– World Best StarCraft II Players to Compete
– ‘LG Cinema3D GSL World Championship’ will begin on March 28, 6:10 PM
– Korean top players including Yoon-yeol Lee (NaDa), Sung-jun Park (July), Jong-hyun Jung (Mvp), Jae-duk Im (Nestea), and international players including Jonathan Walsh (Jinro), Dmytro Filipchuk (Dimaga) to compete in the world’s most competitive tournament ever
– “Japan Earthquake Supporting Campaign” with world eSports fans to take place as well
(Seoul – March 23, 2011) GomTV, Blizzard Entertainment’s exclusive eSports and broadcasting partner in Korea, announced that the 2011 LG Cinema3D GSL(Global StarCraft® II League) World Championship Seoul will kick off with the opening game on March 28th.
The LG Cinema3D GSL World Championship is one of annual leagues of 2011 GSL Tour, which Gom TV hosts, and features Blizzard Entertainment’s real-time strategy game <StarCraft® II: The Wings of Liberty>. The LG Cinema3D GSL World Championship will hold a series of tournaments where world-class 16 players including 8 Korean top players and 8 international top players will participate from March 28th to April 9th.
In line to GomTV signing an MOU with LG Electronics on March 17, the LG Electronics will participate in this World Championship as the title sponsor, and thereby confirming the official league title as “2011 LG Cinema3D GSL World Championship Seoul.”
Entry of 8 players representing Korea was selected based on player’s total ranking points accumulated from the 2011 GSL Mar. and players including Min-chul Jang (MC), with the highest point, Jong-hyun Jung (Mvp), Jung-hun Lee (MarineKing), Jae-duk Im (Nestea), Sung-jun Park (July), Yoon-yeol Lee (NaDa), Jeong-whan Lee (anypro), and Cho-won Kang (sanZenith) will play in this tournament.
Entry of 8 international players was selected based on international leagues and regional preliminaries results. Two players each from Asia/Oceania and North America will join, together with four players from Europe, including Jonathan Walsh (Jinro) and Stephan Anderson (Morrow), representative players of Europe. Two Ukraine players, Dmytro Filipchuk (Dimaga) and Alesksey Krupnyk (White-ra), will also participate from Europe.
Yang Chia Cheng (Sen) from Taiwan, who won the Asia regional final; Andrew Pender (mOOnGLaDe), will be participating to represent Oceania; and Chris Loranger (Huk), who is participating in the current GSL; and Payam Toghyan (TT1) will also visit Korea as representatives of North America region to participate in the LG Cinema3D GSL World Championship.
The LG Cinema3D GSL World Championship will kick off with a special event match, World Team League, on the 29th. Here, the Korean team, consisting all participating 8 Korean players, will compete against the international team of all 8 foreign players. In the World Team League, a player will compete against the opponent and try to achieve consecutive wins until all players in the other team are defeated. Eventually, the team that achieves 8 victories will win the league. This unique concept – Korea vs. the rest of the world – and the exciting special event match is gathering much attention from eSports fans around the world.
The bracket for the main LG Cinema3D GSL World Championship will be randomly matched regardless of each player’s region. Players competing in the Round of 16 will advance after best-of-three matches; Round of 8 and 4 after best-of-five matches; then final match after best-of-seven match.
The total prize money amounts to about $100,000 – the 1st place winner will win $30,000 and the runner-up will receive $15,000.
In addition, GomTV will hold the “Japan Earthquake Supporting Campaign” with eSports fans around the world. GomTV will provide premium live broadcasting and VOD service for free during the World Championship, and induce eSports fans around the world to donate. GomTV will also plan various fund-raising campaigns with Korean eSports fans and deliver warm relief messages to Japan.
A GomTV spokesperson stated, “We are looking forward to Seoul becoming the ‘capital of global eSports’ through the 2011 GSL Tour.” GomTV also stated, “Blizzard and Gretech is also making other exciting plans for the GSL World Championship, so stay tuned.”
The LG Cinema3D GSL World Championship will take place at GomTV Studio in Mok-dong; and is opened to any eSports fans to come and watch the games for free.
More information about the entries and detailed schedules of the GSL World Championship can be found at www.gomtv.net.