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Qualifiers for '2024 GSL Season 2' will be held on Apr 18th(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: ~ Apr 15th(Mon) 23:59 [KST]
- GSL Qualifiers: Apr 18th(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 Apr 16th(Tue)
■ GSL Qualifiers match format
- Best of 3 / Double Elimination format
- 12 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(For contact in Korea):
- 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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Outside of Reynor, any other foreigner has confirmed to play GSL S2?
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Whoa, already?? Even though current GSL is still happening?
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Thought they planned the 2nd GSL to be at the end of the year? Feels like they pushed it forward to get it done before EWC?
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On April 09 2024 06:54 Balnazza wrote:
Thought they planned the 2nd GSL to be at the end of the year? Feels like they pushed it forward to get it done before EWC?
I think the implication is these 2 GSL's are part of the 2023-2024 season culminating in the EWC, and then hopefully there will be another GSL this year as a part of the 2024-2025 season with another 2 next year before EWC 2025.
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On April 09 2024 08:29 argonautdice wrote:Show nested quote +On April 09 2024 06:54 Balnazza wrote:
Thought they planned the 2nd GSL to be at the end of the year? Feels like they pushed it forward to get it done before EWC? I think the implication is these 2 GSL's are part of the 2023-2024 season culminating in the EWC, and then hopefully there will be another GSL this year as a part of the 2024-2025 season with another 2 next year before EWC 2025.
If GSL continues (hopefully that rumor was wrong!)
Hope Rogue makes it, he'll probably take some time to be great again but he's smart (and cheesy) enough to squeak into ro16.
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On April 09 2024 08:29 argonautdice wrote:Show nested quote +On April 09 2024 06:54 Balnazza wrote:
Thought they planned the 2nd GSL to be at the end of the year? Feels like they pushed it forward to get it done before EWC? I think the implication is these 2 GSL's are part of the 2023-2024 season culminating in the EWC, and then hopefully there will be another GSL this year as a part of the 2024-2025 season with another 2 next year before EWC 2025.
Thing is: That 2nd GSL would be kind of pointless, since it will not award slots for a Masters event or even a direct invite to the EWC. So it mostly just gives out extra points for the korean circuit?
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United States33698 Posts
On April 09 2024 06:54 Balnazza wrote:
Thought they planned the 2nd GSL to be at the end of the year? Feels like they pushed it forward to get it done before EWC?
No, Season 2 was always scheduled for the summer and before ESWC, with Season 3 being a TBD.
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On April 09 2024 10:03 dysenterymd wrote:Show nested quote +On April 09 2024 08:29 argonautdice wrote:On April 09 2024 06:54 Balnazza wrote:
Thought they planned the 2nd GSL to be at the end of the year? Feels like they pushed it forward to get it done before EWC? I think the implication is these 2 GSL's are part of the 2023-2024 season culminating in the EWC, and then hopefully there will be another GSL this year as a part of the 2024-2025 season with another 2 next year before EWC 2025. If GSL continues (hopefully that rumor was wrong!) Hope Rogue makes it, he'll probably take some time to be great again but he's smart (and cheesy) enough to squeak into ro16.
The qualifier might be a bit too early for him. That'd be 3 weeks between the end of his military service and the qualifier - would be impressive if he reached that level in this short amount of time, imo. His games vs. Classic were pretty good, but his lategame wasn't too impressive.
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China6331 Posts
On April 09 2024 00:03 tigera6 wrote:
Outside of Reynor, any other foreigner has confirmed to play GSL S2?
The Chinese squad was in discussion of doing it last week.
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On April 09 2024 21:19 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On April 09 2024 00:03 tigera6 wrote:
Outside of Reynor, any other foreigner has confirmed to play GSL S2? The Chinese squad was in discussion of doing it last week.
Oh nice
So who is the Chinese squad?
Olivera, Coffee, Firefly, Cyan?
Is Nice playing as well?
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China6331 Posts
Oliveira, Coffee and Cyan I believe.
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United States33698 Posts
On April 09 2024 20:30 Swisslink wrote:Show nested quote +On April 09 2024 10:03 dysenterymd wrote:On April 09 2024 08:29 argonautdice wrote:On April 09 2024 06:54 Balnazza wrote:
Thought they planned the 2nd GSL to be at the end of the year? Feels like they pushed it forward to get it done before EWC? I think the implication is these 2 GSL's are part of the 2023-2024 season culminating in the EWC, and then hopefully there will be another GSL this year as a part of the 2024-2025 season with another 2 next year before EWC 2025. If GSL continues (hopefully that rumor was wrong!) Hope Rogue makes it, he'll probably take some time to be great again but he's smart (and cheesy) enough to squeak into ro16. The qualifier might be a bit too early for him. That'd be 3 weeks between the end of his military service and the qualifier - would be impressive if he reached that level in this short amount of time, imo. His games vs. Classic were pretty good, but his lategame wasn't too impressive.
He has a decent chance of making it because there's almost exactly 16 Code S level players in Korea right now fighting for 16 spots.
