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ESL Open Week #80: PartinG, Cure, Zest win

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
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Last Edited: 2021-07-20 15:18:41
July 20 2021 14:54 GMT
#1
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2021-22 ESL Pro Tour: Open Cups - Week #80


The 80th edition of the ESL Open Cups gave us a historical result, as Korean players grabbed the crowns in all three regional tournaments for the first time ever with (Wiki)PartinG taking over Korea, (Wiki)Zest conquering America and, most impressively of all, (Wiki)Cure triumphing in Europe.

Surprisingly enough, it wasn't eventual champion PartinG who ended Cure's three week reign in Korea, but someone who had been taking repeated beatings from Cure in previous weeks. Recent military returnee (Wiki)herO finally managed to overcome his DPG teammate with a clean 2-0 win, possibly marking a turning point in his journey to recovering his pre-military form. herO still couldn't find his way into the top four, as PartinG was ready to exploit Cure's demise and eliminated herO from the competition, adding him to a list of victims including (Wiki)Percival and (Wiki)DongRaeGu. Ultimately, it came down to PartinG vs Zest in the finals, with Zest having walked a significantly easier path facing the likes of (Wiki)MeomaikA, (Wiki)Creator and (Wiki)Nice. At one time a free-win dispenser for Zest, PartinG extended his recent streak of wins against Zest to three series in a row with a 3-1 victory in the finals. In doing so, he ended his ESL Open Korea dry streak, winning his first cup title of the season in his home region.

Cure had shown some truly awesome cross-server performances at ungodly hours in the past, once qualifying for IEM Katowice 2020 out of the European server. So in terms of achieving the ESL Open Cup Triple—winning all three regions in the same week—he might be the only viable candidate. Alas, Cure was thwarted early on this week after losing in Korea, but he did further cement his reputation as a incredibly strong cross-server player by becoming the first Korean to ever win the European edition of the ESL Open Cup—and the second ever non-European to claim victory ((Wiki)Neeb being the first). The upsets started early in Cup #80: herO once more showed a promising result, taking down (Wiki)HeRoMaRinE before falling to (Wiki)goblin, while (Wiki)AqueroN eliminated (Wiki)Lambo before being defeated by (Wiki)uThermal. The Dutch Terran himself found his end at the hands of Cure, who had to overcome (Wiki)MaxPax in a close battle in the semis to reach the finals, avenging his team mate Zest, who was eliminated by the Dane. In the upper half of the bracket, (Wiki)MaNa went on a rampage, knocking out two favorites in his Liquid colleague (Wiki)Clem and (Wiki)ShoWTimE to advance into the semis. There, an inter-Polish duel ensued with MaNa losing out narrowly to (Wiki)souL. Despite the server advantage, souL was unable to even take a map off Cure, surrendering the European bastion to the Korean.

Managing to end Cure's four week long dominance of the ESL Open Cup America, Zest secured his third win of the season in the region, personally defeating his teammate in the semis after almost being reverse-swept. The DPG Protoss had already eliminated (Wiki)ForGG and Creator beforehand, once again winning the ESL Open Cup Korea Lite in the bottom half of the bracket. This also featured DRG taking down herO 2-1 and then losing to uThermal, who in turn had to bow to Cure once again. On the other side, Clem once again marched towards the finals with furious speed, trampling (Wiki)Trust, (Wiki)Has and (Wiki)Vanya without dropping a map. Just like in the previous week, however, the Frenchman could not recapture his old cup glory and lost the decisive bout to Zest, who beat the Terran with a 3-1 score to deny him taking the American crown for the first time this season.

Thanks to the partnership with Shopify, ESL Open Cup winners earn $250 in prize money and 10 ESL Pro Tour points. Players who finish second earn 5 ESL Pro Tour points and $150. A top 4 finish guarantees at least $100 as well as 2 ESL Pro Tour points, reaching the top 8 pays out $50. Edition #81 of the ESL Open Cups will take place on the 25th (Korea) and the 26th of July (Europe and America).

by TheOneAboveU

Korean Server Cup #80 (Click for full bracket)



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Americas Server Cup #80 (Click for full bracket)

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stardog
Profile Joined August 2011
556 Posts
July 20 2021 15:00 GMT
#2
Did Cure have to play on EU server?
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
July 20 2021 15:08 GMT
#3
On July 21 2021 00:00 stardog wrote:
Did Cure have to play on EU server?

Yes. All Weeklys are on their respective Servers.
As said in the article
MaxPax
stardog
Profile Joined August 2011
556 Posts
July 20 2021 15:17 GMT
#4
On July 21 2021 00:08 dbRic1203 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2021 00:00 stardog wrote:
Did Cure have to play on EU server?

Yes. All Weeklys are on their respective Servers.
As said in the article

I even read it, my brain chose to ignore it. I'm sure the code I'm writing at work now is of great quality

Anyway, what a madman, I would expect Europe's middle class to hold their ground in those cirumstances.
Also some good wins from herO.
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12792 Posts
July 20 2021 17:34 GMT
#5
Koreans dominating every online cup. The EU win from Cure is particularly impressive, even though he managed to avoid Clem and HeroMarine.
Clem seems to struggle still, but a bit less so that’s cool?
How did Gabe lose to herO though...
WriterMaru
Moonerz
Profile Joined March 2014
United States444 Posts
July 20 2021 18:07 GMT
#6
On July 21 2021 02:34 Poopi wrote:
Koreans dominating every online cup. The EU win from Cure is particularly impressive, even though he managed to avoid Clem and HeroMarine.
Clem seems to struggle still, but a bit less so that’s cool?
How did Gabe lose to herO though...


