At 11:00 AM EST (17:00 CET) today over one hundred players began the long road ahead of them where they would need to go undefeated in at least five best of three series matches against some of the best players outside of South Korea. This prove to not be an easy task for some, and many favorites were knocked out early on including Kristijonas “xLo.Kr” Barisas, Dae “aAa.CrayOn” Yoo, and Jarek “DkH.Yayba” Pociecha.

In the quarter finals we would see some very exciting matches. The first series of the quarter finals would put the Dreamhack Summer 2007 winner Tobias “NaW-datoby” Lundgren against the well-known Czech player Jakub “CDS)Crow” Sedlacek. Surprisingly, the Czech would come out on top with a 2-0 victory. In the second match of the quarter finals we saw the two well-known Russian players Sergey “fAke.Mamon.oO” Belyaev and Vladimir “3D.Sudden” Belchikov against each other where Mamon would come out victorious in this series. In the final two matches, the French zerg player sT-Kassios- and the Polish protoss Peter “MIStrZZZ” Jaworski would move onto the semi-finals.

The four players in the semi-finals would automatically qualify for GGSL 2. However, the French player sT-Kassios- announced that he would be unable to compete in the league due to it interfering with his holidays. This would mean that one match would be played to determine who would take his spot. The winner of the series between the American protoss Tyler “NonY[rC]” Wasieleski and the Romanian terran xLo.jack will qualify for GGSL 2.

For anyone who missed the first qualification tournament you will have another chance to get one of the final four remaining spots in the qualifier tomorrow at 1:00 PM EST (19:00 CET).

List of Qualifiers:

1. xLo.MIStrZZZ
2. fAke.Mamon.oO
3. CDS)Crow
4. TBA
5. TBA
6. TBA
7. TBA
8. TBA

SOURCE: GosuGamers