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Serral wins HomeStory Cup 19

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-07-01 02:28:49
July 01 2019 02:26 GMT
#1


Once more, 2018 Global Champion (Wiki)Serral proved himself to be the sole deterrent to total Korean dominance in StarCraft II, defeating a mixed field of international and Korean players to win HomeStory Cup 19. Serral completed the tournament with a 9-1 match record (24-8 map score), defeating (Wiki)TY twice during the final stages of the double elimination playoffs.


For the second HomeStory Cup tournament in a row, Serral was pushed to his limits by an elite Korean Terran player in the finals, as INnoVation had taken him to a full seven map finals at the previous HomeStory Cup 18. The new addition of a winner's bracket point advantage helped Serral in this case, nudging him to a 4-3 victory against TY in the grand finals (he had previously defeated TY 3-1 in the winners bracket final). Stats, who had given Serral his only series loss of the tournament during the group stages, was eliminated by TY and soO during the playoffs.
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BjoernK
Profile Joined April 2012
194 Posts
July 01 2019 02:43 GMT
#2
Congratz Champ !!!!
gophersnake
Profile Joined July 2018
48 Posts
July 01 2019 02:57 GMT
#3
A LITERAL GOD TASTELESS
KingofdaHipHop
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United States25602 Posts
July 01 2019 03:00 GMT
#4
Legend.
Rain | herO | sOs | Dear | Neeb | ByuN | INnoVation | Dream | ForGG | Maru | ByuL | Golden | Solar | Soulkey | Scarlett!!!
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
July 01 2019 03:03 GMT
#5
With performances like this I bet he'll even manage to get to the second place on the power rank and piss off more people.
iMrising
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States1099 Posts
July 01 2019 03:17 GMT
#6
On July 01 2019 12:03 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
With performances like this I bet he'll even manage to get to the second place on the power rank and piss off more people.

yeah he'll definitely be second. if TL is edgy enough maybe he'll be first
$O$ | soO
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8990 Posts
July 01 2019 03:37 GMT
#7
Great job by Serral, barring a massive patch or meta shift, I'm starting to really beleive in another sweep of GSLvsTW and Blizzcon.

But appart from him I have to say it was an abysmal performance by the rest of the foreing crew: 28-93 in map and 9-40 in match vs koreans. (with almost half the losses beeing on Creator) It really feel like they aren't getting any closer.
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pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-07-01 03:50:17
July 01 2019 03:45 GMT
#8
TY won every game he proxied and lost every game he didn't. Clearly Maru was right all along.

TY also copied Inno's 2base tank push that won WESG (same build, same map, same opponent, same Game 7 decider). But then he chickened out and backed off. And lost.
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Aibek
Profile Joined November 2018
1 Post
July 01 2019 03:53 GMT
#9
Serral is the best player in SC2 history. Undisputed champion!
KadaverBB
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany25658 Posts
July 01 2019 04:13 GMT
#10
This Serral guy is pretty good at this game.
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Kitai
Profile Joined June 2012
United States881 Posts
July 01 2019 04:14 GMT
#11
It's crazy to me that Serral can be so consistently great when his day-to-day Europe/America opponents can't provide him with the same level of competition as top tier Koreans. Seriously impressive.
"You know, I don't care if soO got 100 second places in a row. Anyone who doesn't think that he's going to win blizzcon watching this series is a fool" - Artosis, Blizzcon 2014 soO vs TaeJa
RaFox17
Profile Joined May 2013
Finland4581 Posts
July 01 2019 04:18 GMT
#12
Great job Serral! Still the champ!
MockHamill
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden1798 Posts
July 01 2019 04:39 GMT
#13
Serral is only person on the planet that can improve just by theory crafting. He does not even need opponents.
AxiomBlurr
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
786 Posts
July 01 2019 06:05 GMT
#14
Another insane win by Serral - he is amazing!
Solar424
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
United States4001 Posts
July 01 2019 06:13 GMT
#15
EZ4ENCE
IArako
Profile Joined June 2015
Germany195 Posts
July 01 2019 06:24 GMT
#16
Great Games and great fun as always!

Hoping for #1 Powerrank for the memes but i guess #2 it is because no Dark/Classic/Maru at HSC.
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Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1952 Posts
July 01 2019 06:29 GMT
#17
Serral did show some weakness that last series, but I believe most of it can be explain by that it was late at night at the end of a long tournament.
Buff the siegetank
Dave4
Profile Joined August 2018
494 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-07-01 06:44:44
July 01 2019 06:44 GMT
#18
Congratulations to the winner of this particular tournament. A strong performance.
Psychobabas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
2531 Posts
July 01 2019 07:08 GMT
#19
Bonjwa indeed
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33638 Posts
July 01 2019 07:15 GMT
#20
On July 01 2019 13:39 MockHamill wrote:
Serral is only person on the planet that can improve just by theory crafting. He does not even need opponents.


Well, Dark did say he practiced against the AI in preparation for the GSL finals, so maybe there is something to the idea
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
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