EPTSerral wins EWC 2025
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Simplistik
2094 Posts
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RandomPlayer
Russian Federation400 Posts
On July 31 2025 18:33 Simplistik wrote: The final was pretty disappointing, to out it mildly. It's true and wild at the same time. Because those are the two best players in the tournament. I mean bracket design makde everything right for them to face each other, but serral had an answer to everything like an overmind. | ||
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tommey.liang
United States363 Posts
Would have liked to have seen Clem not get blanked with this title defense run. | ||
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Sviru1
30 Posts
Joona is the Goat of SC2 for sure and well deserved win. He thrives where other fall apart. But for me Reynor is like this unpredictable player with super strong mentality. He can lose 2-0 and reverse sweep you on the big stage. That is crazy. | ||
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Nasigil1
114 Posts
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radracer
United States73 Posts
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Glorfindelio
220 Posts
On August 03 2025 10:29 radracer wrote: Truly the GOAT of SC2's twilight Did you twirl your mustache villainously in the dark while exclaiming to yourself: "this will stem the tide!" | ||
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JJH777
United States4415 Posts
On July 31 2025 10:14 Yoshi Kirishima wrote: Reynor did great, just too bad he faced the final boss in Ro8 and not even Ro4 But Maru would have lost to Serral anyways, but it mighta been a cool match to see with his mech (or maybe it'd be a stomp again, it's so hard to know lol) The one game from their Kato finals last year that Maru was straight up ahead in and would almost certainly won if he wasn't already mentally done was battle mech. Then he never did it again. I'm sad we didn't get to see it here. | ||
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radracer
United States73 Posts
On August 03 2025 13:29 Glorfindelio wrote: Did you twirl your mustache villainously in the dark while exclaiming to yourself: "this will stem the tide!" Not sure what you mean, he's dominating this era and is easily the best player of this era. | ||
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ejozl
Denmark3463 Posts
I wonder had he played as amazingly as he did vs. solar just before if that could change the outcome, I think one of the problems as you get older is the ability to focus for a long time. If it were up to me the finals day would only have the 3rd place match and gf both bo9's, I can't see solar cure having the same outcome hadn't solar just lost his ticket to the gf 30min earlier.. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26202 Posts
On August 04 2025 23:26 ejozl wrote: I'm glad classic got 2 games at least, it could've been another rogue vs classic 4-0. I wonder had he played as amazingly as he did vs. solar just before if that could change the outcome, I think one of the problems as you get older is the ability to focus for a long time. If it were up to me the finals day would only have the 3rd place match and gf both bo9's, I can't see solar cure having the same outcome hadn't solar just lost his ticket to the gf 30min earlier.. Solar isn’t Serral, that’s Classic’s main problem even if he’s got an absolutely optimal schedule. Solar is a phenomenal player, Serral is just simply better at every facet of ZvP. His early game defence is better, his midgame reads are better, and his lategame is better. Serral is marginally better than other elite Zergs in the former, but considerably better in the latter. It’s not even a stylistic thing. It’s not like there’s some Zerg who’s notably stronger in the midgame but worse at lategame versus Serral who’s got an advantage over how Classic plays. Serral’s just better at ZvP across the board | ||
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TeamMamba
149 Posts
On August 05 2025 00:03 WombaT wrote: Solar isn’t Serral, that’s Classic’s main problem even if he’s got an absolutely optimal schedule. Solar is a phenomenal player, Serral is just simply better at every facet of ZvP. His early game defence is better, his midgame reads are better, and his lategame is better. Serral is marginally better than other elite Zergs in the former, but considerably better in the latter. It’s not even a stylistic thing. It’s not like there’s some Zerg who’s notably stronger in the midgame but worse at lategame versus Serral who’s got an advantage over how Classic plays. Serral’s just better at ZvP across the board Agree with that. Serral late game in all matchup is just a league above the rest of the Zergs Other too Zergs looks completely lost in the late game. Their use of spell casters are awkward and not sure how to engage the opponent death ball correctly. When other Zergs try to copy what Serral’s does they fail miserably and get stomped. in the words of lambo “baited by joona again”. | ||
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Jamesda05
United States3 Posts
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Gantz023
34 Posts
They know how difficult/almost impossible it is to maintain Serral's consistency for seven years, surviving multiple nerfs and finding ways to win tournaments. That means he didn't win because of a patch favoring Zerg. All that remains to be said is... GG WP Serral. Congratulations on your 3rd world championship (or 4th, depending on how you look at it). | ||
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Balnazza
Germany1244 Posts
Which on one hand is great, they learned from this years fiasko. On the other hand...no SC2. As I said, I assume it isn't the full-roster yet, but atleast we now we are already behind the curve while EWC '25 isn't even over...yay... | ||
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Kyle8
30 Posts
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Kyle8
30 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26202 Posts
On August 11 2025 21:21 Kyle8 wrote: serral should have lost lategame vs classic but classic really didn't do a great job there.. if he'd just been confident in his lategame it woulda been all over baby... Classic himself said he mixed it up because he didn’t think he could win a Bo9 relying on his late game exclusively. Classic did a great job, it’s just Serral doing Serral things. I think it looks very different it’s Classic versus another Zerg, | ||
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TeamMamba
149 Posts
On August 12 2025 07:47 WombaT wrote: Classic himself said he mixed it up because he didn’t think he could win a Bo9 relying on his late game exclusively. Classic did a great job, it’s just Serral doing Serral things. I think it looks very different it’s Classic versus another Zerg, We already saw that in the semi when classic played against solar. Solar literally had no answer to classic Literally like you said, just Serral doing Serral stuff. The other Zergs just don’t have the mechanics / patience / or understanding to engage a late game toss death ball | ||
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johnnyh123
124 Posts
On August 11 2025 07:45 Balnazza wrote: Apparenlty (according to Liquipedia) they already announced a huge chunk(?) of the games for 2026 and even 2027. Which on one hand is great, they learned from this years fiasko. On the other hand...no SC2. As I said, I assume it isn't the full-roster yet, but atleast we now we are already behind the curve while EWC '25 isn't even over...yay... Yeah, history can't predict the future, but for EWC: - 2025: 21 different games played - 2026: 17 different games confirmed There are most likely a few more additions, especially if new games gain traction over the next few months. Fingers crossed for announcing SC2 soon! Without EWC 2026, I believe most of full-time progamers will quit. EWC is literally the only thing keeping the pro scene alive and kicking, without it, it will just be alive, but no kicks. | ||
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