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We would like to present to you a new StarCraft league. Playing system is similar to any other ladder and thus should be very well known. League consists of seasons, starts with ladder opened for all players and ends with final tournament for people with highest ranks. Anyone can join us, registration is free and takes just a minute. Please note that you have to enter a valid email address because activation code will be sent on it. Your web and BNet accounts are inactive until you activate them using link from email.
League is not really a new thing. It was starter at the end of 2006 under the name of Polish StarCraft Ladder as a small ladder for players in Poland only. In last 18 months nine seasons were played many improvements were made. It came through all repotting games methods. At the beginning the only way to report game was to go to web site and do it manually. After few months bot was added so all reports may be done on BNet without switching to Windows. Later on a replay uploader program was created so the uploading replays for games become fully automated. And the final stage is a total web site and BNet integration that creates player friendly environment where games reporting is fully automated. Note that you can still report games manually via web site or BNet commands. This may be useful e.g. if you want to play 1vs1 ladder game with observers.
BattleNet used to play games is a NetCraft (netcraft.info.pl) the biggest and the oldest server in Poland that has been operating since 1999. Please note that not all players here are members of Pro Star League because their accounts were created before the integration took place. However they still may become PSL members if they register a new account on web site and enter an existing BNet nick. So please check players BNet icon or stats to find out if they are members or not. Also when game is started or finished you are getting message if everything is ok, so please pay also attention to it.
To play with maximum comfort you need to download and run two little applications compiled into one installer. It is not required to use them but is it strongly recommended to keep them running. First of them is Chaos Launcher with LAN Latency plugin that allows to play games with really low latency. We are using slightly modified original version of Chaos Launcher that changes the latency on ALL BNet games no matter what game name is. Only works if ALL players in the game have LatencyChanger, else you will get disconnected. If you want to play on normal latency use ! in game name. e.g. 1v1!gogo or !2vs2 hunters.
The other application is Replay Uploader that automatically uploads replays from ladder or tournament games to the web site. Just run it and login using BNet nick and password from web site and if uploader finds any needed game it will be sent to www server. Replays may be also uploaded manually on web site. To do this just login and go to your profile to check out your games list. Games that require a replay have jumping UP picture in last list column. If you are login on web site you are notified in player panel that you have any replays to upload. On BnattleNet /upload command returns list of game awaiting for replay upload.
Please note that replays are required because they are only (and the best) method to detect different sorts of hacks or free wins. Using replays in ladder creates also a huge database of really good plays which is really nice for the community.
The first international season has just begun! We would like to invite you to join our ladder and we wish you to play many good games and have a lot of fun. This season last at least two months and it’s end will be announced at least week earlier. Top ladder players will be fighting for prizes and glory in the final tournament. Currently we have prizes only for 1vs1 and they are as follows:
- top1 wins 150$
- top2 wins 100$
- top3 wins 50$
We would like to inform you that nothing you see today is final and we are still putting many efforts to develop news features and to upgrade existing ones. We are also open for new suggestions. We are looking for partnership or sponsoring cooperation so if you have any ideas/proposals feel free to let us know.
Links:
Homepage: http://ProStarLeague.com, http://ProSL.net, NetCraft.info.pl
Registration
Launcher with LAN Latency and replay uploader
Official map pack
StarCraft Brood War 1.15.2 by Monikon (88MB)
Full help, fast start read: How to play – tutorial.
Brief description of key features:
- Players may compete in 1vs1 and 2vs2 ladder. To play 1vs1 game just create one vs one game type on BNet. To play 2vs2 game just create top vs bottom game type on BNet. To get better teams detection in 2vs2 games you should pick your TP using /tp *nick* BNet command. Games must be played on official PSL maps to be counted in ladder.
- Winner of every ladder or tournament game has to upload a valid replay. If you win a ladder game you immediately win points for that game but you have 48 hours to upload replay for that game. If you don’t do it you will lose ALL points you won.
- Player is allowed to change BNet nick. After that his BNet account is also changed so he needs to use a new BNet login. This is very useful after clan change because you may keep your stats and friend list.
- Team 1vs1 and 2vs2 ladder. Ever player vs. player ladder game is also reported as team vs. team ladder game if both players are different team members.
