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Serral, Elazer, Cure qualify for IEM Katowice (EU qualifier)

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
January 14 2020 23:20 GMT
#1
IEM Katowice 2020: Qualifiers


(Wiki)Serral, (Wiki)Elazer, and (Wiki)Cure advanced from the European server qualifier of IEM Katowice, earning round-of-24 seeds at the main event as well as flights and accommodation. Just one online qualifier remains for IEM Katowice, Korean server qualifier #2, where two final seeds will be awarded. Korean qualifier #2 is set to take place on January 15-16.

The main IEM Katowice tournament will be held between February 24th and March 1st. It is set to be the first event in the newly announced ESL Pro Tour—the official successor to the previous World Championship Series system. Twelve of the spots in the 24-player main event will be awarded through the online qualifiers. The remaining twelve spots will be awarded through the live, "open bracket" portion of the tournament.




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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26505 Posts
January 14 2020 23:31 GMT
#2
Pretty solid run from Denver there
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narusensei22
Profile Joined October 2018
31 Posts
January 14 2020 23:41 GMT
#3
WOW! how come Cure won with terrible EU server ping?? :D
tigon_ridge
Profile Joined March 2019
482 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-15 00:16:24
January 15 2020 00:16 GMT
#4
On January 15 2020 08:41 narusensei22 wrote:
WOW! how come Cure won with terrible EU server ping?? :D

Cure has been pretty impressive lately throughout his online tournament runs. He defeated Dark, even. Barely losing 2-3 to Serral while handicapped by high ping is no small feat.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33584 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-15 00:27:22
January 15 2020 00:18 GMT
#5
On January 15 2020 09:16 tigon_ridge wrote:
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On January 15 2020 08:41 narusensei22 wrote:
WOW! how come Cure won with terrible EU server ping?? :D

Cure has been pretty impressive lately throughout his online tournament runs. He defeated Dark, even. Barely losing 2-3 to Serral while handicapped by high ping is no small feat.


Dude has been an online beast for a while, but he falls strictly into the "I won't believe it until I see it" category for me in terms of performing well in live events (well, the ones after 2016).
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fealx
Profile Joined September 2014
Germany376 Posts
January 15 2020 06:14 GMT
#6
Serral looked pretty much invincible in the games he won against cure though. This guy just makes this game look stupid sometimes with his incredible plays.
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
January 15 2020 07:23 GMT
#7
Damn Cure nearly beating Serral
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Shuffleblade
Profile Joined February 2012
Sweden1903 Posts
January 15 2020 07:52 GMT
#8
Also in game 5 of Cure vs Serral we kind of saw an Idra gg timing. Being down army, economy and failing his push he gged out even though he had 3-3 on the way and Serral was still on lair. He had a slim chance still
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AlphaXSushi
Profile Joined September 2017
838 Posts
January 15 2020 07:56 GMT
#9
On January 15 2020 08:41 narusensei22 wrote:
WOW! how come Cure won with terrible EU server ping?? :D


It must have been around 300 ping for him. What a legend!
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
January 15 2020 08:11 GMT
#10
Realy disapointed in Showtime, Lambo and Big Gabe
I knew, it would be super hard to advance, but I didn t expect, that all 3 of them drop out THAT early
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7139 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-15 09:04:11
January 15 2020 09:03 GMT
#11
On January 15 2020 16:52 Shuffleblade wrote:
Also in game 5 of Cure vs Serral we kind of saw an Idra gg timing. Being down army, economy and failing his push he gged out even though he had 3-3 on the way and Serral was still on lair. He had a slim chance still


Don't know Kev.
I don't think Serral has let anyone ever come back when he was ahead

Edit: With the exception of Reynor in ZvZ
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dalaiisc2
Profile Joined May 2016
18 Posts
January 15 2020 10:14 GMT
#12
On January 15 2020 16:23 Akio wrote:
Damn Cure nearly beating Serral


i wouldnt rate qualifier performances so high. serral had a really long offtime between hsc and iem qualifier. didnt played for a month or so, so yeah, cure is a beast nontheless, but i guess with a really active serral, this match wouldnt have looked so close.

