In the past two months the ICCup Ladder Main Event Ladder Phase went down. More than 1,000 players participated, more than 10,000 games were played and now only the best of the best remain. A total of $750 are on the line, thanks to our sponsors!
The system is a bit complicated, as the ICCup administration wanted to make sure only the elite comes through. We're going to skip some details, for a full report, we suggest you check Liquipedia!. First off, only the Top 288 qualified. Ranks #288 to #17 will play on the upcoming Saturday in the first two stages: The Qualifiers and the Shoot Outs. It's going to be tough, there will be blood and it will most definitely be a very, very long day for everyone involved!
Please note, that we won't be able to provide you with live scores in the original post. Check the Liquipedia article for updated results; the sub-pages are listed below!
The first stage will be the Ladder Qualifiers. The places #33 to #288 will be put into sixteen 16 Man Single Elimination Brackets. Futhermore, the ICCup Administration wanted to reward a better rating, hence the places #33 to #48 were seeded into different brackets, so the players with a better rating would only meet in the later stages.
More Details: Time: 14:00 CET Start (15 Minute Walk Over Deadline for 1st Round, 5 Minutes without excuses after!) Round of 16 - Semifinals: Best of One Finals: Best of Three Maps: Fighting Spirit (1st Round) - Destination (2nd) - Aztec (3rd) - Electric Circuit (Finals) Liquipedia: Qualifiers Stage
The second stage will feature the survivors of the Qualifier stage. The Ranks #17 to #32 were seeded into that stage.
Matches:
Cristiger vs. Group P Winner Cryoc vs. Group O Winner Napoleon vs. Group N Winner Gosi[latte] vs. Group M Winner SaCreD vs. Group L Winner Weekly vs. Group K Winner Wallace vs. Group J Winner INF3CTED vs. Group I Winner ytOng vs. Group H Winner TTF vs. Group G Winner vOddy vs. Group F Winner Wapool vs. Group E Winner Maestro vs. Group D Winner Bonyth vs. Group C Winner Whistler vs. Group B Winner Ramms vs. Group A Winner
More Details: Time: 18:00 CET Start (15 Minute Walk Over Deadline, Replacements will be done right away!) Map: Python, loser's choice Liquipedia: Shoot Outs
The official English speaking Casters will be BisuDagger, dRaW and Talent!
About: BisuDagger
This man is a guy who really fucking loves Bisu and founded the Church of Bisu, which currently has over 1 million disciples worldwide. It is not a cult. He almost lost his faith the other day when he suggested that Stork might be a better Protoss than Bisu, and I quickly reprimanded him for his sins, and he repented. If you give him trouble, I will roast you in a rap song. That's not a good thing, so don't even go there. Just back away and nobody will get hurt. His casting style is strong, enthusiastic and mixes in very subtle humor that you probably won't catch, and think is serious.
Catch phrases: "We love him/her, but not as much as we love Bisu.", "Let's just pretend I'm right."
About: dRaW
The strongest, most legendary Protoss player in the history of StarCraft. He also really fucking loves Bisu. His constant dabbling in playing Zerg and Terran have caused some hilariously stupid people to think that dRaW is a Zerg player, but that is false. His true race is Italian. His skill is legend, and he has beaten Sziky many times. He is the kite runner, the snake charmer, the horse whisperer, the lion tamer, and the undisputed world champion, and got A rank on iCCup using Protoss. He currently plays for Team sas, which was betrayed by Sziky for 30 pieces of silver. His casting style is analytical, with making lots of funny voices.
Catch phrases: "Just make Lurkers", "Hm nah, that's pretty standard."
About: Talent
Another guy who really loves Bisu. Actually, all of these guys are ga-ga for Bisu, and it's creepy and weird. But anyhow, Beggar is a 1200(ish) rank Fish player who recently found out that the McWraps at McDonald's are not actually healthy. He is a frequent attender of C-rank events, although he's clearly better than C+, but that's how C events work. He enjoys eating fried chicken. He is the sole owner of a secret replay pack from a very good Protoss player on Fish who is in the top 20, and you can't have it. His casting style is humorous and going "shiittt." a lot.
Catch phrases: "Shit man", "Man, these guys are just bad."
ICCup.Regular asked some of the players to send in their replay packs and tried to find the hidden gems. Thanks to NinaZerg and BisuDagger a few of these were already casted - inofficially. Check them out, you won't regret it!
Also, don't forget to vote in the polls in the second post!
For the sake of curiosity, here is the average ladder ranking of each group:
Group A: 4673
Group B: 4855
Group C: 5065
Group D: 4922
Group E: 4858
Group F: 4799
Group G: 5129
Group H: 5182
Group I : 4930
Group J: 4926
Group K: 4989
Group L: 4868
Group M: 4909
Group N: 4821
Group O: 5093
Group P: 4873
For the most game played to qualify, the top 3 is: – The top 3 player with the most game played to qualify the event will be granted an iCCup special flag:
Jamesn1004 519
Foxuelo 473
Lancerx 460
For the least game played to qualify, the top3 is: – The top 3 player with the least game played to qualify the event will be granted an iCCup special flag
this is awesome! I really hope I'll be home from work in time to play. But either way thanks for doing this, the ladder itself doesn't see that much action past b- so it's great to kinda, crown a proper champion at the end of the season.
Holy shit I've just watched game TerranBoy vs trutaCz and I was wondering who the fu** is that guy with screeching voice and at the end second commentator said to him "NinaZerg" ; O
Added to second topic the Top 3 of the most game played and the less game played to qualify.