Gabe has got to be one of the most over rated players in the scene. Don't get me wrong I love his stream and learn a ton from him as a terran player but his style plays perfectly into herO's hands. The only reason that result is kinda shocking is herO obviously hasnt been around for a while.

Kinda like what people said about Serral I think if Heromarine could mix in effective cheese or aggro more often his macro would be that much better for it.
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55511 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-07-20 18:27:53
July 20 2021 18:21 GMT
#7
On July 21 2021 03:07 Moonerz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2021 02:34 Poopi wrote:
Koreans dominating every online cup. The EU win from Cure is particularly impressive, even though he managed to avoid Clem and HeroMarine.
Clem seems to struggle still, but a bit less so that’s cool?
How did Gabe lose to herO though...


Gabe has got to be one of the most over rated players in the scene. Don't get me wrong I love his stream and learn a ton from him as a terran player but his style plays perfectly into herO's hands. The only reason that result is kinda shocking is herO obviously hasnt been around for a while.

No, that result is shocking because they played on the EU server to which Koreans have like 300 ms ping. Practically impossible to do any micro and herO is above all else a micro player. That's the kind of advantage with which top foreigners shouldn't lose to top Koreans, let alone guys like herO.
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HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-07-20 18:37:50
July 20 2021 18:37 GMT
#8
On July 21 2021 03:21 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2021 03:07 Moonerz wrote:
On July 21 2021 02:34 Poopi wrote:
Koreans dominating every online cup. The EU win from Cure is particularly impressive, even though he managed to avoid Clem and HeroMarine.
Clem seems to struggle still, but a bit less so that’s cool?
How did Gabe lose to herO though...


Gabe has got to be one of the most over rated players in the scene. Don't get me wrong I love his stream and learn a ton from him as a terran player but his style plays perfectly into herO's hands. The only reason that result is kinda shocking is herO obviously hasnt been around for a while.

No, that result is shocking because they played on the EU server to which Koreans have like 300 ms ping. Practically impossible to do any micro and herO is above all else a micro player. That's the kind of advantage with which top foreigners shouldn't lose to top Koreans, let alone guys like herO.

You make it sounds like herO isn't that good, but he actually beat Cure in the Korea Cup. He seems to be pretty good at PvT.
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12792 Posts
July 20 2021 18:41 GMT
#9
On July 21 2021 03:37 HolydaKing wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2021 03:21 Elentos wrote:
On July 21 2021 03:07 Moonerz wrote:
On July 21 2021 02:34 Poopi wrote:
Koreans dominating every online cup. The EU win from Cure is particularly impressive, even though he managed to avoid Clem and HeroMarine.
Clem seems to struggle still, but a bit less so that’s cool?
How did Gabe lose to herO though...


Gabe has got to be one of the most over rated players in the scene. Don't get me wrong I love his stream and learn a ton from him as a terran player but his style plays perfectly into herO's hands. The only reason that result is kinda shocking is herO obviously hasnt been around for a while.

No, that result is shocking because they played on the EU server to which Koreans have like 300 ms ping. Practically impossible to do any micro and herO is above all else a micro player. That's the kind of advantage with which top foreigners shouldn't lose to top Koreans, let alone guys like herO.

You make it sounds like herO isn't that good, but he actually beat Cure in the Korea Cup. He seems to be pretty good at PvT.

Zest is very good but got 3-0d by HeroMarine in a previous EU cup. He joked that it doesn’t count because he usually always lose to Zest but with the bad ping he managed to beat him.
Any top Korean is the outsider imo vs the top 6 EU foreigners playing on their server in EU cup.
WriterMaru
tommey.liang
Profile Joined November 2020
United States362 Posts
July 21 2021 12:34 GMT
#10
Big congrats to the Koreans as they seized the trifecta in this week’s ESL Open Cups.

Cure had an impressive run given the ping issues, and would have liked to have seen Clem take the series vs. Zest as the Little Corporal hasn’t won an Open Cup in a while.
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arigini
Profile Joined July 2021
2 Posts
July 21 2021 22:11 GMT
#11
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MarianoSC2
Profile Joined June 2015
Slovakia1855 Posts
July 22 2021 18:25 GMT
#12
So has foreign Starcraft finally hit rock bottom?
Top 11: Rogue, Maru, Inno, Zest, Life, sOs, Stats, Dark, soO, Mvp, Classic/Trap/MC/Rain
angry_maia
Profile Joined August 2020
311 Posts
July 23 2021 14:17 GMT
#13
No, I still think Reynor is the best player in the world right now.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25078 Posts
July 24 2021 00:37 GMT
#14
On July 21 2021 03:07 Moonerz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 21 2021 02:34 Poopi wrote:
Koreans dominating every online cup. The EU win from Cure is particularly impressive, even though he managed to avoid Clem and HeroMarine.
Clem seems to struggle still, but a bit less so that’s cool?
How did Gabe lose to herO though...


Gabe has got to be one of the most over rated players in the scene. Don't get me wrong I love his stream and learn a ton from him as a terran player but his style plays perfectly into herO's hands. The only reason that result is kinda shocking is herO obviously hasnt been around for a while.

Kinda like what people said about Serral I think if Heromarine could mix in effective cheese or aggro more often his macro would be that much better for it.

He’s still a great player but he’s a Liquibet gift.

If ever there’s a player who doesn’t lose to players he’s expected to beat, and doesn’t beat players where he’s a pretty hefty underdog it’s Heromarine
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Obamarauder
Profile Joined June 2015
697 Posts
July 24 2021 01:09 GMT
#15
hero is the better hero than heromarine
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