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United States33650 Posts
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The Global StarCraft II League will continue into 2023!
Following the conclusion of Super Tournament II, the final GSL tournament of 2022, AfreecaTV CEO Jung Chan Yong took the stage to announce that "GSL will continue next year as well on AfreecaTV."
Beyond that statement, no further details were offered at the time. To use this current season's announcements as a reference, AfreecaTV announced the details for the 2022 GSL Tour on January 18th of this year, while ESL announced the 2022/23 ESL Pro Tour on January 7th.
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Fantastic news, Hope to see more Starcraft 2 as well more exciting Semi-finals and disappointing Finals
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Bisutopia19368 Posts
Awesome! I still watch every broadcast possible.
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Used to watch several hours of esports daily before life got busy.
GSL is the only thing still consistently on my radar after 15 years. That and the odd ASL stream.
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Awesome news, but I am still a bit worried, that they might tone it down to two GSLs (+ ST) a year.
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Guys, you need to worry about only one thing: GSL can move to afreeca.tv. And it is real.
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France12992 Posts
Less GSL is better than no GSL. I doubt I would still watch StarCraft 2 without the Korean scene, so this is an awesome news for sure!
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On December 09 2022 10:05 Waxangel wrote:
The Global StarCraft II League will continue into 2023!
a big thanks to ATVI , Blizzard and most of all Bobby Kotick for funding another season of SC2 even though there is zero chance of making a profit on it.
In 2010, the C&C franchise was the top non-Blizzard RTS and C&C4 released around the same time as SC2. Interesting to contrast the state of C&C esports with Starcraft esports.
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With respect to State I would like to see Artosis return to the broadcast. I wouldn't mind him doing it from Canada.
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Best sc2 related news I have heard in years besides the recent patch announcements!
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Thanks so much ! Boy, that makes me so happy !!
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PTR patch and further support in 2023
Bless us, everyone
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This is wonderful news, was starting to get worried about the future of SC2 ESPORTS with no news about 2023. Hopefully some kind of ESL contract/pro tour goes through, but in the meantime I mostly watch GSL so it's great to know that I won't have nothing to watch next year.
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Hopefully they'll let Artosis cast instead of the new guy
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Good to hear the best tournament will continue.
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United States33650 Posts
On December 09 2022 18:16 depressed1 wrote:btw where is mr.SEO, aka the best CEO of all time? + Show Spoiler +
he stepped down as CEO around this time last year
he's still with AfreecaTV under some kind of honorary position but no longer the CEO
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
GSL continues and patch notes all in the same week, good week for StarCraft II
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This is wonderful news, GSL is THE tournament.
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On December 10 2022 11:08 tlnetuser108 wrote:
Hopefully they'll let Artosis cast instead of the new guy
I rather have a fresh new face than a stale one
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Serral this might be your last chance.
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Canada8990 Posts
I will keep a prudent posture for now, but if it does go on next year in a traditionnal"ish" format SC2 will have defied my expectation once again.
I really thought this year was the year, but with the patch and now this, SC2 look like it will still be alive entering its 13th years, great news!
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On December 16 2022 00:20 Nakajin wrote:
I will keep a prudent posture for now, but if it does go on next year in a traditionnal"ish" format SC2 will have defied my expectation once again.
I really thought this year was the year, but with the patch and now this, SC2 look like it will still be alive entering its 13th years, great news!
same. It's actually rather unbelievable, but I'm okay with living the dream for at least one more year !
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On December 10 2022 11:08 tlnetuser108 wrote:
Hopefully they'll let Artosis cast instead of the new guy
I mean...Artosis is hosting The Grand Melee right now, an AoE 2 tournament at DreamHack Hannover, even though he barely has any knowledge about AoE 2. All while HSC is happening, of course also in Germany.
Honestly, I think Artosis and SC2 are just kind of done at this point? And I really don't mean that negative towards either him or the game, it is fine if you are just interested in other things at the moment.
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On December 17 2022 03:06 Balnazza wrote:Show nested quote +On December 10 2022 11:08 tlnetuser108 wrote:
Hopefully they'll let Artosis cast instead of the new guy I mean...Artosis is hosting The Grand Melee right now, an AoE 2 tournament at DreamHack Hannover, even though he barely has any knowledge about AoE 2. All while HSC is happening, of course also in Germany. Honestly, I think Artosis and SC2 are just kind of done at this point? And I really don't mean that negative towards either him or the game, it is fine if you are just interested in other things at the moment.
Yeah, the fact that Artosis chose to walk away from GSL should tell you about his "passion" for casting SC2. He probably just prefer to make a living now, so he will do whatever events that invite him and pay well.
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i'd bet GSL will be 16 players with the old format but starting from RO16 group stage
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I still have a chance to see Maru play live <3
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Has there been any murmurs or announcement of a start for the new season?
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On December 09 2022 15:11 SamirDuran wrote:
time for Maru to get 8SL
6SL
GS7
G8L (But 8 should be sideways, and showing infinity)
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EPT
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