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Weekly Cup Results (Nov 11-17): Trap is back?

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TL.net ESPORTS 4 Posts November 17 2024 22:16 GMT #1 2024 Off-season Community Weekly Cups Week of November 11-17 by Wax Whoops, did we jinx it? Following last week's post about how community organizers recreated ESL's Monday triple-header of cups, the Kaelaris-Steadfast-Rotti Cup announced its (temporary?) cessation with tournament #11. Still, even down one competition, the weekly cup scene seems to be in good shape for at least the near future. Let's take a look at what went down last week: WardiTV Mondays #10 (partial bracket shown) WardiTV Mondays started things off with a big surprise, as Trap won his first big weekly cup since his return from military service in April (he did win the smaller Sparking Tuna Cup back in September). Even though weekly cups aren't quite the same as live events, it was very impressive of Trap to survive a gauntlet of GuMiho, Clem, ByuN, and MaxPax so soon after his return to active competition. Hopefully, he won't have to wait too long to show his skills in offline competition as well. ***** Kaelaris-Steadfast-Rotti Cup #11 (partial bracket shown) The KSR cup delivered a smaller surprise, with the usual Clem vs MaxPax finals getting canceled by an interloping Astrea. The American Protoss bounced MaxPax from the tournament in the quarters, and then took down ByuN in the semis to earn himself a spot opposite of Clem in the finals. Unfortunately for Astrea, he couldn't take down a third cup titan in a row, and he ceded the weekly title to Clem in a 0-3 sweep. ***** PiGosaur Cup #6 (partial bracket shown) Astrea's momentum carried over to the following PiGosaur Cup #6, as he once again made a run to the finals (once again defeating MaxPax along the way). This set him up against ByuN in the finals—a rematch from the earlier KSR Cup semis. ByuN was able to avenge his earlier loss, taking a 3-1 victory to close out the Monday cup trilogy. ***** OlimoLeague Week #230 Some funky scheduling turned Olimoleague into a 'twice-weekly,' with two tournaments being held in quick succession on 12th and the 16th. The first of these tournaments gave us a classic ESL Korea/Asia weekly finals of herO vs Dark, with herO narrow besting his regional rival by a 3-2 score. ***** OlimoLeague Week #231 The second Olimoleague contest of the week was won by Clem, who held off the surging Trap in the finals with a 3-1 victory. ***** Korean Starcraft League #63 The KSL was back in the mix on its two-week cycle. Dark took first place by flexing his ZvP skills, defeating LunaSea, Zoun, and herO without dropping a single map.

WombaT Northern Ireland23271 Posts November 17 2024 23:44 GMT #2 Trap’s on his way back baby!

Husyelt United States763 Posts November 18 2024 00:23 GMT #3 Wow awesome recaps. Any specific game or stream i should watch this past week?

Yoshi Kirishima United States10290 Posts November 18 2024 01:25 GMT #4 Trap let's go!!

Telephone United States123 Posts November 18 2024 18:27 GMT #5 Did Trap get a new perm or something?? Awesome!

Waxangel United States32968 Posts November 19 2024 02:20 GMT #6 On November 19 2024 03:27 Telephone wrote: Did Trap get a new perm or something?? Awesome! no it's an old screengrab from like 2022 I think we may literally have no images of Trap since he returned from the military since he hasn't played live tournaments and there's been nothing posted on social media (that I'm aware of)

Gemini_19 United States1215 Posts November 19 2024 14:01 GMT #7 Trap came back from the military at the end of APRIL Wax how DARE you spread misinformation!! Also their signing post had a new picture of him https://x.com/GenG/status/1796783737776353480

RandomPlayer Russian Federation374 Posts November 19 2024 14:26 GMT #8 You may wanna do recaps on Tuesdays, so that monday results are fresh. That's when most cups happen.

Mizenhauer United States1764 Posts November 21 2024 09:40 GMT #9 Maybe trap is the goat after all.

zelevin United States221 Posts November 24 2024 17:24 GMT #10 trap fucking smasshed clem. wasn't even close. ""world champion"" never even had a chance. trap has always been the best. LMAO

WombaT Northern Ireland23271 Posts November 24 2024 18:11 GMT #11 On November 21 2024 18:40 Mizenhauer wrote: Maybe trap is the goat after all. What did I miss? I do legitimately think Trap may be the most underrated SC2 pro of all time. Perhaps not GOAT material ofc but the man broke WombaT’s LawTM after it holding up for a good few years, gotta count for something

tigera6 3180 Posts November 25 2024 04:46 GMT #12 Trap was the most complete Protoss for several years with combination of macro-micro-offense-defense, his game is well-rounded, maybe too well-rounded for his race. And he also will be remembered as the guy who blew a 3-0 lead in a GSL code S.

KnoxFlores 1 Post December 05 2024 05:10 GMT #13 I agree with you.

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