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Qualifiers for '2024 GSL Season 1' will be held on Feb 15th(Thu)
Details are as below.
■ Participation requirements
- Must be at least 12 years old
- Need to have a SC2 Battle.net account (cannot use your family's or friends' accounts)
- Masters/Grandmaster league players (Any Region)
■ Qualifiers information
- GSL Qualifiers application period: ~ Feb 12th(Mon) 23:59 [KST]
- GSL Qualifiers: Feb 15th(Thu) [KST]
- GSL Qualifiers location: online
- Only players who are in Korea are available to participate in GSL Qualifiers.
- Match schedule for each individual will be sent out via MMS & e-mail to each participant on Feb 13th(Tue)
■ GSL Qualifiers match format
- Best of 3 / Double Elimination format
- 16 players will advance
- Maps: 1Set [ESL] Alcyone // 2Set [ESL] Site Delta // 3Set [ESL] Oceanborn
Please accurately fill out the form below and send your application to gsl@afreecatv.com
- Full Name:
- Birth date:
- Country:
- Phone Number ID:
- KakaoTalk ID:
- Battle.net SC2 Account:
- Ladder Score:
- StarCraft 2 Character Name:
- Team:
- Race:
- Email address:
For any questions please feel free to contact us at gsl@afreecatv.com
Thank you.
AfreecaTV
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Hell yeah, finally confirmed. Let's go esports.
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ESPORTS !!
Would be cool if sOs qualified
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Hopefully we'll see PartinG play and qualify. It's going to be a big ask though.
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Now I wish I did take my company up on going to Busan this month 
Hopefully the stars align a second time this year for the next trip when Quals are.
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Northern Ireland27477 Posts
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Confirmed! Awesome stuff!
Though would have preferred that the Qualifiers could at least be online and non-region-locked so that players outside of Korea can try and play, and only if they are guaranteed a certain prize $ would they be required to be in Korea.
Would definitely make GSL more exciting to see!
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On February 01 2024 18:08 MJG wrote:
Hopefully we'll see PartinG play and qualify. It's going to be a big ask though.
He is No. 1 Stormgate player, so I doubt he has much time for SC2 right now
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Good luck to those participating in the qualifiers this week!
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On February 12 2024 23:01 dbRic1203 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 01 2024 18:08 MJG wrote:
Hopefully we'll see PartinG play and qualify. It's going to be a big ask though. He is No. 1 Stormgate player, so I doubt he has much time for SC2 right now
Good for Parting. I hope he doesn’t waste his time and come back to SC2. Protoss has been in a sorry state for years now
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cheering for Parting! I guess this is probably starting in like 4 to 8 hours from now?
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No Parting, sadly. I guess he's fully a Stormgate player now? Honestly a bit surprising since he was playing in online cups a few weeks ago.
Keen is the only other significant absence. He hasn't really been playing anything but WTL and GSL (Qualifiers) so I wonder if he's retiring, Freecs would probably need some good bracket luck to even make it into the WTL with their current Keen/TY/sOS roster in any case.
Also absent are basically all Korean amateurs with Honmono being the only notable participant, this surprises me a bit. 23 players (with 2 forfeiting along the way) competing for 16 slots in what is essentially a quadruple elimination bracket (everyone made it into group stage 2 for free, even with 0 wins) feels silly. I'd honestly prefer it if they just let the top 12 from one season qualify for the next and have the bottom 4 duke it out with whoever's left. The result would probably be the same, and at least it would hide how shallow the Korean player pool has become. Looking at these brackets makes me kinda sad
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I'm surprised Nice and Rex played in the qualifiers, but they didn't manage to qualify.
The only other players that attempted but did not qualify are TY, sOs, Honmono, Polaris, and Villain. control seemed to sign up but didn't play any games.
Byun had a surprisingly difficult time qualifying, taking the very last spot, he even managed to lose to soO. The other final spot went to Nightmare.
Missing Parting is really sad.
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Saw this comment on Reddit about Parting
He's rank 1 on the Stormgate ladder and automatically qualified for EGC Stormgate Open on 17th-18th. First place price money is 80% of GSL, and 2nd and 3rd/4th are higher.
At least before crowdfunding prize money. If prize money get doubled for GSL, a win in the EGC tournament would still make him as much as second place in GSL, so maybe he'd prefer dedicating the majority of his focus to that.
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Dang, well it makes sense. Stormgate is fresh and exciting, he's finished his military and all. The time to capitalize on Stormgate, esp if he's #1, is now. Maybe he'll play some SC2 as well but would be smart to focus just on Stormgate for at least a few months and see how that game turns out.
Also damn having only like 23 players compete for 16... i was always curious why KR GMs didn't try more to qualify. I mean, i know it's hard to when you have very seasoned veterans, but I'd still think it'd be good exp to try and improve and just have fun too.
TY and sOs didn't qualify again? Nooo...
TY has been doing well in BW qualifying for ASL, really too bad he and sOs didn't make it yet again... there is only so many times you can fail before losing motivation.
I'm glad Creator qualified though (considering how he's inconsistent), whew. Congrats to soO and Nightmare as well!
And Stats made it too! Same with SHIN and DRG (players who sometimes don't make it).
Feels like everyone is here, except ofc it kinda sucks TY and sOs didn't fit. Even Ryung qualified... Ryung has became such a consistent GSL mainstay again since his breakthrough a couple years ago.
Well, it's nice to have such a balanced qualification! 5 zergs (instead of just like 2-3 lol), 5 protoss, 6 terran!
There is at least a little bit of freshness with Stats and soO making it, and DRG and SHIN not missing out.
Kindaa sucks no foreign players, no Astrea or Scarlette, but ofc it makes sense, and kinda good for KR if we let them keep the spots haha.
For sOs's first round, unlucky cus he had to fight Dark, TY, then Dark again in losers (cus Bunny upset Dark 2-1 in winners).
sOs then lost to Stats 1-2 in winners and Rex 1-2 in losers though... so i guess he didn't really have an excuse that time
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GSL should maybe reconsider their qualification process...three BYEs in each group on Round 1 is kinda crazy.
Or maybe just stop the qualification altogether and give out more free spots for the remaining few pros.
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6/5/5 .. very nice. Could be anyone's season, though Maru, Solar, Dark or Cure seem like safe bets. Looking forward to it. 
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I hope soO can get something done in the group stage. One of my favorite players ever and he really hasn't looked great recently so I'm taking that 2-0 against Byun as a sign of things to come
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2-0 Byun is indeed promising
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EPT
