Global StarCraft II League

• Overview
• Rankings
• Statistics
• Player Progress
• Code S Streaks
• Foreigners

The Global StarCraft II League (or GSL for short) is a large tournament-based League held on location in South Korea and holds multiple events each year. Having started in late August 2010, the league was first step towards a professional league in South Korea for StarCraft II. The event is broadcast up to 2 nights a week (Wednesday and Friday) on AfreecaTV. GOMeXP (formerly GOMTV) organized it until the third season of 2015.

Tournaments

The first tournament in the league was the GOMTV StarCraft II Open 1 and ran from August 28 to October 2, 2010.

GSL Events organized by GOMTV and GOMeXP

	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up	Score	TL Articles

2010 Open Seasons
	2010 TG Sambo Intel StarCraft II Open Season 1	2010-08-28 – 2010-10-02	FruitDealer	RainBOw	4-1	R&S
	2010 Sony Ericsson StarCraft II Open Season 2	2010-10-09 – 2010-11-13	NesTea	MarineKing	4-3	R&S
	2010 Sony Ericsson StarCraft II Open Season 3	2010-11-15 – 2010-12-18	MC	Rain	4-1	R&S

2011 Sponsorship League
	2011 Sony Ericsson Global StarCraft II League January	2011-01-02 – 2011-01-29	Mvp	MarineKing	4-0	R&S
			TOP	ByuN	4-3
	2011 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ GSL March	2011-02-21 – 2011-03-19	MC	July	4-1	R&S
			LosirA	SuperNova	4-3
	2011 LG Cinema 3D World Championship Seoul	2011-03-28 – 2011-04-09	Mvp	MarineKing	4-2	R&S
	2011 LG Cinema 3D Global StarCraft II League May	2011-04-18 – 2011-05-14	NesTea	InCa	4-0	R&S
			Bomber	Mvp	4-2
	2011 LG Cinema 3D GSL Super Tournament	2011-05-23 – 2011-06-18	Polt	MMA	4-0	Recap
	2011 Pepsi Global StarCraft II League July	2011-06-27 – 2011-07-30	NesTea	LosirA	4-0	R&S
			Puzzle	Tassadar	4-2
	2011 Pepsi Global StarCraft II League August	2011-08-08 – 2011-09-10	Mvp	TOP	4-1	[ R&S]
			GanZi	MarineKing	4-3
	2011 Sony Ericsson Global StarCraft II League October	2011-09-19 – 2011-10-22	MMA	Mvp	4-1	Recap
			Curious	Oz	4-0
	2011 Sony Ericsson Global StarCraft II League November	2011-10-27 – 2011-12-23	jjakji	Leenock	4-2	[R&S]

2012 Sponsorship League
	2012 Hot6iX Global StarCraft II League Season 1	2011-12-19 – 2012-03-03	DongRaeGu	Genius	4-2	[R&S]
	2012 Hot6iX Global StarCraft II League Season 2	2012-03-10 – 2012-05-19	Mvp	Squirtle	4-3	[R&S]
	2012 Monsieur J Global StarCraft II League Season 3	2012-05-21 – 2012-07-27	Seed	MC	4-1	[R&S]
	2012 Hot6iX Global StarCraft II League Season 4	2012-08-27 – 2012-10-20	Life	Mvp	4-3	[R&S]
	2012 Hot6iX Global StarCraft II League Season 5	2012-10-22 – 2012-12-14	Sniper	HyuN	4-3	[R&S]

2013 Sponsorship League
	2013 Hot6iX Global StarCraft II League Season 1	2013-01-06 – 2013-03-09	RorO	Symbol	4-2	[R&S]

2013 StarCraft II World Championship Series
	2013 WCS Season 1 Korea GSL	2013-03-04 – 2013-06-01	Soulkey	INnoVation	4-3	[R&S]
	2013 WCS Season 3 Korea GSL	2013-08-06 – 2013-10-19	Dear	soO	4-2	[R&S]

