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Inglorious Climb - Trap - Road to BlizzCon 2019

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Inglorious Climb - Trap - Road to BlizzCon 2019

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October 16th, 2019 05:53 GMT

Road to BlizzCon 2019: Trap (#3 WCS Korea)

The Inglorious Climb

by Orlok

The WCS Global Finals is an arena that's filled with familiar faces year after year. It’s an inevitable phenomenon in the current StarCraft II scene, where the influx of new talent isn't what it used to be and the old veterans have nearly a decade of experience to draw upon. This year is no different, with most of the WCS Korea representatives having multiple Global Finals appearances to their name. If a player can still surprise us in this day and age, chances are they've done something special.

Enter Trap, Korea's only first-time Global Finals participant this year. At the start of 2019, if you had told me that Trap would finish the WCS Korea season as #2 in the standings, I would have considered it a very bold prediction, bordering on GGemini insanity. Just ten months ago, Trap’s identity as a player was firmly fixed as that of a solid, capable, but ultimately limited player. His permanent round-of-sixteen status in GSL Code S made him an opponent to be respected, but never truly feared. And thus, it was one of the biggest surprises of the year to see Trap shatter his limitations in spectacular fashion, realizing the potential that many didn't even believe existed.

More info: 2019 World Championship Series Global Finals

Legacy of the Void has seen more than one veteran make a belated ascendance to championship-contender level, but Trap's road has been particularly arduous—not the least because he WAS champion-quality and then lost it all.

Old school fans might remember Trap as one of the most intriguing prospects of the initial KeSPA invasion, winning the Proleague Rookie-of-the-Year award during the 2012 hybrid BW-SC2 season. Initially, Trap's individual league results lagged far behind his Proleague performances, as he spent several consecutive seasons in Code A/Challenger. However, Heart of the Swarm gave him the kick-start he needed as a solo player, and he wrapped up 2013 with a 5th place finish in Code S Season 2 and top four finish in the WCS Season 3 Finals. Trap's first championship finally came in 2014, when he made a heroic run from the losers bracket to win MLG Anaheim. Trap reaffirmed his quality soon after at the 2015 IEM World Championship, where he came in second place to Zest.



Up to that point, Trap's career seemed like it was following the typical growth curve for a talented, young progamer. Steady, efficient improvement had turned him into a championship contender, and all that remained was to maintain that level. Unfortunately for Trap, what came next was rather atypical: he suffered a slow, agonizing fall into extended mediocrity.

We've gone over Trap's Code S curse several times before, but it's worth re-stating it for emphasis. Between 2014 and 2018, Trap competed in ten GSL Code S tournaments and failed to get past the round-of-sixteen in each and every one (he straight-up failed to qualify for Code S on a handful of other occasions). You can almost forgive the GSL for conveniently 'forgetting' to acknowledge any of Trap's earlier success in their broadcast graphics or video packages, be it Proleague, MLG, or IEM—he's been the symbol of mediocrity for as long as most fans care to remember.

It wasn't all suffering for Trap. He occasionally played great games against top-tier players, with his full-set BO5 series against Dark and Serral during IEM Katowice 2018 come readily to mind. Those games best demonstrate Trap's rare, cursed quality as a challenger: he was good enough to bring the best out of his opponents, but rarely good enough to actually beat them. Sometimes it seemed like it was Trap choking away a situation due to nervousness and poor-decision making, sometimes it seemed like cosmically bad luck. One can only imagine how frustrating it must have been for Trap, having so much skill but finding disappointment at every turn.

And then, in 2019, everything changed again. After spending so much time as another merely 'good' player, Trap smashed his curse and immediate shot his way into the semifinals of the first Code S tournament of the year. If anyone thought it was a fluke, he followed it up by reaching back-to-back grand finals in the next two seasons.

It’s hard to pinpoint the cause of Trap's drastic turnaround. Perhaps his mechanics were slightly tighter and his builds were a bit more refined, but that not enough to explain such an abrupt change of fortune. Trap's own explanation that it was due to a change in mindset, that he overcame the jitters of playing in a major offline match, also seems too simplistic.

