Sponmatches are online games (usually series) sponsored by fans. I think it works like this: fan brings money on the table (say 50$) and requests game (Bo3/5) between two players, if players agree winner takes all.
Here you can see winrate/ELO for all players.

bovienchien

Vietnam1152 Posts

December 19 2018 23:30 GMT

#63

^ Thank you. I wish I have a tool that can translate Korean name to English name.

ortseam

996 Posts

December 20 2018 00:14 GMT

#64

You can find korean names from TLPD

bovienchien

Vietnam1152 Posts

December 20 2018 00:35 GMT

#65

^ I knew names of top 10. Thank you so much!

konadora

Singapore66357 Posts

December 20 2018 03:40 GMT

#66

On December 19 2018 22:09 kogeT wrote:
Sparkle and Third World were fun to watch, but on the balance side they would kill SC in 2-3 seasons. :D

third world has been the best map to come into the bw scene in a long time and idc what others say, it was one helluva fun map

konadora

Singapore66357 Posts

December 20 2018 03:46 GMT

#67

found some games on the new maps on kcm race survival

white out:

block chain:

Ethelis

United States2397 Posts

December 20 2018 03:49 GMT

#68

Sparkle proved that island maps may be possible to balance. Instead of Zergs being hilariously underpowered they bopped the other races. I somewhat hope to see another island map again.

On December 20 2018 12:40 konadora wrote:

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third world has been the best map to come into the bw scene in a long time and idc what others say, it was one helluva fun map

I don't rate it THAT highly but I liked the general idea of it.

TT1

Canada10012 Posts

December 20 2018 04:29 GMT

#69

Protoss needs to be gifted some free wins on maps like sparkle, transistor and 3rd world.. it's ok to have troll maps in tourney pools once in a while. Gives us a chance to be competitive

bovienchien

Vietnam1152 Posts

December 20 2018 04:35 GMT

#70

On December 20 2018 13:29 TT1 wrote:
Protoss needs to be gifted some free wins on maps like sparkle, transistor and 3rd world.. it's ok to have troll maps in tourney pools once in a while. Gives us a chance to be competitive

Have you ever watched Artosis who plays with Protoss players?

TT1

Canada10012 Posts

December 20 2018 04:37 GMT

#71

On December 20 2018 13:35 bovienchien wrote:

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Have you ever watched Artosis who plays with Protoss players?

No, what happens?

oEkY

Germany649 Posts

December 20 2018 13:07 GMT

#72

On December 18 2018 07:07 afreecaTV.Char wrote:

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The Wildcard Qualifier for Shuttle's spot will be played on Thursday, December 20 at 19:00KST. I do not have exact dates/times for the other qualifiers at this time, but they have started almost immediately after the wildcard for the past two seasons.

the open qualifiers will take place on 5th/6th/7th of january as it seems

btw, did i miss something, why isnt flash participating in ASL S7? Is he going to the military soon?

Duceman

United States87 Posts

December 20 2018 14:35 GMT

#73

Flash has a wrist injury.

NoS-Craig

Australia3122 Posts

December 20 2018 14:57 GMT

#74

On December 20 2018 13:37 TT1 wrote:

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No, what happens?

He swears a lot.

Alpha-NP-

United States1242 Posts

December 20 2018 16:15 GMT

#75

One of my favorite things about this game is that they are always coming out with better maps. I never thought Lost Temple would be replaced by Python just as Phython got replaced by Fighting Spirit, etc.

MrMischelito

347 Posts

December 29 2018 23:10 GMT

#76

On December 20 2018 12:46 konadora wrote:
found some games on the new maps on kcm race survival

white out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcaHpoROwTU

block chain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Fn0Y3Dfm0

nice. so far I like these two new maps.

Freakling

Germany1529 Posts

January 01 2019 22:53 GMT

#77

Whiteout 1.1 has been released, fixing a funky bug where Zerg could not take the geyser in the bottom main. The cover bugs are still there though.

MightyBeast

117 Posts

January 02 2019 04:30 GMT

#78

These new maps are on point! Whiteout is what ice tileset has been begging for since its inception. Blockchain is the future of base layout and third design. Sylphid.... yeah. It needed a editors brush. Woo asl 7!

jjmmtt

Australia995 Posts

January 02 2019 11:56 GMT

#79

Wow Block Chain is bad. Really bad. At least Sparkle was aware of the balance issues and tried to fix it (it didn't but it tried). Block Chain is just straight up brainless (as far as PvT goes, this will probably have like an 80% win rate for protoss) and ZvT might be almost as bad but I haven't seen any ZvTs on it yet myself. Just awful design and I don't know how they pick these maps tbh.

Freakling

Germany1529 Posts

January 02 2019 19:15 GMT

#80

NOVELTY!!! over sanity has been ASL's motto for at least every other season so far.
The problem is that they seem to lack perspective a bit, so they don't necessarily pick the best implementations of whatever new thing it is they fancy (I'd single out Gold Rush and Transistor as positive exceptions though).
Don't get me wrong though, I am not saying everything is terrible, and execution-wise there's definitely an upwards trend (not least thanks to S.I.'s ScmDraft updates!).