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2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 5

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[e][h]2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 5
League Information
Organizer:
GOMTV
Sponsor(s):
Hot6ix
Server:
South Korea
Type:
Offline
Location:
South Korea Seoul
Format:
Code
Ro32 & Ro16 Group play
Ro8 and on Single-elimination
Code
Single-elimination
Prize pool:
₩172,800,000 (≃ $160,727 USD)
Start Date:
2012-10-22
End Date:
2012-12-14
Liquipedia Tier:
Premier
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:
 32 40
Number of Players:
56
9
14
9
Maps
Chronology

GOMTV's Premier 1v1 Global StarCraft II League returns with its fifth and last season in 2012 boasting a prize pool of over $150,000 spread across the 72 participants.

Information[edit]

The 2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 5 is the fifth season of the GSL in 2012. The GSL is the league where many of the best Korean and foreign professional gamers come to compete. The format allows up to a week's preparation before each of your matches, promoting well thought out play.

For Season 5, the GSL Code S semifinals and Code S finals—along with the 2012 GSL World Championship—will take place at IPL5 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.[1]

Format[edit]

Map Pool[edit]

GOMTV announced that for Season 5 Ohana was removed and Bel'Shir Vestige was added. All maps played are GSL versions which feature a neutral supply depot below a spawning location's ramp, the absence of Gold minerals and tweaks to spawning positions. The resulting map pool is:

Whirlwind • Cloud Kingdom • Entombed Valley • Antiga Shipyard • Daybreak • Abyssal City • Bel'Shir Vestige

Code S[edit]

2012 Schedule compared to 2011.
The New 2012 GSL Sponsorship League format.

This is the GSL's main tournament, where 32 players compete for the championship. See the Code S page for more details.

  • Round of 32:
    • Eight groups consisting of four players each, groups are played in a dual tournament format where all matches are Bo3.
    • 1st and 2nd places will advance to Ro16
    • 3rd place will drop into Code Ro32 and 4th place will drop into Code Ro48
  • Round of 16:
    • Four groups consisting of four players each, groups are played in a dual tournament format where all matches are Bo3.
    • 1st and 2nd places will advance to Ro8
    • 3rd and 4th places will drop into Code Ro24
  • Round of 8:
    • Single-elimination tournament for the championship. Ro8 and Semifinals are Bo5 and Grand Finals are Bo7.
    • All 8 players who make it to this round are seeded in next tournament's Code
  • Code Casters:

Code A[edit]

Simultaneous "tournament" closely integrated with Code . Players who lose in the first round drop out of the GSL entirely and players who win their brackets advance directly to the next season's Code S. All other players play in next season's Up and Down matches.

  • Round of 48:
    • Round consists of 40 qualified players and 8 Ro32 4th place finishers.
    • Winners advance to Ro32, losers drop out of GSL entirely and must re-qualify in next season's preliminaries.
  • Round of 32:
    • Round consists of 24 Ro48 winners and 8 Ro32 3rd place finishers.
    • Winners advance to Ro24, losers will play in next season's Up & Down matches.
  • Round of 24:
    • The Code qualification round
    • Round consists of 16 Ro32 winners and 8 Ro16 3rd and 4th place finishers
    • Winners advance to next season's Code , losers will play in next season's Up & Down matches
  • Code Casters:

Up and Down Matches[edit]

The Up and Down matches take place at the beginning of the season, they are composed of the losers of previous season's Code Ro32 and Ro24 and 2 seeded international players to make 30 Up & Down players. These 30 players are divided into 5 groups of 6 players.

  • First and second place from each group, a total of 10 players, will receive Code status.
  • The remaining 20 players will be in this season's Code Ro48.
  • Up & Down Casters:

Prize Pool[edit]

The total prize pool is ₩172,800,000 (Approximately $160,727 USD) divided among participants as follows.

Code S[edit]

The Code S prize pool is ₩132,000,000 (Approximately $122,778 USD) divided among participants as follows:

Converted USD prizes are based on the currency exchange rate (taken from xe.com) on December 14, 2012: 1,000 KRW = 0.9301356 USD.

Code A[edit]

Converted USD prizes are based on the currency exchange rate (taken from xe.com) on December 14, 2012: 1,000 KRW = 0.9301356 USD.

Trivia[edit]

Racial Distribution[edit]

  Protoss TerranZerg
Code Winner
1
: Finals
2
: Semifinals
22
: Round of 8
134
: Round of 16
268
: Round of 32
9149
UD: Promotions
352
UD: Before
697
UD: + Total
9145
UD: Demotions
693
: To Code
174
: Round of 24
6117
: Round of 32
11147
: Round of 48
182010

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ GOMTV: "GSL S5 Semis + Finals and World Championship in Las Vegas"
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