Mong steps up to the Game of Leagues with a first season of his own. And guess what? It didn't even start yet! But it would have if it wasn't for prech who let us know

Mong shows future face of the confused casual clicking an "MSL" titled event as resident BW folks enjoy the party.

(Wiki)

Mong Starleague Season 1

STATUS 8/14: Delayed indefinitely, Mong dealing with some IRL stuff.

Mong makes it clear that as long as he finds sponsorship among his viewers, he intends to make this a regular thing. Whether the league will eventually grow is yet to be seen, for now it is a smaller 16 players league but boy is it packed. You guessed it! This time, (P)

Bisu is still missing.

Schedule - Round of 16
Delayed indefinitely!

+ Show Spoiler [This is going to be updated, hopefully] +

Group A
(P)

Shuttle

Movie

Ample

PianO
Friday, Aug 01 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group B
(T)

HiyA

Larva

Sea

Lazy
Monday, Aug 04 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group C
(Z)

hero

sSak

ZerO

Pure
Tuesday, Aug 05 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group D
(P)

Tyson

Jaehoon

Killer

Mind
Wednesday, Aug 06 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

However, as you can see, (T)

PianO isn't and he's cuter AND terran~ As for you protoss scums, there is (P)

Movie and he surely wouldn't bail out on his CJ buddy, right?
This will be pigtastic so you better tune in on friday!

Players
Terran: The Triumph Of War
(T)

PianO

HiyA

Sea

Ample

Mind

Zerg: Overcome All
(Z)

Larva

hero

ZerO

Killer

Protoss: Victory After Victory
(P)

Jaehoon

Prizepool
Winner: $1000
Runner-Up: $200
3rd Place: Honor
Total: $1200 + Honor

Format
Round of 16
Double Elimination
1st and 2nd in Bo1 Full League advance.
For each group, 3 maps will be randomly picked out of the map pool.

Map Pool ~ Circuit Breaker - New Sniper Ridge - Benzene - New Fortress - Neo Jade

Round of 8
Best of 3
Circuit Breaker
Benzene
New Sniper Ridge

Semifinals
Best of 5
Circuit Breaker
Benzene
New Sniper Ridge
New Fortress
Neo Jade

Finals
Best of 5
Circuit Breaker
Benzene
New Sniper Ridge
New Fortress
Neo Jade

Idk if New Fortress is supposed to be Fortress SE or what. But it says "New Fortress" in Korean.
You can try googling for 신 포트리스.

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

July 29 2014 16:50 GMT

wow so many tournaments, perfect to generate hype and make a power rank before SSL10!

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19239 Posts

July 29 2014 17:09 GMT

Group B group of death?

Poll: Group of death?

A: Shuttle, Movie Ample, Piano (5)

22%

B: Hiya, Larva, Sea, Lazy (10)

43%

C: hero, sSak, Zero, pure (6)

26%

D:Tyson, Jaehoon, killer, mind (2)

9%

23 total votes

Your vote: Group of death?

(Vote): A: Shuttle, Movie Ample, Piano
(Vote): B: Hiya, Larva, Sea, Lazy
(Vote): C: hero, sSak, Zero, pure
(Vote): D:Tyson, Jaehoon, killer, mind

art_of_turtle

United States1184 Posts

July 29 2014 22:15 GMT

PianO
B:death
C: (P)

sSak
D:

prech

United States2948 Posts

July 29 2014 22:30 GMT

Wonderful work, Stratos

Looks like some pro-Terran bias from Mong with not inviting Snow or Free, or a fifth Zerg

Only downside of having a Mong-hosted tournament is not having Mong play

I wonder if Mong will be providing all the narration himself?

I just started putting together the Liquidpedia entry. For anyone interested, feel free to revise/update:
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Mong_Starleague_Season_1

leviaias

Hungary35 Posts

July 29 2014 22:46 GMT

I dont miss Bisu at all.

Bakuryu

Germany1065 Posts

July 29 2014 23:40 GMT

BENZENE

and this

Only downside of having a Mong-hosted tournament is not having Mong play

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

July 30 2014 01:34 GMT

this is hype !

Cele

Germany4016 Posts

July 30 2014 02:31 GMT

Bisu T_T

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

July 30 2014 02:35 GMT

#10

Isn't "New Fortress" actually Fortress SE?

L_Master

United States8017 Posts

July 30 2014 04:37 GMT

#11

Hoping ZerO starts to really regain his old form. His still hasn't quite found it yet.

Good to see Hoon in action. I'm not sure he is ready to do so...but hope he takes the whole thing

REDBLUEGREEN

Germany1903 Posts

July 30 2014 14:10 GMT

#12

exciting mappool and playerpool!

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

July 30 2014 19:09 GMT

#13

On July 30 2014 11:35 endy wrote:
Isn't "New Fortress" actually Fortress SE?

On July 30 2014 00:30 Stratos wrote:
Idk if New Fortress is supposed to be Fortress SE or what. But it says "New Fortress" in Korean.
You can try googling for 신 포트리스.

So quite possible, I did google a bit and found a post for 신 포트리스 but the link wanted me to sign up somewhere so I gave up. We'll see eventually.

Someone asked if it'll be casted by Mong. I don't expect anything else, if there was another caster he'd link to it or mention it somewhere. He may be joined by other ex-pros in casting as they do that quite often, like Hiya co-casting Starcue's events and actually making them watchable ^^