GomTV will host another major tournament right after the end of GSL March. Starting on March 28th and running for two weeks until April 9th, the GomTV World Championship will face the best pro-gamers in the world in both an individual and a team league to crown the true masters of the game.

The individual tournament will feature a total of 16 players, selected from the four major eSports regions - Europe, America, Asia and Korea. Half of the players will come from the Top 8 GSL rankers and the other will compete in preliminaries in order to win a spot in the event.

The team tournament will feature two teams - the "Korean All Stars" vs the "World All Stars" - and will run for two days. The first team to achieve 8 wins will be crowned team champion of the world.

GomTV has also announced the first seven qualifiers for the tournament from Asia, Europe and Korea.

Current Tournament Qualifiers
Jae-Duck 'NesTea' Lim
Jong-Hyun 'Mvp' Jung
Yoon-Yeol 'NaDa' Lee
Jung-Hoon 'MarineKing' Lee
Jonathan 'Jinro' Walsh
Carl Stefan 'MorroW' Andersson
Andrew 'mOOn-GLaDe' Pender

Furthermore, 18 players have been announced to take part in the preliminaries and the pool features some really impressive names indeed:

Europe participants
Grzegorz 'MaNa' Komincz
Santeri 'Naama' Lahtinen
Oleksii 'White-Ra' Krupnyk
Giacomo 'Socke' Thüs
Tomasz 'Tarson' Boroń
Dmytro 'DIMAGA' Filipchuk
Jeffrey 'SjoW' Brusi

North/South America participants
Chris 'HuK' Loranger
Taylor 'PainUser' Parsons
Jian Carlo Joan Morayra 'Fenix' Alejo
Payam 'TT1' Toghyan

Asia participants
Chia Yang 'SEn' Cheng
Thanapol 'RedArchon' Kuachat
Marcus 'Revenant' Tan Sin Yik
Wei Yang 'Oxygen' Lim
Hamish 'Kowi' Parker
Li Wei 'xiaot' Sun
Lei 'XiGua' Wang

The total prize pool for the event counts up to a total of 55,000,000 KRW or around $49,300 with $27,000 going to the first prize winner.

GomTV will release more information on the schedule and the match brackets soon so stay tuned for additional details.

Source: GomTV.net