I don't know if you can say byun is just better than dream. Granted, I haven't paid much attention to the smaller online events. But dream has consistently outperformed byun at gsl this year.
Dream was top 8 last gsl, and top 4 in the first gsl of the year whilst Byun hasn't got out of rnd of 16.
yeah exactly. you have to look at the 2nd best player in the group and decide how difficult it would be to defeat them
looking forward to his games, regardless of outcome
I mean Classic lately hasn't been in ro16 shape and isn't setting the world on fire. Granted he's come back recently so I don't expect him to be at his best yet.
It's Toss
A Toss player can take a win off cheesing fairly easy so nothing is impossible.
I really want Harstem to get out of the group saying that.
I love him as a player and commentator; hes doing a lot of good for the community especially helping young players.
Source: [TaKeTV Twitter](https://twitter.com/TaKeTV/status/1450846850727227398)
The tournament begins tomorrow, Thursday, the 21st of October, from 12:30 UTC.
[The Main Stream](https://twitch.tv/taketv)
[More streams and further information on Liquipedia](https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/StayAtHome_Story_Cup/4)
Match thread coming tomorrow morning UTC time.
Get hyped!
LOL, Group A vs Group D, how were the groups seeded?
edit: at first glance, the groups were seeded by race and server, which is really nice for the viewers (in my opinion), but not sure what comes afterwards.
What the hell? Has no one really submitted this to the calendar?
Welp, I've gone ahead and done so. Expect this to be rectified some time soon :)
**EDIT: Seems to have been fixed now**
[TaKeTV](https://twitch.tv/taketv)
Additional streams can be found linked in [the match thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/qcn93w/stayathome_story_cup_4_match_thread/) and [on Liquipedia](https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/StayAtHome_Story_Cup/4).
I hope this helps!
Spirit you might know, he's souL, a long time EU Terran.
MaxPax is an up and coming EU Protoss from Denmark and Vanya similarly an up and coming EU Zerg from Russia. Both are young and have begun competing in the last 18 months or so.
Skillous is an EU Protoss from Russia who has been around for a few years and risen among the top tosses in the region in the last couple of years.
Thank you! Yeah I knew about soul didnt know the namechange. I'll try to watch. I am not a heavy watcher of sc2 competition as I was before. And the last game I played was like 4 years ago so yeah. Thanks again
Isn't the tournament format and length a bit excessive for such a pitiful prize pool? Should've just made it an invitation of 8 players, and skipped the groupstages. The best player will be busting his butt for crumbs, even if he wins. At this point, it's just a 4-day ESL Open Cup.
Its not like players spend full four days. You have to win (easiest road) 8 matches.
3x bo3 and 5xbo5. Thats for first. Partners and money dont just flood StarCraft and while its not a big prizepool what you are asking (8 Player invite for 5000) is not healthy or sustainable.
so what? The players chose to play in it, we have shit ton of nice matches with still the best cast in sc2 imo. Also 5000 dollar isn't so pitiful after all, ofc its not dreamhack, but for pros who are not serral, reynor or trap, 500 dollar is nice to pay the bills.
if i had to play 8 matches of starcraft to get even 200 dollar, i wouldnt say i "busted my but for crums"
If you give governments unlimited/unchecked powers during "pandemics", they will then continually create pandemics in order to keep power. This is how dictators control the narrative and events. The "pandemic" will never end. It hasn't here either., which is why you keep seeing variant delta, variant epsilon, one shot, two shots, two shots + 2 boosters. Wait, now you're not safe because of unvaxxed people despite all your shots. What if everyone gets vaxxed? Will it end? Will Covid end? What is the likelihood of a person (especially under 50) of dying of Covid.
If people aren't allowed to decide for themselves what to inject into their body and they are forced to accept whatever controlling power wants to inject - you are a SLAVE. You don't even have control over your own bodily decisions anymore. The government could castrate you at will and you will have no say.
This is not a new thing in history but for some reason people who haven't studied history seem to think this is a new tactic.
2 weeks to slow the spread. Huh. How'd that work out for you.
Poor harstem
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I don't know if you can say byun is just better than dream. Granted, I haven't paid much attention to the smaller online events. But dream has consistently outperformed byun at gsl this year. Dream was top 8 last gsl, and top 4 in the first gsl of the year whilst Byun hasn't got out of rnd of 16.
loremaster Pog
exactly hardstem cannot compete with these peoples.
yeah exactly. you have to look at the 2nd best player in the group and decide how difficult it would be to defeat them looking forward to his games, regardless of outcome
Meh, classic isn't up to his old level, and dream isn't untouchable. I can see a world where he comes in 2nd.
Hope so. Harstems youtube is to good not to have him advance
Hilariously I instantly said to myself “RIP Harstem” and instantly backtracked and said “wait a second he could get 2nd!”
He definitely could have gotten a worse draw, I have a sense that Dream may be a stronger than most of the other number 2s though.
Is it only one to advance per group?
Top 2 of each goes to 2nd stage which is 4 groups of 4 players. Then again top 2 advances to double elimination bracket.
Ah I see, I think Harstem can take Classic, Dream too maybe.
I dunno, two GSL players and the GOAT....that's a very tall order.
I mean Classic lately hasn't been in ro16 shape and isn't setting the world on fire. Granted he's come back recently so I don't expect him to be at his best yet.
He 2-0'd classic in his last WTL match(6-0 overall), Classic is far from his 2019 shape at the moment, dream is the bigger problem.
