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Code S - 5th Place Tournament (Season 3)

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Code S - 5th Place Tournament (Season 3)

Text byTL.net ESPORTS
Graphics bywo1fwood
October 7th, 2013 19:35 GMT
2013 GSL Season 2

WCS Korea Season 3
GSL Code S



WCS Korea Placement Matches
PartinG, Trap, Rain, jjakji

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The Best of the Rest

One ticket to the WCS Season 3 Finals on the line

by Waxangel

The final four of this season's Code S have been determined, but there's one more thing we have to do before moving onto the semi-finals: find out who will win the last ticket to the WCS Season 3 Finals.

This season's quarter-finals were some of the most one-sided in Code S history, meaning the losers (P)Trap, (P)PartinG, (P)Rain, and (T)jjakji didn't get a chance to look very good. This is their second chance to show their skills and earn a valuable ticket to Toronto, Canada.

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Match 1: Trap vs. PartinG

Poor, poor (P)Soul_Trap. The famed PvZ specialist had a great run this season, playing solely PvP's and PvT's as he worked his way to a career best top eight finish. Unfortunately, Trap's PvP looked to be the worst of his match-ups (going a combined 0 – 5 against Rain and Dear), and now he has to face a PvP master in PartinG.

(P)SKT_PartinG also enters this match after having made a strong run up to the Ro8, where he got dumped out after getting crushed in his worst match-up of PvZ. If we're allowed to put our hipster hats on for a second – did anyone really think PartinG was such a big favorite against soO? He played what some called "the worst PvZ series of his life" against soO the previous time they played, and he managed to play even worse last weekend (check out our recaps).

In any case, this match-up looks to favor PartinG heavily. While he can't seem to execute anything correctly in PvZ these days, he looks near perfect in whatever he does in PvP. Whether he's going for a risky fast expansion or all-in build, PartinG plays with machine-like efficiency and precision.

In Trap's case, he can execute an all-in pretty well, but he doesn't have anything going for him besides that. In his five losses to Rain and Dear, I don't think he managed to win even a single fight. PartinG's PvP mechanics are at least on par with Rain and Dear, if not even better, making victory difficult for Trap unless he gets some huge build order advantages.

Match 2: Rain vs. Jjakji

In an ironic twist of fate, (T)mYi.jjakji's best GSL run in over a year was ended by a player who was determined to not become the next jjakji. OSL champion Maru's legitimacy had been questioned by many, but his return to the top four confirmed he was not going to become a one-and-done champ.

It's hard to say exactly what changed for jjakji to allow him to do so well in Code S this season – his play didn't seem especially better than it had been in the past. Honestly, it seemed like he was always a pretty good, Code S level player (like a Keen or YoDa) and it just took a couple of seasons for him to finally get the right combination of brackets and in-game luck to make a deep run again.

Being a good Code S Terran isn't going to be enough to defeat (P)SKT_Rain, one of the best PvT players at present. Some might point to jjakji's 4 – 0 over First during the group stages to say he has a decent chance, but that win included three SCV-pull timings against a player known to be very weak against them. Rain and PartinG are maybe the two best players in the world at forcing long PvTs, and jjakji is going to need more than conventional SCV-pulls to defeat Rain.

That's not to say Jjakji is dead in the water. He has the huge advantage of being able to prepare for just one match-up, and he's bound to have some very strong TvP builds prepared. Jjakji even said in his Code S interviews that he switched his preparation style to only place special focus on his first opponent on a given day, which means Rain will have to be particularly cautious. But all in all, I have to take the ever solid Rain to pull through with a victory.

The 5th Place Match

Here's a brief look at the possible 5th place match cards.

(P)Trap vs. (P)Rain: Trap making it by PartinG AND Rain in the same day would be pretty incredible, given how poorly he played against Dear. I can't see Trap winning this, unless he was actually jet-lagged, food-poisoned and had JYP touching both of his shoulders during his series vs. Dear.

(P)Trap vs. (T)jjakji: Guess who's kinda sneaky-good at PvT? Yes, it's Trap. Though sometimes he makes weird mistakes like forgetting to get warpgate research, in general he's a solid macro player who can hold off SCV-pulls and enjoys super annoying warp-prism harassment. Given that jjakji has only shown us SCV-pulls lately, it's hard to guess how he would match-up against Trap.

(P)PartinG vs. (P)Rain: This has the potential to be the highest level PvP we've seen all year. For whatever that's worth – it's no secret that PvP doesn't interest that many people. While this has potential to be great, it also has potential to be awful as PartinG and Rain have been very clear that they talk and learn a lot from each other. When team-kill mind games go wrong, they tend to go very, very wrong.

(P)PartinG vs. (T)jjakji: After seeing the way PartinG outplayed both Flash and Maru in the late game, it doesn't seem like Jjakji has much of a chance if he doesn't SCV pull with all his might. I think there's a small chance PartinG shoots himself in the foot by trying one too many all-ins. While he's capable of some brilliant micro, his penchant for aggression might be too predictable by now.

Overall Predictions:

(P)PartinG defeats (P)Trap
(P)Rain defeats (T)jjakji

(P)PartinG defeats (P)Rain to take fifth place in Code S and win a spot in the WCS Season 3 Finals.


