GSL Season 2

Season 2 GSL

Sony Ericsson STARCRAFT II Open Season 2

Registration: 25th September - 3rd October 2010

Qualifiers: 9th October - 10th October 12th October 2010

Period: 18th October - 13th November 2010

Schedule

Round of 64 :October 18th - October 21st
Round of 32 :October 22nd - October 27th
Round of 16 :October 28th - October 29th
Round of 8 :November 1st - November 2nd
Semi-Final :November 4th - November 5th
Grand Final :November 13th

This is subject to change

Format:

The format will be single elimination.

Ro64 - Ro16 - Best of 3
Ro8 - Semi-finals - Best of 5
Finals - Best of 7

Prize Pool:

Winner: 100,000,000 KRW (aprox. $85,700 USD)
Runner-Up: 30,000,000 KRW (aprox. $25,700 USD)
Semi-Finalists: 10,000,000 KRW (aprox. $8,600 USD)
Quarter-Finalists: 4,000,000 KRW (aprox. $3,400 USD)
Round of 16: 2,000,000 KRW (aprox. $1710 USD)
Round of 32: 500,000 KRW (aprox. $430 USD)
Round of 64: 300,000 KRW (aprox. $260 USD)

Map Pool:

Blizzard's official 1v1 maps will be used, these are:

Metalopolis
Scrap Station
Xel'Naga Caverns
Blistering Sands
Steppes of War
Lost Temple
Delta Quadrant
Jungle Basin
Shakuras Plateau

Map Pool:

Blizzard's official 1v1 maps will be used, these are:
Blistering Sands, Desert Oasis, Scrap Station, Steppes of War, Xel'Naga Caverns, Kulas Ravine, Lost Temple, Metalopolis, and Delta Quadrant.

Round of 64 - 32
Both players pick 2 maps they want excluded from the pool, then the maps are randomly chosen for each set.

Round of 16 - 8
Both players pick 1 map they want excluded from the pool, then the maps are randomly chosen for each set.

Semi-Final - Final
Players may not exclude any maps, the maps are randomly chosen.

Bonus Information

Over 2500 people registered for this season, over 250 were non Korean - 3 non Korean's made it through to the round of 64.

Many famous Pro-gamers from Starcraft Broodwar such as Lee, Yun-Yeol(aka Nada) and Park, Sung-Jun(aka July). Also well known pro-gamers from Warcraft 3 such as Jang, Jae-Ho (aka Moon), Yoon, Duk-Man(aka Soccer), Park, Jun(aka Lyn), No, Jin-Wouk(aka SouL), Kim, Sung-Sik(aka ReMinD) and Um, Hyo-Sup(aka BEV) registered for season 2.