7 players already have their tickets punched to the biggest show in StarCraft II, the GSL, as it opens from Seoul, Korea for the first season of 2014:

REPRESENTING PROTOSS

Dear



Trap



Parting



Rain




REPRESENTING TERRAN

Maru




REPRESENTING ZERG

Soo



Soulkey




Fun fact: 4/7 players are on SKT1! Jjakji would have had a spot, but he is moving to Europe.

Tonight (right now!), Code A begins to determine the final 24 participants in a series of twelve groups. They are:

Jan 15

Group A: sOs vs Shine, Classic vs Gumiho
Group B: Effort vs Curious, Sleep vs Ruin

Jan 16

Group C: Flash vs YongHwa, Leenock vs Bravo
Group D: Keen vs MyungSik, Trust vs Symbol

Jan 17

Group E: Fantasy vs Bbyong, Super vs Solar
Group F: Hurricane vs Panic, Roro vs Cure

Jan 22

Group G: Innovation vs Zest, Stork vs Hero (CJ)
Group H: Life vs Paralyze, SkyHigh vs Squirtle

Jan 23

Group I: Reality vs Sora, Hack vs DRG
Group J: Supernova vs Coca, TheBest vs Stats

Jan 24

Group K: Hydra vs Dream, Ryung vs True
Group L: Savage vs Dark, Seed vs Pet


Group B is on now, seems like they're doing morning/afternoon sessions (KR time obv) so the morning group should actually be on at a reasonable time for US viewers if they keep this up

LET US GSL

sos/gumiho
effort/curious
flash/leenock (i believe!)
symbol/keen
fantasy/bbyong
roro/hurricane
innovation/hero
life/skyhigh
drg/reality
supernova/stats (lol thebest)
ryung/true
savage/dark

Time to drop some GSL TRAX from these commercial breaks

Ruin is so so bad. This Alterzim game is just embarrassing. He played terribly against Sleep too but luckily for him Sleep seems to be even worse at ZvP.

None of the games yesterday with the exception of the DT 'build' were any good

When I go to the gomtv.net schedule every day says No Match Scheduled. Is it just me?

That must be for stuff airing on gomtv.net, I guess? All their SC2 content is now on Twitch. Tonight's first Code A group starts in 8 minutes, so don't use that schedule I guess (you can look at the events list on teamliquid.net).

YONGHWA! The zerg and terran tears

IN

does any1 know where I can bet on GSL matches? Tonybet and pinnaclesports have ESPORTS and sc2 bets but I can't find GSL games this season

http://www.pinnaclesports.com/League...L/1/Lines.aspx

Roro's BACK!!! lolol is this real life

this is kind of stupid, no terrans in code S while you hvae maru and TY like 5-0 each and ****

and flash gets raped in code A round 1 ****off

rip code s

I like coca as underdog vs supernova

i think hes the favourite.

rake tho

I mean, I like him a lot, but he should try not going 0-2 against Yonghwa and ****ing Bravo if he wants to make it to Code S. Lord knows he would have destroyed Leenock in the final match had he won just one of those.

Oh man, ZvP on Daedalus is so funny. It's been, what, 90% attempted cheese by P?

maruuuuuu

in for many more all season long

"This map is so stupid."
- Thomas "Khaldor" Kilian, 1/22/2014 in Seoul, Korea, casting a PvZ on Daedalus Point

lolol, how appropriate. Commercial break before loser's match, GSL TRAX describes the feelings of Terran fans:



Three maps later, LOL_INNOVATION is back in Code B, eliminated 1-4 from a group everyone thought he would advance from. LOL TERRAN

CARRIER HAS ARRIVED

So disappointing to watch Coca just get utterly destroyed by Supernova. Goes down 0-2 in the first series basically losing each game in the first 10 minutes to hellion/reaper/banshee harass, then going down 0-2 the second time by futilely banging his head against a wall with roach/hydra/viper and trading terribly vs 3/3 mech over and over and over again while refusing to change his strategy. So painful.

So, with two groups left, we currently have...

Terran: 3
Zerg: 10


Only the second group tonight has Terrans, it's 2T 2Z. Would be hilarious if Ryung and Dream both fail to advance but they're pretty good so I bet one/both make it over Hydra (who's terrible in Proleague this year) and True.

If Seed (now known as "Vengeance", apparently) advances from his group (seems likely, it's all Zergs - Pet, Dark, Savage), Code S will be 50% Protoss.

poor terran

Twitch VODs are so miserable sometimes. It loads everything in half-hour blocks, most of the time it works fine and then sometimes there's a half-hour whose video is apparently stored in their backup facility in ****ing Siberia or something because it loads so glacially slow. And for last night's VOD that happens to be the half-hour featuring a game that TL overwhelmingly rated "one of the best games this season". **** you Twitch.

eta: apparently the poll was trolling b/c of twitch issues and the game sucked