenzer
27 Posts
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fronkschnonk
Germany622 Posts
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Hadronsbecrazy
United Kingdom551 Posts
On January 26 2019 20:40 opisska wrote: Man, driving out the foreigners has surely helped the new blood to get in! this MC fellow has some potential | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3567 Posts
 2019 Global StarCraft II League Season 1/Code S | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
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Jank
United States308 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On January 29 2019 03:27 Jank wrote: How come I see some players like scarlett and mc in multiple qualifier brackets but I only see my boy juanito get one chance? How's the system work? You had 2 shots, Special didin't play in either. He didn't show up for the first qualifier even if he was register, probably some conflict with WCS. | ||
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Jank
United States308 Posts
On January 29 2019 03:31 Nakajin wrote: You had 2 shots, Special didin't play in either. He didn't show up for the first qualifier even if he was register, probably some conflict with WCS. Ah gotchas, thanks. | ||
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ZuckerkickOnAiur
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bloooargh
United States28 Posts
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On January 30 2019 00:42 bloooargh wrote: A shame we can't have SpeCial v Fantasy this season. Their styles are so much fun to watch, and I can't remember seeing a match like that recently. Well hey, we can't have SpeCial vs Fantasy, but the player SpeCial idolizes does play Fantasy. | ||
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