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Aotearoa39261 Posts
After three weeks of grueling competition, the ladder phase of the tournament is now over. Before I get onto the discussing what happens next, let me just say that everyone on the TSL staff were blown away by the competition, participation, intensity and on the whole, fair play of the tournament. In addition to that the Ladder drew together various strands of the community into a single tournament and created, as many people have commented, a ladder which was tough - but fun. We got to see the drama of a number of old schoolers coming back, while we saw the dedcation and persistence of katoan and a whole lot of first class replays. This really was a monumental event.
Now that the ladder is over the TSL staff are moving in to sort and tabulate data, check records, eliminate cheats and generally mull over the records of the top 100 players. Once we have attained the true top 48 as of 1:00am KST we will then be able to release information regarding the next phase of TSL - the first round of Qualifiers. Those of you in the top 48, TSL staff will be contacting you as soon as we have the matchups confirmed. For those of you who may have made the top 48 and have not sent Hot_Bid a contact email address please do so as soon as possible.
So what happens next?
We have two rounds of qualifiers. The first round will take gamers ranked 17-48 and top-tail pair them. The pairs will square off in a Bo3 with the Winner advancing through to the second round of Qualifiers while the loser goes home empty handed. Rest assured, there are bound to be dynamite lineups for this event. Just a friendly reminder that teamliquid has the exclusive right to release these replays (and they will be released) so if you do release your Qualifier/TSL replays you will be punished. Also, due to severe balance issues we have decided to remove Troy from the map pool for the Qualifying stage. This will be replaced by Longinus II - a map which received a large amount of ladder play and has proven to be balanced.
So for now, sit tight, and relax (although im sure those of you sitting around the 47-50 mark will be on edge for awhile). TSL Staff are working overtime to get TSL one step closer to the main event. Also, Day[9] will be rating the top 10 replays very shortly and announcing the $100 winners! In the mean time, feel free to release rep packs from the ladder, talk about your games and reflect on what was a very successful ladder.
- TSL Staff
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Great job TL, now give us the top 10 replays!
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Nice Job TL! It was a lot of fun!
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Truley the best event that has ever been organized in the history of the foreign brood war scene.
Hands down for TL.net, amazing job guys.
As for my self, I'm really disappointed in not making top48, and I'm not sure how I'll ever be able to play ladder "normally" again. The motivation and tight competition that TSL offered was beyond anything that i've ever experienced before. Going back to Iccup simply trying to achive a higher rank feels almost pointless.
Thanks for the awesome event!
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yummy, just very yummy.
too bad I couldn't join this one cause of school. I'll be here for the next one !
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USA29055 Posts
very very very nicely done 
-TSL participants
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nice event! Will be fun to follow the rest of it Hope this league will come back like this comes back.
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Good job TSL staff and Good luck to all the remaining peeps!
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wtf is that? i cant login @ iccup server with my tsl account, did u guys blocked my acc? -_-..........................................................................
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USA29055 Posts
oh and everyone tell day[9] to vote for me in the replay thing! I am poor college student who needs EVERYTHING he can get! <3
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United States20661 Posts
On April 22 2008 01:59 dshsdhk wrote:
wtf is that? i cant login @ iccup server with my tsl account, did u guys blocked my acc? -_-..........................................................................
All TSL accounts are locked. This is normal.
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and where are the 48 list? cuz in ICCUP the points still adding
its the case of TSL-Fenix, he was 47 when the announce says TSL ends
now he apperas on 49
please announce the 48 players list!
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Great TL. Thanks for the great tournament and good luck to all the staff on sorting out everything. Lots of appreciation and respect.
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just wait for the server to update, and check the [Live] TSL Rankins page on the right there, it updates every 20 minutes so should have a full up to date list of the top 48 finishers, but probably not the list of final players.
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oh, and I expect reps. Many reps.
