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United States33709 Posts
Source: PlayXP
The Korean region is set for massive changes in 2015. Both GOMeXP and SpoTV will be running leagues for a total of six major tournaments in the year.
GOMeXP will hold three seasons of GSL with the tournament mostly unchanged from the existing Code A-Code S format. The prize money will be 100,000,000 won per tournament (down from 160,000,000 in 2014), with 40,000,000 won going to the winner. Players will be awarded an unspecified amount of WCS points.
SpoTV Games will hold three tournaments as well, with each tournament awarding 75,000,000 in total prize money (40,000,000 won to the winner). SpoTV's tournaments will be sixteen player tournaments and will award WCS points as well.
There are no region restrictions on GSL and or SpoTV tournaments, with players from any region able to compete.
Additionally, Blizzard has announced that outside GSL and SpoTV's "regular" tournaments, there will be several more WCS-point giving tournaments held in Korea.
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Korea (South)10 Posts
also this article include that region lock is exception in korea
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United States33709 Posts
On October 31 2014 12:22 MirGStarlight wrote:
also this article include that region lock is exception in korea
"There are no region restrictions on GSL and or SpoTV tournaments, with players from any region able to compete."
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Korea (South)10 Posts
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Excellent news! I also like how the prize money will likely end up being more spread out next year with this format, looks like a huge win for the korean scene!
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On October 31 2014 12:19 Dodgin wrote:Show nested quote +On October 31 2014 12:18 ZigguratOfUr wrote:On October 31 2014 12:14 Dodgin wrote:
Wow. That's really interesting. Has the Starcraft II scene in Korea ever had a big weekend style tournament? WCG 2011 in Busan, WCS 2013 Season 1 finals.
Neither of these had Dreamhack style open brackets. That's what I really want to see.
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Well, the region lock technically applies since you'd have to be able to be at the studio whenever your match is...
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
Did they announce 2nd place prize pool? So we can know how much soO makes next year?
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Korea getting the attention is deserves, nice change up from the passed 2 years
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There are no region restrictions on GSL and or SpoTV tournaments, with players from any region able to compete.
Does this mean that WCS AM/EU players can try to play in GSL and SPOTV or will they have to choose KR?
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
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oh yesssssssssssssssssssss
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Caldeum1977 Posts
Hopefully this will help some proleague players get more exposure.
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Very happy about this..... the Korean scene needs this!
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Hopefully, this keeps the Korean SC2 scene alive growing until LotV.
Great stuff! Hoping VoDs are easy access.
Jaedong back to Korea, please!
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On October 31 2014 12:24 lost_artz wrote:
Korea getting the attention is deserves, nice change up from the passed 2 years
I think this is a product of a very successful 2014 Proleague season
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Yay, more GSL(equivalents)
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Canada16217 Posts
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