2016 Global StarCraft II League Season 2

[e][h]2016 Global StarCraft II League Season 2

League Information

Series:

Global StarCraft II League

Organizer(s):

AfreecaTV
Blizzard Entertainment

Game Version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 3.3.1 – Patch 3.5.3

Server:

South Korea

Type:

Offline

Location:

Seoul

Format:

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

Prize Pool:

₩230,000,000 (≃ $194,480 USD)

Start Date:

2016-05-27

End Date:

2016-09-10

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

32 48

Number of Players:

56

19

19

18

Maps

Dusk Towers • Frost • Frozen Temple • King Sejong Station • New Gettysburg • Judgement • Rak'Shir

Chronology

 2016 GSL Season 1

2017 GSL Season 1 

The 2016 Global StarCraft II League Season 2 is one of the two Korean leagues of the 2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series Korea.

Format

Code A

• 48 players from the Qualifier are matched up against each other.
  • The winner of the Bo5 advances to the Code Round of 32.
  • The loser of the Bo5 is eliminated and may qualify through next season's qualifiers.

Code S

• 8 players qualified from the top 8 of last season.
• Group Stage #1 (Round of 32): Dual Tournament format.

• Best-of-three.
• 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 Round of 16.

• The losers of the initial matches face each other in the Loser’s match.
• 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 Round of 16.

• Group Stage #2 (Round of 16): Dual Tournament format.

• Group Nominations.
• Best-of-three.
• The 4 players of each group in Round of 16 will face off similar to Round of 32.
• 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 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.

• Quarterfinals: Single-elimination playoffs.

• Quarterfinals: Best-of-five.
• Semifinals: Best-of-seven.
• Finals: Best-of-seven.

Talents

• English Broadcast
• Remote Broadcast
• Show All

• Commentators
  • Artosis (Dan Stemkoski)
  • Tasteless (Nicolas Plott)

• Russian Commentators
  • Alex007 (Oleksii Trushliakov)
  • kabyraGe (Vladislav Perchik)

Prize Pool

Code S

Place	Prize (KRW)	≈ USD	Points
1st	₩40,000,000	$36,189.27	4,000
2nd	₩20,000,000	$18,094.63	2,800
3rd-4th	₩9,000,000	$8,142.59	1,800
5th-8th	₩6,000,000	$5,428.39	1,200
9th-12th	₩4,000,000	$3,618.93	800
13th-16th	₩4,000,000	$3,618.93	600
17th-24th	₩3,000,000	$2,714.20	300
25th-32nd	₩3,000,000	$2,714.20	200
Total	₩182,000,000	$164,661.17	24,800

Code A

Place	Prize (KRW)	≈ USD	Points
1st-24th	₩0	$0
25th-48th	₩2,000,000	$1,815.41	100
Total	₩48,000,000	$43,569.93	3,000

View Games

• AfreecaTV
• Twitch
• Spoiler-free VODs on SC2Links.com: Twitch

See Also

• Premier Tournaments
• GOMeXP
• 2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series Korea