The ladder is finished. After a grueling three weeks and more drama bombs than Bosnia, we can finally lay to rest the TSL ladder as an insane success. 1700+ gamers played 55,000+ ladder games. Thank you to all who played and competed with integrity and sportsmanship.
For the lucky qualifiers, the schedule has been posted. The first round is a seething mass of PvZ violence waiting to be unleashed. Amazingly, there is not a single mirror match to be played, ensuring entertaining games. Here is the schedule:
Highlights of the first round include InControl going up vs the TLT2 winner Advokate, Skew vs Leg, and GOsia vs Love. Stay tuned for replays and more from TL.net.
Commentary Contest
TL.net will be releasing the replays of each playoff round to the public after the games are played. Unfortunately, due to our vast workload, we will be unable to broadcast the games live with commentary. This is where you come in!
Once the replays are released, feel free to record your own commentaries for the games. Submit your commentaries to me, Manifesto7. I will set up a thread for fan voting where the best commentators face off against each other. After the first and second rounds, a commentary champion will be crowned, and prizes will be showered upon them... once I figure out what those prizes are.
Top 10 Replays, Week 3
The following are the top ten replays for the third week. Now, Day[9] will select the best replay from all three weekly lists and award the winner $100. Good luck to all entries! Click on the title to download the replay.
10. Raelcun vs Zero on Othello This one gets a nod because I love Raelcun. Thanks for the tournaments!
9. LzGamer vs Stym on Tau Cross A game that turns from a joke into a hotly contested battle.
8. Stalife vs Artosis on Troy A close game, showing that mobility is key.
7. Dashwriter vs Kwak on Python Some very nice micro here in a tight situation.
6. Leg vs wannabeaboy on Katrina You're more like a girl after this game son.
5. Ninja vs newfinger on Python Another innovative build by Ninja. He is my new favorite player.
To download the entire pack at once click here. Thanks for sending in all your reps and providing me with hours of fun.
Gamer Chat
Some of the participants of the playoffs have completed an interview form. You can check out the full list here. Some gems include:
Legionnaire 7. If you look at the Ladder rankings, the ten ranks surrounding barely have 50 points difference with #48. It was really close. Were your last games thrilling? I was abusing the old, weak and disabled. I feel quite proud of myself.
LRM)MIStrZZZLegenD 4. Due to the high ranking achieved, a lot of TSL players had the chance to play against some Korean progamers? Did this happen to you too? Yea, I owned SlayerS_`BoxeR` and few other semipros, they were pretty noobs.
FT.aCt)Love 3. Does the final ladder ranking contain any surprises to you? no 6. Any predictions on who will make it to the next round? no 7. If you look at the Ladder rankings, the ten ranks surrounding barely have 50 points difference with #48. It was really close. Were your last games thrilling? not really 9. Looking at the players right below you, do you feel like you deserved your spot in the top #48? yes
Gamer Histories
Some of these gamers you may not know well. Be sure to catch up on their histories in this thread. In addition, you can make up your own! Just like wikipedia, accuracy is not an issue.
On April 22 2008 19:54 pachi wrote: )ToT(Cloud is a popular Muppet character on the children's television show Sesame Street. He is best known for his voracious appetite and his famous eating phrases: "Me want cookie!", "Me eat cookie!", and "Omm nom nom nom" (said through a mouthful of food). He often eats anything and everything, including danishes, donuts, lettuce, apples, bananas, and inedible objects such as salt and pepper shakers, napkins, telephones, motorcycles, trucks, and the four letters in the word "food". Once, he even attempted to eat Guy Smiley and the petals and leaves off of Bert's flower costume in a Sesame Street Little Theater pageant. As evidenced by his name, however, his favorite food is cookies. Chocolate chip cookies are his favorite kind; oatmeal cookies are his second favorite. In a song in 2004, Cookie Monster revealed that, before he ate his first cookie, he believes his name was Sid.
Liquibet Prize
As you probably have seen, liquibet has been updated to include the TSL games. Even if you don't liquibet normally, betting on the TSL games has its rewards. The person who scores the most TSL liquibet points will get to choose which ever icon they want from Saro's mysterious system. If two players are tied, they can fight a bo5 for the privilege.
Yannis
Make sure you check out my new column called TSL Profile. In it I interview some of the people working behind the scenes of TL and also watch some sweet reps. Make them feel welcome!
Remember when...
... Mondragon was 47-1 vs P ... MistrZZZ caused our Polish hits to double in 6 hours ... Katoan made an inspired run from last place all the way to D- ... Nazgul played 80 games in 24 hours
Post your own "remember when" in this thread!
Thank you
Thank you GosuGamers, MYM, and everyone else who helped get the word out about this tournament.
