







Overview [ edit ]

GSL Global Championship is a sixteen-players tournament organized by GOMeXP at the end of 2014 WCS Season 1. Finalists of WCS Season 1 America, WCS Season 1 Europe, and 2014 GSL Season 1 will compete, plus ten players qualified through a Global Qualifier.

Prize Pool [ edit ]

The base prize pool is 10,000 USD spread among all 8 participants. In addition, 10% of yearly tickets purchase during the 2014 Global StarCraft II League Season 1 are added to the prize. The tier will be determined by the final prize pool (Currently Tier 3). The current prize pool was ~18,500 USD as of March 21, 2014.[1]

* Players must advance one round in order to claim WCS points for that placement. Being seeded through qualifiers counts as advancing one round.

** RorO, despite being seeded through qualifiers, gets no WCS points because he forfeited his place.

Participants [ edit ]

* MC and HyuN are opting to compete at DreamHack Bucharest and are replaced by San and Revival (who won a ranking match over Alicia) respectively.[2]

** RorO forfeited his qualification spot to compete at DreamHack Bucharest with no replacement.

Ranking Match [ edit ]

Best of 3 Alicia 1 Revival 2

Format [ edit ]

Group Stage 1 (Round of 16): Round Robin format.

Online.

Best-of-three.

Two Groups of Five from the Global Qualifier

First place in each group advance to Group Stage 2.

Group Stage 2 (Round of 8): Dual Tournament format.

Offline.

Best-of-three.

Top 2 from three WCS regions plus two Group Stage 1 winners make two groups of 4.

The 4 players of each group are split into two pairs and play each other .

and . The winners of these matches will then face each other in the Winner’s match. The victor places first in the group and advances to the quarterfinals. The losers of the initial matches face each other in the Loser’s match. The loser places fourth in the group, will drop out of the tournament. The loser of the Winner’s match and the winner of the Loser’s match will face each other in a fifth match. The winner gets second place in the group and advances to the quarterfinals .

. The loser places third in the group and will drop out of the tournament.

Playoffs:

The four remaining players will be put in a single-elimination bracket.

Semifinals are in best-of-five, finals in best-of-seven

Results [ edit ]

Group Stage 1 [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ] Group A April 19, 2014 13:00 KST 1. PartinG 4-0 7-2 2. DongRaeGu 2-1 5-4 3. Hack 2-2 6-6 4. FanTaSy 1-2 3-4 5. Squirtle 0-4 2-7 Group A Matches Hack 2 1 Squirtle PartinG 2 0 FanTaSy FanTaSy 2 0 Squirtle Hack 1 2 DongRaeGu PartinG 2 1 DongRaeGu FanTaSy 1 2 Hack PartinG 2 1 Hack Squirtle 1 2 DongRaeGu FanTaSy 0 0 DongRaeGu PartinG 1 0 Squirtle Group B [ edit ] Group B April 20, 2014 13:00 KST 1. Maru 3-0 5-0 2. Flash 1-1 2-2 3. Action 1-2 2-3 4. Impact 0-2 0-4 5. RorO * 0-0 0-0 Group B Matches Maru 2 0 Impact Flash 2 0 Action Action 2 0 Impact Flash 0 2 Maru Action 0 1 Maru Flash 0 0 Impact * RorO forfeited his place.[3]

Group Stage 2 [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ] Group A April 24, 2014 18:00 KST 1. Zest 2-0 4-1 2. PartinG 2-1 4-3 3. MMA 1-2 3-4 4. Revival 0-2 1-4 Group A Matches Zest 2 0 PartinG MMA 2 0 Revival Zest 2 1 MMA PartinG 2 1 Revival MMA 0 2 PartinG Group B [ edit ] Group B April 25, 2014 18:00 KST 1. San 2-0 4-1 2. soO 2-1 5-3 3. Maru 1-2 3-5 4. Oz 0-2 1-4 Group B Matches Oz 0 2 soO San 2 0 Maru soO 1 2 San Oz 1 2 Maru soO 2 1 Maru

Playoffs [ edit ]

Semifinals (Bo5) Zest 3 soO 2 San 0 PartinG 3 Finals (Bo7) Zest 4 PartinG 3

Racial Distribution [ edit ]

Protoss Terran Zerg Round of 16 5 5 6 Quarterfinals 4 2 2 Semifinals 3 1 Finals 2 Champion 1

VODs [ edit ]

Organized and Spoiler-free Official YouTube VODs @ SC2Casts