I'm not really seeing anyone pick up this news in English outside of StarCraft II forums, so I'm not sure whether this news will be fresh, or completely irrelevant to anyone's interests. Either way, GOM eXP was one of the leading broadcasters of StarCraft tournaments in South Korea. They operated GSL, which was one of the three Blizzard-endorsed leagues for StarCraft II.
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They have just shut down, but their GSL tournament will not.
afreecaTV, a video streaming service, has bought out the tournament. For viewers, this means that high quality, 1080p streams will be available for free. Previously, GOM was a bit strict about forcing Twitch subscriptions for anything other than Low quality. The quality was bad enough that you often couldn't even read the on-screen text, such as how many units or resources each player has.
Beyond hosting the 2016 GSL tournament, they will also have a couple of StarCraft II show matches and even a StarCraft: Brood War league. I wonder how the original StarCraft holds up for viewers after we have gotten used to the sequel's updated graphics. Hmm.
I never really watched GSL,
I never really watched GSL, wonder why? Heh. They might get slightly better view numbers now. Slightly.
I’ve watched the pro Korean
I’ve watched the pro Korean SC2 scene for ~2 years now including paying for a GSL sub. The move from GOM to afreecaTV should be fine. GSL has always been pretty good with GOM. But newer tournaments like SSL (on SPOTV) have had more impressive production value by a good margin. Hopefully the move will improve GSL in addition to free 1080p.
Proleague and SSL matches are both free and at the same level of play as GSL. Spoiler free vods are on sc2links or clash.gg
Nice. Honestly, I’ve never
Nice. Honestly, I've never seen SSL. I knew it existed, but I don't even know who carries it.
Its a huge Plus with the Free
Its a huge Plus with the Free 1080p option, GSL locked you to LOW quality and it looks like total Shiat. I mean you can barely tell if that is a terran CC or Zerg hatch its such LOW quality.