2014 GSL Global Championship

[e][h]2014 GSL Global Championship

League Information

Series:

GSL

Organizers:

GOMeXP
Blizzard Entertainment

Game version:

Heart of the Swarm
Patch 2.1.1

Server:

South Korea

Type:

Online/Offline

Location:

Seoul

Format:

Group Stage
Single-elimination Bracket

Prize pool:

$18,500 USD

Start Date:

2014-04-19

End Date:

2014-04-26

Liquipedia tier:

Premier

Links

Player breakdown

Number of players:

16

5

6

Maps

Overgrowth • Waystation • Habitation Station • Frost • Alterzim Stronghold • Merry Go Round • King Sejong Station

Overview[edit]

GSL Global Championship is a sixteen-players tournament organized by GOMeXP at the end of 2014 WCS Season 1. Finalists of WCS Season 1 America, WCS Season 1 Europe, and 2014 GSL Season 1 will compete, plus ten players qualified through a Global Qualifier.

Prize Pool[edit]

The base prize pool is 10,000 USD spread among all 8 participants. In addition, 10% of yearly tickets purchase during the 2014 Global StarCraft II League Season 1 are added to the prize. The tier will be determined by the final prize pool (Currently Tier 3). The current prize pool was ~18,500 USD as of March 21, 2014.^[1]

Place

$USD

Percent

Points

Player

Team

1st

$7,400

40%

300

Zest

KT Rolster

KT

2nd

$3,700

40%

200

PartinG

SK Telecom T1

SKT

3rd–4th

$1,850

10%

150

soO

San

place 5 to 16

5th–6th

$925

5%

100

Maru

Jin Air Green Wings

JAGW

5th–6th

$925

5%

–

MMA

Team Acer

Acer

7th–8th

$925

5%

–

Revival

Oz

9th–16th

–

75

Hack

FanTaSy

Flash

Action

Impact

9th–16th

–

RorO

Samsung Galaxy

Samsung

* Players must advance one round in order to claim WCS points for that placement. Being seeded through qualifiers counts as advancing one round.
** RorO, despite being seeded through qualifiers, gets no WCS points because he forfeited his place.

Participants[edit]

2014 WCS Season 1 America (2)
Protoss (5)	Terran (5)	Zerg (6)
Oz		~~HyuN~~ *
		Revival *
2014 WCS Season 1 Europe (2)
MC *	MMA
San *
2014 Global StarCraft II League Season 1 (2)
Zest		soO
Qualifiers (10)
PartinG	Flash	Impact
Squirtle	Hack	Action
	FanTaSy	~~RorO~~ **
	Maru	DongRaeGu

* MC and HyuN are opting to compete at DreamHack Bucharest and are replaced by San and Revival (who won a ranking match over Alicia) respectively.^[2]
** RorO forfeited his qualification spot to compete at DreamHack Bucharest with no replacement.

Ranking Match[edit]

Best of 3

Format[edit]

Group Stage 1 (Round of 16): Round Robin format.

Online.
Best-of-three.
Two Groups of Five from the Global Qualifier
First place in each group advance to Group Stage 2.

Group Stage 2 (Round of 8): Dual Tournament format.

Offline.
Best-of-three.
Top 2 from three WCS regions plus two Group Stage 1 winners make two groups of 4.
The 4 players of each group are split into two pairs and play each other.
The winners of these matches will then face each other in the Winner’s match.

The victor places first in the group and advances to the quarterfinals.

The losers of the initial matches face each other in the Loser’s match.

The loser places fourth in the group, will drop out of the tournament.

The loser of the Winner’s match and the winner of the Loser’s match will face each other in a fifth match.

The winner gets second place in the group and advances to the quarterfinals.
The loser places third in the group and will drop out of the tournament.

Playoffs:

The four remaining players will be put in a single-elimination bracket.
Semifinals are in best-of-five, finals in best-of-seven

Results[edit]

Group Stage 1[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
April 19, 2014 13:00 KST
1.	PartinG	4-0	7-2
2.	DongRaeGu	2-1	5-4
3.	Hack	2-2	6-6
4.	FanTaSy	1-2	3-4
5.	Squirtle	0-4	2-7

Group A Matches

Group B[edit]

Group B
April 20, 2014 13:00 KST
1.	Maru	3-0	5-0
2.	Flash	1-1	2-2
3.	Action	1-2	2-3
4.	Impact	0-2	0-4
5.	~~RorO~~ *	0-0	0-0

Group B Matches

* RorO forfeited his place.^[3]

Group Stage 2[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
April 24, 2014 18:00 KST
1.	Zest	2-0	4-1
2.	PartinG	2-1	4-3
3.	MMA	1-2	3-4
4.	Revival	0-2	1-4

Group A Matches

Group B[edit]

Group B
April 25, 2014 18:00 KST
1.	San	2-0	4-1
2.	soO	2-1	5-3
3.	Maru	1-2	3-5
4.	Oz	0-2	1-4

Group B Matches

Playoffs[edit]

Semifinals (Bo5)

Finals (Bo7)

Racial Distribution[edit]

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Round of 16

5	5	6

Quarterfinals

4	2	2

Semifinals

3	1

Finals

2

Champion

1

VODs[edit]

Organized and Spoiler-free Official YouTube VODs @ SC2Casts

External Links[edit]

"GSL Promotion" on GOMeXP. Retrieved February 28, 2014.
"Presenting the GSL Global Championship!" on GOMeXP, January 15, 2014. Retrieved February 28, 2014.

References[edit]

↑ http://www.gomexp.com/gsl
↑ "Alicia and Revival to play for GSL Global Tournament Spot". TL.net. 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
↑ http://game.gomtv.com/forum/index.gom?submod=1010&m=4&mode=view&bid=25108&cateid=10100&p=1

[1] ttp://www.gomexp.com/gsl

[2] "Alicia and Revival to play for GSL Global Tournament Spot". TL.net. 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2014-04-16.

[3] ttp://game.gomtv.com/forum/index.gom?submod=1010&m=4&mode=view&bid=25108&cateid=10100&p=1

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Contents

2014 GSL Global Championship

Overview[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Participants[edit]

Ranking Match[edit]

Format[edit]

Results[edit]

Group Stage 1[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group Stage 2[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Playoffs[edit]

Racial Distribution[edit]

VODs[edit]

External Links[edit]

References[edit]