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INnoVation defeats Serral to win WESG 2018

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-17 20:08:12
March 17 2019 19:56 GMT
#1

World Electronic Sports Games 2018: Grand Finals

The legend of odd-year (Wiki)INnoVation continued in 2019 as the Korean Terran player won his tenth major championship, defeating Finland's (Wiki)Serral 4-3 in the finals the World Electronic Sports Games. The victory signaled a triumphant return to championship form for INnoVation, whose poor 2018 campaign had seen him fail to qualify for the WCS Global Finals. The WESG victory also gave INnoVation his single largest prize-money haul of his career at $150,000, pushing him to third place in the all-time prize money rankings.

Serral had bested INnoVation twice in 2018, sweeping him in the quarterfinals of GSL vs. The World and winning 4-3 in the finals of HomeStory Cup 18. However, INnoVation had won their most recent clash in the IEM Katowice group stage, using his Ghost-Liberator style to outlast Serral in two marathon games (granted, the match had no competitive stakes due to group rankings already being determined).

The series from IEM may have been on both Serral and INnoVAtion's minds to begin the WESG finals, with the two players splitting the first four maps 2-2 with a succession of cheesy strategies including proxy-Hatcheries, proxy-Barracks, and Ravager busts.

INnoVation broke the tie in game five in vintage INnoVation fashion, slowly wearing Serral down with endless waves of Terran troops after seizing the early game advantage with an incisive Marine-Tank attack. However, Serral tied the series back up at 3-3 with a spectacular late-game victory on Cyber Forest, where his experiences from his IEM loss seemed to bear fruit. Drawing the defensive lines to include just a single extra mining base on his side of the map, Serral held out against a relentless barrage of tactical nukes to outlast INnoVation in a brutal match.

With the series and championship on the line, INnoVation opted for another powerful Marine-Tank attack, similar to the one that had won him game five. Once more, Serral took significant damage while defending, and once more, INnoVation ruthlessly snowballed his lead. After a final, last-ditch engagement, Serral gave up the last GG of the series, crowning INnoVation the WESG 2018 champion.


After a poor 2016 where he admitted to taking too much time off, INnoVation bounced back with an amazing WCS 2017 campaign that saw him win four major championships during the tournament cycle. StarCraft II fans will be eager to see if 2019 will be a repeat of the same story, with INnoVation reminding everyone that one fallow year means nothing to one of the game's greatest champions.

In the third place match, (Wiki)Maru overcame a 0-2 deficit against (Wiki)Scarlett to win in a reverse sweep, claiming the $20,000 3rd place prize (Scarlett won $10,000 for 4th place). Scarlett's game one victory was one of the bizarre highlights of the tournament, with Maru leaving an otherwise tie-able game due to being unaware of Terran's building float spots on the map. Though Scarlett was able to take a second game with a Nydus all-in, Maru rallied back to win the next three games.
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Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-17 20:03:48
March 17 2019 20:01 GMT
#2
Innovation's longevity has been insane - he's been playing at a high level since 2012, and still doesn't seem to be slowing down. He's still only 25, so he's not that old yet, and hasn't had a major injury that has limited his play (knocks on wood)

Meanwhile, we've seen so many legends drop off due to age / injuries:
Mvp
Nestea
MMA
MC
Taeja
...
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
yht9657
Profile Joined December 2016
1810 Posts
March 17 2019 20:09 GMT
#3
Truly the war machine of Korea.

Fun fact: All three WESG finals so far have been a 4-3 close series, with a Korean Terran winning it all. I guess in order to get a good grand finals the entire tournament needs to suck first.
BlazingGlory
Profile Joined February 2010
Bulgaria855 Posts
March 17 2019 20:14 GMT
#4
Couldnt watch. How were the games?
Sviru1
Profile Joined January 2017
29 Posts
March 17 2019 20:25 GMT
#5
Games were great

Serral lost last game with bad engagement. Idk why there was no surround. Otherwise great cheesy games.
yubo56
Profile Joined May 2014
688 Posts
March 17 2019 20:26 GMT
#6
On March 18 2019 05:01 Bagration wrote:
Innovation's longevity has been insane - he's been playing at a high level since 2012, and still doesn't seem to be slowing down. He's still only 25, so he's not that old yet, and hasn't had a major injury that has limited his play (knocks on wood)

Meanwhile, we've seen so many legends drop off due to age / injuries:
Mvp
Nestea
MMA
MC
Taeja
...


Probably doesn't hurt that he's the "second laziest, after only scarlett" according to the chinese volunteer's blog posted on here just a bit back
Jung Yoon Jong fighting, even after retirement! Feel better soon.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33433 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-17 20:32:05
March 17 2019 20:30 GMT
#7
On March 18 2019 05:26 yubo56 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2019 05:01 Bagration wrote:
Innovation's longevity has been insane - he's been playing at a high level since 2012, and still doesn't seem to be slowing down. He's still only 25, so he's not that old yet, and hasn't had a major injury that has limited his play (knocks on wood)

Meanwhile, we've seen so many legends drop off due to age / injuries:
Mvp
Nestea
MMA
MC
Taeja
...


Probably doesn't hurt that he's the "second laziest, after only scarlett" according to the chinese volunteer's blog posted on here just a bit back


maybe the secret to a long career is literally taking entire years off to play league of legends :D

Scarlett was just ahead of the curve with her 2015 break for Dota2
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
argonautdice
Profile Joined January 2013
Canada2719 Posts
March 17 2019 20:32 GMT
#8
On March 18 2019 05:09 yht9657 wrote:
Truly the war machine of Korea.

