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The league will be starting shortly on September 1st and at the moment will be the largest running team league. The event will fill Starcraft on Fridays & Saturdays for the next 7 weeks with the playoff matches taking place in the following week. The top 4 teams in the standings will advance to the playoffs SSL seeding style.
For this first Afreeca World Team League 8 teams will be competing for a prize pool totaling $2,000. The competing teams looking to battle it out are:
ROOT Gaming Sloth E-Sports Club PSISTORM Gaming Rival Gaming mYinsanity 1F Pro Gaming Dead Pixels DuSt Gaming Full team rosters & standings will be posted on Liquipedia
Next matches:
Sloth vs Dpix Rival vs mYi
Saturday, Sep 02 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Where:
Prize Pool: $2,000 USD
More details/graphics will be released for the league in the near future but for now we just wanted to get it announced. Make sure to let us know your feedback and tune in for the matches!
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Wow this is amazing tournament for foreign teams. Go Rival!
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Dang this is amazing, gl to all teams
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will the KR pros(herO, bunny, GuMiho, aLive and such) be allow to join or just foreginers?
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On August 28 2017 11:13 Raptorteam wrote: will the KR pros(herO, bunny, GuMiho, aLive and such) be allow to join or just foreginers?
All players on teams are welcome
They'll be included in the posted rosters soon.
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They really need some money out of that Warchest pot
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On August 28 2017 11:36 Heyjoray wrote: They really need some money out of that Warchest pot
Whether it's us or not a Blizzard supported team league is the dream and would be amazing for the scene.
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On August 28 2017 11:28 LaughNgamez wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2017 11:13 Raptorteam wrote: will the KR pros(herO, bunny, GuMiho, aLive and such) be allow to join or just foreginers? All players on teams are welcome They'll be included in the posted rosters soon.
In that case, will the tournament be in a proleague format? Any team without one of those KR pros is pretty much out of the running if it's an all-kill format. A proleague-style format would give a big advantage to the team with said pro (as it should be) without completely warping the league around them. And there's still the possibility of an amazing upset once in a while.
I'll still be watching either way, but the difference between NA GM's who do well in tournaments and GSL Code S quality pros is...insane.
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On August 28 2017 14:19 Salivanth wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2017 11:28 LaughNgamez wrote:On August 28 2017 11:13 Raptorteam wrote: will the KR pros(herO, bunny, GuMiho, aLive and such) be allow to join or just foreginers? All players on teams are welcome They'll be included in the posted rosters soon. In that case, will the tournament be in a proleague format? Any team without one of those KR pros is pretty much out of the running if it's an all-kill format. A proleague-style format would give a big advantage to the team with said pro (as it should be) without completely warping the league around them. And there's still the possibility of an amazing upset once in a while. I'll still be watching either way, but the difference between NA GM's who do well in tournaments and GSL Code S quality pros is...insane.
Some teams will stand out that's for sure however all kill format is much much more realistic to organize than pro league format.
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A pity Splyce is not participating but still great news, regular teamleague is something the community really needs since proleague is gone.
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On August 28 2017 16:09 yht9657 wrote: A pity Splyce is not participating but still great news, regular teamleague is something the community really needs since proleague is gone. Everyone would get annihilated if splyce participated haha
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On August 28 2017 17:36 iMrising wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2017 16:09 yht9657 wrote: A pity Splyce is not participating but still great news, regular teamleague is something the community really needs since proleague is gone. Everyone would get annihilated if splyce participated haha
Even like this, wont herO and Gumiho destroy everyone easily?
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Rosters are now up in the liquipedia page. They'll be finalized by tomorrow. Once they're finalized teams are limited to one addition throughout the rest of the season.
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Liquipedia, there's no d in it.
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On August 29 2017 09:04 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Liquipedia, there's no d in it.
Fixed thanks, my entire life is I lie I simply always read it that way.
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Sweden5553 Posts
On August 29 2017 09:04 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Liquipedia, there's no d in it.
From liquipedia discord about this post
enuaj - Today at 11:03 AM Liquipeia? :liquithink:
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Here's the full schedule:
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Hope you guys are ready for the first matches starting at 4 PM PST
ROOT vs DUST PSISTORM vs 1FPRO
play.afreecatv.com/laughngamez
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Next matches are tomorrow @ 10 PM PST.
Sloth vs Dead Pixels Rival vs mYinsanity
play.afreecatv.com/laughngamez
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Heads up guys, due to WCS Monteal we are a bit late with the games. The following casts will be done tomorrow starting at 2 PM PST.
