شهد الأسبوع رقم 77 من بطولة الكؤوس المفتوحة ESL 
شفاء double his gains from the previous week and win both the Korean and American editions, while HeRoMaRinE reclaimed the ultimate prize in Europe for a full Terran sweep.
شفاء tore through the most of the Korean bracket without dropping a map, even running over الخالق 3-0 in the semifinals (Creator had eliminated a potentially dangerous obstacle in تلذذ earlier on). In the finals, Cure finally found an opponent who could put up a fight, being challenged by الطاقة الشمسية. The KaiZi Zerg had also cruised through his half of the bracket, though MacSed did manage to steal a map during the best-of-three rounds of the tournament. It looked like Solar would lock down an easy victory as he quickly went up 2-0 over Cure, but the Cure fought back to win with a 3-2 reverse sweep in the end.
Cure’s newest team mate at Dragon Phoenix Gaming—the recently discharged بطل—also participated in the tournament, but fell early on against راجناروك in a duel between old CJ Entus brothers. RagnaroK himself was defeated by شام, Solar’s semi-finals opponent, who managed to put together quite a solid run with a win over نيس كذلك.
Polish Protoss كريستيانر showed his best ESL Open Cup Europe run yet on Monday, taking out Vanya, NEEB, روح و عفريت in an elimination spree to reach the finals. Once again, Zest participated in the EU edition to escape the slow late hours on the Korean ladder and took out ليبو و جيرالد before being stopped by young Croatian Protoss goblin, who had already taken down بلاي و ماكس باكس up this point, making this half of the bracket a chaotic affair indeed with many big names falling early. Among them, also, was موعد العرض, who could not overcome souL. Having survived where all these bigger names failed, Krystianer really was the surprise finalist from that side of the bracket.
Compared to this utter anarchy, the upper half of the tournament tree was much tamer with HeRoMaRinE بأخراج غريب و لامبو before another fateful meeting with كليم. The age-old duel commenced with an even trade of maps to force a fifth and deciding game on Romanticide, which the German claimed for himself. The finals were a formality at this point, for Big Gabe was not about to let Krystianer take his prize when he just had to wrestle down Clem for it and secured victory with a dominating 3-0.
An unlikely performance also defined one side of the bracket in the American edition of the ESL Open Cup #77: ريزر بلادير flirted with elimination in each one of his matches, but in the end came out on top against ForGG, MaxPax and Nice to reach the semi-finals, where he was able to take at least one map from Cure before being defeated himself. The eventual tournament winner had already taken out الذهبية, Future و لديه at this point, thus the British Terran was not exactly his biggest obstacle on the path towards the finals. The other side of the tournament tree saw herO take down اذهب للأعلى و سكارليت, before the new DPG player narrowly fell to Astrea. The Golden Dragon thus secured his own spot in the semis and was one map away from sweeping Zest and advancing into the finals, but Zest managed to claw his way back into the series and achieved the reverse-sweep. Once again a duel between team mates ensued in the finals to see who could claim the ultimate prize—in this case the Terran player came out on top and not only secured his second victory of the week, but also the second win in the American edition of the weekly tournament series in a row.
بفضل شراكة مع Shopify، الفائزون بكأس ESL Open Cup يربحون 250 دولارًا أمريكيًا في شكل جوائز مالية و 10 نقاط ESL Pro Tour. يحصل اللاعبون الذين يحتلون المركز الثاني على 5 نقاط ESL Pro Tour و 150 دولارًا. تضمن النهاية الأربعة الأولى ما لا يقل عن 4 دولار بالإضافة إلى نقطتي ESL Pro Tour ، حيث تصل إلى أعلى 100 نقاط تدفع 2 دولارًا. النسخة رقم 8 من الكؤوس المفتوحة ESL ستقام في المرتبة الرابعة (كوريا) و 5th من يوليو (أوروبا وأمريكا).
by TheOneAboveU