- Country 1vs1 and 2vs2 ladder. Ever player vs. player ladder game is also reported as country vs. country ladder game if both players are from different counties. Note that only games of top 30 players of country are included in country ladder.
- Internal clan ladder. 1vs1 Ladder games between players of the same team are used to create an internal team ladder.
- New BNet commands like manual game reporting, /f delete all, /dnd2 (prevents ALL whispers from "Friends List" displaying to your screen) or /ico (show 1vs1/2vs2/special icon next to your nick on BNet).
- Map of the week bonus. +20% points for winner if the game was played on map of the week.
- Winning streak. +10% points for winner for third and every other game won in row. Max winning streak bonus is +50% for seventh (and more) game won in row.
- Luck bonus. Winner has a chance (e.g. 10%) to get additional random bonus (e.g. +100% in C3). Bonus is calculated when replay is uploaded but not later than one hour after the game is fished.
- Mercy bonus. Loser has a chance (e.g. 10%) to not lose any point in game. Bonus is calculated when replay is uploaded but not later than one hour after the game is fished.
- Milestones: Wide range of ladder prices to achieve. E.g. if you achieve 1000 ladder points or play 50 ladder games. Every milestone may be reached only by first three (six for 2vs2 ladder) players in every race.
- Team ranking on your clan web site.
- Player team changing history is available. Every time player joins (gets accepted) or quits a team this action is saved so his team history can be easily checked out.
- Tournaments systems: DE for 4, 8, 16 and 32 players. Reporting tournament game state by BNet commands: /win_tr, /lose_tr
- BNet is currently running WarCraft III The Frozen Throne beta ladder also. This is an original PvPGN ladder and works the same way as Blizzard’s WarCraft ladder. So you can try it out and give us your opinion about it. We are also trying to add more game on BNet and the first on the list are WarCraft III Dota Ladder and Diablo II.
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I hope that will be your favourite ladder 
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sounds awesome, im going to try it now
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Common people : ) it’s a ordinary ladder with all basic rules known by everybody plus some new features. Join and try it -_-
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why everyone's rank is C3? and how do i check their points in game?
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Yep c3, season start today.
/stats <nick>
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just use /stats *nick*
you will get player normal stats + ladder (1v1 + 2v2) info: rank, points, race
e.g.
/stats [RAF]MoonSun
[RAF]MoonSun's record:
Normal games: 2-0-0
Ladder 1v1: 2-0 C3 (320) Protoss
Ladder 2v2: 0-0 C3 (0)
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ah ok, my bad about the c3, for some reason i thought the first rank was c6 
edit: just wondering, do u use some anti hack or those special maps?
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i'll have to check this out :D
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Germany2762 Posts
i guess you have a typo there. isn't this supposed to be "poll" instead of "pool"?
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netcraft was the server i started with. god i loved it so much. but i tried many times recently to connect and it doesnt work. is it dead or does it have a new ip address?
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thx jhNz. there is a typo indeed. it will be fixed right away
vhallee: do not use IP address coz it may change when server is beging moved from onve hosting to another. used domain name coz it is always valid: netcraft.info.pl
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I want to congratulate all the admins of the ladder because it's WONDERFUL, yeah, as I've said, the ladder is like an ultralisk 5-3, =)
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xD loool 
Im hapy that everyone like it
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this is really great!
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On July 04 2008 00:37 thedeadhaji wrote:I can't believe I read Porn Star  edit: wow, this is a great op, super informative and explains everything so well <3
i'm with you there :o
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i dunno who is behind this project, but stop all advertisments on abyss server or ill ban every acc.
wtf is this..
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Well, I am behind all this and I have not put a single piece of information on icc BNet or web server.
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Yep it was propably some fan. Beg pardon for him.
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sea sheild should join this
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Yep it is great idea
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GoGo PSL !
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Playing a bit; I encourage all the players to play it, is like WGTour but much better =)
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Osaka27151 Posts
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And I encourage all players who try this ladder (and like it) to post some info about this ladder on their country StarCraft: BroodWar community sites. Thanks for your help!
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Not sure if this is right or not, but no-latency didn't work unless I used the #LL/#L2 on the game name. The help guide seems to say it will work no matter what, unless you add !, but it didn't.
