Just before the seventeenth GSL champion raises his trophy, Korea will go against the foreign world in a team battle. Enter the ten players for the GSL World championship.
The Korean team consists of the top five GSL contenders by ranking (Mvp being replaced by Squirtle) while the foreign roster saw two invites in Stephano and Naniwa and three more who came through one North American and one European qualifiers. The final line-ups are as follows:
Team "Korea"
DongRaeGu Life 
Seed Squirtle MCTeam "Rest of the World"
Stephano
Naniwa
Nerchio
Lucifron
ScarlettThe two rosters will play each other in both a head-to-head (day one) and all-kill (day two) format. If by the end of the all-kill day the teams are equal in rounds, a Bo3 1v1 match will be played to determine the winner.
| GSL World Championship day 1 match-ups | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seed | VS | Lucifron | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| DongRaeGu | VS | Scarlett | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Squirtle | VS | Nerchio | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Life | VS | Naniwa | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| MC | VS | Stephano | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The fight for the 10,000,000 KRW (approx. $9,210) will take place December 2-3 at 23:00 CET. The maps are Cloud Kingdom, Whirlwind, Emtombed Valley, Bel’Shir Vestige, Abyssal City, Antiga Shipyard, Daybreak, Ohana and Metropolis.
