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).
On January 20 2021 13:27 TL.net ESPORTS wrote: Maru was a notable no-show at the qualifiers, presumably due to treatment for his shoulder injury.
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 21 2021 05:28 makeSC2greatAgain wrote: No Maru?
I knew people were bad at actually reading posts, but this is still impressive.
On January 20 2021 14:08 ShowTheLights wrote: Really happy Zoun got into this. Killer lineup, other than Armani and Cure
"Really happy [the worst code S protoss] got into this. Killer lineup, other than [that ro8 zerg] and [the strongest KR terran right now]"
Doesn't make much sense my friend
How would Cure be the strongest KR terran right now? He couldn't compete in DH Last Chance so he didn't get to play vs the best like TY / ByuN / INno did, and I would put them ahead of Cure, even though he recently got ahead by a tiny amount on aligulac, playing mostly small stakes cups.
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.
crazy how dieukure is the only terran candidate for the final with da absence of mary and caster current bogus s form ?? i dont know kev... buyn ?? his wrists would just give up in semifinal at best will cheer for my man major as usual tho
On January 26 2021 16:42 Reptile_ro wrote: We have a final in the first match, Dark-Trap, so sad.
Yeah its stupid that the Koreans are always so noble and do not just rig the brackets like Esl does. We always get the stupidest brackets for STs. Well, at least its different, it can kinda add to the charm of the tournament, at least for some people...
On January 26 2021 16:42 Reptile_ro wrote: We have a final in the first match, Dark-Trap, so sad.
Yeah its stupid that the Koreans are always so noble and do not just rig the brackets like Esl does. We always get the stupidest brackets for STs. Well, at least its different, it can kinda add to the charm of the tournament, at least for some people...
Where is ESL rigging the breaket? I gues it s rather that the maps in EU are still way bigger, as there are only 3 serious Titel contenders in EU, compared to like 10 in KR
On January 26 2021 16:42 Reptile_ro wrote: We have a final in the first match, Dark-Trap, so sad.
Yeah its stupid that the Koreans are always so noble and do not just rig the brackets like Esl does. We always get the stupidest brackets for STs. Well, at least its different, it can kinda add to the charm of the tournament, at least for some people...
Your negativity towards none korean stuff shines through almost every post. Impressive!
Nevertheless, the claim that the esl manipulates brackets is of course great nonsense.
To the topic: I will cheer for byun and dream! Hoping for a tvp final! Maybe Stats vs Byun?
Quite tough to predict as well (as can be seen already from some polar opposite comments so far) so even better! A good DRG and/or Armani run would be nice for sure, but hard to pick who to cheers for.
EPT
sOs and 
