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On November 13 2011 18:46 deL wrote: deL's valid points
Alright, let's do this!
You're right. Our name does make it seem like we should be incredibly more stringent about these sort of things (I told them this name would cause us trouble, they didn't listen : P). We were very aware that these questions would be raised but it's kind of hard to address all of these things in an intro post (which we wanted to keep relatively clean for registrations). Before I begin, this kind of information will be readily available for later tournaments, and that "season 1" if you will, is a testbed for us and a way of introducing the APL to the scene.
That's not to say we didn't put a lot of thought into the invites, we paid attention to tournament results (IGN qualifiers, Blizzcon Invitational, Dox Cup, NRG, etc), and racial balance to some degree (poor protoss ), and it was impossible to come to just 8 players to invite. We'll be making the invite process a lot more well known come next tournament, but for now we'll just have to enjoy ourselves
It would be a shame to lose viewers just because people might stream
Oops, sorry for the confusion. The Open bracket won't be on the calender because we won't be officially broadcasting "our" stream until a week later, after we've added our production to it. When we broadcast, it'll definitely be on the calendar, but open bracket players will have already played their games.
Should also contact System (soulbora) if a co-caster is required as I think those two are some of the best casting talent in Aus.
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll look into him! :D
There is an actual tournament to play the whole day buddy.
We're really sorry man This seems to be a very dangerous time to schedule events. We originally had the APL planned for December 3rd, but we moved it because we <3 the Dox Cup and subsequently lost two of our invites because of WCG. We weren't even aware ArenaLAN was going on, argh. Don't worry, we plan to have more tournaments for you to participate in, you'll just have to win ArenaLAN and then come to the next APL!
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Good luck to those participating!!!
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really like the $1,500 prize pool, a nice start for APL and Au ESports!
feedback: dates could be better imo with research unless there were logistical issues, like could have gotten glade + all the other players playing in Arena
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Aww yeah signed up for the open bracket.
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On November 13 2011 19:56 ManicMarine wrote: Aww yeah signed up for the open bracket.
Bring glory to us Max :D
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really like the $1,500 prize pool, a nice start for ACL and Au ESports!
APL*
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On November 13 2011 19:53 aLt)nirvana wrote: feedback: dates could be better imo with research unless there were logistical issues, like could have gotten glade + all the other players playing in Arena
You, edge, and pinder are right. We've decided to push the open bracket to the 27th of November, the Sunday. We didn't realise ArenaLAN was a one-day event.
(That should hopefully appease everyone!)
We admit it. This was abit of a mistake on our end and we apologise. Just had to clear it with some peeps before we pushed it
Edit: Glade was unfortunately something we just couldn't make happen. We needed to get the APL over and done with before Christmas and there were too many conflicts. We were really excited to have Glade but shit got in the way
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seems cool, might not wanna use blizzard maps that dont have supply depot at ramp
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Signed up, going to be sick
Looking forward to playing in tournaments again
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Dels point on invite selection is important to keep the APL fair. Also; can you give us any indication on how often we can be expecting such an event from the APL? Non-the-less, looking forward to it, this is great for the Australia scene :D
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On November 13 2011 21:02 adRo. wrote: Also; can you give us any indication on how often we can be expecting such an event from the APL?
We're operating under the assumption of a bi-monthly schedule, so you'll see the APL every two months starting from the beginning of 2012.
Re: invites: Absolutely. Next time
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On November 13 2011 20:11 Rampager wrote:Show nested quote +On November 13 2011 19:53 aLt)nirvana wrote: feedback: dates could be better imo with research unless there were logistical issues, like could have gotten glade + all the other players playing in Arena
You, edge, and pinder are right. We've decided to push the open bracket to the 27th of November, the Sunday. We didn't realise ArenaLAN was a one-day event. (That should hopefully appease everyone!) We admit it. This was abit of a mistake on our end and we apologise. Just had to clear it with some peeps before we pushed it Edit: Glade was unfortunately something we just couldn't make happen. We needed to get the APL over and done with before Christmas and there were too many conflicts. We were really excited to have Glade but shit got in the way
I'm also attending the same lan that edge, pinder etc are attending. If i'm not mistaken, the tournament is on the 26th until late, so chances are, most people are flying back the next day. Pushing it back to early the next day will flat out not work for most people; my flight itinerary itself has me listed as getting back into Sydney at 11AM: I'm leaving Adelaide at 8:35AM. The time for the qualifier will still be obscenely hard for those attending the lan to work with. I say this knowing that I've been invited: it's still unfair for people who are willing, and skillful enough, to travel around Australia to compete for an event, to be unable to play a qualifier having not received an invite.
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So when is the latest that you can sign up? my friend is masters in NA, but diamond on SEA (pretty much only plays on NA). He needs to know how much time he has to get masters on SEA ^^
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On November 13 2011 22:09 Ripper62 wrote: So when is the latest that you can sign up? my friend is masters in NA, but diamond on SEA (pretty much only plays on NA). He needs to know how much time he has to get masters on SEA ^^
If your friend is Masters on NA, he still qualifiers to register for the event, as long as we can verify his ranking on NA. (Eg, if they are on the same battle.net account). But, you can register right up until check-in finishes. So basically 15 minutes before the start of the event. But do keep in mind, the positions are limited to 256 with a first-come first-serve basis.
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despite missing a number of players, the invite list still looks pretty sick.
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On November 13 2011 21:10 tgun wrote: Pushing it back to early the next day will flat out not work for most people; my flight itinerary itself has me listed as getting back into Sydney at 11AM: I'm leaving Adelaide at 8:35AM.
Thanks for this, very valid point. It's definitely in our interest to make it as accessible as we can, if we move forward to a 1pm start this should hopefully fix most of these issues. It'll be impossible to accommodate for everyone's flight schedule though, and it's very important to us that the open bracket finishes in a timely manner (this was our reason for a 11am start in the first place, things to do, people to see, money to earn...), so this will probably be the latest possible time we can do. We'll give a more concrete update when we've all slept
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I have about a week after my exams finish to rush to masters on my SEA account ))) woooo finally an Aussie league!
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The Information Package PDF has been updated to amend the date change.
The file can be found in the same location.
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Thanks for all the feedback so far! The feedback from the community on this tournament has been great, and we'll try our very best to make it the best experience for both viewers and players. Although we're in a teething/experimental stage, a lot of work has gone into the planning of the event from the whole team, and it's awesome to see all the positive feedback from the community. We'll be working hard from now to try and fix up any problems that we can foresee, and doing more for eSports!
/shublar @eugmak
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