WCS
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Translation By Kimoleon from this post
Stream
All games will be streamed on Britney's Channel : http://play.afreecatv.com/khm11903/
VODs will be available on Britney's Youtube Channel :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69uMhRJcUnvMnMxKT2SS0w
No News regarding any official English Stream.
Teams, Info and Draft
Team sponsors may change but not the team itself (meaning players/team name/logo)
He also mentions that players will stay on the team even if players go to the army and return.
Ex. MPL2 Gamjeon market Sparkyz → MPL3 Jeil Company Sparkyz → MPL4 Mutube Sparkyz → MPL5 Kim Bong Jun Sparkyz
On October 14 2018 13:21 Kimoleon wrote:
Team formation:
Coach: There will be an old gamer pre matched with a sponsor
Draft: Will happen at Britney’s studio
Team: Name/Logo/Uniform will be created by viewers and/or the team itself
Profile shooting after uniforms are complete all provided by the sponsor.
(seems Britney is talking about providing everything he can including uniforms created by viewers)
Team Draft information:
In MPL will include every male Star Afreeca BJ and separate 48 players into ELO rankings and separate them into 5 tiers. Females will be picked separately.
The coaches of the 8 teams will get pick priority by a randomizer I assume and will pick Tier 2--5th based on the diagram shown there
Teams 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Tier 2 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Tier 3 - 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Tier 4 - 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Tier 5 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Talks about draft orders in Football or Baseball based on the rankings of the previous season but Britney is open to suggestions on the best way to draft players.
The female players tier and Tier 1 players will picked based on ELO ranking starting from 8th placed rank. To create more balanced teams the 1st place rank for both tiers will not have a choice in team.
(note: this may change based on feedback)
Team Payroll:
The coaches of the 8 teams will receive a payroll of 5,000$ USD and can pay the players however they see fit. (Britney apologizes about such a small amount, but dude you da mvp)
The sponsors have each put in 10,000$ each for equality.
Half as mentioned will go to players and the other half will go to either prize money or running the league. All monetary transactions will be transparent for the public to see. Created a MPL 2 bank account.
The 8 teams will be revealed at the draft.
Female player matches:
4 seeded players:
Cadenzie(Z), Sera-_- (P)* -, A02)NOgg(T), Darin(T)
*Stargirl Seo Yeonji
The players will pick the teams.
The other 4 slots will be filled by a single day qualifier
Date - 10/30
Place - Jamsil AfreecaTV PC Room
Format - Bo3’s (Map-Fighting Spirit -> Circuit Breaker -> Fighting Spirit)
Requirements to attend: Any female streamer.
To register you need to respond to Britney’s afreeca post concerning this qualifier. At this moment in time there are 13 entrants.
This event will be run just like an ASL qualifier.
Lee Hyun Kyung announcer will attend as well, what a qt.
Team formation:
Coach: There will be an old gamer pre matched with a sponsor
Draft: Will happen at Britney’s studio
Team: Name/Logo/Uniform will be created by viewers and/or the team itself
Profile shooting after uniforms are complete all provided by the sponsor.
(seems Britney is talking about providing everything he can including uniforms created by viewers)
Team Draft information:
In MPL will include every male Star Afreeca BJ and separate 48 players into ELO rankings and separate them into 5 tiers. Females will be picked separately.
The coaches of the 8 teams will get pick priority by a randomizer I assume and will pick Tier 2--5th based on the diagram shown there
Teams 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Tier 2 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Tier 3 - 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Tier 4 - 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Tier 5 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Talks about draft orders in Football or Baseball based on the rankings of the previous season but Britney is open to suggestions on the best way to draft players.
The female players tier and Tier 1 players will picked based on ELO ranking starting from 8th placed rank. To create more balanced teams the 1st place rank for both tiers will not have a choice in team.
(note: this may change based on feedback)
Team Payroll:
The coaches of the 8 teams will receive a payroll of 5,000$ USD and can pay the players however they see fit. (Britney apologizes about such a small amount, but dude you da mvp)
The sponsors have each put in 10,000$ each for equality.
Half as mentioned will go to players and the other half will go to either prize money or running the league. All monetary transactions will be transparent for the public to see. Created a MPL 2 bank account.
The 8 teams will be revealed at the draft.
Female player matches:
4 seeded players:
Cadenzie(Z), Sera-_- (P)* -, A02)NOgg(T), Darin(T)
*Stargirl Seo Yeonji
The players will pick the teams.
The other 4 slots will be filled by a single day qualifier
Date - 10/30
Place - Jamsil AfreecaTV PC Room
Format - Bo3’s (Map-Fighting Spirit -> Circuit Breaker -> Fighting Spirit)
Requirements to attend: Any female streamer.
To register you need to respond to Britney’s afreeca post concerning this qualifier. At this moment in time there are 13 entrants.
This event will be run just like an ASL qualifier.
Lee Hyun Kyung announcer will attend as well, what a qt.
Team Draft information:
- All Male BW Streamers on Afreeca will be separated into tiers via ELO ranking(probably sponbbang ranks)
- Females will be picked seperately
- Coaches then Draft Players from Tier 2-5 randomly, think of sports drafting(however Britney is open to suggestions on how to handle drafting moving forward)
- Female players Tier and Tier 1 Players will be picked based on ELO ranking starting from 8th placed rank.
- 1st rank players get auto assigned to a Team based on above points to create more balance in teams.
Schedule and Format
12/1/2018 → Team Draft & Group Ceremony
Round of 8 Format and Schedule
2 Groups of 4 teams each
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[*]Dual Tournament Rules(Same As ASL/KSL/MSL)
[*][b]Match 1 and 2 will be Bo7, Winners, Losers and Final match series will be Bo5.
So it would look like this:
Team A vs Team B (Bo7)
Team C vs Team D (Bo7)
Winner's Match (Bo5)
Losers' Match (Bo5)
Final Match (Bo5)
12/8/2018 → Ro8 Group A match 1
12/9/2018 → Ro8 Group A match 2
12/12/2018 → Ro8 Group B match 1
12/13/2018 → Ro8 Group B match 2
12/16/2018 → A/B Winner's match
12/17/2018 → A/B Loser's match
12/19/2018 → A/B Final match
Round of 4 format and Schedule
- Ro4 will be Bo2 series of Bo7(they will play 2 Best of 7 matches)
- In case of 1:1 Tie they will have a single Super Ace match after the 2nd set
12/22/2018 → Ro4 1st match set 1
12/23/2018 → Ro4 1st match set 2
12/26/2018 → Ro4 2nd match set 1
12/28/2018 → Ro4 2nd match set 2
Finals
- Single Bo7 series for the Finals
- Finals to be played Offline at the Afreeca Freecup Studio.(the ASL/GSL Studio)
12/30/2018 → Finals
Prize Pool
Prize money: (currently 1$ - 1.1k won ratio)
1st Place - 15,000,000 won
2nd Place - 5,000,000 won
3rd Place - 3,000,000 won
Sponsorship and Speculation
Main sponsor for MPL is Shinhan Investment Corp. which is the subsidiary of Shinhan Bank who have a longstanding histroy of sponsoring Proleague and 3 seasons of OSL back in the KeSPA era.
They will also be Sponsoring one of the teams.
Another Sponsor could potentially be an Afreeca Streamer who goes by Gamst.
No News regarding the other 6 sponsors.
