2012 GSL Season 1 Code S reaches its final stage

UPDATE: aLive lost against Genius with a score of 3:0. Even so, we want to congratulate aLive on reaching the top 4 in the first season of GSL in 2012 and wish him to continue with great results throughout the year.

 

We are standing proud as our Terran player, Han "aLive" Lee Seok is going to participate in the Semi-Finals of the first edition of GSL Code S in 2012. This amazing player, who never dropped from Code S, not even with the new system saving only top eight players, is going to face Genius of MvP.

Genius is a Protoss player who managed to finish second in a group of death, throwing out both NesTea and MarineKing and finishing behind the mighty DongRaeGu. Therefore he qualified for the round of 8 where his amazing run continued, as he demolished SK.MC with the outstanding performance and a score of 3:0. aLive on the other hand had a much cleaner group stage. Even though he had Curious, Mvp, and Gumiho ( who is the 3rd Semi-Finalist of this tournament ) in group, he went in confident and delivered two 2:0 victories, which made him progress to the top 8 as first in group. Some would say that this wasn't the best option for him, as his next opponent was MMA, arguably one of the best Terrans in the world, and the winner of numerous tournaments, as well as the recent IEM Kiev. Even so, aLive continued with what he is best at - good decision making and the swift control, making him achieve a great 3:1 victory over MMA.

aLive and Genius will start off their battle on Entombed Valley, while the rest of schedule for this encounter will look like this:

FnaticRCMapMvP
 aLive Entombed Valley  Genius
 aLive Metropolis  Genius
 aLive Antiga Shipyard  Genius
 aLive Bel'Shir Beach  Genius
 aLive ESV Cloud Kingdom  Genius
Genius won the first 3 maps

 

aLive has had 62.22% win percentage against Protoss so far, while Genius has the modest 51.85% against Terran. Even though the statistics are in favor of aLive on paper, no one can be absolutely sure who will come out on top in the end. Whatever happens in this match, they can both be happy as it has been an amazingly successful start of 2012 for both of these briliant minds. They have earned their respect both from other players as well as their fans. We still hope that aLive will continue his winning streak, and will continue to improve his high winning percentage against Protoss with this match.

The match will be played on 23rd of February at 10:10 CET ( 18:10 KST ), and will be streamed on GOMTV, by Artosis and Tastless. Be sure to follow our site, Fnatic.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for more updates. FnaticRC.aLive fighting!