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Russian Federation74 Posts
Src: http://www.gomtv.net/forum/view.gom?topicid=224413&cid=0&kind=8
Dear GOMTV.net users, After the amazing end to the GSTL Season 2 at Haeundae Beach, Busan, we are happy to announce that the GSTL is back! GSTL Season 3 will be the final season of team leagues in 2012 so be sure to see who will be the final champion of this year! Here is the list of the 9 teams participating as well as the map pool for this season! Format for this season: Round 1 (Preliminaries) - Best of 9 - 3 participating teams: NSH, LG-IM, FnaticRC (the top 6 teams of 2012 GSTL Season 2 are seeded into Round 2) - Round robin style: All teams will play each other and only 2 will advance Round 2 (Pennant Race) - Best of 9 - 8 participating teams: FXOpen, TSL, Prime, SlayerS, StarTale, MVP + (2 teams from Round 1) - 2 groups with 4 teams each. Dual Tournament format, 2 teams advance, 2 teams are eliminated. (Same system as Code S Ro32, Ro16) Round 3 (Playoffs) - Best of 9 - Semi-Finals: Group A 1st vs Group B 2nd, Group A 2nd vs Group B 1st - Grand Finals GSTL Season 3 is planned to run from September 7th - November 24th. As usual we will have a free LQ stream for all GSTL matches available on GOMTV.net. If you would like to enjoy the matches in HQ and check out our VOD services, take a look at our ticket options in the Ticket Store. Thank you. GOMTV.net
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Aww damn, no EG or Liquid. Not even in partnership with someone. That's unfortunate. Maybe next season!
Guess no KeSPA seeds for GSTL.
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Wow no Teamliquid this time.
that kinda sucks.
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awesome, so happy they're starting with IM :D
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Liquid
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United Kingdom50293 Posts
Shame that liquid pulled out, I hoped for a kind of second F.United with more Koreans on foreign teams so they can play in GSTL (A line up of heart, supernova, sangho, hero, taeja, ganzi, JYP and puma is a serious threat to anyone).
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no team Taeja?
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Well, it sucks that we won't get to see all of our favorite players in the team league, but I always enjoy watching games on the new maps!
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Liquid has too few players in Korea after jinro retired and haypro went back to europe.
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looks like a rework of Ohana at first glimpse with some modification
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On September 04 2012 22:35 Arceus wrote:looks like a rework of Ohana at first glimpse with some modification
looks more like Crossfire 2.0 to me. No wide areas, lots of choke points and ramps... I don't see Zerg doing well at all here, as you have, in difference to crossfire, a very easy accessable 3rd base... Anti Zerg map, don't think it's a good choice by GOM!
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Group B is the GSTL Group of Death, can't imagine how crazy it would be if IM was added into there.
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Too bad Liquid pulled out.
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Will there be a fantasy league for this?
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United Kingdom50293 Posts
On September 05 2012 00:06 Wivyx wrote:Will there be a fantasy league for this? I don't think the format is long enough for fantasy, if it's a long series of round robin like it was the season there was fantasy it'd work but this elimination format just wouldn't work well. I wish GOM made GSTL a regular round robin with playoffs later like they did once.
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With 3 teams playing each other in Round 1, how will they resolve any ties?
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No liquid? Given their IPLTAC3 run I was really hoping
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