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Serral Wins Master's Coliseum 6 - Page 2

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pajen007
Profile Joined September 2020
7 Posts
September 14 2023 01:25 GMT
#21
wp champ
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25038 Posts
September 14 2023 04:23 GMT
#22
That’s one hell of a strong run here, GGWP
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MoreCowbell21692
Profile Joined September 2023
4 Posts
September 14 2023 05:50 GMT
#23
Hate to be that guy but just a small correction.... Clem won against Serral 3:1 (as shown in the screenshot) and not 3:2 (as written in the article).
Riner1212
Profile Joined November 2012
United States337 Posts
September 14 2023 06:32 GMT
#24
i hate to admit it, but yea hes a goat. despite being a maru fan boy.
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6889 Posts
September 14 2023 08:36 GMT
#25
On September 14 2023 03:13 Locutus_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 13 2023 23:42 Balnazza wrote:
I think it is definetly cool that while Serral is by far the most dominant player of the year, he still can be beaten, though apparently not by the super-favorites like himself.


The top 10 nowadays is pretty stacked. Serral, Maru, Reynor, Clem, herO, Byun, Cure, Solar, Dark and MaxPax... All of them are always title contenders.


Between Serral and Maru there is like a 90% chance they win. All the others have a combined 10% chance IMO
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12790 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-09-14 09:03:04
September 14 2023 09:01 GMT
#26
On September 14 2023 17:36 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 14 2023 03:13 Locutus_ wrote:
On September 13 2023 23:42 Balnazza wrote:
I think it is definetly cool that while Serral is by far the most dominant player of the year, he still can be beaten, though apparently not by the super-favorites like himself.


The top 10 nowadays is pretty stacked. Serral, Maru, Reynor, Clem, herO, Byun, Cure, Solar, Dark and MaxPax... All of them are always title contenders.


Between Serral and Maru there is like a 90% chance they win. All the others have a combined 10% chance IMO

I mean Reynor won the most important tournament that happened recently (at least money wise, but there is no more legacy tournaments except maybe Katowice anymore), so I don't think that's a fair statement
Plus I don't see Maru beat Serral on this patch/map pool, so he gotta pray that a zerg eliminates him beforehands, he is in the others with the combined 10% chance

I'd say if it's an important tournament (with enough prizepool etc.) it's 40% Serral - 40% Reynor - 20% rest of top players combined
WriterMaru
PiGStarcraft
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Australia987 Posts
September 14 2023 09:33 GMT
#27
On September 14 2023 04:52 Swash91 wrote:
Every ZVT ---> Make banes = GG.


Found the guy that didn't watch any of Serral's games
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6889 Posts
September 14 2023 11:50 GMT
#28
On September 14 2023 18:01 Poopi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 14 2023 17:36 Harris1st wrote:
On September 14 2023 03:13 Locutus_ wrote:
On September 13 2023 23:42 Balnazza wrote:
I think it is definetly cool that while Serral is by far the most dominant player of the year, he still can be beaten, though apparently not by the super-favorites like himself.


The top 10 nowadays is pretty stacked. Serral, Maru, Reynor, Clem, herO, Byun, Cure, Solar, Dark and MaxPax... All of them are always title contenders.


Between Serral and Maru there is like a 90% chance they win. All the others have a combined 10% chance IMO

I mean Reynor won the most important tournament that happened recently (at least money wise, but there is no more legacy tournaments except maybe Katowice anymore), so I don't think that's a fair statement
Plus I don't see Maru beat Serral on this patch/map pool, so he gotta pray that a zerg eliminates him beforehands, he is in the others with the combined 10% chance

I'd say if it's an important tournament (with enough prizepool etc.) it's 40% Serral - 40% Reynor - 20% rest of top players combined


Fair.
Reynor's big tournament beastmode is incredible. But if he can't find that mode he mostly "just" finishes top 8
Same with Maru (GSL mode) and Mary (non GSL mode).
And Serral got three modes:
Godlike make it look easy mode.
Slumpmode has to work for it, will probably still win every game but it's close and maybe he'll lose a ZvZ
WTF mode. Loses a close ZvT or god forbid a ZvP
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
Gantz023
Profile Joined June 2023
30 Posts
September 14 2023 22:05 GMT
#29
On September 13 2023 23:24 Charoisaur wrote:
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On September 13 2023 22:33 DivinesiaTV wrote:
Id like Artosis arguing here how Serral still aint the goat. :D

winning an online tournament in 2023 makes him the Goat?



