• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 08:28
CEST 14:28
KST 21:28
  • 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
Team TLMC #5 - Finalists & Open Tournaments0[ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt2: Turbulence10Classic Games #3: Rogue vs Serral at BlizzCon9[ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt1: Ascent10Maestros of the Game: Week 1/Play-in Preview12
Community News
Weekly Cups (Sept 8-14): herO & MaxPax split cups4WardiTV TL Team Map Contest #5 Tournaments1SC4ALL $6,000 Open LAN in Philadelphia8Weekly Cups (Sept 1-7): MaxPax rebounds & Clem saga continues29LiuLi Cup - September 2025 Tournaments3
StarCraft 2
General
#1: Maru - Greatest Players of All Time Weekly Cups (Sept 8-14): herO & MaxPax split cups Team Liquid Map Contest #21 - Presented by Monster Energy SpeCial on The Tasteless Podcast Team TLMC #5 - Finalists & Open Tournaments
Tourneys
Maestros of The Game—$20k event w/ live finals in Paris SC4ALL $6,000 Open LAN in Philadelphia Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament WardiTV TL Team Map Contest #5 Tournaments RSL: Revival, a new crowdfunded tournament series
Strategy
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 491 Night Drive Mutation # 490 Masters of Midnight Mutation # 489 Bannable Offense Mutation # 488 What Goes Around
Brood War
General
BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Pros React To: SoulKey's 5-Peat Challenge [ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt2: Turbulence BW General Discussion ASL20 General Discussion
Tourneys
[ASL20] Ro16 Group D [ASL20] Ro16 Group C [Megathread] Daily Proleagues SC4ALL $1,500 Open Bracket LAN
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Muta micro map competition Fighting Spirit mining rates [G] Mineral Boosting
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Path of Exile General RTS Discussion Thread Nintendo Switch Thread Borderlands 3
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion LiquidDota to reintegrate into TL.net
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread UK Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Canadian Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread
Fan Clubs
The Happy Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Linksys AE2500 USB WIFI keeps disconnecting Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread High temperatures on bridge(s)
TL Community
BarCraft in Tokyo Japan for ASL Season5 Final The Automated Ban List
Blogs
The Personality of a Spender…
TrAiDoS
A very expensive lesson on ma…
Garnet
hello world
radishsoup
Lemme tell you a thing o…
JoinTheRain
RTS Design in Hypercoven
a11
Evil Gacha Games and the…
ffswowsucks
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1209 users

ESL Open #144 & #145: HeroMarine reaches 50 wins

Forum Index > SC2 General
1 CommentPost a Reply
TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
October 20 2022 01:18 GMT
#1
[image loading]
2022-23 ESL Pro Tour - Open Cups: Week #144 & 145 (October 9-10, 16-17)


Week #144 of the ESL Open Cups saw (Wiki)ByuN win a Korea/Americas double, while (Wiki)Reynor was victorious in Europe.

The most recent round of tournaments in week #145 saw (Wiki)ByuN win once more in Korea, marking his third straight week with a win in any region (NA-KRx2-KR). In Europe, (Wiki)HeroMarine claimed gold to become the first player to reach fifty cup wins in his career. Finally, the Americas Cup saw (Wiki)Dark shake off a long string of underwhelming cup performances and finally take first place.

Week #145 Results

Korean Cup

[image loading]


The KR cup had only a few Code S level players participating, notably ByuN, Solar, Astrea, and Classic. Most of the matches went exactly as expected, except for Chinese protoss Firefly defeating Astrea 2-0 in a continuation of his solid WTL performances. However, Firefly ended up losing to Solar who went all the way to the finals without dropping a map. On the other side of the bracket, ByuN took down Rex (2-0) and Classic (2-1) to reach the finals as well.

The finals between ByuN and Solar was pretty close, ending in a 3-2 victory for the Rebellion Terran (VOD). Solar won the first game on Waterfall in around 13 minutes, using the early lead he gained from wiping out ByuN's early Hellions and launching a Zergling counter-attack. ByuN won the second game on Cosmic Sapphire, where he started with an aggressive 2-Barracks proxy that got him ahead. The nail in the coffin for Solar was a 3-Medivac drop from ByuN that inflicted lethal damage and forced him to GG.

