41 Starleague returns to us after a longer wait although the man behind it, 41 (Sa-il, aka Sayle's Korean Terran cousin), hasn't been idle at all, organizing and casting various sponsored matches and a King of the Hill clanleague. The third season of the league will exceed the last season's prizepool and feature the best players Afreeca can offer, minus Bisu. The schedule remains unclear, most certainly due to the two starleagues to still be announced, but if there's one thing 41TV has playing into his hands, it's the flexibility of online streaming.

It's that time again..

Prepare your wands and floorball balls!

crafted by prech

Invited Players
Terran: The Triumph Of War
(T)

Sea

Minus)Crack (T)

sSak

Zerg: Overcome All
(Z)

force[Name] (Z)

hero

Protoss: Victory After Victory
(P)

Snow

Prizepool
Winner: $900
Runner-Up: $270
3rd Place: $90
Total: $1260

Format
Round of 32 ~ Round of 16
BO3 #1: Circuit Breaker - Destination - Fighting Spirit
BO3 #2: Circuit Breaker - Destination - Fighting Spirit
Winners' Match: Fighting Spirit
Losers' Match: Fighting Spirit
Final Match BO3: Circuit Breaker - Destination - Fighting Spirit

Round of 8 ~ Round of 4
Best of 5
1. Circuit Breaker
2. New Bloody Ridge
3. Destination
4. La Mancha
5. Fighting Spirit

3rd/4th Place Match + Final Match
Best of 7
1. Circuit Breaker
2. New Bloody Ridge
3. Colosseum 2
4. Destination
5. La Mancha
6. Blue Storm
7. Fighting Spirit

Schedule
Round of 32
Group A
(T)

Mind vs

mahell,

IcaruS vs

Jaehoon
Saturday, Dec 20 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group B
(Z)

Killer vs

Tyson,

Rock vs

Last
Monday, Jan 05 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group C
(P)

Shuttle vs (T)

Sharp,

Lazy vs

Larva
Wednesday, Dec 24 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group D
(Z)

HoGiL vs

Mong,

hero vs

Pusan
Friday, Dec 26 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group E
(T)

Sea vs

Snow,

GuemChi vs (Z)

force[Name]
Monday, Dec 29 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group F
(T)

sSak vs

Modesty,

Noble vs

ZerO
Tuesday, Dec 30 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group G
(Z)

Cola vs

Sea.KH,

Minus)Crack vs (P)

Mini
Friday, Jan 02 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group H
(T)

HiyA vs

Pure,

Hyuk vs

PianO
Friday, Jan 09 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Source: Announcement Schedule

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

December 13 2014 08:11 GMT

~~ehm. WIP~~

thezanursic

5497 Posts

December 13 2014 08:49 GMT

Awesome!

prech

United States2948 Posts

December 13 2014 09:27 GMT

Nice, thanks for the thread!

Noticed 41 changed up the dual tournament format so the first/second matches are now Bo3, rather than Bo1, from season 2, which makes more sense

Neat to see some new maps too. I don't think I've ever watched a live Colosseum or New Blood Ridge match

A reminder of the relatively disparate results from the first two 41 SL seasons:

(Wiki)

41 Starleague Season 2
+ Show Spoiler +

41 Starleague Season 1
+ Show Spoiler +

tanngard

Norway1325 Posts

December 13 2014 10:04 GMT

Minus Movie aswell

Yaqoob

Canada3354 Posts

December 13 2014 11:03 GMT

I like the map pool. Its nice to see some games on Blue Storm and Destination.

esdf

Croatia736 Posts

December 13 2014 11:29 GMT

this is all great and nice, but whatever happened to that $80k starleague? :S

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

December 13 2014 11:38 GMT

On December 13 2014 20:29 esdf wrote:
this is all great and nice, but whatever happened to that $80k starleague? :S

The map tests sponleague for the league is currently ongoing and should be over soon (Dec 21), hopefully some announcement will come after that. Maybe as a xmas present?^^

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19315 Posts

December 13 2014 12:35 GMT

This is too good. I really hope mini and snow can play well or protoss is doomed.

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

December 13 2014 12:46 GMT

#10

On December 13 2014 21:35 BisuDagger wrote:
This is too good. I really hope mini and snow can play well or protoss is doomed.

Don't count GuemChi out either. Though tlpd doesn't count it in, he's 17-17 in LSL sponleague. He showed some solid games, beat the zvp specialist hero 3-0 and was the first player to take 4 series in a row.

c3rberUs

Japan11286 Posts

December 13 2014 13:07 GMT

#11

Hyuk is in this? Wow.

Guemchi be goin' G-sizzle recently. Don't come him out.

I like the map pool.

esdf

Croatia736 Posts

December 13 2014 16:56 GMT

#12

On December 13 2014 20:38 Stratos wrote:

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The map tests sponleague for the league is currently ongoing and should be over soon (Dec 21), hopefully some announcement will come after that. Maybe as a xmas present?^^

Let's hope it does. I kind of thought the whole project flopped because there was no news about it since the announcement.

GTPGlitch

5061 Posts

December 13 2014 17:15 GMT

#13

What happened to movie?D:

KristofferAG

Norway25712 Posts

December 13 2014 17:33 GMT

#14

It's the Starleague where anything can happen.

Lookin worward to it!

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

December 13 2014 17:37 GMT

#15

On December 14 2014 01:56 esdf wrote:

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Let's hope it does. I kind of thought the whole project flopped because there was no news about it since the announcement.

The announcements are still up on Love's wall and she's pretty meticulous about updating all events and such there, so I'd be quite surprised if she didn't take it down if it was off the table. sOoL also seems active and in contact with her. They said they can't announce things at will. I feel like at this point, considering Sonic's situation, where afreeca netizens give him TONS of shit for constantly re-announcing things, some period of silence is better than having to take stuff back or postpone it.

HerbMon

United States467 Posts

December 13 2014 22:45 GMT

#16

wow sooo much to look forward to. :D

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

December 14 2014 02:30 GMT

#17

for some reason I read $9000 for first place and was like, wow, since when did 41SL get so big? haha. Regardless, great news imo! Hopefully all these BW tournament organizers come together and plan things out so there's no overlaps!

On December 14 2014 02:37 Stratos wrote:

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The announcements are still up on Love's wall and she's pretty meticulous about updating all events and such there, so I'd be quite surprised if she didn't take it down if it was off the table. sOoL also seems active and in contact with her. They said they can't announce things at will. I feel like at this point, considering Sonic's situation, where afreeca netizens give him TONS of shit for constantly re-announcing things, some period of silence is better than having to take stuff back or postpone it.

this is ridiculous imo. Sonic puts a ton of time into his tournaments and the least thing afreeca netizens can do is to just be quiet and let him put together another great tourney instead of bitching at his every time.

SlayerS_BunkiE

Canada1715 Posts

December 15 2014 01:07 GMT

#18

this is exciting but why no bisu?

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

December 15 2014 06:53 GMT

#19

The league will start this Saturday 8pm kst with group A, it'll be played on various days in 7pm kst, two hours earlier than most events. I'll post full ro32 schedule when I get home.

prech

United States2948 Posts

December 15 2014 08:39 GMT

#20

^^Wonderful news, particularly with matches starting so soon. [image loading]

Great to see 41 taking advantage of his small and flexible operation without worrying about the regimented TV/broadcast schedules of an OGN or HungryApp