PSISTORM Gaming vs mYinsanity ROOT Gaming vs Dead Pixels DuSt Gaming vs Rival Gaming
From there on out it should be a more regular schedule.
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Are these replays? Chat is talking about WCS Montreal like it hasn't happened.
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Sad to announce but due to being unable to complete their roster and participate in matches team Dead Pixels will no longer be participating in the league. All matches vs them will be changed to a bye with a 4-0 score.
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Tonight we'll finally be catching up on the week 2 games as 1Fpro will play their match vs Sloth after their match vs ROOT.
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Friendly reminder today we just have one match due to Dead Pixels having to drop out of the league. Sloth vs mYinsanity starting soon!
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It seems that DuSt won't be able to compete today so there will be no matches. The match between DuSt and Psistorm will be played out another time likely on Friday before the Week 5 matches.
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It seems that DuSt won't be able to compete today so there will be no matches. Sad to hear, yesterday's series between ROOT and mYinsanity was great. Looking forward to week 5
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any chance of vods to youtube? afreeca is unwatchable for me, the vod wont even load
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vods will be uploaded to youtube in the future yes, bit of a back log but they will be up.
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Matches are getting really important now! Today (1.5 hours from this post) we have mYinsanity vs 1FPro followed by Psistorm vs ROOT. play.afreecatv.com/laughngamez
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Ugh do i seriously have to watch this on afreeca? Is no one allowed to restream it on twitch?
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Really want to watch this, but it's impossible on the Afreeca TV site. I have business fibre at great expense and their streaming service is still unwatchable, laggy and broken.
I don't have this issue with anyone else (I didn't have this issue with their global site either.)
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On October 07 2017 21:34 Edmon wrote: Really want to watch this, but it's impossible on the Afreeca TV site. I have business fibre at great expense and their streaming service is still unwatchable, laggy and broken.
I don't have this issue with anyone else (I didn't have this issue with their global site either.)
Sorry to hear that, I will pass the feedback onto Afreeca and work on getting the vods uploaded.
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The Korean Protoss player Hurricane has been added to the roster of DuSt as their one mid-season addition.
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Italy2573 Posts
On October 13 2017 16:52 LaughNgamez wrote: The Korean Protoss player Hurricane has been added to the roster of DuSt as their one mid-season addition. is he part of DuSt just for this event?
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On October 13 2017 17:31 CynicalDeath wrote:Show nested quote +On October 13 2017 16:52 LaughNgamez wrote: The Korean Protoss player Hurricane has been added to the roster of DuSt as their one mid-season addition. is he part of DuSt just for this event?
Just for this event (currently to my knowledge).
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Todays match has been postponed due to bnet issues.
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I'm sad to say but PSISTORM Gaming will no longer be participating in the Afreeca World Team League as they have forfeited from the playoffs. This decision was reached after disagreement regarding the addition of Hurricane to the DuSt Gaming roster as their one mid season addition. PSISTORM Gaming and several other teams claimed this addition was unfair with Hurricane being a "mercenary" for DuSt Gaming.
We stand by the ruling that Hurricane is permitted to play for DuSt Gaming. Prior to the start of the AWTL teams were permitted to register players with any level of commitment to their team on the off chance they may play. On top of that one mid season addition was permitted for new roster members which also had no restrictions similar to the signups. It is impossible to verify or draw arbitrary lines as to whether a player is on a team or just a "mercenary" so this league was setup with open rosters in mind.
It's sad to announce this but disagreements happen. With this and the bnet issues on Friday/Saturday we've had a bit of delay but plan on organizing some form playoffs despite this. Updates on the playoffs will be coming asap once we've confirmed everything.
Thanks for sticking with us in this venture.
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Oh, I thought that Hurricane, actually, he is part of chinese Team LeiFeng.
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Been a while since any update for this league but we've got one now. Tonight DuSt vs mYinsanity will be finishing their last group stage match. It will be broadcast on Sunday at 2 PM PST.
In addition mYinsanity has added Bunny to their roster as their mid season addition.
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My sincere apologies for the lack of updates regarding this league. We'll be wrapping up this league tomorrow at 6 PM PST aka 9 PM EST with the finalist. We'll be updating all the results later but with PSISTORM dropping out the 4 officially remaining teams are: DuSt, ROOT, Sloth, and mYinsanity.
All of the games are finished except the finals which will be played @ 6 PM PST but there may be some more preluding matches broadcast before then.
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Congratulations to + Show Spoiler +Kelazhur on clean sweeping in under an hour with a 4-0. Bringing down Pokebunny, Raze, GAMETIME, Bioice
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