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ESL Open Week #2: Solar, HeroMarine, Cure win

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-20 20:44:04
January 20 2020 20:24 GMT
#1
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2020-21 ESL Pro Tour: Open Cups


Week two of the ESL Open Cups saw us welcome our first back-to-back winners. (Wiki)Solar was triumphant for the second straight week on the Korean server, narrowly edging out surprise finalist Astrea 3-2 in the deciding match. In the European server cup, (Wiki)HeroMarine was also victorious for the second straight week, defeating Harstem 3-1 in the finals.

A scheduling conflict with AfreecaTV's BJ Destruction Match prevented online powerhouse (Wiki)Cure from participating on the Korean server, but he made up for it soon after by winning his first ESL Open Cup on the American server (3-1 vs Bly).

ESL Open Cup winners earn $100 in prize money and 10 ESL Pro Tour points. Players who finish second earn 5 ESL Pro Tour points. Week #3 of ESL Open Cups is set to take place on January 26th.

Korean Server Cup #2 (Click for full 256 player bracket)



European Server Cup #2 (Click for full 256 player bracket)




Americas Server Cup #2 (Click for full 256 player bracket)

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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
January 20 2020 21:07 GMT
#2
Cure's schedule was really packed between this, carrying his team in the BJ Destruction Match and winning OSC. Scheduling conflicts are the only thing holding him back.
vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
January 20 2020 22:04 GMT
#3
Astrea almost taking the KR Cup over Solar is pretty awesome to see - also been loving seeing more lesser-known KR players in the cups such as Spear, Percival, Chance and ya boy Zoun.
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JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-20 22:31:06
January 20 2020 22:29 GMT
#4
Heromarine and Solar winning their respective servers back to back, nice.
DSh1
Profile Joined April 2017
292 Posts
January 20 2020 22:42 GMT
#5
Haven't watched any SC2 for a while. Is cure now that good? His online results look insane
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8245 Posts
January 20 2020 23:10 GMT
#6
I'm disappointed Polt hasn't made it into top 16 for Open Week #2.
DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
January 21 2020 06:58 GMT
#7
Is Percival the new blood ?
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Gina
Profile Joined July 2019
241 Posts
January 21 2020 07:22 GMT
#8
Cure actually hit #2 on Aligulac after his recent wins.
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egrimm
Profile Joined September 2011
Poland1199 Posts
January 21 2020 09:21 GMT
#9
Can't wait to see Cure in some serious offline tournament
Also Astrea almost winning KR server - nice!
And what's going on with ShowTime recently?
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33554 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-21 09:22:16
January 21 2020 09:22 GMT
#10
On January 21 2020 07:42 DSh1 wrote:
Haven't watched any SC2 for a while. Is cure now that good? His online results look insane


Though always a good online player, he's taken his non-major tournament to another level this off season. To find out whether he's "real" or not, I think we can only wait until IEM Katowice...
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12908 Posts
January 21 2020 11:52 GMT
#11
On January 21 2020 18:21 egrimm wrote:
Can't wait to see Cure in some serious offline tournament
Also Astrea almost winning KR server - nice!
And what's going on with ShowTime recently?

He made it to finals of first cup so he’s doing fine. A PvP loss to a good player ain’t that worrisome imo
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Miralem Ibrahim
Profile Joined April 2019
40 Posts
January 21 2020 13:56 GMT
#12
On January 21 2020 07:42 DSh1 wrote:
Haven't watched any SC2 for a while. Is cure now that good? His online results look insane


He always has been very strong in online tournament but since last year he became so strong. Just check out his aligulac. He is almost as strong as Serral in term of point with his online result winning a lot of Olimoleague and others online cup.
tigon_ridge
Profile Joined March 2019
482 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-21 14:39:46
January 21 2020 14:39 GMT
#13
Well, you can't have Maru carrying Terran forever. Passing of the baton.
ZugzwangSC
Profile Joined October 2019
87 Posts
January 21 2020 16:18 GMT
#14
Cure is so sick right now.

Hopefully he's not the cure to that sickness, er nevermind there was a joke there somewhere but I totally botched it.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55566 Posts
January 21 2020 16:21 GMT
#15
On January 21 2020 23:39 tigon_ridge wrote:
Well, you can't have Maru carrying Terran forever. Passing of the baton.

Baton ain't getting passed in EPL Weekly. Cure was outdone by Maru and TY in WESG and IEM qualifiers. The first real test will be IEM (unless GSL starts up first).
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Majick
Profile Joined August 2016
416 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-21 19:33:01
January 21 2020 19:32 GMT
#16
Nice to see Big Gabe dominating EU the last few weeks.

I wonder what is happening to Serral. Seems like he is not playing ladder at all and so far only participated in the IEM qualifiers this year where he seemed to struggle a bit. Just hope he is not burning out.
aringadingding
Profile Joined September 2010
479 Posts
January 21 2020 19:46 GMT
#17
No toss win so far in the ESL pro tour...
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
January 21 2020 19:47 GMT
#18
On January 22 2020 04:32 Majick wrote:
Nice to see Big Gabe dominating EU the last few weeks.

I wonder what is happening to Serral. Seems like he is not playing ladder at all and so far only participated in the IEM qualifiers this year where he seemed to struggle a bit. Just hope he is not burning out.


Serral seems to take his offseason vacation time seriously. Last year he didn't play a tournament game for a month and a half.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
January 21 2020 20:35 GMT
#19
On January 22 2020 04:46 aringadingding wrote:
No toss win so far in the ESL pro tour...


i thought Stats qualified
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Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
January 21 2020 22:42 GMT
#20
The Korean scene doesn't seem to be taking these very seriously.
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
January 21 2020 23:08 GMT
#21
On January 22 2020 04:47 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
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On January 22 2020 04:32 Majick wrote:
Nice to see Big Gabe dominating EU the last few weeks.

I wonder what is happening to Serral. Seems like he is not playing ladder at all and so far only participated in the IEM qualifiers this year where he seemed to struggle a bit. Just hope he is not burning out.


Serral seems to take his offseason vacation time seriously. Last year he didn't play a tournament game for a month and a half.


He was never really the type to go out of his way to play in tournament either, especially online one.
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UnLarva
Profile Joined March 2019
458 Posts
January 22 2020 07:42 GMT
#22
Cure's recent uprising is really impressive. Not only for some of his opponents defeated, but also by sheer volume of games in such short time span.

54 matches already this year with 83.33% win rate in games 105-31, and during last 10 days:

Cure is 68–16 (80.95%) in games and 31–5 (86.11%) in matches.

That's incredibly great no matter how we look at it, as half of his competition within the time frame has been against the world's top players.
Part-time Serralogist
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
January 22 2020 08:21 GMT
#23
On January 22 2020 04:32 Majick wrote:
Nice to see Big Gabe dominating EU the last few weeks.

I wonder what is happening to Serral. Seems like he is not playing ladder at all and so far only participated in the IEM qualifiers this year where he seemed to struggle a bit. Just hope he is not burning out.

I gues it s the other way around. He struggled, because the lack of recent Training. He s allways been a Person, Who knew how to look After himselve and how to not burn out. He s mighty fine and will hit hard at kato in full Power. He probably expected to get tough EU qualifier quote uncontested especially without Reynor, so didn t put on his 100% practise Regime just then.
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