Hello everyone, are you #StayingHomeAndPlayingStarcraft ?
What can be better than staying at home and playing StarCraft these days? BSL Nation Wars, obviously! Join BSL Ladder tournaments and have a chance to represent your country in a battle of nations!
1. BSL9 Nation Wars
On April 3rd we will pick five highest ranked players (with at least 20 games played) from each country and count their average MMR. Eight countries with the highest MMR will be seeded in a single-elimination bracket. In order to give each player an opportunity to participate in BSL9 Nation Wars, we will group countries that don't have five players geographically. Once a nation has five or more players - it will receive a separate team.
All matches will be played on Sunday, April 5th, 18:00 CET and casted on Thursday - Saturday, April 9th-11th 18:00 CET.
If you are playing BSL9 ladder and can't or don't want to participate in Nation Wars, please inform BSL admins and we will exclude you from the rankings.
FORMAT
TOP8 Countries from ladder stage advances to the playoffs - for 03.04.2020!
TOP 5 players from each country form a Nation team (based on ladder MMR from 03.04.2020)
Highest rated player for each country is a captain
Captain can add one more player to a team for 2v2 matches even if the player is not in top 5
Single Elimination bracket: Each match consist of five bo1 matches with second match 2v2[4x1v1,1x2v2]
Map pool of BSL9 will be used and maps will be predetermined
Rules: Admins are always right
WHEN
PLAYDAY -> 05.04.2020 18:00 CEST STREAMS->
Round of 8 - 09.04.2020 18:00 CEST
Semi Finals - 10.04.2020 18:00 CEST
Finals -> 11.04.2020 18:00 CEST
PRIZE POOL
1st place - 100$ for the team + 50 BSL Points for each player
Did you think BSL9 Nation Wars is enough? During the BSL9 ladder stage, we have something to do for everyone.
WHEN
BSL9 Ladder Tour #1 -> Open - Saturday 28.03 REGISTER
BSL9 Ladder Tour #2 -> Chobo/Gosu -> Sunday 29.03 REGISTER
BSL9 Ladder Tour #3 -> Open - Saturday 04.04 REGISTER
BSL9 Ladder Tour #4 - Chobo/Gosu -> Tuesday 07.04 REGISTER
Open Tours - everyone who played at least 20 games in the BSL9 ladder stage is allowed to play. Chobo/Gosu Tours - everyone who played minimum 20 games in BSL9 ladder stage and is below 32 place in the Points ranking is allowed to play.
Game - One of first 20 games played in BSL ladder stage. Played in Starcraft:Remastered, ranked game, on BSL-Nickname, which last at least 2 minutes, where your motivation is to win. However, If games lenght will be suspicious to any admin(even if above 2 minutes), it's players duty to prove that he played games normally.(auto-save replays exsist). Note: We will not ban anyone who is 5-pooling his games through. We will focus on situations, when someone is waiting for 2 minutes mark and leave the game without any effort to win.
FORMAT
WB bo1, bo3 from ro8, LB bo1, Finals bo5 [1:0 advantage for WB winner]
I'm actually sick at the moment (probably not covid-19), but having BSL on tonight is one of the few things i'm looking forward too today. Big thanks to BSL team and every player who participates!
Let's do some lottery! This week we have 25 players out of 29 that didn't give walkovers. Here are they: Now we will randomize the list and player who will be in the first line wins $5 Congratulations UltrA!
BSL9 Gosu/Chobo Tour #1 starts in 3 hours: Sign up. Top32 players in the BSL10 ranking can not play in this tour. You need to have a BSL9-YourUsername account with at least 5 ladder games. You also need to register it on BSL website..
Guys, this week during ladder tournament we had unpleasant situation with the rule: a) everyone who played at least 20 games in the BSL9 ladder stage is allowed to play.
Long story short: Mr. Spx asked us if we will allow him to play without these games, or he has to lose these games on-purpose ? When admins told him that he has to play games normally - he didn't listen to them and wanted my opinion on that, then when I didn't answer on time, he lost each game in 3-4 seconds and immediately had "enough games" for the tournament. We still didn't allow him to play. (This tour it was 5 games required, but that's not the point)
I can see two problems here, and will try to solve them so we never have to talk about it anymore.
