Serral vs. Astrea - IEM SC2 Katowice 2024 - Group Stage 

And Serral seems to love it too, because he didn't look as disappointed as he was after game 1. 😂

Don’t do Astrea like that dawg, Serral is the more dorky one by far

Serral isn't dorky. He's just Finnish.

@@alltatso, dorky.

@@exnihilonihilfit6316just a regular Finnish guy… trust me

@@onmyj0b__ Um... thanks for repeating my point... to me.

Sentry too expensive to lose

But we need to get that scouting 😢

@@hardeepsinghmahal442Doesnt take much for a game to snowball at their level. Efficiency is key early

You might be onto something I have seen MaxPax do just that and win against Reynor.

Yep

And yet Reynor switches to Protoss against Zerg...?

And looses to serral

At this point it is way easier to just cut one of Serral's arms...

nerf zerg win %

@@Witch1988Kingboth arms will do 😂

​@@Witch1988Kinghaha

Maybe... just maybe Serral is just better?

Ok platinum protoss

@@dppsupporter5622 Platinum p, masters z and t.

this is what astrea must have thought after these games

Anyone who claims Zerg is OP or imba based on Serral's performance has no idea what a statistical outlier is. In statistics, you always cut off results ,that are too far removed from the average or mean. For example: If you want to know the average temperature of objects in a kitchen with 50 objects in it and you can't measure all of them, you pick 10 at random. 9 of them are between 20° and 22° C, and one is at 200° C. If you don't recognize that this one hot object is a stove, you'll get a completely wrong impression about the average temp in that room - you'd think that the room was on fire, when in fact it's not. So you cut out the outlier - the stove - to get a more accurate result. Serral is just that - the stove in the kitchen, and he's literally on fire. Every other Zerg is not that good and numbers show it. Balance is a question of averages. And you can't find the average, if you base your statistics on outliers. On average, Zerg wins less than Terran, and Protoss wins even less than that. Further: Look at 2023 Premier tournaments. Terran won 4 out of 10, Zerg - excluding Serral - 2, Serral won 4. There were 2 TvT finals, no ZvZ. And if Serral wasn’t there, Clem would have slapped every other Zerg in Katowice and we’d have yet another TvT final. Again: Statistical outlier. He simply makes Zerg look that way and no one else can. Hence, if you remove Serral from the equation, Zerg’s win rates drop insanely. If anything: Protoss needs a buff... but Terran and Zerg are pretty much equal in win rates. Unless you factor in Serral of course.

Yep... years later

Benefits of being the top seed.

Top seed bro, the guy won a couple of championships to deserve this and him going undefeated proves it

Dude 3-0ed Clem and 4-0ed Maru, sneaking suspicion his group didn't matter...