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Code A - RagnaroK upsets Cure, sOs & Dark advance

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-06-18 17:39:21
June 18 2021 08:29 GMT
#1

2021 Global StarCraft II League: Code A Season 2

Day two of Code A delivered this season's first major upset, with RagnaroK taking down Cure in a 3-0 sweep to earn a return to Code S. sOs almost suffered a similar fate against Hurricane, but survived his opponent's spirited challenge to advance by a 3-2 scoreline. The only player to live up to their billing as a strong favorite was Dark, who defeated Armani in an extremely quick 3-0 series.



The first series of the night featured sOs and Hurricane facing off in five hectic PvP games. The series could rightfully be described as a "typical" sOs series, with proxy-tactics being liberally wielded on either side. We'd advise sOs fans to check out game three on Romanticide, where the evil genius managed to win a game with a sky-Protoss composition of Carriers-Void Ray-Mothership. On the other hand, sOs haters might relish in the events of game two on Blackburn, where sOs managed to botch an otherwise game-winning DT-drop due to a supply block. Ultimately, sOs' knowledge of the dark arts allowed him to win the series in game five, when he scouted out Hurricane's 3-gate strategy—aided by one proxy-gate. In the post-match interview, sOs revealed he knew exactly how to counter the 2+1 gate strategy due to being an avid practitioner himself, demonstrated by his one-sided victory in the early-game Stalker wars.

Next up was Armani vs Dark, where the two players seemed headed toward a standard macro game in game one after going up to three bases. However, Dark scouted his opponent's Lair tech early on, allowing him to cut Drones and launch a series of Ling-Bane-Roach attacks that won him the game. Dark wasted no time in going up 2-0, surprising Armani with a 12-pool Zergling+Drone all-in that managed to elude all of the scouting Overlords. Armani tried to pay Dark back with the exact same strategy in game three, only to be hard-countered by Dark's decision to go for a more conservative variant of the 12-pool build. Not only did Dark have plenty of Zerglings in defense, but his superior economy allowed him to build the Queen and Spine Crawler that sealed his victory. While Dark made Armani look foolish in the series, he used his post-match interview to praise Armani's macro-game skills, citing them as the reason he decided to use so many cheesy strategies in the first place.

The final series of the night produced a huge upset, with RagnaroK taking a 3-0 sweep off Cure. Regular TL.net readers will be familiar with RagnaroK's status as the king of 'moral victories' in TvZ—that is to say, he's a player who puts up great fights against elite players in macro games before inevitably surrendering.

This time around, however, RagnaroK managed to prove exactly why he has been so confident in challenging the likes of Maru in straight-up games. RagnaroK used Muta-Ling-Bane to dominate Cure in games one and three, where he looked completely in control throughout all stages of the game. The second map on Lightshade was a dicier affair, as the two players were plunged into a tense mid-game base-trade. There, Cure's AfreecaTV studio jinx continued, as he failed to destroy RagnaroK's Lair by a difference of TWO hit points, thus costing him the game.

GSL Code A will continue on Monday, Jun 21 9:30am GMT (GMT+00:00) with ForGG vs Percival and PartinG vs Zest.

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EzioAs
Profile Joined September 2017
235 Posts
June 18 2021 10:44 GMT
#2
The first series of the night featured [bsOs and sOs facing off in five hectic PvP games


Ah, yes. sOs' worst enemy has always been himself. I knew it!
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dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
June 18 2021 10:56 GMT
#3
On June 18 2021 19:44 EzioAs wrote:
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The first series of the night featured [bsOs and sOs facing off in five hectic PvP games


Ah, yes. sOs' worst enemy has always been himself. I knew it!

I gues thats why the word sOs appears 7 Times in the part about that match
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yubo56
Profile Joined May 2014
687 Posts
June 18 2021 14:52 GMT
#4
On June 18 2021 19:56 dbRic1203 wrote:
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On June 18 2021 19:44 EzioAs wrote:
The first series of the night featured [bsOs and sOs facing off in five hectic PvP games


Ah, yes. sOs' worst enemy has always been himself. I knew it!

I gues thats why the word sOs appears 7 Times in the part about that match

Was extremely disappointed to realize that this was a typo and not just a quip about how the games were purely decided by sOs winning or throwing
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[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24193 Posts
June 18 2021 15:23 GMT
#5
Cure - Ragnarok g2 saw Cure build a planetary in his main. If you're a fan of rare occurrences, don't miss that one
jpg06051992
Profile Joined July 2015
United States580 Posts
June 18 2021 16:54 GMT
#6
Hope Dark can take it all, been a fan for years now and it just hurts when I see Dark break away from standard play to do something kind of wonky/inefficient in high stake games. I really do believe that he is a champion level player though.

