I was looking at the charts last night and i understand how they work but my question is what do we have left to be played before the 4th season. is there going to be a preliminaries and code S replacement matches or will that happen next season? Is the already set groups that were drawn last night going to be the official players in the 4th GSL correct? Thats what Im thinking i guess because we used last 3 GSLs to determine code placements but i just wanted to check to make sure i fully understand.

Klive5ive

United Kingdom6056 Posts

December 14 2010 16:32 GMT

#64

So there's 32 Code S player and each season 6 on average will swap with Code A.
That seems like an incredibly slow speed of replacement in my opinion.
We're going to get the same players in the tournaments for years.

Mob

Austria152 Posts

December 14 2010 17:05 GMT

#65

i will be so happy when tastosis is gonna try and explain it all in the finals.
gonna be an epic laugh.

Heimatloser

Germany1494 Posts

December 14 2010 20:45 GMT

#66

will tastosis cast both code a and code s? will gsl hire more english casters? and if yes, whats the system for determining caster places in the gsl leagues?

tpir

United States53 Posts

December 14 2010 22:43 GMT

#67

On December 14 2010 05:10 syllogism wrote:
The system is pretty straightforward; no idea what some of you are talking about. The diagram in the first post makes it look more complex than it is.

This. Just look at the Reddit picture. It is a very simple relegation/promotion system to make sure the best players don't get bounced totally out of Code S for doing poorly and have to re-qualify through prelims, BUT while still leaving qualifying as a viable option to someone who is really good AND replacing the consistent underperformers.

tpir

United States53 Posts

December 14 2010 22:45 GMT

#68

deleted because it was dumb.

Baerinho

Germany257 Posts

December 15 2010 06:38 GMT

#69

its chopped up more then it needed to be, but in essence its a KO system tournament with previous groupstages including relegation.

Has alot in common with Ice hockey Worldchampionships if i remmeber correctly

Moletrap

United States1297 Posts

December 15 2010 12:36 GMT

#70

Reminds me of the old OSL format... with OSC and ODT...

maellestrom

United States194 Posts

December 15 2010 12:38 GMT

#71

Does this not remind anyone of the movie Basketball when they try to explain the playoffs?

bkrow

Australia8532 Posts

December 15 2010 12:48 GMT

#72

It wouldn't be fun if we could understand it.. It takes real RTS skill to understand the GSL format.. oh well - time to ressurect my brain

Ghad

Norway2551 Posts

December 15 2010 14:10 GMT

#73

On December 14 2010 03:54 GobIin wrote:
Now im more confused

On December 14 2010 03:54 SmoKim wrote:
i feel like a Caveman looking at this

lol, sums me up nicely

c0ldfusion

United States8293 Posts

December 15 2010 14:42 GMT

#74

I don't like the fact that there is a huge advantage in finishing 3rd over finishing 4th in the initial group stage of the Code S tournament - considering after the top 8 seeds, the groups are all randomly generated and these group stage games are all Bo1. There is just too much luck involved.

It's also odd that they reserve 4 spots in code A for foreigners. It's good that they want to keep the tournament diversified but it would be more fair for all newcomers to have to go through the preliminary offline tournament to qualify for code A. Though, the flip side of this is that currently qualified players have a little bit too much protection. It would take at least two seasons for a Korean newcomer to qualify for Code S.

Also, does anyone know if the 4 reserved Code A spots account for foreigners who already qualified for code A (in this case, Ret) ?

Sanguinarius

United States3427 Posts

December 15 2010 14:54 GMT

#75

Ok, both the Reddit visual and the butter visual are really good at describing what is going on. Thanks!

Phanekim

United States777 Posts

December 16 2010 04:00 GMT

#76

damn this thing is confusing. doesn't the foreinger slots feelt a little like affirmative action?

HollowLord

United States3862 Posts

December 16 2010 04:22 GMT

#77

On December 14 2010 03:40 Empyrean wrote:
Leave it to GOMTV to turn something like Code S and Code A qualification into some sort of Kafkaesque monstrosity :/

Very nice use of Kafkaesque.

Liquid_Adun

Canada205 Posts

December 16 2010 17:17 GMT

#78

Looks like 2x the games at least, my only concern will be if they put them on gom tv for people to view, not just the streams.

Thanks for the flow charts, Adun