• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 10:44
CEST 16:44
KST 23:44
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL22] Ro4 Preview: Mirror Mirror4[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: Within Reach5[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: In A Tizzy11[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Holy Diver5[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Rough Waters10
Community News
SC4ALL: II SC2 Complete Invited Player Lineup9StarCraft II 5.0.17 PTR Patch Notes (Sept 30, 2026)69Weekly Cups (Sept 21-27): herO and ByuN double2Weekly Cups (Sep 13-20): herO scores triple3BSL Season 2316
StarCraft 2
General
SC4ALL: II SC2 Complete Invited Player Lineup StarCraft II 5.0.17 PTR Patch Notes (Sept 30, 2026) How do you feel about the mass reverts in the 5.0.17 PTR? Back to SC2 after 14 years - Protoss CTRL groups? October World Ranking: herO stays #1, ByuN returns
Tourneys
Stellar Fest TWO the Moon (Dec 16-20) Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament 2026 GSTL Grand Finals Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond) SC2 INu's Battles#21 [ 3-Days tournament ]
Strategy
[H] ZvP Mid-Late Game: Stalkers Collossi HT
Custom Maps
[M] (2) Sweltering Sands [M] (2) Frigid Storage
External Content
Mutation # 546 Catch the Train The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 545 And Drops and Rifts Mutation # 544 Double Trouble
Brood War
General
Sagi.gg Launcher Released Fantasy returning? Bot on ladder [ASL22] Ro4 Preview: Mirror Mirror mca64Launcher 2.0
Tourneys
[ASL22] Semifinal A [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL22] Ro8 Day 4 2v2v2v2 Tournament
Strategy
Cliff Jump Revisited (1 in a 1000 strategy) Replay Review Process - What do you do? Simple Questions, Simple Answers Odyssey Mineral Stack Saturation
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread General RTS Discussion Thread Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Total Annihilation Zero
Dota 2
Dota 2 Champions League Season 3 Begins April 25! Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Canadian Politics Mega-thread Artificial Intelligence Thread
Fan Clubs
Serral Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Diablo Animated Series on Netflix
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
[ASL22] Ro4 Day1 Ticket Giv…
bITt.mAN
Escaping Into Video Games: G…
TrAiDoS
38 yo Retired SWE loo…
PurE)Rabbit-SF
Can Bots Beat Pros?? Starcr…
namkraft
[meme] I finally understa…
LUCKY_NOOB
Regacy Esports:Our Goa…
regacyesports
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 7339 users

Believe it into Existence: Reynor wins IEM Katowice 2021 -…

Forum Index > SC2 General
44 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 Next All
AirbladeOrange
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2574 Posts
March 10 2021 02:42 GMT
#21
Great write-up. Reynor's run here was incredibly impressive. Definitely one for the history books, so I say a huge congratulations to the young Italian!
kawoq
Profile Joined November 2005
Guatemala357 Posts
March 10 2021 03:30 GMT
#22
On March 10 2021 02:23 LennX wrote:
Long may he rein.

The archon training may be 1 of the best unorthodox training method that didn't come form the Korean grind.


I recall Boxer used to practice with Archon mode in Broodwar 1v2, no?

Great tournament to watch! Glad to see Reynor won it all, he deserve it, gg wp.
"It is not a shameful thing to be unable to reach the goal. It's becoming afraid and running away, even before considering the fact that the road is long and rough, that is truly cowardly." by - Lim Yo Hwan aka SlayerS_Boxer from "Crazy as me"
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
March 10 2021 05:52 GMT
#23
When I first saw the Headline,I was a bit skeptical.
But you absolutly sold that narrative, it s amazingly written
Nice work Wax.

