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After the standard post BlizzCon break, Korean StarCraft II resumed with the qualifiers for 2018 GSL Season 1. Taking place over two days, the first day of action featured a who’s who of Korean pros as well as a number of foreigners.
The players were organized into eight double elimination groups which were played over two sessions. When the dust settled, sixteen players had booked their ticket to Code S, with
 sOs,  Scarlett, soO, Classic, Dark, Trap,  INnoVation, Dear, herO, Impact, Stats, GuMiho, Rogue, aLive, Creator and TY making up the first half of Season 1’s participants.
The players who failed to qualify will reconvene on December 27th, with Maru, Zest, SpeCial and more looking to make up for day one disappointments and fill out the Code S ranks.
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On December 26 2017 21:03 Za7oX wrote:
TY, Byun ?
Xmas vacation.
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TY made it as well, tell the thread opener to edit his post.
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Go BurlaCzech! Destroy that pathetic Cure!
Take your revenge after today!
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On December 26 2017 21:04 Riner1212 wrote:Xmas vacation.
On December 26 2017 21:12 bulya wrote:
TY made it as well, tell the thread opener to edit his post.
So, which is it ?
Also it's cool seeing a foreigner go through. Did Parting participate ?
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Hopefully Zest makes it day 2 otherwise that would be a big disapointment
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Thread says TY qualified :D
Byun didn't turn up to qualified on Day 1 which means he can't come day 2, so no idea what his plans are.
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Afreeca don't want Cure to win 3 GSL in 2018, so they gave him ro8 players instead of code A ...
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On December 26 2017 21:43 Zaros wrote:
Hopefully Zest makes it day 2 otherwise that would be a big disapointment
I was under the impression that Day 1 and Day 2 are different players. You sign up for one or the other. You don't get a second chance (that's what the loser's bracket is for)?
Anyways, it seems like Maru, ByuL, and Zest are the big names not qualified.
Edit: Nvm I guess it's different this year! Nice that everyone has a second chance.
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On December 26 2017 21:43 Pandemona wrote:
Thread says TY qualified :D
Byun didn't turn up to qualified on Day 1 which means he can't come day 2, so no idea what his plans are.
He loved his Marines, did not he? So it is pretty obvious.
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On December 26 2017 21:56 DieuCure wrote:
Afreeca don't want Cure to win 3 GSL in 2018, so they gave him ro8 players instead of code A ...
BurlaCzech is not RO8, even when it is nice of you to evaluate him so highly. But do not underestimate him! Cure will pay his price if he meets BurlaCzech again.
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On December 26 2017 21:57 Brutaxilos wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2017 21:43 Zaros wrote:
Hopefully Zest makes it day 2 otherwise that would be a big disapointment I was under the impression that Day 1 and Day 2 are different players. You sign up for one or the other. You don't get a second chance (that's what the loser's bracket is for)? Anyways, it seems like Maru, ByuL, and Zest are the big names not qualified.
You should read the thread.
It's really explicit on Afreeca's thread.
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Hopefully Zest makes it day 2 otherwise that would be a big disapointment
Yup but i'm pretty confident that he will make it, he is looking very solid at the moment and I dont see him out of code S this season
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Maru and Zest, ladder heroes forever 
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-Even with the new format, there was a huge disparity in the difficulty of some of these groups. I know they use some sort of point system to seed the groups, but it would be nice if they'd follow that up with a human going through and making small adjustments as needed. At the very least, the non-Korean should be slapped in the more difficult groups. (They succeeded with SpeCial's group but failed with Scarlett's)
If they put more than one of Maru, Zest, Solar, or Ryung in a group tomorrow, that would be borderline criminal.
-It looks like we'll only have 2 or 3 non-Koreans (Scarlett plus likely SpeCial with either SortOf or DnS as a possibility) next season. That's much better than season 3 of last year though it is still killing Korean Starcraft.
-I'm glad Creator qualified this time. He seemed crushed when he failed to qualify for season 3 last year and I thought there was a decent chance he was going to retire.
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Elentos
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On December 27 2017 01:26 Boggyb wrote:
At the very least, the non-Korean should be slapped in the more difficult groups
On what basis? They can straight-up ban non-Koreans if they consider it an issue, no need to pretend the tournament is open and then rig it.
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wow, group 3 of the afternoon session was stacked
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On December 27 2017 01:41 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On December 27 2017 01:26 Boggyb wrote:
At the very least, the non-Korean should be slapped in the more difficult groups On what basis? They can straight-up ban non-Koreans if they consider it an issue, no need to pretend the tournament is open and then rig it.
Imagine the day they have to ban foreigners from GSL to stop them from doing well
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2018 Global StarCraft II League Season 1/Qualifier
