On May 05 2021 16:30 xelnaga_empire wrote:
Stats didn't enter this tournament. And Zest got bopped by a fellow Protoss (Zoun). Also, there is big difference in the level of play between the old guard, especially the old guard that played during the ProLeague era, and new wave Korean players. For example, the difference in play between Zest/Trap/Classic/PartinG and the new wave Protoss like Prince and Nightmare is just too great. If Zoun is considered a new wave Korean Protoss, then Zoun is the one exception that seems to have improved (he did join in the last year of Proleague) but he was not a notable Protoss player when Proleague disbanded.

Korean Terran has the same problem because the difference in level of play between Ty/Maru/Byun/Cure and Percival is also a big gap.

Zest was eliminated by a Zerg (Armani), Zoun knocked him into loser bracke

swarminfestor

Malaysia2449 Posts

May 06 2021 06:41 GMT

#23

The game 2 between Ragnarok and Innovation was the best series of the day.

It was the battle between two casting units: Ghosts and Infestors. Ghosts/Infestors were the saving grace of both players until their resources got depleted.

Ragnarok used burrowed Infestor's neural parasite on the single Ghost, then EMP all the Ghosts before they could cast EMPs to Infestors/Vipers. Then, a couple bad trade fights between the two players where Inno unnecessarily wasting his nukes and Ragnarok losing his Brood lords/Ultralisks to Ghosts' Snipe until their resources got depleted at the 30:00 mark. These leave Inno with just a couple of Ghosts running around.

Ragnarok started to give up after his spine crawler and spore crawler got shut down, leaving with only single Infestor and couple of Lings. Both players had only single worker, with no resource left. The game ended up with Inno taking the series with just Marines barely survived.

Edit: Inno should has one Raven for detecting purpose while Ragnarok should make more banes to obliterate Ghosts after getting fungal.

Drfilip

Sweden590 Posts

May 06 2021 16:33 GMT

#24

I am a bit curious about what you mean about new wave players. NightMare has played for a long time, used shadow stride successfully when that upgrade was newly introduced. Before that he played Proleague for cj entus in Heart of the Swarm. NightMare played Proleague before Zoun joined.
Also, how does Patience fit in? What about ViViD? Those two have shown good results at times. Though ViViD only ever performed in team leagues, never individually.

neptunusfisk

2286 Posts

May 07 2021 06:13 GMT

#25

On May 06 2021 15:41 swarminfestor wrote:
The game 2 between Ragnarok and Innovation was the best series of the day.

Well, if by series you mean game then sure

tad

15 Posts

May 08 2021 12:08 GMT

#26

oh, only 3 protoss. It seems to be the fall of aiur.

Poopi

France12904 Posts

May 10 2021 11:28 GMT

#27

Almost a week after qualifiers and the bracket is still not publicly available? Does anyone has some info on when it will be?

Elentos

55555 Posts

May 10 2021 13:34 GMT

#28

On May 10 2021 20:28 Poopi wrote:
Almost a week after qualifiers and the bracket is still not publicly available? Does anyone has some info on when it will be?

It's been out on their Afreeca site for a few hours already. Check https://bj.afreecatv.com/afgsl/post/72280114 (or Liquipedia)

tigera6

3433 Posts

May 10 2021 14:11 GMT

#29

6 Terran in the lower bracket, while 4 Zerg in the other bracket. Possibly another TvZ final.

swarminfestor

Malaysia2449 Posts

May 10 2021 14:37 GMT

#30

Wishing TY the best to win championship title just a couple of days before going to military service. It will be very meaningful to him and his fans.

Elentos

55555 Posts

May 10 2021 15:39 GMT

#31

On May 10 2021 23:37 swarminfestor wrote:
Wishing TY the best to win championship title just a couple of days before going to military service. It will be very meaningful to him and his fans.

He's playing sOs in the Ro16, his fate is first round elimination.