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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-06 23:21:51
October 06 2019 22:03 GMT
#1

2019 Global StarCraft II League: Super Tournament 2

Dark claimed the final trophy of the 2019 GSL season, mauling a series of Korean StarCraft luminaries on his way to the Super Tournament 2 championship. After impressive victories against Maru, Stats, and soO in the bracket, Dark concluded his run with a dominating 4-0 against TY in the grand finals.


While Zerg's late-game power has become a topic of fierce debate—with Brood Lord-Infestor receiving much scorn—Dark's play seemed to ask "why wait until the late game to win?" Dark's early-game attacks were as deadly as ever, as was his cheese defense against a cannon-rush from Stats and proxy-barracks from TY. Particularly notable was his use of mass hydra-ling-bane against TY and Maru, where the throwback unit composition still proved to be strong enough to overpower Korea's top two Terrans.

The Super Tournament victory confirmed Dark's place as the #1 seed from the WCS Korea region, a well-earned result in a year where he won his first GSL Code S title and also reached the Code S top four on two other occasions.

The finals sweep was a deflating end to an otherwise entertaining tournament run from TY, who demonstrated the potential of mech in TvP against both PartinG And herO. Still, he may have ended up earning himself more than just the runner-up prize of 5,000,000 KRW. His 2nd place performance gave him enough points to over take Dear as #9 in the WCS Korea standings, one spot outside of the WCS Global Finals cutoff. TY is now immediately in line to replace Classic (#3), should Classic forfeit his spot as a result of being denied international travel permission by the Korean military (announcement pending). Otherwise, the WCS Korea standings have been finalized with the conclusion of Super Tournament 2.

The sixteen (or seventeen) Global Finalists now look ahead to the group stage of the WCS Global Finals, which is set to begin on October 24th at the AfreecaTV studio in Seoul.



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onPHYRE
Profile Joined October 2010
Bulgaria911 Posts
October 06 2019 22:10 GMT
#2
Does anyone have any idea when we find out if Classic is able to attend?
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Kitai
Profile Joined June 2012
United States873 Posts
October 06 2019 22:36 GMT
#3
Dang, a 13-2 map score is pretty impressive against the opponents he had to face. Go Dark!
"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
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25159 Posts
October 06 2019 23:12 GMT
#4
That is a fucking ridiculous championship run, WP Dark!
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25159 Posts
October 06 2019 23:13 GMT
#5
Pretty good final ST Tournament, Classic absolutely deserves it and I really hope he gets to go, but if he can’t then we have another Korean Terran who is currently looking in good shape
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DomeGetta
Profile Joined February 2012
480 Posts
October 06 2019 23:57 GMT
#6
omg if classic gets bumped we lose Maru / Serral Group !? ; O! please no! - even tho I want another Kr Terran there so bad - I guess there's still a chance they meet later on.
pzlama333
Profile Joined April 2013
United States277 Posts
October 07 2019 00:08 GMT
#7
If Classic is allowed to play, I feel sorry for TIME who will face Serral, Maru and Stats.
NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
October 07 2019 01:46 GMT
#8
On October 07 2019 07:36 Kitai wrote:
Dang, a 13-2 map score is pretty impressive against the opponents he had to face. Go Dark!


What do you mean just "pretty" impressive?
starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
October 07 2019 02:24 GMT
#9
On October 07 2019 10:46 NinjaNight wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 07 2019 07:36 Kitai wrote:
Dang, a 13-2 map score is pretty impressive against the opponents he had to face. Go Dark!


What do you mean just "pretty" impressive?

I think he means its pretty impressive
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
October 07 2019 02:30 GMT
#10
On October 07 2019 07:36 Kitai wrote:
Dang, a 13-2 map score is pretty impressive against the opponents he had to face. Go Dark!


Probably the best tournament run since INno WCS vs TW, congrats to Dark!
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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19231 Posts
October 07 2019 02:41 GMT
#11
Amazing play by Dark. Unfortunately anticlimactic ending for TY after two very enjoyable TvPs. I hope more gateway centric PvT games is the future.
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Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
October 07 2019 02:57 GMT
#12
On October 07 2019 11:30 Nakajin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 07 2019 07:36 Kitai wrote:
Dang, a 13-2 map score is pretty impressive against the opponents he had to face. Go Dark!


Probably the best tournament run since INno WCS vs TW, congrats to Dark!

It's better than that. INno beat iAsonu, ByuN, Stats, and TY. Dark beat Maru, soO, Stats, and TY.