Solar won the next game to take the 2-1 lead, but ByuN was very resilient and won two games in a row for the 3-2 victory. The last game on Inside and Out featured a lot of skirmishes between bio and Roach-Ravager armies, with ByuN ultimately coming out victorious.

Upset(s) of the day: Firefly defeating Astrea was surely the biggest upset. The Chinese Protoss is not that well known outside of his region (except to long-time fans of the ESL Opens or SCBOY team leagues), and he had less than a 23% chance of beating Astrea according to Aligulac.

*****

European Cup

[image loading]


The top finishers in the recent DreamHack: Europe competition declined to participate, but there were still a lot of strong players in the European cup. Zerg notably had Lambo and Rattata participating, while Terran had HeroMarine, Spirit, Kelazhur, and TIME (Cure briefly participated despite it being cross server, but he forfeited early after a map loss to Ashbringer). Protoss was, as usual, the most represented race, with MaxPax, Gerald, DnS and Arrogfire being the most high profile participants.

The bracket was rich with upsets—more details are included in the section below—but ultimately it was the powerhouse German players HeroMarine and Lambo who faced off in the finals (VOD). Lambo managed to win first, taking the victory in an action-packed, 20+ minute game on Stargazers. Unfortunately for Lambo, HeroMarine was just getting warmed up and he proceeded to win the next three games in a row.

HeroMarine opened up game two with an atypical proxy 2-Barracks, but Lambo managed to defend properly and get slightly ahead with Roach-Ravager. Still, HeroMarine managed to claw his way back into the game with relentless pushes, ultimately winning. On Moondance, HeroMarine nicely abused the map layout to deal some damage with Medivac drops, and proceeded to kill Lambo with a big push off 59 SCVs / 3 bases afterwards. Finally, Big Gabe used the map layout effectively once more on Data-C to close things out. He got cost effective trades with nicely placed Tanks outside of Lambo’s third, which allowed him to get a lead and kill Lambo later on.

The 3-1 victory brought HeroMarine to a record-setting FIFTY victories in the European cups, meaning he's won more than one-third of all cups ever played. HeroMarine also retained his position as the player with the most overall cup wins across any server, while Clem trails with 45 wins and Zest with 44.

Upset(s) of the day: MaxPax losing 0-2 to Rattata was the first big upset among many on the day. MaxPax has been very successful these last months in the EPT cups, and he had more than a 80% chance of beating the Zerg player according to Aligulac. That's the second big upset for Rattata in the last few weeks, as he recently eliminated Dark from the NA cup as well.

The next upset was Rattata himself losing to DnS 1-2 right after his aforementioned victory, albeit the odds were only 60:40 for the favorite this time. Since DnS does not participate often in those cups, it was hard to know what to expect.

The French Protosses were on fire that day, with young Arrogfire defeating both Spirit (2-1) and Firefly (2-0). Aligulac rates Arrogfire beating Spirit as a bigger upset than Rattata defeating MaxPax, with Spirit having more than an 87% chance of winning. However, I'm picking Rattata 2-0 MaxPax as the 'official' upset of the day, since MaxPax has been in great form in recent cups.

*****

American Cup

[image loading]


This week's NA cup featured a more impressive line-up than usual. Dark, soO, and Solar were the top Zerg representatives, Terran had ByuN, Cure, and GuMiho participating, while Protoss had a strong European contingent of MaxPax, Gerald, and ShaDoWn joining regulars Nice and trigger.

Despite Terran coming in strong, most of them got upset early on and only Epic survived to reach the quarterfinals after an impressive 2-1 victory over ByuN. Dark, soO, and Solar dominated the bracket alongside MaxPax, but it was Dark and Solar that qualified for the finals with 2-0 victories over soO and MaxPax.

In the first game of the finals (VOD), both Dark and Solar went for Roach-Ravager, but Dark also had decently sized squad of Mutas to help him harass and defend. He was able to reach the main of Solar, forcing his opponent to come back and take bad trades, while defending the counterattack of Solar with his Muta squad to take the win. Dark also won the second game in just 7 minutes, using a quick all-in off 3 bases and 44 Drones.

