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Dreaming of becoming the next  TY?
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AfreecaTV has announced that it will host the "Star School Tournament" (SST), an amateur student league in order to expand the Starcraft esports ecosystem.
The SST is an amateur competition for students who love Starcraft, and anyone over the age of 12 can participate. It is expected that talented players who will lead the future of esports will appear in this competition, like Jeon Tae-yang (TY), who played in various student leagues at a young age and continues to be participating in esports despite debuting over 13 years ago.
The tournament's online qualifier will be held in a best-of-three, single elimination tournament format. Through this online qualifier, four players will advance to the semi-final stage where on August 16th, they will play out the rest of the tournament offline. Online registration will be open via the AfreecaTV ASL homepage from 29th July to August 5th.
The total prize pool for this tournament is 4,000,000 KRW (~$4000 USD) - 2,000,000 KRW to the winning player, 1,000,000 KRW for the runner-up and 500,000 KRW for 3rd/4th place.
Due to the COVID-19 situation, audiences will remain barred from spectating in the studio for the safety of staff and players.
Source: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=242058&iskin=esports
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Yes, Starcraft needs A LOT more young players.
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Hopefully it was also made in Europe so that more people would play.
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Sounds great! 
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ASTL gives top amateurs a chance for practice with the top players, offline matches.
ACS the first step for them.
Hopefully this is successful. Afreeca are helping/building the BW ecosystem, imo they're doing it well.
Maybe we'll even have a retirement league in 20-30 years.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50631 Posts
didn't they do a high school tournament like last year, won by some really BM protoss kid.
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South Korea2106 Posts
On July 29 2020 19:43 BLinD-RawR wrote:
didn't they do a high school tournament like last year, won by some really BM protoss kid.
u mean this bm kid
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That's cool. The korean scene needs something like this! We see young generations in Eu and Na, but Kr survives mainly because of old legends
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Damn Afreeca really pushing for the full throttle SC1 revival.
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I LOVE this. It would be awesome for there to be concrete motivation for youngsters in Korea to play BW instead of the usual Leagues and PUBGs. Really great news, hope this thrives.
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Fingers crossed there will be english commentary.
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Amazing, here comes the new blood!
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Wow this doesn't seem like big news but it's one of the best news in a long time! Getting new blood to the scene is so important to keep it going. Hopefully this will suay some young people from LoL to BW.
Long live BW!
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On July 29 2020 19:32 SirGlinG wrote:
ASTL gives top amateurs a chance for practice with the top players, offline matches.
ACS the first step for them.
Hopefully this is successful. Afreeca are helping/building the BW ecosystem, imo they're doing it well.
Maybe we'll even have a retirement league in 20-30 years.
It also helps that they have alot of incentive to do so, from what I see BW is very popular on Afreecatv (gaming section) and usually in the top 3 games watched.
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On July 29 2020 19:54 Ziggy wrote:Show nested quote +On July 29 2020 19:43 BLinD-RawR wrote:
didn't they do a high school tournament like last year, won by some really BM protoss kid. u mean this bm kid
do you know anything about him now?
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would be awesome to see the same for SC2
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EPT
