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[GSTL] Keeping the Dream Alive

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[GSTL] Keeping the Dream Alive
March 18th, 2012 20:44 | StarCraft 2
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Table of Contents







Keeping the Dream Alive
Intro



FXO vs SlayerS
Match Results



NSH vs IM
Match Results



The Return to Form
Opinion



Check out the GSTL on Liquipedia



Keeping the Dream Alive



This was a big weekend for GSTL. Both SlayerS and Incredible Miracle, who were playing each other for a GSTL championship exactly one year ago, were knocked out in the last two days of play.

More astoundingly, the mere fact that they will no longer be fighting is not even the most noteworthy part of the story. Rather, it was exactly how they found themselves being evicted from the team league, pushed out in the most unexpected of ways.

FXOpen won games with Oz and Leenock, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed their games as of late. However, while they took down Puzzle, Coca, and Crank between them, they saved the truly heavy lifting for Choya. Choya, the coach who had all but disappeared from competitive play in the second half of last year, who only recently found his way back into Code A. He took on Ryung and MMA and left unscatched, using a clever build in the first game and solid defense in the second, showing that perhaps his career has more to it than previously thought.

A similar situation happened with the HoSeo team. Seal, who only had the briefest of stays in Code A, came out in the second set to play against YoDa, and from there he nearly finished off the series all by himself. Dispatching of YoDa and Seed as mere warmups, IM sent their heavy hitters at him immediately after. He was forced to face Mvp and NesTea in back to back matches, both of whom he came out victorious against in the slimmest of victories, and nearly completing an all-kill against one of the league's strongest.

In the end Happy took him down and it was Jjakji who finished the series off, but today was not his day in the sun. This weekend was not for the Jjakjis, or MMAs, or NesTeas, this weekend was for the Seals and Choyas of the world.

FXOpen

SlayerS


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Overall Results
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Incredible Miracle

New Star HoSeo


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Overall Results
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The Return to Form

by JimLloyd



At the beginning of the season, I wrote about the GSTL as the place where new players are found. The garden where we see the first sprouts of Starcraft brilliance -- the little DongRaeGus and MMAs who'll eventually bloom into the majestic flowers whose beautiful play we love to watch. In support, I pointed to the rigid structure of the GSL (since revised), and even took a few guesses as to who might be players to look for this season.

Now that we've seen all the teams and a few have been eliminated, how did it turn out? Rather than provide a place for new players to shine, the GSTL this season has been where old players return to form. Like spring, when the first green shoots of the annual plants reawaken from their winter slumber . . . oh forget it. Here's how it works this season: if you were good in early and mid 2011, you're going to do well now. The GSL changed the format to allow for more turnover, and the players who are putting together great performances are the same ones who were part of the old guard pushed out by the new. While some of the newer stars have performed well (MMA, Lucky, Sculp), there's been an incredible run of victories from players who were going to be the next big thing last year, but never quite put it together.

The first, of course, is StarTale's (T)Bomber. As the handsome and talented Waxangel explained earlier this year, Bomber was on the verge of breaking out last year; he was going to be the dominant Terran in the Korean scene. He played with style and confidence in winning an MLG (Raleigh, 2011) and was Code S for a few seasons before dropping down and eventually ending up in Code B. But he gave the GSTL its first all-kill in 2012, knocking off NSHS and all its top players, and he booked a trip to Las Vegas later this year by finishing second in the IPL4 qualifier, beating Sleep and LosirA.

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Bomber's teammate, (P)Squirtle, is another player who came back from a relative slump to perform in the GSTL. In early 2011, he was all the rage, getting invited to NASL Season One and the IEM World Championships (where he participated in an epic three-way tie with SjoW and Socke). He also had an all-kill in the first GSTL match ever played, and later that season played a legendary game against Mvp. Then he sort of fell off the Earth for a while, failing even to qualify for Code A. But recently he had a four-kill against Incredible Miracle (albeit without Mvp and Nestea, who were in New York at the time), which put StarTale into the third round of the group stage.

It's hard to say that (T)MarineKingPrime ever fell from relevance in the SC2 scene, but after his incredible three second-place finishes, he floated around the line between Codes S and A for a while. Just a few short weeks ago, however, he all-killed NSHS, coming in to stop a streaking San and in turn defeating them one-by-one. He, of course, followed that up with a victory (finally) in New York, so even though this season hasn't had that many new faces, you GSTL enthusiasts can still look cool to your friends by being ahead of the curve. It's just that the curve started in early 2011, circled through or even below Code A, and came back around for you now.

