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ESL Open Week #18: Stats, HeroMarine, Clem win

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TL.net ESPORTS
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May 12 2020 10:25 GMT
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2020-21 ESL Pro Tour: Open Cups


The Big Gabe Cup continues! While (Wiki)HeroMarine achieved his second hat-trick in the ESL Open Cup EU, (Wiki)Stats arrived on the Korean server to upset the balance of power in a debut victory. The AM server cup finals ended up being an all-French affair, with Clem toppling PtitDrogo.

Making his very first participation in the ESL Open Cup KR count, (Wiki)Stats claimed a solid victory to begin the road to recovery after his recent GSL Code S elimination. The cup was incredibly foreigner-heavy, making Stats' toughest challengers (Wiki)SpeCial and (Wiki)Scarlett. The Canadian Zerg got a notable result by beating one member of Korea's online-triumvirate in (Wiki)Zest, showing a mix of her cheesy play and of good old macro-Scarlett to reach the finals. She was able to steal a map from Stats with another aggressive build, but the Protoss stayed solid in the other matches, overpowering her with his Glaive-based playstyle.

Almost mirroring the previous week's top 4, the ESL Open Cup EU featured an all-German finals between HeroMarine and a German Protoss, though the opposing role was played by (Wiki)ShoWTimE this week. Meanwhile the Team Liquid duo of (Wiki)Clem and (Wiki)Harstem were narrowly eliminated in the semi-finals. The series between ShoWTimE and Clem specifically turned out to be an amazing PvT, and especially the first game is much recommended (VOD). Notably, the match between Harstem and Big Gabe featured a Mech game on Eternal Empire (VOD), continuing the trend of Terrans bringing out Mech on this map in TvP. Despite his fantastic series against Clem, ShoWTimE could not survivethe onslaught by his countryman, whose play heavily featured one of the freshest and deadliest tools in the Terran arsenal—the quick and early tech to Drilling Claws popularized by (Wiki)Cure. This is HeroMarine's second triple win streak in the EU cups and his ninth victory over all, bringing Germany up to 20 medals in these cups, with only South Korea towering above them with 35 medals.

It's been four weeks since Clem last won an ESL Open Cup, so it was long overdue for the Frenchman to score another victory after his repeated semi-finals eliminations on the EU and the NA server in the last weeks. Turning the top 4 of last week's cup on its head, both Clem and his countryman (Wiki)PtitDrogo—a regular duo in the ESL Open Cup AM—pushed themselves into the finals this week, overcoming Week 18 finalist SpeCial (who really seems to have warmed to these cups, even participating in two this week), and the dominator of the NA ladder (Wiki)PartinG. The Liquid player confirmed his status as the heavy favorite, taking a decisive win over his fellow Frenchman.

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 #19 of ESL Open Cups is set to take place on May 17th.

by TheOneAboveU

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hjpalpha
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Germany339 Posts
May 12 2020 11:23 GMT
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nice write up^^
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BaneRiders
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Sweden3630 Posts
May 12 2020 12:30 GMT
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Yeah, nice write up indeed!

Next year the winner should get 25 points, the runner up 10 points and the semifinalists 5 points each.
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yubo56
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May 13 2020 14:21 GMT
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On May 12 2020 19:25 TL.net ESPORTS wrote:
This is HeroMarine's second triple win streak in the EU cups and his ninth victory over all, bringing Germany up to 20 medals in these cups, with only South Korea towering above them with 35 medals.

Isn't this literally b/c there's a separate region dedicated to South Korea? I guess not exactly a fair comparison, but also really shows how dominant HM + company have been in the EU + NA cups
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TheOneAboveU
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Germany3367 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-05-13 14:27:49
May 13 2020 14:27 GMT
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On May 13 2020 23:21 yubo56 wrote:
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On May 12 2020 19:25 TL.net ESPORTS wrote:
This is HeroMarine's second triple win streak in the EU cups and his ninth victory over all, bringing Germany up to 20 medals in these cups, with only South Korea towering above them with 35 medals.

Isn't this literally b/c there's a separate region dedicated to South Korea? I guess not exactly a fair comparison, but also really shows how dominant HM + company have been in the EU + NA cups

The ESL cups aren't region locked, and we see plenty of Foreigners playing the KR cups, so technically they don't have a monopoly on winning them by default. But yeah, your second point is why I inserted that comparison (unfair as it may be) in the first place: HeroMarine has won a LOT of these cups, and other German players are contributing nicely as well, and I think it's quite well illustrated this way.
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