Whatever the case, Trap has become the epitome of a complete Protoss player, the fully realized version of his past self. Of course, this wouldn't be Trap's story if there wasn't some bitter alongside the sweet. He seems to be a belated inductee into the kong line (Korean fans will probably ret-con his MLG win away like soO's KeSPA cup), and some may still sneer at his two finals losses and say "same old Trap." But the fact that he managed to take 2nd place in the WCS Korea standings without a championship is a remarkable accomplishment, and those who pick Stats over Trap as the best Korean Protoss are making a risky bet on peak-performance over unwavering consistency. Code S might be easier than ever at the bottom, but the competition at the top is as brutal as ever. Trap wasn't gifted his place in the high heavens—he seized it with ruthless force.



Every late-bloomer tale has similar plot points, including the overcoming of complacency and self-doubt. But there's another element to Trap's tale to consider: the creeping, existential dread that exists in Korean StarCraft II as a whole.

It's not even a taboo topic anymore: Korean StarCraft II has been on the wane for a long time. Proleague and SSL are no more, while KeSPA maintains but a token pretense with Jin Air. Retirement announcements have long since become routine, and now we even see re-retirements. The scene still stands, but there's an air of finality that lingers everywhere.

Several pros have said the KeSPA Proleague days were when they worked the hardest, with corporate masters whipping them on to pursue ever improved results. But for all the stress involved in the intense practice regimens, one of the major upsides of the era (besides the paychecks) was that there was always next week's Proleague game to look forward to. After a loss, there was a clear 'next-time' for atonement. What happens when the future becomes uncertain, and there are ever-fewer 'next times' to prove oneself? Right now, a round-of-sixteen loss in Code S means you're sentenced to two months of purgatory, practicing without knowing if any of your efforts will ever pay off.

Most players remaining in StarCraft II are either previous champions or at least players who have had their moments in the sun. In Trap's case, his four-year slump coincided directly with the decline of StarCraft II in Korea. He's toiled year after year, climbing an endless mountain with little to nothing to tell him that he was on the right path. Is there any glory in making so long and arduous climb, if it only ends in a runner-up moment? Only Trap knows the answer. All we know is that Trap has refused to break.

So here we are: Trap is set to compete at the Global Finals for the first time in his career. Trap enters this tournament quiet as a mouse, the same way he entered the 2019 season. Over a year of GSL, it was revealed that Trap was the elephant in the room. It may be good that Trap doesn’t have as much hype behind him as other players, as it also means there's little weight of outside expectations upon him. So far this year, he has also been able to conquer whatever pressure comes from within, and it's crucial that he continue to do so as the stakes become higher than ever. One way or another, this climb is coming to an end.





Road to BlizzCon 2019

WCS Circuit
Serral - Reynor - Neeb - SpeCial - TIME - HeroMarine - Elazer - ShoWTimE

WCS Korea
Dark - Trap - Classic - Maru - soO - Rogue - herO - Stats



Credits and acknowledgements

Writer: Orlok
Editor: TheOneAboveU, Wax
Images: Bart Oerbekke via ESL
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Htime
Profile Joined March 2019
58 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-16 06:52:45
October 16 2019 06:30 GMT
#2
I'll never forget 2018 IEM Quarterfinals vs Serral. Underestimate Trap at your own risk. I think that was the last loss for awhile for Serral.



That said I don't love his group, and I'd think he would prefer to switch seats with Dark or Classic. PvT is his strength (none in his group) and PvP his weakness (Neeb with solid PvP results of late). Rogue's recent record vs Trap would have to make him a decent favorite if they meet, and Elazer is strongest in ZvP thus another bad matchup.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland24541 Posts
October 16 2019 06:37 GMT
#3
Great write up as ever folks
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RealityTheGreat
Profile Joined January 2018
China564 Posts
October 16 2019 06:38 GMT
#4
Titles are so passive.
Betrayed, forgotten, abandoned.
Htime
Profile Joined March 2019
58 Posts
October 16 2019 06:47 GMT
#5
Aligulac really hates Trap's chances in this group, not favored in any of the matchups, only 31% to advance.
+ Show Spoiler +

