The round 1 broadcast matches have been announced:
On April 25 2013 22:01 Arceus wrote: the following matches will be broadcasted:
Wednesday, May 1st
04:10 GMT (+00:00) Fantasy vs Solar Sniper vs Trap Noblesee vs Golden Squirtle vs ALBM
09:10 GMT (+00:00) EffOrt vs Hack MarineKing vs San Avenge vs hydra JangBi vs ByuL
End of update
GOM.tv just posted the brackets for the WCS Korea Challenger League
Dear GOMTV.net users,
We are ready to announce the brackets for the first WCS KR Season 1 GSL Challenger League!
This gauntlet of survival will show the world which players have the strength to stay in the WCS and which players are fit for the qualifiers. Code S may be where the glory lies, but only through the Challenger League will you ever have a chance of reaching that glory!
The Challenger League will be broadcasted every Wednesday and will feature an afternoon cast as well as an evening cast. This format will be much like the dual stream of the old Code A format except now there will be no viewing limitations based on which ticket you have purchased! The afternoon broadcast will begin at 1:10 PM (KST) and the evening broadcast will begin at 6:10 PM (KST). The matches will be broadcasted in both English and Korean.
Also, they posted the schedule for premier league & challenger league and GSTL
Broadcast notes:
Round 1 and Round 2 will have 8 choice matches broadcasted; however, Round 3 will have all of its matches broadcasted.
The matches that are not played on the broadcast will all be played offline at our studio with a referee present at the venue.
This means that of the: - Round 1 matches, 8/24 will be shown, so 33% - Round 2 matches, 8/16 will be shown, so 50% - Round 3 matches, 12/12 will be shown, so 100%
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Personal Note: interesting how they refer to it as Code S or Starleague instead of Premier League
in regards to your personal note. GSL stands for Global Star(craft2) League. In my mind and many others it will still be GSL Code S/A whether or not Blizzard want it to be called Premier/Challenger.
I dont have all the required information to make a complete statement on the issue ,but I cant be the only one who's thinking this WCS made more harm than good , in comparison to the last year WCS. Not seeing the big names around GSL, like MVP,Nestea,etc is sad.
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Looks like it. Notice how his name is not surrounded by a red outline unlike the other Code S drop-downs.
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
Since many players gave up their spot in Challenger there might be incorrect "S" drop-outs. The Liquipedia Code A bracket template just works that way I think
EDIT : And anyway, the only 2 protosses in KHAN are JangBi and Stork... I think we'd have heard the news if he had changed their IDs
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
Since many players gave up their spot in Challenger there might be incorrect "S" drop-outs. The Liquipedia Code A bracket template just works that way I think
It just seems to make sense this way. Was scrathcing my head there for a second.
Well good to see good results have paid off for swim then with the new team and all.
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
I'm pretty sure he replaced MC because MC came last in his RO32 group.
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
On April 24 2013 20:14 GTR wrote: god, why did swim have to change his id to Shark, especially since Shark is the ID of an respected, retired progamer...
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
- Round 1 matches, 8/24 will be shown, so 33% - Round 2 matches, 8/16 will be shown, so 50% - Round 3 matches, 12/12 will be shown, so 100%
I'm a bit sad about this, GSL Code A is really important in skill level I hope they choose right the good matches. It means less Wolf + Khaldor :/
Looking forward to it ! Code A is as stack as always !
To be honest that isn't exactly bad, they're probably going to be showing the fan favourites each day and you get all matches shown for the last day, the most important one, so yeah, pretty good for one stream.
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
So... should we just continue to write stuff such as "World Championship Series Korea Season 2 Ongamenet Starleague" and "World Championship Series Korea Season 3 Gomtv Global Starcraft 2 league Premier League Code S"?
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
Is it bad that I'm anti supporting bunny just because the EU bunny has only just broken into the scene and two of them is going to lead to confusion?
(not serious)
I'm really torn between MKP and san, because san really impressed me in the GSTL, but MKP must be really close to his Nestea award, and i'd hate for him not to get it, and the loser goes to code B :'(
On April 24 2013 20:45 Surili wrote: I'm really torn between MKP and san, because san really impressed me in the GSTL, but MKP must be really close to his Nestea award, and i'd hate for him not to get it, and the loser goes to code B :'(
On April 24 2013 20:45 Surili wrote: Is it bad that I'm anti supporting bunny just because the EU bunny has only just broken into the scene and two of them is going to lead to confusion?
(not serious)
I'm really torn between MKP and san, because san really impressed me in the GSTL, but MKP must be really close to his Nestea award, and i'd hate for him not to get it, and the loser goes to code B :'(
MKP is 9 seasons of Code S. Just one more... but Mantoss is Mantoss.
On April 24 2013 19:50 Mackus wrote: What happened to the absolutely unknown 'Swim' who qualified?
Liquipedia brackets don't appear to be showing him either.