GGs to Reynor, it was an absolutly amazing tournament run and a well deserved Championship.
I hope more pros will Start incorporating Archon Praxis now.
The Koreans are all pretty good friends, so I could absolutly see it in affect for Code S there as well.
It could Lift the overall Level of Play to absolut unknown hights.
Also I gues it could Help Players with nerve issues (thinking of Cure and Solar in particular) on realy Big games, as from then on every tournament game is 1000x easier than the Archon practise
MaxPax
PartyBiscuit
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada4525 Posts
March 10 2021 06:21 GMT
#24
AmazIng write up and beautiful art
the farm ends here
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
March 10 2021 06:43 GMT
#25
Legendary run, all hail!
"Protoss is a joke" Liquid`Jinro Okt.1. 2011
Sirris
Profile Joined November 2019
681 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-03-10 06:53:58
March 10 2021 06:53 GMT
#26
Fantastic article. Even as someone who very loosely follows sc2(broodwar is my thing), I'm definitely going to watch all these games now even though I know the results
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
March 10 2021 06:57 GMT
#27
On March 10 2021 15:53 Sirris wrote:
Fantastic article. Even as someone who very loosely follows sc2(broodwar is my thing), I'm definitely going to watch all these games now even though I know the results

I also had to rewatch the Dark series, because I couldn t watch it live unfortunatly. Still was absolutly amazing
MaxPax
bastiensky
Profile Joined April 2013
France7 Posts
March 10 2021 07:05 GMT
#28
so much epicness in that article after that much epicness in reynor's run ! thanks to the author !
parksonsc
Profile Joined May 2019
175 Posts
March 10 2021 07:56 GMT
#29
After all that was still an online tournament, Reynor is great but he is not the world champion to me.
Edpayasugo
Profile Joined April 2013
United Kingdom2223 Posts
March 10 2021 08:51 GMT
#30
Thanks for the write up, it was a phenomenal run and Reynor is a great and worthy champion.
FlaSh MMA INnoVation FanTaSy MKP TY Ryung | soO Dark Rogue | HuK PartinG Stork State
HolySmoke
Profile Joined August 2019
8 Posts
March 10 2021 09:43 GMT
#31
Well deserved, congrats Reynor. Extremely amazing run.
DevilDriver
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany77 Posts
March 10 2021 16:06 GMT
#32
This was a very memorable final for me. One take away in particular: Reynor seemed to struggle in late game situations, where he seems less experienced then most of his opponents and also Serral. However he is by far the most consistent early/midgame player. His mechanical as well as mental strength seem to outmatch that of every progamer thus far and having played this game for a considerable amount of time, it is actually very hard to believe for me that you can actually get that close to perfect.

The question for me is: Will we see (non-AI) players who will become even better than that (on a non-strategic level)? I can't imagine it, but the current trend suggests that. If Starcraft was a more stable e-sport and had a more promising future, I could see team houses introducing this archon method as a standard training device and a lot of youngsters rising to unimaginable heights. Most team houses are gone for now, but there still seem to be youngsters starting to play on a competitive level, but I doubt that many of them will actually consider a professional career, I hope I'm wrong there.
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16101 Posts
March 10 2021 16:52 GMT
#33
absolutely heartbroken Maru choked again
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Noa Greenini
Profile Joined April 2015
265 Posts
March 10 2021 17:06 GMT
#34
GG well played and also well written!
Noa Greenini looks like the superior LR poster - Charoisaur 04/05/2019 (Serral vs Showtime match)
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
March 10 2021 17:26 GMT
#35
On March 11 2021 01:52 Charoisaur wrote:
absolutely heartbroken Maru choked again

Marus loss had nothing todo with him choking, he played amazing, eben in game 4 his error didn t even matter, because it was a build order loss anyways.
It was just that Teynor was able to adapt to his opponent and managed to transfer bis almost perfect early game into a midgame win instead a lategame loss
MaxPax
Xamo
Profile Joined April 2012
Spain886 Posts
March 10 2021 23:44 GMT
#36
Beautiful piece.
Long live the king!
My life for Aiur. You got a piece of me, baby. IIIIIIiiiiiii.
virpi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany3599 Posts
March 12 2021 04:13 GMT
#37
One of the great runs, that's for sure. He beat the best players of each race and showed incredible mental strength. imagine him winning in front of a hyped crowd at Katowice. Still, an outstanding achievement. His series vs. Maru will go down in SC2's history.
first we make expand, then we defense it.
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16101 Posts
March 12 2021 13:42 GMT
#38
On March 11 2021 02:26 dbRic1203 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 11 2021 01:52 Charoisaur wrote:
absolutely heartbroken Maru choked again

