Although particularly strong in the match-up, HyuN's tournament history shows the funny tendency to not go beyond the round of eight while abroad. Both his DreamHack runs this year ended at the quarter finals, while his GSL results are downright disappointing. MC might be getting old and lazy around all the cocktails but he's more than capable of chasing away the insolent Zerg bully.

To his bad luck, against him stands the ZvP bully HyuN, who looks to be in super form. HyuN is the only player to have not dropped a single map in the entire tournament and is 4-0 in ZvPs against MaNa and HasuObs and those boys do know their Zerg killing.

By this time, MC is done fooling around. He's tried every piece of fun at Take's appartment and is now ready to take what he came for - the HomeStory prize pool and a bottle of vodka.

Stephano? Well, Stephano, as Reddit would like to put it, likes to do his own thing. Furthermore, his record against foreigners in this tournament is flawless, he's the runner-up of WCS Europe and he competes in the perfect atmosphere for his happy-go-lucky attitude.

As it becomes every reigning champion, Snute is looking magnificent so far in HomeStory Cup VII. Along with Taeja, he's the only player to pin a 8-1 maps and is tied for the second most successful player in this tournament. Snute is serious, determined, confident. His ZvZ might not be as good as it was in Wings of Liberty but it has improved a lot since the early HotS days. And, last but not least, Snute still has the 9-2 in mirrors from last HomeStory including the one-sided 4-0 stomping over Azubu ace Symbol in the grand final to give him the strength to carry on.



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Taeja vs Seed

"Professional" vs "Professional This is where it gets all very serious. While there's fun and carelessness to be found in every other quarter final, here is where professionals will test their might in the good traditions of Korean fight to the death. Seed started with a convincing performance in group stage one by 4-0'ing his group but a loss to Snute made him fight for the second place in the Ro16 so he's not as immaculate as Taeja's 8-1 in maps. However, Seed's PvT has historically been among his stronger match-ups both in WoL and in HotS and he hasn't dropped a single map to Terrans in HSC VII so Taeja has all the reasons to be worried, despite proudly bearing the title of "best TvP-er in the world" in days now past. On top of it all, however, this is an IPTL revenge match and both players clearly recall the events of that night. Seed will remember how the Terran in blue sliced all his team-mates to pieces and Taeja remembers how it was Seed who made it so that Liquid do not get their championship. And isn't that a story to look forward to? Overall prediction: That guy with the glasses 3-2 that guy that broke that guy's glasses last time