Fun fact: All three WESG finals so far have been a 4-3 close series, with a Korean Terran winning it all. I guess in order to get a good grand finals the entire tournament needs to suck first.

Maybe the grand final needs to be played on a separate day? Or just the final needs to involve T
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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
March 17 2019 20:37 GMT
#9
Maru and Scarlett both forgetting about buildings being able to fly into corners is even more surreal than the explanations we were coming up with around the weird WESG rules about ties.
speakerbox
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada453 Posts
March 17 2019 20:44 GMT
#10
Excited to watch these games. Innovation is sick at this game
twin anchors houseboats
atchosvk
Profile Joined April 2018
55 Posts
March 17 2019 20:44 GMT
#11
A 110 K $ final game :D
The whole series was beautiful, the last game was kind of anti climatic though.
UnLarva
Profile Joined March 2019
458 Posts
March 17 2019 21:01 GMT
#12
@WESG organizers!

You MUST be capable of doing better in every aspects of your product!

Regardless of your apparent efforts and a lot of heavy duty and hard work the end result of your product was sub-par! Especially if your aim was to improve the prestige of the tournament.

- Sub-par streaming, to international audiences particularly.
- Excellent grandiose facade without soul
- Technical problems here and there, during whole tournament consistently
- Severe issues in the representation via internet: total suckF schedule makes no good, but if it is combined with lack of accurate timers, lack of accurate brackets, lack of everything practically 'very basic' things that make a tournament something people wants to watch, follow... and hype... urgh! argh!
- Nobody can build genuine hype if all above fails!
- Money can buy what money can buy, but you cannot buy your audiences

It's management issue. Rank-and-file workers did their jobs very well.

Better job next year then, please.
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Need
Profile Joined March 2019
566 Posts
March 17 2019 21:03 GMT
#13
On March 18 2019 05:14 BlazingGlory wrote:
Couldnt watch. How were the games?


Pretty forgettable... Mostly decided by all-ins and timing attacks before the 8 minute mark. The one long macro game (nukes and all) was won by Serral, but he had a pretty big early advantage (even though he throw away most of it). The result/story is more interesting than the series itself
DomeGetta
Profile Joined February 2012
480 Posts
March 17 2019 21:04 GMT
#14
300K in the bank in Q1 - 2 players who didn't qualify for Blizzcon - thanks region lock.
Inno is a complete monster - even though he lost it - he was unreal in game 6 - most impressive late game T I have seen in the modern age - was such a good series - surprised how aggro Serral was early on - maybe trying to be less predictable. Wish we had these tournaments every month!
Scrubwave
Profile Joined July 2010
Poland1786 Posts
March 17 2019 21:04 GMT
#15
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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-17 21:18:48
March 17 2019 21:17 GMT
#16
On March 18 2019 05:30 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2019 05:26 yubo56 wrote:
On March 18 2019 05:01 Bagration wrote:
Innovation's longevity has been insane - he's been playing at a high level since 2012, and still doesn't seem to be slowing down. He's still only 25, so he's not that old yet, and hasn't had a major injury that has limited his play (knocks on wood)

Meanwhile, we've seen so many legends drop off due to age / injuries:
Mvp
Nestea
MMA
MC
Taeja
...


Probably doesn't hurt that he's the "second laziest, after only scarlett" according to the chinese volunteer's blog posted on here just a bit back


maybe the secret to a long career is literally taking entire years off to play league of legends :D

Scarlett was just ahead of the curve with her 2015 break for Dota2


Sniper was the OG, go to HOTS, win all the cash, then leave and let everything burn.

Edit: god damn it Sniper ruined my 4000 post
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Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-17 21:39:44
March 17 2019 21:21 GMT
#17
On March 18 2019 06:17 Nakajin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2019 05:30 Waxangel wrote:
On March 18 2019 05:26 yubo56 wrote:
On March 18 2019 05:01 Bagration wrote:
Innovation's longevity has been insane - he's been playing at a high level since 2012, and still doesn't seem to be slowing down. He's still only 25, so he's not that old yet, and hasn't had a major injury that has limited his play (knocks on wood)

Meanwhile, we've seen so many legends drop off due to age / injuries:
Mvp
Nestea
MMA
MC
Taeja
...


Probably doesn't hurt that he's the "second laziest, after only scarlett" according to the chinese volunteer's blog posted on here just a bit back


maybe the secret to a long career is literally taking entire years off to play league of legends :D

Scarlett was just ahead of the curve with her 2015 break for Dota2


Sniper was the OG, go to HOTS, win all the cash, then leave and let everything burn.

Edit: god damn it Sniper ruined my 4000 post


sniper is the most aptly named progamer, retrospectively.
most progamers snipe players and maps. sniper snipes tournaments
get rich or die mining
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Mahanaim
Profile Joined December 2012
Korea (South)1002 Posts
March 17 2019 21:28 GMT
#18
What a great series.
Celebrating Starcraft since... a long time ago.
INIFINITY_TxK
Profile Joined March 2019
1 Post
March 17 2019 21:38 GMT
#19
Deserved. Amazing play for Inno!!!!
Edpayasugo
Profile Joined April 2013
United Kingdom2215 Posts
March 17 2019 21:43 GMT
#20
So pleased for INno
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