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
Day 2, Group A : San qualifies against a terran named Shark. Day 2, Group F : Swim, protoss (now Shark) qualifies by beating jjakji.
And Shark appears as P in the Code A brackets.
Oh god please tell me this is not like the Liquid_Hero/T8_hero/CJ_hero thing
You've just confused me even more as the Terran Shark who San beat is also part of Samsung Khan. So we either have 2 Shark's both part of Samsung Khan or Swim has dropped out replaced by the former.
This needs clarification
It wasnt necessarily true that that Shark that San beat, was from Khan, considering the liquipedia links, both link to the exact same player profile. So i'm going to take it as swim took MC's spot.
On April 24 2013 19:59 Alstroemeria wrote: [quote]
On the GOM brackets there is someone under the ID Samsung Shark and is a Protoss. Maybe Khan managed to pick him up and he switched IDs
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
Day 2, Group A : San qualifies against a terran named Shark. Day 2, Group F : Swim, protoss (now Shark) qualifies by beating jjakji.
And Shark appears as P in the Code A brackets.
Oh god please tell me this is not like the Liquid_Hero/T8_hero/CJ_hero thing
You've just confused me even more as the Terran Shark who San beat is also part of Samsung Khan. So we either have 2 Shark's both part of Samsung Khan or Swim has dropped out replaced by the former.
This needs clarification
It wasnt necessarily true that that Shark that San beat, was from Khan, considering the liquipedia links, both link to the exact same player profile. So i'm going to take it as swim took MC's spot.
Oh that's just because Dialogue (edit : the guy who filled the brackets for Challenger) moved the Swim page to Shark on Liquipedia :p
Did he end up taking someones spot who dropped out in the end? Because it says he is placed in a spot where a code S dropout would take
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
Day 2, Group A : San qualifies against a terran named Shark. Day 2, Group F : Swim, protoss (now Shark) qualifies by beating jjakji.
And Shark appears as P in the Code A brackets.
Oh god please tell me this is not like the Liquid_Hero/T8_hero/CJ_hero thing
You've just confused me even more as the Terran Shark who San beat is also part of Samsung Khan. So we either have 2 Shark's both part of Samsung Khan or Swim has dropped out replaced by the former.
This needs clarification
It wasnt necessarily true that that Shark that San beat, was from Khan, considering the liquipedia links, both link to the exact same player profile. So i'm going to take it as swim took MC's spot.
Oh that's just because Dialogue moved the Swim page to Shark on Liquipedia :p
I was about to type this, Swim is not Shark as 'Shark' is a drop-down from Code S according to the brackets whereas 'Swim' qualified via the preliminaries.
I'm looking at it. MC's spot?
Still doesn't make sense to me. Swim qualified by winning his preliminary group means they would someone else other than Swim to replace MC
For such an unknown person this has got me interested in his whereabouts :D
Day 2, Group A : San qualifies against a terran named Shark. Day 2, Group F : Swim, protoss (now Shark) qualifies by beating jjakji.
And Shark appears as P in the Code A brackets.
Oh god please tell me this is not like the Liquid_Hero/T8_hero/CJ_hero thing
You've just confused me even more as the Terran Shark who San beat is also part of Samsung Khan. So we either have 2 Shark's both part of Samsung Khan or Swim has dropped out replaced by the former.
This needs clarification
It wasnt necessarily true that that Shark that San beat, was from Khan, considering the liquipedia links, both link to the exact same player profile. So i'm going to take it as swim took MC's spot.
Oh that's just because Dialogue moved the Swim page to Shark on Liquipedia :p
Day 2, Group A : San qualifies against a terran named Shark. Day 2, Group F : Swim, protoss (now Shark) qualifies by beating jjakji.
And Shark appears as P in the Code A brackets.
Oh god please tell me this is not like the Liquid_Hero/T8_hero/CJ_hero thing
You've just confused me even more as the Terran Shark who San beat is also part of Samsung Khan. So we either have 2 Shark's both part of Samsung Khan or Swim has dropped out replaced by the former.
This needs clarification
It wasnt necessarily true that that Shark that San beat, was from Khan, considering the liquipedia links, both link to the exact same player profile. So i'm going to take it as swim took MC's spot.
Oh that's just because Dialogue moved the Swim page to Shark on Liquipedia :p
"I was notified that a certain team is going to contact me. The coach of that team said he would contact me so I am waiting to for the tryouts right now."
I'm really torned between MKP and San as well. Wait, no I'm not lolololol, I'm ready to sacrifice the manliest SC2 Protoss player without any second thoughts, if it's to save my cute hipster Sith-lord marine cheeser.
On April 24 2013 20:33 neptunusfisk wrote: So... should we just continue to write stuff such as "World Championship Series Korea Season 2 Ongamenet Starleague" and "World Championship Series Korea Season 3 Gomtv Global Starcraft 2 league Premier League Code S"?