2014 StarCraft II World Championship Series
	2014 Global StarCraft II League Season 1	2014-01-15 – 2014-04-05	Zest	soO	4-3	[R&S]
	2014 GSL Global Championship	2014-04-19 – 2014-04-26	Zest	PartinG	4-3	[R&S]
	2014 Global StarCraft II League Season 2	2014-04-09 – 2014-06-28	Classic	soO	4-2	[R&S]
	2014 Global StarCraft II League Season 3	2014-07-16 – 2014-10-04	INnoVation	soO	4-2	[R&S]

2015 StarCraft II World Championship Series
	2015 Global StarCraft II League Season 1	2015-01-07 – 2015-03-22	Life	PartinG	4-3	Recap
	2015 Global StarCraft II League Season 2	2015-04-01 – 2015-06-28	Rain	ByuL	4-1	[R&S]
	2015 Global StarCraft II League Season 3	2015-07-08 – 2015-10-04	INnoVation	ByuL	4-2	[R&S]

= Global Event (ongoing)

= Global Event (finished)

= GOMtv World Championship

GSL Events organized by AfreecaTV

	Event	Date	Prize	P#	Location	Winner	Runner-Up	Score

2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series
	2016 Global StarCraft II League Season 1: Code S	2016-02-27 - 2016-05-01	$194,480	32	Seoul (Offline)	Zest	TY	4 - 2
	2016 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S	2016-07-06 - 2016-09-10	$194,480	32	Seoul (Offline)	ByuN	sOs	4 - 1

2017 StarCraft II World Championship Series
	2017 Global StarCraft II League Season 1: Code S	2017-01-04 - 2017-03-26	$142,660	32	Seoul (Offline)	Stats	soO	4 - 2
	2017 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 1	2017-04-06 - 2017-04-09	$26,940	16	Seoul (Offline)	herO	aLive	4 - 2
	2017 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S	2017-04-19 - 2017-06-24	$152,100	32	Seoul (Offline)	GuMiho	soO	4 - 2
	2017 GSL vs the World	2017-08-03 - 2017-08-06	$96,000	16	Seoul (Offline)	INnoVation	TY	4 - 0
	2017 Global StarCraft II League Season 3: Code S	2017-07-05 - 2017-09-16	$152,100	32	Seoul (Offline)	INnoVation	sOs	4 - 3
	2017 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 2	2017-09-28 - 2017-10-01	$26,940	16	Seoul (Offline)	Rogue	herO	4 - 3

2018 StarCraft II World Championship Series
	2018 Global StarCraft II League Season 1: Code S	2018-01-06 - 2018-03-31	$159,452	32	Seoul (Offline)	Maru	Stats	4 - 2
	2018 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 1	2018-04-05 - 2018-04-08	$28,185	16	Seoul (Offline)	Stats	Dark	4 - 3
	2018 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S	2018-04-18 - 2018-06-23	$159,474	32	Seoul (Offline)	Maru	Zest	4 - 0
	2018 Global StarCraft II League Season 3: Code S	2018-07-04 - 2018-09-15	$159,474	32	Seoul (Offline)	Maru	TY	4 - 3
	2018 GSL vs the World	2018-08-02 - 2018-08-05	$94,151	16	Seoul (Offline)	Serral	Stats	4 - 3
	2018 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 2	2018-09-27 - 2018-09-30	$26,657	16	Seoul (Offline)	Classic	sOs	4 - 3

2019 StarCraft II World Championship Series
	2019 Global StarCraft II League Season 1: Code S	2019-02-02 - 2019-04-14	$151,265	32	Seoul (Offline)	Maru	Classic	4 - 2
	2019 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 1	2019-04-18 - 2019-04-21	$24,653	16	Seoul (Offline)	Classic	GuMiho	4 - 1
	2019 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S	2019-04-29 - 2019-06-22	$151,265	32	Seoul (Offline)	Dark	Trap	4 - 2
	2019 Global StarCraft II League Season 3: Code S	2019-07-03 - 2019-09-28	$141,700.18	32	Seoul (Offline)	Rogue	Trap	4 - 0
	2019 GSL vs the World	2019-08-15 - 2019-08-18	$82,588.99	16	Seoul (Offline)	Serral	Elazer	4 - 2
	2019 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 2	2019-10-03 - 2019-10-06	$25,089.16	16	Seoul (Offline)	Dark	TY	4 - 0

