Starting this Friday at 13:30 PDT, the 16-player tournament will kick-off with $45,000 in cash prizes on the line. The tournament will be in a double-elimination format. Casters for this tournament will include the GomTV casters Nick "Tasteless" Plott, and Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski. Even StarCraft II Game Director Dustin Browder will get a chance at casting some of these games.
| BlizzCon 2010 StarCraft II Invitational | |
| Region | Player |
| China |   Dai 'Loner' Yi  Ye 'Luffy' Hao |
| Europe |  Benjamin 'mTWDeMusliM' Baker Dario 'TLAF-Liquid`TLO' Wunsch |
| Korea |   Min-Soo 'NEXGenius' Jung Han-Eul 'MakaPrime' Kwak |
| Latin America |  Jian Carlo 'Fenix' Morayra Patricio 'Capoch' del Olmo |
| North America |  Christopher 'HuK' Loranger KyeongHyun 'SeleCT' Ryoo |
| Russia |  Dima 'mTwDIMAGA' Filipchuk Oleksiy 'White-Ra' Krupnuk |
| Southeast Asia |  Daryl 'ice' Xiang Thanapol 'RedArchon' Kuachat |
| Taiwan |  Chia-Cheng 'SEN' Yang Jen-Yu 'SoftBall' Chan |
At 19:30 PDT on Friday October 22nd, a special showmatch is going to be casted. Blizzard has invited the legendary Lim 'Boxer' Yo-Hwan and the GSL Season 1 Open Champion Kim 'FruitDealer' Won-Ki for this showmatch. Both are currently qualified into the next round of the GSL Open Season 2.
An interesting note is that Blizzard has also listed TLAF-Liquid`TLO as a Zerg player. In a previous interview just over a week ago, it was revealed that TLO was considering switching to the Zerg race. Thus far, he is listed as a Terran player on the GSL website.
Only one round of games from the GSL Open Season 2 will be played before BlizzCon. Remaining matches are scheduled after BlizzCon, no doubt to give the six players and two commentators involved in the GSL some time off for BlizzCon.
Links
Battle.net - Source
