2020 GSL Super Tournament I (Qualifiers) - Page 2

On January 23 2020 22:13 Wombat_NI wrote:

There is news reading between the lines. The GSL name is still there, it’s Super Tournament 1 which I’d assume means there’s going to be a Super Tournament 2.

With Super Tournaments being very much the GSL’s side-tournament that lacks the hype and prestige of its big brother, it would be extremely odd if they cut down the latter.

My guess is with the new calendar, it’s easier to throw in a Super Tournament that can be done in qualifiers and a weekend rather than scheduling a Code S that runs longer.

We don’t have much tangible news to go off, which is a tad frustrating but we’ve not had much bad news to go off as well.

If I was a Korean pro I’d much rather be able to focus on Katowice with an ST after with a gap to Code S than have the two big tournaments close together.

I don’t know how the windows all line up, the Chinese seem to be pushing hard in terms of pickups for their team league too, and their league’s main stars are almost exclusively the top Korean players.

My guess is that is a factor as well. They’re not just ringers for these teams they pay their salaries, so any Code S schedule is going to have to factor that in too.

On January 24 2020 00:55 Xain0n wrote:


Wombat is on point.

In the last 14 months people have been worried about sc2 dying, WCS not continuing in 2019, GSL not continuing in 2019, sc2 dying again, GSL not continuing in 2020 and now GSL continuing without Code S in 2020; there is no need for you guys to be worried, no clue have found points towards the impending doom that has been prophesized right after Sc2 went out of beta.
It seems reasonable that Code S will be rescheduled according to the new order in Sc2, which is still being defined at the moment; unless you have serious reasons to be worried for, you'd better feel safe and reassured by the announcement we are commenting.

On January 23 2020 20:41 Poopi wrote:

Looking at this (Premier Tournaments) and given how the new format will work, this does not seem worrying to me at least for the foreign circuit, compared to 2019. As for the korean circuit, we get a Super Tournament to start the year so it's cool, hopefully if there is a downgrade it's nothing too big.

Nation Wars was the last big tournament though (not that big/premier, but since there were Reynor+Serral and Stats/INno/soO I'd say it was still interesting for those who care about top level starcraft)

On January 23 2020 20:47 Fango wrote:

Seeing how Katowice is the new global finals, I imagine the three GSL seasons will take place after it. They have until March to wrap up all events instead of November now.

Plus if they kept to the old scedule, they would finish GSL/WCS korea by november and then have to wait 4-5 months until the global finals.

On January 24 2020 11:43 Tommy131313 wrote:
Hmm, wasn't there that discussion last year about bad timing / overlapping schedule between GSL, IEM and WESG, that hindered some Pros to compete in all three events resp. the according qualifiers?
I can virtually still hear those complaints: "Can't they place the premier events properly without overlapping?"

Well, this year they do - with more time until the World Championship now.

But obviously some guys find other things to complain about...

On January 24 2020 13:47 hjpalpha wrote:


iem and gsl didn’t have acheduling conflicts with each other if i remember correctly

the problem was wesg, because they just ignored the already existing schedules (not only koreans had schedule issues because of that, but they also wnated to do the na qualifier on a day where some wcs stuff took place)