Do NOT let this thread derail into a Maru vs Serral discussion. Serral is not even in this tournament. There is no reason to be discussing Maru vs Serral right now.
I'm not aware of him beating the GSL winner. The only reliable way to beat any GSL winner is to come to Korea and do the GSL.
Anyway, enjoy w/e reply you have, I'm not gonna support this trolling/OT anymore.
as I am aware, the GSL winner entered 2 tournaments this year where he and Serral could meet and proved to be of inferior quality to reach the finals, whereas Serral not only got to the finals but also won. On one of those occasions (GSL vs The World) they did play 1 best of 1 where the GSL winner lost. Also, they both took 3rd-4th place at IEM Katowice in 2018. So explain to me your fixation on Serral coming to the GSL? Its an awkward type of tournament that requires months in a foreign country to participate and also an environment with an inferior Zerg meta
You're mistaken.They have played one match this year at WESG and Maru won. Anyway, this will be my only comment on the topic.
On January 29 2019 02:40 Elentos wrote: I think H and D are clearly the strongest and B clearly the weakest.
C looks stronger than D.
MC and Cure should be on par with Parting Bunny
Stats is better than sOs and Gumi is better than Solar.
I'd go with D being stronger, too. Cure is on par with Bunny but PartinG is way better than MC; you can never know how good sOs is even if Stats is more reliable and Solar has been better than Gumiho on average lately.
On January 29 2019 12:26 batatm wrote: GSL is simply on another lvl compared to any other tournament: every single group is so damn exciting!
Until Serral demolishes them Time to start the ol' discussion again XD
Can't wait for pro SC2 to go in full gear again. It's been too long since Blizzcon
Go MC!
I didn't notice Serral in the groups, in which group is he precisely or has he chicken out again and not tried the GSL?
Chicken out, really? Especially now that there is some kind of conflict between GSL and WCS participation? I'd have loved to see Serral here as well, but he rightfully decided not to spend months in Korea.
The rightful way for Serral to face the GSL winner would be in a final if that certain guy wouldn't lose to Protoss every time; Maru-Serral was 1-2(3-3 in maps) in 2018: two online games in a qualifier on EU, one showmatch(worth more than that) at GSL vs the World and the 3-0 at WSG, the only 'canonic' one but happened months before Serral truly become the unbeatable #1 Sc2 player. We already discussed it more than once...
On January 29 2019 12:26 batatm wrote: GSL is simply on another lvl compared to any other tournament: every single group is so damn exciting!
Until Serral demolishes them Time to start the ol' discussion again XD
Can't wait for pro SC2 to go in full gear again. It's been too long since Blizzcon
Go MC!
I didn't notice Serral in the groups, in which group is he precisely or has he chicken out again and not tried the GSL?
Chicken out, really? Especially now that there is some kind of conflict between GSL and WCS participation? I'd have loved to see Serral here as well, but he rightfully decided not to spend months in Korea.
The rightful way for Serral to face the GSL winner would be in a final if that certain guy wouldn't lose to Protoss every time; Maru-Serral was 1-2(3-3 in maps) in 2018: two online games in a qualifier on EU, one showmatch(worth more than that) at GSL vs the World and the 3-0 at WSG, the only 'canonic' one but happened months before Serral truly become the unbeatable #1 Sc2 player. We already discussed it more than once...
you do know that when someone uses this, they are joking right?
On January 29 2019 12:26 batatm wrote: GSL is simply on another lvl compared to any other tournament: every single group is so damn exciting!
Until Serral demolishes them Time to start the ol' discussion again XD
Can't wait for pro SC2 to go in full gear again. It's been too long since Blizzcon
Go MC!
I didn't notice Serral in the groups, in which group is he precisely or has he chicken out again and not tried the GSL?
Chicken out, really? Especially now that there is some kind of conflict between GSL and WCS participation? I'd have loved to see Serral here as well, but he rightfully decided not to spend months in Korea.
The rightful way for Serral to face the GSL winner would be in a final if that certain guy wouldn't lose to Protoss every time; Maru-Serral was 1-2(3-3 in maps) in 2018: two online games in a qualifier on EU, one showmatch(worth more than that) at GSL vs the World and the 3-0 at WSG, the only 'canonic' one but happened months before Serral truly become the unbeatable #1 Sc2 player. We already discussed it more than once...
We have to wait till March for some more games. Both are in WESG and IEM. Until then this discussion is circling out of control
Hey does anyone know what the GSL map pool will be? I keep checking the site page but nothing yet. Same as WCS Winter or are they gonna be one step behind like Season 1 last year?
On February 01 2019 11:30 StarcraftSquall wrote: Hey does anyone know what the GSL map pool will be? I keep checking the site page but nothing yet. Same as WCS Winter or are they gonna be one step behind like Season 1 last year?
Probably the same as ladder with some of the stupider or imbalanced maps swapped out for older maps or a map made for GSL.
On February 01 2019 11:30 StarcraftSquall wrote: Hey does anyone know what the GSL map pool will be? I keep checking the site page but nothing yet. Same as WCS Winter or are they gonna be one step behind like Season 1 last year?
Probably the same as ladder with some of the stupider or imbalanced maps swapped out for older maps or a map made for GSL.
None of the new maps seem imbalanced so it’d be nice to see both tourneys using the same pool at the same time.
However if there’s one thing I really wish they’d change about the GSL format it’s the order of the matches. It seems like it’s better to me to to let the losers match play before the winners like WCS Challenger format does: think about it. If you drop the first match you don’t have to sit on it as long and the winners actually get time to reset / breathe themselves before playing their second match. If you win you get a break if you lose you mostly don’t.