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2021 GSL Season 1 Code A matches announced

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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55570 Posts
March 13 2021 09:43 GMT
#1
Afreeca has announced the match-ups for the return of Code A for 2021 GSL season 1. The season is set to start on Monday, March 22. Indeed the GSL broadcast schedule this year will be different from the past few years, with matches taking place Monday/Thursday at 18:30 KST (as opposed to Wednesday 18:30 KST/Saturday 13:00 KST).

Code A will take place across 3 matchdays, with a total of 8 best of 5 matches to determine the players who advance to Code S. The infamous GSL Ro16 group selection will take place right after the final Code A match.

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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55570 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-03-13 10:06:15
March 13 2021 09:45 GMT
#2
Of course with the Code A format it was inevitable for some high end players to have a bad roll of the die. But PartinG vs Dark is extremely high on the side of bad things that could have happened. Also sOs and Percival and Stats and Bunny were in the same qualifier groups so here's my obligatory complaint about them playing immediately.

Poll: Match of death?

PartinG vs Dark (144)
 
62%

Cure vs ByuN (38)
 
16%

TY vs Prince (17)
 
7%

Stats vs Bunny (8)
 
3%

sOs vs Percival (7)
 
3%

Maru vs Creator (6)
 
3%

RagnaroK vs Hurricane (6)
 
3%

DRG vs SpeCial (5)
 
2%

231 total votes

Your vote: Match of death?

(Vote): TY vs Prince
(Vote): sOs vs Percival
(Vote): Maru vs Creator
(Vote): DRG vs SpeCial
(Vote): Cure vs ByuN
(Vote): RagnaroK vs Hurricane
(Vote): Stats vs Bunny
(Vote): PartinG vs Dark

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-03-13 12:56:12
March 13 2021 11:33 GMT
#3
Ouch, PartinG v Dark and Cure v ByuN are disgusting, as is Stats-Bunny.

Looking forward to the GSL starting again.

Even though it sucks for Americas, I'm happy that they dropped the early broadcast. It had become a bad fit now that progamers have to stay up all night to participate in online tournaments.
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Andi_Goldberger
Profile Joined July 2018
Germany1608 Posts
March 13 2021 13:29 GMT
#4
parting vs dark is brutal for the bigboy wtf

Selfishly I hope they keep the 1830kst schedule for code S, 5 AM GSL always hurt
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[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24238 Posts
March 13 2021 14:21 GMT
#5
Of course we were bound to get unfortunate match-ups, but damn, PartinG - Dark, Stats - Bunny, ByuN - Cure, those are hard ones !

Looking forward to the tourney
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
March 13 2021 16:32 GMT
#6
Man one of SOS and Percival gets to the Ro16 while one of Dark and Parting is eliminated allready.
MaxPax
rwala
Profile Joined December 2019
336 Posts
March 13 2021 17:26 GMT
#7
Is this a new format something akin to the OG Code A format? It seems weird to me that 2 out of Cure, Byun, Dark, and PartinG wouldn't be in the group stages
catplanetcatplanet
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
3835 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-03-13 18:04:49
March 13 2021 18:03 GMT
#8
i've returned to the opinion that cure is overrated so he'll probably smack byun. Parting vs dark is definitely wild though. I worry that a fair number of these series will be onesided tbh, don't think this format is good for underdogs.

Maru vs creator prime reunion. I dunno if they've played against each other since maru made creator cry in proleague
I think it's finally time to admit it might not be the year of Pet
InvictusRage
Profile Joined August 2011
United States230 Posts
March 13 2021 20:44 GMT
#9
On March 14 2021 02:26 rwala wrote:
Is this a new format something akin to the OG Code A format? It seems weird to me that 2 out of Cure, Byun, Dark, and PartinG wouldn't be in the group stages


This is basically re-branding what used to be the Code S Round of 24 as 'Code A'. Not entirely sure why; lot more opportunity for major players to be unavoidably eliminated when the format is single-elim Bo5 instead of group stage.
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55570 Posts
March 13 2021 21:02 GMT
#10
On March 14 2021 01:32 dbRic1203 wrote:
Man one of SOS and Percival gets to the Ro16 while one of Dark and Parting is eliminated allready.

I mean sOs earned the higher seed by 2-0'ing Dark, to be fair.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
ZAWGURN
Profile Joined July 2018
96 Posts
March 14 2021 03:35 GMT
#11
apparently all the Team NV players are playing against each other
CJ herO #1 fan.
neutralrobot
Profile Joined July 2011
Australia1025 Posts
March 14 2021 05:14 GMT
#12
On March 14 2021 03:03 catplanetcatplanet wrote:
i've returned to the opinion that cure is overrated so he'll probably smack byun. Parting vs dark is definitely wild though. I worry that a fair number of these series will be onesided tbh, don't think this format is good for underdogs.

Maru vs creator prime reunion. I dunno if they've played against each other since maru made creator cry in proleague


Maru vs Creator is the saddest match I can think of. Maybe it's because I see Creator as a really tragic figure in general, but goddamn. Creator should get crushed. And by his former long-time teammate, who totally eclipsed him.
Maru | Life | PartinG || I guess I like aggressive control freaks... || Reynor will one day reign supreme || *reyn supreme
Irukandji30
Profile Joined August 2016
15 Posts
March 14 2021 09:15 GMT
#13
No Teaja?
Heartland
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Sweden24602 Posts
March 14 2021 10:30 GMT
#14
Percival is a really cool nick
HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
March 14 2021 10:59 GMT
#15
Oh man that's so rough for Parting.... Sad Naruto forgot to invite him to HSC and now he gets to face Dark.
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
392 Posts
March 14 2021 11:50 GMT
#16
Bad luck with the broadcast days. Only very limited live watching possible now for me but well, can't be helped.
MinixTheNerd
Profile Joined July 2019
200 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-03-14 14:03:12
March 14 2021 14:01 GMT
#17
wait they are doing this in a single round? I would have thought they would try to do groups like in the GSL up and down days.
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
March 14 2021 14:16 GMT
#18
It's not like PartinG is an easy opponent for Dark,
the matchup is unfortunate for both.
mikedupp
Profile Joined May 2020
233 Posts
March 14 2021 14:19 GMT
#19
Was there any reason for why gsl changed the format?
tommey.liang
Profile Joined November 2020
United States363 Posts
March 14 2021 15:21 GMT
#20
Code A reminds me of the old school days, nice.
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