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lazersnipe
Profile Joined November 2016
Canada219 Posts
February 03 2020 19:55 GMT
#1
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Hey everyone, this is the official sign-up thread for CPL Season 5! For those of you who don't know, the Coach Pupil League is a StarCraft community designed to help lower to mid level players improve in a competitive team league format. Every season groups of players team up under the tutelage of experienced coaches and compete against each other over several weeks before entering into the playoffs, and eventually a finals! If you'd like more information you can always check out our Liqupedia pages or view games from previous seasons on the CPL YouTube Channel. With no minimum requirement to join, the CPL is a great place to learn the game and get your start at StarCraft. If you already have some BroodWar experience but not sure how to improve next, it's the perfect place to take your game to the next level!

CPL Season 4 liquipedia: (Wiki)Coach Pupil League S4

CPL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9KLft_fTBbpqQGI_fLlCqw

Join the CPL Discord to get involved in the league: https://discord.gg/6QEXQ8d

**IMPORTANT NOTE ON FORMAT CHANGES/NEW ROLE**

For those of you that have been around the league for awhile, you probably know one of the biggest problems we face in CPL is too many players with not enough coaches – or inactive coaches which makes it harder for some players to get more out of CPL. Although many teams have had positive experiences in the past, others have struggled. While we do have to remember that everyone that helps out in CPL is volunteering their own time to the community and have other commitments, we can still try new things to help with the overall concept of the league. Our hope in the past was always a trickle down effect, Coaches spend time helping Tier 1's, Tier 1's help the Tier 2's improve etc.. and while this has definitely happened for some teams.. it hasn't always been the case with every team. So with that said I'd like to introduce a new role for this season, it will be unique to the previous roles and way CPL has been run in the past: ASSISTANT COACH. What makes this role unique is it will serve as a bridge between Coach and Player. These players will still be able to participate in playing games (if they want to, in a different format TBD) and contributing to the success of their team in the league, but also receive coaching/help out the coaches with the newer and less experienced players on the team. There are also plans on changing how we keep track of team records.. but more on this later.

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What an Assistant Coach can expect:
1. To work with/help the head coaches in anyway they can (coaching lower level players, running internal team events, submitting line-ups for their team etc..)
2. Play games in the league if they want to (Sign-up as a player, and mark YES to also being an Assistant Coach)
3. Are not required to play any games, and can just help out with coaching duties (Sign-Up specifically as an Assistant Coach, not as a player)

4a. In order to help incentivize more players helping out with Coaching.. Players that meet the requirments and participate in the role of being an Assistant Coach will be able to earn more points for their respective teams
4b. Players who are in the skill level range of an Assistant Coach, but do not want to have any Assistant Coach responsibilities will still be able to participate in games but will have a lesser impact on their team score.

What Coaches can expect:
1. To spend some time Coaching your team members for their matches.
2. All teams will have more than one coach to help with the time commitment, including the new Assistant Coaches.
3. Full autonomy in how they want to coach their players.
4. No requirements to handle team management (line-ups, substitutions, etc)

What Players can expect:
1. The opportunity to play up to one match a week vs an opponent of similar skill.
2. You do not have to participate every week.
3. You do not have to play at a specific time, but arranging to pre-play matches is up to you and your opponent.
4. Higher level players are expected to spend time assisting their team mates.
5. There are no minimum time requirements for participating, but the more you put into the CPL the more you get out of it!

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If you want to sign up for season 5, please provide the following information in this thread:

1. StarCraft account name you will be using in CPL

2. Discord account you will be joining the discord with. ex. ~Medi~#1708 (Please use a discord screen name that is the same or similar as the StarCraft name you'll be playing on, this will help make things easier for everyone!)

3. Coach, Player, or Assistant Coach*
* Please read about format changes above for information on the new Assistant Coach role
3B. If you signed up as a Player, are you willing to take on an Assistant Coach role if you're at a high enough level (Yes/No)

4. Approximate MMR (if you haven't laddered on remastered you can use your old iccup rank/when that was, or best guess.)

5. Main Race/Matchups if race picker (Random is not allowed, but you can play a different race week-to-week if you wish)

6. (optional) If you have interest in volunteering for any admin work (team organization, liquipedia, casting, etc)

7. (optional) Any additional info such as if you have a couple players you'd like to play with or a certain team**.


