2010 TG Sambo Intel Starcraft II Open Season 1/Preliminaries

Overview

Preliminaries

Players

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Final Eight

Full Bracket

Statistics

Offline Preliminaries

The preliminaries took place on the 28th and 29th of August.

• Preliminaries are used 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.
• Maps:
  • 1set: Metalopolis
  • 2set: Scrap Station
  • 3set: Xel'Naga Caverns

Qualifiers

With almost 2000 players scheduled to play the preliminaries over two days, included an announced 100 non-Koreans, the preliminaries weren't streamed so that the event could be run more smoothly. There were 16 groups, split between the two days with groups A1, A2, B1, B2 and so on until group H1 and H2.

Day 1

With 8 western players entered and many top players from Korean clans the prelims were full of famous names. Many of these players made it through, the only notable upset was that Jinro, Nazgul, Grrrr and Smuft didn't qualify after losing to Cella from the Werra clan. In total, 4 of the 8 who entered from the EU/American scene qualified.

A-Groups A1 A2  IdrA justfakeWeRRa ReXZanDarke NEXBleach oGsEnsnare SsojaWeRRa NEXLiveForever misoZenith

B-Groups B1 B2  TheLittleOne  HopeTorture oGsJangMinChul oGsTheWinD eScJung CheckPrime NEXFreeSaGA AoryPrime

C-Groups C1 C2 HongUnPrime  Artosis AugustWeRRa  sSKS oGsTOP AstraeaWeRRa PoltPrime focus

D-Groups D1 D2 AcupunctureZenith* Kim Hyun Tae* Kang Cho Won* RenieHouR oGsLeader TorcH CellaWeRRa Xian

Day 2

A-Groups A1 A2 NesTea TankboyPrime jookToJung MythPrime JSLZenith oGsJunwi DosWeRRa jjonga

B-Groups B1 B2 oGsHyperdub MakaPrime NewWeRRa MaruPrime LotzePrime Cool oGsInCa NEXGenius

C-Groups C1 C2 Hansin DAVIT anyproPrime SquirrelPrime* KeepingWeRRa GerrardPrime CezannePrime CrownPrince*

D-Groups D1 D2 Baek Yong Min* Clide LosirA WindPrime oGsZenio LegalMind SengKunWeRRa* SopiaWeRRa

Korean Names

Players tagged with an asterisk have had their Korean names translated or romanised for ease of reading. However, some names are not entire accurate:

• Acupuncture - 허준과침제니스 Means "HeoJoon Branch Acupuncture"
• SqurrelPrime - 다람쥐프라임 DaRamJi is the Romanisation of the Korean for Squirrel.
• CrownPrince - 태자 Tae Ja is the Romanisation of the Korean for Crown Prince.
• SengCun - 생컨웨라 Seng Kon is a type of UMS map where one player can only macro and the other can only micro.

Coverage

• Day 1 Live Report on Team Liquid
• Day 2 Live Report on Team Liquid
• Artosis' video coverage on Day 1