Because it is an offline competition, players from Europe and the United States who are willing to accept the invitation can come, and those who are unwilling can forget it.
Many European and American players are a little itchy about this kind of offline cup competition with high prize money.
The total prize money of RMB 800,000 is not low. The ESL World Championship, where we just won the championship, was only US$350,000.
Moreover, there are very few interstellar cup competitions with high prize money.
Except for Satan who refused directly, many other top players signed up to participate in this competition.
He even plans to stay in China and compete in the Weibo Cup later.
This is much higher than the prize money of those small competitions in Europe and the United States!
Even Gray and others said on Twitter that StarCraft 2 will usher in a new life in China.
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There are 8 places in the Chinese division, which is definitely a lot.
Think about it, there are only 3 top 32 Chinese divisions in the ESL World Championship, and it is not possible to even find 8 second-tier teams.
But this is a cup competition. It is a competition organized by the boss himself. Do you want to come or not?
The rules are originally set by the organizer.
This is also to give Chinese players an opportunity to interact and communicate. There is nothing fair or unfair.
It's not a so-called official event.
There are 5 places available in the China area, which is a good opportunity for many people, and the two little brothers from Dream are determined to win.
He also successfully made it through the China qualifiers.
After this period of practice, at least the two of them can have a place among the national players.
Apart from the three Chinese players who can reach the top 32 of the World Championship, they are the strongest group of players.
The qualifiers for the Korean division and the qualifiers for the European and American divisions are being held one after another.
The top 32 players are produced.
The group stage is online and the knockout stage is offline.
The drawing ceremony was also completed in the Scboy live broadcast room in front of thousands of people.
The strength of Gao Ran's group is not very strong. What's interesting is that they are grouped together with Fox, their younger brother from their own club.
Apart from Fox, there are only Korean player TY and European and American player Neeb.
One random player, two protoss players and one human player.
There shouldn't be any surprises for Gao Ran's qualifying. Neeb is now a second-tier Protoss player. Although Fox is Gao Ran's younger brother, he is only in the fourth tier at most...
TY is a quasi-first-line player, and there is definitely a gap between them and Gao Ran in terms of strength.
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To be honest, when Gao Ran was playing in the group stage, he really wanted to use some dog moves and just attack the dog.
But I am also afraid of rumors.
For example:
"If you don't want to beat you, don't come to participate. What does it mean to come and disgust people after participating?"
This kind of.
Although Gao Ran is not so focused on preparing for the game.
But since I have decided to participate in professional competitions, I definitely cannot play casually, I must strive for victory.
As a star player, his every move will trigger discussions among tens of thousands of netizens.
The group stage of Gao Ran's group was quite boring from the audience's point of view, with strong and weak teams clearly distinguishable.
Gao Ran is the strongest, TY is second, Neeb is third, and Fox is fourth.
Moreover, there is a gap in level between each player, so there is no suspense in the fight.
There is no suspense in the showdown between Gao Ran and Ty. One is a young player who is currently at his peak, and the other is a player who has reached the end of his career.
Ty is almost 30 years old. 2007 was the first time Ty played in a professional game. You can imagine how long his career will be.
There are also many world championship titles.
But what has always been criticized is Ty's playing style.
He is a player who is soft in frontal operations and thinks about the overall situation.
Facing the overall situation, Gao Ran is not weaker than him, and his operation is far better than his. Gao Ran has almost no chance.
Gao Ran also successfully advanced to the offline competition with a record of 6 wins and 0 losses.
On the opposite side was Fox, who was eliminated with a record of 0 wins and 6 losses.
This result is also expected.
In several other groups, Chinese player Time successfully made his way out, while several other players were completely wiped out, and it was even difficult for anyone except Ozawa to win.
The offline competition will be held in ten days, which also gives time for some European, American and Korean players to come to China to play offline competition.
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All StarCraft players participating in the competition never imagined that they would experience such a scene!
It can be said that no interstellar game can have such a scene...
A huge crowd of spectators! Holding high the flag of Gao Ran and cheering for Gao Ran...
This is too exaggerated!
StarCraft can be said to be a niche game, but it is outrageous to have such a large audience.
The ESL World Championship venues are also much empty.
The current situation of this Dream Cup is simply more exaggerated than the World Finals.
Professional players who participated in this cup many years later can still remember this game, and players can feel their blood boiling when playing in it.
But they didn't expect it to be just this one time.
Gao Ran has participated in too few local cup competitions throughout his StarCraft career.
Professional players from other regions never expected that Gao Ran is so popular in China...
In their opinion, Gao Ran is indeed a top player, and they all admit that Gao Ran is great.
But when will StarCraft players get the treatment of stars?
Even Boxer, Korea’s interstellar emperor at the time, could hardly achieve the popularity he enjoys now.
Boxer is to StarCraft what Jordan is to basketball.
The Dream Cup and ESL games are simply two different games...
One is that everyone cheers for you...
One is that no one knows you in a foreign country...
Two extremes.
There were so many spectators at the scene, 99% of whom were enthusiastic fans.
Not to mention some ladies in the fan circle, there are very few fans of StarCraft who don’t like high-energy...
When Gao Ran appeared on the stage, the scene was as shocking as those stars holding a concert with thousands of people.
Two consecutive rounds of high-burning competition without any pressure!
In the first game, we faced South Korea’s Protoss player Trap and successfully won 3-0.
8 into 4 and met the talented European and American player Clem.
The two fought in 4 games, and Gao Ran almost won the game with a score of 3-1.
The dominance of ESL Montreal continued into the Dream Cup.
With Satan not coming to this competition, is Gao Ran still the favorite to win the championship?
Moreover, the luck of the Dream Cup is a little better this time. Most of the players we met from the group stage are Protoss, which is completely different from ESL.
I have never encountered the Protoss in the ESL High Burning Knockout.
Gao Ran knows how to take advantage of random players.
In addition to Gao Ran, the remaining three players in the final four are Korean protoss player Blink, human player Cure, and European and American Zerg player Flime.
It’s also the semifinals.
The same high-burning Flime.
The same plot played out again.
It was also after this game that Flime was completely labeled as "afraid of heights".
When I encounter high-burning players, I feel like I can't beat them to death, and I feel like my performance is very poor.
