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The APL Group Stage broadcast is over for today, thanks for watching! VoDs will be posted tomorrow.
The APL Finals Bracket starts at Sunday, Dec 18 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)-----> APL Stream <---- Enjoy 
A huge thanks to everyone who tuned in today, and will hopefully tune in tomorrow We're new, but we do plan to stick around and show some love to those who support us. Our stream had some issues today but we know what we need to do now to improve on things dramatically. It really means a lot to us, since we're just a random bunch of StarCraft lovers, that people enjoyed themselves because that's really all we want to do, entertain you guys for a couple of hours. A huge thanks to the players for giving us some exciting games as well. Look forward to tomorrow, by all accounts (I haven't watched the games myself!) they're quite insane.
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The Australian Pro League is a new group of passionate dudes who love StarCraft, we love watching as much as we love playing, to this end we're in the business of hosting Sydney BarCrafts (speaking of which: Come along to our Sydney BarCraft for the GomTV Blizzard Cup finals) and now we're introducing the first of many tournaments to come.
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The Open Bracket recently concluded and from it we gathered eight talented players who will be joining the group stages and matching up against our fine SEA invites. These eight players come from Australia, Korea and the Philippines with the hopes of taking the $800 first place prize home, but every victory is worth something.
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Champion: $800
Runners Up: $300
Semi-Finalist: $100
Quarter-Finalist: $50
($AUD)
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Top two players advance to the Championship Bracket. ![[image loading]](http://www.ausproleague.com/images/tl-headers/Groups.png)
Distribution:
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/au.png) MaFia, YoonYJ, Iaguz, Rossi, SenSei, Light, Tgun, PiG
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/ks.png) Penguin, UpperCut, Cbass, Won, Beast
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/nz.png) JazBas
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/ph.png) JaBiTo
Keep an eye on our liquipedia page for results when the group stages are in motion!
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Click the spoiler for the brackets
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Bracket Format:
Quarter Finals Bo3
Semi Finals Bo5
Finals Bo5
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We'll be streaming what we can of the group and bracket stages in near 1080p, full details:
Stream: APL Stream
Caster: Duckvillelol, don't worry he hasn't lost his passion
When:
Group Stages Saturday, Dec 17 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Champ Bracket Sunday, Dec 18 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
We'll be broadcasting some of the open bracket qualifier games in a couple of days (on this stream) as well, Saturday, Dec 03 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00). Tune in to see what and who our invites will have to look out for, all the qualified players are quite talented (and patient too, SEA battle.net going down didn't phase them, kudos :D)
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APL Website: http://www.ausproleague.com
Liquipedia page: APL Season 1
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Awesome work, can't wait to watch this!
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Groups look good. Keen to see some high quality SEA games.
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You totally haven't included me as an Australian in the distrubition =\
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On November 30 2011 12:56 SenSai wrote:
You totally haven't included me as an Australian in the distrubition =\
I don't know what you're talking about. *shifty eyes*
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I haven't been following the local scene, so who has the best chance to win the whole thing?
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You have JazBas under the Aus flag, it should be NZ!
On November 30 2011 20:24 Kar98 wrote:
I haven't been following the local scene, so who has the best chance to win the whole thing?
The beauty of this is that all 8 invites are around the same level, and SenSei would also be competitive with them. I can't speak for the Koreans but seeing they qualified over some decent names I am sure they will hold their own too.
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It's a pretty even field of players to me personally. Out of the Koreans, Penguin impressed me the most (we'll be showing one of his games vs ChiTaPrime on Saturday, Dec 3rd) and JaBiTo's TvT was quite fearsome. It's really anyone's championship at this point although it's a bit far away, we'll blow it up alittle closer to the date
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Great stuff for the qualifiers, hope everyone enjoyed it
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Have no idea whos going to win, which is a good thing.
gl hf !
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On November 30 2011 20:24 Kar98 wrote:
I haven't been following the local scene, so who has the best chance to win the whole thing?
tgun!!
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Can all players please be sure to PM me your twitter accounts and whatnot, I think to bring more attention to the players in the SEA scene I will do a little more plugging of you fantastic players and your twitters/streams. (If that's fine with my production crew... :D )
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Make sure you tune in for the matches on the weekend, the games are absolutely insane, especially the grand final! :D
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Be sure to tune in at 1PM EST (GMT +11) for the APL Season 1 Group Stages!
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Really excited to hear Duckville's amazing casting again and see some great games. I've heard they're quite exciting :D
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APL during lunch, GSL during dinner. I like this plan
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On December 17 2011 10:11 Kar98 wrote:APL during lunch, GSL during dinner. I like this plan
yeah!!!
