EPTThe Tournament Cash prize is up to 200,000,000 Won(roughly around $200,000)
for the Open tournament.
After the Open tournament, until end of 2010, it is planned to give out up to $600,000 in cash
prizes(it will be a monthly $100,000 tournament according to the readers from the playxp)
Offline qualifiers are on the 4th of September, the ro64 begins on the 10th. (thanks GTR).
All games starting ro64 will be broadcasted through Gom TV.
The 2010 Tournament is to pick out the players who is going to play in 2011 GSL.
The players in 2010 league are automatically qualified for 2011 GSL.
The 2011 League is going to have two league with upper league and lower league (the top
32 from 2010 league is going to be upper and 33-96 is going to be in the lower league based off
point system).
Maps: It will use Blizzard's 1v1 Ladder maps.
The 2011 GSL has four format.
1) GSL: The Upper and Lower League
2) World Championship: top 4 players from each region of B.net
3) Ladder Tournament: Top 200 players of each B.net region competing for cash prizes.
4) Blizzard Cup: Top 8 players will be invited to play best of 5 with playoff system.
The league plans to involve all the gamers in the world and stream all the games
throughout the world! (through GOM.TV I assume).
One of the GOM TV shoutcasters left a comment in Playxp saying that
GOM.TV is showcasing its new SC2 HD stream today through its Star2Gether Skirmish
broadcast.
This is great news for SC2! WOO HOO!
Edit: It does not say specifically how a player can enter the tournaments, so I am not so sure.
The first open tournament seems to be only for those residing in Korea.
On a side note: The Administrative of GOM TV will decide whether the players
have the ethics and virtue(?) to participate. So this could mean that the disgraced
SC1 players who were involved in the scandal may not be able to participate
(CONFIRMED: The commentator for GOM TV says SC1 players who were involved in
the scandal are NOT allowed to participate at least as of right now).
Sources:
http://gsl.gomtv.com/teaser/main.gom
http://www.playxp.com/sc2/news/view.php?article_id=2006063
HD Stream Source:
http://www.playxp.com/nios/view.php?article_id=2005026
SC1 Players Source:
http://www.playxp.com/sc2/news/view.php?article_id=2006219
P.S. Sorry the thread is sloppy. I don't speak english well.
P.S. 2 If anybody can translate better, please feel free to add more information as you see fit
and I will edit it in.
I'm especially glad that it's worldwide and not just restricted to those on the Korean server
