GSL Code S resumed after an upset-laden IEM Katowice, with the first couple of RO16 groups offering up a few more surprises after the previous week's international spectacle.
While Maru advanced to the quarterfinals from Group A, he was made to advance in second place after losing to a feisty Bunny who continued his strong run of form in 2019. While not as shocking as Maru's IEM Katowice group stage elimination, it deepened worries that the 3x Code S champion of 2018 may have regressed considerably in form.
In Group D of the RO16, soO traded one curse for another. A kong no longer, soO suffered the common 'championship hangover' and was eliminated after two series losses to Rogue. TY and Rogue were able to partially make up for their lackluster results at IEM Katowice, securing their advancement to the Code S quarterfinals.
Code S now goes on another week hiatus for another big-money international tournament in WESG, which will be held over March 11-17. Code S will resume on March 20th with Group C of the RO16, where Classic, Trap, INnoVation, and sOs will be in action (check out Liquipedia for more information).
TY absolutely crushes the group of death and TL's comment is that "TY and Rogue were able to partially make up for their lackluster results at IEM", as if the two had showed similar levels of play today?
TY is looking by far the best of the eight players who have played in the Ro16 so far.
On March 10 2019 07:34 sneakyfox wrote: TY absolutely crushes the group of death and TL's comment is that "TY and Rogue were able to partially make up for their lackluster results at IEM", as if the two had showed similar levels of play today?
TY is looking by far the best of the eight players who have played in the Ro16 so far.
TL also keeps commenting that soO is a "kong no more" but nobody de-kong'd YellOw any time he won a tournament that wasn't a Korean league. And I'm pretty sure no amount of MLG wins saved MarineKongPrime.
On March 10 2019 07:34 sneakyfox wrote: TY absolutely crushes the group of death and TL's comment is that "TY and Rogue were able to partially make up for their lackluster results at IEM", as if the two had showed similar levels of play today?
TY is looking by far the best of the eight players who have played in the Ro16 so far.
TL also keeps commenting that soO is a "kong no more" but nobody de-kong'd YellOw any time he won a tournament that wasn't a Korean league. And I'm pretty sure no amount of MLG wins saved MarineKongPrime.
We were all willing to forget about KeSPA cup to preserve soO's pristine Kong status--forgetting about an IEM shouldn't be too much harder.
Ty and Rogue are both such monsters. I wish we got to see soO vs Ty tbh soOs zvt looks unbelievable atm. Im so confused how rogue just destroyed soO so hard after soO took down Serral and seems like everytime Rogue plays Serral he gets destroyed??? Stylistic thing?
On March 10 2019 09:19 GrandSmurf wrote: not sure about the maru concern being out of form. he was just trolling around in all matches.
Well he better stop trolling asap then because his second set vs Impact was way to close, he loses if Impact was just a bit more carefull with his fight
On March 10 2019 07:34 sneakyfox wrote: TY absolutely crushes the group of death and TL's comment is that "TY and Rogue were able to partially make up for their lackluster results at IEM", as if the two had showed similar levels of play today?
TY is looking by far the best of the eight players who have played in the Ro16 so far.
TL also keeps commenting that soO is a "kong no more" but nobody de-kong'd YellOw any time he won a tournament that wasn't a Korean league. And I'm pretty sure no amount of MLG wins saved MarineKongPrime.
You can't compare early BW with late LoTV, Starleague were immensely more prestigious than any special event Yellow ever won, whereas IEM Katowice is arguably better than Code S in 2019.
MarineKing was the first true Kong in Sc2, I guess that's why we remember him as such; also, MLG were good but not as good as IEM and he was "only" 0-4 in korean finals, soO was so deeply committed to the kongness that such a big win really feels like redemption.
On March 10 2019 09:05 DomeGetta wrote: Ty and Rogue are both such monsters. I wish we got to see soO vs Ty tbh soOs zvt looks unbelievable atm. Im so confused how rogue just destroyed soO so hard after soO took down Serral and seems like everytime Rogue plays Serral he gets destroyed??? Stylistic thing?
On March 10 2019 07:34 sneakyfox wrote: TY absolutely crushes the group of death and TL's comment is that "TY and Rogue were able to partially make up for their lackluster results at IEM", as if the two had showed similar levels of play today?
TY is looking by far the best of the eight players who have played in the Ro16 so far.
TL also keeps commenting that soO is a "kong no more" but nobody de-kong'd YellOw any time he won a tournament that wasn't a Korean league. And I'm pretty sure no amount of MLG wins saved MarineKongPrime.
We were all willing to forget about KeSPA cup to preserve soO's pristine Kong status--forgetting about an IEM shouldn't be too much harder.
On March 10 2019 12:46 SamirDuran wrote: After a lackluster terran performance in iem, we're now back to reality wherein terran rule the world
Not really, Ro8 can easily still have perfect 3/3/2 distribution; Dark + any 3 of herO, Dear, Classic, Trap, and sOs is possible, or even likely. The groups with lots of Terran just happened to play first.
The only Terran deserving the praise is TY. Honestly, even if we consider Zerg and Protoss in a better situation, still both Maru and Bunny should advance from the group they were in.
Damn, TY was a destroyer! Usually I see how he compares with high level / equal opponents and overcome them, but this time he totally smashed them up. Problem for him is that he will eventually face protoss in next match which is not a confident match-up for him, unless Innovation do something impressive in order to survive. That really depends from Classic form and we haven't watched him for some time.
On March 10 2019 23:28 Xain0n wrote: Bunny never reached ro8 and didn't win a single map against Maru before, why wouldn't you praise him?
Because what I just wrote? Bunny playing his standard form guaranteed him RO8. The group was weak. For Bunny to fail it would require a big advantage in balance for Z/P.
On March 10 2019 23:28 Xain0n wrote: Bunny never reached ro8 and didn't win a single map against Maru before, why wouldn't you praise him?
Because what I just wrote? Bunny playing his standard form guaranteed him RO8. The group was weak. For Bunny to fail it would require a big advantage in balance for Z/P.
While TY had to face much better players.
Bunny went first in his group beating Maru, I wouldn't disregard this; it was far from granted Bunny would have defeated Patience and Impact considering his past Code S results.
TY obviously has to be praised, the way he advanced from that group of death was impressive; still, we already knew a player of his caliber could do it.
On some days TY seems as dominant as Serral did last year in WCS, and playing like a bonjwa.. and on the very next (match) day he loses as easily to inferior opponent.
On March 11 2019 19:30 midhigh wrote: On some days TY seems as dominant as Serral did last year in WCS, and playing like a bonjwa.. and on the very next (match) day he loses as easily to inferior opponent.
Ive never seen TY look as dominant as WCS Serral, and Ive never seen either TY or Serral have the sustained dominance of a bonjwa
EPT
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Maru advanced to the quarterfinals from Group A, he was made to advance in second place after losing to a feisty 