15 minutes till broadcast. I'm getting all excited just seeing it on the calendar
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Stream looking really good guys, great job
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Off the bat this is the best looking stream I've seen out of Australia so far, though in that last game it was over for a while but the caster tried to make it exciting, this kind of bugs me. If the game is that far over just say it.
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On December 17 2011 13:31 PraiseB wrote:
Off the bat this is the best looking stream I've seen out of Australia so far, though in that last game it was over for a while but the caster tried to make it exciting, this kind of bugs me. If the game is that far over just say it.
If you don't like things being exciting, play solitaire. You can't just expect me to sit there and say "so... how bout that local sports team?". I never said "OMG THIS IS NAILBITING" - I did say that the DT's would make things interesting, and by all definitions of the word it was. However I never said they could win the game back, obviously that would be stupid. I can say that the game is over, and I'm pretty sure I did at some point, but you can't just leave it at that. If that was the case I could have had my lunch.
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On December 17 2011 13:31 PraiseB wrote:
Off the bat this is the best looking stream I've seen out of Australia so far, though in that last game it was over for a while but the caster tried to make it exciting, this kind of bugs me. If the game is that far over just say it.
I agree in principle, but as Duckville says he can't just sit there and not say anything. I'm fine for injecting abit of fake enthuasiasm into situations that call for it 
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I actually prefer when casters try to make a won game exciting. Day9 does this a whole lot and I really appreciate it.
Sometimes they fool me
GJ Duckville!
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A huge thanks to everyone who tuned in today, and will hopefully tune in tomorrow
We're new, but we do plan to stick around and show some love to those who support us. Our stream had some issues today but we know what we need to do now to improve on things dramatically. It really means a lot to us, since we're just a random bunch of StarCraft lovers, that people enjoyed themselves because that's really all we want to do, entertain you guys for a couple of hours.
A huge thanks to the players for giving us some exciting games as well.
Look forward to tomorrow, by all accounts (I haven't watched the games myself!) they're quite insane. You can see the brackets in the first post.
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Championship bracket in <11 hours!! I can't wait!!!
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Nothing like an Australian ProLeague with 4 Koreans and 4 players having to forfeit the non-live matches.
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On December 18 2011 00:16 frequency wrote:
Nothing like an Australian ProLeague with 4 Koreans and 4 players having to forfeit the non-live matches.
We're based in Australia, and we're hosting a Pro League. Hence Australian Pro League. That's all there is to it, really, we're not terribly creative. I suppose if this is our biggest problem we're doing pretty well. Much like the NASL, *shrug*.
Players having Christmas Holiday arrangements interfere with our schedule is what you get in December, no surprise there!
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For those who are curious, to the best of my knowledge the following invitees didn't play for these reasons:
1) YoonYJ had an emergency or... something.
2) Tgun either got the time wrong or just didn't feel like it. Not sure.
3) Jazbas was on holiday with his family in the land with no internet and couldn't make it.
4) iaguz couldn't be fucked playing it, especially since I felt really shitty after my 2-3 loss to Yang the night before for IEM Kiev qualifiers.
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On December 18 2011 00:44 iaguz wrote:
For those who are curious, to the best of my knowledge the following invitees didn't play for these reasons:
1) YoonYJ had an emergency or... something.
2) Tgun either got the time wrong or just didn't feel like it. Not sure.
3) Jazbas was on holiday with his family in the land with no internet and couldn't make it.
4) iaguz couldn't be fucked playing it, especially since I felt really shitty after my 2-3 loss to Yang the night before for IEM Kiev qualifiers.
Thanks for this information.
Ive been wondering also
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On December 18 2011 00:44 iaguz wrote:
For those who are curious, to the best of my knowledge the following invitees didn't play for these reasons:
1) YoonYJ had an emergency or... something.
2) Tgun either got the time wrong or just didn't feel like it. Not sure.
3) Jazbas was on holiday with his family in the land with no internet and couldn't make it.
4) iaguz couldn't be fucked playing it, especially since I felt really shitty after my 2-3 loss to Yang the night before for IEM Kiev qualifiers.
This is pretty much accurate except for 2), which was our mistake, not Tgun's. We didn't re-confirm the time with Tgun (from the time the invites went out to the day of the tournament, 4-5 weeks passed), and had just assumed he knew the correct time. Mistakes happen and I apologised to him in person. Your situation is understandable, shit happens YYJ was extremely excited for the APL but as you said, emergency. JazBas unfortunately had a family trip that we couldn't reschedule around.
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We go live in about 30 minutes, get pumped!
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Stream for the Australian Pro League - Season 1 (Championship Sunday) is live at http://twitch.tv/rampager3. Broadcast begins in 30 minutes!
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Semi-Finals being streamed right now, PiG vs SenSei, both who knocked out their korean opponents in the Ro8!
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