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ESL Open Week #41: Dark, Clem, Scarlett win

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
October 20 2020 10:22 GMT
#1
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2020-21 ESL Pro Tour: Open Cups


(Wiki)Dark secured a back-to-back win in the ESL Open Cup Korea, making it three wins in three appearances. In Europe, (Wiki)Clem completed a hat-trick by winning the third cup in succession, while (Wiki)Scarlett made an absolutely flawless run to lock down her first victory on the American server ever since Week #3.

After the previous week's surge in participants, the ESL Open Cup Korea went back to normal size, but one of the heavy hitters stayed on for another week. Dark, usually not especially keen on online tournaments, chose to defend his title, and went through foreign Terrans (Wiki)TIME and (Wiki)SpeCial to reach the finals, keeping his rate of making it to the ultimate series when appearing in these cups at 100%. Regular participant and winner of the tournament (Wiki)Solar, whose title Dark claimed in the week before, challenged the DPG Zerg with the intention of taking it back. Dark, however, remained cool after his opponent from KaiZi Gaming took the first map off him and went on to secure three victories in a row to defend his status. Three appearances, three gold medals—whatever Dark's motivation behind participating more in the ESL Open Cups is (securing additional EPT points seems likely, after his disappointing record in point-awarding tournaments this year), his campaign is going pretty well so far.

In the history of the ESL Open Cups, this is only the second time that (Wiki)HeRoMaRinE hasn't won a cup for a five week stretch, the first such period happening between Cups #11 and #15 when (Wiki)Reynor started to partake. Clem has gained the biggest advantage from Big Gabe's dry spell (which continued this week, the Terran losing to (Wiki)Vanya early on), being able to secure a third win in a row this Monday, joining HeroMarine and Reynor in achieving this feat. Cup #41 had a relatively comfortable bracket in store for the Frenchman, including his by now traditional weekly duel with Danish youngster (Wiki)MaxPax—perhaps beating the Protoss is some sort of lucky charm for him? The Liquid player's final opponent was (Wiki)Lambo this week, with the German Zerg making his first appearance in the finals since Week #27. Lambo was even able to secure the initial game for himself, but things fell apart for him afterwards, Clem taking the next three maps to close the series out.

European players seem to have collectively decided not to invade the American server this week (only (Wiki)Nitix and (Wiki)Mapu apparently didn't get the memo), leaving the field to Solar, who had already won the two latest tournaments of the region and looked to complete the hat-trick. The Korean's campaign was off to a great start, but met a sudden and unexpected end at the hands of (Wiki)PiLiPiLi, who went on all the way to secure his second ever appearance in the finals (having already won a shocking victory in Week #33). Overall, however, there was no serious competition for the title, since Canadian Zerg Scarlett showed a dominating performance throughout the whole tournament and secured the win without dropping a single map, having torn through her side of the bracket and then ending all of PiLiPiLi's dream of a second gold medal without any mercy. This marks her first win in the American edition of the ESL Open Cups since all the way back in Week #3, which was in January.

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 #42 of ESL Open Cups is set to take place on October 26th.

by TheOneAboveU

Korean Server Cup #41 (Click for full bracket)



European Server Cup #41 (Click for full bracket)



Americas Server Cup #41 (Click for full bracket)

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dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
October 20 2020 10:43 GMT
#2
Great to see Clem going on a nice winstreak after the nonstop BIG Gabe era
MaxPax still beat SouL, Neeb and Mana, just to be stopped by Clem once again.
If he keeps this up he can abslutly get out of his group this time, if you replace those aformentioned names with Aquaeron, Harstem and Gungfubanda, his group is arguably easier than that Open cup run.
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ilax30
Profile Joined November 2019
720 Posts
October 20 2020 11:19 GMT
#3
Gosh Solar with another loss to a toss. This time none other than PiliPili. So strange the American's DH run went so bad last time in the groupstages, as he was in great form before that and now shows once again he can easily be one of the better NA players. Lets bring this dreamhack on already!
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6899 Posts
October 20 2020 11:33 GMT
#4
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Did they offrace?

MaxPax's PvP is impressive. Hope his PvZ/ PvZ will keep improving for him to become EU's next Protoss Powerhouse
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
Philippe
Profile Joined October 2020
351 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-20 12:19:49
October 20 2020 11:40 GMT
#5
Even accounting for DH looming in the next days, almost no European player in the NA open cup sounds surprising. But not unhappy for Scarlett given her spot in the NA rankings. I wasn't expecting HeroMarine taking a 2-0 defeat from Vanya, either.

On October 20 2020 20:33 Harris1st wrote:

Did they offrace?

MaxPax's PvP is impressive. Hope his PvZ/ PvZ will keep improving for him to become EU's next Protoss Powerhouse


In this match they didn't offrace but in the match Lambo had vs Skillous, both did, and ironically, Lambo as Protoss and Skillous as zerg


EDIT response to dbric : it also happened vs ShoWTime ? heck I need to watch it
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dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-20 12:11:03
October 20 2020 12:10 GMT
#6
On October 20 2020 20:33 Harris1st wrote:
[image loading]

Did they offrace?

MaxPax's PvP is impressive. Hope his PvZ/ PvZ will keep improving for him to become EU's next Protoss Powerhouse

Yes, this is correct
You can see it in the Liquipedia - Code, that whoever put that in wrote it in all caps, that it actually happend
MaxPax
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6899 Posts
October 20 2020 12:30 GMT
#7
|R3W5=ShoWTimE |R3W5race=z <!-- NOT A MISTAKE --> |R3W5score=1 |R3W5win=
|R3W6=Lambo |R3W6race=p <!-- NOT A MISTAKE --> |R3W6score=2 |R3W6win=1

Lol. All hail the LP gods!
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
yubo56
Profile Joined May 2014
687 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-21 23:52:54
October 21 2020 23:52 GMT
#8
On October 20 2020 21:10 dbRic1203 wrote:
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On October 20 2020 20:33 Harris1st wrote:
[image loading]

Did they offrace?

MaxPax's PvP is impressive. Hope his PvZ/ PvZ will keep improving for him to become EU's next Protoss Powerhouse

Yes, this is correct
You can see it in the Liquipedia - Code, that whoever put that in wrote it in all caps, that it actually happend

Is this actually correct though? I was really hoping to find the VOD for this offrace match, but it looks like https://www.twitch.tv/videos/775363770?t=0h50m52s is the only VOD I could find, and they played their main races (zerg wins at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/775363770?t=1h25m48s). I'd love to be corrected, I want to watch this offrace game haha
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