Background:
Based off of the Yellow Starleague, I wanted to make a similar league, but not entirely for C-rankers. Originally, I was intending on doing a D-ranks only invitational, but as Lmaster decided to impose his rules on strict D-rank only in DRIT, I figured I might as well go into everyone from D- to C.

Anyways, basically, I invited everyone who was considered to be too strong to play in D-ranks now, and everyone else similar, to play in a league with a motivation to win. (There will be monetary prizes.) I invited people from D-ranks to people I just wanted to come play. I was originally thinking about inviting someone like TechnicS to play off-race, but thought against it, because I still want the rest of us to have a chance of winning.

The format of the league will be MSL style. with 32 players being distributed among 8 groups, and two top players exiting the groups into the Round-of-16 while the two bottom players are eliminated.

Example:
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Player A <Game 1> Player B
Player C <Game 2> Player D
Winner of Game 1 <Game 3> Winner of Game 2
Loser of Game 1 <Game 4> Loser of Game 2
Loser of Game 3 <Game 5> Winner of Game 4

Winners of Game 3 and Game 5 will advance.

Desginated game times
Designated channel is Op Crimson

Ro32 Group games - Saturday, Nov 16 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Ro16 games- Saturday, Nov 23 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Ro8 games - Saturday, Nov 30 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Ro4 games - Saturday, Dec 07 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Finals/Third Place - Saturday, Dec 14 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

WINNERS MUST SEND REPLAYS TO crimsonstarleague@live.com

PLAYERS

ZERG
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NAME / TL ID

Artanis[xp] / Artanis[xp]
sabas[AoV] / sabas123
Jemah / Jemah
ninazerg / ninazerg
Birdie / Birdie
art_of_turtle / art_of_turtle
dazed. / dazed_spy
L3gendary / L3gendary
jacklinks / STTB
CityShuffle / Myujinsan

PROTOSS
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NAME / TL ID

Lmaster / L_Master
pSi2]TheMarine / t0ssboy
RulzBoooM / ggrrg
LTY / LTY
Fear_Chaos / Fear_Chaos
Sentenal / Sentenal
Mellial / thezanursic
castle[eMg] / LaZeRKiD45
Ever)P(TelecoM / GGzerG
Echo / EchOne
EleGant[AoV] / ImbaToSS
BaD]SeeD / chrisolo
MVP / Prodigy.MvP

TERRAN
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NAME / TL ID

RedAxis / SynC[gm]
Hyeon / Hyeon
[SAM]Gohan / Pit667
mG.arb / arb
Rlentless / Rlentless
DsT-Napoleon / DsT-Napoleon
Comsat / Lannix
DarkNetHunter / DarkNetHunter
Stardom(OD) / LightningStrike

Poll: Group of Death?

Group H (7)

35%

Group D (5)

25%

Group A (3)

15%

Group C (3)

15%

Group E (1)

5%

Group F (1)

5%

Group B (0)

0%

Group G (0)

0%

20 total votes

Your vote: Group of Death?

(Vote): Group A
(Vote): Group B
(Vote): Group C
(Vote): Group D
(Vote): Group E
(Vote): Group F
(Vote): Group G
(Vote): Group H

MAPS

(4) Fighting Spirit
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(4) Neo Ground Zero
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(2) Overwatch
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(2) Match Point
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(3) Neo Aztec
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(2) Benzene
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(4) Eye of the Storm
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(4) Andromeda
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Map Order

Ro32 Groups

<Match Point>
<Match Point>
<Andromeda>
<Andromeda>
<Benzene>

Ro16 Best-of-3

<Fighting Spirit>
<Benzene>
<Neo Ground Zero>

Ro8 Best-of-3

<Eye of the Storm>
<Overwatch>
<Neo Aztec>

Ro4 Best-of-5

<Andromeda>
<Match Point>
<Fighting Spirit>
<Benzene>
<Eye of the Storm>

Third-place Best-of-5
<Fighting Spirit>
<Overwatch>
<Neo Ground Zero>
<Neo Aztec>
<Fighting Spirit>

FINALS Best-of-7
Finalists will each have a map veto from the 8 maps, resulting in a final 6-map pool. Set 1 map will also be the Set 7 map.
<Map 1>
<Map 2>
<Map 3>
<Map 4>
<Map 5>
<Map 6>
<Map 1>

MAP-PACK
http://www.mediafire.com/?dl3i9je7p3w80

RULES
1. Players are allowed to reschedule, but not past the deadline it is required to be played on. If postponements are absolutely necessary, then please PM me.
2. Players are not allowed to race-pick and are not allowed to change races during the tournament. Players that do not play with their original race must let me know BEFORE the league starts.
3. If players do not make contact with their opponents, PM me and I will make the decision regarding walkovers or rescheduling.
4. All games must be played with Anti-Hack and ChaosLauncher with LAN Latency.
5. If a player disconnects within 2 minutes of the start of a game, then the game must be replayed. If a player disconnects past the 2 minute mark, please contact me and show me the replay. I will make the decision regarding a regame, or whether a verdict will be made.

