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Three hours from now, for the second time in StarCraft II history and the first time in a GSL event, a non-Korean will be playing in the Grand Finals. Right now, non-Koreans and Koreans are facing off in a team match. Here's all you need to know about GSL vs. the World.
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Three hours from now, for the second time in StarCraft II history and the first time in a GSL event, a non-Korean will be playing in the Grand Finals. Right now, non-Koreans and Koreans are facing off in a team match. Here's all you need to know about GSL vs. the World.

Posted: 04 Aug 2018 11:32 PM PDT

Firstly, here's the relevant livestream links:

English

Russian

Korean

French

Twitch

German

Twitch

Polish

Spanish

Twitch

If I am missing any, please send them to me so I can include them here.

The event is now over.

Overview

GSL vs. the World is a 16-player tournament that pits 8 of the best WCS non-Korean players against 8 of the best Koreans in a single-elimination bracket. The event is one of three tournaments by Blizzard that pits the two scenes against each other, alongside IEM Katowice and Blizzcon, and this is its second iteration in its current form. Before the finals, there is a team match between these 16 players. This year, they have been split into Team Maru (the highest-ranked Korean player) and Team Serral (the highest-ranked non-Korean player), with both teams having four Koreans and four non-Koreans and all matches will be Koreans vs non-Koreans.

The grand finals will feature Korean Protoss player Kim "Stats" Dae Yeob facing off against Finnish Zerg player Joona "Serral" Sotala. Stats made it to the finals by beating Chinese Protoss Cyan, Mexican Terran SpeCial, and (the highest-ranked) Korean Terran, Maru. Serral made it to the finals by beating Brazillian Terran Kelazhur, Korean Terran INnoVation, and Korean Zerg Dark.

The event's casters are Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski, Nick "Tasteless" Plott, Leigh "Maynarde" Mandalov, and Kevin "Rotterdam" van der Kooi.

Non-Korean results in Korea

Two years ago we had the first non-Korean ever win a Korean StarCraft II tournament when American Protoss Neeb won a KeSPA Cup. Today, we have the second ever non-Korean in a Korean event finals with Finnish Zerg Serral, and the first European to do it. Both of them have found huge success outside of Korea to accompany their success in Korea (Neeb won 3 of 4 WCS non-Korean events in a single year in 2017, Serral has won all 3 of the year so far). And since the KeSPA Cup was organized by KeSPA/SPOTV, this is the first time we've had a non-Korean in a GSL/Afreeca grand finals.

However, in recent seasons non-Koreans have been having increasing success in Korea, with Canadian Zerg Scarlett reaching the quarterfinals (Ro8) of GSL Code S, a first for non-Koreans for the past five years. Additionally, each season this year has had multiple non-Koreans make it into GSL Code S and this year this includes two players making it to the group stage (Ro16) so far. So this grand finals appearance by Serral, and him being favored by many to win it, makes this somewhat of a culmination of the long-running storyline of Korean domination. Of course, many point out that Serral stands head and shoulders above all other non-Korean players, but this is most definitely an incredibly exciting and historic StarCraft II finals.

A bit of an amplifier to this is last year's GSL vs. the World where no non-Korean did anywhere nearly as well, and in the Team Battle the Koreans won 7-1

GSL vs. the World Team Battle

Team Maru Roster

Race	Player	Country
Protoss	Cyan	China
Protoss	Has	Taiwan
Protoss	ShoWTimE	Germany
Protoss	Stats	Korea
Terran	Maru	Korea
Terran	SpeCial	Mexico
Zerg	Dark	Korea
Zerg	soO	Korea

Team Serral Roster

Race	Player	Country
Protoss	Classic	Korea
Protoss	Zest	Korea
Protoss	Neeb	USA
Terran	INnoVation	Korea
Terran	Kelazhur	Brazil
Zerg	Scarlett	Canada
Zerg	Serral	Finland
Zerg	Rogue	Korea

Team Battle

Finished

Game	Team Maru	Map	Team Serral	Result
1	Has (P)	Darkness Sanctuary	Zest (P)	?-?
2	Stats (P)	Dreamcatcher	Kelazhur (T)	?-?
3	Maru(T)	Lost and Found	Serral(Z)	?-?
4	ShoWTimE (P)	Acid Plant	Classic (P)	?-?
5	Cyan (P)	Catalyst	Rogue (Z)	?-?
6	Dark (Z)	Redshift	Scarlett (Z)	?-?
7	SpeCial (T)	16-Bit	INnoVation (T)	?-?
8	soO (Z)	Catalyst	Neeb (P)	?-?
-	-	ACE MATCH	-	If Tied
9	Maru	Lost and Found	Serral	?-?

Team Battle Result

Additionally, there is a prize for when Koreans (Team GSL) or non-Koreans (Team World) side wins more games than the other, scores taken from the Korean vs non-Korean matchups from the Team Battle.

Team GSL vs Team World Score

GSL vs. the World Grand Finals

Now Over

Game	Stats (P)	Map	Serral(Z)	Result
1	W/L	Catalyst	W/L	?-?
2	W/L	Redshift	W/L	?-?
3	W/L	Acid Plant	W/L	?-?
4	W/L	Darkness Sanctuary	W/L	?-?
5	W/L	16-Bit	W/L	?-?
6	W/L	Lost and Found	W/L	?-?
7	W/L	Dreamcatcher	W/L	?-?

Grand Finals Result

For the full bracket and more information about the event, here is its Liquipedia page. For more discussion about the event and StarCraft in general, I'd suggest TeamLiquid.net and r/StarCraft.