Writers: Waxangel.
Graphics: wo1fwood.
Editor: Waxangel.
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Zenbrez
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada5973 Posts
October 07 2013 19:37 GMT
#2
Hope Rain makes it, he's the only one of the 4 that can still make Blizzcon
Refer to my post.
NovaMB
Profile Joined February 2013
Germany9534 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-07 19:43:43
October 07 2013 19:41 GMT
#3
Hoping for Trap, but Blizzcon without Rain would suck.

In any case Go Jjakji.

Edit: Wait are these bo3 or bo5 or bo69? EU did bo5 all around, but the schedule on GOM looks like a bo3
ibraishome
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Germany337 Posts
October 07 2013 19:41 GMT
#4
jojo jjakji!
Fuell
Profile Joined February 2011
Netherlands3111 Posts
October 07 2013 19:43 GMT
#5
PartinGuuu
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Aeromi
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
France14461 Posts
October 07 2013 19:44 GMT
#6
Go Rain !
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Davkaus
Profile Joined October 2013
United Kingdom368 Posts
October 07 2013 19:44 GMT
#7
So....When is it? Seems like a pretty important point to fit in there somewhere.
NovaMB
Profile Joined February 2013
Germany9534 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-07 19:46:06
October 07 2013 19:45 GMT
#8
On October 08 2013 04:44 Davkaus wrote:
So....When is it? Seems like a pretty important point to fit in there somewhere.


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DJHelium
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden13480 Posts
October 07 2013 19:49 GMT
#9
On October 08 2013 04:37 Zenbrez wrote:
Hope Rain makes it, he's the only one of the 4 that can still make Blizzcon


According to Blizzcon qualification probabilities simulation thread, jjakji has 0,519% chance to make it to Blizzcon.

jjakji, 1557/300000, started with 25 WCS points, 0.519%. He just has to win global finals, which should be expected if he makes it there!

Jjakji 4-0 these protoss nooblings, ez.
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Zenbrez
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada5973 Posts
October 07 2013 19:51 GMT
#10
jjakji, 1557/300000, started with 25 WCS points, 0.519%

Like I said
Refer to my post.
Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17683 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-07 19:55:38
October 07 2013 19:54 GMT
#11
On October 08 2013 04:49 DJHelium wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 08 2013 04:37 Zenbrez wrote:
Hope Rain makes it, he's the only one of the 4 that can still make Blizzcon


According to Blizzcon qualification probabilities simulation thread, jjakji has 0,519% chance to make it to Blizzcon.

jjakji, 1557/300000, started with 25 WCS points, 0.519%. He just has to win global finals, which should be expected if he makes it there!

Jjakji 4-0 these protoss nooblings, ez.

Winning a season finals is basically an automatic ticket to Blizzcon for anyone. Eh, almost.
-------------------------------------------jjakji gets 1st place in Season 3 Finals
This happens 0.60% of the time. When it does, it increases jjakji's chances to 86.21%.
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sweffymo
Profile Joined March 2013
United States62 Posts
October 07 2013 19:59 GMT
#12
I predict either PartinG vs Rain or PartinG vs jjakji, hopefully the latter because PartinG vs Rain is likely to be really weird.

I like jjakji but I think PartinG's PvT is just too stronk for him.
teddyoojo
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Germany22369 Posts
October 07 2013 20:24 GMT
#13
did i just read parting>rain?
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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
October 07 2013 20:29 GMT
#14
On October 08 2013 05:24 teddyoojo wrote:
did i just read parting>rain?

yap lol.

I'm hoping Rain takes this! I haven't been much of a fan of Parting once he got picked up by SKT. His original banter what made him an even more interesting opponent but his play isn't as good as it used to be (soul train!) etc...
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MysterySC
Profile Joined October 2012
Andorra109 Posts
October 07 2013 20:37 GMT
#15
Please jaikji win and come visit me in Toronto and teach me terran.
<3 Hyvaa
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13987 Posts
October 07 2013 20:38 GMT
#16
Head says PartinG
heart conflicted, i like parting but rain is the only one of the 4 who can still go to blizzcon, so i guess
Rain Fighting!
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LockeTazeline
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
2390 Posts
October 07 2013 20:57 GMT
#17
Kinda sad, since PartinG, Rain, and Jjakji are my 3 favourite players in this season's Ro8. (If Trap advances here, I quit haha)

Anyway, agree with the predictions. PartinG hasn't lost a bo3+ PvP or PvT in 7 months.

Paragleiber
Profile Joined June 2009
413 Posts
October 07 2013 21:10 GMT
#18
Kinda weird that the brackets are not Trap vs Jjakji and Rain vs Parting, since they would have been like that in the upper bracket. Not that it makes a huge difference since only one person will win something anyway but it just seems pretty odd to me that they switched it around like that.
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Dodgin
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada39254 Posts
October 07 2013 21:11 GMT
#19
Go everyone not rain!
Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
October 07 2013 21:18 GMT
#20
Would be happy with Trap or Jjakji. Mostly Jjakji.
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