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DHM Atlanta: Final four set headed into Sunday

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-11-20 15:15:01
November 20 2022 03:29 GMT
#1
[image loading]2022 DreamHack SC2 Masters: Atlanta

After two days of fierce competition at DreamHack Atlanta, only four players have survived to play on championship Sunday. The consensus top three title contenders of Maru, Serral, and herO all made it without major incident, where they have been joined by a surprise semifinalist in Bunny.

Playoff Bracket (visit Liquipedia for full group results)
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The Finnish Phenom began with a difficult group stage draw against Cure, Bunny, and Lambo, but still advanced in first place as expected. From there, he went on to have a smooth playoff run, and he now faces Bunny in a group stage rematch (Serral won 2-1 in the group stage).

Bunny had the most arduous run out of the semifinalists, starting all the way down in group stage #1 (the so-called 'open bracket'). Things didn't get easier for him as he advanced, as he was eventually placed into the group stage #3 'group of death' with Serral. Despite getting sent down to the knockout bracket, he went on to have an impressive playoff run with several one-sided victories. Most notably, he took out Clem 3-0, once again revealing the European champion's weakness against top Korean Terrans.

herO benefited from having a relatively soft draw of opponents compared to the other final four players, avoiding all of his Korean peers up until the semis. After sweeping both Elazer and Astrea in the playoffs, he enters the semis with a 10-1 total map score.

Interestingly enough, Maru was the semifinalist who faced the closest brush with elimination. Solar—a player Maru has beaten several times in major events—put up fierce resistance in the quarterfinals, even going up 2-1. However, he could not overcome his arch-nemesis in the end, with Maru coming back to win 3-2.

Outside the final four, NightMare was surely the most impressive player of the tournament. The underdog Protoss player's previous best results were a handful of group stage eliminations in Code S, but in Atlanta he went all the way to the quarterfinals.

Nightmare got off to the worst start possible by being sent to the knockout (second chance) bracket right off the bat, finishing third place in group stage #1. However, he showed incredible grit to fight his way up from the bottom, and he took out far more notable players such as PtitDrogo, Nice, TIME, GunGFuBanDa, Neeb, and finally Scarlett. While NightMare did suffer an 0-3 loss to Bunny in the quarterfinals, his prospects look much brighter going forward.

Astrea was another player who went on a surprise quarterfinals run, showing NA could hold its own against Europe by taking down Lambo and ShoWTimE in the playoffs. However, top PvP player herO proved to be too much to handle in the RO8.

DreamHack: Atlanta will conclude on Sunday, Nov 20 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) with the semifinals and grand finals.

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JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4401 Posts
November 20 2022 04:21 GMT
#2
I hope Maru or herO can show us a miracle tomorrow. It's crazy that every big international event so far this year besides Last Chance has been won by Zerg despite poor attendance in those events by the top 4 Zergs.
Beelzebub1
Profile Joined May 2015
1004 Posts
November 20 2022 04:40 GMT
#3
Hoping for a big herO win!

QOGQOG
Profile Joined July 2019
834 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-11-20 05:07:18
November 20 2022 05:07 GMT
#4
On November 20 2022 13:21 JJH777 wrote:
I hope Maru or herO can show us a miracle tomorrow. It's crazy that every big international event so far this year besides Last Chance has been won by Zerg despite poor attendance in those events by the top 4 Zergs.

I mean, that's been happening for years, not sure how crazy it is. But I'm rooting for a Bunny miracle myself.

Between Ryung and now NightMare, I'm hoping we get a trend of random D Tier Koreans making impossible runs in big international tournaments.
TossHeroes
Profile Joined February 2022
281 Posts
November 20 2022 05:17 GMT
#5
On November 20 2022 13:40 Beelzebub1 wrote:
Hoping for a big herO win!