REPLAYS

ROUND-OF-32
REPLAYS

ROUND-OF-16
REPLAYS

ROUND-OF-8
REPLAYS

SEMI-FINALS
REPLAYS

FINALS
REPLAYS

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.

If there are any casters willing to cast, please post in thread.
SynC[gm] - http://twitch.tv/redaxis_
tonight - http://twitch.tv/tonightsend
LightningStrike - http://twitch.tv/stardomod
ninazerg - http://twitch.tv/ninazerg

traceurling

United States1240 Posts

October 27 2013 03:28 GMT

More Starcraft is always good

you should use non-Fighting Spirit maps

SynC[gm]

United States3127 Posts

October 27 2013 03:32 GMT

Yeah, I'm still thinking about maps. I might have to use Fighting Spirit just to please everybody, but I might be going through with maps like Gladiator, Chain Reaction, and other maps that were used at the end of Proleague/MSL/OSL.

traceurling

United States1240 Posts

October 27 2013 03:53 GMT

Please try something that makes people play a bit uncomfortable like Blue Storm or something... :D

TelecoM

United States10861 Posts

October 27 2013 04:28 GMT

Nice! This is great, why the name "Crimson" though if I may ask?

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

October 27 2013 04:40 GMT

I'm in!

andreyyisbestandrey

154 Posts

October 27 2013 04:48 GMT

Birdie

New Zealand4438 Posts

October 27 2013 05:01 GMT

Sounds awesome, hopefully I get an invite

tonight

United States11130 Posts

October 27 2013 05:27 GMT

where's my invite

TelecoM

United States10861 Posts

October 27 2013 05:30 GMT

#10

Oh it is invite only? Well I expect an invite obviously

LoCcxitO.o

Peru104 Posts

October 27 2013 05:31 GMT

#11

On October 27 2013 14:27 tonight wrote:
where's my invite

and me? :p

tonight

United States11130 Posts

October 27 2013 05:31 GMT

#12

also, i'm willing to cast

Magreidis

Lithuania146 Posts

October 27 2013 05:31 GMT

#13

Hmm, nice seed invite going on in foreirgn scene! OSUM

MinscandBoo

252 Posts

October 27 2013 06:49 GMT

#14

On October 27 2013 13:48 andreyyisbestandrey wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6lJaiHYIc

<3 andrey, hope to see you win tomorrow!
cool tourney, looking forward to watching. roughly when can we expect more concrete details?(players/dates/maps/prize pool)
edit: should be the orange starleague given that it seems you will be inviting largely D+/C- players who were cut from the DRIT

chrisolo

Germany2610 Posts

October 27 2013 07:16 GMT

#15

Nice ;D Hopefully I'll get an invite, might be the needed motivation to finally start 1on1 training..

SynC[gm]

United States3127 Posts

October 27 2013 14:38 GMT

#16

On October 27 2013 13:28 GGzerG wrote:
Nice! This is great, why the name "Crimson" though if I may ask?

Originally, I was going to have it just be D-rankers, which are red ranks, but as the restriction on DRIT was placed, I just figured the ranks should be extended to C-rankers too. I guess Minscandboo's idea of it being Orange Starleague makes sense, but Crimson sounds cooler ;D

On October 27 2013 15:49 MinscandBoo wrote:

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As for the details of the tourney, the players will be revealed once 32 players have accepted the invite. There's still many I've PM'ed but haven't heard back from, so there's that, but I'm still open to inviting others. I can tell you right now that there's about 25 people that's accepted though.
The tourney will start in roughly a month or so, maybe a bit earlier.
I'm still thinking of maps. Again, I can't help but leave Fighting Spirit in there, since that's THE map that people just has to play on, but I also want to bring in newer maps that haven't been played in other leagues recently.
Prize pool will be revealed later on. Of course, if anyone wants to donate to the prize pool, shoot me a PM.

Prodigy.MvP

Canada176 Posts

October 27 2013 15:36 GMT

#17

whats the criteria on who gets "invited" ?

SynC[gm]

United States3127 Posts

October 27 2013 15:40 GMT

#18

On October 28 2013 00:36 Prodigy.MvP wrote:
whats the criteria on who gets "invited" ?

Anyone really, but roughly around the range of D+ to C. Of course, that doesn't mean that I'll invite everyone that is D+ or C, nor does it mean I won't try to invite someone that's ranked higher than C.