9/12/2023 0 Comments Sc2 flawless victory![]() He took out 2 Terrans before losing to Jung Min “Zenio” Choi in the round of 16. TLO had a harder season this time, hitting Sang Ho “Killer” Shin AKA SangHo, an experienced StarCraft 1 pro who had just switched over. Season 2 had repeat qualifiers in TLO and IdrA, as well as a new one in Yi “Loner” Dai, the Chinese Terran (who would soon later go on to get 2nd at the first StarCraft II Blizzcon tournament). Thus ended a very underwhelming Open Season 1 for a hopeful foreigner scene. After handily dispatching a Terran player in the round of 64, he lost to Yung Soo “NettiePrime” Jun 1-2 in the round of 32. The favourite of the Non-Koreans (and truthfully, one of the overall favourites of the whole tournament), Greg “IdrA” Fields didn’t preform as well as anyone expected in the first season. By the way, this was all playing Terran, the race TLO started out with. He took out Kang Ho “LosirA” Hwang, who is still a top professional Zerg to this day, with a 2-0 score, and then lost to Yoo Jong “Hyperdub” Kim in the round of 32, a well known Terran of the time, 1-2. This was of course with Zerg, my original race in SC2.ĭario “Liquid`TLO” Wunsch also qualified for the first GSL Open Season, and certainly did a good job there as well. There I played a pretty poor series against a Protoss player and lost 1-2. Trevor “TorcH” Housten made it only as far as the round of 64, losing to a Protoss player who, little did we know, would several seasons later become a surprise powerhouse: Cho Won “San” Kang.ĭan “Artosis” Stemkoski (me, lol!) also only made it into the round of 64. ![]() The first qualifier for GSL was announced very last minute, but still 4 non-Koreans were able to make it into the main tournament. That is a LOT of spots, which both allowed almost every top player to qualify, but also let in a lot of randoms who had some strange strategies or easy brackets. This means that during the open qualifiers, there were 64 spots up for grabs to get into the GSL. There were no seeds, and the brackets started at 64 players. To add to the craziness, the first 3 seasons were known as “Open” for a reason. There was a pretty good understanding of who the top players were at the time, but really anything could happen as the game was not even close to mapped out at the time. StarCraft II was an untamed land, one full of strategies and mechanics yet to be discovered. The Open Seasons were like the Wild West of GSL. Immediately great attention was given to the GSL, and many top Non-Korean players decided to attempt to make their name by traveling to Korea to compete. It was an exciting time, the start of the first Korean league in the sequel to the game that really started esports. GSL started just after the official release of SC2, all the way back in August of 2010. ![]() While this is certainly an impressive feat, Scarlett’s entire story in the GSL has not unfolded yet, so I’d like to take this time to look back on the history of foreigners (non-Koreans) in GSL. This is a wild time to be a StarCraft fan, as the foreigners continue to close the gap against the Korean programmers, making their mark more and more.Īnd now, Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn has qualified for the longest standing and most prestigious tournament in all of StarCraft II, the GSL Code S. Mikolaj “Elazer” Ogonowski, Tobias “ShoWTimE” Sieber and the aforementioned Neeb all made it into the round of 8 at Blizzcon. Alexander “Neeb” Sunderhaft won the KeSPA Cup.
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