GomTV GSL News: Starcraft 2 Tournament Season 2 Preliminaries Begin Tomorrow  | read this item

Over the course of September, we had a look at what the best of the world can bring to Starcraft 2.  Epic games, awesome comebacks, and incredible dominations were all the for us all to enjoy.  From the preliminaries to the grand finals, millions around the world tuned into the biggest Starcraft 2 Tournament to be held.  Well, beginning tomorrow it gets even bigger with the beginning of GomTV GSL Season 2.

The participant list has become increasing more epic and competitive.  Old-school Starcraft 1 champions are transitioning into Starcraft 2 to have a chance at the huge grand prize.  We’ll get to see fan favorites from Season 1 coming back, including IdrA, TheLittleOne, HopeTorture, and the grand champion himself, Fruit Dealer.  In addition, we’ll see many names from Starcraft’s past glories including, Nada, July, Moon, and old-school pro legend Boxer.

While we wait for GomTV GSL Season 2 to begin, lets take a look at the first big news release from GomTV concerning the new season.

From GomTV:

Over 2,500 players have registered to participate in the STARCRAFT 2 Open Season 2, including many famous Pro-gamers from Starcraft Broodwar such as Lee, Yun-Yeol(aka Nada) and Park, Sung-Jun(aka July). Also well known pro-gamers from Warcraft 3 such as Jang, Jae-Ho (aka Moon), Yoon, Duk-Man(aka Soccer), Park, Jun(aka Lyn), No, Jin-Wouk(aka SouL), Kim, Sung-Sik(aka ReMinD) and Um, Hyo-Sup(aka BEV) also have shown their personal confirmations to participate in the tournament. Among the star pro-gamers, the players named above are confirmed to participate in the tournament.

The preliminary rounds of STARCRAFT 2 Open Season 2 was originally planned to be held only for two days but, due to increase in the number of participants, it has been extended to four days. The preliminary rounds will be held from the 9th of Oct. to the 12th.

Reflecting the world wide love for Starcraft 2, over 250 foreign players from 48 different countries have shown their intensions of participating in STARCRAFT 2 Open Season 2. These players include well-known players such as Loner and Loofy, who are among the best Starcraft players in China, and also TheLittleOne and IdrA who participated in the previous tournament.

The actual rounds of the STARCRAFT 2 Open Season 2 tournament will begin on Oct. 18th and the Finals are scheduled for Nov. 13th. Due to the fact that alot of pro-gamers and most players in the Diamond League of the Korean server actually signed up for this tournament, it will be a highly competitive tournament to distinguish the Champion of Starcarft2.

Source: http://www.gomtv.net/2010gslopens1/news/224

Looks to be quite the epic event again. Who are you guys voting for? Can Fruit Dealer get a repeat will players knocked out early last season (namely TLO and IdrA) make a push into the finals, or will one of the old legends of Starcraft 1 make tidal waves in their premiere Starcraft 2 Tournament?