The next step in GosuCup

The last qualifier was played last night and we now have 12 players for the groupstage. Find out about the groups below.


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With two more additions to the current playerpool for the groupstage, we are finally ready to enter the groupstage of the $100 GosuCup Season 1.
The groupstage will leave 8 of the 12 players for the next round, which will also introduce the newest ProLeague maps into the map pool.

The groups are containing 3 players, where each player will face each other once in a best of three, with each group having a different starting map. Each individual game counts as a point, so losing 1-2 still gives you a point, while 0-2 does not.
The two players with the most wins per group will advance, in case of a tie there will be a second round of best of three, in case of a repetive tie, the games will be reduced to best of one in the next repeat.
As usual the playing time is scheduled for Sunday, 19:00 CET.

This Sunday two more players qualified, the last two for this season, and they were non others than the Polish Zerg player, ZZZero, and his fellow country man ,LRM)Choosy, who plays Protoss, except that he plays Zerg against other Protoss players.

As usual we got a couple of words from the two qualified.




The groups have already been released and starting maps are for both matches the players play in their group with each group having a different starting map.
The map pool is the standard map pool for the groupstage, consisting of Alternative 1.3, Neo Beltway 2.0, New Bloody Ridge 2.1, Neo Aztec 2.1 and Circuit Breakers 1.0.

The groups look like the following.

$100 GosuCup Groupstage, December 4th
Group A (Neo Beltway 2.0)	Group B (Neo Aztec 2.1)
SouthPark	sas.Sziky
gNs.I-trutaCz	Nb.Lossilohi
ZZZero	LRM)TechnicS
Group C (Circuit Breakers 1.0)	Group D (New Bloody Ridge 2.1)
reps)Pro7ecT	Nb.TerrOr.
LRM)Bakuryu	LRM)Choosy
iFU.AlfiO	Michael

As usual Sayle is going to cast the games over on his twitch.tv channel which also holds VOD's of the qualifiers. Those VOD's are also cut down to the single games and to be found on his YouTube channel.

Please note that the Round of Eight will contain the new ProLeague maps added into the current map pool, so prepare for the new maps!
Also make sure to read the rules beforehand, not knowing the rules are your own fault and might add delay to the tournament.
Below is a map pack containing this round's maps and also all the new maps already out.