BlizzCon hosting GSL pro StarCraft 2 final

The October finals of GOMtv's excellent professional Global StarCraft II League will be hosted at BlizzCon this year, in addition to Blizzard's regular fixture the Global Battle.net Invitational.

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BlizzCon 2011 will host the October season finale of GOMtv's excellent South Korea-based StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty professional league the GSL (Global StarCraft II League), Blizzard Entertainment has announced. This comes in addition to Blizzard's regular BlizzCon tournament, the Global Battle.net Invitational.

Both competitions will be streamed for free online, requiring only a Battle.net account to get in on the fun. This will be the first time that the GSL finals venture outside South Korea, so hopefully the travel won't affect finalists too much.

BlizzCon 2011 is on October 21 and 22 at, once again, the Anaheim Convention Center in California. The $175 tickets sold out, as always, within minutes, so you'll need to cough up $40 for the full stream if you want to see everything.

Blizzard has been quiet about what exactly will be on show this year, so it's good to start hearing details. We can doubtless expect the annual opportunity to play Diablo III and more on StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, but it'd also be nice to get a release date for either, not to mention a peek at Blizzard's mysterious new MMO codenamed 'Titan.'

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    July 13, 2011 6:45 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, BlizzCon hosting GSL pro StarCraft 2 final.

    The October finals of GOMtv's excellent professional Global StarCraft II League will be hosted at BlizzCon this year, in addition to Blizzard's regular fixture the Global Battle.net Invitational.

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      July 13, 2011 6:47 AM

      Oh jesu christo.....

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      July 13, 2011 7:01 AM

      I really hope they fix their shit this year. Last year it was terrible how badly managed the SC2 tournament was.

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      July 13, 2011 9:54 AM

      Ohhhh, this is gonna be flipping awesome.
      MC! MC!

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        July 13, 2011 3:53 PM

        Going to suck for Aussies and Koreans - who normally get to watch the finals at a sensible hour of the day.

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          July 13, 2011 4:50 PM

          awww... you guys get to enjoy the stupid off-hours shit Americans normally deal with.. it must be painful.

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            July 13, 2011 4:50 PM

            Wow... apparently www is detected as a link.... good job.

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      July 13, 2011 10:26 AM

      I never understood what people thought was so fun about watching 2 people playing Starcraft 2. I sat through last years Tournament at Blizzcon 2010 waiting for the next presentation, and I have to say it was pretty exciting. I guess like most sports the Commentator really helps.

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        July 13, 2011 10:32 AM

        I also heard that Titan was going to be a Casual MMO, so maybe it's a free to play with Micro Trans.

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        July 13, 2011 10:35 AM

        You should back out of this right now.

        SC2 is awesome. It is far more interesting to me than nearly any other competitive sport.

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        July 13, 2011 4:12 PM

        The commentator that year was Day9 (among others), aka 'Sean.' He's a great commentator.

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        July 13, 2011 4:22 PM

        Yeah, good comentating can turn even a boring game into at least an educational moment.

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