As always, the preliminary rounds for GSL Code A are unforgiving and unpredictable. According to a TeamLiquid post summarizing twitter information from Code A caster Erik "Doa" Lonnquist, many a great players have already been knocked out of the battlefield.

All foreign fans should be sad finding out that two of the biggest hopes of international Zerg - Hayder 'HayprO' Hussein and Andrew 'mOOn-GLaDe' Pender - have been knocked pretty early in the tournament. The Australian has been stopped in the first round of the preliminaries and Haypro has lost to former WarCraft 3 player "Violet" in round 3.

In a bit more surprising news, two of the most famous Koreans Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang and Han Eul 'Maka' Kwak also, apparently, failed to qualify for the Code A brackets. Moon, who recently took second place at IEM World Championship, has made it to round 5 where his assault has been interrupted by fOu player and GSL newcomer Bang-Min 'TopClass' Jung. Maka, on the other hand, got a harder lot and had to play StarTale's Choi Ji 'Bomber' Sung, the latter quite famous for his stellar TvT.

Although those are the more shocking results, there a lot more talented players who were expected to make it to Code A, including IM's Sang Won 'Seed' Ahn and Kyoung-Lak 'Junwi' Park, StarTale's foreigner Trevor 'Torch' Housten and SlayerS coach Seung-Pyo 'Cella' Hong.

Source: TeamLiquid.net