But perhaps the most impressive player this season -- who was barely even on the curve to begin with -- has been (P)oGsVINES, heretofore notable primarily for a comic mis-pronunciation of his name in late 2010. His only GSL appearance was having been eliminated by Sen in the first round of the GSL Open 3, and then, twelve months later, he qualified for Code A, only to lose in the first round to SuperNova. But he's been fantastic in this season of GSTL. He went 2-1 in oGs's first match, beating ZeNEXLine and Jjun, and followed that up with a four-kill against SlayerS, which included victories over Ryung, YuGiOh, Alicia, and MMA. While he couldn't make a play against MvP recently, oGs can hope he is there to save them from elimination in their next match against FXO.




Writer: Heyoka, JimLloyd.
Graphics: Pathy.
Editor: Heyoka.
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 Sumahi   Guam. March 18 2012 21:02. Posts 4936
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Bomber and Squirtle fighting! I'm looking forward to them performing yet again in the next match against NSHS
Startale <3, ST_July <3, HongUn <3, Savior <3, Gretorp <3, Nada <3, Rainbow <3, Ret <3, Squirtle <3, Bomber <3
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 Gamegene   United States. March 18 2012 21:05. Posts 6653
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VINES has been the oGs hero for teamleagues. So many scalps it's ridiculous.
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 Chunhyang   Bangladesh. March 18 2012 21:25. Posts 1349
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Seal showing to MVP and Nestea.

No matter how many championships you may between you:

The GSTL is my turf.

EDIT: Well, not really. But the relative lack of correlation between GSL and GSTL results is remarkable, showing that the team atmosphere of th GSTL may indeed have a real and significant effect on the play of some progamers.
Last edit: 2012-03-18 21:26:52
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 zul   Germany. March 18 2012 21:27. Posts 4056
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Seal owning MVP/Nestea is a huge deal. my poor liquibet points
keep it deep! @zulison
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 Gladiator6   Sweden. March 18 2012 21:31. Posts 6831
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New Star HoSeo looking good this season, I hope they take the it!
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 RoninShogun   United States. March 18 2012 22:51. Posts 308
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Eyo, called the NSH upsettt
Poor Crank though lol, didnt get to see the game but now I gotta look that one up
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 Testuser   March 18 2012 23:47. Posts 2652
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Expected ~~~~~~

IM were never that strong in team leagues, gogo NSH ! ~~~~~~
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 Bluelightz   Indonesia. March 18 2012 23:53. Posts 2327
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IM

T_T

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 Twisting   Netherlands. March 19 2012 01:42. Posts 33
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Hi.

I even the hide spoiler checkbox on, but i could still see this message. Is there something i can do about it? Worked the entire weekend, and now i already know who won.

Thanks
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 TheTurk   United States. March 19 2012 01:45. Posts 713
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Why, SlayerS?
Starcraft is a lifestyle.
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  supsun   United Kingdom. March 19 2012 02:04. Posts 343Profile # 
Damn... I really wanted to see NesTea and Mvp play drunk at Vegas...
 
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 CeriseCherries   United States. March 19 2012 02:26. Posts 4711
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T.T MMA
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 Tamz   United States. March 19 2012 03:08. Posts 28
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On March 19 2012 01:42 Twisting wrote:
Hi.

I even the hide spoiler checkbox on, but i could still see this message. Is there something i can do about it? Worked the entire weekend, and now i already know who won.

Thanks


May I ask as to why you clicked the link and read the post? Seeing as the topic has nothing to do with who won considering any team could be considered "keeping the dream alive" from a win in the GSTL in which they would have been knocked out otherwise.
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 TheCtd400   United States. March 19 2012 03:26. Posts 135
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The link in the main header is wrong. It goes to the preview.
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 Lennient   March 19 2012 04:59. Posts 494
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IM Seal'ed <3 Hope to see him in code S to make up for the zerg deficit
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 Oiseaux   United States. March 19 2012 05:02. Posts 622
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On March 19 2012 01:42 Twisting wrote:
Hi.

I even the hide spoiler checkbox on, but i could still see this message. Is there something i can do about it? Worked the entire weekend, and now i already know who won.

Thanks


Don't click a link that is talking about a tournament?
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 MetalSlug   Germany. March 19 2012 05:20. Posts 426
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Prime got this !
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 Yamulo   United States. March 19 2012 05:54. Posts 1871
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On March 19 2012 01:42 Twisting wrote:
Hi.

I even the hide spoiler checkbox on, but i could still see this message. Is there something i can do about it? Worked the entire weekend, and now i already know who won.

Thanks

Then don't go on major news sites for sc2 news when you don't want to be spoiled?
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 Vul   United States. March 19 2012 06:51. Posts 681
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On March 19 2012 01:42 Twisting wrote:
Hi.

I even the hide spoiler checkbox on, but i could still see this message. Is there something i can do about it? Worked the entire weekend, and now i already know who won.

Thanks


So... you decided to read an article about GSTL results and don't understand what you can do in the future to not get spoiled? There's not even spoilers in the title, that's simply your mistake. Just pay more attention next time
 
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