| slayers vs fxo |
| 1 | The GSTL opens with a highly anticipated match between last season's... last place finishers. Though FXO was picked by most to be just a mid-tier team in the last GSTL, SlayerS disappointed everyone who had seen them win GSTL3 by going from champs to chumps in the span of an off-season. Despite their poor previous performances, both teams have grown stronger since the last GSTL and are strong contenders to win it all. With Coca still on probation, SlayerS remains a heavily Terran reliant team, presenting some interesting advantages and disadvantages against FXO. FXO's ace Terran player Gumiho is rather poor at his mirror match-up, and he'll have a tough time against SlayerS' many Code S class Terran players. If SlayerS can nullify Gumiho by preventing him from playing, or forcing him to play a TvT, then they will have a big advantage. On the other hand, Leenock is a Terran killer supreme, leaving SlayerS with only a few cards to play against him. It's really up to Puzzle to do his job and take advantage of Leenock's weak ZvP, or else Leenock will just plough through everyone and force MMA into action. The proceedings could easily be complicated by any number of non-ace players on either side. Lucky (spanked the entire SlayerS Terran roster at IPL3), Oz (looks like a PvT MASTER at times), Ganzi (Code S semi-finalist), Clide (all-kill vs MVP) and Taeja (all-kill vs ZeNEX) are all players who can go on incredible runs. Also, this being the all-kill format, the performance of ace players is hugely important – and both teams have ridiculous ace cards to play. If we posit that MMA is as good, if not better than DongRaeGu, then it means he should stop being just a luxury closer for SlayerS and evolve into a guy who wipes other teams single-handedly. From what we've seen from Leenock, he should be on that level as well. These two have the power to make the GSTL cease to be a team competition and an individual one instead, but will they use it? |
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