IPL Tournament of Champions

IGNProLeague

1184 Posts

March 07 2012 00:38 GMT

IGN Pro League is thrilled to be able to bring you another unique StarCraft II tournament! This one is called Tournament of Champions, and is a 16-man, double elimination tournament for a $12,000 prize pool! Each team from the IPL Team Arena Challenge was asked to pick one player from their roster to represent them in this global tournament, that will span the month of March. The WINNER of the Tournament of Champions will receive a spot in our live, open qualifier at IPL4 at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Official Home of the IPL as well as an all expenses paid flight and hotel stay for the event!

When

IPL ToC will begin on March 13th and will showcase two best of 5 matches each Tuesday through Friday night until the Grand Final! The Grand Final is currently scheduled for Thursday, April 5th, the day before IPL4 kicks off from the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Official Home of the IPL!

The Champions

ThorZaIN - Mousesports
Apocalypse - Quantic
PuMa - Evil Geniuses**
SuperNova - oGs
Jjakji - NSHoSeo
SeleCT - Dignitas
GuMiho - FXO
Rain - Fnatic*
NaDa - compLexity MVP
HerO - Liquid
Creator - Prime
Kas - Empire
Squirtle - StarTale
Life - ZeNEX
Polt - TSL**
Artist - ReIGN

*Note: Fnatic replaces Vile due to scheduling conflicts.
**Note 2: If a player wins who already has a free trip to IPL4, that portion of the prize will be given to their team to decide on another player they would like to give the free trip to IPL4 to.

Bracket Link: Official Tournament of Champions Bracket

First round matches:

GuMiho vs Apocalypse
ThorZaIN vs NaDa
Jjakji vs Kas
Polt vs Squirtle
HerO vs Artist
SuperNova vs Life
PuMa vs SeleCT
Creator vs Rain

Prize Pool
1st - $5,000 and IPL4 Paid Trip
2nd - $2,500
3rd - $2,000
4th - $1,000
5th/6th - $500
7th/8th - $250

Map Pool
IPLMap Sanshorn Mists AE
IPLMap Atlantis Spaceship
IPLMap Antiga Shipyard
IPLMap Daybreak
IPLMap Tal'Darim Altar LE
IPLMap Cloud Kingdom
IPLMap Metropolis

Casters
As usual, CatsPajamas and Doa will be casting from our IPL studio!

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OFCORPSE

Sweden355 Posts

March 07 2012 00:40 GMT

I'm just going to say it so we can move on, that's alot of Terrans.
Looks neat though, will tune in.

McFeser

United States2458 Posts

March 07 2012 00:41 GMT

That is a lot of terrans. Are we sure this a western tournament?

Host-

New Zealand459 Posts

March 07 2012 00:42 GMT

Only 1 Z...thats a bit dissapointing (for me)...looks like its going to be a lot of very long games.

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

March 07 2012 00:42 GMT

Life, the last Zerg hope.

sitromit

7051 Posts

March 07 2012 00:43 GMT

LOL, tournament of Terrans!

ampson

United States2355 Posts

March 07 2012 00:43 GMT

LET'S GO SQUIRTLE!!! This is your tournament (as long as you practice only PvT)!! Squirtle is seriously due for a breakout performance really soon, the guy is mad good.

Kettchup

United States1911 Posts

March 07 2012 00:44 GMT

Creator has this locked down.

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

March 07 2012 00:45 GMT

one zerg 3 3protoss lolololol

Angelbelow

United States3728 Posts

March 07 2012 00:45 GMT

#10

Haha imagine if ST and Prime went with Bomber and MKP instead.

Ucs

264 Posts

March 07 2012 00:48 GMT

#11

Awesome stuff ^_^ IGN and IPL are really awesome.

P.S. So many terrans :D I love it! Need more terran love :[

Noocta

France12578 Posts

March 07 2012 00:48 GMT

#12

I guess Creator is pretty happy with the line up.

MVTaylor

United Kingdom2893 Posts

March 07 2012 00:48 GMT

#13

LOL TERRAN

so watching this, my TvT is abysmal

Be nice if Artist gets it after Reign fell apart but I really doubt he will...

No idea who to pick as the winner, there is no ONE player there who is so, so, so far ahead in TvT, many are all equally competent while all the non-Terrans are also good.

Smipims

United States61 Posts

March 07 2012 00:49 GMT

#14

Tremendous terrifying Terrans, Batman!

Also, I'm very surprised by Empire's choice. And Startale. Sending a Code A player when you have multiple Code S players.

Kira__

Sweden2672 Posts

March 07 2012 00:49 GMT

#15

oh god... I mean I can watch a tvt now and then... but a TvT tournament?

unlucky picks IPL

Wherewolf

United States353 Posts

March 07 2012 00:49 GMT

#16

Korean Terrans, why do you have to be so good?

CuteZergling

641 Posts

March 07 2012 00:49 GMT

#17

Love the idea. IPL just keeps making content. Shame it's so Terran stacked, but that's just the way it worked out as per the team's choices.

CatsPajamas

United States337 Posts

March 07 2012 00:50 GMT

#18

On March 07 2012 09:45 iNcontroL wrote:
one zerg 3 3protoss lolololol

What happens when Korean teams pick their representatives for the tournament. T___________________T

Really looking forward to this though! NaDa? YES PLEASE.

Xx26Vanek26xX

United States185 Posts

March 07 2012 00:50 GMT

#19

NaDa Fighting

RiceAgainst

United States1849 Posts

March 07 2012 00:52 GMT

#20

On March 07 2012 09:45 Angelbelow wrote:
Haha imagine if ST and Prime went with Bomber and MKP instead.

Hmm, MarineKing and Bomber are already qualified for IPL4 so I guess they want to give other players on their team a chance. Puma's already qualified too, but he's participating in this so I don't know actually.

Korean Terrans though...

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