An extra big thank you goes to iCCup. Without them, none of this could have happened. They worked tirelessly, and often thanklessly on this ladder as complete volunteers. I hope that this project is just the beginning of our cooperation, and wish them nothing but success in the future.
Awesome summary. And also, wouldn't it be fairly obvious what the best commentators can be rewarded with? Just give them a chance to be a guest commentator in one of the TSL sessions!
LRM)MIStrZZZLegenD 4. Due to the high ranking achieved, a lot of TSL players had the chance to play against some Korean progamers? Did this happen to you too? Yea, I owned SlayerS_`BoxeR` and few other semipros, they were pretty noobs.
I'm not very fond of Mistress personally but this was pretty funny.
I agree, Inc's pic looks so fucking cool! Great job whose the designer?!!
I read this and my heart stopped for a second, "Highlights of the first round include InControl giving up vs the TLT2 winner Advokate, Skew vs Leg, and GOsia vs Love. Stay tuned for replays and more from TL.net."
I remember in PGT FT.aCt)LOve went like 140-4 or something, but i thought he was a korean smurfing with USA flag? Was that a smurf or who is love actually, any aka?
Second can anyone find out if Raelcun used to be Raelcun-Lz or Raelcun-Lzuruha, if anyone knows, becuase i remember that guy from like 2 years ago.
I like the remember this part :D and loves interview, hes quite the character.
o.O what's Katoan's run? Speaking of runs, I went from 3rd from bottom to D+ in a 3.5 day game whoring spree :-) TSL-RedSniper if u remember seeing me on the frontpage lol
Ahh Mondi 47-1 v P...then along came a White-Ra....
Strelok vs David was just .... David played so fucking good in the start with a good muta harass, then when he placed those 12 or so Lurkers outsides Streloks main... he just let them sit the entire game instead of moving in and killing the few M&Ms left for the win.. extremely bad play.
He just played so passive that he let Strelok just drop him over and over till he had nothing left.
I wouldn't exactly say that Strelok played amazing that game, rather that David was horrible and just allowed Strelok to drop him despite having the game in his hands with those 12 lurkers doing nothing.
On April 24 2008 21:13 Senx wrote: Incontrol is going to get a real ego boost when he sees that awesome pic I doubt he needs it though :p
*GULP* *GULP* *GULP* "Aaaaaahhhhh"
"When I am feeling down. Tired. Angry. I take this. Ego Boosttm. Fills me up and makes me feel superior to everything else. One glass of this and I am ready to troll TL.net and walk aimlessly into situations with blind confidence. Ego Boosttm, of course I drink it."
Sad that there will not be casting on the qualifications. I hope that replays will be released to commentators for sc2gg for the after-the-fact castings. I really doooo
Wow....TSL is going to be amazing. So many great players, and they all deserve to be in it. Thanks to Mani, the rest of TL staff, and ICCUP for making this a great succes!
On April 24 2008 21:13 Senx wrote: Incontrol is going to get a real ego boost when he sees that awesome pic I doubt he needs it though :p
*GULP* *GULP* *GULP* "Aaaaaahhhhh"
"When I am feeling down. Tired. Angry. I take this. Ego Boosttm. Fills me up and makes me feel superior to everything else. One glass of this and I am ready to troll TL.net and walk aimlessly into situations with blind confidence. Ego Boosttm, of course I drink it."
I've already watched the reps and will make a commentary about trading an outskirt useless expo for your nat and main with all the drones and tech.
10. Raelcun vs Zero on Othello This one gets a nod because I love Raelcun. Thanks for the tournaments
ROFL I didnt think you'd post that <3 Mani If I werent a noob I could have won that game pretty early but it turned out to be so funny that I was laughing too hard to micro near the end.
On April 24 2008 20:26 EtherealDeath wrote: o.O what's Katoan's run? Speaking of runs, I went from 3rd from bottom to D+ in a 3.5 day game whoring spree :-) TSL-RedSniper if u remember seeing me on the frontpage lol
Ahh Mondi 47-1 v P...then along came a White-Ra....
Katoan went from a 1 rating up to like 756 rating almost back up to D then fell back down
On April 24 2008 21:13 Senx wrote: Incontrol is going to get a real ego boost when he sees that awesome pic I doubt he needs it though :p
*GULP* *GULP* *GULP* "Aaaaaahhhhh"
"When I am feeling down. Tired. Angry. I take this. Ego Boosttm. Fills me up and makes me feel superior to everything else. One glass of this and I am ready to troll TL.net and walk aimlessly into situations with blind confidence. Ego Boosttm, of course I drink it."
I've already watched the reps and will make a commentary about trading an outskirt useless expo for your nat and main with all the drones and tech.