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.
Serral, Elazer, Cure qualify for IEM Katowice (EU qualifier)
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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
Northern Ireland26119 Posts
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narusensei22
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tigon_ridge
482 Posts
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. | ||
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Waxangel
United States33493 Posts
On January 15 2020 09:16 tigon_ridge wrote: 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
Germany376 Posts
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Akio
Finland1838 Posts
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Shuffleblade
Sweden1903 Posts
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AlphaXSushi
838 Posts
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! | ||
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
![]() 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
Germany6997 Posts
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
18 Posts
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. | ||
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tigon_ridge
482 Posts
On January 15 2020 19:14 dalaiisc2 wrote: 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. | ||
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Dedraterllaerau
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Harris1st
Germany6997 Posts
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 | ||
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LTCM
174 Posts
On January 15 2020 21:15 Harris1st wrote: 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
Germany6997 Posts
On January 15 2020 21:39 LTCM wrote: And HSC and WESG both which showed continued protoss up. Exactly. HSC had 3 Protoss in Top 8 | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
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. | ||
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NinjaNight
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Elentos
55560 Posts
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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