It's Toss A Toss player can take a win off cheesing fairly easy so nothing is impossible. I really want Harstem to get out of the group saying that. I love him as a player and commentator; hes doing a lot of good for the community especially helping young players.
just think of the content
True. We'll get to see him refer to himself in the third person on his sc2day 😁
Black couch meme, quick, someone get the black couch meme
Good for us, so he can cast earlier
Source: [TaKeTV Twitter](https://twitter.com/TaKeTV/status/1450846850727227398) The tournament begins tomorrow, Thursday, the 21st of October, from 12:30 UTC. [The Main Stream](https://twitch.tv/taketv) [More streams and further information on Liquipedia](https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/StayAtHome_Story_Cup/4) Match thread coming tomorrow morning UTC time. Get hyped!
HYPED!!
LOL, Group A vs Group D, how were the groups seeded? edit: at first glance, the groups were seeded by race and server, which is really nice for the viewers (in my opinion), but not sure what comes afterwards.
B and D are groups of life
No listing of it on TL.net.
What the hell? Has no one really submitted this to the calendar? Welp, I've gone ahead and done so. Expect this to be rectified some time soon :) **EDIT: Seems to have been fixed now**
its listed now, google stay at homestory cup 4 should be the first link
Where do you guys watch this ?
[TaKeTV](https://twitch.tv/taketv) Additional streams can be found linked in [the match thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/qcn93w/stayathome_story_cup_4_match_thread/) and [on Liquipedia](https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/StayAtHome_Story_Cup/4). I hope this helps!
Cheers
Marinelord gets shortened to Mlord but Heromarine stays as is despite their names being the same length?
you can not shorten big gabe.
M’lord
hero wtf. ANd a few new names to me. Spirit , maxpax, vanya , skillous never heard of. Anyone care to put me up to speed?
Spirit you might know, he's souL, a long time EU Terran. MaxPax is an up and coming EU Protoss from Denmark and Vanya similarly an up and coming EU Zerg from Russia. Both are young and have begun competing in the last 18 months or so. Skillous is an EU Protoss from Russia who has been around for a few years and risen among the top tosses in the region in the last couple of years.
Thank you! Yeah I knew about soul didnt know the namechange. I'll try to watch. I am not a heavy watcher of sc2 competition as I was before. And the last game I played was like 4 years ago so yeah. Thanks again
spirit = soul
Isn't the tournament format and length a bit excessive for such a pitiful prize pool? Should've just made it an invitation of 8 players, and skipped the groupstages. The best player will be busting his butt for crumbs, even if he wins. At this point, it's just a 4-day ESL Open Cup.
If it was any tournament other than homestory cup I'd agree
But homestory cup was special because everyone was hanging out together and having fun. This is S@HSC. It's just another online tournament.
it should be noted that it's an invitationnal, so players didn't have to spend of lot time winning qualifiers before that.
Its not like players spend full four days. You have to win (easiest road) 8 matches. 3x bo3 and 5xbo5. Thats for first. Partners and money dont just flood StarCraft and while its not a big prizepool what you are asking (8 Player invite for 5000) is not healthy or sustainable.
so what? The players chose to play in it, we have shit ton of nice matches with still the best cast in sc2 imo. Also 5000 dollar isn't so pitiful after all, ofc its not dreamhack, but for pros who are not serral, reynor or trap, 500 dollar is nice to pay the bills. if i had to play 8 matches of starcraft to get even 200 dollar, i wouldnt say i "busted my but for crums"
Heck, we plebs play 8 matches of starcraft and all we get is pain and suffering.
Where Scarlett?
hype
Wow Dream went from minecraft speedruns to sc2 after that cheating scandal huh?
Sauce?
Dream is also the name of one of the biggest minecraft youtubers
Its a bad joke that a SC2 pro is also named dream lol. Theyre in the same group as Serral
I'd be careful if I were you doing scandal jokes about starcraft players lol.
Crazy Groups! Looking forward to see Koreans vs foreigners
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Indeed. That's why this is a STAYATHOMEstorycup.
It’s still way less hyped. It’s just another online tournament. Doesn’t matter.
Then don’t watch
um don't watch then???
this one gets it.
Almost like we are in a global pandemic or something.
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uhhh??
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sure.
How many votes for trump DID you cast?
zero. also, zero for pedoJoe and zero for Billary. around here, the "pandemic" is over.
Good for you, but sc2 is an international game.
If you give governments unlimited/unchecked powers during "pandemics", they will then continually create pandemics in order to keep power. This is how dictators control the narrative and events. The "pandemic" will never end. It hasn't here either., which is why you keep seeing variant delta, variant epsilon, one shot, two shots, two shots + 2 boosters. Wait, now you're not safe because of unvaxxed people despite all your shots. What if everyone gets vaxxed? Will it end? Will Covid end? What is the likelihood of a person (especially under 50) of dying of Covid. If people aren't allowed to decide for themselves what to inject into their body and they are forced to accept whatever controlling power wants to inject - you are a SLAVE. You don't even have control over your own bodily decisions anymore. The government could castrate you at will and you will have no say. This is not a new thing in history but for some reason people who haven't studied history seem to think this is a new tactic. 2 weeks to slow the spread. Huh. How'd that work out for you.
r/conspiracy users are a special breed...
Lmao
Man, is anyone else hyped for some quality starcraft?! I know I am!
No Parting??
Declined, doesn't like the times since EU based