2011 Global StarCraft II League August

Overview

Preliminaries

Code S

Code A

Up & Down

Code S Statistics

Code A Statistics

Global StarCraft II League August [edit]
League Information
Organizer:	GOMTV
Sponsor:	Pepsi
Game Version:	Wings of Liberty Patch 1.3.6
Server:	South Korea
Event Type:	Offline
Location:	South Korea
Format:	Code Ro32 Group play Ro16 and on Single-elimination Code Ro32 and on Single-elimination
Start Date:	2011-08-08
End Date:	2011-09-10
Winners
Mvp  TOP  Polt  July
Winners
GanZi  MarineKing  TaeJa  Leenock
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:	32    32
17    32    15
Maps
Antiga Shipyard • Bel'Shir Beach • Crossfire SE • Daybreak • Dual Sight • Metalopolis • Tal'Darim Altar LE • Terminus SE • Xel'Naga Fortress

Map Pool

This season introduced two new maps: Blizzard’s Antiga Shipyard, and Winpark’s Daybreak; these replaced Xel'Naga Caverns and Crevasse.

• Antiga Shipyard
• Bel'Shir Beach
• Crossfire SE
• Daybreak
• Dual Sight
• Metalopolis
• Tal'Darim Altar LE*
• Terminus SE*
• Xel'Naga Fortress

Note: GOM showed the names “Terminus RE” and “Tal'Darim Altar” in their broadcasts, while the newer versions Terminus SE and Tal'Darim Altar LE are played.

Information

Code S

• Main Tournament.
• 32 Players competed for the Championship.
• 8 Players lost Code status and entered the Up & Down Matches, where they had the chance to reclaim it.
• Code Casters:

• Nick "Tasteless" Plott
• Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski

Code A

• Secondary Tournament.
• 32 Players, 15 from the previous GSL, 13 new qualifiers and 4 foreigner seeds (from MLG Columbus and The Road to Korea).
• Losers in the first Round lost their Code status.
• The Winner received Code status for the next GSL.
• Players who reached the Round of 8 (except for Code winner) entered the Up & Down Matches.
• Code Casters:

• Wolf "Wolf" Schröder
• Erik "DoA" Lonnquist
• Noah "Moletrap" Kalb

Up & Down Matches

• 8 Code Players and 7 Code Players.
• These 15 Players were divided into 3 groups of 5.
• 6 Players, first and second place from each group, received Code status.
• Up & Down Casters:

• Wolf "Wolf" Schröder
• Erik "DoA" Lonnquist
• Noah "Moletrap" Kalb

Prize Pool

Code S

The total prize pool was ₩144 900 000 (Approximately $134 000 USD, €94 000 EUR), divided among participants as follows:

Place	Prize (KRW)	≈ USD	≈ EUR
Champion	₩60,000,000	$46,000	€32,000
Runner-up	₩20,000,000	$18,500	€13,000
Semifinalists	₩6,000,000	$4,500	€3,200
Ro8	₩3,000,000	$2,800	€1,900
Ro16	₩2,000,000	$1,850	€1,300
Ro32	₩1,500,000	$1,400	€1,000
Total	₩132,000,000	$121,900	€85,400

Code A

Place	Prize (KRW)	≈ USD	≈ EUR
Champion	₩1,500,000	$1,400	€1,000
Runner-up	₩1,000,000	$930	€650
Semifinalists	₩800,000	$740	€510
Ro8	₩600,000	$550	€380
Ro16	₩400,000	$370	€255
Ro32	₩200,000	$185	€130
Total	₩12,900,000	$11,930	€8,310

Trivia

• This GSL marked the first GSL in which the GSL-MLG Exchange Program took full effect (1 Code S, 3 Code A players seeded from MLG).

• As such, this GSL also marked the GSL with the most non-Korean players, with 6 total, 5 being in Code A. Unfortunately, none of the 5 in Code A could make it past the Round of 32.

• 50% of the players of this GSL were Terran as there were 32 of them in the 64 players of both Code A and Code S.
• This was the first GSL where there was a tie in the Up and Down Matches. This was followed by another tie in the first round of playoffs before an outcome was decided.
• Capital ship watch: Games where these units were a major factor in the outcome:

Unit	W	L
Battlecruiser	None	None
Brood Lord	None	None
Carrier	None	None
Mothership	None	None

Racial Distribution

	Protoss	Terran	Zerg	Random
Code Winner	1
: Final Match	2
: Semi Finals	3 1
: Round of 8	2 5 1
: Round of 16	4 9 3
: Round of 32	8 17 7
UD: Promotions	4 2
UD: Before	3 2 3
UD: + Total	4 6 5
UD: Before	1 4 2
UD: Demotions	4 2 3
Code Winner	1
: Final Match	2
: Semi Finals	3 1
: Round of 8	1 5 2
: Round of 16	2 7 7
: Round of 32	9 15 8

See also

• Premier Tournaments

External links

• GOMtv
• Photos from the Code S finals