The first batch of up-and-down matches were played yesterday and the foreign scene now has his second hero aside from "Jinro". Chris 'HuK' Loranger managed to qualify from his Protoss-only star group where he was accompanied by players of proven magnificence such as Jun Hyuk 'InCa' Song and Hyung-Sup 'Choya' Lee.

"HuK" lost his first game against the PvP maestro "Inca" 0-2 and proceeded to play the deciding Code S match against "Choya". The Canadian showed a stellar, patient and surgically precise game and managed to pull out a 2-1 victory that will place him in the groups for Code S next season. He is thus the only other foreigner apart from Jonathan 'Jinro' Walsh that will compete in the biggest SC2 venue of the world.

In Group B, Dong-Nyung 'Leenock' Lee drew the short straw, being placed among two of the best players in the entire world. He lost both his sets 0-2 against Jae-Duck 'NesTea' Lim and Jung-Hoon 'MarineKing' Lee and the mastodons have secured their rightful places among the other Code S players.

The up-and-down matches will continue for three more days, including today.