Starting this Monday, September 3rd, GSL takes to its fourth season this year of both Code a and Code S. Swedish Protoss Naniwa, who has made it to the top 8 of the past two installments of the tournament has good chances to make it out of the round of 32, while GSL newcomer MaNa got seeded into the group of death with, who many would consider the strongest Terran at the moment, TaeJa, and the strongest Terran of all time, Mvp as well as SlayerS prominent Terran MMA. ThorZaIN will participate in neither Code A or Code S since he forfeited is Up & Down slot.
KeSPA players making their GSL debuts are Jaedong and Rain for Code S and Trap, effOrt, RorO and sOs in Code A. The list will obviously be filled out with players dropping from Code S.
CODE S GROUPS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group A | Group B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seed Symbol SuHoSin | YoDa | Leenock | Ryung | Parting | HerO | Group C | Group D | MC Byun Jaedong | Rain | Curious | Happy | MarineKing | Genius | Group E | Group F | TaeJa Naniwa MaNa | Heart | MMA | Sniper | Mvp | Squirtle | Group G | Group H | NesTea DongRaeGu Life | Bomber | JYP | Polt | SuperNova | GuMiHo | |
CODE A | ||||||||||||||||||
Hyun Puzzle | Hack | AcE | jjakji | Keen | Creator | Vampire | YugiOh | Killer | TheStC | Oz | Shine | Maru | aLive | Trap | effOrt | RorO | sOs | |
With a new season, one new map makes its way into the tournament: GSL Abyssal City. Metropolis and Antlantis Spaceship will not be seen this season. Thus, the mappool reads as follows:
GSL Whirlwind
GSL Ohana
GSL Cloud Kingdom
GSL Entombed Valley
GSL Antiga Shipyard
GSL Daybreak
GSL Abyssal City
The grand finals will take place on Saturday, October 20th 2012.
Source: GomTV.net