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ESL Open Week #36: Trap, HeroMarine, PtitDrogo win

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TL.net ESPORTS
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4 Posts
September 15 2020 07:01 GMT
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2020-21 ESL Pro Tour: Open Cups


Week #36 of the ESL Open Cups saw (Wiki)Trap win the Korean edition, which was somehow missing an entire race. (Wiki)HeRoMaRinE secured his sixth back-to-back victory in the European cup, leading to a steadily growing exodus of EU players into the American cup, where (Wiki)PtitDrogo was able to secure a gold medal for himself.

The Korean cup had a notable lack of race diversity this week, with not a single notable Zerg player to be seen, and merely two competitive-tier Terran players choosing to sign up. The GTC-induced semifinal walkovers also made a return, but this time the beneficiary (Wiki)Stats couldn't capitalize on his free win over (Wiki)Hurricane. Though Stats—the winner from Cup #35—had survived PvP just fine up to that point, things started to bog down once he met Trap in the finals. The players traded maps back and forth, and with Jin Air Protoss taking the first map, the final map win also fell to him. For Trap, it was a minor bit of revenge after losing to Stats in the Code S quarterfinals, and marked his third ESL Open Cup victory overall.

HeRoMaRinE's current ESL Open Cup EU win streak: Two Three Four Five Six. At least the person getting demolished by the German Terran in the finals is changing every week, so there's some variety for the viewers. For Cup #36 that lucky player was (Wiki)Rail, who went on a very strong PvP streak to reach the final series of the day, taking out (Wiki)MaNa, (Wiki)Gerald and (Wiki)Harstem. Big Gabe almost made it a perfect run, but his countryman (Wiki)Lambo besmirched the Terran's record by taking a map off of him in the semis. For another fun comparison to illustrate HeRoMaRinE's dominance: with his 17 victories he has won more gold medals in the EU cups than all other participating countries combined (these having 12 wins). One more victory, and Big Gabe will have won as many gold medals as every other winner in the EU edition by himself (18 to 18, (Wiki)ShoWTimE contributing six wins to the aforementioned count).

Notably, MaNa and PtitDrogo sought success elsewhere after early exits from the European cup, participating in the NA edition instead. And, indeed, both players promptly reached the semis with MaNa taking out last week's finalist (Wiki)Namshar. The other side of the bracket belonged to another faction, which hadn't seen much action on Monday up to this point: the Korean Zergs woke up! (Wiki)Solar and (Wiki)Armani occupied the other two spots in the top four, with the Afreeca Zerg emerging victorious in their semi-finals clash after a full Bo5. The European semis also went the full distance, the Drogo advancing in the end. Though Armani was able to score first blood in the finals, taking the first map, PtitDrogo kept his nerves together and came back with three victories in a row, securing ESL Open Cup gold for himself for the very first time.

ESL Open Cup winners earn $200 in prize money and 10 ESL Pro Tour points. Players who finish second earn 5 ESL Pro Tour points and $100. A top 4 finish guarantees at least $50. Week #37 of ESL Open Cups is set to take place on September 21st.

by TheOneAboveU

Korean Server Cup #36 (Click for full bracket)



European Server Cup #36 (Click for full bracket)



Americas Server Cup #36 (Click for full bracket)

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followZeRoX
Profile Joined March 2011
Serbia1449 Posts
September 15 2020 07:10 GMT
#2
Gabe is making EU cups boring
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
September 15 2020 07:11 GMT
#3
KR cups frequently have very Protoss heavy lineups, but this really takes the cake.
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
September 15 2020 07:15 GMT
#4
The NA Cup looks like the early ones this year again, with Solar only meeting a single notable NA player in his entire run and only 2 of them even making it to the Ro8.
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TheOneAboveU
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany3367 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-09-15 09:46:29
September 15 2020 09:43 GMT
#5
I was made aware of the fact that Big Gabe ALREADY has 18 Gold Medals (LP hadn't updated the page yet when I wrote this). So yay, even more dominance! Next week will be about actually getting more medals than the combined rest of the field!
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hjpalpha
Profile Joined August 2017
Germany339 Posts
September 15 2020 09:58 GMT
#6
On September 15 2020 18:43 TheOneAboveU wrote:
I was made aware of the fact that Big Gabe ALREADY has 18 Gold Medals (LP hadn't updated the page yet when I wrote this). So yay, even more dominance! Next week will be about actually getting more medals than the combined rest of the field!


the overview pages are automated, so the page was updated but the display was probably outdated due to cache issues^^
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6883 Posts
September 15 2020 10:44 GMT
#7
feardragon Edition of the KR Weekly lol
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
September 15 2020 12:57 GMT
#8
Korea is so green Protoss fighting!
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JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
September 15 2020 19:38 GMT
#9
The less a tournament matters, the stronger Gabe becomes.
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