Only other thing is that there's multiple online lists and they seem to be spread out in the menus from each other. It's fine once you figure it out, but I had to spend a few minutes wondering out what the hell was going on, and I'd imagine that's a couple minutes too long for some people.
I guess that's all the criticism from me... good job on it you guys.
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now i understand! PSL = Pole Star League :D
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Skew: in original Chaos Laucher u have to add #LL to game name to enable LAN latency
we use slightt modified chaos launcher that enables LAN latency in ALL games unless u use ! in game name.
u r right there r 2 online lists: web site and battle net. I put some better desc about it to make in more clear.
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this isnt getting alot of replies because its under tourneys.....mods you guys should move it up to brood war section or maybe even general so more people can see this. Thanx for this guys i really like this server!! :D
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Artosis
United States2140 Posts
its actually a very nice website + server. just not too active yet. my complaint vs a discer got handled in like an hour or 2 which is nice as well.
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Belgium8305 Posts
moved this to the BW forum where it'll get some more exposure, good luck
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The ladder is great. The replayupload feature is really cool.
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And we're just getting started ;>
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This looks pretty cool, I will give it a try.
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Lord martin i had an accident an i think i deleted ur news on wgt... kick me please... repost it... and dont tll other wGt admins
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Nvm it was posted 2 days ago ^^
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Language barrier is a little hard sometimes when not many people are on but no harder than Iccup I guess, I really like the auto upload and Chaos Launcher. Hope this gets big :D
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It all depends on you. The more users the bigger it will get
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i suck and i havent won a game yet,i think i am 0-10 now lol
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0-11, but dont give up, dude. Practice makes perfect. Few years ago Fosken had a similar record vs me. And I've never got past c5 on WGT so as you can see progress is possible but it takes time
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warrior]iMp[: I have just reposted news on WGTour. Accept it please
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it sounds nice and all, but what are the benefits over iccup?
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On July 09 2008 19:31 Tropics wrote:
it sounds nice and all, but what are the benefits over iccup?
They're not mutually exclusive. Other than the features that differentiate them, which are explained in the OP, it offers users simply a new environment. A new ladder. New map pool. New system, etc...
There's no reason you can't compete on both Iccup and PSL.
This site/ladder looks really cool. I love the idea of auto-replay-upload feature. Very cool. I'm about to sleep but tomorrow I will give it a huge gaming session. =)
Goodluck to the creators! and Well done.
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thx
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The level of gamin on PSL is so much higer than on icc. Seriously, level D on icc is a complete newb, and most of the players playing PSL are so good that in fact SC rookies cannont compete on this server.. >.<
but as said before practise makes perfect, so gl hf
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I've played about 20 games and learned more than in my 50 games on iccup, because of the higher skill.
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wyglada super, dzieki!
ide grac
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bump, because this ladder is awesome
if you haven't, try it, the skill level is quite high and I've seen castro and mistrzzz : ]
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the best times to go on if you are north american is morning to noon since it's about eight hour time zone difference (at least where I live).
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On July 16 2008 12:47 Wizard wrote:
the best times to go on if you are north american is morning to noon since it's about eight hour time zone difference (at least where I live).
haha i guess so, cause i just logged on and it told me that there were 5 players on and 1 game up lol
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Most of the players are online between 11:00AM and 12:00PM CET. It is slightly different in weekends.
I encourage everyone to try our ladder and give us feedback on it.
If you have any problems I’m on BNet everyday between 9:00AM to 5:00PM CET. Acc Dexter
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We are just running some Diablo 2 LOD beta tests on out bnet server (NTC: netcraft.info.pl). So if you like this game you may try it and give us your opinion
There are two realms:
- normal: Diablo 2 v1.12
- PvP: Diablo 2 v1.10 with D2PK mod (http://www.cruelsociety.net/d2pk/index.php?showtopic=73)
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United States17042 Posts
This ladder is really cool-too bad I suck too much at sc to do well :'(
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I'm glad this is still going on and hasn't died yet! !
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Well, NTC (BNET) is up since 1999. It had some downtimes (event few months) but it definitely is not going to be dead soon ; ) We do our best to keep it alive forever and to make it a better place for gaming !
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