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Source: GOM eXP Press Materials
GOM eXP has announced that the GSL Global Tournament spots left vacant by MC and HyuN will be filled with the next highest placing players in WCS Europe and America.
WCS America semifinalists  Alicia and  Revival will play a ranking match for HyuN's spot. In WCS Europe, semifinalist San will claim MC's spot.
Originally, the GSL Global Tournament planned to invite the two finalists from GSL Code S, WCS America, and WCS Europe as seeded players. Thus, Zest, soO, MC, MMA, HyuN, and Oz all earned invitations. However, MC and HyuN declined their invitations to compete at DreamHack Bucharest instead (overlapping schedules). GOM eXP decided to fill their spots with the next highest placing players from their regions.
WCS Europe semifinalist jjakji will be competing at DreamHack as well, so MC's spot automatically passes down to the other semifinalist San. For WCS America, the two semifinalists Revival and Alicia will have a play-in match for the spot on April 18th.
The Global Tournament Roster has been determined as follows:
Online Group Stage Players: Top two qualify for main tournament
Group A:  Hack, PartinG, Squirtle, DongRaeGu, FanTaSy
Group B: Maru, Impact, Flash, Action, RorO
Main Tournament Players
WCS AM: HYuN, Oz, Alicia OR Revival
WCS EU: MC, MMA, jjakji, San
GSL Code S: Zest, soO
Online Group Winners: TBD
The online group stages will be played out on April 19-20. The live, "main" portion of the tournament will be played on April 24-25.
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Australia54784 Posts
damn, that's a real shame
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wow DH is worth more than GSL Global? :o
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Talk about lame. Hyun and MC would have been great for this, though San could also put up some competitive games I suppose.
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So bad that this could not be avoided, was so looking forward to MC glorious return to Korea
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Wow they choose DH Bucharest instead of going back home to see their families :s
I guess easier money as less Koreans but still! Such a shame, no idea to see how good MC and Hyun are now competing against the big boy Koreans >.<
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Fantasy to win it allllll
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Really takes some of the hype away. Looking like a very mediocre toss lineup outside of Zest (and Parting if he qualifies).
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This is a shame, but a completely understandable decision too. Changing flights on a week's notice is a bit of a mission and might have been hard to fit into their overall scheduling. Overlapping premier events will always have this problem.
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Going for the easier money is obviously the priority. Can't say I blame them as persons but as competitors its rather lame.
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On April 16 2014 19:46 Scarecrow wrote:
Really takes some of the hype away. Looking like a very mediocre toss lineup outside of Zest (and Parting if he qualifies).
I was actually about to jump all over that comment before I realized that I had missed the word "toss" (eg: wtf! DRG, Maru, Flash, Fantasy etc not hype??) but you are definitely correct, a couple of top Protosses that could potentially win the whole thing are missing.
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Well, 25k dollar prizepool at Bucharest surely looks more attractive than the 10k dollar prizepool at GSL, and the competition at Bucharest is not as fierce as it could have been with all the other recent champions attending GSL. Furthermore, DH is a higher tier tourney, and wins award more WCS points AND qualification for DH finals. I can understand MC and HyuNs decision.
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On April 16 2014 20:06 nunun wrote:
Well, 25k dollar prizepool at Bucharest surely looks more attractive than the 10k dollar prizepool at GSL, and the competition at Bucharest is not as fierce as it could have been with all the other recent champions attending GSL. Furthermore, DH is a higher tier tourney, and wins award more WCS points AND qualification for DH finals. I can understand MC and HyuNs decision.
nailed it!
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wow no MC, MMA will win GSL global.
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On April 16 2014 19:21 sharkie wrote:
wow DH is worth more than GSL Global? :o
Well, seeing how HyuN, MC, and jjakji all live in Europe and not Korea for the time being, I'd play in the tournament with less competition and without jetlag too if I were them.
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On April 16 2014 20:26 UlTiMa00 wrote:
wow no MC, MMA will win GSL global.
If MC wins DH i`m ok with this
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wow I didn't realize the gsl global tournament prize pool was so awful until now
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On April 16 2014 20:40 Dodgin wrote:
wow I didn't realize the gsl global tournament prize pool was so awful until now
It relied on the community for the prizepool, which in SC2 is generally a mistake. That said they went about promoting it in completely the wrong way.
It's hilarious really looking at the quality of the player pool, which will be far better than Dreamhacks.
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HyuN will also be participating in Copenhagen Games 2014 which is also overlapping with the GSL. Not just DreamHack Bucharest.
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United States33451 Posts
On April 16 2014 20:44 TotalBiscuit wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2014 20:40 Dodgin wrote:
wow I didn't realize the gsl global tournament prize pool was so awful until now It relied on the community for the prizepool, which in SC2 is generally a mistake. That said they went about promoting it in completely the wrong way. It's hilarious really looking at the quality of the player pool, which will be far better than Dreamhacks.
esp a mistake since they asked for it after killing their old website and offering a markedly worse product
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