//: Starcraft II @ IEM Katowice 2020 Ro8 on now (semis + finals Sunday)

demosthenes · Feb 29, 2020

Live stream: https://www.twitch.tv/esl_sc2
VODs: https://www.youtube.com/eslarchives
Summary: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/IEM_Katowice/2020

Some good games should be coming up with who is left. Serral coming back for his crown after losing it at Blizzcon but has to go through his one terran weakness, Innovation :o

HaremKing · Feb 29, 2020

Looking forward to Maru vs sOs. Cheering on foreigner hope Serral as well.

NeoKnight · Feb 29, 2020

Thanks for the heads up. Definitely gonna watch. Love some competitive SC2.

Won · Feb 29, 2020

Good to see Starcraft 2 wasn't part of the Youtube deal.

demosthenes · Feb 29, 2020

Won said:
Good to see Starcraft 2 wasn't part of the Youtube deal.

What was that?

DealWithIt · Feb 29, 2020

Serral is already a bonjwa

elenarie · Feb 29, 2020

Won said:
Good to see Starcraft 2 wasn't part of the Youtube deal.

IEM is hosted by ESL, not Blizzard. Perhaps that's why?

Won · Feb 29, 2020

That frown looked unnatural. Good on Serral.

demosthenes said:
What was that?

Youtube grabbed the rights to Overwatch + Blizzard other esport product. I think because Blizzard doesn't care enough to run SC2 themselves, so IEM like stuff was exempt.

But I already forgot and it is a nice surprise. Hearthstone numbers supposedly were trash.

AliasGreed · Feb 29, 2020

Comong ESL give me a Serral and Maru Final.

HaremKing · Feb 29, 2020

Oh, so WCS is on Youtube now? I was wondering if Blizzard just killed it since my followed WCS stream on Twitch hasn't been live in a long time. I wonder if GSL is still on Twitch actually...

AliasGreed · Feb 29, 2020

HaremKing said:
Oh, so WCS is on Youtube now? I was wondering if Blizzard just killed it since my followed WCS stream on Twitch hasn't been live in a long time. I wonder if GSL is still on Twitch actually...

ESL is on Twitch and YouTube. I think if you lauch StarCraft 2 the link in battle.net takes you to Twitch.

HaremKing · Feb 29, 2020

Oh I know ESL is on Twitch. I'm talking about the Blizzard run SC2 stuff like WCS and the Korean SC2 League GSL.

World Championship Series

There has been eight seasons of the World Championship Series (WCS).

liquipedia.net

Global StarCraft II League

The Global StarCraft II League (or GSL for short) is a large tournament-based League held on location in South Korea and holds multiple events each year. Having started in late August 2010, the league was first step towards a professional league in South Korea for StarCraft II. The event is...

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demosthenes · Feb 29, 2020

HaremKing said:
Oh I know ESL is on Twitch. I'm talking about the Blizzard run SC2 stuff like WCS and the Korean SC2 League GSL.

World Championship Series

There has been eight seasons of the World Championship Series (WCS).

liquipedia.net

Global StarCraft II League

The Global StarCraft II League (or GSL for short) is a large tournament-based League held on location in South Korea and holds multiple events each year. Having started in late August 2010, the league was first step towards a professional league in South Korea for StarCraft II. The event is...

liquipedia.net

WCS is dead. ESL has taken over the entire "WCS" going forward. GSL still exists though.

AliasGreed · Feb 29, 2020

HaremKing said:
Oh I know ESL is on Twitch. I'm talking about the Blizzard run SC2 stuff like WCS and the Korean SC2 League GSL.

World Championship Series

There has been eight seasons of the World Championship Series (WCS).

liquipedia.net

Global StarCraft II League

The Global StarCraft II League (or GSL for short) is a large tournament-based League held on location in South Korea and holds multiple events each year. Having started in late August 2010, the league was first step towards a professional league in South Korea for StarCraft II. The event is...

liquipedia.net

Oh yeah, WCS is dead from my understanding. It's ESL and GSL in Korea. Blizzcon will still crown a world champion though.

FlintSpace · Feb 29, 2020

HaremKing said:
Oh, so WCS is on Youtube now? I was wondering if Blizzard just killed it since my followed WCS stream on Twitch hasn't been live in a long time. I wonder if GSL is still on Twitch actually...

Damn. Reading twitch chat was half the fun

jetsetrez · Feb 29, 2020

Nice to see some life still in SC2. Has any news happened about GSL? Feels like its been forever since I saw it go live on Twitch. Miss my Tastosis.

demosthenes · Feb 29, 2020

jetsetrez said:
Nice to see some life still in SC2. Has any news happened about GSL? Feels like its been forever since I saw it go live on Twitch. Miss my Tastosis.

Coming up. I'll find something on it.

SmartWaffles · Feb 29, 2020

GSL is not coming any time soon due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic in Korea.

phaze · Feb 29, 2020

Dark got smashed. Kinda wanted to see him against Serral.

demosthenes · Feb 29, 2020

Maru!

demosthenes · Feb 29, 2020

Aww, sos <3

demosthenes · Feb 29, 2020

Games start Sunday @ 5am EST.

I likely won't be waking up for that :lol

phaze · Feb 29, 2020

demosthenes said:
Aww, sos <3

Nice gesture from him. Some great games too.

phaze · Mar 1, 2020

Serral gg's out so early.

AliasGreed · Mar 1, 2020

phaze said:
Serral gg's out so early.

I think he was just pissed with how bad he played and said xxxx me. Serral vs Maru in a final will never happen. Now I'm routing for Zest. Zest did take out both Reynor and Serral this tournament he's on fire.

phaze · Mar 1, 2020

AliasGreed said:
I think he was just pissed with how bad he played and said xxxx me. Serral vs Maru in a final will never happen. Now I'm routing for Zest. Zest did take out both Reynor and Serral this tournament he's on fire.

Was in response to the first map he lost. Obviously I'm a noob who knows nothing but I can't help thinking (without rewatch) he could still have fought.

Spine Crawler · Mar 1, 2020

zest vs. rogue then. i am happy unless its a zvz

jaymzi · Mar 1, 2020

Should implement a 3rd place match just so we can finally get a Serral vs Maru series.

capitalCORN · Mar 1, 2020

Hopefully the grand finals get on before my shift. Crossing my fingers.

AliasGreed · Mar 1, 2020

Let's see if Zest can take out 3 of the 4 best Zerg in the world in 1 tournament.

phaze · Mar 1, 2020

lul

zerged x2.

Adventureracing · Mar 1, 2020

Maru vs Serral seems destined not to happen. Weird final so far not really sure who to go for.

phaze · Mar 1, 2020

Pretty disappointing finale to be honest. Zest just collapsed three times. The amount of short games in general surprised me a bit, maybe the ladder is actually indicative of the pro level games. lul

demosthenes · Mar 1, 2020

Just woke up. Whew the finals. Glad the replay is on now.

//: Starcraft II @ IEM Katowice 2020 Ro8 on now (semis + finals Sunday)

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