So far, six players advanced to the next round of WCS Europe. Ten more will join them. This week kicks off with group D featuring San, Dayshi, TargA and Miniraser. The Scandinavian Zerg duo will face off in the first match, where Miniraser player is making his first appearance in the Premier League. He's the only Fnatic player left in the tournament, despite being only one of their academy players.
WCS Europe welcomed two new Koreans for 2014's Premier League. Jjakji already secured a spot in the ESL TV studio beating Nerchio and LiveZerg, now it is up to San. Considering his recent results, the challenge seems almost easy for the Korean Protoss of yoe Flash Wolves. Only a few weeks ago, he topped ASUS ROG Winter 2014 without losing a singe map in the playoffs neither to Life, StarDust nor Dear.
ESL TV's James 'Kaelaris' Carrol and Shaun 'Apollo' Clark are going to commentate all matches of Premier League's Round of 32 for you free in ad-supported 720p HD. 32 players - divided into eight groups with four players each - are trying to advance to the next round of Premier League. All matches of this round will be played online and can be seen on ESL TV every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from February 18th until March 6th.
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Group D of Premier League Ro32 on Tuesday, Feb 25th
- 18:00 Kristoffer 'TargA' Marthinsen vs. Viktor 'Miniraser' Malmberg
- 19:00 Kang 'San' Cho Won vs. Antoine 'Dayshi' Stievenar
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20:00 Winners of initial matches
Winner qualifies for Premier League Ro16 -
21:00 Losers of initial matches
Loser drops to next season's Challenger League -
22:00 Loser of match #3 vs. winner of match #4
Winner qualifies for Premier League Ro16
Loser drops to next season's Challenger League
For WCS's Round of 32, Dual Tournament Format will be used, where you need two wins to advance or you will drop after two losses. Each group will feature five matches played in best of three.
To learn more about the WCS 2014, visit starcraft2.com/wcs.