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Code S Season 2 - Round of 8 Groups

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-07-17 07:05:39
July 16 2023 22:34 GMT
#1

2023 Global StarCraft II League: Season 2
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With the conclusion of the round-of-16 play, the round-of-eight groups for Code S Season 2 have been drawn.

Group A (Tuesday, Jul 18 9:30am GMT (GMT+00:00)): (Wiki)ByuN, (Wiki)Solar, (Wiki)Maru, (Wiki)GuMiho

Group B (Thursday, Jul 20 9:30am GMT (GMT+00:00)): (Wiki)Dark, (Wiki)TY, (Wiki)Cure, (Wiki)herO

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Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2103 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-07-17 01:30:51
July 17 2023 00:27 GMT
#2
One of these groups looks 2x harder than the other.

Edit: Nevermind, these groups now look perfectly balanced. Sure glad Wax just messed up!
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
July 17 2023 00:59 GMT
#3
Liquipedia has different groups - which is what the original reddit thread had. Did something happen?
Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17729 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-07-17 01:09:52
July 17 2023 01:03 GMT
#4
On July 17 2023 09:59 Pandain wrote:
Liquipedia has different groups - which is what the original reddit thread had. Did something happen?


Liquipedia seemed to be correct

[image loading]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK5eBtuoj_HkdXKHNmBLAXg/community?lb=Ugkxdbs3tjx6DkcFwEmgHa3qTWeAfm51JVNm



idk what the source is for the picture in OP
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33592 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-07-17 01:11:28
July 17 2023 01:10 GMT
#5
On July 17 2023 10:03 Die4Ever wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 17 2023 09:59 Pandain wrote:
Liquipedia has different groups - which is what the original reddit thread had. Did something happen?


Liquipedia seemed to be correct

[image loading]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK5eBtuoj_HkdXKHNmBLAXg/community?lb=Ugkxdbs3tjx6DkcFwEmgHa3qTWeAfm51JVNm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hx0WNMPcfQ

idk what the source is for the picture in OP


misread their broadcast graphic whoops
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BruMeister
Profile Joined February 2012
United States90 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-07-17 02:09:37
July 17 2023 02:09 GMT
#6
Is there anyway I can watch the GSL live via AfreecaTV on a smart TV or Firestick? I used to watch it on YouTube via my Firestick on my TV, but ever since the GSL made the screen smaller on YouTube, I haven’t watched it live as much
Gescom
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada3510 Posts
July 17 2023 03:58 GMT
#7
On July 17 2023 11:09 BruMeister wrote:
Is there anyway I can watch the GSL live via AfreecaTV on a smart TV or Firestick? I used to watch it on YouTube via my Firestick on my TV, but ever since the GSL made the screen smaller on YouTube, I haven’t watched it live as much

I believe they fixed the tiny YT screen!
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Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17729 Posts
July 17 2023 04:13 GMT
#8
On July 17 2023 12:58 Gescom wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 17 2023 11:09 BruMeister wrote:
Is there anyway I can watch the GSL live via AfreecaTV on a smart TV or Firestick? I used to watch it on YouTube via my Firestick on my TV, but ever since the GSL made the screen smaller on YouTube, I haven’t watched it live as much

I believe they fixed the tiny YT screen!

only for VODs not for live
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FCHK
Profile Joined August 2020
202 Posts
July 17 2023 04:41 GMT
#9
Group B is on 20 Jul
Schelim
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Austria11528 Posts
July 17 2023 08:05 GMT
#10
what i think:

Maru and Solar

Dark and Cure

what i would love to see:

Byun and Gumiho

Dark and TY
TY <3 Cure <3 Inno <3 Special <3
mathenalin
Profile Joined June 2011
United Kingdom120 Posts
July 17 2023 08:21 GMT
#11
Groups for round of 8 sucks. Single Elimination provides more drama!
SmoKim
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark10305 Posts
July 17 2023 09:15 GMT
#12
On July 17 2023 17:21 mathenalin wrote:
Groups for round of 8 sucks. Single Elimination provides more drama!


