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AfreecaTV has announced the format of the 2020 season of GSL.
The yearlong tour still consists of three regular GSL Code S tournaments and two Super Tournaments. The biggest change in format is to Code S, which has shifted from a 32 player tournament to a 28 player tournament. GSL now begins with an initial first group stage of 24 players (down from 32). The 12 players that advance will join 4 seeded players in the second group stage (the round of 16). From there on out the format is the same as before, with eight players advancing to a single elimination playoffs.
Each Code S season awards a total of $140,000 USD (roughly the same as the 170,000,000 KRW awarded in 2020), while each Super Tournament awards $30,000 (previously 30,000,000 KRW). The total prize pool of $480,000 USD is roughly equivalent to last year's 570,000,000 KRW, depending on the exchange rate at the time.
As previously announced by ESL, the three GSL Code S winners will receive direct seeds to the Masters Championship at IEM Katowice 2021.
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All in all, everything is fine.
I do not understand the shift from KRW to USD. Are the players going to be screwed when they'll have to handle exchange themselves?
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Lets gooooo. Guess all the doomsday psychos can wait a couple more years to freak out. So much hype for this.
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On March 21 2020 01:09 Serimek wrote:
All in all, everything is fine.
I do not understand the shift from KRW to USD. Are the players going to be screwed when they'll have to handle exchange themselves?
Probably has to do with ESL now running the whole circuit. I doubt they'll get screwed since ESL and AfreecaTV are both companies with a lot of #passion for the game and care for the players so they surely have a way of making the process not so complicated for the player
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50585 Posts
So its the ASL format, seems good to me.
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Italy3490 Posts
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Rogue finally advances past the GSL ro8, wins the thing, but he won't even get his previous winner cheater ro16 group because he didn't make the ro4 in Super Tournament. I wonder if they'll give it to Trap if he makes the ro4 or the winner of the Super Tournament which will be Dark.
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On March 21 2020 02:32 Boggyb wrote:
Rogue finally advances past the GSL ro8, wins the thing, but he won't even get his previous winner cheater ro16 group because he didn't make the ro4 in Super Tournament. I wonder if they'll give it to Trap if he makes the ro4 or the winner of the Super Tournament which will be Dark.
I thought since it's a new season, the winner cheater gets reset?
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United States33488 Posts
The Code S changes leave me thinking both "why?" and "why not?"
It's a pretty miniscule change to go from 32 to 28 players, which makes you think they might as well have stayed at 32.
Then again, the pool of viable players has continued to shrink, qualifiers are pretty soft, and you save like two studio days worth of production (the most expensive part of all of this, I'd imagine). So I can't really blame them for doing some soft optimization here.
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South Korea2105 Posts
On March 21 2020 05:48 Waxangel wrote:
The Code S changes leave me thinking both "why?" and "why not?"
It's a pretty miniscule change to go from 32 to 28 players, which makes you think they might as well have stayed at 32.
Then again, the pool of viable players has continued to shrink, qualifiers are pretty soft, and you save like two studio days worth of production (the most expensive part of all of this, I'd imagine). So I can't really blame them for doing some soft optimization here.
consistency across their original content?
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Yasssss!! Thank you Afreeca. Support GSL!
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Excellent news. Non-stop GSL action from April to October.
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China6330 Posts
Code A hasn't been a thing for years and there aren't really enough talent in Korea to support a second tier league. They do call the GSL qualifier "Code A" though.
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On March 21 2020 02:10 JuanDi wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2020 01:09 Serimek wrote:
All in all, everything is fine.
I do not understand the shift from KRW to USD. Are the players going to be screwed when they'll have to handle exchange themselves? Probably has to do with ESL now running the whole circuit. I doubt they'll get screwed since ESL and AfreecaTV are both companies with a lot of #passion for the game and care for the players so they surely have a way of making the process not so complicated for the player
ESL does not have any involvement in the Korean tournaments. They are run by Afreeca, sponsored directly by Blizzard. Right now we have two organizers of the main SC2 tournaments, but they come together in the Master's championship at Katowice, which is run by ESL.
The reason the prizes our now given in USD could be due to the way Blizzard supports the tournaments now. Maybe they simply supply the prize pool (which they would do in USD), and Afreeca then handles the rest of the costs themselves.
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So GSL is adapting the ASL format? I'm fine with that
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On March 21 2020 04:54 Parrek wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2020 02:32 Boggyb wrote:
Rogue finally advances past the GSL ro8, wins the thing, but he won't even get his previous winner cheater ro16 group because he didn't make the ro4 in Super Tournament. I wonder if they'll give it to Trap if he makes the ro4 or the winner of the Super Tournament which will be Dark. I thought since it's a new season, the winner cheater gets reset?
It's the top seeded GSL player that gets the priviledge, isn't it? The winner of last season is usually the top seed, but they aren't always present in the ro16.
Looking back, season 1 has had the cheater swap. The cheater swap was nerfed in 2019 from being swap any of the non-seeded players to swap any player of your group with any other non-seeded player.
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