Oh and poor Percival is going to get annihilated by ForGG imo, we'll see if there is an upset.
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Scarlett`
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada2385 Posts
June 18 2021 17:37 GMT
#7
On June 19 2021 01:54 jpg06051992 wrote:
Hope Dark can take it all, been a fan for years now and it just hurts when I see Dark break away from standard play to do something kind of wonky/inefficient in high stake games. I really do believe that he is a champion level player though.

Oh and poor Percival is going to get annihilated by ForGG imo, we'll see if there is an upset.

Id say its an upset if forgg wins
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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19230 Posts
June 18 2021 17:52 GMT
#8
On June 19 2021 02:37 Scarlett` wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 19 2021 01:54 jpg06051992 wrote:
Hope Dark can take it all, been a fan for years now and it just hurts when I see Dark break away from standard play to do something kind of wonky/inefficient in high stake games. I really do believe that he is a champion level player though.

Oh and poor Percival is going to get annihilated by ForGG imo, we'll see if there is an upset.

Id say its an upset if forgg wins

You're probably right, but the edge always goes to the person who has proven themselves in live tournaments.
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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
June 18 2021 19:01 GMT
#9
On June 19 2021 02:52 BisuDagger wrote:
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On June 19 2021 02:37 Scarlett` wrote:
On June 19 2021 01:54 jpg06051992 wrote:
Hope Dark can take it all, been a fan for years now and it just hurts when I see Dark break away from standard play to do something kind of wonky/inefficient in high stake games. I really do believe that he is a champion level player though.

Oh and poor Percival is going to get annihilated by ForGG imo, we'll see if there is an upset.

Id say its an upset if forgg wins

You're probably right, but the edge always goes to the person who has proven themselves in live tournaments.


It's been quite a while since ForGG has proven himself in a tournament though--six years since his last tournament placement. Percival was 13 years old back then.
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19230 Posts
June 18 2021 19:16 GMT
#10
On June 19 2021 04:01 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
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On June 19 2021 02:52 BisuDagger wrote:
On June 19 2021 02:37 Scarlett` wrote:
On June 19 2021 01:54 jpg06051992 wrote:
Hope Dark can take it all, been a fan for years now and it just hurts when I see Dark break away from standard play to do something kind of wonky/inefficient in high stake games. I really do believe that he is a champion level player though.

Oh and poor Percival is going to get annihilated by ForGG imo, we'll see if there is an upset.

Id say its an upset if forgg wins

You're probably right, but the edge always goes to the person who has proven themselves in live tournaments.


It's been quite a while since ForGG has proven himself in a tournament though--six years since his last tournament placement. Percival was 13 years old back then.

He took an equally long break from BW, but then qualified for an ASL.
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Durnuu
Profile Joined September 2013
13320 Posts
June 18 2021 19:23 GMT
#11
ForGG just has to pretend Percival is Dayshi and he'll be fine
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TheLordofAwesome
Profile Joined May 2014
Korea (South)2616 Posts
June 18 2021 19:29 GMT
#12
On June 19 2021 04:23 Durnuu wrote:
ForGG just has to pretend Percival is Dayshi and he'll be fine

lol, that was like a 23-0 winning streak for forGG in maps right?
tommey.liang
Profile Joined November 2020
United States362 Posts
June 18 2021 23:06 GMT
#13
Congrats to sOs, Dark and Ragnarok (surprising result over Cure) for advancing to Code S.
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Niravroh
Profile Joined August 2020
165 Posts
June 19 2021 01:56 GMT
#14
Cure has really been struggling in GSL since that finals appearance against TY. It's fair to say that you can't expect a player to get to the finals every time, but he hasn't even made it to the Ro8. It's so weird how sometimes he can slug it out with the S tier players, but somehow in GSL he loses repeatedly to players that are way lower caliber.
Artanis[Xp]
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Netherlands12968 Posts
June 19 2021 13:04 GMT
#15
On June 19 2021 04:29 TheLordofAwesome wrote:
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On June 19 2021 04:23 Durnuu wrote:
ForGG just has to pretend Percival is Dayshi and he'll be fine

lol, that was like a 23-0 winning streak for forGG in maps right?

That just takes me back to another TvT streak, though I'd say this one was slightly more inexplicable.
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