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On April 22 2008 02:07 Pads wrote:
just wait for the server to update, and check the [Live] TSL Rankins page on the right there, it updates every 20 minutes so should have a full up to date list of the top 48 finishers, but probably not the list of final players.
but what i said is:
i saw tl.net page and the green announce says TSL Ladder is over
then i went to ICCUP and make a print of the list. Fenix was 47 but now is 49 ¬¬
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Reed what they have sad. They made e block or something at the deadline and every game that was started before that deadline counts, but not the one after it. So the list u took a screen of might not be the actual top 48. It might be some game started like 1 mins before that can take the place of somebody. And about the hacker issues. they will look up these things 2 so it might take a while. =)
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announce top48 please! ;] it should be just after the ladder ends -_-
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Finland42 Posts
I would like to say thank you to everybody in Teamliquid for arranging this ladder as this will naturally be the ending point of my TSL procareer  . Overall I think the event was highly successful for you (and for me, last few days I managed to almost reach D again from my 1 point). Thanks also for the people who took time out of laddering to help me out!
Love you TeamLiquid and good luck to all the players in the qualifiers, I'll be looking intently at your replays to learn how to play!
VIVA LA DETERMINATION!
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War against hackers + TSL > Everything!!!!!!!
Edit: <3 Katoan =)
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United States43129 Posts
It was very fun to be a part of this. Awesome work by the TL and ICCup admins. The TSL is just fantastic. A ladder with some much passion and drama (Legionnaire, Naz, Eriador, Testie) which was great fun to be a part of followed by a 48 man tournament of the best (proven the best) of foreign Starcraft. This is just so good.
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On April 22 2008 02:23 k0ziol wrote:
announce top48 please! ;] it should be just after the ladder ends -_-
they are dealing with the complaints then announcing*
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dont understand why 47 would be in danger  Didn't he secure his spot in the top 48?
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and what the hell, i thought testie quit playing again, but he made top 48.
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G5 got points. Testie is now no.48 lol
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stop crying for top48 announcement guys
didn't you read the newspost? give em time
thx a lot for this ladder & league TL, haven't had so much fun playing bw since like 7 years ago
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Great - four ukrainians in top20
Its a shame that we have only one place at WCG...
Anyway, GL guys! And thanks TL
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hehe love katoan. If u want help anytime just ask people will probebly try to help you all the time from know on I aint supriced if u are a hell of a player before the year ends. =)
By the way hope ultraling and ex dont make it, becouse of their "abuse" in the end (atleast in my mind thata abuse) even if its in the rules.
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Even though I (and many others) knew we never stood a chance of winning anything, we still participated and had lots of fun.
Thanks for everything and I can't wait for the rest of the tournament where the really good games will be played.
Go Dezmund!
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ultraling probably abused. imo very unlikely he made top48 legit.
I guess that's why TSL admins have been asking us to keep autoreplay activated. Stupid abusers will undoubtedly be caught and people who "forgot" to save replays should be DQ:ed as well...
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i enjoyed this event. I hope they have another one like this very soon.
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I am sad the ladder is over, I was having so much fun with my TSL account.
I can not wait for the Qualifies. Will they be streamed and casted, or at least offline casted? I hope so!!!
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itll be funny when someone high ranked gets screwed by testie... so if he ends up being #47, he might face lefnajj (#18) lol
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The events not even close to over yet
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Canada291 Posts
I am here to clarify something. I am indeed in the top 16 of the ladder. A few days ago I've posted a drop hacking game vs '5m6m7m8m' and the incident has yet to be been examined by the admins. Here is the link http://iccup.com/iccthread/24589/
I hope an admin will check on this quickly, the iccup admins have been very lazy =_=
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This is such a great event!
Gongratulations to the whole TL staff!
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Congrats to whoever ends up in the top 48 after the dust clears!
Mappool got even more boring though
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On April 22 2008 04:57 IefNaij wrote:I am here to clarify something. I am indeed in the top 16 of the ladder. A few days ago I've posted a drop hacking game vs '5m6m7m8m' and the incident has yet to be been examined by the admins. Here is the link http://iccup.com/iccthread/24589/I hope an admin will check on this quickly, the iccup admins have been very lazy =_=
maybe the fact that you didnt give us any proof and just a screenshot of a drop screen contributes to that, or the fact that you posted it in the wrong place? You could have posted a complaint with a replay and had it dealt with but your match list http://iccup.com/iccmatchlist/290434/1x1/page4 http://iccup.com/iccdetails/743403/ doesnt even show a disconnect.
