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The Code S Season 2 qualifiers were held on June 22nd, turning over four spots from season one.
Astrea and SpeCial were the notable non-Korean players to qualify, while TY earned his first Code S appearance after concluding his military service (having failed to make the qualifier cutoff in season one).
Code S Season 2 will be held from July 4th to July 27th. The starting groups for the RO16 will be announced at a later date. While Season 1 was played largely online, the entirety of Season 2 will be played live from the FreecUP studio.
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DRG out? Wow. Otherwise, going by the out/in list. no big surprises to me.
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Fun to see TY, but I will be missing soO, DRG, and Stats 
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On June 23 2023 04:54 SoleSteeler wrote:Fun to see TY, but I will be missing soO, DRG, and Stats
This times 100
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Wow surprised by Stats, Innovation, DRG not making it, dang... but at least TY made it! Also grats to Astrea and Special, that'll be good for viewership, as well as having another Protoss!
Grats to Nightmare making it again... surprised considering his performance the last couple years of barely ever getting into GSL.
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Northern Ireland27477 Posts
Really feels that 16 is a little too thin
Maybe in a year’s time that cutoff may be required but it feels that there’s still enough quality players of comparative competitive quality who we’ll miss seeing with the format changes
24 would give space for the usual suspects, the few foreigners who are still giving the Korea thing a shot, and a couple remaining for some new blood to get established
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I agree that with the current field (the established scene + returnees + foreigners) 16 feels a bit low.
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Yeah 20 would be much better than 16 even, if we're going to not do the Ro10 RR thing and thus have less days in the studio, then maybe we can go back up to Ro20 at least, and just have 1 more group or something?
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On June 23 2023 06:00 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
Wow surprised by Stats, Innovation, DRG not making it, dang... but at least TY made it! Also grats to Astrea and Special, that'll be good for viewership, as well as having another Protoss!
Grats to Nightmare making it again... surprised considering his performance the last couple years of barely ever getting into GSL.
Inno didn't even attend, did he? really sad, my dad especially is a big fan of Inno (and soO too)
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Cricketer12
United States14003 Posts
Stats AND DRG out fuuuuuuck
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On June 23 2023 10:36 Cricketer12 wrote:
Stats AND DRG out fuuuuuuck
oof, didnt even notice drg. thats a hard pill to swallow dude is so passionate where as its been questionable how much Stats is really practicing.
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Seriously impressive stuff from Special and Astrea to qualify for this round, the qualifiers are extremely competitive now.
Sad to see DRG out. but he's been having a bit of a mixed run lately. He basically got replaced by Ragnarok who's in a very similar spot.
Hard to see how the usual favorites aren't still favorites again this season though. Maru obviously followed by Dark, Gumiho, Solar, Bunny, Byun and Cure.
Maybe herO has some tricks up his sleeves for us this season? How is TY going to look coming back, and will Classic be able to show anything better than his most recent form against Serral in PvZ?
All questions that remain to be seen.
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Looking at the bracket, I really missed Rogue and Trap. When do they come back?
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creator will win 
Remember when FXO spear randomly requalified for gsl after like 8 years? and then immediately disappeared again? I hope we get another moment like that sometime
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Northern Ireland27477 Posts
On June 24 2023 06:15 swarminfestor wrote:
Looking at the bracket, I really missed Rogue and Trap. When do they come back?
My memory may be faulty I think Trap wasn’t planning on coming back post-military
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Some players said they would not come back to SC2 after military, but I guess they have nothing else to do and might just try it. Inno was saying he retired for good before leaving for military, yet he was in S1 of GSL this year, but I guess how committed they are will depend on the result.
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