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IEM Katowice RO36 concludes, RO24 groups completed

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TL.net ESPORTS
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Last Edited: 2021-02-21 22:33:52
February 21 2021 20:32 GMT
#1
IEM Katowice 2021

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After two days of fierce competition, Dream, Bunny, ByuN, and RagnaroK emerged as the four victors of the double elimination play-in bracket to win spots in the main event of IEM Katowice 2021.

Bunny continued his run of good form from DH: Last Chance and GSL Super Tournament 1, taking down Elazer, Kelazhur, and RagnaroK to secure his second ever group stage berth at IEM Katowice. Back in the 2019 edition of Katowice, Bunny narrowly failed to escape the group stage by a one-map margin to soO, with soO going on to win the entire tournament.

Speaking of Katowice 2019, RagnaroK's playoff was one of the surprises of the tournament. Now, he has a chance to try and match or top his personal best performance. A loss to Bunny in the upper bracket of the RO36 put RagnaroK on the ropes, but he recovered to win a group stage spot with a convincing 3-1 over Armani in the final match of the lower bracket.

In Dream's case, this marks his first time playing in the main event of IEM Katowice in its current incarnation. Dream actually took second place at IEM Katowice back in 2013, but at the time Katowice was a satellite event to the World Championship in Hanover.

Most fans predicted ByuN to advance to the group stage, but few would have expected his Ro36 journey to be so arduous. ByuN started the Ro36 with an unlucky draw against Dream, and a 1-2 loss sent him straight down to the lower bracket. While ByuN came within a map of elimination on two occasions, he managed to survive a gauntlet of DongRaeGu, Cyan, Hurricane, and sOs to reach the main event.

Round of 24 matches are set to begin on Monday, Feb 22 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) with a stacked Group A, which has become even more competitive with the addition of ByuN from the RO36.

The round group stage will be played from Feb 22-25, with the top twelve players advancing to the playoffs.


IEM Katowice: Round of 36 play-in bracket

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[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France22705 Posts
February 21 2021 20:43 GMT
#2
Nice bunch of players qualifying. So excited for the action to start !
TanksALot
Profile Joined December 2002
United States136 Posts
February 21 2021 20:53 GMT
#3
Yeah buddy!
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
54154 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-02-21 20:58:14
February 21 2021 20:56 GMT
#4
There's something wrong with group A and B, there seem to be some sort of non-Terran players in it? I hope ESL can look into this before the group stage starts.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany1900 Posts
February 21 2021 20:58 GMT
#5
I gues 4 Koreans or 3 Koreans/ 1Foreigner was the most likely outcome for the Play in Stage. But not a single Foreigner in a qualifying match after that weired start in the opening matches is a bit disapointing for the EU Boys..
MaxPax | Reynor | Clem
Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1906 Posts
February 21 2021 21:01 GMT
#6
A and D are tres stacked. Some great games coming up though!
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic10702 Posts
February 21 2021 21:13 GMT
#7
Wow, sOs did way better than I thought he would. Nice, also Byun ending in the group A was a destined to be.
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Zzoram
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada7106 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-02-21 21:22:00
February 21 2021 21:19 GMT
#8
Group A has the 4 top Terrans in the world right now in the same group. I guess a Terran isn’t winning this.

The GSL style Q&A clips during downtime are amazing! So happy to see them this time.
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany4285 Posts
February 21 2021 21:48 GMT
#9
Nooooo who put Byun in group A?

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Edpayasugo
Profile Joined April 2013
United Kingdom1949 Posts
February 21 2021 22:03 GMT
#10
Oof some tough groups

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Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3614 Posts
February 21 2021 22:12 GMT
#11
Glad for the Terran guys, I would have preferred Elazer but when you don't beat Armani in mirror it's tough; Ragnarok deserved.

Group A is complete madness, both Showtime and Clem are historically weaker against T but at least Clem has recently shown to have improved alot much in mirror.
InvictusRage
Profile Joined August 2011
United States217 Posts
February 21 2021 22:23 GMT
#12
On February 22 2021 07:12 Xain0n wrote:
Glad for the Terran guys, I would have preferred Elazer but when you don't beat Armani in mirror it's tough; Ragnarok deserved.

Group A is complete madness, both Showtime and Clem are historically weaker against T but at least Clem has recently shown to have improved alot much in mirror.



Consistent with this post, I really think Clem's TvT is almost as good as his TvZ is, at this point in time. He has had some convincing results and play recently, though I am operating strictly off memory of watching them.
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States13409 Posts
February 21 2021 22:58 GMT
#13
Group A never should have been allowed to happen. Swap Byun and Ragnarok IMO.
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Obamarauder
Profile Joined June 2015
349 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-02-21 23:28:26
February 21 2021 23:28 GMT
#14
clem will be first place in group A
Morbidius
Profile Joined November 2010
Brazil3205 Posts
February 22 2021 00:44 GMT
#15
Where is the Korea Preview for Ro24? :O
Has foreign StarCraft hit rock bottom?
Crocolisk Dundee
Profile Joined October 2015
445 Posts
February 22 2021 05:31 GMT
#16
On February 22 2021 06:19 Zzoram wrote:
Q&A clips during downtime are amazing! So happy to see them this time.


Seconding this. I hope they were prepared for subsequent rounds as well.
I only play StarCraft on N64.
Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1152 Posts
February 22 2021 09:23 GMT
#17
Ouch that racial distribution! 8/11 terrans in A+B and 6/7 Protoss in C+D, no P in group B... At least the Zergs are spread evenly, but they are also the least represented.

Super stacked lineup!
Buff the siegetank
Xamo
Profile Joined April 2012
Spain700 Posts
February 22 2021 13:25 GMT
#18
9 foreigners vs 15 koreans... The new age of parity might be delayed once again.
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