Qualifier results + full player list

Terran field is stale (except LA Terran king succession), Zerg is dying, Protoss is boiling.

In terms of regional household names, to me Elazer for EU and Harstem for AM (and maybe Special for LA too, but succeeded by Kelazhur) “should” have made it, but ofc there’s simply not enough spots. It does suck though that for “AM” qualifiers, Harstem didn’t make it since there’s already so few AM players, but it’s alright.

It’s really great that there’s a notable Chinese presence, since China has always been a strong Esports region, in Starcraft history as well (since WCG days for BW). It’s felt like China was quite weak for most of SC2 (but perhaps it’s just because I don’t follow it?).

Anyway, really great to see that foreigners seem to really have caught up to KR, with each region being competitive and able to beat almost anyone else! This might just be due to the game getting more figured out, so maybe foreigners lagged behind in the past but now the gap is much smaller.

Really tough qualifiers, if China really getting some good players then in the future I would hope that Asia server would get 1 more spot or so, else between KR and China there’s just too many good players not making the cut. (Especially since Asia includes the rest of SEA and Australia as well… that makes “Asia” region really huge!). Then Creator or Classic could have made it. BUT I also get that you don’t have to scale spots 100% to skill, it’s always nice to even out the # of spots a bit between regions just to increase the diversity and give the other regions a slight benefit of the doubt.

Here’s hoping to an exciting Katowice!

(It’s also crazy that sOs was close to qualifying.)