1. Rule is not clear, I get it. 1) Reason for that rule is to give people who are playing in BSL ladder, some award for being active. From now on losing games on-purpos just to take part in the ladder tournaments will be treated as: a) unsportsmanlike behavior; b) not respecting the spirit of fair play; 2) From now on rule is: Everyone who played at least 20 Games in the BSL9 ladder stage is allowed to play in ladder tournaments. Game - One of first 20 games played in BSL ladder stage. Played in Starcraft:Remastered, ranked game, on BSL-Nickname, which last at least 2 minutes, where your motivation is to win. However, If games lenght will be suspicious to any admin(even if above 2 minutes), it's players duty to prove that he played games normally.(auto-save replays exsist). Note: We will not ban anyone who is 5-pooling his games through. We will focus on situations, when someone is waiting for 2 minutes mark and leave the game without any effort to win.
2. There are some players who don't respect other BSL admins decisions. Let me expain you how it works in BSL: a) BSL Staff is a team. I'm the head and I'm responsible for all the decisions, but we are discussing all the issues together and I have all my faith in all of my admins. If they are saying something, you should respect that and listen to them. Don't worry - whenever there is hard or new situation we face, they are coming to our admin channel and ask what we should do before answering to the issue publicly. Everyone makes misstakes, I'm the great example - look at the rule above. But when you feel like some admin decision offended you - send me PM and describe the issue, don't disrespect admin publicly. Everyone can have bad day. BSL is all about love to BW and respect to eachother, and let's keep it this way - If we will lost that, I will lost interest in this project as well.
On March 31 2020 17:14 ZZZero.O wrote: Guys, this week during ladder tournament we had unpleasant situation with the rule: a) everyone who played at least 20 games in the BSL9 ladder stage is allowed to play.
Long story short: Mr. Spx asked us if we will allow him to play without these games, or he has to lose these games on-purpose ? When admins told him that he has to play games normally - he didn't listen to them and wanted my opinion on that, then when I didn't answer on time, he lost each game in 3-4 seconds and immediately had "enough games" for the tournament. We still didn't allow him to play. (This tour it was 5 games required, but that's not the point)
I can see two problems here, and will try to solve them so we never have to talk about it anymore.
1. Rule is not clear, I get it. 1) Reason for that rule is to give people who are playing in BSL ladder, some award for being active. From now on losing games on-purpos just to take part in the ladder tournaments will be treated as: a) unsportsmanlike behavior; b) not respecting the spirit of fair play; 2) From now on rule is: Everyone who played at least 20 Games in the BSL9 ladder stage is allowed to play in ladder tournaments. Game - One of first 20 games played in BSL ladder stage. Played in Starcraft:Remastered, ranked game, on BSL-Nickname, which last at least 2 minutes, where your motivation is to win. However, If games lenght will be suspicious to any admin(even if above 2 minutes), it's players duty to prove that he played games normally.(auto-save replays exsist). Note: We will not ban anyone who is 5-pooling his games through. We will focus on situations, when someone is waiting for 2 minutes mark and leave the game without any effort to win.
2. There are some players who don't respect other BSL admins decisions. Let me expain you how it works in BSL: a) BSL Staff is a team. I'm the head and I'm responsible for all the decisions, but we are discussing all the issues together and I have all my faith in all of my admins. If they are saying something, you should respect that and listen to them. Don't worry - whenever there is hard or new situation we face, they are coming to our admin channel and ask what we should do before answering to the issue publicly. Everyone makes misstakes, I'm the great example - look at the rule above. But when you feel like some admin decision offended you - send me PM and describe the issue, don't disrespect admin publicly. Everyone can have bad day. BSL is all about love to BW and respect to eachother, and let's keep it this way - If we will lost that, I will lost interest in this project as well.
Thanks guys.
Is this why some of the teams disappeared, or is it just the count resetting? Looking at the nations standing I remember seeing Team Chile two days ago and Team Hungary one day ago, but now both of those teams have disappeared.
Yes, starting from today only players with at least 20 games played are displayed for National Teams. This resulted in some teams disappearing (temporarily, I hope).
Our finalists are Team America, Team Poland, Team Russia, Team USA, Team Peru, Team North Europe, Team Sweden and Team Europe If you find yourself in the one of the national team rosters, please contact BSL Staff immediately.
Our finalists are Team America, Team Poland, Team Russia, Team USA, Team Peru, Team North Europe, Team Sweden and Team Europe If you find yourself in the one of the national team rosters, please contact BSL Staff immediately.
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