For the most game played to qualify, the top 3 is: – The top 3 player with the most game played to qualify the event will be granted an iCCup special flag:
Jamesn1004 519
Foxuelo 473
Lancerx 460
For the least game played to qualify, the top3 is: – The top 3 player with the least game played to qualify the event will be granted an iCCup special flag
I can't keep up with all of the games today, but there have been some good ones. I hope for a list of recommended cream-of-the-crop list of games plz, thx.
Thanks for watching guys. Maybe in the future we can schedule the cast out over a period of time. But we did the best we could to make this happen and am very grateful for all the players and organizers. Was the perfect birthday!
any admin? and +1 what is sbwi? saturday same 19 00 cet right? if not over + tired. sbwi sponsor this is, and not thinking. remember tsl? What do you think.
DE for 32 players will take 4-5h, and eonzerg is right, people already played so many defiler tours with bigger number of players and suddenly there is a problem ; X
On December 09 2013 03:25 PiKe wrote: DE for 32 players will take 4-5h, and eonzerg is right, people already played so many defiler tours with bigger number of players and suddenly there is a problem ; X
yes eon can play 10 hours/ day not everyone. and what u think why cant see this format another tours?(1000years) only this and defiler(GJ) and defiler not problem?good joke all time problem its a long(very bad) I gave up, I can not give yours Estonian good start this tour how much wo heres up to now? idk but here +1 take w.o ace im cant play this is gl.
On December 09 2013 03:25 PiKe wrote: DE for 32 players will take 4-5h, and eonzerg is right, people already played so many defiler tours with bigger number of players and suddenly there is a problem ; X
yes eon can play 10 hours/ day not everyone. and what u think why cant see this format another tours?(1000years) only this and defiler(GJ) and defiler not problem?good joke all time problem its a long(very bad) I gave up, I can not give yours Estonian good start this tour how much wo heres up to now? idk but here +1 take w.o ace im cant play this is gl.
is not 10 hours tour -_-,and who tell u i can play 10 hours np ? rofl
I will have to agree with sziky in this one if the ladder phase took like 3 months. The main event should be split in different days so everyone can play his best.
Agree with Sziky too ... i proly wont go too far in tour anyway, so doesnt really matter to me, but cant all spend 5,6 hours on Saturday for BW ..
[sc1f]eonzerg Spain. December 09 2013 03:09. Posts 1702 Gift TL+ PM Profile Blog Report Quote # yeah but we played defiler tours with more people and dont take that long.
You joke or playing BW from 9 to16,17CET isnt really problem for you ??
On December 09 2013 04:57 dsaqwe. wrote: Agree with Sziky too ... i proly wont go too far in tour anyway, so doesnt really matter to me, but cant all spend 5,6 hours on Saturday for BW ..
[sc1f]eonzerg Spain. December 09 2013 03:09. Posts 1702 Gift TL+ PM Profile Blog Report Quote # yeah but we played defiler tours with more people and dont take that long.
You joke or playing BW from 9 to16,17CET isnt really problem for you ??
yes but at the end we did it with alot of people.so u think a tourney of 32 will take that long ? anyway i dont really care play 1 or 2 days sat/sun. the rest days i cant.
If a player have problem with the current schedule, please message me on skype: Myujinsan i wont be able to make any change unless i can talk to everyone. So please message me quick.
I think there's a big difference between this and defiler type tourney. Defiler you sign up for after knowing that you will be available to play, this is something you qualify for and then you make time for the tourney when the date is selected. And it is much easier to make time for 2-3 hours than for 5-6.
On December 09 2013 08:48 Liquid`Drone wrote: I think there's a big difference between this and defiler type tourney. Defiler you sign up for after knowing that you will be available to play, this is something you qualify for and then you make time for the tourney when the date is selected. And it is much easier to make time for 2-3 hours than for 5-6.
First of all Defiler tourneys takes much longer than this. Secondly Sziky knew almost 2 weeks before about date of iCCup Main Event final because he was in top16 of ladder (for example registration to Defilers starts 1 week before) so he had also more time for planning his weekend
Although i have nothing against moving finals of this tour on Sunday.
On December 09 2013 03:25 PiKe wrote: DE for 32 players will take 4-5h, and eonzerg is right, people already played so many defiler tours with bigger number of players and suddenly there is a problem ; X
yes eon can play 10 hours/ day not everyone. and what u think why cant see this format another tours?(1000years) only this and defiler(GJ) and defiler not problem?good joke all time problem its a long(very bad) I gave up, I can not give yours Estonian good start this tour how much wo heres up to now? idk but here +1 take w.o ace im cant play this is gl.
u think tour is format how is that u go wo? defiler good but problem T_T why do u say this like problem when not? I think good joke but u play okay more i like u play because #1 u are best idk how time is in hungary but long time make games? plz ;; I hope candle pray to not give up, plz no emo mode, if win defiler u win this format tell why not?
The diffrence is that is big tournament, no weekly one. Here we have rly good players from scene. I would like to watch all games and have casts like I mention before, similiar to TLS. For example 1-2 rounds per weekend. For players it's ofc better to prepare for a game or two not for whole tour at once.
On December 09 2013 17:36 Mewka wrote: The diffrence is that is big tournament, no weekly one. Here we have rly good players from scene. I would like to watch all games and have casts like I mention before, similiar to TLS. For example 1-2 rounds per weekend. For players it's ofc better to prepare for a game or two not for whole tour at once.
TLS does not have to run a server with a ladder and a clan league parallel to the TLS. It's a lot easier to organize a bunch of matches per week if you have not much else to do. Gen and co. have to run a lot more each week, they can't artificially drag the final stages of tournaments for an eternity if they don't want to screw up the rest of the server. It's fine. There's always the option to watch VODs when you want to / have limited time.
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