This is the first tournament in the TSL installment, with hopefully many more to come in the future! The player list was generated similar to Gem League, not based on skill or amount of fangirls, a group of people pulled together by a common interest - destroying all competition in Brood War.
Sorry for the delay, it's been a busy day with a lot of dentistry and a slow internet connection. We figured that we should find something a little more fun than just tossing everyone's names into a random number generator affair and seeing where things fell.
For those of you who love the drama of a real-time lottery system, as featured in just about every tournament worth watching, you can watch this video:
For those of you who don't want to watch the video, you can just consult this handy chart, with sprite graphics courtesy of the always magnificent Trozz:
Good luck to all concerned, looking forward to seeing how these groups break down
Players please email me your replays at tplymyer(at)gmail.com! Make sure you name the replays something comprehensible for the casters...XvsYGame1 or something, you all know the drill. Let's try and have all the group stage games complete by June 30th!!
Good luck to everyone!
Last edit: 2012-10-21 22:52:43
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CaucasianAsian Korea (South). June 12 2012 00:36. Posts 10474
This might be the best skilled tournament to date. You think Flash vs Jaedong has good and exciting games? Then you have to just wait until what you see here!
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hacklebeast United States. June 12 2012 00:38. Posts 4634
it's okay calling a non starleague "starleague" every one has been slapping the term starleague on their tournament to make it seem legit . Sounds really awesome though hope lots of epic moment (insert obama with mic.jpg) here.
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corumjhaelen France. June 12 2012 00:42. Posts 4787
Technically Starcraft League is a good description! Haha. I was originally gonna do OSL format (groups, pick ceremony for ro16, groups, ro8 brackets) but decided this would be easier on the casters and players.
On June 12 2012 00:42 corumjhaelen wrote: Epic. Rekrul, please troll this to the max. Edit : map pool not epic enough though.
Made a contract deal with Trozz - he is crazy map tournament, I'm boring standard map tournament :3
It was only three lines though...
Truthfully, the maps are very nostalgic for me...with the decline of Korean pro BW it got me thinking about how I got into the scene...I had started watching reps/games during the Savior era but it wasn't really a big deal to me, it was just like "oh cool, BW stuff" but I didn't really care...
For whatever reason the GomTV Starleague Season 3 was the first tournament I was basically addicted to...stayed up every night it was live to watch, got invested into the league...this is the same map pool from that league - kind of like a little memory for me, as I have been addicted to pro BW since watching that league haha. I'll try and spice it up in the future, but for this league - as it's the first online one I've run, I usually do LANs - I'd like to run this map pool, even if it's a little bland. :D
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#1 Shuttle // LuckyFool // Memory // STX SouL Fan!! Go Liquid + nth!! Torenhire Starleague - the ESPORTS community will spin head so fast like Exorcist.
#1 Shuttle // LuckyFool // Memory // STX SouL Fan!! Go Liquid + nth!! Torenhire Starleague - the ESPORTS community will spin head so fast like Exorcist.
corumjhaelen France. June 12 2012 00:52. Posts 4787
On June 12 2012 00:44 Torenhire wrote: Technically Starcraft League is a good description! Haha. I was originally gonna do OSL format (groups, pick ceremony for ro16, groups, ro8 brackets) but decided this would be easier on the casters and players.
On June 12 2012 00:42 corumjhaelen wrote: Epic. Rekrul, please troll this to the max. Edit : map pool not epic enough though.
Made a contract deal with Trozz - he is crazy map tournament, I'm boring standard map tournament :3
It was only three lines though...
Truthfully, the maps are very nostalgic for me...with the decline of Korean pro BW it got me thinking about how I got into the scene...I had started watching reps/games during the Savior era but it wasn't really a big deal to me, it was just like "oh cool, BW stuff" but I didn't really care...
For whatever reason the GomTV Starleague Season 3 was the first tournament I was basically addicted to...stayed up every night it was live to watch, got invested into the league...this is the same map pool from that league - kind of like a little memory for me, as I have been addicted to pro BW since watching that league haha. I'll try and spice it up in the future, but for this league - as it's the first online one I've run, I usually do LANs - I'd like to run this map pool, even if it's a little bland. :D
I completely see your point and I like most of those maps, just consider changing God's Garden (and maybe HB Ridge) to something else. It's just, it's a fun tournament, so I think Andro+Desti are enough for serious maps, and you could throw other cool stuff from that time (like Medusa and Outsider). Anyway, just my opinion and I totally respect your choice. Edit : invite me next time plz
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@corum: Yeah, I had a few people mention it, but hey, it's an invitational...don't like the map pool, don't play. My feelings won't be hurt haha :3
@Sawamura: Should be, as long as there's continued interest!
@intrigue: fixed.
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Alright, let's do this! One of the most epic random lineups I've seen, I hope I get at least one of the bigger names in my groups, and enough easy opponents to advance at the same time
Thanks for organizing this!
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Torte de Lini Canada. June 12 2012 01:08. Posts 27051
I know, we have such a huge range of skill in the tournament hahaha.
TDL, good idea, I can give away another one of the big Vinyls to whoever gets the bracket the closest, once we get out of groups....or something like that, I'll think on it :D
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