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Blizzard to Hold Korean e-Sports in Las Vegas

March 5th, 2012

Final match of 2011 Sony Ericsson GSL Season 6 took place in Blizzcon last year

Blizzard Entertainment and its Korean e-Sports broadcasting partner GomTV are going to hold a final match of 2012 Global <Starcraft 2> Team League(GSTL) season 1 on stage of IGN Pro League(IPL) 4 taking place in Las Vegas, the U.S. on the 7th of April.

IGN has asked GomTV to produce a <Starcraft 2> program for the IPL 4 and hold the final match of 2012 GSTL season 1 at the site. This would be the second time for Korean e-Sports holding the final match abroad following Sony Ericsson GSL season 6 took place in Blizzcon last year.

“It’s honor to land GomTV’s technology and GSTL in Las Vegas where is a mecca of global sports. We will do our best to uphold the name of home of e-Sports,” said InSik Bae the CEO of GomTV.

All the GSTL matches are available at GSL official homepage and GomTV channel.

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Tags: Blizzard e-sports gomtv GSL gstl ign ign pro league insik bae ipl las vegas Starcraft 2

GSL Is Now Changing A Lot

May 20th, 2011

2011 GSL Tour changes completely in the second half of 2011.

GOM TV announced the future plan of 2011 GSL Tour. Tournaments for code A and code S will be changed in terms of process and schedule. Also, GSTL will be expanded greatly.

“Not only Korea but also other overseas league are changing very fast. So we thought GSL also need some change,” said JungWon Cae the director of GOM TV.

The most outstanding change is that code A, code S, and GSTL run simultaneously. Throughout the weekday the three leages will be aired evenly(code A on Monday, code S on Wednseday, and GSTL on Friday). Final matches will be set on a weekend. But round of 32 and round of 16 for code A will be held from Monday to Friday evenly.

Ro32 for Code S

Code S Ro32 will take duel tournament instead of GOM TV league system.

Duel tournament is pretty instinctive. After first and second group matches, each winner has third match and the winner of it will eventually go to Ro16. Fourth match is kind of a consolation match. each loser of the first and second matches will fight to survive and the winner will have another match against the loser of the fourth match. The winner of the fifth match will be ranked second and the loser third of the group.

Only 4th player will be dropped while the 3rd stays in code S. The 1st and 2nd will be promoted to Ro16.

Code A

Nothing much in code A will change except its play time. Ro32 and Ro16 for code A will be held thoughout weekdays and matches after quarter final will be held every Monday.

Promotion/demotion play-off

A lot of the play-off will change. The winner of code A will get into code S without struggling in the play-off.?Moreover, the champion of MLG will get seed for code S for next season.

So total 15 players, 8 fourth rankers of each group of code S and top 7 from code A, will have a full league in three groups. The winner and second ranker of each group will be promoted to code S and the rest will remain in code A.

GSTL

It will be held on every Thursday and Friday with 10 teams.

It will be run with two leagues each with 5 teams. Top three teams will have a play-off to find who is the best. ?Two matches every week, total 20 matches for 10 weeks, will be aired.

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Tags: 2011 code a code s demotion global GOM TV GSL gsl tour gstl league plan player playoff pro gamer progamer promotion ro16 ro32 schedule Starcraft 2 tournament

First SC2 Team League, GSTL Starts Today

February 7th, 2011

The first team league for <Starcraft 2> GSTL(Global Starcraft 2 Team League) opens on February 7.

The opening matches will be between Startale and fOu, and Prime and TSL. The GSTL will take place for 4 days with 8 teams under the rule of best 4 out of 7 and winner stays till lose.

Although it is a 4-day-long short tournament, it is quite important to the participating teams because of its prize which is US$9,000 for the winner and US$4,500 for the second place.

GSTL is closely connected with GSL. Based on the team point given by GSL code S and A, top 8 teams will participate the every season of GSTL.

On the contrary to GSL, GSTL selected not only official ladder map but also map created by professional users and non ladder map by Blizzard. All the first match will start with the same map and the next map will be selected by the lost team.

GSTL will be aired on GomTV at 6 o’clock.

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Tags: Blizzard gomtv GSL gstl Starcraft 2 team tournament

Why Intel Not Found Boxer Team?

January 17th, 2011

The global IT company Intel now sponsors YoHwan Lim(Boxer) as a main sponsor.

Intel has announced it on last 13th and will provide Boxer the annual salary and a practice room for the members.

However Intel has not founded a team with him unlike Orion and SK Telecom had done in the past. Intel Korea cited lack of experience as a reason. “Intel is interested in Boxer and is willing to help him out to achieve a great success. But we do not have any knowledge or experience with regard to founding an e-sports team,” said SungMin Park the executive director of Intel Korea. “We thought ?it is a good time to have a sponsorship for both Boxer and Intel. It will be a great experience for another sponsorship or founding a team later.”

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Tags: boxer e-sports GSL intel sponsorship yohwan lim

Intel Likely Sponsors Boxer

January 6th, 2011

Intel likely sponsors YoHwan Lim(Boxer).

On January 5, Intel has announced the sponsorship of a pro-gamer which will take place on upcoming 13th. Intel has not introduced whom it will support but industry thinks Boxer as a prime target.

“It is true that Intel has contacted with Boxer and has talked about the sponsorship size recently. Other companies besides Intel may also participate in sponsoring him,” said an industrial expert.