Only two of twelve players are missing for the group stage to begin next week. The groupstage will see eight of the twelve players in another bracket the week after where the winner will take the $100 all by his own, while the top four will qualify for the second season's groupstage already. Season 2 is going to hold a total prizepool of $500.
US-American Zerg Michael, the Russian Terran reps)Pro7ecT, the German Zerg LRM)Bakuryu, the Bulgarian LRM)TechnicS, the Polish SouthPark, the Peruvian Nb.TerrOr., the Finnish Zerg/Terran Nb.Lossilohi, the Hungarian Zerg sas.Sziky have already qualified over the first four qualifiers and this week non others than the Polish Zerg gNs.I-trutaCz and the Italian Protoss iFU.AlfiO qualified, making AlfiO the first Protoss that has qualified so far.
Sign up now over at play.gosugamers.net to secure a spot in the first 32 safe spots or to get one of the early reserve slots. The tournament is going to start this Sunday at 19CET.
If you are not interested in playing yourself but would like to watch the others compete for the top two spots of the tournament you can go ahead and watch the livestream which will be over at Sayle's twitch.tv channel.
It's also possible to rewatch the casts of the previous qualifiers, either on his twitch.tv channel or to find the VOD's organized by games on his YouTube channel.
You can also download the replays of the previous cups in the according brackets, which can be found over at play.gosugamers.net. Simply hover your mouse over a match and click on the magnifying glass, afterwards select the replays and download them.
As usual one of the maps from the original mappool will be replaced by a map that is voted on in our poll on the StarCraft section's frontpage.
This week we will see Circuit Breakers 1.1 replaced by one of these maps: Fighting Spirit 1.3, Gladiator 1.1 and Icraus 1.1.
The mappack can be found here and except those three maps also the usual maps are included.
Note that this will not be the whole mappool for this week. The mappool will be found in the rules on Sunday.
Please make sure to read the rules beforehand in order for a smooth tournament and no major incidents. Not knowing the rules is your own fault!
Links
play.gosugamers.net - Sign up now; don't forget to check in
dl.dropbox.com - Download the mappack
twitch.tv - Sayle's twitch.tv stream