Totally agree. Really hates that its not ro8 but ro4 single elimination.

Also wish it was ro24 group --> ro16 (top 4 from last season). With TY, Innovation, Classic and many more players returing - and the possiblity for newer players to break through, its such a waste to have it only be ro16 group stage.

I feel like this change could do that more Koreans will continue to play and not retire.
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Profile Joined October 2010
United States147 Posts
July 17 2023 10:06 GMT
#13
Counterpoint:
Oh good! They're groups. GuMiho can still get out.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26629 Posts
July 17 2023 10:16 GMT
#14
On July 17 2023 18:15 SmoKim wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 17 2023 17:21 mathenalin wrote:
Groups for round of 8 sucks. Single Elimination provides more drama!


Totally agree. Really hates that its not ro8 but ro4 single elimination.

Also wish it was ro24 group --> ro16 (top 4 from last season). With TY, Innovation, Classic and many more players returing - and the possiblity for newer players to break through, its such a waste to have it only be ro16 group stage.

I feel like this change could do that more Koreans will continue to play and not retire.

With the prize boost I’d feel there’s room to switch back, hopefully

At present there’s still too many Code S calibre players for spots, someone’s always missing out and it feels it’s cut a little too deeply
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Durnuu
Profile Joined September 2013
13322 Posts
July 17 2023 17:22 GMT
#15
On July 17 2023 19:16 WombaT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 17 2023 18:15 SmoKim wrote:
On July 17 2023 17:21 mathenalin wrote:
Groups for round of 8 sucks. Single Elimination provides more drama!


Totally agree. Really hates that its not ro8 but ro4 single elimination.

Also wish it was ro24 group --> ro16 (top 4 from last season). With TY, Innovation, Classic and many more players returing - and the possiblity for newer players to break through, its such a waste to have it only be ro16 group stage.

I feel like this change could do that more Koreans will continue to play and not retire.

With the prize boost I’d feel there’s room to switch back, hopefully

At present there’s still too many Code S calibre players for spots, someone’s always missing out and it feels it’s cut a little too deeply

Why bother holding qualifiers if you're gonna make sure every good player is in code S ?
Good players getting eliminated in code A / qualis always happened and that's part of what makes GSL hard (e.g Stats being absent from code S in 2016 while getting 2nd place in SSL)
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26629 Posts
July 17 2023 18:02 GMT
#16
On July 18 2023 02:22 Durnuu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 17 2023 19:16 WombaT wrote:
On July 17 2023 18:15 SmoKim wrote:
On July 17 2023 17:21 mathenalin wrote:
Groups for round of 8 sucks. Single Elimination provides more drama!


Totally agree. Really hates that its not ro8 but ro4 single elimination.

Also wish it was ro24 group --> ro16 (top 4 from last season). With TY, Innovation, Classic and many more players returing - and the possiblity for newer players to break through, its such a waste to have it only be ro16 group stage.

I feel like this change could do that more Koreans will continue to play and not retire.

With the prize boost I’d feel there’s room to switch back, hopefully

At present there’s still too many Code S calibre players for spots, someone’s always missing out and it feels it’s cut a little too deeply

Why bother holding qualifiers if you're gonna make sure every good player is in code S ?
Good players getting eliminated in code A / qualis always happened and that's part of what makes GSL hard (e.g Stats being absent from code S in 2016 while getting 2nd place in SSL)

16 feels too thin, I’m not a huge fan of group-group-Ro4 as a format either. With the prize pool cut I thought it was a reasonable change but there’s been a fair bit of boosting since.

Like it feels we lose something with that extra Ro8 gone in terms of seeing good prep Starcraft. A few good Bo3s in the group format and a player is a Ro4 player, when maybe the truncated format enables more volatility and they perhaps couldn’t run a longer gauntlet

Korean SC2 has also seen better days to put it mildly so, having those few extra spots gives at least some potential inroads to the more fringe players.

I don’t think it’s deep enough to go anywhere near back to 32 or anything like that these days
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