The Torenhire Starleague made its debut in late 2012 and rapidly became a well-produced and well-loved tournament. It was created with the intention of being a repeat league, and we are proud to announce the second installment in the ThSL! For those who missed out on the original Torenhire Starleague, the tournament players are hand-selected based on personality, good looks, and their drive to crush anyone who stands in their way on the path to the podium.
ThSL2 will feature a format change, integrating a seeding and invite system similar to the OSL. Instead of the PC Bang Starleague, invites were issued to those deemed worthy. Anyone who advanced to the bracket stages in ThSL1 is seeded one round forwards in the new format. Those who placed top four will be advanced even further into the tournament. You can find the list of twenty four invited players, and sixteen invites below. Below the players you will find the specifics on the new - and future - format.
Invited Players
Jonvvv
Grobyc
RaGe
538
SchOOl_VicTIm
tec27
RowdierBob
Shauni
fold
Hyde
7mk
GHOSTCLAW
mizU
Pholon
fonger
hazelynut
tonight
Xeris
Konadora
HawaiianPig
LuckyFool
TheEmulator
Oystein
Zergneedsfood
Seeded Players
Liquid`Drone - top4
bioboyAT
GTR
2pacalypse-
Chill - top4
Metal[x]
intrigue
Rekrul
Jonoman92 - top4
Kau
skindzer
redtooth
Cambium - top4
Trozz
Kiante
Scaramanga
Format
Stage 1 - Invites vs Seeds
There will be a total of 24 invites. There will be 12 seeded players (16 total, the 12 seeds here are places 5-16 from previous ThSL). The invites will play a bo3 between each other, and the winner will advance forward to play a bo3 vs a seed. The winner of that game will then advance into group picks.
This will give us 12 players to be placed into groups, plus the top 4 from ThSL prior.
Stage 2 - Group picks + games
The group selection here will work the same as the OSL group selection.
Using ThSL1 as the example...
Liquid`Drone is Seed #1, he is in group A. (A1) Chill is Seed #2, he is in group B (B1) Jonoman #3, group C (C1) Cambium #4, group D (D1)
A1 picks one of the 12 Stage 1 winners to be in their group. They become A2. Then B1 chooses a B2. So on and so forth. Group picks will follow this order.
That gives us four groups of four, which will play in a bo3 round robin style. The top 2 from each group advance into the next stage. Everyone who makes it into the group stage gets a 5th-16th place seed for next ThSL.
Stage 3 - Bracket Stage
At this point, we are at the Ro8, where a Single Elimination begins and plays out as normal. Bo3 all the way up until semis, where it will become bo5.
Top 4 players get the 1st-4th Seed and get automatically placed into Stage 2 for the next ThSL.
Maps
Prizes
For top 3!! Something made by shiroiusagi.
Seeds for everyone who makes it into group stages!
Casters
Grobyc! SirJolt! Other Cool People!
Grobyc will be taking over a large part of the streaming for the event! Kiante did us proud and for certain some of the most memorable moments of the ThSL were of his doing. This doesn't mean he won't be back to broadcast now and again! We will be pulling in community members from time to time to co-cast alongside our main casters.
Thanks Shiro!!! ^_^ edit: for anyone still confused about the format - I'll admit it's worded a little weird - check out the Liquipedia page, it's described there as well as you can see the actual brackets. It will make more sense when you look at the actual bracket layout!
Why is it that in every "fun" tournament I get paired up against players that so incredibly out-class me! All I want is to play vs mizU. Is that so much to ask?
Good week for brood war tournament announcements. So pumped for this. I was a little sad that Kiante was missing from the casters, but I'm happy to see he'll be joining in at some stage.
I don't know who you are, I don't know what you're doing, but if you're any good at brood war and reading this, I will find you, and I will make you play.
Oh my...vGl-RaGe T_T Just once I'd like to have a chance at advancing in this tournament, is that too much to ask?
On February 09 2013 13:05 Xiphos wrote: No Kiante disgusts me. Grobyc can't possibly be more BM than him. By his post history, he is too much of a nice fellow.
Oh I don't know, I heard he was giving Kiante a hard time while he was streaming, it could transfer over to his commentary.
