EPTI'm going to introduce one Starcraft league to you, which was begun from an amateur league, but now just turned into a league without "amateur". This league is led by Ken Kim (Commissioner).
TIER
It is named as "HAMIC". It is because there are different tiers according to their abilities: HEL(1/2), AEL, MEL, IEL, CEL(1/2). Those may correspond to the recent ladder HEL1 - above 2400, HEL2 - 2200~2400, AEL - 2000~2200, MEL - 1800~2000, IEL - 1700~1900, CEL - 1400~1700. This partitioning into tiers is to match up players having similar ladder points in team league games. When players join HAMIC, there would be several test games with existing HAMIC players.
Sets
One team league game consists of up to 7 games as below.
1 set - HEL1/HEL2, 2 set - HEL2/AEL, 3 set - AEL/MEL, 4 set - MEL/IEL, 5 set - IEL/CEL1, 6 set - CEL1/CEL2, 7 set for ACE match - HEL1/HEL2. For 1/6/7 sets, lower tier player can ask for higher tier player to change its race in advance. Each team has one chance to deny that change.
Players
Currently, there are about 400 players in 10 teams. Team league Season 4 has been almost finished, just before final games with two teams (LT vs AV).
Famous players
There are many well-known players like BishOp, Cadenzie, Soma (ZJD), ZeLot and Ample. There are more and more famous Starcraft players coming in.
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Cadenzie's debut game in HAMIC -
(This is the channel for good/fun games in the leagues.)
Qualities
Every games are broadcast via Afreeca (Korean platform for real time broadcasting), or Twitch, or Youtube. Also, every games are uploaded to Youtube channels. -
Playoff games
Time
Every team league starts from 9 PM in KST. The schedule is announced before the begin of the season.
Records
Every games are recorded. Also, our data team makes many interesting data like ELO with team league and private league games.
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Event matches
There are some event matches irregularly.
E.g., there was games between 5 HAMIC players vs. snow (with two chances). snow beats 4 HAMIC players in row, but the last player from HAMIC was BishOp and he beat snow. -
Private leagues
Independent from the team league, each HAMIC players can join the private league of its corresponding tier. Recently, there are semi-final or final games of the 9th private league.
Broadcasters
There are quite many/qualified broadcasters for games: Special 41, Ken Kim, DeBu, JJu, miso, etc.
E.g., one of the broadcaster - Special 41. He uploads many interesting strategies in his channels.
Website
Every records and announcements are in https://cafe.naver.com/pgrstar . Of course it is based on Korean. Non-Korean gamer would be very difficult to access to it, but don't worry. There are many players speaking English very well and helping you to understand what information is. If you want to join the league (team or private), just look around how it goes.
If you have any questions and interests, plz feel free to ask!
Thanks!