ESL Pro Tour 2020/21
	2020 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 1	2020-03-18 - 2020-03-28	$30,000	16	Seoul (Offline)	Maru	Dark	4 - 3
	2020 Global StarCraft II League Season 1	2020-04-11 - 2020-06-06	$140,000	28	Seoul (Offline)	TY	Cure	4 - 0
	2020 Global StarCraft II League Season 2	2020-06-20 - 2020-08-15	$140,000	28	Seoul (Offline)	Rogue	Stats	4 - 1
	2020 Global StarCraft II League Season 3	2020-08-29 - 2020-11-01	$140,000	28	Seoul (Offline)	TY	Maru	4 - 2
	2020 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 2	2020-12-02 - 2020-12-12	$30,000	16	Seoul (Offline)	Trap	Stats	4 - 3

ESL Pro Tour 2021/22
	2021 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 1	2021-01-27 - 2021-01-30	$25,600	16	Seoul (Offline)	Trap	Zoun	4 - 2
	2021 Global StarCraft II League Season 1: Code S	2021-04-05 - 2021-05-06	$118,000	16	Seoul (Offline)	Rogue	Maru	4 - 1
	2021 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 2	2021-05-17 - 2021-05-27	$25,600	16	Seoul (Offline)	Trap	Zoun	4 - 2
	2021 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S	2021-06-28 - 2021-07-29	$118,000	16	Seoul (Offline)	Dark	Trap	4 - 1
	2021 Global StarCraft II League Season 3: Code S	2021-08-30 - 2021-10-07	$118,000	16	Seoul (Offline)	Cure	Zest	4 - 2
	2021 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 3	2021-11-22 - 2021-12-02	$25,600	16	Seoul (Offline)	Rogue	Maru	4 - 3

ESL Pro Tour 2022/23
	2022 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 1	2022-01-17 - 2022-01-27	$30,500	16	Seoul (Offline)	Zest	Dark	4 - 3
	2022 Global StarCraft II League Season 1: Code S	2022-03-21 - 2022-05-05	$123,000	20	Seoul (Offline)	Rogue	Creator	4 - 2
	2022 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S	2022-06-06 - 2022-07-29	$123,000	20	Seoul (Offline)	herO	Maru	4 - 1
	2022 Global StarCraft II League Season 3: Code S	2022-08-22 - 2022-10-15	$123,000	20	Seoul (Offline)	Maru	RagnaroK	4 - 0
	2022 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 2	2022-11-28 - 2022-12-08	$30,500	16	Seoul (Offline)	Solar	Dark	4 - 3

ESL Pro Tour 2023/24
	2023 Global StarCraft II League Season 1: Code S	2023-04-25 - 2023-05-18	$25,806.39	16	Seoul (Online/Offline)	Maru	Cure	4 - 2
	2023 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S	2023-07-04 - 2023-07-27	$25,780.78	16	Seoul (Offline)	TBD	TBD
	2023 Global StarCraft II League Season 3: Code S	2023-10-03 - 2023-10-26	$25,806.39	16	Seoul (Offline)	TBD	TBD

= Global Event (ongoing)

= Global Event (finished)

= GSL vs the World

Invitationals organized by GOMTV and GOMeXP

Cup Events

	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up	Score	TL Articles
	2011 GSL Blizzard Cup	2011-12-12 – 2011-12-17	MMA	DongRaeGu	4-3	Recap
	2012 GSL Blizzard Cup	2012-12-17 – 2012-12-22	Life	PartinG	4-2	[ R&S]
	2013 Hot6ix Cup	2013-12-04 – 2013-12-08	Rain	Soulkey	4-2	Recap
	2014 Hot6ix Cup	2014-11-18 – 2014-12-07	sOs	MarineKing	4-1	[ R&S]