On February 09 2013 14:26 Hyde wrote: Oh my...vGl-RaGe T_T Just once I'd like to have a chance at advancing in this tournament, is that too much to ask?
On February 09 2013 13:05 Xiphos wrote: No Kiante disgusts me. Grobyc can't possibly be more BM than him. By his post history, he is too much of a nice fellow.
Oh I don't know, I heard he was giving Kiante a hard time while he was streaming, it could transfer over to his commentary.
coughs. not the biggest of deals but i'm actually protoss. I could edit liquipedia but i don't know if brackets or anything were predicated on me being...something not protoss.
I'm so pumped for this, ThSL2 couldn't come soon enough. I like the new format, as it promotes doing well for the sake of future tournament. The legacy begins!
This is awesome ofc. There is a great game between fantasy and onelove on hitchhiker in the replays section where both players loose their bases. Hitchhiker is an incredible map.
On February 09 2013 09:24 HawaiianPig wrote: Why is it that in every "fun" tournament I get paired up against players that so incredibly out-class me! All I want is to play vs mizU. Is that so much to ask?
Ohh and please. If possible get more SSL players to play a showmatch. I mean you guys could get in contact with Sea and ask him if anybody from SOSPA wants to play in a Showmatch,
On February 28 2013 17:19 Sinedd wrote: make next ThSL with Blitz X in the mappool ;P
would be amazing to see it!
How about Fastest, BGH, and Blood Bath. That would be better.
uhmm ?
Blitz X is an awesome map that is actually viable to play (and it dont have problems with balance either), those you mentioned are not. So I dont understand your point, sir
On February 09 2013 09:24 HawaiianPig wrote: Why is it that in every "fun" tournament I get paired up against players that so incredibly out-class me! All I want is to play vs mizU. Is that so much to ask?
On February 09 2013 09:24 HawaiianPig wrote: Why is it that in every "fun" tournament I get paired up against players that so incredibly out-class me! All I want is to play vs mizU. Is that so much to ask?
On February 09 2013 09:24 HawaiianPig wrote: Why is it that in every "fun" tournament I get paired up against players that so incredibly out-class me! All I want is to play vs mizU. Is that so much to ask?
me 2
mizU league gogo?
15 invites, 1 mizU. Everyone plays mizu. The person who can beat him the most times in the span of three hours wins the tournament.
After-finals showmatch: mizU beats the single player campaign on stream.
On February 09 2013 09:24 HawaiianPig wrote: Why is it that in every "fun" tournament I get paired up against players that so incredibly out-class me! All I want is to play vs mizU. Is that so much to ask?
me 2
mizU league gogo?
15 invites, 1 mizU. Everyone plays mizu. The person who can beat him the most times in the span of three hours wins the tournament.
After-finals showmatch: mizU beats the single player campaign on stream.
Stage 1 games are being played and wrapped up soon. We'll likely start broadcasting after TLS is complete, or maybe during the week while TLS is happening to keep schedule conflict from happening.
On March 09 2013 05:16 Torenhire wrote: Quick bumpity bump to get everyone updated.
Stage 1 games are being played and wrapped up soon. We'll likely start broadcasting after TLS is complete, or maybe during the week while TLS is happening to keep schedule conflict from happening.
On March 09 2013 05:16 Torenhire wrote: Quick bumpity bump to get everyone updated.
Stage 1 games are being played and wrapped up soon. We'll likely start broadcasting after TLS is complete, or maybe during the week while TLS is happening to keep schedule conflict from happening.
A schedule conflict is bound to happen with 3 more TLS tournaments.
Not necessarily. TLS doesn't broadcast during the week. Really depends on SirJolt and Grobyc coordinating schedules, their time zones make it tough ^_^;;
On March 12 2013 23:00 Torenhire wrote: Not necessarily. TLS doesn't broadcast during the week. Really depends on SirJolt and Grobyc coordinating schedules, their time zones make it tough ^_^;;
yeah casting this during a week (wednesday or thursday for example) would be really cool
It's working out, the players did their part, Torenhire hasn't done his part :p
I moved a little while back so there was a pretty significant delay in me processing the replays sent to me and all that fun stuff. I've got a few free days coming up that I plan to use on ThSL :D
On April 10 2013 01:57 Torenhire wrote: It's working out, the players did their part, Torenhire hasn't done his part :p
I moved a little while back so there was a pretty significant delay in me processing the replays sent to me and all that fun stuff. I've got a few free days coming up that I plan to use on ThSL :D
I can't wait the last ThSL was amazing especially the bugged replays and tanks doing burnouts!
