The tournament will be commentated "by a rotating all-star team of shoutcasters including StarCraft II Game Director Dustin Browder, Rob "Voice" Simpson, Sean "Day[9]" Plott, Nick "Tasteless" Plott, and Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski. Tasteless and Artosis are the English-language commentating duo for the GSL tournament, currently in its second season.

Additionally, StarCraft and eSports legend SlayerS_'BoxeR' will face off against GSL1 champion Fruit Dealer in an exhibition match on Friday at 7:30pm PST.

Folks at home can watch the tournament and other BlizzCon events over the Internet or through DirecTV. Over $45,000 in prizes are one the line for the players. Two players from each territory have been selected to compete and are as follows.

China
• Dai "Loner" Yi
• Ye "Luffy" Hao

Europe
• Benjamin "mTwDeMusliM" Baker
• Dario "TLAF-Liquid`TLO" Wunsch

Korea
• Min-Soo "NEXGenius" Jung
• Han-Eul "MakaPrime" Kwak

Latin America
• Jian Carlo "Fenix" Morayra
• Patricio "Capoch" del Olmo

North America
• Christopher "HuK" Loranger
• KyeongHyun "SeleCT" Ryoo

Russia
• Dima "mTwDIMAGA" Filipchuk
• Oleksiy "White-Ra" Krupnyk

Southeast Asia
• Daryl "ice" Xiang
• Thanapol "RedArchon" Kuachat

Taiwan
• Chia-Cheng "SEN" Yang
• Jen-Yu "SoftBall" Chan

This is an amazing line-up of players and there should be no shortage of excellent games. I'll be at BlizzCon 2010 covering the event, but I'm sure I'll find a way to sneak over to the tournament area and watch some games.

Brian Leahy

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