Arena of Legends

	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up	Score	TL Articles
	Arena of Legends 1	2011-09-17 – 2011-10-01	MarineKing	DongRaeGu	4-1	[ R&S]
	Arena of Legends: Team Ace Invitational	2011-11-03 – 2011-11-13	Mvp	GanZi	3-2	[ R&S]
	Arena of Legends: The King of Kongs	2012-01-02 – 2012-01-05	DongRaeGu	LosirA	4-1	[ R&S]

Other Invitationals

	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up	Score	TL Articles
	GOM TV All-Stars Invitational 2010	2010-11-18 – 2010-11-21	Kyrix	MarineKing	2-0	[ R&S]

Tournament Format

The GSL is an elaborate tournament which is separated into two tiers:

• Code S contains the top tier players who are competing against each other to win the GSL.
• Code A contains players who are competing against each other to enter Code .

Code S

• Ro32: Dual Tournament format.

• Best of 3.
• 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 Ro16.

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

• The loser places fourth in the group, will fall to Code .

• 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 Ro16.
• The loser places third in the group and will fall to Code .

• Ro16: Dual Tournament format.

• Best of 3.
• The 4 players of each group in Ro16 will face off similar to Ro32.
• Players who place 3rd and 4th in their group will fall to Code .

• Ro8: Single elimination playoffs.

• Players who reach Ro8 will retain their Code status.
• Round of 8: Best of 5.
• Semi Finals: Best of 7.
• Finals: Best of 7.

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.

Old Code A/S GSL Format

GSL Open Seasons Open Sign-up 64 Player Bracket Single-elimination GSL Sponsorship League Code 32 Players Split into Groups of 4 Round of 16 Players Bracket Single-elimination Code Open Sign-up 32 Player Bracket Single-elimination GSL Supertournament GSL Rank Qualification 64 Player Bracket Single-elimination 2011 Tournaments The GSL Sponsorship League 2011 format for GSL January The GSL Sponsorship League format from GSL March to GSL July Detailed Format 32 players Group Selection for Groups based on past League results. Group Stage Format Groups always consists of four players and follow an unusual formula, put in place to preempt incentives for match fixing. Group stages are played as follows: Pairing for the initial round is decided through group selections. The players play a Best of 1. The two winners meet each other. The winner advances to the round of 16 as 1st place from his group. The two losers face each other. The loser drops to the Code / Up & Down Matches. The winner of the loser's game meets the loser of the winner's game. Winner advances to Ro16 as 2nd place, loser remains in Code , but does not advance. Bracket Players placed into Bracket determined by group results. Round of 16: Best of 3. Round of 8: Best of 3. Semifinals: Best of 5. Finals: Best of 7. Single-elimination. Final will be played at a location announced by GOM at a later date per tournament. A-Class Tournament 32 player knock-out tournament. Round of 32 & 16: Best of 3 Bottom 16 players lose their A-Class seeding. Top 16 players keeps their A-Class seeding. Players advancing to the Quarter Finals will play in the S-Class promotion matches. Quarter & Semi Finals: Best of 3 Finals: Best of 7 Winner gains Code status. The winner of MLG will gain Code status if they are already Code or do not accept it, the runner up will gain Code . The top 3 Foreign players at MLG will be invited to play in Code . Up and Down Matches Three groups of five players; each group plays a Bo1 round-robin. The top 2 players in each group earn Code for the next tournament. November 2011 to 2014 WCS Tournaments Before 2014 season of WCS, GSL ran a complicated three-layers format. The New GSL Sponsorship League format. Code S (Premier League) Ro32: Dual Tournament format. Best of 3. 