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GSL vs. The World 2019: Players & Bracket - Page 2

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batatm
Profile Joined June 2014
Israel116 Posts
August 02 2019 14:04 GMT
#21
a pity Fatnasy isn't againt a foreigner, him being beaten sily by reynor would have make my day.
oh well at least he still play against Special in GSL ro16.
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
August 02 2019 14:07 GMT
#22
Whoever wins between Maru and Stats should have an easy path to the finals. Shame it has to happen in the first round
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16101 Posts
August 02 2019 14:09 GMT
#23
On August 02 2019 22:12 opisska wrote:
I just continue to not understand why the bracket isn't designed to be korean vs. foreigner on Ro16.

I understand it.
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JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4420 Posts
August 02 2019 14:13 GMT
#24
Damn I really don't like this bracket. I hope Maru saves us from a 0 Terran ro8 or I might only tune into the first day. But Stats as his first opponent makes me nervous.
ParksonVN
Profile Joined October 2015
Australia370 Posts
August 02 2019 14:14 GMT
#25
On August 02 2019 23:07 Fango wrote:
Whoever wins between Maru and Stats should have an easy path to the finals. Shame it has to happen in the first round


Actually not, with Dark is still there. And once again Maru has the toughest path to the final.
On the other hand, Serral can have other strong XvT players to eliminate Maru before he gets to play him, how lucky.
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-02 14:18:00
August 02 2019 14:17 GMT
#26
On August 02 2019 23:14 ParksonVN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 23:07 Fango wrote:
Whoever wins between Maru and Stats should have an easy path to the finals. Shame it has to happen in the first round


Actually not, with Dark is still there. And once again Maru has the toughest path to the final.
On the other hand, Serral can have other strong XvT players to eliminate Maru before he gets to play him, how lucky.

Dark doesn't beat Stats or Maru anymore.

Though he has been smacking all of Maru's skyterran shenanigans on stream lately.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-02 14:23:45
August 02 2019 14:21 GMT
#27
It's absolutely incredible how much you guys can whine about Terran weeks in advance, it surprises me every time.

Dark 3-0ing Elazer? I doubt it; Dark is the favourite, but I would really love to see the villain of this whole fanvote upsetting the Code S champ: it's possible with EU ZvZ! Also, TIME has a shot to advance if soO is playing like he did at ASUS ROG.
Stats having an easy path if he beats Maru? He lost 2-0 to Showtime yesterday, maybe it wouldn't be that easy.
Classic is deceptively weakish in TvP but I think he should be strong enough to beat Fantasy.

I would say Dark 3-2, TIME 3-2, Maru 3-1, Showtime 3-2, Serral 3-1, Trap 3-0, Reynor 3-1, Classic 3-1.
ot4_AUT
Profile Joined February 2019
6 Posts
August 02 2019 14:26 GMT
#28
Lets all hope Elazer gets destroyed same as Kelazhur last year. Abusing the system should not reward the player.

Sad for Heromarine, his TvP is not that good at the moment and even if he manages to win there will wait Serral for him.
Audustum
Profile Joined July 2019
7 Posts
August 02 2019 14:40 GMT
#29
I must be alone in thinking TY-Serral is anybody's game. They're both very highly skilled.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27460 Posts
August 02 2019 14:55 GMT
#30
I really don’t mind the bracket at all, lots of interesting matchups incoming.

That said I feel they really should force foreigner vs Korean matchups, but if they’re not going to do that it’s worked out OK to my tastes anyway.

Fantasy’s vP is interesting to watch and he approaches it differently to many, so getting a good P in Classic should be good.

Serral vs Ty hype as well, having pretty convincingly beat Inno now another top Korean Terran.