                Top 2      1st      2nd      3rd      4th    
-------------------------------------------------------------
Rogue 78.03% 47.28% 30.75% 13.25% 8.72%
Neeb 50.96% 23.57% 27.39% 24.85% 24.19%
Elazer 39.81% 16.73% 23.08% 30.90% 29.29%
Trap 31.20% 12.42% 18.78% 30.99% 37.81%


Moving to Classic's group would bump his chances substantially, up to 47%.
+ Show Spoiler +
                    Top 2      1st      2nd      3rd      4th    
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Reynor 68.16% 38.70% 29.45% 17.08% 14.76%
herO 58.45% 29.87% 28.58% 21.53% 20.02%
Trap 47.36% 20.36% 27.00% 31.42% 21.22%
HeRoMaRinE 26.04% 11.07% 14.96% 29.96% 44.00%


I think this just shows you how exciting this group is going to be when the #2 in points from KR is the underdog.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33240 Posts
October 16 2019 06:59 GMT
#6
On October 16 2019 15:38 RealityTheGreat wrote:
Titles are so passive.


StarCraft II: The Shounen Manga is our secret project
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Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
October 16 2019 06:59 GMT
#7
I would really like to see Trap advance from his group and make it far, the back-to-back Code S finals must be irritating.
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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-16 07:00:38
October 16 2019 07:00 GMT
#8
On October 16 2019 15:47 Htime wrote:
Aligulac really hates Trap's chances in this group, not favored in any of the matchups, only 31% to advance.
+ Show Spoiler +

                Top 2      1st      2nd      3rd      4th    
-------------------------------------------------------------
Rogue 78.03% 47.28% 30.75% 13.25% 8.72%
Neeb 50.96% 23.57% 27.39% 24.85% 24.19%
Elazer 39.81% 16.73% 23.08% 30.90% 29.29%
Trap 31.20% 12.42% 18.78% 30.99% 37.81%


Moving to Classic's group would bump his chances substantially, up to 47%.
+ Show Spoiler +
                    Top 2      1st      2nd      3rd      4th    
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Reynor 68.16% 38.70% 29.45% 17.08% 14.76%
herO 58.45% 29.87% 28.58% 21.53% 20.02%
Trap 47.36% 20.36% 27.00% 31.42% 21.22%
HeRoMaRinE 26.04% 11.07% 14.96% 29.96% 44.00%


I think this just shows you how exciting this group is going to be when the #2 in points from KR is the underdog.


Aligulac rates Trap as the weakest Korean player at Blizzcon, but beyond that (and more interestingly) it seems to consider Trap the most specialized player with a 400+ differential between his best and worst match-up. And he won't get his best match-up in this group.
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
October 16 2019 07:06 GMT
#9
On October 16 2019 15:59 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2019 15:38 RealityTheGreat wrote:
Titles are so passive.


StarCraft II: The Shounen Manga is our secret project

If the BlizzCon player card descriptions are anything like last year we'll have our fair share of the Shōnen spice in our hands.

"The Bonjwa Ascendant" being my favorite example
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Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4902 Posts
October 16 2019 07:54 GMT
#10
That turtle neck from Trap lol
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33240 Posts
October 16 2019 08:15 GMT
#11
On October 16 2019 16:54 Argonauta wrote:
That turtle neck from Trap lol


it's rough using the same IEM photo from 2 years ago because there aren't any pro photos of Korean players anymore and ESL only puts up like 10 photos from IEM now :[
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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19215 Posts
October 16 2019 11:20 GMT
#12
Trap could be protoss of the year with no titles if he finishes 2nd in this tournament. However, I think the way he got beat in the GSL finals definitely makes everyone pessimistic about his chances of getting far. I hope he does well, but this will be his toughest challenge yet.
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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8988 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-16 12:00:59
October 16 2019 11:32 GMT
#13
Trap comming into this tournament remind me of 2014 soO, he dosen't seem to have recover from his last GSL finals, I don't think he makes it past group stage
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Gemini_19
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1225 Posts
October 16 2019 12:59 GMT
#14
I give it my seal of approval. Very well written.
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loft
Profile Joined July 2009
United States344 Posts
October 16 2019 16:42 GMT
#15
Excellent write-up! Trap will make it out of his group no problem.
StarcraftSquall
Profile Joined December 2018
United States196 Posts
October 17 2019 03:44 GMT
#16
On October 16 2019 15:30 Htime wrote:
I'll never forget 2018 IEM Quarterfinals vs Serral. Underestimate Trap at your own risk. I think that was the last loss for awhile for Serral.

https://youtu.be/EavPOS1DqKY

That said I don't love his group, and I'd think he would prefer to switch seats with Dark or Classic. PvT is his strength (none in his group) and PvP his weakness (Neeb with solid PvP results of late). Rogue's recent record vs Trap would have to make him a decent favorite if they meet, and Elazer is strongest in ZvP thus another bad matchup.