Are you saying that Serral cant win offline tournaments ?? :O.

Chinwe
Profile Joined September 2023
3 Posts
September 14 2023 22:45 GMT
#30
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Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15919 Posts
September 15 2023 08:04 GMT
#31
On September 15 2023 07:05 Gantz023 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 13 2023 23:24 Charoisaur wrote:
On September 13 2023 22:33 DivinesiaTV wrote:
Id like Artosis arguing here how Serral still aint the goat. :D

winning an online tournament in 2023 makes him the Goat?



Are you saying that Serral cant win offline tournaments ?? :O.


No, where did you read that?
I said this tournament barely has an impact on whether or not he's the Goat.
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Locutus_
Profile Joined August 2023
Brazil65 Posts
September 15 2023 10:39 GMT
#32
Now, this tournament is a perfect example why we cant take an individual tourney to gauge a player's ability. Had this tourney not been double bracket (in playoffs), Serral would have dropped out in Ro8, and Maru would have been top 12 instead of top4.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25038 Posts
September 15 2023 13:26 GMT
#33
On September 15 2023 17:04 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 15 2023 07:05 Gantz023 wrote:
On September 13 2023 23:24 Charoisaur wrote:
On September 13 2023 22:33 DivinesiaTV wrote:
Id like Artosis arguing here how Serral still aint the goat. :D

winning an online tournament in 2023 makes him the Goat?



Are you saying that Serral cant win offline tournaments ?? :O.


No, where did you read that?
I said this tournament barely has an impact on whether or not he's the Goat.

It moves the needle, albeit slightly.

Serral’s entire claim is periods of dominance and relentless consistency. He can’t for example have any claim based on prospering at the peak era of competitiveness in the game’s history because he wasn’t there.

Also another two wins against Maru to further extend their H2H in his favour. Less significant if it were a minor tourney and it’s pushed it slightly in his favour, he’s really gapping Maru in this metric now.

As I’m on record as saying many times I don’t think you can crown a singular GOAT, too many incomparable eras and scenes really. If there was an SC2 version of BW Flash sure but we don’t really have that.

Serral’s certainly up there in that conversation, but I think he does increasingly have a hard to dispute claim as SC2’s most relentlessly consistent top level performer, and here’s another small piece of that jigsaw

On September 15 2023 19:39 Locutus_ wrote:
Now, this tournament is a perfect example why we cant take an individual tourney to gauge a player's ability. Had this tourney not been double bracket (in playoffs), Serral would have dropped out in Ro8, and Maru would have been top 12 instead of top4.

Players play to a format, we can’t just retrospectively go back through and treat them as a single elim format or whatever.

It introduces various variables into the equation. Does every player play equally as well in a winner’s bracket where they know they have another life, versus one loss and you’re out single elim for example?
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ZeroByte13
Profile Joined March 2022
761 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-09-15 13:36:53
September 15 2023 13:35 GMT
#34
This tournament is a perfect example why single elimination tournaments are more exciting - in double elim tourneys you know Serral will most probably win, he almost never loses two matches in the same tourney unless he's in a real bad form.
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15919 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-09-15 14:03:40
September 15 2023 14:03 GMT
#35
On September 15 2023 22:26 WombaT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 15 2023 17:04 Charoisaur wrote:
On September 15 2023 07:05 Gantz023 wrote:
On September 13 2023 23:24 Charoisaur wrote:
On September 13 2023 22:33 DivinesiaTV wrote:
Id like Artosis arguing here how Serral still aint the goat. :D

winning an online tournament in 2023 makes him the Goat?



Are you saying that Serral cant win offline tournaments ?? :O.


No, where did you read that?
I said this tournament barely has an impact on whether or not he's the Goat.

It moves the needle, albeit slightly.

Serral’s entire claim is periods of dominance and relentless consistency. He can’t for example have any claim based on prospering at the peak era of competitiveness in the game’s history because he wasn’t there.

Also another two wins against Maru to further extend their H2H in his favour. Less significant if it were a minor tourney and it’s pushed it slightly in his favour, he’s really gapping Maru in this metric now.

As I’m on record as saying many times I don’t think you can crown a singular GOAT, too many incomparable eras and scenes really. If there was an SC2 version of BW Flash sure but we don’t really have that.