TIME is looking good at Assembly and soO is on a semi slump, but will be a stern test for the most exciting talent to come out of China and is on an upward trajectory.
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yyltyler
Profile Joined February 2018
23 Posts
August 02 2019 14:56 GMT
#31
I hate special privileges for foreigners (excluding serral). Why not just throw all the koreans towards all the foreigners right at the first round to see who’s better? Now with this puny format we get less gsl vs the world and more seperate WCS/GSL matchups, which is bad for the viewership anyway.

If Blizzard is selling the ‘foreigners have caught up to koreans’ narrative, prove it with more direct GSL vs the world. If they intend to secure certain foreigner presence in the later stages, then Blizzard is just admitting foreigners are weaker than Koreans. What they are selling does not align with what they are actually doing. What a joke.
Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4967 Posts
August 02 2019 15:00 GMT
#32
Stats is going to rekt Maru again
Rogue | Maru | Scarlett | Trap
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skydumbos
Profile Joined August 2019
1 Post
August 02 2019 15:19 GMT
#33
dark vs elazer is a classic
Paragleiber
Profile Joined June 2009
413 Posts
August 02 2019 16:18 GMT
#34
In terms of player strength the bracket looks pretty good, with the championship contenders spread across all 4 quarters. And it also has a fair chance of producing a Korea vs World final, with Serral and Reynor on one side and most of the stronger Koreans on the other. I think it's a nice bracket.


On August 02 2019 23:56 yyltyler wrote:
I hate special privileges for foreigners (excluding serral). Why not just throw all the koreans towards all the foreigners right at the first round to see who’s better? Now with this puny format we get less gsl vs the world and more seperate WCS/GSL matchups, which is bad for the viewership anyway.

If Blizzard is selling the ‘foreigners have caught up to koreans’ narrative, prove it with more direct GSL vs the world. If they intend to secure certain foreigner presence in the later stages, then Blizzard is just admitting foreigners are weaker than Koreans. What they are selling does not align with what they are actually doing. What a joke.


What are you talking about? How is it "special privileges" when they literally made a random draw? What you are actually saying is that you DO want special privileges for the Koreans by guaranteeing them a foreigner opponent in the first round.

Blizzard doesn't "intend" anything. If they did they would have placed restrictions on the bracket but that's exactly what they didn't do. They see all players as equal in this tournament, so they are treating them all the same. It aligns perfectly.
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MooLen
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany501 Posts
August 02 2019 16:22 GMT
#35
On August 02 2019 22:12 opisska wrote:
I just continue to not understand why the bracket isn't designed to be korean vs. foreigner on Ro16.


Same here. I was almost certain that it was until i saw the brackets.
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19391 Posts
August 02 2019 16:33 GMT
#36
On August 03 2019 01:22 MooLen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2019 22:12 opisska wrote:
I just continue to not understand why the bracket isn't designed to be korean vs. foreigner on Ro16.


Same here. I was almost certain that it was until i saw the brackets.

The current bracket style isn't so bad although it does suck to see some of the favorites matched up in the opening round. At least we are guaranteed to see some great opening games.

However, it would be really interesting if each round it was reordered to guarantee korean vs foreigner matchup first and then the remaining would be KvK or FvF. However, this format would give the greatest possible potential to eliminating Foreigners as early as possibe.
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MotherOfRunes
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany2862 Posts
August 02 2019 16:55 GMT
#37
fantasy stomps all, gets bored and goes back to brood war where he belongs......one can dream, right?
but seriously im really glad fantasy made it.
"Your Razor sucks!" -Kuroky's Dad
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States14003 Posts
August 02 2019 17:21 GMT
#38
Maru v Stats again?!
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Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
August 02 2019 17:26 GMT
#39
I'd be annoyed about what appears to be Elazer voting shenanigans if:
1) He wasn't higher in WCS standings than Scarlett
2) Scarlett didn't make it to the two previous events over more deserving players.

The moral of the story is Blizzard shouldn't be sponsoring popularity contests.
Mettis
Profile Joined June 2019
84 Posts
August 02 2019 17:36 GMT
#40
What is the prizepool etc?
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