Starcraft 2 news » NASL Season 4 Grand Finals Kick Off Today

North American Star League's fourth season has brought StarCraft II matches of the highest caliber to eSports fans for months, with competition that spanned a variety of formats, featuring qualifiers, division play, a wildcard bracket, and an open tournament. Now, the NASL is set to present fans with the Season 4 Grand Finals at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California.

The Grand Finals will be held in the Center Theater Saturday, November 8 through Sunday, November 9. The event will showcase the eight top performing players from this season's competition as they test their StarCraft II mettle in the single-elimination main bracket.

Saturday's quarterfinal action kicks off at 21:00 CET with matches in best of five format. Watch live as  Choi 'Polt' Seong Hoon (Terran) takes on Cho 'Golden' Myung Hwan (Zerg), Yoon 'TaeJa' Young Suh (Terran) and Song 'HerO' Hyeon Deok (Protoss) face off for a team kill series, Kim 'viOLet' Dong Hwan (Zerg) challenges Benjamin 'DeMusliM' Baker (Terran), and Rickard 'SortOf' Bergman (Zerg) attempts to topple GSL Season 5 runner-up, Ko 'HyuN' Seok Hyun (Zerg).

Throughout this weekend's events, casters Andre 'Gretorp' Hengchua, Dan 'Frodan' Chou, Ben 'MrBitter' Nichol, and Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi will bring you the action, and you'll hear from tournament hosts Sean 'Day[9]' Plott and Salome 'Soe' Gschwind Penski  as they conduct interviews and provide player insight between matches.

It gets better: Sunday’s show will blast the venue doors off their hinges with two Heart of the Swarm showmatches. The first will pit fan favorites Jos ‘Ret’ de Kroon and Aleksey ‘White-Ra’ Krupnyk against each other in a best of five series, while the second features a Free For All game with as-yet unannounced players.

Don't forget to tune in to the official NASL website to catch the free broadcast all weekend long. The show begins at 21:00 CET both Saturday, November 8, and Sunday, November 9. The full event schedule is available here.