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ESL Summer: Players, Brackets, Casters

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Kreuger
Profile Joined October 2011
Sweden757 Posts
June 06 2023 18:07 GMT
#1
Just announced Group A and B

https://twitter.com/ESLSC2/status/1666142964509179906?cxt=HHwWhICwiduMqp8uAAAA

"Welcome to the Winners Stage🏆 Can’t wait to get this going🔥 How about starting the Summer Finals Day 1 broadcast with Maru vs Reynor? You know, just to get that Friday rolling"


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Schedule has been released aswell

https://twitter.com/ESLSC2/status/1666901686017744912?cxt=HHwWoICz6Y6Qg6IuAAAA


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Open Stage Brackets

https://twitter.com/ESLSC2/status/1669049612307423244?cxt=HHwWmICz4fDx06kuAAAA

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Kreuger
Profile Joined October 2011
Sweden757 Posts
June 06 2023 18:10 GMT
#2
Clems side is all Terran, easy to prepare atleast
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
386 Posts
June 06 2023 20:58 GMT
#3
Serral gets a warm-up! :D
dysenterymd
Profile Joined January 2019
1238 Posts
June 06 2023 21:02 GMT
#4
Don't love the current format (if I understand it correctly), I feel like seeded players have way more of an advantage than they did in the past. Anyone who didn't get one of the seeds has to go through an insane gauntlet of single-elim if they make it past the open stage.
Serral | Inno | sOs | soO | Has | Classic
JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4408 Posts
June 06 2023 21:28 GMT
#5
How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?
MrBrown
Profile Joined June 2016
8 Posts
June 07 2023 08:33 GMT
#6
On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote:
How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?


Seeding. Winners get easy opponents.
tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3410 Posts
June 07 2023 08:44 GMT
#7
I am surprised we end up with all 8 KRs here. I thought the criteria was Combined Standing, aka the EPT points before ESL Summer (not including the one from future tournament like GSL S2), so it should be either NA or EU players who got those 2 spots beside Asia.
Philippe
Profile Joined October 2020
351 Posts
June 07 2023 10:33 GMT
#8
On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote:
How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?


Taking the problem from another angle, anything else would be unfair to him given how the standings are. #1 vs a player at the bottom of the directly seeded players ?
I'm just a cynical video game enjoyer who is probably unfazed by many business dealings many would find utterly distasteful, while not strictly illegal by the law as seen in a general sense in the world.
datastuff
Profile Joined September 2020
31 Posts
June 07 2023 12:03 GMT
#9
Maru is #1 seed. KR points are worth more rn bc they're through less of the season. Also the reason solar/gumi are invited over lambo/kela
dysenterymd
Profile Joined January 2019
1238 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-06-07 12:31:12
June 07 2023 12:30 GMT
#10
On June 07 2023 21:03 datastuff wrote:
Maru is #1 seed. KR points are worth more rn bc they're through less of the season. Also the reason solar/gumi are invited over lambo/kela

Reynor has fewer EU points (427) than Coffee has Asia points (455), so Reynor is a lower seed than Coffee I think and that's why #1 seed Maru was matched against him. Which doesn't actually reflect skill of course, but outcomes like this are inevitable when you have three non-KR regions with very different skill levels. Giving fewer EPT for winning Americas/Asia than Europe sort of addresses this issue, but clearly not entirely.
Serral | Inno | sOs | soO | Has | Classic
datastuff
Profile Joined September 2020
31 Posts
June 07 2023 13:14 GMT
#11
Yeah it follows the rulebook (it's 267 vs 300 points tho). ESL just didn't account for maxpax when coming up with the rules.
Gina
Profile Joined July 2019
241 Posts
June 07 2023 14:08 GMT
#12
There's just too few events to have the standings reflect the players' level accurately until the end of the season. They work reasonably for the championship at the end but don't really get to a sufficient sample earlier.
Omit needles swords.
JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4408 Posts
June 07 2023 14:09 GMT
#13
On June 07 2023 17:33 MrBrown wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote:
How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?


Seeding. Winners get easy opponents.