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Calgary25986 Posts
On Faoi 22 2008 05:11 Faoi wrote:Faoi to faoi faoi faoi in the faoi 48 after the faoi faoi! Faoi got even more faoi though
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Calgary25986 Posts
Like doesn't it ever get old? Jesus Christ.
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
I swear if Nightmarjoo mentions Faoi once more I will ban his sorry ass
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Calgary25986 Posts
Why don't you just change your ID to Faoi, make a Faoi thread and just post Faoi in there all day. At least then I wouldn't have to keep bumping into you in new threads.
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
omg faoi again
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no more faoi. . plz.........
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an exciting, smoothly run ladder guys - cant wait for the tournement!
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I'm not trying to give you guys more jobs to do, but I think it would be pretty cool if the community could pitch in a set of mini bio/introduction/interview of the players qualified cause I dont think everyone knows who they are. Once you guys finish selecting the top 46 of course.
This tournament has been great, keep up the great work
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Looking forward to the tournament. GJ teamliquid!
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Calgary25986 Posts
lol that picture is great
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Awesome initiative, looking forward to reps.
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USA29055 Posts
just ban him and be done with it?
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This is going to be awesome, such quality games coming up for our viewing pleasure :D!
Thanks to everyone at ICCUP, I'm sure those guys worked their asses off as well in all this ^^.
And of course TL Crew <3.
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Great job everyone! Can't wait for the next part.
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awesome event and hope to see another one!
also... can't wait for the tournament
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testie was actually 47, why did he go back 2 spots? :o
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TSL <3
First ladder I've participated in after six+ years of playing SC. 
And though I'm not gonna be the one playing, TSL is gonna get much, much better. Can't wait for the whole thing to really get going and start watching the top talent and determination outside of Korea duke it out with live streams and commentary.
gonna be awesomeee
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whats faoi? a map or "fail" ?
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On April 22 2008 08:54 Raithed wrote:
whats faoi? a map or "fail" ?
It is a map by a very annoying map maker...
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On April 22 2008 08:54 Raithed wrote:
whats faoi? a map or "fail" ?
map.
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Calgary25986 Posts
On April 22 2008 08:54 Raithed wrote:
whats faoi? a map or "fail" ?
seemingly both.
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On April 22 2008 05:25 Carnac wrote:
I swear if Nightmarjoo mentions Faoi once more I will ban his sorry ass
Go check his message history; he probably mentioned his map liek 3000 times in them.
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is awesome32277 Posts
Nice. I drool when i think of the live casts
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I'm not in the TSL but you all are doing a really good job
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can't wait to be 0/16 liquibet streak!
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wtf is that with all those pussy faoi's haters ? Seriously ?
This map is like 100000 times better than luna that is.
I don't understand why you seems so aggressive with this map that doesn't look bad at all beside maybe a b3 that is cliffable by lurks in zvp but so does the toss with templars...
Seriously i find this map more funnier than 90% of the macro boring maps that are played everytime. I'm sick of it.
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I will stop spamming it because I don't want banned, but Raiz you are my hero <3
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On April 22 2008 23:57 RaiZ wrote:
wtf is that with all those pussy faoi's haters ? Seriously ?
This map is like 100000 times better than luna that is.
I don't understand why you seems so aggressive with this map that doesn't look bad at all beside maybe a b3 that is cliffable by lurks in zvp but so does the toss with templars...
Seriously i find this map more funnier than 90% of the macro boring maps that are played everytime. I'm sick of it.
the hate has nothing to do with the map. it's about the creator, he's choking people with his craze about his own map. (it's ok to advertise your own map, but this is spam, and at that, a bad and old one - he has to realize that) I bet if there weren't for this, the map would be a lot more popular and played.
btw, good job on the TSL.
can't wait for the tournament and casts to start.
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