**Please note that we can't guarantee anything as there are a number of factors that go into team creation.

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Once again I'd like to remind everyone there is no minimum requirement to sign up, and this is a great place to learn, even if you've never played a game of BroodWar. Last season we had a soft cutoff of around 1900MMR for players, this will be subject to change this season depending partially on sign-ups and the addition of the Assistant Coach role which will consist of higher level players.

I look forward to seeing you around the league this season!
lazersnipe
Profile Joined November 2016
Canada219 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-04 20:13:07
February 03 2020 19:55 GMT
#2
Sign-ups for CPL will be open for at least 2 weeks! While we're waiting to get things going we've put together a graphic showcasing some of the different stats and information from previous seasons for everyone to see. I want to give a shout out to littlechava for the original idea of creating something like this for the league, and to SuperCyan who has worked with me to put this together!

[image loading]

There have been a number of suggestions for improvements or changes to the league moving forward. We wanted to ask your opinion on a couple of these ideas.

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One of these ideas was to change the number of games you play from a best of 3 - to straight up 2 games against your opponent. Scoring between teams will be different this season and so the extra game will have a lesser impact (we don't need a winner or a loser in a match) A lot of the matches end in 2 games regardless, however with 2 games there's the opportunity to have more games casted, and fewer maps/games to prepare for each week while still getting more than 1 game.

Poll: Do you want regular season games to be Best of 2 or 3?

You must be logged in to vote in this poll.

☐ Lets give this new Best of 2 a shot!
☐ The series needs a winner, lets keep Best of 3!


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Another one of these ideas was to make fewer but larger teams. I would really like to try this out but I want to get a feel for the CPL community before going ahead with this.

By adding in the Assistant Coach role we're essentially creating a new Tier of player (4 tiers) and there have been some activity issues in the past because of the lack of active players in a particular Tier when we only had 3. Having larger teams would help combat this by having a larger player pool per team to draw upon. This would also allow players to have access to more Coaches and Assistant Coaches per team of varying races (in the past teams often had Coaches who specialized in 1 or 2 races rather than all 3).. so more players potentially available to help you out. Coaches will also have more people to help out with the team. The flip side is that team atmosphere may feel less personal as teams will have more players than before. There are pros and cons to both sides so we want to know your opinion.

Poll: Do you want larger teams with more Coaches/Players?

You must be logged in to vote in this poll.

☐ Yes! That's a great idea lets try this out
☐ No! I like the smaller teams
☐ Other (Feel free to offer a suggestion in your signup)

lazersnipe
Profile Joined November 2016
Canada219 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-17 17:40:30
February 03 2020 19:55 GMT
#3
SIGN-UPS ARE NOW CLOSED

BUT! If you missed sign-ups don't worry, you can still join our discord and contact a staff member who may still be able to fit you in or at least can add you to the waitlist to join. Please check out the #faq on the CPL discord ( https://discord.gg/6QEXQ8d ) for signing up late!


PRESEASON WILL BE BEGINNING SHORTLY, CHECK THE CPL DISCORD FOR DETAILS
lazersnipe
Profile Joined November 2016
Canada219 Posts
February 03 2020 19:56 GMT
#4
WHAT YOUR SIGN-UP SHOULD LOOK LIKE

1. lazersnipe
2. ~Medi~#1708 (Snipe)
3. Player
3B. YES
4. 1700
5. Protoss
6. I will handle some of the Admin Stuff!
7. It doesn't matter what team I'm on, I want to help people improve!


Chessz
Profile Joined August 2010
United States644 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-03 20:02:25
February 03 2020 20:01 GMT
#5
1. Chess
2. Chessz#0354
3. Player
4. 1500
5. ... undecided
6. I would love to cast, you know me.
7. I have no preferences.