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 Ro16. The losers of the initial matches face each other in the Loser’s match. The loser places fourth in the group, will fall to Code Ro48. 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 Ro16. The loser places third in the group and will fall to Code Ro32. Ro16: Dual Tournament format. Best of 3. The 4 players of each group in Ro16 will face off similar to Ro32. Players who place 3rd and 4th in their group will fall to Code Ro24. Ro8: Single elimination playoffs. Players who reach Ro8 will retain their Code status. Round of 8: Best of 5. Semi Finals: Best of 5. Finals: Best of 7. Code A (Challenger League) Bracket stage Round of 48 Single-elimination Bracket First round (Ro48) consists of 40 qualified players and the 8 4th place finishers in the Code Ro32 group stage. Losers in the first round lose their Code status and must compete in the preliminaries next season. The second round (Ro32) consists of the 24 advancing players from the first round and the 8 3rd place finishers in the Code Ro32 group stage. Losers in the second round get a chance to acquire Code by competing in the Up & Down Matches. The third round (Ro24) consists of the 16 advancing players from the second round and the 8 3rd/4th place finishers in the Code Ro16 group stage. Losers in the third round get a chance to acquire Code by competing in the Up & Down Matches. Winners in the third round advance to Code in the next season. Up&Down stage 12 Round of 24 Winners automatically advance to remier League without going through the Up & Down Matches. 16 Round of 32 Losers + 12 Round of 24 Losers = 28 players. Add 2 players for the Spots Tournament. Players are divided into 6 groups of 5 Each group’s 1st and 2nd Place advance to remier League. Tie breaker: If player A and player B have the same number of wins, but A has won over B in a previous game then A will be the winner. If a tie still exists, a rematch will be played. (For example A,B and C have the same number of wins. However if A has won B, B has won C, and C has won A, tie still exists, and rematch will be played.) 2015 WCS Tournaments Code S Ro32: Dual Tournament format. Best of 3. 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 Ro16. The losers of the initial matches face each other in the Loser’s match. The loser places fourth in the group, will fall to Code . 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 Ro16. The loser places third in the group and will fall to Code . Ro16: Dual Tournament format. Best of 3. The 4 players of each group in Ro16 will face off similar to Ro32. Players who place 3rd and 4th in their group will fall to Code . Ro8: Single elimination playoffs. Players who reach Ro8 will retain their Code status. Round of 8: Best of 5. Semi Finals: Best of 7. Finals: Best of 7. Code A 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 Code Round of 32. The losers of the initial matches face each other in the Loser’s match. Losers in the first round lose their Code status and must requalify for next season. 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 Code Round of 32. Losers in the fifth match lose their Code status and must requalify for next season.

