The WCS Spring European Challenger tournament concluded with Serral, ShoWTimE, uThermal and Elazer winning seeded spots at the upcoming WCS Spring tournament in Kiev (May 17-19). After securing his seed by reaching the final four, Serral proceeded to defeat uThermal and ShoWTimE to win his fourth consecutive European Challenger tournament.
The four Europeans will join eight other seeded players from various regional qualifiers in group stage #3 of WCS Spring: Kelazhur and SpeCial from Latin America, Has and Rex from Taiwan/HK/Macau/Japan, Cloudy and MacSed from China, and Probe and RiSky from Oceania/South-East-Asia.
The regional qualifiers/challenger tournaments will conclude on Sunday, May 05 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) with the North American Challenger playoffs awarding the last four WCS Spring seeds.
On May 05 2019 18:53 StabiloBoss20 wrote: serral doing serral things. really good showing from showtime. First EU final 8 without ZvZ for like.. what? anyways. i like it, good day of starcraft
The last EU Challenger with a non-mirror final was in April last year.
Serral is so darn consistent. He might not win every darn match, but it's been well over a year since he's done poorly, that is pretty impressive and I guess makes sense, since his style attacks a lot, but rarely all-ins, so he punishes greed, but doesn't crumble when his attacks are defended. e: Happy to see showtime back in form .
On May 05 2019 21:20 neutralrobot wrote: How did Reynor look in his games?
Good. He was about to go 2-0 against uThermal before throwing the game to mass marines because he didn't built enough banelings. Then he was tilted for the rest of the series like it happened with MarineLord in the group stage as well. He needs to sort out his ability to stay focused, but otherwise he's a very good player and these results don't do him justice
On May 05 2019 21:20 neutralrobot wrote: How did Reynor look in his games?
It was trademark Reynor. He took game one convincingly, then it looked like he's taking game 2 as well, but uthermal kinda punched him in the neck before hive tech could kick in and he just fell apart from there.
On May 05 2019 22:29 ThePhan2m wrote: Old Serral, would have won 4-0 xD
Thats the thing about Serral, its not his ability to sweep opponents, its his ability to overcome adversities and win clutch games. How many times was he down 1-2 or 2-3 in series and win it 3-2 or 4-3. That's why his match score is way more impressive than map score.
Congrats to Serral, uThermal did very well too. He had a game against Serral that was extremely good. Probably one of the best games of the tournament.
On May 05 2019 22:29 ThePhan2m wrote: Old Serral, would have won 4-0 xD
Thats the thing about Serral, its not his ability to sweep opponents, its his ability to overcome adversities and win clutch games. How many times was he down 1-2 or 2-3 in series and win it 3-2 or 4-3. That's why his match score is way more impressive than map score.
I think it's rather the opposite—his 2018 run was more defined by total domination than close calls. Besides WCS Montreal, he destroyed he destroyed the first three competitions with ridiculous winrates. Ofc he had clutch ability too, which he proved at WCS Montreal and the GSL vs. The World finals. But outside that, he was basically crushing in every competition (even BlizzCon).
On May 05 2019 22:29 ThePhan2m wrote: Old Serral, would have won 4-0 xD
Thats the thing about Serral, its not his ability to sweep opponents, its his ability to overcome adversities and win clutch games. How many times was he down 1-2 or 2-3 in series and win it 3-2 or 4-3. That's why his match score is way more impressive than map score.
I think it's rather the opposite—his 2018 run was more defined by total domination than close calls. Besides WCS Montreal, he destroyed he destroyed the first three competitions with ridiculous winrates. Ofc he had clutch ability too, which he proved at WCS Montreal and the GSL vs. The World finals. But outside that, he was basically crushing in every competition (even BlizzCon).
funny because none of Serral's Winrate %'s topped Neeb's single run at WCS Montreal, but overall his W/R is definitely better than Neeb's 2017.
On May 05 2019 22:29 ThePhan2m wrote: Old Serral, would have won 4-0 xD
Thats the thing about Serral, its not his ability to sweep opponents, its his ability to overcome adversities and win clutch games. How many times was he down 1-2 or 2-3 in series and win it 3-2 or 4-3. That's why his match score is way more impressive than map score.
I think it's rather the opposite—his 2018 run was more defined by total domination than close calls. Besides WCS Montreal, he destroyed he destroyed the first three competitions with ridiculous winrates. Ofc he had clutch ability too, which he proved at WCS Montreal and the GSL vs. The World finals. But outside that, he was basically crushing in every competition (even BlizzCon).
funny because none of Serral's Winrate %'s topped Neeb's single run at WCS Montreal, but overall his W/R is definitely better than Neeb's 2017.
Tbf neebs Montreal was quite the perfect bracket for him.
EPT
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