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GSL play-in matches for Season Finals (June 18)

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
June 16 2020 17:21 GMT
#1
As part of the revamped EPT circuit, every season features Season Finals during which the top finishers of each region compete in a global online tournament for additional EPT points and prize money. While the qualification process for these tournaments had already been laid out by ESL and DreamHack for almost all regions, South Korea was still undecided. It has now been announced that the GSL will hold decider matches to determine the final two slots of its lineup. (Wiki)TY, (Wiki)Cure, (Wiki)PartinG and (Wiki)INnoVation, the top 4 finishers of last season, have already accepted their invites to the Season 1 Finals.

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The two decider matches will be held on 18 June, between (Wiki)Dark vs (Wiki)Maru and (Wiki)Dear vs (Wiki)Trap, who finished in 5th-8th.
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DiMano
Profile Joined July 2011
Korea (South)2066 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-16 17:29:14
June 16 2020 17:29 GMT
#2
Dark and Trap for race balance
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-16 17:40:00
June 16 2020 17:37 GMT
#3
Hey this comess unexpected
I thought they would just take the ept standing and be done with it
Is this one double elimination group or just those 2 matches?
MaxPax
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
June 16 2020 17:40 GMT
#4
So are these bo5s? And is it on the new map pool or the old GSL one (with Obsidian)?
BaneRiders
Profile Joined August 2013
Sweden3630 Posts
June 16 2020 17:41 GMT
#5
Make a 2v2 out of it instead. Dark & Maru vs Dear and Trap. Winning team takes the two slots.
Earth, Water, Air and Protoss!
bObA
Profile Joined May 2012
France300 Posts
June 16 2020 17:42 GMT
#6
WTF is the this ?
But good to see Dark vs Maru !
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55583 Posts
June 16 2020 17:49 GMT
#7
Wow for the first time in 7 years we're crowning 5th and 6th places in GSL
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Durnuu
Profile Joined September 2013
13324 Posts
June 16 2020 18:06 GMT
#8
On June 17 2020 02:49 Elentos wrote:
Wow for the first time in 7 years we're crowning 5th and 6th places in GSL

Oh yeah, for WCS finals. Good times
BUNNYYYYYYYYY https://i.imgur.com/BiCF577.png
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33638 Posts
June 16 2020 18:13 GMT
#9
what a nice appetizer for GSL ^_^

altho this appetizer is a bit like getting foie gras covered in ketchup
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
conormcgregor156
Profile Joined June 2020
22 Posts
June 16 2020 18:26 GMT
#10
I wished it was Maru vs. Dear and Trap vs. Dark, so that Maru and Dark would go to represent Korea in that tournament. But hey as someone above said, it's always good to see a Maru vs Dark.
ssg
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1777 Posts
June 16 2020 19:01 GMT
#11
Oh shit Maru vs dark. What time is that in American
TentativePanda
Profile Joined August 2014
United States800 Posts
June 16 2020 20:04 GMT
#12
Korea should have 2 more spots and been top 8 of season 1. Would’ve been weird but this is even weirder
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24239 Posts
June 16 2020 20:34 GMT
#13
cool stuff
JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4418 Posts
June 16 2020 21:01 GMT
#14
On one hand I really want Maru to play in this but it would be sad not to have a single Korean Zerg. They should have just done it based on GSL points rather than placement in the last season.
Shathe
Profile Joined July 2017
Hungary422 Posts
June 16 2020 21:05 GMT
#15
Omg now GSL top 4 gets another free entry for another Premier tourney...
I already hate the GSL seed into top 16. Rich gets richer.
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-16 21:09:17
June 16 2020 21:08 GMT
#16
On June 17 2020 06:05 Shathe wrote:
Omg now GSL top 4 gets another free entry for another Premier tourney...
I already hate the GSL seed into top 16. Rich gets richer.


How is qualifying through a full GSL season "free entry"? It's how every other regional EPT division also works.
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
June 16 2020 21:37 GMT
#17
On June 17 2020 06:01 JJH777 wrote:
On one hand I really want Maru to play in this but it would be sad not to have a single Korean Zerg. They should have just done it based on GSL points rather than placement in the last season.


Most recent GSL season's performance makes more sense than points given that there's several Masters, but points carry throughout the year. Doing well in the first GSL of the year shouldn't be relevant to qualifying for the second or third Masters.
Phredxor
Profile Joined May 2013
New Zealand15076 Posts
June 16 2020 21:43 GMT
#18
On June 17 2020 02:49 Elentos wrote:
Wow for the first time in 7 years we're crowning 5th and 6th places in GSL


And Trap was one of those places too. Along with j-god of course.
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55583 Posts
June 16 2020 21:45 GMT
#19
On June 17 2020 06:08 Olli wrote:
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On June 17 2020 06:05 Shathe wrote:
Omg now GSL top 4 gets another free entry for another Premier tourney...
I already hate the GSL seed into top 16. Rich gets richer.


How is qualifying through a full GSL season "free entry"? It's how every other regional EPT division also works.

Yeah this complaint - if at all - would apply to every region, not just Korea. But really the season finals are showdowns of the top finishing players of every division - aka a "rich get richer" invitational. That is very much the point.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33638 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-16 21:47:15
June 16 2020 21:46 GMT
#20
On June 17 2020 06:45 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 17 2020 06:08 Olli wrote:
On June 17 2020 06:05 Shathe wrote:
Omg now GSL top 4 gets another free entry for another Premier tourney...
I already hate the GSL seed into top 16. Rich gets richer.


How is qualifying through a full GSL season "free entry"? It's how every other regional EPT division also works.

Yeah this complaint - if at all - would apply to every region, not just Korea. But really the season finals are showdowns of the top finishing players of every division - aka a "rich get richer" invitational. That is very much the point.


Starcraft equity is a fun topic. If you smoothed out prize curves even further, would selective players like Dark and Maru participate in MORE events, or would they just retire? What's the breaking point for equity where that happens?
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
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