[NEWS] Thunder Fire Cup will play tonight, could TH000 advance to the playoff after switching race?

Original Author: War3station, CNwar3
Translator: GLH


The game that hosted by Douyu, sponsored by Thunder Fire e-sports, organized by War3station and OBGAME, Douyu Thunder Fire Cup will play at 18:00 tonight (GMT+8).

The first to appear will be the four players in Group A, TH000, Hawk, Lawliet and Lucifer. In the patch 1.30.1, TH000's performance has been unsatisfactory. In addition to the Super WGL, he has not achieved any results. In order to turn around this situation, TH000 has also made an important decision: he wants to switch race and play!

TH000 hasn't achieved any good result in patch 1.30.1, and he even lost to Soin in NeXT qualifier.

The reason that TH000 could get "The Best Player of 2018",is undoubtedly relying on his outstanding performance in the first half of the year, he got 2018 WGL summer champion and this made him on the top of the world.

However, in the second half of the 2018, the results of TH000 have plummeted, especially after the 1.30 patch update, with the weakness of the Human, TH000 and all the Human players fell to the bottom. We may TH000 was eliminated in the WGL winter because he was being in the death group (losing to Foggy and Lyn), however, in NeXT, he was eliminated by Soin in qualifier, it will be purely a problem.

In the current patch(NetEase is still playing with 1.30.1), due to the nerfed of the Militias, the Human expansion strategies are mostly invalid, the mistake tolerance rate of the Human is changed from the highest to the lowest, a little mistake can ruin the huge advantage that accumulated in the early game. In such an environment, this is understandable that the results of TH000 are bleak.


Switching race, TH000 is using the last solution.

Maybe the loss against Soin became the last straw breaks the camel's back, TH000 decided to switch race to play in the Thunder Fire Cup. In fact, his best friend, Infi had already changed his race during the WGL Winter. Except for the Night Elf Mirror, Night Elf had an overwhelming advantage against other races. TH000 also tried for once in the game against WFZ.

Of course, switching race is not omnipotent. In the face of the top Night Elf players such as Moon, Lawliet, Foggy, it is obviously not wise to use Night Elf to play them. If TH000 wants to go further, he still needs to think about the solutionin Human vs Night Elf.


The opponents are so strong!

Th000's opponents are very strong, Lawliet and Lucifer have just won the NeXT championship together, they may feel so confident in the game currently, we must not be underestimated them. Even more coincidentally, Lawliet and Lucifer will meet in the first round. In NeXT, Lucifer knocks down Colorful and Check easily. In this time, he needs to face the more powerful Night Elf player, Lawliet, what will he will show to us, let's watch the game tonight.

Another participant in Group A is Hawk. Historically, Hawk eliminated TH000 in WCG2011 and WCA2014. However, the game was played with a really old patch, in current patch, Human vs Night Elf has become a really hard problem, even if Foggy doesn't agree with it, but Hawk is still being defeated by Lawliet, Colorful and other Night Elf players, and TH000 even chooses to use Night Elf to play in this time, seems it's really bad situation for Hawk.


Streaming
Douyu room number 119601

Format
Group stage: BO3 and double elimination, the first 2 player advance to the playoffs.
Playoffs: BO5 and single elimination.

Schedule

Prize Pool

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