Thanks to kenzi from Daily Esports for providing live updates.
After a marathon quadruple tie-breaker, SK Telecom's ParalyzE won the GSL Code A wild card tournament to take the final spot in the upcoming Code S tournament. The wild card tournament was held between the twelve, third place finishers of every Code A group in order to fill the spot left open by jjakji, who had forfeited to compete in WCS Europe instead.
Starting with twelve players, the wild card tournament came down to a three way contest between ParalyzE, Dream, and Cure. The Code S spot was set to go to the first player who could win two games in a 3-way round robin, but the players tied at 1-1 four times in a row. In the fifth go around, Paralyze was finally able to go 2-0 and take claim the prize.
The Code S player list has been finalized, with the tournament set to begin on February 5th.
Paralyze is quite cewl, Woulda hoped for Stork or something tho, but this is definately something in itself! I guess some will be upset about another toss tho xD
Just like i say every GSL round: Fuck me, this is some serious amount of skill in one tournament. I consider at least half of them to be worthy of Code S. Imo like 1/4 of the players could win the tournament.
edit: I am missing Bomber, Taeja, TLHero and Jaedong . I guess making foreigners look like scrubs and getting money for it has also its benefits :D.
I predict a repeat of 2011 GSL October and there will be only one of the least represented race in the round of 16. But this time Maru will make the finals and heroically stand his ground against Dear.