I really have a great personality on top of looking good, they all like me except those that can't beat me, I wanna crush everybody who stand in my way, may I join the tournament?
On May 01 2013 19:44 iFU.pauline wrote: I really have a great personality on top of looking good, they all like me except those that can't beat me, I wanna crush everybody who stand in my way, may I join the tournament?
On May 01 2013 19:44 iFU.pauline wrote: I really have a great personality on top of looking good, they all like me except those that can't beat me, I wanna crush everybody who stand in my way, may I join the tournament?
I think the only 'technical difficulties' we had was SirJolts replays being bugged. Glad to see stream was nice and smooth and such. We'll be picking the next cast date pretty soon here and let you guys know.
Even changing once a month is fine-ish, as long as its not week-by-week. Just make sure to calendar the event as soon as the time is set! I hope you stick to the european-friendly timeslot.
Also, for easier following, I propose the following: Make a "next broadcast" part at the top of the OP, with a few lines of info (time, casters, matchups, link to past VODs/LP), so people can find easily what's going on and when. I guess when the league moves on to groups and stuff, seperate threads can be made, but until then, this'd be very convenient.
For some reason last week the twitch VOD for the broadcast mysteriously disappeared... we are still looking into that, but we might be able to salvage it if twitch isn't able to help us out.
On May 21 2013 01:25 Torenhire wrote: Sorta my fault, I forgot to calendar.
But monday 10am PST is our planned timeslot :x
We can try adjusting that if GC is planned on that time already though!
It's only today because the TLS was yesterday. It shouldn't be an issue down the road. But isn't it great so much SC is going on that we have scheduling conflicts?!?!
On May 21 2013 02:43 figq wrote: I've seen hidden bases, I've sometimes seen two hidden bases (check out this), but 3 hidden bases almost the whole match..
Three hidden bases into battlecruisers, where else but here ^^
Very entertaining game! I'm sure everyone's experienced that awful sinking in your gut when you realize your opponent has 2 or 3 bases more worth of units than you thought he had...
Damn, I checked the calendar yesterday for a cast date and there was still nothing... I barely missed it today. It's a shame, I would have loved to watch and join the chat live. Oh well, I see the VODs are already up!
Going live in about an hour. This weeks cast featuring BW in-game music and a properly done overlay transition to hide replay progress in the first minute of the game!
woohoo!! Games should be pretty good this go-round, I think!
edit: Ack! SirJolt had something come up, and our guest caster is MIA...I don't want to stick Grobyc on a solo cast with such short notice so we're going to postpone the broadcast by one week. Sorry!!
There was a miscommunication/calendar micromicro with staff I believe, it's tomorrow, not today. Shouldn't conflict with GC, should have that fixed shortly here.
edit: ahh, just figured out what was causing the overlay issues. My windows was stuck in Basic and not Aero because I had OBS open from troubleshooting Xsplit earlier and it wouldn't capture the layered overlay on stream.
For people who didn't notice there wasn't a cast today, group stage games are still being played and replays are being gathered. We'll let you know when we're ready to commence casting the group stage games~
On June 25 2013 07:55 Grobyc wrote: For people who didn't notice there wasn't a cast today, group stage games are still being played and replays are being gathered. We'll let you know when we're ready to commence casting the group stage games~
Wonder if Baku is a real STX fan or if he's just sucking up!
Also I will see if I can get Shiro to add this to the fancy OP but groups have been picked and the games are starting. We're shooting for August broadcast!
I have another TH League startup in progress, which once that gets started I'll be able to harass people about ThSL2 more. Just had a lot of RL happen at once and ThSL was low on the priority list for a period of time. Soon(tm)
I have a few of the replays but not nearly enough to even fill a single broadcast day!
Trozz is in the same boat
I didn't do a haiku
edit: maybe once TLS is over I'll do a public ThSL or something. Seems most of my crew is now into Dota2 or SC2 which is kind of why ThSL2 started to slack off :x
EPT
Xeris vs 
RaGe vs 
School_Victim
