This is all kinds of awesome!! Cant wait for next year. SC2-Korea and MLG is gonna be a blast. Cheers to GOM and Blizzard for showing how to run a huge Torney, fairly. Gogogo!

St3MoR

Spain3256 Posts

December 11 2010 13:05 GMT

#123

old OSL format, with promotions between leagues

should be fun

chenjiennk

United States1 Post

December 11 2010 13:09 GMT

#124

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Yukidasu

Australia125 Posts

December 11 2010 13:13 GMT

#125

I'm kind of worried that in the fast changing world of a new scene the small number of new players and the length of time required to get to the top will exclude a lot of new blood - but we'll see.

revoN

Japan804 Posts

December 11 2010 13:38 GMT

#126

Giving 4 spots in Code A to foreigners might seem unfair to Koreans who played in the GSLs and who would get those spots otherwise.

It also depends on if they actually invite some great players. How will they decide who's in the top 4?

syllogism

Finland5948 Posts

December 11 2010 13:47 GMT

#127

On December 11 2010 22:38 revoN wrote:
Giving 4 spots in Code A to foreigners might seem unfair to Koreans who played in the GSLs and who would get those spots otherwise.

It also depends on if they actually invite some great players. How will they decide who's in the top 4?

As I said, koreans are free to fly to MLG and win it, maybe they'll get the spot that way. Just as fair as making foreigners fly to korea to qualify.

LittLeD

Sweden7973 Posts

December 11 2010 14:06 GMT

#128

I absolutely love the system.
So much Sc2.
2011 will be the year of joy

PartyBiscuit

Canada4525 Posts

December 11 2010 14:10 GMT

#129

At first I thought it was really complicated, but I guess it was just too early for me, it all makes sense now. Though I'm interested in how they determine 'top foreigners', or what counts as "big tourneys".

shannn

Netherlands2891 Posts

December 11 2010 14:16 GMT

#130

Hmm now that I think about it more. This could be quite huge if I may say so (the foreigner invitees part). We could see some sort of future collaboration between GSL and other major tourneys. Normally you'd have events running at the same time which conflicts the schedules but now they may be able to work together with the GSL being the important tournament. So this way maybe some sort of seedings can be arranged for the tournaments.

There are numerous ideas but this is a first nice step for future relationships between GSL and other tournaments. Makes me even more glad that GSL is really willing to help the global e-sports scene and not just the Korean scene.

Ajunta

Germany522 Posts

December 11 2010 14:40 GMT

#131

On December 11 2010 17:20 KevinIX wrote:
How many GSL's will there be in 2011. Is it still monthly?

Will Code A tournaments be broadcast with english commentary?

good questions, could someone answer them :D ?

z00t

Australia976 Posts

December 11 2010 14:47 GMT

#132

I'm still trying to wrap my head around all the implications of this new system; but offhand, the 4 guaranteed foreigner spots for Group A are amazing! I was worried that we'd see less foreigners in the GSL going forward, but hopefully we'll see even more!

shannn

Netherlands2891 Posts

December 11 2010 14:49 GMT

#133

On December 11 2010 23:40 locJ wrote:

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good questions, could someone answer them :D ?

Here ya go. just use search next time

but I'll do you a favor this time and for everyone else.

1. GSL (Ran in January, March, April, July and September) - Main League. 32 Code S players tournament and 64 Code A players tournament.
2. World Championship (Ran in June and October) - 4 representative from each region in a 16 man tournament.
3. Ladder Tournament (Ran in February, May, August and November) - Tournament to decide best of Battle.Net ladder. Top 200 from each region are invited to participate in a preliminary for a 16 man double elimination tournament.
4. Blizzard Cup (Ran in December) - Top 8 (of GSL ranking I'm guessing?) will be invited to decide the best player of the year in a Bo5 Playoff format tournament.

This means there are going to be 12 Tournaments organised by the GSL in 2011. 17 if you include the A league too (but I include them with GSL league).

Rah

United States973 Posts

December 11 2010 15:00 GMT

#134

gotta love affirmative action eh

McBrian

Denmark38 Posts

December 11 2010 15:04 GMT

#135

This seems like a great system imo. It sucks to have on of the best players being completely out of the system for an entire tournament due to an unlucky prelim...

Taf the Ghost

United States11751 Posts

December 11 2010 15:20 GMT

#136

The system makes sense. If you think that their purpose is to: 1) promote good players and 2) produce a lot of competition & tense moments. Also has the added benefit of constantly bringing new blood into the mix.

Most Americans probably aren't too familiar with the European Relegation system, so it might seem a little odd to most of us. If you've followed a European league much, you know that most of the best action, over the year, happens in the lower ranks trying to avoid relegation. Heck, some of the teams (Everton comes to mind) make it a big selling point they haven't been relegated in however many years. So, they've definitely lined up a lot of tense moments & drama to always happen. Should be fun.

The 4 Code A slots for foreigners will probably cause a lot of heat, and does smack a little of politics over skills, but it's also an admission of two things: 1) not everyone can make it to Korean to try out for Code A and 2) information isn't perfect. The GSLs had a lot of luck involved. They were seeded as much as you can for having little information about the players. The 4 Code A spots also practically acknowledge that this is all but Blizzard's official tournament system, and making it super hard for a non-Korean to get in isn't really wise for how much money they've put behind GomTV on this.

Besides, it's not like the previous two MLG champs are Code S qualified already... oh.

everstarleague

China89 Posts

December 11 2010 15:26 GMT

#137

There could be only ONE national game in Korea, it is obviously the BroodWar for its very culture influence.

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Copymizer

Denmark2083 Posts

December 11 2010 15:31 GMT

#138

The future of Starcraft 2 torunaments and worldwide activity and arrival lots of now pro-players in the coming year is looking UTTER SWEET ! it's amazing the effort blizzard and gomtv + all the other tournament holders are putting in to this game !

garbanzo

United States4046 Posts

December 11 2010 15:35 GMT

#139

So it looks like the tradition of making ridiculously confusing tournament structure (not really that confusing, but it's weird) has continued on with the GSL. I can't say that there's a better system though. You have to protect the good players and at the same time have the ability to infuse new players into the system.

All we need now is an awesome group ceremony. Would be interesting how an MSL-like group ceremony would be with foreigners. It'll probably be pretty awesome.

Kantutan

Canada1319 Posts

December 11 2010 15:35 GMT

#140

Just watched Primer a few hours ago so understanding this system is nothing in comparison :p Not that it's as complicated as some people are making it out to be anyways. It sounds great though and I'm looking forward to see what kind of SC2 action 2011 brings us :>