As usual, after the end of the Code A tournament a time comes to determine who will climb up and join the heavy hitters in Code S or stay another season on the lower level and will struggle through the voracious bracket. 24 player have been divided into eight groups of three with two S players and one A player in each. Just like the past seasons, the 3rd place Code S and the Code A will have two shots into climbing up, while the 4th place Code S player will get just one
You can check the drawings in the table below (Code S players are marked in bold with the 3rd place always listed first):
| GSL May Up-and-down groups | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | |||||||||||||||||||||
  Trickster |   Jinro | Byun | MC | |||||||||||||||||||||
| San |  Zenio | Check | HongUn | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Keen | Coca | Alive | Ryung | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MarineKing | Kyrix | Rain | Lyn | |||||||||||||||||||||
 HuK | TheWind | Rainbow | Ensnare | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MMA | Violet | Mvp | Bomber | |||||||||||||||||||||
Interesting will be the fate of the two foreigners that have found themselves in the up and down matches. Jinro is being placed with two Zergs but having in mind that the Swede has a strong TvZ and two chances to advance things are looking very good for him.
HuK's lot is way harder, being placed in a group with the three-times finalist MarineKing and the legend killer of team Slayers MMA. HuK will have to utilize his PvT skill to the maximum if he wants to return to Code S.
As mentioned above, the up-and-down matches commence on May 9th at 11:10 CET and will run for four days until May 12th.
Links
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