Throughout 2018, Serral proved himself to be the most dominant force in competitive StarCraft II.
In addition to becoming the only player to have won every WCS circuit event in a single year, Serral became the StarCraft II World Champion by winning Blizzcon, the game’s most prestigious tournament.
But the thing that’s most incredible about Serral’s historic feat is the fact that he achieved it as a non-Korean.
In becoming the first non-Korean ever to win a world championship, Serral also became the first player to truly destabilize that dominance. To prove, once and for all, that you don’t have to be Korean to play StarCraft at the absolute highest level.
Written by: Dimitri Pascaluta (@DPascaluta)
Edited by: Colten Gowan (@TheOnlyZoltan)
Hosted by: Daniel Rosen (@Daniel_Rosen)
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22 comments
He Finnished what he started.
Scarlett, hello?
Blizzcon is not the most prestigious tournament… do you know what the GSL is???
SUOMI PERKELE!!!
Am I really first with this?
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uuunacionalist, racist..?!?! hehe;) "nonKorean fans"
This is the greatest achievement of 2018 in Esports if you know how insane this actually is. SC2 is such a resource intensive game.
time to get to Code S, after Maru probably wins his 4th Code S in a row lmao, wtf is happening in SC2 right now
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6:57 Competitive starcraft summarized
Long live Serral!!
Sattana
I'm Korean, and I would say Serral's Zerg play in WCS 2018 and GSL vs The World was perfect. He made the 'most perfect' playstyle of Zerg.
At that time, all Korean progamers couldn't expect it, and all of them were destroyed by him. And still, Serral makes good play against Korean.
I really really like him as a semi-Zerg player, and I hope he could win the first prize again in WCS.
Oh, he's definitely Finnish. doesn't even smile after winning, just walks over to the trophy like "I guess this is mine now… I thought it would be heavier. wonder what I should have for dinner today"
Otherwise known as a patch zerg.
Dude he the overmind!
Dude becomes the first non-Korean world champion and still doesn't smile. lol
Serral is a god
ez4ence
would love to see a vid on soO finally winning a championship after coming in 2nd place for so long
For you non starcraft fans, let me put that into perspective. Remember how Faker cried after SKT lost worlds? Well, they had held that title for 2 years. Now imagine that there was a LoL1 and LoL2, and for all the 20 years history of LoL one korean team had dominated every single year. Sure, players rotate in and out sometimes even an old team mate pops back in, but they clean sweep every single worlds. Now imagine that some Finish dude is the mid laner for an EU team, and he CRUSHES lane every. Single. Game. The final of worlds comes, and he crushes Faker in lane. Makes him feed. Every. Single. Game. THIS is the level of upset we are talking about. Names like Dark, Stats, Rogue and Innovation are like Fakers on steroids in the Starcraft scene. You just do not beat those guys, even if you are korean. Do you know how many people have clean swept fucking Innovation in a professional tournament? Not sure, but I am willing to bet an arm and a leg that they can be counted on one hand.
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