The GSL took a blow to its vaunted reputation on day one of GSL vs. The World as Code S Season 1 & 2 champions Dark and Maru were both eliminated in the first round.
Dark's embarrassment came at the hands of Poland's Elazer, who took a 3-2 victory after completing a ZvZ trifecta of blocking an all-in, succeeding with his own all-in, and outplaying his opponent in the late-game. In Maru's case, he gave up a clean 3-0 sweep to Stats, whose championship-winning form from ASUS ROG Summer seemed to have carried over directly into GSL vs. The World.
Stats wasn't the only player to build on his momentum from ASUS ROG. Barely a week after putting up an impressive fight in a 2-3 loss against Serral, TIME came through with a 3-0 sweep against soO at GSL vs. The World. While the games themselves weren't as one-sided as the scoreline (in particular, TIME's mech issues from his series against Serral came up again), TIME was still able to make it 2-0 on the day for foreigner vs Korea matches.
Finally, Neeb edged out his old nemesis ShoWTimE in the only foreigner vs foreigner match of the day.
Following the first four matches, team captains Dark and Serral proceeded to select teams for the 10,000,000 KRW (~$8,200 USD) team competition to be played on August 18th. Reynor had the pleasure of being the #1 foreigner picked by Dark, while Maru received the nod from Serral despite his earlier loss to Stats.
Dark picked first after winning the coin toss.
Captains picked in alternating GSL-World order.
Picks order listed in [brackets].
Team Dark: Dark, Reynor[1], Stats[3], TIME[5], TY[7], SpeCial[9], soO[11], HeroMarine[13] Team Serral: Serral, Maru[2], ShoWTimE[4], Classic[6], Elazer[8], Trap[10], Neeb[12], FanTaSy[14]
If Neeb takes out Stats this would be one hell of a wild card-y bracket, but I think once we're out of the Ro16 we're going to see foreigners get knocked out a lot more, since Ill be watching more and thats just my luck.
TIME played exceptionally well but soO also played real bad, I wouldn't be surprised if Elazer gives TIME much more trouble.
On the other hand I don't like Neeb's chances against Stats at all, he got completely stomped at IEM Katowice and his performance against ShowTimE today wasn't impressive either.
Every time I see how foreigners dominate koreans Im reminded of the sad state of sc2. I think the fact that tehy are dropping so many series vs foreigners is even more telling than the really low amount of viewers.
It's really sad. sc2 used to be my favorite game and I reached top 8 masters. But its been 3 years since I stopped playing.
Blizzard should just kill this game once for all, (like they are doing with all their games) and restart with a new rts franchise in a couple of years.
Its even sadder when you realize Blizzard killed their franchise themselves when they decided to ban all koreans from competing abroad years ago.
On August 15 2019 23:42 alestormsabaton1994 wrote: Every time I see how foreigners dominate koreans Im reminded of the sad state of sc2. I think the fact that tehy are dropping so many series vs foreigners is even more telling than the really low amount of viewers.
It's really sad. sc2 used to be my favorite game and I reached top 8 masters. But its been 3 years since I stopped playing.
Blizzard should just kill this game once for all, (like they are doing with all their games) and restart with a new rts franchise in a couple of years.
Its even sadder when you realize Blizzard killed their franchise themselves when they decided to ban all koreans from competing abroad years ago.
The audience was really good considering the day and schedule.
On August 15 2019 23:42 alestormsabaton1994 wrote: Every time I see how foreigners dominate koreans Im reminded of the sad state of sc2. I think the fact that tehy are dropping so many series vs foreigners is even more telling than the really low amount of viewers.
It's really sad. sc2 used to be my favorite game and I reached top 8 masters. But its been 3 years since I stopped playing.
Blizzard should just kill this game once for all, (like they are doing with all their games) and restart with a new rts franchise in a couple of years.
Its even sadder when you realize Blizzard killed their franchise themselves when they decided to ban all koreans from competing abroad years ago.
7 Posts and thats what you got to say? Get out of here. Please.
I was never a fan of foreign StarCraft and most people would probably put me in the "korean elitist" corner, but your statement is just wrong on so many levels. Obv koreans got worse, but that's caused by the whole breakdown of the infrastructure and not that much else. No reason to "kill a game" because there are still a ton of people out there loving it and actively playing it.
EPT
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