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ESL Open Week #30: sOs, ShoWTimE, Astrea win

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Why so serious? sOs was able to win his first ESL Open Cup this week, taking home the Korean server edition with some dazzling decisions. In Europe, ShoWTimE secured his second flawless victory, not dropping a single map during his run once again. The Americas have found another home-server champion, as Astrea kept PartinG from winning three cups back-to-back-to-back.While sOs has become a regular ESL Open Cup participant, his success so far had strict limits, and his crazy games such as against Dark in Week #28 were more noticeable than

2015: The Renaissance and Golden Age of Korean SC2

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by MizenhauerStarCraft II was always destined for great things.Its predecessor, Brood War, was the product of a bygone era where game developers weren’t concerned with balancing the game for full-time professionals, the concept of esports was mostly limited to a convention center in Mesquite, Texas and most people didn’t even have high speed internet. None of that mattered six-thousand miles away from Blizzard headquarters in South Korea, where Brood War became an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. An economic downturn, the proliferation of net cafes and high speed internet, and plain dumb

To Be The Best Player

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Growth, Talent, and TacticalFor most of us, TSM vs. Team Liquid was the first time we saw Edward “Tactical” Ra in action. Before the game, Tactical’s rise to the starting lineup seemed like just another bad omen for a struggling Team Liquid lineup. With Broxah’s visa coming through, the entire starting roster had finally reunited only to be torn apart by a random case of laryngitis that sidelined Doublelift. Far from a bad omen, Tactical’s debut was a spectacular stroke of luck. With Tactical, the team picked up two dominant

Code S RO8 Preview: TY vs PartinG, Trap vs Stats

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by WaxStart time: Saturday, Aug 01 4:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)This season of Code S has been all about upsets, and the first quarterfinal match delivered the most surprising one of all as DongRaeGu defeated INnoVation in an emphatic 3-0 sweep. Will defending champion TY be the next player to be swept away in this strange cosmic current? Or will he restore some semblance of normalcy to the GSL as it heads into the semifinals?Quarterfinals Match #3: TY vs PartinGIf revenge is a dish best served cold, DongRaeGu dined on the most

Bunny leaves KaiZi, joins new team NV

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TheOneAboveU Profile Blog Joined February 2011 Germany3028 Posts Korean Terran Bunny has left Chinese team KaiZi Gaming and joined a hitherto unknown Korean team named NV. He has been with KaiZi for a year. Writeralias TripleM | @TL_TripleM | Big Dark Energy! He saw a chance to make a TL writer use the word 'hitherto' and he took it. Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes. Timebon3s Profile Joined May 2018 184 Posts And I thank him for it because I have never read that word before and now

Reflections: 10 Years of Team Liquid StarCraft 2

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Happy birthday StarCraft II ! Our journey to become the best esports team in the world started in earnest 10 years ago, and the friends and memories that we've made along the way have helped define who we are as an organization. Team Liquid staff members decided to get together and share some of their favorite TL StarCraft II moments — we'd love to hear yours as well!Starting in 2000, our community was formed by passionate people who came together to discuss, strategize and compete on the battlefields of StarCraft:

Code S RO16 Preview: Cure, Stats, Zest, Rogue

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by OrlokWhat a weird turn of events this round of sixteen has been! Amid a torrent of unexpected outcomes, hope for returnees has reached a new peak. All three players to finish first in their groups so far—DongRaeGu, PartinG, and Dream—are players who returned to StarCraft II after long hiatuses (two due to military service; one to try his hand at other competitions). The coming playoffs promises to be a breath of fresh air breezing above Korean SC2's 'stagnant water' (the Korean community term for a stagnant scene), something that

Official DH SC2 Masters Summer feedback survey

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sneakyfox Profile Joined January 2017 6062 Posts DH SC2 Masters Summer is over and the organisers have created a survey to get feedback from the community:The survey is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6YXJZSXThis seems like a good occasion to have an evaluation here on TL as well, about what was good with the tournament and what can be done better in the future. "I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG I think the most egregious thing is just the scheduling. Mainly the season finals getting put

Serral wins DreamHack Masters Summer Finals

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TL.net ESPORTS Profile Joined July 2011 1 Post Held in the midst of a global pandemic, Dreamhack Masters Summer had to be an abnormal tournament. The entirety of the event was held online, games were played five days a week at an almost non-stop pace, and Korean players were invited to compete alongside international players in StarCraft II's "break region-lock in case of emergency" moment. Amid these unusual circumstances, StarCraft II fans would found the conclusion of the tournament, at least, to be quite familiar: Serral emerged triumphant over a

[Interview] DRG on GSL and More

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Hi everyone~ Hajin here with a new Korean player interview.This season I am back with DRG, who qualified for the Ro8 after 6 years! I haven't proofread it so apologies in advance for potential typos ~_~ I hope you enjoy the interview!-----------------------------Hello DRGHello~Congratulations for your qualification to the Ro8! It’s been 6 years, tell us how it feels!Well, in fact I think I should have been here earlier. I feel bad that it took that long since my comeback from the army [to reach the Ro8]. But well, I made