Sindorim is used for all kinds of gaming tournaments and is currently being used for Proleague on Monday and Tuesday nights. The eStadium is also where you can buy those cool Starcraft bottle caps. One nice thing about this location is there are many restaurants with both Korean and Western food. There is a McDonalds on the ground floor, and a GS25 for buying snacks to bring in with you. On the 9th or 10th floor is the food court with around 10-15 different places to eat.
The players this time around were fairly evenly split among Kespa and eSF teams. Some notable Kespa players included Rain, Bisu, effOrt, JangBi, herO, Stork, Leta and tons more. Some of the more familiar GSL faces were MMA, Jjakji, ThorZaIN, Revival, Zenio, JYP, Lucky, Golden, theStC, Puma, Alicia, Oz and well you can find the whole bracket for the rest. Special mention of course goes out to Artosis and Whiplash who were also competing that day. All the foreigners were set up in a row towards the back of the room. MarineKing was hanging out at one point with the other Prime guys. Needless to say every player showing up those days had a rough road ahead of them. Everyone is separated into groups and the groups are staggered throughout the day. The first groups showed up starting at 11am and the second round started at I think 3pm. I would say that Code A qualifiers are not really a spectator event. It was really hard to follow what was going on and had to rely on reading the bracket updates online as I wasn't familiar with some of the players. There were limited fans there, I think all for Kespa players to bring them gifts, but mostly it was coaches and teammates there for support.
It was nice seeing some of the friends I had made over the past year. I went to lunch with HwangSin and Apocalypse at one of the upstairs restaurants on the first day and got to see Golden and theStC the second day. Golden had just recently gotten back to Korea after a week long trip back from Katowice with like 7 delayed flights and layovers and I'm sure it had an effect on his results.
These and a few additional photos can all be found on my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/globexcorp/sets/72157632727778075/with/8459454485/
Most of the photos should be tagged by player but I know I missed a few. If you see one I missed and know who it is or if you see something tagged improperly let me know so I can fix it.
Part 3: Proleague coming soon.