The Code S qualifiers (Code A) took place over two days on April 1st and 2nd, determining the 24 players who will join 4 seeded players (top four of the Super tournament) in the first Season of Code S.
The revised format of Code S will see 24 players compete in six GSL-style groups in the first phase of the tournament. The 12 advancing players will join the 4 seeded players in the second group stage (effectively the same as the old RO16).
Code S Season 1 is scheduled to begin on April 11th. Group draws will be announced at a later date.
Gotta say, I'm not sure any players outside of Dark or Maru really stand out. I think I'd put my money on Dark, he should've taken the finals if not for underestimating Maru and throwing the games.
But awesome to see Special & Scarlett! Special beat soO to get there.
Good to see each race almost had 1/3 of the spots this qualifier (Serral and Reynor are missing in these qualifiers although I consider Serral and Reynor to be within the top 5 Zergs in the world).
The qualifier for IEM was aweful for Terran with only 5 Terran qualifying out of 24 spots for the main event. And then the GSL Super Tournament qualifier was also aweful for Terran with 4 Terran making it to the main event out of 16 spots. But it's good to see some balance in the qualifiers for this GSL, as we came very close to 1/3 for each race.
TOP's last appearance in the GSL was in 2011, in the old Code A in GSL November. He did one MLG in 2012 and had a strange run at HSC 12. In-between, he had long stints signed to two different scam orgs.
On April 03 2020 08:59 Mettis wrote: Rogue? He's not seeded and if he grinds/gets good groups I'm pretty sure he could crush some of the seeded players.
I missed him. Thought he was seeded. He does stand the best chance depending on his attitude lol. He and Solar are kind of interchangeable imo. Solar is scarier because of his drive to win, but rogue is better on a good day.
Special makes a RO8 Dream disappoints again Bunny and Ragnorok don't make it past the RO32 Solar doesn't make it past the RO16, AGAIN Zest makes the finals
On April 03 2020 09:50 xelnaga_empire wrote: Good to see each race almost had 1/3 of the spots this qualifier (Serral and Reynor are missing in these qualifiers although I consider Serral and Reynor to be within the top 5 Zergs in the world).
The qualifier for IEM was aweful for Terran with only 5 Terran qualifying out of 24 spots for the main event. And then the GSL Super Tournament qualifier was also aweful for Terran with 4 Terran making it to the main event out of 16 spots. But it's good to see some balance in the qualifiers for this GSL, as we came very close to 1/3 for each race.
Fan fact: Rogue was the only zerg to qualify on day 1 of the qualifiers, along with 6 protoss and 5 terrans.
On April 03 2020 09:50 xelnaga_empire wrote: Good to see each race almost had 1/3 of the spots this qualifier (Serral and Reynor are missing in these qualifiers although I consider Serral and Reynor to be within the top 5 Zergs in the world).
The qualifier for IEM was aweful for Terran with only 5 Terran qualifying out of 24 spots for the main event. And then the GSL Super Tournament qualifier was also aweful for Terran with 4 Terran making it to the main event out of 16 spots. But it's good to see some balance in the qualifiers for this GSL, as we came very close to 1/3 for each race.
Fan fact: Rogue was the only zerg to qualify on day 1 of the qualifiers, along with 6 protoss and 5 terrans.
Which is fine because Dark and Solar were already seeded so they didn't have to qualify. And then Serral and Reynor didn't participate in this GSL qualifier. So many of the top Zergs in the world were missing on the first day of the GSL qualifier.
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