Dark was once again the aggressor on Stargazers, attacking with a big Roach-Ravager-Ling army off of 3 bases. Solar traded decently as the defender and bought enough time to build a squad of Mutas to clean up Dark's army and win the game. That loss was only a brief roadblock for Dark, who seemed to be in a hurry to win. He pulled out another very aggressive strategy in game four, this time faking a third base and going for a Zergling flood. That caught Solar off guard, giving Dark the 4-minute victory and overall 3-1 series win.

Upset(s) of the day: Cure losing 0-2 to soO was quite an upset given soO’s lack of notable results lately. trigger defeating GuMiho 2-0 was also nice for the underdog, but my choice for biggest upset has to be Epic and his 2-1 victory over ByuN in the TvT mirror. ByuN had absurd odds of more than 95:5 according to Aligulac—maybe he drank too much soju while celebrating Maru’s GSL victory?


Week #144 Results

Korean Cup

[image loading]


*****

European Cup

[image loading]


*****

American Cup

[image loading]


by Poopi
Facebook Twitter Reddit
TL+ Member
IArako
Profile Joined June 2015
Germany195 Posts
October 20 2022 20:04 GMT
#2
Nice Milestone for big Gabe, waiting for the 100!
Special Tactics
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
LiuLi Cup
11:00
Weekly #6
RotterdaM453
WardiTV430
TKL 146
Rex124
IndyStarCraft 112
CranKy Ducklings101
IntoTheiNu 7
LiquipediaDiscussion
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
RotterdaM 453
TKL 146
Rex 124
IndyStarCraft 112
ProTech69
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 37758
Bisu 2138
Horang2 1947
Rain 1880
GuemChi 1774
Flash 1661
Hyuk 1082
firebathero 672
actioN 628
BeSt 566
[ Show more ]
EffOrt 381
Larva 377
Mini 328
Killer 308
Hyun 213
Last 175
Snow 118
ggaemo 104
hero 99
Barracks 97
Soma 83
ZerO 75
Liquid`Ret 58
Rush 51
ToSsGirL 50
Nal_rA 44
Backho 39
JYJ38
Sharp 25
Icarus 24
sorry 24
Sexy 24
soO 22
ajuk12(nOOB) 20
Free 19
scan(afreeca) 15
Sacsri 13
Yoon 8
Terrorterran 8
Bale 7
NaDa 7
Hm[arnc] 4
sas.Sziky 4
Dota 2
singsing3815
Dendi988
XcaliburYe510
420jenkins213
qojqva33
Counter-Strike
olofmeister1400
x6flipin698
zeus569
allub181
oskar135
edward24
Other Games
B2W.Neo954
DeMusliM360
crisheroes324
Hui .225
hiko212
Sick129
XaKoH 129
NeuroSwarm41
QueenE24
Trikslyr24
ZerO(Twitch)11
Organizations
StarCraft: Brood War
UltimateBattle 692
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 13 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• HerbMon 6
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Jankos1378
• Nemesis654
Upcoming Events
OSC
6h 32m
Cure vs Iba
MaxPax vs Lemon
Gerald vs ArT
Solar vs goblin
Nicoract vs TBD
Spirit vs Percival
Cham vs TBD
ByuN vs Jumy
RSL Revival
21h 32m
Maru vs Reynor
Cure vs TriGGeR
The PondCast
1d
RSL Revival
1d 21h
Zoun vs Classic
Korean StarCraft League
2 days
BSL Open LAN 2025 - War…
2 days
RSL Revival
2 days
BSL Open LAN 2025 - War…
3 days
RSL Revival
3 days
Online Event
4 days
[ Show More ]
Wardi Open
4 days
Monday Night Weeklies
5 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
LiuLi Cup
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2025-09-10
Chzzk MurlocKing SC1 vs SC2 Cup #2
HCC Europe

Ongoing

BSL 20 Team Wars
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 3
BSL 21 Points
ASL Season 20
CSL 2025 AUTUMN (S18)
LASL Season 20
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1

Upcoming

2025 Chongqing Offline CUP
BSL World Championship of Poland 2025
IPSL Winter 2025-26
BSL Season 21
SC4ALL: Brood War
BSL 21 Team A
Stellar Fest
SC4ALL: StarCraft II
EC S1
ESL Impact League Season 8
SL Budapest Major 2025
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
MESA Nomadic Masters Fall
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
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 © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.