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Korean e-Sports had fever over the last weekend

August 27th, 2012

The fever started from the announcement from KeSPA(Korean eSports Association) that they won’t participate in GSL Season 4 and are not sure about future GSL participation. The announcement shocked many people include GOM TV – the host of GSL, ESF – e-Sports Federation, Blizzard Korea and for the most fans. It happened 2 months after Blizzard, KeSPA, GOM TV is held the day of vision declaration to cooperate developing Korean e-Sports.

ESF, mainly consists of GSL Starcraft2 players and staffs, immediately announced that they won’t participate in OSL – Ongamenet Starleague until KeSPA makes sure about future GSL participation.

KeSPA adjusted their announcement by joining GSL from Season 5 after ESF’s announcement. However, ESF did not change its previous stance because KeSPA still did not make clear about the future GSL participation.

Finally, the incident concluded by KeSPA. They announced that they will join GSL Season 4 and handed-in the list of players who will play for GSL.

Fans are very disappointed about KeSPA and Ongamenet. However, the most disappointment comes from Blizzard Korea. It seems they had absolutely no idea what is going on until the incident came up even though they are the mediator of all.

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eSports Federation deferred joining OSL

August 24th, 2012

eSports Federation deferred joining Ongamenet Starleague. eSports Federation mainly consists of Starcraft2 players and staffs in GSL, GOM TV Starcraft2 League.

They said “We cannot believe KeSPA decided not to join GSL Season 4.” They also retort KeSPA’s argument that they cannot join GSL because of busy schedule and the lack of communication with GOM TV. Because GOM TV has managed SC2 League schedule for more than 2 years and keep contributing to improve Starcraft2 e-sports scene throughout the world.

They also said they don’t want to GSL disappeared because it could damage Korean e-Sports market and threat the fate of eSports Federation. They also insist that the decision from KeSPA attenuate the day of the vision declaration. Blizzard, KeSPA and GOM TV promised to cooperate for further e-Sports growing on the 2nd of May, 2012.

According to above reasons, they asked KeSPA to join GSL and decided to postpone their decision on joining OSL until KeSPA makes their final decision for GSL Season 4.

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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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GOM TV & OnGameNet Shake Hands on Starcraft League.

August 10th, 2010

GOM TV announced they have signed with OnGameNet for the right to host and to broadcast the StarLeague 2010 season 2 of <Starcraft>.

The StarLeague 2010 season 2, hosted by OnGameNet and supported by Korean Air, is the biggest <Starcraft> league in Korea that many famous pro gamers compete each other.

The winner of the league will get 40m won(=US$34,000) and the second place will get half.

“We are glad to reach a settlement with OnGameNet in order to provide the StarLeague 2010 season 2 to more e-sports fans,” said JooYang Oh, director of e-sports business of GOM TV. “We are willing to have a great relationship with korean e-sports partners and provide the best content to e-sports fans in Korea and all over the world.”

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Global Starcraft 2 League Begins with $515,000 Prize.

August 5th, 2010

Gretech begins the Global Starcraft 2 League(GSL) in September. The league will have open leagues for drafting first then GSL.

The open leagues will be held 3 times in 2010. Each tournament will qualifies 64 players and all the matches from the preliminary rounds to the final match will be on air through GOM TV.

Among the total prize of US$515,000, Each open league will give the winner US$85,000 and the second place US$25,000.

According to the final point from the 3 leagues, the top 32 players will be?classified?into the major league ‘Code S’ and the rest will be under the minor league ‘Code A’.

Beside the S league and A league, Gretech also hosts ‘World Championship’ for each 16 players from Korea, Europe, North America, and China battlenet servers, ‘Ladder Tournament’ for top 200 battlenet players, and ‘Blizzard Cup’ for the best 8 players from the ranking.

“As KeSPA has not much interest on <Starcraft 2>, we moved it forward first. Since it is not limited to only pro gamers, people will enjoy lots of games,” said Gretech.

GOM TV plans to broadcast all the GSL matches on the web and on mobile for 5 times a week.

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