Um... Serral won that game 👀
Gemini_19
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1225 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-17 04:46:38
October 17 2019 04:46 GMT
#17
On October 17 2019 12:44 StarcraftSquall wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2019 15:30 Htime wrote:
I'll never forget 2018 IEM Quarterfinals vs Serral. Underestimate Trap at your own risk. I think that was the last loss for awhile for Serral.

https://youtu.be/EavPOS1DqKY

That said I don't love his group, and I'd think he would prefer to switch seats with Dark or Classic. PvT is his strength (none in his group) and PvP his weakness (Neeb with solid PvP results of late). Rogue's recent record vs Trap would have to make him a decent favorite if they meet, and Elazer is strongest in ZvP thus another bad matchup.


Um... Serral won that game 👀


It was 3-2 after Trap was up 2-0 and looking to close out the series 3-0. Serral ended up winning but Trap put up one of the best fights vs him the entire year.
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StarcraftSquall
Profile Joined December 2018
United States196 Posts
October 17 2019 05:07 GMT
#18
On October 17 2019 13:46 Gemini_19 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 17 2019 12:44 StarcraftSquall wrote:
On October 16 2019 15:30 Htime wrote:
I'll never forget 2018 IEM Quarterfinals vs Serral. Underestimate Trap at your own risk. I think that was the last loss for awhile for Serral.

https://youtu.be/EavPOS1DqKY

That said I don't love his group, and I'd think he would prefer to switch seats with Dark or Classic. PvT is his strength (none in his group) and PvP his weakness (Neeb with solid PvP results of late). Rogue's recent record vs Trap would have to make him a decent favorite if they meet, and Elazer is strongest in ZvP thus another bad matchup.


Um... Serral won that game 👀


It was 3-2 after Trap was up 2-0 and looking to close out the series 3-0. Serral ended up winning but Trap put up one of the best fights vs him the entire year.


Agreed there: but the previous poster claimed that Trap had won so I had to clarify.

I think Trap is the best Protoss right now: he certainly is the most CONSISTENT. That may serve him well. However, PvT is his best matchup and there are no Terrans in his group. Has he done enough work on his PvZ and PvP after Dark and Classic (who excels in PvP) both took him to the woodshed recently?
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33240 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-10-17 06:27:42
October 17 2019 06:27 GMT
#19
On October 17 2019 13:46 Gemini_19 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 17 2019 12:44 StarcraftSquall wrote:
On October 16 2019 15:30 Htime wrote:
I'll never forget 2018 IEM Quarterfinals vs Serral. Underestimate Trap at your own risk. I think that was the last loss for awhile for Serral.

https://youtu.be/EavPOS1DqKY

That said I don't love his group, and I'd think he would prefer to switch seats with Dark or Classic. PvT is his strength (none in his group) and PvP his weakness (Neeb with solid PvP results of late). Rogue's recent record vs Trap would have to make him a decent favorite if they meet, and Elazer is strongest in ZvP thus another bad matchup.


Um... Serral won that game 👀


It was 3-2 after Trap was up 2-0 and looking to close out the series 3-0. Serral ended up winning but Trap put up one of the best fights vs him the entire year.


Low-key Serral has been pretty good at 'putting people over' in prowrestling parlance. :D
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Gemini_19
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United States1225 Posts
October 17 2019 12:19 GMT
#20
On October 17 2019 14:07 StarcraftSquall wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 17 2019 13:46 Gemini_19 wrote:
On October 17 2019 12:44 StarcraftSquall wrote:
On October 16 2019 15:30 Htime wrote:
I'll never forget 2018 IEM Quarterfinals vs Serral. Underestimate Trap at your own risk. I think that was the last loss for awhile for Serral.

https://youtu.be/EavPOS1DqKY

That said I don't love his group, and I'd think he would prefer to switch seats with Dark or Classic. PvT is his strength (none in his group) and PvP his weakness (Neeb with solid PvP results of late). Rogue's recent record vs Trap would have to make him a decent favorite if they meet, and Elazer is strongest in ZvP thus another bad matchup.


