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ESL Open Week #13: Zest, Reynor, PartinG win

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
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April 06 2020 22:44 GMT
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2020-21 ESL Pro Tour: Open Cups


As the online monsters of Korea wrestled for their home title, the ESL Open Cups on the European and the American servers found themselves crowning back to back champions. With an elite cadre of players playing musical chairs in the top spots, one has to wonder if any new powers will emerge to disrupt the proceedings.

Two beasts prowl in Korea's online tournaments: Online (Wiki)Cure and Online (Wiki)Zest. Last week's ESL Open Cup was won by the DPG Terran, and so naturally Zest had to avenge this daring incursion into his territory by a demonstration of force—though, truth be told, not much force was necessary: the list of notable participants was rather short, and Zest only had to face one of his countrymen on the way to the title, namely (Wiki)PartinG, whom he defeated in the finals. After the competition in the Korean cups had picked up a bit in the last weeks, this one's level fell down quite a bit again, as perhaps players are starting to focus on their GSL groups and are less willing to show strategies in these online tournaments.

Ever fierce was the competition on the European server, where (Wiki)Reynor was able to continue his winning streak and secured his third ESL Open Cup victory in a row, equalizing (Wiki)HeroMarine's record. It certainly looks like the magic is gone for the German, as he fell victim to his nemesis (Wiki)Clem in the quarterfinals this time, making a very early exit. The French Terran went on to challenge Reynor in the finals and put up quite a strong fight, really making the Italian work for his money and glory. Europe will look to him in the coming week to depose the new tyrant, and give life to the old cry 'vive la liberté!'

Clem was quite busy this Sunday, because having come close to defeat Reynor wasn't enough for him: as usual, he also participated in the NA server cup and reached the finals there, but for a second week in a row he ultimately fell to (Wiki)PartinG (who himself had already reached the finals of the Korean cup). Four of the six spots in this Sunday's finals were taken up by only two players! Also notable is that last week's improved American results, which gave fans hope that perhaps one of the home players could make a deeper run this week, were possibly a simple fluke. Only one American managed to make the top 8 this Sunday. With another round of cups done, all of this week's winners—Zest, Reynor, and PartinG—were able to improve their gold medal count to three per player. Still the top dog in this regard is HeroMarine with double that number.

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 #13 of ESL Open Cups is set to take place on April 12th.

by TheOneAboveU

Korean Server Cup #13 (Click for full bracket)



European Server Cup #13 (Click for full bracket)



Americas Server Cup #13 (Click for full bracket)

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MoonyD
Profile Joined December 2013
Australia191 Posts
April 09 2020 03:56 GMT
#2
Good to see PartinG winning some games after his narrow loss in the Super Tournament.
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HsDLTitich
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Italy830 Posts
April 09 2020 10:15 GMT
#3
From HeroMarine to Reynor, seems like Italy is gonna win every EU cup ever
I used to organize tournaments for ESL Italy and referee Go4SC2s, WCSs, and IEMs for ESL SC2.
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
April 09 2020 10:18 GMT
#4
On April 09 2020 19:15 HsDLTitich wrote:
From HeroMarine to Reynor, seems like Italy is gonna win every EU cup ever

Well with how close the last couple of Reynor - Clem matches where, I wouldn t be to sure about that
While I see them pretty much equal head to head, I still think Reynor is less prone to fall to lesser players on the way to the final..
MaxPax
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April 10 2020 17:18 GMT
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Mettis
Profile Joined June 2019
84 Posts
April 13 2020 14:49 GMT
#6
Why does it seem like many of the highest level koreans don't want to play the ESL cups?
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55510 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-04-13 15:02:48
April 13 2020 15:02 GMT
#7
On April 13 2020 23:49 Mettis wrote:
Why does it seem like many of the highest level koreans don't want to play the ESL cups?

There was an interview with Solar here on TL earlier in the year where that subject was touched on:
On February 16 2020 20:19 TL.net ESPORTS wrote:

You're playing and winning a lot of the ESL weeklies, but Korean players aren't really participating. Why is that?

Because it's just 10 points per win, I don't think the players really understand the importance of it. The top players, in particular, think they will [qualify] anyway... Also, this year the number of players that can go to the Masters Championship [*Note: equivalent to the old Global Finals] was greatly increased from eight to sixteen. So I think the players are a little overconfident. I'm trying to stack up points beforehand so I can advance directly to next year's IEM Katowice/Masters Championship without any trouble.

Also, as far as I know, there are a lot of players who won't be able to travel overseas next year. Probably more than fans expect, the top tier players will be barred from travelling. So I don't think they're worried that much about earning points this year.

So essentially most of the highest level Koreans aren't worried about getting these cup points at all.
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Mettis
Profile Joined June 2019
84 Posts
April 14 2020 17:49 GMT
#8
I think some who are there or near the cut off at the end of the year will regret not playing them, HeroMarine has already made basically the same points as what you get for qualifying for code S.
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