Everyone who 'should' qualify actually did qualify in the season 1 qualifier, with TY and Rex being the two players who finished 17-18th. There's essentially no meaningful competition in the Code S qualifiers anymore unless a military returnee returns to full-time play or a high-level foreigner decides to compete.
The addition of Reynor and Rogue (and possibly some Chinese players?) will make it slightly more competitive this time around because it will be 18-ish Code S caliber players playing for 16 spots. So Rogue will prolly be fighting it out with NightMare, soO, and Ryung for one of the last spots, which seems doable.
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Will parting play? 
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Close one for Rogue.
Reynor through without dropping a map.
Elimination games for Nice/ Classic and Bunny/ Ryung
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Nice is the first notable player to drop out. Not very surprising tbh.
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I confused S1 and S2 on Liquipedia and was dissappointed again with the qualifier (16 going through, five not qualifying or something like that) until I noticed my mistake.
Great idea to reduce the 2nd Round to groups of 4. Feels much more like an actual qualifier instead of a "who even shows up"-gallore.
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Bunny out and Classic out!
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Do we know when is the group Nomination?
Btw, good roster for Zerg, now they just need to hire someone go hurt Maru shoulder and spkie herO drink.
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Rogue coming back from the military and Reynor traveling to KR made the qualifier way more competitive than last seasons
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Zerg winning GSL look promising with Rogue's return and Reynor playing. Also looks like soO joined DKZ? That's very cool of the team to support him.
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So final tally for Season 2, we'll have 4 Protoss, 5 Terran and 7 Zergs. Ryung, Bunny, and Classic failed to qualify while Reynor, TY and Rogue take their place.
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I might have preferred Classic over SHIN (sorry bud) but the rest looks pretty good!
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Classic not qualifying given his recent successes is kinda unfortunate, but naturally very excited to see how Reynor does this season or how Rogue's form is upon his return.
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The frustrating consistency of Creator and Nightmare to continue to ALWAYS qualify, but fail to be a factor at all past the first group stage is made all the more puzzling when guys like Classic can't seem to qualify as consistently but is usually an actual threat deeper in the tournaments.
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Wow quite the day for Zergs. All the doom and gloom about this map pool being terrible for Zerg looks pretty silly now.
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strong overall performance for Z, and Reynor, TY and - especially - Rogue being back will make that season really enjoyable. Can't wait !
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Bummed for no Ryung, but plenty of talent to make S2 solid from beginning to end!
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I guess Rogue's only weakness now is ZvP while his ZvT looked minimally great as before. But his ZvZ has never been tested since coming back from military.
Hopefully, he get a group with a bunch of Terran and Zerg players.
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On April 19 2024 05:26 swarminfestor wrote:
I guess Rogue's only weakness now is ZvP while his ZvT looked minimally great as before. But his ZvZ has never been tested since coming back from military.
Hopefully, he get a group with a bunch of Terran and Zerg players.
I want a 4 Z meme group that Dark somehow gets started by talking shit in the group selection. Then 1 Zerg in each of the other groups.
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Sad to see no Classic or Bunnyjwa 
I don't think Rogue can win yet, but I hope he at least manages to ruin a few strong players' days with dirty dirty cheeses.
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I'm really glad TY made it. Hoping we might be able to see some TvP Mech especially on these new maps! Not as likely with the Cyclone being nerfed, but maybe he can still make use of it.
On April 19 2024 00:48 Vindicare605 wrote:
The frustrating consistency of Creator and Nightmare to continue to ALWAYS qualify, but fail to be a factor at all past the first group stage is made all the more puzzling when guys like Classic can't seem to qualify as consistently but is usually an actual threat deeper in the tournaments.
Damn I'm surprised Classic didn't make it. But dang I'm surprised that he didn't make it but Creator did. As a Creator fan I'm very pleased haha. Hoping he can make another deep run, he was so close to Ro4 and possibly taking it all 2 GSLs ago considering he'd only have to fight like Gumi and Solar, who he beat roughly half the time. Grats to Creator for beating SHIN 2-0 twice, he's been losing to SHIN and DRG a bit too much in recent ESL cups for how good his PvZ used to look.
Sad sOs didn't make it, if he even tried. Oh it seems he didn't even try to qualify, sad. Maybe he's really retired then
Congrats to DRG and wow soO for making it again! Nice to have old school champs in for 1 of the very final GSLs.
Poor Bunny and Ryung, but I never enjoyed watching them much (in LotV anyway, i loved Ryung in GomTvT era).
We have a very nice spread of players and races this time!
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On April 19 2024 00:52 JJH777 wrote:
Wow quite the day for Zergs. All the doom and gloom about this map pool being terrible for Zerg looks pretty silly now.
the qualifier was on the old maps tho? 
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On April 19 2024 12:56 Scarlett` wrote:Show nested quote +On April 19 2024 00:52 JJH777 wrote:
Wow quite the day for Zergs. All the doom and gloom about this map pool being terrible for Zerg looks pretty silly now. the qualifier was on the old maps tho?
Oh really? Why would they play the qualifiers on old maps that's bizarre. I'll reserve judgement on whether Zergs are overreacting to the new maps then.
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