The 2nd round of the Ultimate Series global playoffs will be played on Saturday, Oct 20 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) and will content four Best of 5 matches between the players from the different regions. More details below.
Round of 8 matches:
uThermal (T) vs Rail (P)
HellraiseR (P) vs Elazer (Z)
MaNa (P) vs MaSa (T)
Neeb (P) vs Serral (Z)
Broadcast will start on Saturday, Oct 20 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
On October 21 2018 04:31 Nakajin wrote: What the fuck happen, did Serral just played shit build?
Based on reddit comments - a combination of cross-server lag (played in EU) and focusing on dominating blizzcon. Builds for game 1 and 2 were fairly standard, but his game 3 all-in was very not serral-tier at all
On October 21 2018 04:31 Nakajin wrote: What the fuck happen, did Serral just played shit build?
Based on reddit comments - a combination of cross-server lag (played in EU) and focusing on dominating blizzcon. Builds for game 1 and 2 were fairly standard, but his game 3 all-in was very not serral-tier at all
Well reddit are notorious apologists. Worse than TL. There is an argument for saving builds for blizzcon. Always. But watch how every series "upset" between players attending blizzcon will always be chalked up to saving for blizzcon.
With 2 protoss players in his group at Blizzcon it shouldn't surprise anyone he lost here. Not to take anything away from Neeb of course. Neeb in a good shape can always beat Serral, but the timing of this just doesn't make it very likely Serral would try hard.
On October 21 2018 05:34 HolydaKing wrote: With 2 protoss players in his group at Blizzcon it shouldn't surprise anyone he lost here. Not to take anything away from Neeb of course. Neeb in a good shape can always beat Serral, but the timing of this just doesn't make it very likely Serral would try hard.
All very true. Let's no forget Lambo said that he felt Neeb might just be the best PvZ player on the planet. He also merked Rogue in GSL in a bo 5. So i'm not so sure that blizzcon is the only factor at play here.
I find it really interesting that people are applying the logic of Serral "not trying his hardest to save his effort" to this loss, when lots of the hype around him relies on ignoring those arguments for some of his opponents at the GSL vs the world special event he competed in.
It can't be both ways: either he's not competed against the best when they're trying their hardest, or he isn't unbeatable in best of 5s against foreigners. Either way, it shows that he still has a lot to prove at Blizzcon.
The first game was symptomatic. Serral seemed to have a very good start, he killed Neeb's scouting adept and cancelled his third. Next was phoenix harassment, Serral's defense was not perfect but OK. And then he died to a timing attack.
All in all a fairly standard game, if it was e.g. Nerchio playing nobody would bat an eye but Serral isn't expected to loose in such fashion. Impossible to tell if it's a slump or if he was holding back.
Neeb is good enough to beat Serral if he still has the form he showed a couple months ago. People think he's not but he is.
That being said, given these guys are 2 days away from flying to blizzcon, it's hard to take any results seriously. You could argue it's worth losing at this point to try and hide builds/learning those of other contenders.
On October 21 2018 09:29 Fango wrote: Neeb is good enough to beat Serral if he still has the form he showed a couple months ago. People think he's not but he is.
That being said, given these guys are 2 days away from flying to blizzcon, it's hard to take any results seriously. You could argue it's worth losing at this point to try and hide builds/learning those of other contenders.
Is Neeb gonna hide builds from Lambo? Does Serral need to hide builds from sOs/Zest? If it was me I'd have tried to get the 200$ from advancing the extra round
On October 21 2018 09:29 Fango wrote: Neeb is good enough to beat Serral if he still has the form he showed a couple months ago. People think he's not but he is.
That being said, given these guys are 2 days away from flying to blizzcon, it's hard to take any results seriously. You could argue it's worth losing at this point to try and hide builds/learning those of other contenders.
Is Neeb gonna hide builds from Lambo? Does Serral need to hide builds from sOs/Zest? If it was me I'd have tried to get the 200$ from advancing the extra round
You can never be too careful. Neeb knows Lambo will be trying to snipe him and vise versa.
Last year didn't herO admit he was hiding builds from Elazer when they played in online cups before blizzcon?
Organizers, Masa was late twice. I don't get it why you waited for him, a free win should have been given to his opponent. It's rude and impolite to be late, as a result the finals are so late I can't watch them (from europe).
With 2 Protoss players in his group at Blizzcon, it shouldn't surprise anyone he lost here. Not to take anything away from Neeb of course. Neeb in a good shape can always beat Serral, but the timing of this just doesn't make it very likely Serral would try hard. Canon printer error b200
On October 20 2018 18:44 kaby wrote: The 2nd round of the Ultimate Series global playoffs will be played on Saturday, Oct 20 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) and will content four Best of 5 matches between the players from the different regions. More details below.
Round of 8 matches:
uThermal (T) vs Rail (P)
HellraiseR (P) vs Elazer (Z)
MaNa (P) vs MaSa (T)
Neeb (P) vs Serral (Z)
Broadcast will start on Saturday, Oct 20 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)