2010 Sony Ericsson StarCraft II Open Season 2

Overview

Preliminaries

Players

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Final Eight

Full Bracket

Statistics

2010 Sony Ericsson StarCraft II Open Season 2 [edit]
League Information
Organizer:	GOMTV
Sponsor:	Sony Ericsson
Game Version:	Wings of Liberty Patch 1.1.1 – Patch 1.1.3
Server:	South Korea
Event Type:	Offline
Location:	South Korea
Prize pool:	$180,000
Start Date:	2010-10-09
End Date:	2010-11-13
Winners
NesTea  MarineKing  BoxeR  RainBOw
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:	64
20    29    15    0
Maps
Metalopolis • Scrap Station • Xel'Naga Caverns • Blistering Sands • Steppes of War • Lost Temple • Delta Quadrant • Jungle Basin • Shakuras Plateau

This was the second of three GOMTV Global StarCraft II League Open events. For general information not specific to this event, check the main GSL page.

GSL Brackets Poster

Map Pool

Two maps from season 1 were removed from the map pool: Kulas Ravine and Desert Oasis. They were replaced by Jungle Basin and Shakuras Plateau.

• Metalopolis
• Scrap Station
• Xel'Naga Caverns
• Blistering Sands
• Steppes of War
• Lost Temple
• Delta Quadrant
• Jungle Basin
• Shakuras Plateau

Information

• Preliminary rounds were held from October 9th to 12th.
• Unlike season 1, the quarterfinal round (Ro8) was a best of 5 instead of a best of 3. The semifinals (as well as the finals) were a best of 7.
• Map elimination was also changed from season 1:
  • Ro64, Ro32: May remove up to 2 maps
  • Ro16, Ro8: May remove 1 map
  • Semifinals (Ro4), finals: No map removal

Prize Pool

The total prize pool is ₩199 600 000, divided among participants as follows:

Place	Prize (KRW)	Prize (USD)	Player	Team
1st	₩100 000 000	$89 000	NesTea	IM
2nd	₩30 000 000	$26 700	MarineKing	Prime
3rd-4th	₩10 000 000	$8900	RainBOw	StarTale
			BoxeR	No Team
5th-8th	₩4 000 000	$3560
9th-16th	₩2 000 000	$1780
17th-32nd	₩500 000	$445
33rd-64th	₩300 000	$267

* Approximate USD amounts taken from http://xe.com on October 28th, 2010. [₩1000 KRW = $0.89 USD]

Racial Distribution

	Protoss	Terran	Zerg	Random
Ro64	20 29 15
Ro32	8 13 11
Ro16	3 6 7
Ro8	1 4 3
Ro4	3 1
Final	1 1
Winner	1

Trivia

• There were three foreigners in the tournament: IdrA, TLO, and Loner. All three were eliminated at latest in the round of 16. (see bracket)
• This marked the individual StarCraft II progaming debuts of BoxeR and NaDa.
• Over 750 000 people tuned in for BoxeR's round of 64 match.
• Though Maka and HopeTorture had used it previously, the Maka Rax strategy was officially named by Tasteless.
• The Viking Flower trick, first shown by BoxeR, was also named by Artosis.
• For the first time in GSL, the Mothership was built intentionally to turn the tide of the battle.
• While Tasteless and Artosis were at Blizzcon 2010, there were four guest casters used: Jason Lee, Assem, Jørgen Johannesen (XeqtR), and IdrA.

GSL2 military ranks

• Player military ranks were revealed before the start of each match.
• Powerade was the sponsored beverage of this event.
• Capital ship watch: Number of games where these units were a major factor in the outcome:

Unit	W	L
Battlecruiser	0	2
Brood Lord	2	0
Carrier	0	0
Mothership	0	1

See also

• Leagues Portal
• Premier Tournaments

External links

• STARCRAFT II Open Season2 English website
• GOMtv.net live stream (SQ LIVE Test) - GOM Player required