NewSCast for 13-Jan-11

Here we go again everyone.  I am TheAmazombie and this is your StarCraft 2 NewSCast for Friday, January 13th.

Sorry about skipping the cast last night, but there was not much to speak of.  While there is still not a ton of news for today, there were a couple of significant moves to talk about.

First of all, the new brackets and tournament style for the upcoming GSTL season have been released.  The tournament style is set up some what differently from previous seasons.  There will be playoff rounds to determine double elimination brackets seeding.  Those seeds then will advance teams into finals playoffs and start seeds for the next season.

Another great bit of information to be announced because of this is that Quantic Gaming featuring players such as Naniwa and Sase have joined forces with StarTale full time in a player and league exchange program which will cover SC2 as well as other games.  Hopefully their partnership will last longer then the short-lived one between Quantic and IM.  Good luck to all the teams on the upcoming GSTL season which is set to start on January 27th.

In other rather big news, 2-time GSL champion MC has officially left his long-time team oGs and joined SK Gaming full time.  The two teams had a limited partnership with the players MC and Nada, but that partnership has dissolved.  MC signed with SK Gaming who may look to expand their SC2 roster in the process.

JP and State of the Game have dissolved their partnership with MLG citing the spirit of independent ESPORTS journalism.  This means that SOTG will return testing a new date and time slot.  The show will air on Thursdays at 4PM PST.  They say this is to attempt to cater to the European audiences as well, but that if it does not go as planned, they are willing to test various other dates and times as well.  The new season will start on January 19th over at twitch.tv/stateofthegame.

The last thing to talk about today is that ESV.tv has teamed up with ASUS ROG for their invitational tournament.  The winner of the ESV.tv Grand Prix will receive one of the 32 invite spots to the upcoming ASUS ROG Invitational in Finland during the last weekend in February.

Well, that's about all the news that we have for you tonight.  Don't miss any of the action, but if you do you can find it here the next morning at SC2NewSCast.com.