• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 23:46
CET 05:46
KST 13:46
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview5RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2
Community News
BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion6Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets4$21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)16Weekly Cups (Dec 29-Jan 4): Protoss rolls, 2v2 returns7[BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 105
StarCraft 2
General
Stellar Fest "01" Jersey Charity Auction SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets When will we find out if there are more tournament SC2 Spotted on the EWC 2026 list?
Tourneys
SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-18 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament SC2 AI Tournament 2026 $21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7) OSC Season 13 World Championship
Strategy
Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 509 Doomsday Report Mutation # 508 Violent Night Mutation # 507 Well Trained Mutation # 506 Warp Zone
Brood War
General
Video Footage from 2005: The Birth of G2 in Spain [ASL21] Potential Map Candidates BW General Discussion BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10 Small VOD Thread 2.0 Azhi's Colosseum - Season 2
Strategy
Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Simple Questions, Simple Answers Game Theory for Starcraft Current Meta
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Beyond All Reason Awesome Games Done Quick 2026! Nintendo Switch Thread Mechabellum
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
My 2025 Magic: The Gathering…
DARKING
Physical Exercise (HIIT) Bef…
TrAiDoS
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1704 users

Stephano the lone party crasher in top 8 of WCS Fall

Forum Index > SC2 General
49 CommentsPost a Reply
1 2 3 All last
hjpalpha
Profile Joined August 2017
Germany339 Posts
September 08 2019 08:20 GMT
#31
On September 08 2019 16:55 dbRic1203 wrote:
The top 8 are so consistent this year.
In Summer the current top 8 were all in the Ro8.
In Spring only Heromarine missed out, because he has to Play against Reynor in Ro16.
Now only Showtime got eliminated in Ro16 from playing against Heromarine.
The only other Players reaching top 8 in WCS this year were Goblin in Spring and Stephano. So I gues it s absolutly well desreved, that they are (most likely) going to BlizzCon.


true words ^^
LiquipediaSCV ready | SC2-Liquipedia Admin, reviewer and editor | Wax called me a Liquipedia wizard in one of his articles for 2019 WCS Standings
dysenterymd
Profile Joined January 2019
1250 Posts
September 08 2019 08:24 GMT
#32
Assuming Stephano doesn't win, the world will also have a perfectly balanced delegation: 3 zerg 3 terran 2 protoss. Will we be able to abandon `foreign terran bad' soon?
Serral | Inno | sOs | soO | Has | Classic
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55566 Posts
September 08 2019 08:31 GMT
#33
On September 08 2019 17:24 dysenterymd wrote:
Assuming Stephano doesn't win, the world will also have a perfectly balanced delegation: 3 zerg 3 terran 2 protoss. Will we be able to abandon `foreign terran bad' soon?

NEVER
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
September 08 2019 08:33 GMT
#34
On September 08 2019 17:24 dysenterymd wrote:
Assuming Stephano doesn't win, the world will also have a perfectly balanced delegation: 3 zerg 3 terran 2 protoss. Will we be able to abandon `foreign terran bad' soon?

I gues that assumption isn t to bold either. According to Alligulac bis chances are less than 1%....
I know, Alligulac isn t everything and his momentum right now might Help him, but Special and Elazer/ Reynor are on a completly different level than Masa, Gerald, JonSnow and jetlaged Time.
MaxPax
Serimek
Profile Joined August 2011
France2274 Posts
September 08 2019 08:35 GMT
#35
On September 08 2019 16:55 dbRic1203 wrote:
The top 8 are so consistent this year.
In Summer the current top 8 were all in the Ro8.
In Spring only Heromarine missed out, because he has to Play against Reynor in Ro16.
Now only Showtime got eliminated in Ro16 from playing against Heromarine.
The only other Players reaching top 8 in WCS this year were Goblin in Spring and Stephano. So I gues it s absolutly well desreved, that they are (most likely) going to BlizzCon.


Honestly, that is amazing.
SC2 is the best game to watch and was the best to play before I grew old and slow...
Amestir
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2126 Posts
September 08 2019 08:39 GMT
#36
So does anyone have a link to Stephano versus Masa? Its not on the main stream
We know nothing.
watchlulu
Profile Joined February 2013
Germany475 Posts
September 08 2019 09:03 GMT
#37
On September 08 2019 17:39 Amestir wrote:
So does anyone have a link to Stephano versus Masa? Its not on the main stream


I watched it on CatZ‘ Stream, maybe you can find the game in his VODs at
twitch.tv/rootcatz
Have a nice day!
TheDougler
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada8306 Posts
September 08 2019 09:04 GMT
#38
On September 08 2019 09:20 Boggyb wrote:
SpeCial 3-0 Stephano


