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Afreeca Starleague Season 4: Seoul Qualifiers
Official stream:
http://play.afreecatv.com/afstar1
The Afreeca Starleague [ASL] Season 4 is about to begin! This weekend is the qualifying round, held in the cities of Seoul, Daegu (a short drive outside of Seoul), and Busan. The qualifiers will run from September 2 to September 4, 2017.
Currently, four players are seeded from last season:
Flash, 
Shine, 
Bisu, and Soulkey. They do not need to qualify. Everyone else will have to pass through the gauntlet for a shot at winning the single biggest 1st-place prize in Brood War history. The main season starts up on September 10th, 2017.Links:
Format:
- 24 players in total will qualify for Afreeca Starleague Season 4.
- Qualifiers will be played offline in PC Bangs on:
- Saturday, September 2 in Seoul (12 spots for ASL4)
- Sunday, September 3 in Daegu (6 spots for ASL4)
- Monday, September 4 in Busan (6 spots for ASL4)
- Saturday, September 2 in Seoul (12 spots for ASL4)
- Single-elimination Bracket
- All rounds are best-of-3.
- Bracket winners advance to the ASL S4 Round of 24
Brackets:
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 5 | Group 6 | Group 7 | Group 8 | Group 9 | Group 10 | Group 11 | Group 12
As the groups are posted I'll copy-paste the list of names and TLPD-ize them. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information. Some Koreans have identical names (i.e.
Horang2 has the same name as an unknown amateur player, so "Horang2" showed up in two groups last season before this was corrected). This is just basic trawling through Challonge and hoping for the best.Notable players by group:
Group 1
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 2
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 3
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 4
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 5
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
TLPD-ized with "BW Korean"
[Oops]ClouD
Gwak
Nal_rA기
KangTaeWan
BeSt
KingKong
TLPD-ized with "BW SOSPA"
ddugi
KangTaeWan
BeSt
That's not Nal_rA. TLPD just saw "Kang Min" and decided it was Nal_rA without realizing there was more to the name. Left it here for fun.
[Oops]ClouDGwakNal_rA기KangTaeWanBeStKingKongTLPD-ized with "BW SOSPA"
ddugiKangTaeWanBeStThat's not Nal_rA. TLPD just saw "Kang Min" and decided it was Nal_rA without realizing there was more to the name. Left it here for fun.
Group 6
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 7
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 8
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 9
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 10
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 11
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
Group 12
+ Show Spoiler [Notable players] +
+ Show Spoiler [OLD ENTRANTS, OUTDATED] +
This old entrants list was based on streamer info before the brackets were unveiled, courtesy of K.H.J.
- Group 1: Scan, Snow, hero
- Group 2: Killer, Sea
- Group 3: Britney, Last, sKyHigh
- Group 4: Tyson, Stork, Mini, Lazy
- Group 5: BeSt, ByuL[KaL] (Semi-pro, 강태완)
- Group 6: Horang2, GuemChi, Jaedong, Revival (unverified), Dragon
- Group 7: EffOrt, Mong, July
- Group 8: Rush, Sky, Shuttle
- Group 9: Zeus, Iris, Pusan, Light
- Group 10: Rain, Mind, MIsO
- Group 11: Larva, Reach, Hyuk
- Group 12: sSak, Sharp, beast, firebathero
Notable missing players (NOT attending):
- free - has wrist problems, abstaining from ASL4
- Movie - will be going to Daegu or Busan instead as he lives close to Busan.
- JangBi - K.H.J. says he's out of the country. No idea why, but unless he can teleport he's probably no-showing.
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Results
Liquipedia article: (easy-to-follow brackets)
Afreeca Starleague Season 4/QualifierGroup 1 winner:
by.heroGroup 2 winner:
Sea (later replaced by Killer)Group 3 winner:
LastGroup 4 winner:
MiniGroup 5 winner:
BeStGroup 6 winner:
JaedongGroup 7 winner:
EffOrtGroup 8 winner:
ShuttleGroup 9 winner:
LightGroup 10 winner:
RainGroup 11 winner:
LarvaGroup 12 winner:
sSakNotable exits
(Will need to try again in Daegu and/or Busan)
Group 1:
Action, Scan, Snow, soO (yes that was really soO)Group 2:
Killer, Olympus, ZeLoT, NobleGroup 3:
sKyHigh, Britney, CalmGroup 4:
Tyson, Lazy, Chavi, ggaemo, Stork (yes, Mini beat these people!)Group 5:
KingKong, [Oops]ClouDGroup 6:
Sky, Horang2, Ample, GuemChiGroup 7:
By.Spire, Lomo, Mong, July (yes, JulyZerg!)Group 8:
Modesty, eNvy.Bisu, PianO, RushGroup 9:
Iris, Zeus, PureGroup 10:
Mind, MIsO, 910Group 11:
Hint, Reach, force[Name]Group 12:
Sharp, firebathero, Terror, beastThis was the first time in Brood War history where Starleague qualifiers were streamed officially, and it was glorious. The preliminaries are always super tough to get through because they're stacked by the most hungry Brood War players in South Korea, and it's single elimination. As a result they can be super hype, and it's an interesting thing trying to keep up with everything.
Keeping up with results and pools is a community effort, and I'd like to thank everyone who posted in this thread with news and information. It's like a live report thread of old where everyone comes together to just spam news and talk StarCraft.
Thanks for making this thread so great. See you all at the next qualifier event!
Seoul qualifiers: Link
Daegu qualifiers: Link
Busan qualifiers: Link
On September 03 2017 00:18 Aylear wrote:
Spoiled people looking for VODs from a Korean Starcraft qualifier, I mean jeez.
This is the first time in Brood War history that the qualifiers have had an official stream of sorts. Traditionally we had to make do with refreshing brackets, and hoping that someone - ANYone - who was at the venue could give updates and info.
We live in an age where players stream events from their phones. It's a lot easier to pay attention to this stuff, but it's still a very low-key production. Unless you want to trawl through the http://play.afreecatv.com/afstar1 VODs, you won't find a lot of commentated stuff.
EsportsJohn did a recast of SOME of the event in English:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/171596935
QuickStriker did SOME of it as well:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/171665654 - Part 1 (stream crashed after 40 minutes)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/171666321 - Part 2 (4 hours long)
And that's pretty much it! Welcome to the ghetto where we take what we can get. =)
Spoiled people looking for VODs from a Korean Starcraft qualifier, I mean jeez.
This is the first time in Brood War history that the qualifiers have had an official stream of sorts. Traditionally we had to make do with refreshing brackets, and hoping that someone - ANYone - who was at the venue could give updates and info.
We live in an age where players stream events from their phones. It's a lot easier to pay attention to this stuff, but it's still a very low-key production. Unless you want to trawl through the http://play.afreecatv.com/afstar1 VODs, you won't find a lot of commentated stuff.
EsportsJohn did a recast of SOME of the event in English:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/171596935
QuickStriker did SOME of it as well:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/171665654 - Part 1 (stream crashed after 40 minutes)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/171666321 - Part 2 (4 hours long)
And that's pretty much it! Welcome to the ghetto where we take what we can get. =)