Im hoping as well

However the map pool and current meta favours terran by quite a bit
MrIronGolem27
Profile Joined July 2020
United States213 Posts
November 20 2022 06:09 GMT
#6
Bunny was 3rd in his Group Stage 3 group, not 2nd. He had to beat MeomaikA in KO bracket to reach playoffs.
HyperONE - mapmaker (TLMC19 2nd place, TLMC17 3rd+5th place), tournament organizer (organizer for the StarCraft Evolution League and Circle Derping), Liquipedia editor, Aligulac contributor, owner of Team HyperONE, and SC: Evo Complete developer
JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4401 Posts
November 20 2022 07:01 GMT
#7
On November 20 2022 14:07 QOGQOG wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 20 2022 13:21 JJH777 wrote:
I hope Maru or herO can show us a miracle tomorrow. It's crazy that every big international event so far this year besides Last Chance has been won by Zerg despite poor attendance in those events by the top 4 Zergs.

I mean, that's been happening for years, not sure how crazy it is. But I'm rooting for a Bunny miracle myself.

Between Ryung and now NightMare, I'm hoping we get a trend of random D Tier Koreans making impossible runs in big international tournaments.


As far as international events this is the worst yet and it's happening despite Rogue's retirement and Serral/Dark/Reynor each missing multiple events.

In 2021 Maru and Trap won a ton for T/P. Zerg still won the large majority but it wasn't quite as bad. Same thing in 2020 plus Byun's surprise ASUS victory.
BjoernK
Profile Joined April 2012
194 Posts
November 20 2022 11:39 GMT
#8
Mistake in text: Saturday --> Sunday
Vision_
Profile Joined September 2018
861 Posts
November 20 2022 11:40 GMT
#9
Damned, the event is so late....
mintyminmus
Profile Joined September 2022
Australia127 Posts
November 20 2022 12:05 GMT
#10
European tournaments are watchable time-wise, American events are just impossible to watch live
xyfan
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12792 Posts
November 20 2022 12:12 GMT
#11
On November 20 2022 13:21 JJH777 wrote:
I hope Maru or herO can show us a miracle tomorrow. It's crazy that every big international event so far this year besides Last Chance has been won by Zerg despite poor attendance in those events by the top 4 Zergs.

Prize pool is still low so the terrans and protoss have a slim chance imo. The big guns are gonna practice harder for Katowice as usual
WriterMaru
BluemoonSC
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
SoCal8910 Posts
November 20 2022 15:24 GMT
#12
Cheering from Maru from the audience today. The reports of StarCraft's death have been greatly exaggerated.
LiquidDota Staff@BluemoonGG_
Jurcek91
Profile Joined July 2019
1 Post
November 20 2022 15:51 GMT
#13
Why Gumiho played against Heromarine if he was 4th in the group??
Jihadi_Chant
Profile Joined February 2018
19 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-11-20 19:11:35
November 20 2022 18:54 GMT
#14
Great series
Vision_
Profile Joined September 2018
861 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-11-20 18:56:55
November 20 2022 18:55 GMT
#15
People are so used to see a Serral domination only when terran like bunny wins, they say : "incredible...."

On November 21 2022 03:54 Jihadi_Chant wrote:
With all due respect to casters, I understand how hard job it is, but during Bunny vs Serral they really were not great....



Jihadi_Chant
Profile Joined February 2018
19 Posts
November 20 2022 19:17 GMT
#16
On November 21 2022 03:55 Vision_ wrote:
People are so used to see a Serral domination only when terran like bunny wins, they say : "incredible...."

Show nested quote +
On November 21 2022 03:54 Jihadi_Chant wrote:
With all due respect to casters, I understand how hard job it is, but during Bunny vs Serral they really were not great....





Damn, I regret writing comment though :D
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12792 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-11-20 19:21:27
November 20 2022 19:21 GMT
#17
On November 20 2022 21:12 Poopi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 20 2022 13:21 JJH777 wrote:
I hope Maru or herO can show us a miracle tomorrow. It's crazy that every big international event so far this year besides Last Chance has been won by Zerg despite poor attendance in those events by the top 4 Zergs.

Prize pool is still low so the terrans and protoss have a slim chance imo. The big guns are gonna practice harder for Katowice as usual

First part of this comment aged perfectly, now we have to wait for Katowice to see if it ends up aging like wine or milk (shameless auto quote :D)
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