Thank you Snipe.
HoldenJ
Profile Joined October 2018
10 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-13 19:26:35
February 03 2020 20:02 GMT
#6
1. BerryGoRound
2. Holden#1745
3. Player
3B. No
4. 1400
5. Zerg
6. no
7. Me with Gorbachaka pls!
FakeFin
Profile Joined December 2018
Germany392 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-03 20:51:11
February 03 2020 20:09 GMT
#7
1. Red.FakeFin
2. FakeFin#0433
3. Player
3B. No
4. 1050
5. Zerg
6. I can help with Liquipedia
7. Preferably a team with some players in a similar timezone (CET)
psyCrowe
Profile Joined December 2007
Scotland195 Posts
February 03 2020 20:14 GMT
#8
I'm in :D

1. psyCrowe[ReV]
2. psyCrowe#4739
3. Player
4. 1400
5. Zerg
6. No admin task's for now
7. Preferably in team with similar timezone (GMT)
Szinkler
Profile Joined July 2018
Hungary394 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-03 20:19:33
February 03 2020 20:15 GMT
#9
1. acc: Sinclair , profile: Szinkler
2. Szinkler#9872
3. Player
4. 1700-1800 (peak around 1830 once but often below 1700)
5. Protoss

Thanks for doing CPL!
Borisu
Profile Joined August 2018
8 Posts
February 03 2020 20:17 GMT
#10
1. JustBorisu
2. borisu#1124
3 player
4. 1400
5. terran
6. Idk if I can be of help
7. is up to faust
Buenaventura
Profile Joined March 2019
Sweden10 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-03 20:46:35
February 03 2020 20:25 GMT
#11
1. buenaventu[ReV]
2. buenaventura[ReV]#3996
3. Player
3B. YES
4. 1250-1300
5. Zerg
6. I could help edit Liquidpedia - I currently manage ReV's page, so I know a little how to use it
7. I dont mind what team I'm on If there is a new Lmaster Starcraft Discord team, I would like to be in that perhaps with my homies Okra and Least and Ström and Father
UUUAAAARGH (ovie sound)
Gometas
Profile Joined April 2019
3 Posts
February 03 2020 20:35 GMT
#12
1. gometas
2. Gometas#2557
3. Player
4. 1500-1600
5. Protoss
6. Idk
7. If there could be a team with ppl from around the timezone GMT i would like to be in it
RockSC89
Profile Joined June 2018
2 Posts
February 03 2020 20:35 GMT
#13
1. Rock
2.you know my disc
3. Player
3B. no
4. 14-1500
5. Terran
6. im here for whatever you need
7. doesn't matter
YoitsFlashh
Profile Joined August 2018
3 Posts
February 03 2020 20:38 GMT
#14
1. YoitsFlash
2. YoitsFlash#5960
3. Player
3B. YES
4. 1400-1500
5. Protoss
6. if help is needed i can be told what to do to help!
7. any is cool
CadenZie
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Korea (South)545 Posts
February 03 2020 20:39 GMT
#15
1. cadenzie

2. 덴지#2222 (sorry^^)

3. Coach or Assistant Coach*

4. 2050~2250

5. jerg

7. i want to marry faust
MasterReY
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany2708 Posts
February 03 2020 20:47 GMT
#16
1. HoRRoRToSS
2. MasterReY#3514 (HoRRoRToSS)
3. Coach
4. 2000
5. Protoss
6. I would like to help with casting
7. I hope that it is possible to have more players in my timezone (CET). Last season there were many americans in my team so it was a bit hard to provide active,consistent coaching
https://www.twitch.tv/MasterReY/ ~ Biggest Reach fan on TL.net (Don't even dare to mention LR now) ~ R.I.P Violet ~ Developer of SCRChart
TL+ Member
Hethirocha
Profile Joined February 2013
Austria3 Posts
February 03 2020 20:53 GMT
#17
1. Hethirocha
2. Hethirocha #1814
3. Player
3B. yes
4. 1600
5. Protoss
6. would like casting stuff
7. any
Brilhante
Profile Joined September 2017
3 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-03 20:55:10
February 03 2020 20:54 GMT
#18
1. NarsiL[ReV]
2.JB / NarsiL[ReV]#6786
3.Player
3B. no
4.1700mmr
5.Protoss
6.no
HaN-
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
France1919 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-02-26 22:47:10
February 03 2020 20:55 GMT
#19
1. iRk-HaN
2. HaN#1455
3. Player
4. 1750
5. Zerg
6. I'm always looking for protoss practice partners that are close to my level
7. I would like to have Cross has coach
Calendaraka Foxhan
9-BiT
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States1089 Posts
February 03 2020 20:59 GMT
#20
1. iRk-father
2. father#1361
3. Assistant Coach
4. 1750
5. Terran
7. good team pls
kwark_uk: @father_sc learn to play maybe?
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