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Code S Begins This Week!!! Schedule for Group Stage is as follows.

Week 1
Monday 7pm SGT / 10pm Sydney - Group 4 Match 1,2,3
Tuesday 7pm SGT / 10pm Sydney - Group 4 Match 4,5,6
Casters for this group: kelly + champi http://www.justin.tv/kellymilkies/

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The starting map for match 1 & 2 is GSL Crevasse
Match 1: TAEdgE vs aLtOxygeN
Match 2: inF vs FaH
Match 3: Winner of Match 1 vs Winner of Match 2. Winner is #1 Seed to Ro8.
Shuffle from code A is to play match 6 in the up/down match on Tuesday.

Wednesday 5pm SGT / 8pm Sydney - Group 2 Match 1,2,3
Thursday 5pm SGT / 8pm Sydney - Group 2 Match 4,5,6
Casters for this group: benji + xeen http://www.justin.tv/benjisc2

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Match 1: nGenLight vs FXOFilthy
Match 2: InF vs aLtiaguz
Match 3: Winner of Match 1 vs Winner of Match 2. Winner is #1 Seed to Ro8.
Enderr from code A is to play match 6 in the up/down match on Thursday.

Week 2

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Monday 5pm SGT / 8pm Sydney - Group 1 Match 1,2,3
Tuesday 5pm SGT / 8pm Sydney - Group 1 Match 4,5,6
Casters for this group unconfirmed: unstable + ? http://www.justin.tv/fxopenesports

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Match 1: FXOice vs aLtYoonYJ
Match 2: nGenJazBas vs inFiTargA
Match 3: Winner of Match 1 vs Winner of Match 2. Winner is #1 Seed to Ro8.
PiG from code A is to play match 6 in the up/down match on Tuesday.

Wednesday 7pm SGT / 10pm Sydney - Group 3 Match 1,2,3
Thursday 7pm SGT / 10pm Sydney - Group 3 Match 4,5,6
Casters for this group: kelly + champi http://www.justin.tv/kellymilkies/

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Match 1: aLtKinGJesse vs NeoRedArchon
Match 2: aLtAaron vs nGenRefallen
Match 3: Winner of Match 1 vs Winner of Match 2. Winner is #1 Seed to Ro8.
FighT from code A is to play match 6 in the up/down match on Thursday.

Groups:

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Player	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
A	iceiceice	Light	KinGJesse	EdgE
B	YoonYJ	Filthy	RedArchon	OxygeN
C	JazBas	Revenant	Aaron	Roz
D	TargA	iaguz	Refallen	FaH

Note:

• Kowi has been uncontactable for the past week and has been replaced by nGenLight
• The timings were made according to the players availablity so the groups are not played in order. i.e Group 4 goes first.
• Also if there are 3 players in SEA it starts at 7pm SGT /10pm Sydney and if there are 3 ANZ players it starts at 5pm SGT / 8pm Sydney - This is because some SEA players have a problem with making it at 5pm SGT.
• The monday/tues matches coincide with the GSL korea vs foreigner finals but i dont see a solution for that but this will be a good gauge/test to know many viewers we will lose if we clash with gsl timings.

Matches Explained

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Match 1: Player A vs Player B
Match 2: Player C vs Player D
Match 3: Winner of 1 vs Winner of 2 -> winner of this match advances Ro8 as #1 seed
Match 4: Loser of 1 vs Loser of 2 -> loser of this match is #4 seed and loses code S status instantly.
Match 5: Loser of 3 vs Winner of 4 -> winner of this match advances to Ro8 as #2 seed
Match 6: Loser of 5 vs Code A finals runner up -> Up/down match, winner gets code S next season.

i.e Match 1 for group 1 = ice vs yoon on GSL Crevasse
Code A Finals Runner Ups

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Bracket A Runner Up: PiG
Bracket A can be viewed here

Bracket B Runner Up: enderr
Bracket B can be viewed here

Bracket C Runner Up: fight
Bracket C can be viewed here

Bracket D Runner Up: shuffle
Bracket D can be viewed here

Map Rules

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• First Map for each match is as follows:
  
  Match 1 & Match 2 = GSL Crevasse
  Match 3 & Match 4 = GSL Tal'Darim Altar
  Match 5 = GSL Terminus Re
  Match 6 = Xel Naga Caverns
  
• Map pool will be TSL maps with 1 veto each per player.
• Winner vetoes first followed by loser's veto who then also picks map.
• Crossfire is no longer in the map pool.

We will be following the example set by TSL by using this extremely balanced map pool. Hopefully more competitions follow suit as well and this becomes the standard