They just scale the tournament down to an appropriate size. I think the deadline and schedule takes priority over running a full tournament with 1024 players. The player get seeded by TL ELO ranking.

Rammstorm

Germany1434 Posts

June 26 2011 11:38 GMT

#102

Xeris probably is time to start making arrangements for different "categories"for NASL, ala Code S/A/B. This in order to to avoid korean pros(EU/US) roflstomping all the coming up players(rising stars). Perhaps decreasing the number of grps or the total people per category competition to better accommodate the schedule would be in order.

Jakkerr

Netherlands2549 Posts

June 26 2011 11:46 GMT

#103

Let me fix this for you Xeris:

What's at stake
The Top 8 KOREAN finishers will qualify for Season 2 of the North American Star League.
Not saying it's a bad thing but with those korean signups (and maybe more to come) it's almost a certainty :p

Koshi

Belgium38799 Posts

June 26 2011 11:58 GMT

#104

Entire oGs house participates. Oh boy.

I am rooting for scFoU.

Tomken

Norway1144 Posts

June 26 2011 14:22 GMT

#105

When will it start? What time......

Vonthin

United States2864 Posts

June 26 2011 17:33 GMT

#106

List of Notable players signed up so far:

FXOmOoNan
BBoongBBoongPrime
CheckPrime
ChoyafOu
coLDrewbie
EGLzGamer
EGStrifecro
EmpireNerchio
VTFuture
FXOSloG
FXOz
vileHashe
STRainbow
lalush
LiquidHayprO
LiquidJinro
MarineKingPrime
PoltPrime
oGsCezanne
oGsLuvsic
oGsHero
oGsInca
oGsJookto
oGsTheStC
oGsTOP
oGsVines
oGsSupernova
coLCatz
coLMinigun
sCfOu
sixjaxVibe
SlayerSAlicia
SlayerSMMA
SlayerSCella
SlayerSRyung
SlayerSMin
(The 5 TSL players are signed up but they all qualified already from the open.)

Tournament going to be crazy with these players, go Jinro!

Lunares

United States909 Posts

June 26 2011 18:12 GMT

#107

Xeris, I think you are doing a great job responding to and fixing all the problems so far, am looking forward to season 2.

Also to the people complaining about 1pm...if you aren't serious enough about being a pro starcraft gamer to make yourself free at 1pm (e.g. you have work or school that you can't take off) then you probably shouldn't be trying to be a progamer at the level that NASL is trying to be. If you want to participate in craft cups, TL opens, etc to have fun and make some money that's fine, but don't try to commit yourself to something as often and possibly time consuming as NASL when you can't even play the qualifiers easily. We had too many walkovers as is last time, don't need players that can't schedule well to make it worse.

JustPassingBy

10776 Posts

June 26 2011 19:37 GMT

#108

With players in the league already, I had hoped that more people from ST would sign up.
Anyways, stacked tournament.
Whoever gets the 8 seeds into this tournament definitely deserve their place.

Hammurabio

152 Posts

June 27 2011 03:32 GMT

#109

The Top 4 qualify for Season 2 of the North American Star League (and places 5-8 are on standby)
The Top 8 finishers will qualify for Season 2 of the North American Star League.

The OP says two different things. Can someone clarify what's going on?

MechKing

United States3004 Posts

June 27 2011 03:36 GMT

#110

On June 27 2011 12:32 Hammurabio wrote:
The Top 4 qualify for Season 2 of the North American Star League (and places 5-8 are on standby)
The Top 8 finishers will qualify for Season 2 of the North American Star League.

The OP says two different things. Can someone clarify what's going on?

I think that it's top 8 that qualify, and then the 8 from the open tournament.

Talkerst

124 Posts

June 27 2011 13:11 GMT

#111

On June 27 2011 12:36 MechKing wrote:

Show nested quote +

I think that it's top 8 that qualify, and then the 8 from the open tournament.

That's what I thought too but the official rules at NASL state

* The top 8 players of the Open Tournament will be seeded into the next season of the North American Star League
* The top 4 players of the Season 2 Qualifier will be seeded into the next season of the North American Star League. The next four finishers will be placed on a 'stand by list'

Which would seem to indicated that only 4 are seeded directly. If that's so where do the final 4 players come from to complete the 50?

Ragoo

Germany2773 Posts

June 27 2011 17:53 GMT

#112

Gogo Nerchio! Top3 EU atm needs to qualify

doihy

668 Posts

June 27 2011 21:13 GMT

#113

Fou, slayers, prime, ogs, but NO incredible miracle...

(( nestea said he does not want to play in online tournies but mvp and losira may want to take a shot at it

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

June 27 2011 21:14 GMT

#114

holy shit so many amazing names

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

June 27 2011 21:52 GMT

#115

On June 28 2011 06:13 doihy wrote:
Fou, slayers, prime, ogs, but NO incredible miracle...

(( nestea said he does not want to play in online tournies but mvp and losira may want to take a shot at it

I sent like 3 letters to IM T_T

ptbl

United States6074 Posts

June 27 2011 21:54 GMT

#116

On June 28 2011 06:52 Xeris wrote:

Show nested quote +

I sent like 3 letters to IM T_T

I heard that no one at IM knows any English. Were the letters sent in Korean?

MCDayC

United Kingdom14464 Posts

June 27 2011 21:58 GMT

#117

And so the Korean flood begins.

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

June 27 2011 21:58 GMT

#118

OMG there are so many good people in this tournament. Jinro should have applied the first time. He probably would have gotten in. Now... idk

So many good Koreans.

MKP Fighting!!`~~~!!~!!!

mordk

Chile8385 Posts

June 27 2011 22:09 GMT

#119

Korean invasion is here

... Games in NASL season 2 will be an amazing level

DoomsVille

Canada4885 Posts

June 27 2011 22:09 GMT

#120

On June 28 2011 06:14 iNcontroL wrote:
holy shit so many amazing names

No kidding. This has to be the most stacked online qualifier for any tournament ever...

At first I was skeptical and thought some people might be able to sneak in with easier bracket sections... but jesus with that many top players it really isn't possible...