Maps

The GSL map pool is an ever-evolving set of maps. Players are each allowed to veto one map for each match.

Current Pool

• Automaton
• Cyber Forest
• Kairos Junction
• King's Cove
• New Repugnancy
• Port Aleksander
• Year Zero

Coverage

The GSL broadcasts on AfreecaTV and Twitch.

English streams main commentators are Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski and Nicolas "Tasteless" Plott a.k.a Tastosis. Korean to English translation provided by So Jung Lim, and in the past by John "Junkka" Park and "Jay".

Other English commentators have been:

• Brian "Assem" Fransioli
• Greg "IdrA" Fields
• Jørgen "XeqtR" Johannesen
• Jason Lee
• Kelly "kellyMILKIES" Ong Xiao Wei
• Erik "DoA" Lonnquist
• Thomas "Khaldor" Kilian
• Noah "Moletrap" Kalb
• Wolf "Wolf" Schröder
• Daniel "Unstable" Siddel
• Justin "TheGunrun" Ignacio
• Trevor "TorcH" Housten
• Kevin "qxc" Riley
• Brendan Valdes
• Andrew "mOOnGLaDe" Pender

GSL Open History

After successfully negotiating a contract with Blizzard, GOMTV gained the exclusive rights to broadcasting StarCraft II in South Korea. The questions about how GomTV will use this deal were many and on the 5th of August the news broke: GOMTV announced that they will be holding a huge tournament-based league with three initial events to kick off the League in 2010. These three tournaments will have a prizepool of 600,000,000 Won (approx 500,000 USD). Needless to say, this attracted attention from the entire world-wide community as this is the largest prizepool in the history of e-sports. After this news broke many non-Korean teams considered travelling to Korea to take part, most famously the Team Liquid clan Liquid` decided to take their chances and go to Korea to participate in these tournaments. Right after IEM Cologne Nazgul, Jinro and TheLittleOne travelled to South Korea, the latter two to live and practice with the oGs-team. Other notable players who have flown out to Korea to compete in the GSL include: TorcH, HayprO, Loner, Ret, HuK, Sen, SeleCT, KiWiKaKi and iNcontroL. Classifications Info about classifications in Korean The results of these three tournaments will also decide who will play in the highest division of GomTV GSL 2011. After the tournaments have been played, the top32 players will be classified as S-class players and will enter the top division. The players finishing within 33-96th place will be classified as A-class players. Both of these classifications qualifies the player for the 2011 GomTV GSL, with S-class players being seeded. 2010 Open Tournaments Offline Preliminaries Preliminaries to decide the 64 people that will play on the StarCraft II Open Tournaments in GSL 2010. It will be played at a place designated by GOMTV in Seoul. Players must arrive on time. Players must bring their own equipment (Keyboard, Mouse, Mouse Pad, Headset, Mouse Driver) and ID. Players that do not bring their own equipment must use the equipment provided. Preliminaries will be in Bo3. Main Tournament Every game will be broadcasted by GOMTV. Bo3 for Ro64~Ro16, Bo5 quarter, Bo7 semi and finals. Up to the semifinals, Blizzard's official 1v1 maps will be used. In GSL seasons 1 and 2, players were allowed to veto two maps each (one map each in the bo7 finals). In GSL season 3, this has been removed, giving maps like Steppes of War and Delta Quadrant more significance. Total prizepool of each tournament: 200,000,000 Won (approx. 170,000 USD) Prize Pool The total prize pool is ₩199 600 000, divided among participants as follows: Place Prize (KRW) Prize (USD) Prize (EUR) Champion ₩100 000 000 $87 000 €66 000 Runner-up ₩30 000 000 $26 000 €19 900 Semifinalists ₩10 000 000 $8700 €6600 Quarterfinalists ₩4 000 000 $3480 €2650 9th-16th ₩2 000 000 $1740 €1330 17th-32nd ₩500 000 $434 €330 33rd-64th ₩300 000 $261 €199 * Approximate USD and EUR amounts taken from http://xe.com on December 1st, 2010. [₩1000 KRW = $0.87 USD = €0.66 EUR]

Broadcast on GOMeXP

The GSL broadcasts on GOMeXP.com can be either for free or for-pay. Content available for free includes: LQ live stream (288p) LQ (360p) VODs, first set of each match only Content available via premium service: SQ (360p) and HQ (540p) live streams complete LQ (360p) and HQ (720p) VODs The premium service requires a season ticket, usually priced at 19.99 USD (without ads) or 9.99 USD (with ads). GOMeXP also offers a mobile page for iOS and Android devices that enables season ticket holders to watch live and on-demand content formatted for smartphones or tablets.