Marus loss had nothing todo with him choking, he played amazing, eben in game 4 his error didn t even matter, because it was a build order loss anyways.
It was just that Teynor was able to adapt to his opponent and managed to transfer bis almost perfect early game into a midgame win instead a lategame loss

In game 3 he also put himself incredibly far behind by not walling off correctly and letting his 3/3 get sniped for free due to poor ebay placement
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
rwala
Profile Joined December 2019
344 Posts
March 13 2021 17:44 GMT
#39
So happy for Reynor! What a champ! He just brought such epic matches and an amazing attitude and energy. The whole tourney was pretty awesome, one of the better ones in a long time. That said, as a huge Maru fan, it was painful to see how he went down to Reynor in game 4. It's being talked about like it was a build order loss (and maybe that's how the game would have played out anyway), but the straight up mistakes that Maru basically never makes were painful to watch. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if he had actually gotten the fusion core up instead of mistakenly building a 3rd starport (probably dead anyway, but still...). Seems like Maru kind of made a meta/strategic miscalculation though in the series anyway. After those first two games how does Maru not stick with a survive-till-late-game approach for all the following games? Reynor clearly was outmatched in the late game so even with thoughtful adaptation you'd think Maru is pretty much 100% going to get 1 out of 3 games that go late game. Anyways, it's nice to see Maru back in form after seemingly having made a strong recovery from his injury. Hoping to see some Maru magic in 2021!
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27460 Posts
March 14 2021 04:52 GMT
#40
Glorious write up for a glorious run.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
TL+ Member
Prev 1 2 3 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
WardiTV Weekly
20:00
WardiTV Mondays #107
IntoTheiNu 1468
WardiTV974
OGKoka 261
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
OGKoka 269
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 7740
Bisu 1966
Shuttle 981
Horang2 786
Larva 552
Stork 479
EffOrt 388
BeSt 361
actioN 271
Mini 251
[ Show more ]
Light 190
Mind 134
hero 133
Rush 127
910 96
Zeus 92
Snow 72
Mong 66
Barracks 62
Shinee 53
JYJ 42
sorry 41
ToSsGirL 36
Bale 27
Killer 26
Sexy 24
Shine 23
Aegong 22
HiyA 18
soO 16
scan(afreeca) 14
zelot 13
Terrorterran 12
Sacsri 11
Free 10
Noble 4
Dota 2
Gorgc5126
qojqva2522
Dendi1047
febbydoto39
Counter-Strike
fl0m3332
Fnx 510
Heroes of the Storm
Lowko457
Other Games
singsing2878
hiko1012
B2W.Neo870
TKL 489
Livibee409
XBOCT259
Hui .208
Liquid`VortiX201
XaKoH 156
Organizations
Dota 2
PGL Dota 2 - Main Stream30
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• LUISG 21
• mYiSmile117
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• HerbMon 34
• iopq 3
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Nemesis3241
• Jankos2190
Upcoming Events
Monday Night Weeklies
1h 16m
Replay Cast
8h 16m
Afreeca Starleague
19h 16m
Soma vs Soulkey
INu's Battles
20h 16m
SHIN vs Cure
ByuN vs Zoun
PiGosaur Cup
1d 9h
The PondCast
2 days
INu's Battles
2 days
Percival vs TBD
TBD vs herO
OSC
3 days
Replay Cast
4 days
BSL: Ladder Tournament
5 days
[ Show More ]
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
Patches Events
6 days
BSL Open Qualifier
6 days
BSL Open Qualifier
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

CSL 2026 AUTUMN (S22)
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
Copium Cup

Ongoing

ASL Season 22
Super Anchor Qualifying S3
Acropolis #5
Acropolis #5 - GSB
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
Logitech G Play Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual

Upcoming

Acropolis #5 - GSC
BSL Season 23
SC4ALL II: Brood War
BSL 23: Non-Korean Championship
HSC XXX
Stellar Fest 2: Lunar Cup
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
HCC Season 3
eXTREMESLAND 2026
PGL Major Singapore 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 6
BLAST Rivals Fall 2026
IEM Beijing 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 5
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
1win Private Club #2
Thunderpick World Champ. '26
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.