So glad I stayed up to watch World Championship Series Korea Season 3 Gomtv Global Starcraft 2 league Premier League Code S Round of 32 Group A Winners Match Leenock vs Life.
On April 24 2013 19:50 matt93 wrote: Looks like a pretty good bracket,
in regards to your personal note. GSL stands for Global Star(craft2) League. In my mind and many others it will still be GSL Code S/A whether or not Blizzard want it to be called Premier/Challenger.
Isn't it because the next part of the WCS (Season 2) is the OSL? (OGN Star League)
On April 24 2013 19:50 matt93 wrote: Looks like a pretty good bracket,
in regards to your personal note. GSL stands for Global Star(craft2) League. In my mind and many others it will still be GSL Code S/A whether or not Blizzard want it to be called Premier/Challenger.
Isn't it because the next part of the WCS (Season 2) is the OSL? (OGN Star League)
True but lots of people me (me included) will just call it GSL and OSL.
On April 25 2013 01:06 Canucklehead wrote: Damn, I like MKP and San, but MKP must not fall to code b and must claim his nestea award....sorry san!!
On that note, how does Nestea award even work anymore, since next season will be OSL and not GSL? Does that count?
Just judging by his hots play so far, I don't really think MKP will be getting the nestea award. However, I don't know how that's going to work with a switch between OSL an GSL.
On April 24 2013 20:08 achan1058 wrote: MC left for EU, so there must be a replacement somewhere. How many people qualified for code A on the quals those days?
Is he allowed to do that? Dragon was DQed because he tried to qualify for both korea and EU
On April 24 2013 20:08 achan1058 wrote: MC left for EU, so there must be a replacement somewhere. How many people qualified for code A on the quals those days?
Is he allowed to do that? Dragon was DQed because he tried to qualify for both korea and EU
MC is qualifying for wcs eu code a season 1. You aren't allowed to try for season 1 of code s if you tried another region first. Hence, why dragon, hyun, mc, taeja can't play in any qualifiers that can get you into season 1 code s of another region.
They can all try to get into season 1 code a of another region, and this will give you a shot to qualify for season 2 code s for that region.
On April 24 2013 20:33 neptunusfisk wrote: So... should we just continue to write stuff such as "World Championship Series Korea Season 2 Ongamenet Starleague" and "World Championship Series Korea Season 3 Gomtv Global Starcraft 2 league Premier League Code S"?
So glad I stayed up to watch World Championship Series Korea Season 3 Gomtv Global Starcraft 2 league Premier League Code S Round of 32 Group A Winners Match Leenock vs Life.
Blizzard World Championship Series Korea Season 3 Gomtv Global Starcraft 2 league Premier League Code S Round of 32 Group A Winners Match Game 2 Taldarim Altar FXO_Leenock vs LG_IM_SK_MC Part 1
On April 25 2013 09:04 JJH777 wrote: Pretty lame that they aren't showing all the matches. I hate WCS it has been purely bad changes in every single way.
On April 25 2013 02:23 onedayclose wrote: Proleague likely dictated when this league could broadcast. Will OGN be allowed to simultaneously broadcast this GSL challenger league too?
Probably only the afternoon games, as Wednesday night is reserved for League of Legends.
On April 25 2013 09:04 JJH777 wrote: Pretty lame that they aren't showing all the matches. I hate WCS it has been purely bad changes in every single way.
yeah that's really bad
Where does it say that all the matches aren't going to be shown? Sometimes all the matches are not broadcast in Korean for Code A (the afternoon sessions are mostly left out), but they always do all the matches in English.
On April 25 2013 09:04 JJH777 wrote: Pretty lame that they aren't showing all the matches. I hate WCS it has been purely bad changes in every single way.
yeah that's really bad
Where does it say that all the matches aren't going to be shown? Sometimes all the matches are not broadcast in Korean for Code A (the afternoon sessions are mostly left out), but they always do all the matches in English.
Not everything broadcasted ? :/ That's annoying. I hope they will choose their matches wisely, because even if many Ro48 matches are slighly ranodm, most of Ro32 matches are pretty legit -_-
Round 1 and Round 2 will have 8 choice matches broadcasted; however, Round 3 will have all of its matches broadcasted.
The matches that are not played on the broadcast will all be played offline at our studio with a referee present at the venue.
NOOOOOOOOO WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched all Code A matches and I like Code A matches so much I am so nervious during Ro48 even more then I watch Code S. GOMTV why you make no broadcast........
On April 26 2013 16:49 DiMano wrote: Round 1 and Round 2 will have 8 choice matches broadcasted; however, Round 3 will have all of its matches broadcasted.
The matches that are not played on the broadcast will all be played offline at our studio with a referee present at the venue.
NOOOOOOOOO WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched all Code A matches and I like Code A matches so much I am so nervious during Ro48 even more then I watch Code S. GOMTV why you make no broadcast........
yep :[ will there be vods or anything? Won't be able to see Pet or Sparta. At least Avenge's match is being broadcasted.