Awards

Award

Participant

Royal Road

FruitDealer 

Life 

Dear 

Zest 

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NesTea Award

NesTea 

Mvp 

DongRaeGu 

PartinG 

Dark

Solar 

Rogue 

soO

Classic

Losira

aLive 

TY 

sOs 

Stats 

Maru 

GuMiho 

INnoVation 

Trap 

PartinG Award

PartinG 

Dark

Trivia

• GSL 3 saw the qualification of the league's first Random player   GuMiho (though he later found more success after picking Terran).
• GSL 3 and GSL 4 saw   Jinro reach the Ro4 twice, the only foreigner to do so.   Neeb reached the Ro4 in 2018 GSL Season 3, the only other foreigner to make the Ro4.
•   MarineKing was the first player to reach the finals twice and then first to play in three finals, placing 2nd three times.
• GSL 4 saw the league's first mirror match and 4-0 final (  Mvp vs.   MarineKing)
•   MC was the only Protoss player to win GSL, until   Seed won the 2012 GSL Season 3.
• The GSL WC Final was not only a rematch of GSL Jan 2011 Final, but also the second mirror match-up (again   Mvp vs   MarineKing).
• GSL 6 was the GSL to become available for viewing in China.
• GSL 7 saw the third mirror match-up and second unique mirror match up (ZvZ) and the first team-kill Finals.(  NesTea and   LosirA)
• GSL 9 saw   MC fall into Code B, the first GSL champion to do so.
•   NesTea during GSL 7, is the first and only player to win GSL without losing a single game.
• The Arena of Legends tournament saw the second draw in GOMTV events history. In Group D, game 1 between   BoxeR and   NaNiwa, BoxeR had floating buildings with no ability to produce units, and NaNiwa had ground units, but no ability to produce air units to attack floating buildings, resulting in a draw.
•   MMA won the first Blizzard Cup in 2011, 4-3 over   DongRaeGu.
• 2012 GSL Season 3 saw the first PvP finals, held between   MC and   Seed. After this, the GSL finals have seen all six matchups. Additionally, there has been at least one winner of each race in all possible matchups.
• Features the Nestea award, given to any player to remain in Code S for 10 consecutive seasons. The first player to win this award was it's namesake   NesTea.
• Features the PartinG award, given to any player who reach the Ro16 in Code S for 10 consecutive seasons. The first player to win this award was it's namesake   PartinG.
• In GSL 2012 Code S,   MarineKing was the only player to advance to the Ro16 in all 5 seasons.
• 2014 GSL Season 2 saw   soO become the first player to reach three consecutive Code S finals. He then broke his own record the following season by reaching a fourth consecutive Code S final.
•   soO is the only player to lose in six GSL finals.
• 2015 GSL Season 2 saw   Rain become the first player to win a GSL while playing for a foreign team, after a long era of KeSPA dominance (7 previous GSL seasons were won by players on a KeSPA team).
• 2016 GSL Season 2 saw   ByuN become the first teamless player to win a Korean premier league in the history of both Starcraft: Broodwar and Starcraft 2.
•   NesTea was the only player to win two consecutive Code S titles, until   Maru won 2018 GSL Season 1 and 2018 GSL Season 2.
• 2018 GSL Season 1 saw   Scarlett become the first foreigner to reach the Round of 8 since   NaNiwa in 2012 GSL Season 3, as well as being tied with   HuK with the longest foreigner Code S streak at 5 seasons. Her streak would extend to 6 before breaking off after 2018 GSL Season 2
• 2018 GSL Season 3 saw   Reynor become the youngest foreigner, at the age of 16 to advance the Round of 16.
• 2018 GSL Season 3 is the first season since January 2011 to have two foreigners in the Round of 16 (  Reynor and   Neeb)
•   Maru is both the first player to win two consecutive Code S finals since   NesTea's May and July 2011 wins, and the first player to win a Code S finals 4-0 since   NesTea in July 2011 GSL. No other player besides   NesTea has won 2 in a row.

Medal Counts

• Note: Medal Counts per Race, per Player and per Team only count GSL-branded events, except Code . They also do not count other GOMTV/GOMeXP Events.
• Medal Counts include: "GSL Code S", "GSL Super", and "GSL vs World" events.

Medals won per Race

Race			Total
Terran	24	23	47
Zerg	23	21	44
Protoss	21	24	45

Medals won per Player

• Gold
• Silver
• Show All

Medals won per Team

Note: Medals won per Team shows the team that a player was
on when the medal was won, not their current team.

• Until August 31, 2013, SouL was known as STX SouL.
• Until September 7, 2013, Samsung Galaxy was known as Samsung KHAN.
• Until April 28, 2015, SBENU was known as StarTale.
• SBENU is known as Freecs nowadays.

External links

• GSL Homepage (English)
• GSL Stream (English)
• Interview about the Philosophy of the GSL, trans. by Milkis
• Wikipedia Page
• Photosynth image of GSL's Old Studio Lobby in Seoul, Korea
• GSL at angelhalowiki (Korean)