ESL Open Week #77: Cure подвоюється, HeroMarines виграє ЄС

Тиждень №77 бачення ESL Open Cup Лікування 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.

Лікування tore through the most of the Korean bracket without dropping a map, even running over Творець 3-0 in the semifinals (Creator had eliminated a potentially dangerous obstacle in Родзинка earlier on). In the finals, Cure finally found an opponent who could put up a fight, being challenged by Solar. 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 їїO—also participated in the tournament, but fell early on against RagnaroK in a duel between old CJ Entus brothers. RagnaroK himself was defeated by Чам, Solar’s semi-finals opponent, who managed to put together quite a solid run with a win over хороший а.

Polish Protoss Крістіанер showed his best ESL Open Cup Europe run yet on Monday, taking out Vanya, Ніб, сул та гоблін 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 Ліквідна та Джеральд before being stopped by young Croatian Protoss goblin, who had already taken down Блі та MaxPax up this point, making this half of the bracket a chaotic affair indeed with many big names falling early. Among them, also, was ШОУТимЕ, 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 виймаючи Дивний та Lambo before another fateful meeting with Клем. 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: RazerBlader 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 Золотий, Future та Має 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 TOP та Scarlett, before the new DPG player narrowly fell to Астрея. 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.

Завдяки партнерство з Shopify, переможці ESL Open Cup отримують 250 доларів призових і 10 балів ESL Pro Tour. Гравці, які фінішують другим, отримують 5 балів ESL Pro Tour і 150 доларів США. Фінішування в топ-4 гарантує щонайменше $100, а також 2 бали ESL Pro Tour, потрапляння в топ-8 виплачує $50. Випуск #77 ESL Open Cups відбудеться на 4th (Корея) та 5th липня (Європа та Америка).

by TheOneAboveU