Um... Serral won that game 👀


It was 3-2 after Trap was up 2-0 and looking to close out the series 3-0. Serral ended up winning but Trap put up one of the best fights vs him the entire year.


Agreed there: but the previous poster claimed that Trap had won so I had to clarify.

I think Trap is the best Protoss right now: he certainly is the most CONSISTENT. That may serve him well. However, PvT is his best matchup and there are no Terrans in his group. Has he done enough work on his PvZ and PvP after Dark and Classic (who excels in PvP) both took him to the woodshed recently?


I think he just meant that the games that were lost in that series were the last that Serral had lost for a while for that year, not that he lost the whole series.
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BerserkSword
Profile Joined December 2018
United States2123 Posts
October 18 2019 04:25 GMT
#21
Lol @ the aligulac stats. To hell with them.

Trap is an absolute beast this year. His play is rock solid and his gsl runs have involved toppling some giants. Neeb and Elazer are no doubt dangerous but Trap is more consistent and I don’t see how you don’t have him at least 2nd in that group. Hell he has already proven that he can adapt to beat his Jin air comrades after getting thrashed by them the first time. See trap vs maru round 1 and trap vs maru round 2

Group D is low key a potential dogfight though. Neebs PvZ and PvP are legendary and at his best he can beat anyone. Elazer beat Dark in ZvZ and Zerg is always a huge threat to Protoss in this meta. If the killer versions of Neeb and Elazer show up group D is a bloodbath.
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ProFalseIdol
Profile Joined June 2018
70 Posts
October 18 2019 12:26 GMT
#22
By the way, the final game in the MLG championship is really really close. Trap did a very smart move there.

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Profile Joined October 2019
87 Posts
October 18 2019 16:25 GMT
#23
This article series does a tremendous job eliciting the backstory of the players. Any chance BlizzCon can start tomorrow?
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Htime
Profile Joined March 2019
58 Posts
October 21 2019 05:20 GMT
#24

I'll never forget 2018 IEM Quarterfinals vs Serral. Underestimate Trap at your own risk. I think that was the last loss for awhile for Serral.

I mangled that, IEM was the last loss, and it was that next series vs Classic in the semi where Serral actually was defeated 3-0. It was not nearly as entertaining as the Trap series so that one was what stuck in my mind.


Lol @ the aligulac stats. To hell with them.

The numbers don't lie, Trap is playing poorly the last month and relied on an impressive PvT run to deliver his results this year. Neeb has been more consistent. Trap's amazing PvT performances mean little with no Terrans to face, and three tough match-ups mean a difficult but not impossible road for Trap. It is surprising to me that his chances in group D would look so difficult after so good a year, but the luck of the draw worked against him.
BerserkSword
Profile Joined December 2018
United States2123 Posts
October 21 2019 08:00 GMT
#25
On October 21 2019 14:20 Htime wrote:
The numbers don't lie, Trap is playing poorly the last month and relied on an impressive PvT run to deliver his results this year. Neeb has been more consistent. Trap's amazing PvT performances mean little with no Terrans to face, and three tough match-ups mean a difficult but not impossible road for Trap. It is surprising to me that his chances in group D would look so difficult after so good a year, but the luck of the draw worked against him.


Aligulac numbers can definitely lie. Especially when Trap plays in the hardest region on the planet while neeb sticks to NA/europe.

I get that group D is an extremely dangerous group...a complete dog fight.

However, when I watch the tournament matches of the group d contestants, Trap looks the best imo (although rogue has the advantage imo thanks to the state of zvp).

That's not to say Neeb, who, when playing at his best, has legendary PvP and PvZ, and Elazer, who has the european zvz factor and the zvp balance advantage, cannot make it out. However, if I had to bet, I'd bed on trap making it out.
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