EPT2024 GSL Season 1 (Qualifiers) - Page 2
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ssg
United States1777 Posts
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10374 Posts
On February 16 2024 13:38 ssg wrote: Why the hell are they making Nice and Rex play each other in the first round Yeah rip. Probably just RNG, or maybe rigged xD | ||
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
Seeing these qualifiers, where you had to get 1 or 2 wins in to get into GSL, I honestly think that even 16 spots are to many nowadays. In like 1 or 2 more seasons just everyone who signs up, gets a spot by default. The only part that remains actually challenging about qualifing is moving to KR for a few months | ||
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argonautdice
Canada2720 Posts
On February 16 2024 21:40 dbRic1203 wrote: I remember with each downsizing of GSL we were questioning if it was realy necessary Seeing these qualifiers, where you had to get 1 or 2 wins in to get into GSL, I honestly think that even 16 spots are to many nowadays. In like 1 or 2 more seasons just everyone who signs up, gets a spot by default. The only part that remains actually challenging about qualifing is moving to KR for a few months The root of the problem is that there's no new blood in the Korean pro scene for 10 years now. This is now compounded by the prize pool reduction so now foreigners like Astrea, Scarlett, and Special or Koreans who came back from military don't show up, further reducing the competition by quite a bit. Looking at the current GSL lineup, it's exactly 50/50 pre/post-military service: pre-military: Creator, Nightmare, Bunny, Cure, Maru, Dark, SHIN, Solar post-military: Classic, herO, Stats, ByuN, Gumiho, Ryung, DRG, soO The only ones didn't qualify are military returnees sOs and TY, with PartinG rumored to be playing outside of Korea alongside Stormgate. Quite a few people returned from the military but are now likely retired from SC2, such as Armani, Curious, Dear, Impact, KeeN, MC, Taeja, Bomber aLive, Innovation, Dream, Patience (and others who left who may/may not have served but have been inactive since 2022 like ByuL and Hurricane). Currently serving military are: Trap, Zest, Zoun, Rogue, with Trap rumored to not come back to SC2. Zest and Rogue will probably come back. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10374 Posts
On February 17 2024 04:46 argonautdice wrote: The root of the problem is that there's no new blood in the Korean pro scene for 10 years now. This is now compounded by the prize pool reduction so now foreigners like Astrea, Scarlett, and Special or Koreans who came back from military don't show up, further reducing the competition by quite a bit. Looking at the current GSL lineup, it's exactly 50/50 pre/post-military service: pre-military: Creator, Nightmare, Bunny, Cure, Maru, Dark, SHIN, Solar post-military: Classic, herO, Stats, ByuN, Gumiho, Ryung, DRG, soO The only ones didn't qualify are military returnees sOs and TY, with PartinG rumored to be playing outside of Korea alongside Stormgate. Quite a few people returned from the military but are now likely retired from SC2, such as Armani, Curious, Dear, Impact, KeeN, MC, Taeja, Bomber aLive, Innovation, Dream, Patience (and others who left who may/may not have served but have been inactive since 2022 like ByuL and Hurricane). Currently serving military are: Trap, Zest, Zoun, Rogue, with Trap rumored to not come back to SC2. Zest and Rogue will probably come back. Damn, seeing all those names... and how many of them were still playing SC2 not long ago (surprising to me that Byul was around in 2022). GSL feels like it's been such a desert but really it's only gotten this bad the last ~2 years when Blizzard seemingly pulled out and GSL started downsizing a lot. Even around 2020 it was still really good, GSL was still really hard and foreigners including Reynor were still interested, there were players like Patience and Dream around, and military returnees like MMA Taeja etc. were trying to qualify... sad that out of all the SlayerS terrans, only Ryung was able to break through and start qualifying very regularly for GSL, props to him. Really sad, and I hope and wish that Microsoft might decide it's worth it to inject $50k into GSL each season so they can help pay for the studio/production and to have 1st place prizes that are $15k + crowdfunding to hit $20k for 1st place, maybe even re-expand to Ro24... though, it's pretty sad that now it's too late to start re-expanding, so many good players will have given up or lost interest and not want to risk investing their time into practicing SC2, though if it lets amateurs start qualifying and making KR GMs interested, then it might bring decent new blood in as quick as a couple years. After all it's kinda crazy how well players like Percival and even Spear did a couple years ago when they qualified, and it's kinda crazy but sad that it seems they're gone now and not even trying to qualify anymore. | ||
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Wilshire093
United States31 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17737 Posts
On February 18 2024 11:14 Wilshire093 wrote: I'm going to be recording some VODs of the qualifiers from the replays and uploading them to this playlist if anyone's interested. TL formatting didn't like your link, so here it is fixed https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3co69WzlFQKaE4K9JVH5tI4gKtTtDJ3K | ||
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Wilshire093
United States31 Posts
On February 18 2024 13:00 Die4Ever wrote: TL formatting didn't like your link, so here it is fixed https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3co69WzlFQKaE4K9JVH5tI4gKtTtDJ3K Thank you! I don't post often, I'm a noob at the markup. I think I fixed it in the edit. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10374 Posts
On February 18 2024 11:14 Wilshire093 wrote: I'm going to be recording some VODs of the qualifiers from the replays and uploading them to this playlist if anyone's interested. WOOO thank you!! | ||
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Topin
Peru10120 Posts
On February 18 2024 11:14 Wilshire093 wrote: I'm going to be recording some VODs of the qualifiers from the replays and uploading them to this playlist if anyone's interested. thanks! watching maru vs classic right now :D | ||
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