AfreecaTV: GSL Will Continue In 2023

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Waxangel

United States31476 Posts

The Global StarCraft II League will continue into 2023!

Following the conclusion of Super Tournament II, the final GSL tournament of 2022, AfreecaTV CEO Jung Chan Yong took the stage to announce that “GSL will continue next year as well on AfreecaTV.”

Beyond that statement, no further details were offered at the time. To use this current season’s announcements as a reference, AfreecaTV announced the details for the 2022 GSL Tour on January 18th of this year, while ESL announced the 2022/23 ESL Pro Tour on January 7th.

AzAlexZ

Australia3267 Posts

Fantastic news, Hope to see more Starcraft 2 as well more exciting Semi-finals and disappointing Finals

BisuDagger

Bisutopia18699 Posts

Awesome! I still watch every broadcast possible.

Moobutt

United States1991 Posts

Used to watch several hours of esports daily before life got busy.

GSL is the only thing still consistently on my radar after 15 years. That and the odd ASL stream.

SamirDuran

Philippines870 Posts

time for Maru to get 8SL

daskleinehotte

Germany71 Posts

Awesome news, but I am still a bit worried, that they might tone it down to two GSLs (+ ST) a year.

Edpayasugo

United Kingdom2164 Posts

Hurrah, GSL forever!

Guys, you need to worry about only one thing: GSL can move to afreeca.tv. And it is real.

Poopi

France11632 Posts

Less GSL is better than no GSL. I doubt I would still watch StarCraft 2 without the Korean scene, so this is an awesome news for sure!

btw where is mr.SEO, aka the best CEO of all time?
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JimmyJRaynor

Canada14720 Posts

On December 09 2022 10:05 Waxangel wrote:
The Global StarCraft II League will continue into 2023!

a big thanks to ATVI , Blizzard and most of all Bobby Kotick for funding another season of SC2 even though there is zero chance of making a profit on it.

In 2010, the C&C franchise was the top non-Blizzard RTS and C&C4 released around the same time as SC2. Interesting to contrast the state of C&C esports with Starcraft esports.

Mozdk

Denmark6976 Posts

With respect to State I would like to see Artosis return to the broadcast. I wouldn’t mind him doing it from Canada.

Haku

Germany526 Posts

Best sc2 related news I have heard in years besides the recent patch announcements!

[PkF] Wire

France24077 Posts

Thanks so much ! Boy, that makes me so happy !!

Gescom

Canada2945 Posts

PTR patch and further support in 2023
Bless us, everyone

Captain Peabody

United States2861 Posts

This is wonderful news, was starting to get worried about the future of SC2 ESPORTS with no news about 2023. Hopefully some kind of ESL contract/pro tour goes through, but in the meantime I mostly watch GSL so it’s great to know that I won’t have nothing to watch next year.

tlnetuser108

20 Posts

Hopefully they’ll let Artosis cast instead of the new guy

QOGQOG

599 Posts

Good to hear the best tournament will continue.

Waxangel

United States31476 Posts

On December 09 2022 18:16 depressed1 wrote:
btw where is mr.SEO, aka the best CEO of all time?
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he stepped down as CEO around this time last year

he’s still with AfreecaTV under some kind of honorary position but no longer the CEO