Europe is no Korean soil in this WCS Round of 16 so far: Snute wins Group B against jjakji just like Vortix defeated his eastern rivals MMA and Mvp yesterday. jjakji made it to the quarter-finals anyways but he had to struggle more than expected, securing his spot on the last map against Dayshi. While one European is happy today, another one might be sad: Grubby dropped out of the group without a mapwin, making it 7-8 maps in this WCS season – not his best game, but $3.000 none the less.

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[dayshi] Name: Antoine Stievenart Age: 19 Race: Terran WCS Map Record: 11-5 World Rank: 56 Community Rank: 100Dropped out, but still a winner: [dayshi] may have been the underdog in this group, but the French continues his rise both in strength and in the World Ranking: WCS Round of 16 is his greatest accomplishmet yet and it might boost him into the Top50 of the World Ranking. He might even pass [grubby] – just as he beat him thrice in a row this month.	[grubby] Name: Manuel Schenkhuizen Age: 27 Race: Protoss WCS Map Record: 7-8 World Rank: 48 Community Rank: 68This WCS Europe was a tough one for [grubby] – in the Round of 32 he barely fought back from the Losers Bracket after losing to [tlo], now he dropped out of his group without a mapwin. Since he attended the Season 2 Finals last August, the Dutch hasn’t been on the top of his game. Furthermore, [dayshi] proved to be in better shape once again after beating Grubby twice in the SeatStory Cup last weekend.	[jjakji] Name: Jung Ji Hoon Age: 20 Race: Terran WCS Map Record: 12-5 World Rank: 54 Community Rank: 11[jjakji]s rise to the top seems inevitable: The Korean will be the most rising player of both February and March and if he continues his winning streak in WCS, he might even go further in April. How far? Well, the Korean is a former GSL-champion and was once close to the Top10 back in 2012. Seemingly he regains his former strength currently – even though his five match winning streak against [snute] was put to an end today.	[snute] Name: Jens Aasgaard Age: 23 Race: Zerg WCS Map Record: 11-5 World Rank: 25 Community Rank: 60After a full year of WCS America, [snute] is back in Europe for his first WCS-season. It might be a great one: Right away he qualified for the quarter-finals, it’s his second time playing Ro8 in WCS – last time was almost a year ago. Key to this success was that Snute overcame his nemesis [jjakji] – the Korean had won the past five (!) matches since December.