He's not always the first seed. In IEMs 2022 and 2021, he was only the 3rd and 4th seed and most would agree he got the weakest group in both those years. In Serral's first ever win in an event with Koreans he got the weakest foreigner in the first round.
BelethielQT
Profile Joined August 2022
90 Posts
June 07 2023 14:41 GMT
#14
On June 07 2023 23:09 JJH777 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2023 17:33 MrBrown wrote:
On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote:
How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?


Seeding. Winners get easy opponents.


He's not always the first seed. In IEMs 2022 and 2021, he was only the 3rd and 4th seed and most would agree he got the weakest group in both those years. In Serral's first ever win in an event with Koreans he got the weakest foreigner in the first round.


But he won the Event with the koreans so the first round doesnt matter
TossHeroes
Profile Joined February 2022
281 Posts
June 07 2023 17:59 GMT
#15
Lots of butthurt Serral haters on this thread lol

The bracket is due to seeding and points. It’s not that complicated.

Why are Maru fans complaining lol? He is on the easier side of the bracket than Serral

Philippe
Profile Joined October 2020
351 Posts
June 07 2023 18:31 GMT
#16
On June 08 2023 02:59 TossHeroes wrote:
Lots of butthurt Serral haters on this thread lol

The bracket is due to seeding and points. It’s not that complicated.

Why are Maru fans complaining lol? He is on the easier side of the bracket than Serral



Or they are preaching for their own favourite region (whether Asia, Europe, Korea, NA), which is making the bias bound to happen ah.
I'm just a cynical video game enjoyer who is probably unfazed by many business dealings many would find utterly distasteful, while not strictly illegal by the law as seen in a general sense in the world.
Kafka777
Profile Joined December 2015
361 Posts
June 07 2023 19:20 GMT
#17
This is just about the lamest tournament format I have ever seen, however it does fit in with the pseudo swiss format earlier. Only the Swiss format should be used if there were 800 competitors and 1-2 days to play, now this winners stage appears equally adequate and completly unfair and unexciting.
JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4408 Posts
June 07 2023 19:50 GMT
#18
On June 07 2023 23:41 BelethielQT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2023 23:09 JJH777 wrote:
On June 07 2023 17:33 MrBrown wrote:
On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote:
How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?


Seeding. Winners get easy opponents.


He's not always the first seed. In IEMs 2022 and 2021, he was only the 3rd and 4th seed and most would agree he got the weakest group in both those years. In Serral's first ever win in an event with Koreans he got the weakest foreigner in the first round.


But he won the Event with the koreans so the first round doesnt matter


Every round of an event matters. Advancing over top players 5 times in a row is a lot more impressive than 3 times.
ShowTheLights
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Korea (South)1691 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-06-07 21:41:06
June 07 2023 21:39 GMT
#19
I just never fucking understand ESL brackets

I UNDERSTAND you dont want to RIG brackets

But we get Koreans vs Foreigners in legit tournaments maybe 2-3x a year

And yet more than half of the bracket are FvF or KvK

Like I hate it so much

its EVERY time
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Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1198 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-06-08 12:34:11
June 07 2023 22:14 GMT
#20
On June 08 2023 04:50 JJH777 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2023 23:41 BelethielQT wrote:
On June 07 2023 23:09 JJH777 wrote:
On June 07 2023 17:33 MrBrown wrote:
On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote:
How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?


Seeding. Winners get easy opponents.


He's not always the first seed. In IEMs 2022 and 2021, he was only the 3rd and 4th seed and most would agree he got the weakest group in both those years. In Serral's first ever win in an event with Koreans he got the weakest foreigner in the first round.


But he won the Event with the koreans so the first round doesnt matter


Every round of an event matters. Advancing over top players 5 times in a row is a lot more impressive than 3 times.


Please tell me you are not talking about GSL vs. the World '18, where Serral won 3-0 over Kelazhur and immediately after that destroyed Inno with the same score...
But just to be sure: Do we have to check for every player how they advanced through a tournament, just to check if their wins are "impressive" enough?
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
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