 IGNProLeague March 29 2012 07:40. Posts 1147 | Profile # |
Hello everyone! IGN Pro League is thrilled to announce our third iteration of Team Arena Challenge, featuring many respected and elite invited teams! This edition of Team Arena Challenge also has a semi-open, application-based qualifier element. If you are unfamiliar with IPL Team Arena Challenge, check out the following links:
(Temporary) Official Bracket: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/2CT0E.jpg)
The Invited Teams!
Already Accepted:
Qualified Teams:
The Format!
This tournament is a double-elimination bo9 Winner's Format. Each match will consist of five players from each team. Teams choose their first player blind, then the winner of the first game stays on to play a new player from the losing team. The winner of each game stays on until all five players from the opposing team have been defeated. This can result in an all-kill, where one player defeats all five of the opposing players in a row. It can also result in a reverse all-kill, where a team's anchor player can come back from 0-4 to win it all for their team!
If Team A loses to Team B in their first match, they will drop into the lower or losers bracket and will have another chance to fight their way to the finals. The grand finals will require the team coming from the lower bracket to win twice in order to become the champions, while the team coming from the winners or upper bracket will only need to win one bo9. There will be 24 total teams competing from around the world!
Prize Breakdown
- 1st Place: $9,000 split between the team any way they see fit.
- 2nd Place: $4,000
- 3rd Place: $3,000
- 4th Place: $2,000
- 5th/6th Place: $1,000
Schedule
As always, our live casts will begin at 5 p.m. PDT, or 17:00 PDT[local] each day and tournament broadcasts will begin on Tuesday, May 15th! The main tournament will begin the week of May 15th. The grand finals are currently scheduled for early July.
There will be a European rebroadcast each day following the first broadcast at 19:30 CEST (10:30 PDT)
Keep watching for more information on a fully-defined schedule.
Map Pool
IPLMap Sanshorn Mists AE
IPLMap Atlantis Spaceship
IPLMap Antiga Shipyard
IPLMap Daybreak
IPLMap Tal'Darim Altar LE
IPLMap Cloud Kingdom
IPLMap Metropolis
IPLMap Ohana
IPLMap Entombed Valley
*All of our maps can be found easily by searching "IPLMap" when creating a game on NA! =D
Casters
Every game will be commentated by our in-house IGN Pro League casting team of CatsPajamas and Doa!
Last edit: 2012-05-09 08:38:49 |
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| RyanRushia United States. March 29 2012 07:43. Posts 2606 | Profile Blog # |
| glad to see compLexity as own entity for this :D |
| | I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. | coL.Ryan | www.twitter.com/coL_RyanR |  |
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| Diab Denmark. March 29 2012 07:45. Posts 257 | Profile # |
Hype! Love IPL <3
Team Arena Challenge 2 was so good, really looking forward to this! |
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| Torte de Lini Canada. March 29 2012 07:45. Posts 27046 | Profile Blog # | |
| | https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini) |  |
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| evoli United States. March 29 2012 07:45. Posts 314 | Profile # | |
| | General Manager for EG // twitter.com/gosutrolling |  |
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| Torte de Lini Canada. March 29 2012 07:45. Posts 27046 | Profile Blog # | |
| | https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini) | |
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| CuteZergling March 29 2012 07:46. Posts 597 | Profile # |
| Gogogo Quantic and Complexity! |
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 pPingu Switzerland. March 29 2012 07:52. Posts 2316 | Profile # |
Awesome
Really hope prime and startale accept the invites |
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opterown  Australia. March 29 2012 07:53. Posts 27601 | Profile Blog # | |
| | live report calendar: http://goo.gl/qc4eD |  |
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| Balgrog United States. March 29 2012 07:53. Posts 1168 | Profile Blog # | |
| | The only way to attack structure is with chaos. | |
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| Asha` United Kingdom. March 29 2012 07:54. Posts 26575 | Profile Blog # |
| Awesome, this event was great the last time around so hyped for a third installment =) |
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| Champloo Germany. March 29 2012 07:58. Posts 1626 | Profile # |
Awesome!
Needs more Millenium, Alternate and Roxkis tho! |
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| Bagration United States. March 29 2012 08:07. Posts 10813 | Profile Blog # |
| It's back! So excited for TAC3! Best foreign teamleague! |
| | Team Slayers, Axiom and Vile forever |  |
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 dragonborn March 29 2012 08:07. Posts 3757 | Profile # |
TEAMLIQUID~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
go go, its your tournament to win TEAMLIQUID!! |
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| Lennient March 29 2012 08:08. Posts 494 | Profile # |
| Awesome tournament, I can't wait for more sc2 actions from IPL! |
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| catplanetcatplanet March 29 2012 08:12. Posts 2226 | Profile Blog # | |
| | sparta op gg no re | Life | Avenge | Pet | White-Ra | Founder of Life fanclub | |  |
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| Mordiford March 29 2012 08:13. Posts 4107 | Profile # |
I actually loved seeing Complexity and MVP compete together, they are my favorite two teams and if they end up going up against each other I won't really know who to root for. It always feels good to have one big team to root for in events such as this, in team sports in general most people have one team that they wholeheartedly root for and this kind of breaks that for me.
Oh well, I hope coLMVP can be an entity present in the GSTL next season at least. I certainly don't want to see this partnership end. It's been really nice having my two favorite teams consolidated as one entity that I can get behind wholeheartedly. |
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| Ruscour March 29 2012 08:31. Posts 5116 | Profile Blog # |
RoX.KIS, Millenium, Alternate, dignitas all need inviting if you don't get responses from those other teams!
Also FXO for the love of god respond you twats |
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| johnnywup United States. March 29 2012 08:39. Posts 2743 | Profile Blog # | |
| | Infinity Seven #1 Favorite Team~ | Startale #2 favorite~ |  |
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| huehuehuehue Estonia. March 29 2012 08:41. Posts 451 | Profile Blog # | |
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