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South Korea2106 Posts
Korea StarCraft League is back for its fourth installment, due to start on the 31st of October. The tournament, previously held at the VSG Arena in Seoul, is now moving to NEXON Arena, which was used most notably for the SpoTV-organised SSL and the final seasons of Proleague.
With three successful seasons in 2019 under its belt, KSL is preparing to make a comeback in October 2019. We saw the likes of protoss player Yoonjong ‘Rain’ Jung and zerg player Mincheol ‘Soulkey’ Kim take home the KSL trophy during the last two seasons. With the second season of 2019 just around the corner, fans are waiting to find out which of their favorite players will jump into the fray to be crowned the fourth KSL champion.
For its fourth season, KSL will be taking place at dedicated Esports stadium NEXON Arena in the heart of downtown Seoul. The NEXON Arena, which is a multipurpose esports cultural complex, is complete with state-of-the-art audio and visual capabilities, as well as convenient facilities that provide fans and players with an excellent competitive experience.
Preparations for the fourth KSL season will start with online registrations, which are scheduled to take place from October 1 through October 9. Online qualifiers will then take place on October 11 and 12, followed by offline qualifiers on October 19. These qualifiers will decide which players will make it to the official round-of-16 roster.
Official announcement: https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/23164328
TOURNAMENT INFO
Online qualifiers: 11/10-12/10
Offline qualifiers: 19/10
Season kicks off: 31/10
Sign-ups open soon: https://ksl.starcraft.com/en-us/about/
16 competitors, ₩80mil prize pool
Ro16: Bo5 Double elimination, October 31 - November 14 (Every Thursday and Friday, 3:00 PM KST)
Ro8: Bo5 Single elimination, November 15 (Fri), 3:00 PM KST
Ro4: Bo7 Single elimination, November 21 (Thu), 5:00 PM KST
Grand final: Bo7, November 29 (Fri), 7:00 PM KST
Map pool:
- Fighting Spirit
- Match Point
- Circuit Breakers
- Block Chain
- Overwatch
- Neo Sylphid
- Eddy
KSL will be broadcasted exclusively on Twitch.
VODs will be available on Twitch, Youtube and the official KSL website. (SpoTV own NEXON Arena, but it doesn't seem like the KSL is making its way onto SPOTVGAMES)
English stream: https://www.twitch.tv/starcraft
Korean stream: https://www.twitch.tv/starcraft_kr
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Finally I was starting to get BW abstinence-syndromes!
I really prefer this isn't streamed on SPOTTV because more people will notice BW when its streamed on twitch.
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We are spoiled, I was also getting anxious
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Estonia806 Posts
All KSL matches will be broadcasted live through the official Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft Twitch channels, in Korean and English.
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good, very good!
finally some concrete info about it 
how about the map pool?
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On September 27 2019 20:15 ggsimida wrote:
so no bisu...
why?
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On September 27 2019 20:36 M3t4PhYzX wrote:good, very good! finally some concrete info about it how about the map pool?
Map pool for previous seasons has been the ladder map pool.
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Map pool is so boring for me. These maps are so bad to watch: Match Point, Overwatch, Neo Sylphid. Fighting Spirit and Circuit Breakers are of course.
Leagues should have maps that hard to play but amazing to watch like: Block Chain, Raid Assault 2, Neo Requiem
Some maps more to choose:
(2)Phogna Bologna
(2)Brood War
(3)White Dragons Valley
(3)Moon Tear
(4)Greedy Line
These maps:
http://www.panschk.de/mappage
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Wait this STARTS on October 31st?
That's unexpected!
Happy to see KSL return though!
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Kinda disappointed about the maps, but they could be worse. Hopefully the quality of matches is a bit better than past KSLs, but I'm not complaining either way!
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51080 Posts
don't see why you shouldn't complain, last season was pretty boring outside of Stork's run.
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KSL has always had a boring map pool :\
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Bisutopia19367 Posts
Disregarding Rain's PvP, who is the scariest opponent that could participate in this KSL?
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South Korea2106 Posts
On September 28 2019 01:08 BisuDagger wrote:
Disregarding Rain's PvP, who is the scariest opponent that could participate in this KSL?
Bisu's PvP?
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On September 28 2019 01:08 BisuDagger wrote:
Disregarding Rain's PvP, who is the scariest opponent that could participate in this KSL?
It's still Rain
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United States33637 Posts
Blizzard-sponsored BW in 2020 confirmed
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On September 27 2019 21:08 seriosity wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2019 20:36 M3t4PhYzX wrote:good, very good! finally some concrete info about it how about the map pool? Map pool for previous seasons has been the ladder map pool.
let us hope so that it will be the same this time around.. because I've read somewhere that this time the tournament map pool will not be the ladder map pool..
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On September 28 2019 00:37 Ideas wrote:
KSL has always had a boring map pool :\
yeah, totally agreed.. but this one is just beyond boring.. I mean, wow.. and Block Chain being used again.. Geeezus.. just please STOP..
Boredom - The Map Pool
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On September 28 2019 01:08 BisuDagger wrote:
Disregarding Rain's PvP, who is the scariest opponent that could participate in this KSL?
Rain, Snow, Zero, Light, Last? mini/stork/best/sharp/soma/action are also pretty good right now.
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