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Following the conclusion of the Code S Season 3 finals, Blizzard announced that the round-of-sixteen of the 2019 WCS Global Finals will be held in Seoul, South Korea. A major format change was also announced, with all group stage matches being expanded to best-of-fives.
The Ro16 group stage matches will be held between October 24th and 27th at AfreecaTV's Freec Up studio, the home of the GSL. The Ro8 playoffs through to the grand finals will be played on November 1st at BlizzCon.
October 24: Group A - 12:00 PM KST / 5:00 AM CEST / 8:00 PM PDT-1
October 25: Group B - 12:00 PM KST / 5:00 AM CEST / 8:00 PM PDT-1
October 26: Group C - 12:00 PM KST / 5:00 AM CEST / 8:00 PM PDT-1
October 27: Group D - 12:00 PM KST / 4:00 AM CET / 8:00 PM PDT-1
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So the foreigners have to fly across the whole world hmmm... Let's see if this can stop Serral
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So this means Classic can play the WCS,right?
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On September 28 2019 19:04 fealx wrote:
So the foreigners have to fly across the whole world hmmm... Let's see if this can stop Serral
Pornainen is closer to Seoul than to Anaheim.
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On September 28 2019 19:06 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2019 19:04 fealx wrote:
So the foreigners have to fly across the whole world hmmm... Let's see if this can stop Serral Pornainen is closer to Seoul than to Anaheim.
But they will fly to Anaheim after the Ro16
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On September 28 2019 19:05 FBTsingLoong wrote:
So this means Classic can play the WCS,right?
There's no real point in letting him play the Ro16 if he can't play the Ro8.
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On September 28 2019 19:07 ZigguratOfUr wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2019 19:05 FBTsingLoong wrote:
So this means Classic can play the WCS,right? There's no real point in letting him play the Ro16 if he can't play the Ro8.
Just gamble on him getting eliminated in groups 
There's still no official word. This issue has been talked about since IEM Katowice. If nothing else Blizzard would have had ample time to look into making travel for Classic possible. But we still haven't heard more than guesses. And I mean maybe he gets drafted right after the Super Tournament and the question answers itself, who knows? We don't.
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So, Classic can still play and the remaining two spots will be fought fiercely among Stats, TY, Dear and Ragnarok themselves.
What will Rogue do to Stats since he admittedly say Stats helped him as training partner?
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if the group stages are at the gsl studio does this mean we're gonna get gsl production for Blizzcon??
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On September 28 2019 19:22 swarminfestor wrote:
So, Classic can still play and the remaining two spots will be fought fiercely among Stats, TY, Dear and Ragnarok themselves.
What will Rogue do to Stats since he admittedly say Stats helped him as training partner?
Hopefully, Stats will win and get precious WCS points!
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On September 28 2019 19:22 swarminfestor wrote:
So, Classic can still play and the remaining two spots will be fought fiercely among Stats, TY, Dear and Ragnarok themselves.
What will Rogue do to Stats since he admittedly say Stats helped him as training partner?
Dear isn't gonna do any fighting. herO is in jeopardy though.
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On September 28 2019 19:07 ZigguratOfUr wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2019 19:05 FBTsingLoong wrote:
So this means Classic can play the WCS,right? There's no real point in letting him play the Ro16 if he can't play the Ro8.
you get prize money for showing up though. Would be unfair imo if they don't let him play the ro16 then.
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On September 28 2019 19:25 Charoisaur wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2019 19:07 ZigguratOfUr wrote:On September 28 2019 19:05 FBTsingLoong wrote:
So this means Classic can play the WCS,right? There's no real point in letting him play the Ro16 if he can't play the Ro8. you get prize money for showing up though. Would be unfair imo if they don't let him play the ro16 then.
Would also be unfair if then he had to give up his spot in the Ro8 if he advances from the group stage because it's no longer in Korea. And this is still under the assumption the military doesn't draft him in before the Global Finals start.
Also don't the players outside of the top 16 get money from War Chest this year?
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This is a nice move by Blizzard. It brings some hype to the Korean scene and gives us the stellar Afreeca production with a real studio audience instead of the empty-studio-nasl-sound-guy-waiting-fest we're used to. I bet it even saves Blizzard money.
This also means that we will finally get a blizzcon where everyone is equally jetlagged. Way to achieve balance, guys.
As for the foreigners, since they have nothing else to do at the moment they can just fly in to Seoul early to get used to the time zone and enjoy the advantage of the superior practice environment.
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On September 28 2019 19:30 sneakyfox wrote:
This is a nice move by Blizzard. It brings some hype to the Korean scene and gives us the stellar Afreeca production with a real studio audience instead of the empty-studio-nasl-sound-guy-waiting-fest we're used to. I bet it even saves Blizzard money.
This also means that we will finally get a blizzcon where everyone is equally jetlagged. Way to achieve balance, guys.
As for the foreigners, since they have nothing else to do at the moment they can just fly in to Seoul early to get used to the time zone and enjoy the advantage of the superior practice environment.
If they get there too early they will accidentally teach the Korean Zergs how to play ZvZ, seems risky.
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On September 28 2019 19:30 sneakyfox wrote:
This is a nice move by Blizzard. It brings some hype to the Korean scene and gives us the stellar Afreeca production with a real studio audience instead of the empty-studio-nasl-sound-guy-waiting-fest we're used to. I bet it even saves Blizzard money.
This also means that we will finally get a blizzcon where everyone is equally jetlagged. Way to achieve balance, guys.
As for the foreigners, since they have nothing else to do at the moment they can just fly in to Seoul early to get used to the time zone and enjoy the advantage of the superior practice environment.
im already hype for blizzcon, but man gsl production is so much better than wcs production. gonna be hype as fuck now
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for once I don't have to stay up too late to watch Ro 16 for Global Finals.
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On September 28 2019 19:33 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2019 19:30 sneakyfox wrote:
This is a nice move by Blizzard. It brings some hype to the Korean scene and gives us the stellar Afreeca production with a real studio audience instead of the empty-studio-nasl-sound-guy-waiting-fest we're used to. I bet it even saves Blizzard money.
This also means that we will finally get a blizzcon where everyone is equally jetlagged. Way to achieve balance, guys.
As for the foreigners, since they have nothing else to do at the moment they can just fly in to Seoul early to get used to the time zone and enjoy the advantage of the superior practice environment.
If they get there too early they will accidentally teach the Korean Zergs how to play ZvZ, seems risky.
Even if they would meet in ladder game, I doubt that Dark and slumping Soo would adapt their zvz style that quick
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Wooooo hooooo. No longer have to watch Global Finals at 2 AM is awesome. For the first half, that is T_T
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