| purerakuen Korea (South). February 12 2013 12:30. Posts 7 | Profile # |
The original article: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=53321&iskin=esports
The translation (the translation is very rough; a friend requested for a fast translation from me which I've done and have provided a copy of it below):
eSports Federation (ESF; executive secretary Joonho Lee) and Blizzard Entertainment’s domestic eSports slash broadcasting partner GomTV announced the first ever Starcraft2: Heart of the Swarm eSports official team league “Heart of the Swarm GSTL (Global StarCraft 2 Team League) Pre-Season” that will be held from February 16th.
“Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season” will be co-hosted by the ESF and GomTV, and it was planned for the benefit of ESF players to successfully adapt to Heart of the Swarm, which will be released officially on March 12th, as well as providing the viewers the joy of HotS before the official release. 2013 GSTL Season 1 tournament that is scheduled to be held mid-March will be held as the official version once HotS is officially released.
Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season’s game highlights and game information contents will especially be provided in the Naver Sports section, allowing viewers to use varying platform to view the game in addition to www.sports1.kr
Prime, LG-IM, StarTale, FXOpen, MVP, NSH, Team AZUBU SC2, and Axiom-Acer will participate in the “Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season.” The game format will be single-elimination tournament, best of 7, all-kill format; all tournaments will be done on the HotS beta server, and the maps are the previously used Akilon Flats, GSL Bel’shir Vestige SE, GSL Whirlwind Se, GSL Icarus. On top of this, new maps Howling Peak, DF Atlas, and TPW Silver Sands will be used starting with this team league.
Joonho Lee, the executive secretary of the ESF, stated:
ESF believe it’s very meaningful to co-host the first ever official league, “Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season” with the GomTV. This Pre-season was planned to commemorate the release of the Heart of the Swarm and to allow the players to successfully adapt to the HotS market. With the “Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season,” you can also predict each team and player’s game power.
Seungmin Oh, GomTV’s Broadcasting PD stated:
Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season” is the first official team league after last October’s G-Star scene and December’s individual league, “HotS Invitational” that was held at Sheraton Walkerhill hotel, and thus will be a great opportunity to experience HotS before the official release date. I hope you will experience HotS first through the “Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season.
“Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season” will be held from this upcoming February 16th to February 25th and the winning team will win 3,000,000 Won (~$2742.73 after the current conversion rate as of 2/11).
“Heart of the Swarm GSTL Pre-Season” will provide various contents along with game highlights in the Naver Sports section and will be broadcasted live on http://www.sports1.kr and http://www.afreeca.com
Also, you can view the games through GSL official homepage (http://gsl.gomtv.com) and GomTV GSL channel (http://gsl.gomtv.com/vod). Subscribe to GSL blog (http://enjoygsl.blog.me) and GSL facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/GOGSL) for the GSL game schedule and for detailed information.
HotS GSTL Pre-Season Schedule (I'm assuming the times posted here are in KST):
2/16- 14:10 KST Ro8 Game 1: ST v. AZUBU
2/17- 14:10 KST Ro8 Game 2: FXOpen v. Prime
2/18- 18:10 KST Ro8 Game 3: NSH v. MVP
2/23- 14:10 KST Ro8 Game 4: LG-IM v. AxiomAcer
2/24- 14:10 KST Ro4 Game 1-2: - v. –
2/25- 18:10 KST Finals: - v. -
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| The_Templar United States. February 12 2013 12:31. Posts 4027 | Profile Blog # |
| Excellent news! Good way for the progamers to focus on HotS, just a little bit. |
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| Shellshock1122 United States. February 12 2013 12:31. Posts 39177 | Profile Blog # |
| Sweet! can't wait to check it out. Tough first round opponent for Prime with FXO D: |
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| Laryleprakon New Zealand. February 12 2013 12:34. Posts 6862 | Profile # |
Pretty cool. I hope they don't get any lag issues with it still being on a beta server.
That's a pretty awful prize pool even for a small tournament :/Last edit: 2013-02-12 12:37:18 |
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| Dodgin Canada. February 12 2013 12:35. Posts 25006 | Profile # |
| So the official GSTL season won't be starting until HOTS release? I guess this is a nice way to get some HOTS content on gomtv early, it should be a lot of fun to watch. I wonder if there will be free HQ or a ticket? |
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opterown  Australia. February 12 2013 12:35. Posts 27586 | Profile Blog # |
| this will be such a massive upheaval haha |
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| zhurai United States. February 12 2013 12:37. Posts 5558 | Profile Blog # | |
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| PhoenixVoid Canada. February 12 2013 12:37. Posts 8657 | Profile Blog # |
| I guess this is a good transition into the eventual HotS move. Good on GSL to do this. |
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| pencil_ethics New Zealand. February 12 2013 12:38. Posts 169 | Profile # |
| I knew somebody was going to end up beating me to the translation >_< If there is demand for an alternate take I will be happy to provide one, but nothing has been really missed, so... |
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| Gamegene United States. February 12 2013 12:38. Posts 6625 | Profile Blog # |
| looks like they're getting the jump on proleague |
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| Laryleprakon New Zealand. February 12 2013 12:40. Posts 6862 | Profile # |
| Hellbats vs Hellbats inc :D |
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| Acronysis February 12 2013 12:44. Posts 831 | Profile # | |
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| bittman Australia. February 12 2013 12:45. Posts 7265 | Profile # |
| Cool stuff! Looking forward to this pre-season and wonder if there will be any players that have been practicing HotS enough to provide some shock upsets? |
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| FrostedMiniWheats United States. February 12 2013 12:47. Posts 11213 | Profile # |
Nice was hoping it'd be hots.
Axiom might be tough for IM, it's a pretty good team to begin with and a lot of them have been seen with hots. Though... IM has Seed who I suspect is probably one of the best protoss in hots right now. |
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| TommyP United States. February 12 2013 12:48. Posts 5064 | Profile # |
Sweetness! gogo MVP  |
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| Bagration United States. February 12 2013 12:50. Posts 10780 | Profile Blog # |
Watch some random B-teamer on NSHoseo or something become the next HotS bonjwa.  |
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| Zenniv United States. February 12 2013 13:06. Posts 135 | Profile # |
| FUCK YES, I can't wait for some crazy ass Korean (and hopefully foreign too, you know who) HotS strats. |
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| Foreign maps? Yes please. |
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| Die4Ever United States. February 12 2013 13:14. Posts 4029 | Profile # | |
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