Naniwa, Zenio, MMA and HerO hail from Korea.
Next week the Global Challenge Kiev will start and it is time to announce the groups for the StarCraft II tournament. Korea will be represented by TeamLiquid members Zenio and HerO, former Code S Winner MMA and Swedish pro Naniwa who is currently living in Seoul.

American qxc will replace DDE who had to cancel his participation. The case of Norwegian participant TargA is quite unique: He is currently living in Australia and participated in the South-East Asian qualifier for Kiev. Since no Chinese player was able to come, despite all efforts, and because Chinese New Year takes place during the event, DieStar from Poland will fill that last spot since he was next in line from the European qualifier.

Group A

~~Beastyqt~~

Strelok

~~Killer~~

White-Ra

NaNiwa

TitaN

Group B

~~DieStar~~

NightEnD

Grubby

Kas

Zenio

Group C

MMA

TargA

Group D

qxc

IEM Global Challenge Kiev on Liquipedia

Fyzar

Netherlands8010 Posts

January 11 2012 15:31 GMT

Looks good!

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

January 11 2012 15:31 GMT

Im interested in Millenium DieStar, known, but not exactly as much as everyone.

HerO vs. Dimaga should be good too.

Fyzar

Netherlands8010 Posts

January 11 2012 15:32 GMT

Hmm, my predictions;
Group A
NaNiwa
Beastyqt

Group B
Grubby
Kas

Group C
HasuObs
MMA

Group D
Feast
HerO

e; this was supposed to be an edit -.- sorry about that

pPingu

Switzerland2892 Posts

January 11 2012 15:32 GMT

Really good line-up

Just so few zergs

edit: predictions

Nani-Titan

Zenio-Kas

MMA-Hasu

Hero-Dimaga

Jayjay54

Germany2296 Posts

January 11 2012 15:32 GMT

Time to shine hasu. Your PvT is awesome show it to this nobody MMA. Also, he has by far the easiest group

Benjef

United Kingdom6921 Posts

January 11 2012 15:33 GMT

Group b should be the closest. Go Grubby! Looking forward to hasu vs mma too.

Hassybaby

United Kingdom10823 Posts

January 11 2012 15:33 GMT

Interesting spread of groups. I think the favorites in each will still have problems because they will all be playing their worst match-up:

Naniwa has to play every MU
Group of Death....
MMA has to play 2 TvPs
Hero has to play every MU

This should be good :D

Lorch

Germany3703 Posts

January 11 2012 15:34 GMT

Group A
Nani
Beastyqt (or maybe Titan, not sure)

Group B
Zenio
Grubby (maybe Kas, though Grubbies pvt is pretty good)

Groub C
MMA
Hasu

Groub D
Hero
Dimaga (hoping qxc though)

All groups look good, can't wait :D

Morale

Sweden1010 Posts

January 11 2012 15:35 GMT

#10

Gunna be intressting to see if Kas can do well! Correct me i im wrong, but this is his first big offline event? Will be cheering for Nani tho, he could win it all.

Mazer

Canada1086 Posts

January 11 2012 15:36 GMT

#11

Group B looks tough.

AxionSteel

United States7754 Posts

January 11 2012 15:36 GMT

#12

Group B is going to be excellent!!

Go Qxc :D overcome those evil protoss.

bbm

United Kingdom1320 Posts

January 11 2012 15:38 GMT

#13

Come on DIMAGA, make us proud

Meldon

Greece128 Posts

January 11 2012 15:38 GMT

#14

Grubby's gonna take this one.

Asha

United Kingdom38257 Posts

January 11 2012 15:38 GMT

#15

On January 12 2012 00:35 Morale wrote:
Gunna be intressting to see if Kas can do well! Correct me i im wrong, but this is his first big offline event? Will be cheering for Nani tho, he could win it all.

Kas has been playing LANs since IEM Kiev last year o_O

7mk

Germany10157 Posts

January 11 2012 15:38 GMT

#16

Nah by now he has been at several bigger offline events.. dreamhack winter or WCG grand finals (3rd place) for example.