Normally I disagree with you Boggy, but when you're right you're right. Stephano hasn't even had a very difficult bracket so far, this will be his first real test, and I don't think he's got it in him any more. Even if he does (which would be awesome), he'd still need to beat Reynor and Serral most likely.
I root for Euro Zergs, NA Protoss* and Korean Terrans. (Any North American who has beat a Korean Pro as Protoss counts as NA Toss)
dysenterymd
Profile Joined January 2019
1250 Posts
September 08 2019 09:45 GMT
#39
Stephano beating Special isn't inconceivable, though it is super unlikely. Him running the ZvZ gauntlet is even more improbable if he makes it to that point. Would be hype though
Serral | Inno | sOs | soO | Has | Classic
Syn Harvest
Profile Joined July 2012
United States191 Posts
September 08 2019 09:53 GMT
#40
I have not been that impressed with Stephano. The only real notable player he has played in the tournament is Uthermal and he lost. He beat Time in group stage 3 but I'm not sold on him either so yea. I hope Stephano does great but this match against Special is his first real challenge of the tournament.
Open your heart and embrace the darkness
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-09-08 11:13:52
September 08 2019 11:12 GMT
#41
On September 08 2019 18:53 Syn Harvest wrote:
I have not been that impressed with Stephano. The only real notable player he has played in the tournament is Uthermal and he lost. He beat Time in group stage 3 but I'm not sold on him either so yea. I hope Stephano does great but this match against Special is his first real challenge of the tournament.

He only beat Time, because he had troubles with Jetlag, afaik.
So that doesn t even count
MaxPax
stilt
Profile Joined October 2012
France2754 Posts
September 08 2019 11:16 GMT
#42
On September 08 2019 11:14 Boggyb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2019 11:12 Pursuit_ wrote:
It would be an amazing story but I just don't see it happening. Even in the best case scenario Stephano would have to beat the winner of Reynor vs Elazer, both of whom I would put in the Top 5 ZvZ in the world atm, while Stephano barely defeated JonSnow and Denver. If Heromarine, Neeb or Time managed to upset Serral though he might have a decent shot in the finals.

If Heromarine, Neeb, or TIME get to the finals, they've almost certainly proven that their vZ is on fire and thus should stomp Stephano.


Stephano has already beaten TIME without much troubles, Special is more dangerous because he is very good with mech.
Tommy131313
Profile Joined May 2016
Germany156 Posts
September 08 2019 12:07 GMT
#43
On September 08 2019 16:50 KelvaroN wrote:
Seriously I think Stephano is the only one that can take the crown form Serral or at least compete for it. He's the only one that quite consistently beat Koreans and actually won tournaments. No one else really has the right mindset for doing it, they are too afraid .



Oh boy, I totally agree with that! But you just misspelled the name: It's R E Y N O R, not Stephano...
tigon_ridge
Profile Joined March 2019
482 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-09-08 12:33:30
September 08 2019 12:31 GMT
#44
If Stephano beats Special AND Reynor, my jaw will be on the floor, but I don't think that's at all likely. This is my ranking for each player's likeliness to win this tournament:

1. Serral (duh)
2. Reynor (duh)
3. Special
4. Neeb
5. TIME
6. Elazer
7. Stephano
8. Heromarine

Skill-wise, I think Heromarine is slightly stronger than current-form Stephano, but Heromarine's facing the god today, so he takes last place in the list.
ForsakenSC2
Profile Joined July 2019
8 Posts
September 08 2019 13:14 GMT
#45
I don't know, I'm really interested in a Neeb/Serral rematch in the ro4 if they both get there of course to see how Neeb holds up post patch of infestors.
Thermo-
Profile Joined May 2019
4 Posts
September 08 2019 15:19 GMT
#46
Congratulate Time!
The first Chinese player to reach the stage of Anaheim in SC2.

中华潜龙李培楠!
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
September 08 2019 17:00 GMT
#47
Sad for Stephano dropping out, he got a map win but e didnt have an answer to Juanito's BC mech :/
Mine gas, build tanks.
BaneRiders
Profile Joined August 2013
Sweden3630 Posts
September 08 2019 17:24 GMT
#48
On September 09 2019 02:00 Akio wrote:
Sad for Stephano dropping out, he got a map win but e didnt have an answer to Juanito's BC mech :/


I wonder if any zerg will today, but to be fair, Reynor looked sharp as a knife vs Elazer...
Earth, Water, Air and Protoss!
outscar
Profile Joined September 2014
2832 Posts
September 08 2019 22:44 GMT
#49
Stephano playing full time or he's still studying? If he comes back he has a huge potential.
sunbeams are never made like me...
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10688 Posts
September 09 2019 05:25 GMT
#50
Stephano will always be my favorite Zerg.
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
1 2 3 All last
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 4h 14m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
RuFF_SC2 239
Livibee 55
StarCraft: Brood War
Sea 5177
yabsab 629
actioN 526
Shuttle 154
Hm[arnc] 67
Noble 30
Icarus 10
Dota 2
monkeys_forever384
NeuroSwarm143
febbydoto34
League of Legends
C9.Mang0539
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King110
Other Games
summit1g12727
JimRising 644
KnowMe303
XaKoH 185
ViBE53
minikerr30
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick2056
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 16 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Hupsaiya 78
• Sammyuel 49
• davetesta36
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Lourlo1209
• Rush932
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
4h 14m
Wardi Open
7h 14m
Monday Night Weeklies
12h 14m
OSC
1d 6h
The PondCast
2 days
OSC
2 days
Big Brain Bouts
4 days
Serral vs TBD
BSL 21
5 days
BSL 21
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

IPSL Winter 2025-26
SC2 All-Star Inv. 2025
NA Kuram Kup

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
OSC Championship Season 13
Underdog Cup #3
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S1: W5
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Rongyi Cup S3
Nations Cup 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.