Hard to find a more legit run that this
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
neutralrobot
Profile Joined July 2011
Australia1025 Posts
October 07 2019 02:59 GMT
#13
On October 07 2019 08:57 DomeGetta wrote:
omg if classic gets bumped we lose Maru / Serral Group !? ; O! please no! - even tho I want another Kr Terran there so bad - I guess there's still a chance they meet later on.


At this point, I actually don't want to see Maru/Serral. I'm a huge Maru fan, but I think Serral will totally destroy him. Serral is still in great shape, Maru is just in "good" shape.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33367 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-07 03:07:30
October 07 2019 03:07 GMT
#14
I dunno that any player can absorb every last bit of EU ZvZ mastery in a matter of weeks, but if anyone has a chance, it'd be Dark.
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Beelzebub1
Profile Joined May 2015
1004 Posts
October 07 2019 03:59 GMT
#15
Dark and Rogue really looking powerful, bl/festor I think is without a doubt very OP (again) but late game air armies seem to be taking a pretty big hit in this latest post Blizzcon balance patch, which I definitely think is the for the best.

Here's to hoping that Gateway units get the changes needed to be more dominant in PvT at the least. Gateway has always necessitated weird balancing and scaling compared to the other races, hence why Protoss seems to be the only race with units that have had multiple redesigns.
DomeGetta
Profile Joined February 2012
480 Posts
October 07 2019 05:00 GMT
#16
On October 07 2019 11:59 neutralrobot wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 07 2019 08:57 DomeGetta wrote:
omg if classic gets bumped we lose Maru / Serral Group !? ; O! please no! - even tho I want another Kr Terran there so bad - I guess there's still a chance they meet later on.


At this point, I actually don't want to see Maru/Serral. I'm a huge Maru fan, but I think Serral will totally destroy him. Serral is still in great shape, Maru is just in "good" shape.


Im hoping Maru was holding back in ST vs Dark - not that Dark is not an absolute monster in ZvT - (has anyone ever 4-0'd TY before?) Maru's style he showed in code S vs Ragna I think would be epic to watch vs Serral. I know meta is not the best for late game T vs. Z but my hope is still alive for an epic historic series.
Muraddin
Profile Joined November 2011
Slovakia10 Posts
October 07 2019 05:49 GMT
#17
On October 07 2019 08:57 DomeGetta wrote:
Im hoping Maru was holding back in ST vs Dark ...

I dont know. Didn't Special says that Maru practicing his ass off, because he doesn't want to be in Serral group? In that point view is, lose against Dark pretty surprising.
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
October 07 2019 06:00 GMT
#18
So it's Serral, Maru, Time and Stats in the same group?
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Anc13nt
Profile Blog Joined October 2017
1557 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-07 06:09:57
October 07 2019 06:05 GMT
#19
On October 07 2019 14:00 DomeGetta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 07 2019 11:59 neutralrobot wrote:
On October 07 2019 08:57 DomeGetta wrote:
omg if classic gets bumped we lose Maru / Serral Group !? ; O! please no! - even tho I want another Kr Terran there so bad - I guess there's still a chance they meet later on.


At this point, I actually don't want to see Maru/Serral. I'm a huge Maru fan, but I think Serral will totally destroy him. Serral is still in great shape, Maru is just in "good" shape.


Im hoping Maru was holding back in ST vs Dark - not that Dark is not an absolute monster in ZvT - (has anyone ever 4-0'd TY before?) Maru's style he showed in code S vs Ragna I think would be epic to watch vs Serral. I know meta is not the best for late game T vs. Z but my hope is still alive for an epic historic series.


I believe INnoVation 4-0 TY in GSL vs the World finals.

I don't think Maru was holding back but I think his form is not great right now whereas Dark looks very strong. Dark seems to have a really good grasp of cheese, whether he is on the receiving end or he is the one cheesing. I also like that he is doing great against terran without being so reliant on broodlord-infestor like other zerg.

I'd be surprised if no one among Serral, Rogue or Dark win Blizzcon.
Anc13nt
Profile Blog Joined October 2017
1557 Posts
October 07 2019 06:09 GMT
#20
On October 07 2019 15:00 Geo.Rion wrote:
So it's Serral, Maru, Time and Stats in the same group?


If Classic makes it then yeah but otherwise it will be soO and TY replacing Stats and Maru. For those interested, I think that means Serral will either be playing TY or Stats in the first match.
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