Good morning Korea, good night rest of the world. GSL Code A is coming up with Group A today which features Lee ‚INnoVation‘ Shin Hyung in his third attempt to qualify for Code S this year. He is flanked by three playes whom he should easily beat – but you never know. Here’s what you should know though.

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Trivia

1. [innovation] is not the first Top10 of the World Ranking who has to qualify for Code S via Code A – last season it was him, [dear] and [soulkey], the season before that him and [sos]. But he is the only Top10 player in 2014 who had to do it thrice
2. [hurricane1] is a valuable teamplayer for every team he ever joined – in 2012 he was among the 10 best players of GSTL twice, in the current Proleague however he isn’t as succesful
3. [hyvaa] has participated in 19 tournaments in his career but only once went abroad for MLG Dallas in 2012. There he beat [hero2] and [san] before being eliminated as #17 by [rain (by.sun)]
4. [ruin] needed four attempts in Code A before he first qualified for Code S earlier this year. Since then however he has been a part of Code S, though he never reached Ro16
5. Innovation hasn’t lost a single match against one of his opponents yet – he is 2:0 against each Hurricane, hyvaa and Ruin in official tournaments
6. Ruin however hasn’t won a single match against one his opponents yet – he is 0:2 against both Innovation and hyvaa
7. Innovation is 21:4 in TvP since April beating amongst others [stardust], [san], [hero2] and [dear]
8. Hyvaa didn’t win a single ZvP from September 2013 to the qualifier for this Code A where he had to defeat two Protoss to advance
9. Also he hasn’t won a single ZvT since March
10. Oh and never forget that Innovation was the leader of the World Ranking from December 2013 to June 2014 – just in case you were wondering who should by all means win this group