The 2021 season of the Global StarCraft 2 league will kick off on January 27th with Super Tournament #1. Sixteen of the GSL's top players made it through the qualifier, and will look to win the first offline championship of the year. The RO16 bracket is as follows:
The preliminaries featured a handful of notable upsets, with sOs and SpeCial taking down Rogue in their qualifier pool, while Zoun and Dream advanced at the expense of TY in another qualifier group.
Maru was a notable no-show at the qualifiers, presumably due to treatment for his shoulder injury.
Super Tournament 1 will be held from January 27th to January 30th. The prize money and EPT points will be announced in the near future. Super Tournament 1 is the first of three Super Tournament events in the 2021 season of GSL, up from two in 2020.
So I can only assume that Maru isn't competing? Makes sense, he doesn't need the points and would be better if he spent this time recovering from his injury.
On January 20 2021 14:08 ShowTheLights wrote: Really happy Zoun got into this. Killer lineup, other than Armani and Cure
Armani and Cure are far from the weakest players here. Anyway, looks like a good variety of established players and underdogs. Hope this kicks Rogue into "win everything" mode going into Katowice.
On January 20 2021 13:49 Vindicare605 wrote: So I can only assume that Maru isn't competing? Makes sense, he doesn't need the points and would be better if he spent this time recovering from his injury.
On January 20 2021 14:08 ShowTheLights wrote: Really happy Zoun got into this. Killer lineup, other than Armani and Cure
Armani and Cure are far from the weakest players here. Anyway, looks like a good variety of established players and underdogs. Hope this kicks Rogue into "win everything" mode going into Katowice.
Cure is top 1 korean terran in aligulac right now...
On January 20 2021 13:49 Vindicare605 wrote: So I can only assume that Maru isn't competing? Makes sense, he doesn't need the points and would be better if he spent this time recovering from his injury.
The points are for Katowice 2022 allready
If he is healthy he should relatively easily qualify for 2022 Katowice anyways, so it’s probably better to try being healthy asap anyways (especially with Katowice coming soon). Nice line-up, congrats Special for the upset (and Zoun/Dream)
On January 20 2021 13:49 Vindicare605 wrote: So I can only assume that Maru isn't competing? Makes sense, he doesn't need the points and would be better if he spent this time recovering from his injury.
The points are for Katowice 2022 allready
ionno if this will have points? unannounced so far...
On January 20 2021 13:49 Vindicare605 wrote: So I can only assume that Maru isn't competing? Makes sense, he doesn't need the points and would be better if he spent this time recovering from his injury.
The points are for Katowice 2022 allready
ionno if this will have points? unannounced so far...
hopefully it does, let's keep that silly "it's just a qualifier" idea in 2020
On January 20 2021 13:49 Vindicare605 wrote: So I can only assume that Maru isn't competing? Makes sense, he doesn't need the points and would be better if he spent this time recovering from his injury.
The points are for Katowice 2022 allready
ionno if this will have points? unannounced so far...
hopefully it does, let's keep that silly "it's just a qualifier" idea in 2020
I don't even play and I'm still kinda salty about there not being points for the first one last year.
On January 21 2021 02:54 TentativePanda wrote: Hmmm. Another Stats vs Trap finals I suppose
Trap's going to have a tough time beating two Zergs back to back, so he'd better root for Innovation. Stats does look very likely to make the finals.
On January 21 2021 02:54 MarianoSC2 wrote: Lol the bracket is ridiculous. The upper half so so much stronger than the lower half... Never seen such a disparity tbh
It's a bit lopsided, but not ridiculously so. Upper bracket has some weaker players (Dream, sOs, DRG) and the lower has some real contenders (Stats, Cure, Zest, maybe PartinG).
EPT
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