2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 5

[e][h]2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 5

League Information

Series:

GSL

Organizer:

GOMTV

Sponsor(s):

Hot6ix

Game version:

Wings of Liberty
Patch 1.5.3

Server:

South Korea

Type:

Offline

Location:

Seoul

Format:

Code
Ro32 & Ro16 Group play
Ro8 and on Single-elimination
Code
Single-elimination

Prize pool:

₩172,800,000 KRW
(≃ $160,727 USD)

Start Date:

2012-10-22

End Date:

2012-12-14

Liquipedia tier:

Premier

Player breakdown

Number of players:

56

9

14

9

32

40

Maps

Chronology

2012 GSL Season 4

2013 GSL Season 1

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:
- Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski
- Nick "Tasteless" Plott

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:
- Thomas "Khaldor" Kilian
- Wolf "Wolf" Schröder

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:
- Thomas "Khaldor" Kilian
- Wolf "Wolf" Schröder