still i dont understand, why zergs still try to roach rav allin a terran. i NEVER saw, how such an allin didnt put the zerg behind in every way. even unscouted, the counter to it is so easy.
tigon_ridge
Profile Joined March 2019
482 Posts
January 15 2020 10:38 GMT
#13
On January 15 2020 19:14 dalaiisc2 wrote:
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On January 15 2020 16:23 Akio wrote:
Damn Cure nearly beating Serral


i wouldnt rate qualifier performances so high. serral had a really long offtime between hsc and iem qualifier. didnt played for a month or so, so yeah, cure is a beast nontheless, but i guess with a really active serral, this match wouldnt have looked so close.

still i dont understand, why zergs still try to roach rav allin a terran. i NEVER saw, how such an allin didnt put the zerg behind in every way. even unscouted, the counter to it is so easy.

Think he just wanted to end the match quickly tbh.
Dedraterllaerau
Profile Joined May 2019
113 Posts
January 15 2020 11:05 GMT
#14
My predictions of Protoss struggling with this current balance is starting to show itself already, I fear we are gonna have a Zerg dominated year again with T maybe able to compete.
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7139 Posts
January 15 2020 12:15 GMT
#15
On January 15 2020 20:05 Dedraterllaerau wrote:
My predictions of Protoss struggling with this current balance is starting to show itself already, I fear we are gonna have a Zerg dominated year again with T maybe able to compete.


Why? Because we had one qualifier not 1/1/1 ?

Sure Classic's departure hurt, but I think we need more time to let things settle
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
LTCM
Profile Joined May 2017
174 Posts
January 15 2020 12:39 GMT
#16
On January 15 2020 21:15 Harris1st wrote:
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On January 15 2020 20:05 Dedraterllaerau wrote:
My predictions of Protoss struggling with this current balance is starting to show itself already, I fear we are gonna have a Zerg dominated year again with T maybe able to compete.


Why? Because we had one qualifier not 1/1/1 ?

Sure Classic's departure hurt, but I think we need more time to let things settle


And HSC and WESG both which showed continued protoss up.
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7139 Posts
January 15 2020 12:48 GMT
#17
On January 15 2020 21:39 LTCM wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2020 21:15 Harris1st wrote:
On January 15 2020 20:05 Dedraterllaerau wrote:
My predictions of Protoss struggling with this current balance is starting to show itself already, I fear we are gonna have a Zerg dominated year again with T maybe able to compete.


Why? Because we had one qualifier not 1/1/1 ?

Sure Classic's departure hurt, but I think we need more time to let things settle


And HSC and WESG both which showed continued protoss up.


Exactly. HSC had 3 Protoss in Top 8

Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
January 15 2020 13:11 GMT
#18
On January 15 2020 20:05 Dedraterllaerau wrote:
My predictions of Protoss struggling with this current balance is starting to show itself already, I fear we are gonna have a Zerg dominated year again with T maybe able to compete.


Terran will fight hard and win titles in 2020, they are fine.

With the retirement, imminent or already happened, of the best Protoss players in the world, I think the race will indeed struggle; looking at the stats, PvZ looks still Z favored(not in the late game), so it either needs to be figured out or Protoss need some help in the matchup.
NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
January 15 2020 14:07 GMT
#19
Was Cure's ping actually high? Hard to believe he could nearly beat Serral and crush everyone else on high ping
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55570 Posts
January 15 2020 14:25 GMT
#20
On January 15 2020 23:07 NinjaNight wrote:
Was Cure's ping actually high? Hard to believe he could nearly beat Serral and crush everyone else on high ping

Playing from KR to EU he had pretty high ping, yeah. It was pretty noticeable. The only match he played on even ping was against SpeCial because Juan also played and almost qualified from KR.
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