Serral’s certainly up there in that conversation, but I think he does increasingly have a hard to dispute claim as SC2’s most relentlessly consistent top level performer, and here’s another small piece of that jigsaw

Show nested quote +
On September 15 2023 19:39 Locutus_ wrote:
Now, this tournament is a perfect example why we cant take an individual tourney to gauge a player's ability. Had this tourney not been double bracket (in playoffs), Serral would have dropped out in Ro8, and Maru would have been top 12 instead of top4.

Players play to a format, we can’t just retrospectively go back through and treat them as a single elim format or whatever.

It introduces various variables into the equation. Does every player play equally as well in a winner’s bracket where they know they have another life, versus one loss and you’re out single elim for example?

He's the most consistent top performer but only in smaller events. In the GSL he never participated and in world championship tier events his record is okay but not as good as others.
Counting IEM Katowice, Blizzcon, WESG and gamers8 he has won 2 out 13 attempts which is good but not as good as sOs/Rogue. Considering he has never participated in the other highly prestigious circuit and factoring in the era he played in, I have a hard time calling him the de-facto Goat.
Tbf Neither Maru or Rogue can be called the de-facto Goat imo, I think there just isn't a Goat in sc2.
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Beelzebub1
Profile Joined May 2015
1004 Posts
September 15 2023 21:59 GMT
#36
Look at that lower bracked run O__O Serral is and has been on a whole other level for awhile now.
tommey.liang
Profile Joined November 2020
United States362 Posts
September 18 2023 17:19 GMT
#37
Forgot to watch and super late to reply to this, but congrats to Serral on adding yet another championship trophy.

Bummer for Clem to go 0-3 twice against ByuN and Maru after beating Serral in four games.
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Nasigil
Profile Joined July 2023
137 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-09-18 17:43:14
September 18 2023 17:42 GMT
#38
The tournament is small, but looking at the actual players he defeated along the way, it's one hell of the run. The top 4 Korean Terran in Maru, Byun, Cure and Gumiho, the best Korean Zerg in Dark, one of the best online Protoss in MaxPax. He went 20-3 on maps against some of the best players in the world.

One of the biggest arguments for Serral's GOAT claim is his domination over his peers. Aside of Rogue which has an equal h2h record with Serral, he holds a positive h2h record against literally every single top player in his era, and the ratio is mostly very one sided. You can talk about GSL all day but all those GSL players always get destroyed by Serral when they meet on international stage.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25038 Posts
September 18 2023 19:26 GMT
#39
On September 19 2023 02:42 Nasigil wrote:
The tournament is small, but looking at the actual players he defeated along the way, it's one hell of the run. The top 4 Korean Terran in Maru, Byun, Cure and Gumiho, the best Korean Zerg in Dark, one of the best online Protoss in MaxPax. He went 20-3 on maps against some of the best players in the world.

One of the biggest arguments for Serral's GOAT claim is his domination over his peers. Aside of Rogue which has an equal h2h record with Serral, he holds a positive h2h record against literally every single top player in his era, and the ratio is mostly very one sided. You can talk about GSL all day but all those GSL players always get destroyed by Serral when they meet on international stage.

This.
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12790 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-09-18 20:39:23
September 18 2023 20:38 GMT
#40
On September 19 2023 02:42 Nasigil wrote:
The tournament is small, but looking at the actual players he defeated along the way, it's one hell of the run. The top 4 Korean Terran in Maru, Byun, Cure and Gumiho, the best Korean Zerg in Dark, one of the best online Protoss in MaxPax. He went 20-3 on maps against some of the best players in the world.

One of the biggest arguments for Serral's GOAT claim is his domination over his peers. Aside of Rogue which has an equal h2h record with Serral, he holds a positive h2h record against literally every single top player in his era, and the ratio is mostly very one sided. You can talk about GSL all day but all those GSL players always get destroyed by Serral when they meet on international stage.

I mean, he got taken out of the world championship by a zerg that didn’t manage to qualify for this season of GSL.
Beating terrans and protoss as easily and still being that vulnerable to supposedly lesser zergs just smell like zerg being as strong as ever, although it’s impressive to do it consistently whereas players like Reynor only bother when there are huge sums of money

Similarly, he didn’t manage to carry Basilisk into a WTL win because of Solar, who is notorious for getting eliminated early on in the GSL over and over again
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