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KR media rumor: 2024 to be last year of GSL

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StarcraftHistorian United States244 Posts February 20 2024 13:18 GMT #1 Korean esports media member Kenzi has tweeted that there’s a rumor GSL is to be canceled. Absolute gut punch if it’s the case. No sources or other info as of yet. Thoughts?

Branch.AUT Austria853 Posts February 20 2024 13:25 GMT #2 Money starved league finally allowd the sweet embrace of death. If this happens, I will be sad. However, the writing has been on the wall for so long. I can't say I will be surprised.

Balnazza Germany1381 Posts February 20 2024 13:29 GMT #3 Would kind of make sense that they just scrambled one (or two) more together to not let the EPT Circuit run out. And from there we have to look if there even will be another EPT - because without it, GSL is just pointless at this rate.

dbRic1203 Germany2655 Posts February 20 2024 13:34 GMT #4 GSL has been an empty hull with a glamourus name for quite some time now. This seasons qualifier were the weakest, saddest afair ever. It s probably for the best, if they let it finally Rest. I d assume ESL and Saudi money will put together some kind of EPT KR similar to the other EPT events (but probably with less players) in that case

FFXthebest 75 Posts February 20 2024 14:37 GMT #5 About time. Weak qualifier, weak attendance, weak prize pool etc. Maybe they could still run the tournament but via offline similar to all the smaller tournaments Since this tournament still provide the KR scene some $$ and practice

Nebuchad Switzerland12610 Posts February 20 2024 14:39 GMT #6 Sounds like a good idea

Charoisaur Germany16103 Posts February 20 2024 15:37 GMT #7 That's not exactly news. There's a rumor it will be cancelled since like 2018

Durnuu 13326 Posts February 20 2024 15:44 GMT #8 Wouldn't be much of a surprise

M3t4PhYzX Poland4300 Posts February 20 2024 15:58 GMT #9 More ASLs then, hopefully. Not the worst news, tbh.

Glorfindelio 232 Posts February 20 2024 16:02 GMT #10 Sign of the times

Nathanias United States290 Posts February 20 2024 16:27 GMT #11 He deleted his tweet so in respect I'm just replacing my original message with a "fingers crossed." Godspeed to all the Korean players still committed to SC2.

dysenterymd 1250 Posts February 20 2024 16:35 GMT #12 Not surprising but hopefully not true . I wonder if there will be EPT Korea, or if Korea will become a part of EPT Asia (with Asia getting far more spots to compensate)? The latter would make more financial sense and would probably result in a bigger prize pool that would mostly be won by Koreans. As long as more spots are given it might even be fine for the Chinese scene - Oliveira is good, and Cyan/Firefly/Coffee are in the same ballpark as marginal Code S players like Stats, Nightmare, and non-WTL Ryung. Or maybe the whole scene just implodes.

Waxangel United States33712 Posts February 20 2024 16:37 GMT #13 Tweet was deleted But even without an industry-insider rumor, I think the SC2 community has been reasonably speculating for a while now that GSL is on unsure footing, and any season could be its last.

Chris_Havoc United States600 Posts February 20 2024 16:49 GMT #14 Kenzi is usually a reliable source. He may have received conflicting information.

Zzzapper 1798 Posts February 20 2024 17:11 GMT #15 Regardless of what happens, GSL continuing seems to barely make sense right now. Of course, it has a certain status and a place in the heart of the fans but the qualifiers for the coming season were unbelievably soft, and the prize pool is half that of even the lowest paying Asia regionals of the EPT. Even without a prize pool increase, Korean players would be better of economically if they just got merged into Asia in a potential 2024/25 season, except for a few players near the bottom who might then fail to qualify. It would probably also lead to better matches if we got e.g. Oliveira and Firefly in there instead of Stats and soO, as sad as it feels to say that. Even more so after the next round of players heading to the military. This model would certainly be terrible for the Chinese scene though

Waxangel United States33712 Posts February 20 2024 17:27 GMT #16 oh wait he reposted it, shrug

Gavus_canarchiste 5 Posts February 20 2024 18:00 GMT #17 The last GSL has been prophetized for 2020 in... 2017. So we got at least 4 bonus years, sprinkled with nice narratives and epic games. We've been blessed!

gingerfluffmuffnr2 107 Posts February 20 2024 18:16 GMT #18 There havent really been any new players, so it was stagnating anyway. In my eyes it died like 2 yrs ago. GomTV rocked, even if the meta was trash RIP GSL

WombaT Northern Ireland27473 Posts February 20 2024 18:26 GMT #19 That would suck to an incredible degree, just across the board.

Mizenhauer United States1970 Posts February 20 2024 18:58 GMT #20 It's finally come full circle. https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/528630-short-story-the-last-gsl

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