2014 GSL Season 3 Code A Complete Groups - Page 5

On July 09 2014 11:21 TotalBiscuit wrote:
Code A.

Ten times harder than WCS EU Premier League.

On July 09 2014 12:04 Yakikorosu wrote:


Or WCS AM Premier League; look what Pigbaby did to it and he couldn't buy a SPL appearance when he was on Jin Air.

On July 09 2014 14:07 Redrot wrote:
Welp I don't see a lot of these Terrans advancing... INno, Flash, TY, Bbyong and Cure are the only ones I think who have decent chances.

Group A: INnoVation, Ruin
Group B: DRG, Panic
Group C: Dear, Dark
Group D: Rain, Cure
Group E: TY, ByuL
Group F: Flash, Symbol
Group G: Parting, Avenge(???tossup)
Group H: Trap, Bbyong
Group I: sOs, herO (holy shit)
Group J: Rogue, Life (root for bunny!)
Group K: SuperNova, Leenock
Group L: Stork, FanTasY

On July 11 2014 01:43 sc2isnotdying wrote:


New map pool, so I think its really hard to make predictions for Terrans based on recent results.

By the way, It's kind of absurd that Blizzard doesn't award more WCS points for players in the GSL Code A/S. I get that they want to region balance BlizzCon, but at the same time these GSL players just don't get the same opportunities to rack up easy(relative to the GSL that is) points at MLGs and Dreamhacks and the such so it really isn't region balanced at all.

Edit: So here's my thoery. Blizzard is still punishing KeSPA for holding up SC2 in Korea, thus the absurd WCS point system. Unfortunately this only punishes the players, and not really KeSPA at all.

On July 11 2014 01:55 Die4Ever wrote:

actually the region balance currently in the top 16 is 6 in GSL, 6 in WCS AM, and 4 in WCS EU

On July 11 2014 02:41 sc2isnotdying wrote:


Yes, your numbers are correct, but I was being more theoretical in my post.

Points available to GSL only players: 10,500/Season + 7,000 from KeSPA cup + 1,800 from GSL Global Championship

Points available to WCS AM/EU players: 10,5000/Season + twelve 4,000 point tourneys + six 1,800 pointers + a 7,000 pointer + a 3,375 pointer and another one TBD.

Now to be fair, some GSL players like SoS do travel to some foreign tourneys, but those opportunities to earn points just aren't as available to players with Proleague obligations. Blizzard could have easily corrected this imbalance by awarding, let's say, 30% more points to the GSL region. A boost of that magnitude wouldn't even change the overall region balance in the top 16 as it currently stands so it's not like Blizzard's goal of region balance would be severely damaged. Maru, Korea's consensus best Terran would STILL be on the outside looking in.

On July 11 2014 03:40 Orcasgt24 wrote:
Whens broadcasting start???? Code A was better than Code S RO32 last year

On July 15 2014 16:04 GumBa wrote:
So INno isnt playing tomorrow?

On July 11 2014 02:41 sc2isnotdying wrote:


Yes, your numbers are correct, but I was being more theoretical in my post.

Points available to GSL only players: 10,500/Season + 7,000 from KeSPA cup + 1,800 from GSL Global Championship

Points available to WCS AM/EU players: 10,5000/Season + twelve 4,000 point tourneys + six 1,800 pointers + a 7,000 pointer + a 3,375 pointer and another one TBD.

Now to be fair, some GSL players like SoS do travel to some foreign tourneys, but those opportunities to earn points just aren't as available to players with Proleague obligations. Blizzard could have easily corrected this imbalance by awarding, let's say, 30% more points to the GSL region. A boost of that magnitude wouldn't even change the overall region balance in the top 16 as it currently stands so it's not like Blizzard's goal of region balance would be severely damaged. Maru, Korea's consensus best Terran would STILL be on the outside looking in.