NASL Announces Season 3 Open Tournament Information!
The North American Star League is pleased to announce the NASL Season 3 Open Tournament. In keeping with tradition, this tournament offers both pros and those still aspiring to break into an eSports career the chance to fight for a spot at the NASL Season 3 Grand Finals as well as earn a spot in the league in the upcoming season.
Specifically, the top two placing individuals in the open tournament will earn a spot in the the NASL Season 3 Wild Card matches where they will fight against some of the best players of Season 3 for a chance at the playoffs. The top four placing individuals in the open tournament will earn a spot in NASL Season 4.
For those who were knocked out in previous NASL Seasons and want to earn their spot back or for those who are trying to earn a spot in the league for the first time, the NASL Season 3 Open Tournament is the ideal chance! After all, the NASL Open Tournament winners have had a rather successful history thus far, with PuMa going on to become the NASL Season 1 and Season 2 champion, and Thorzain placing 4th overall in the NASL Season 2 Grand Finals tournament.
Event Details Dates: June 12th-17th Time: 4:00PM PDT Cost: $10 entry fee Stream: June 12-14 BeyondGaming & June 15-17 NASLS3 Prizes: Top 2 Spots are seeded in as wildcard matches for NASL Season 3 Playoffs Top 4 Spots Invited to participate in NASL Season 4
UPDATED Event PLAYING Schedule RO64 - RO8: Wednesday June 13th RO4 : Thursday June 14th Match Times: All the matches start at 6pm PDT (9pm EST, 10am KST)
Event BROADCAST Schedule RO64 - RO32: June 13 @ BeyondGaming @ 6PM PDT RO32 - RO16: June 14 @ BeyondGaming @ 6PM PDT RO8 - Part 1: June 15 @ NASLS3 @ 4PM PDT RO8 - Part 2: June 16 @ NASLS3 @ 4PM PDT RO4: June 17 @ NASLS3 @ 4PM PDT
Meeting Channel: All players will meet in channel NASL (NASL-1, NASL-2 if the first channel is full) on the NORTH AMERICA battle.net server
Free wins: If your opponent is not in the channel within 15 minutes of the match start time, you will be able to report a free win
Disconnects: A disconnect will result in a RE-GAME unless there is a significant advantage to one player. If the two players cannot agree on the result, an administrator will make a final decision
Who can play: The NASL Open tournament is open to anyone regardless of age, gender, or location
Entry fee: There is a $10 entry fee to join this tournament, payable through Paypal only. See main page for details.
Playing the match: Find your opponent in the channel during the match time. The first map is pre-set based on the map order, and the loser will choose from the map pool. No maps can be chosen twice.
BGLINK: All players MUST download BGLINK and input your player information in the settings. BGLINK self-reports the results of your matches. Note Players using MACs cannot download BGLINK. If 2 players get matched up MAC vs MAC your going to need to report your match results to an admin.
Maps: All matches are best of 3
Misc: It is the player’s responsibility to be in the channel at the start time. If a player is not in the channel, he or she is liable to be forfeit
Streaming & Casting: NASL will have exclusive streaming/casting rights to games from the Ro8 onward. Games in earlier rounds are able to be cast by third parties.
On May 26 2012 07:24 Xacez wrote: Sad to see another tournament clash, this time with DreamHack Summer (16th - 19th) and the second EU HomeStory Cup qualifier (14th).
There's more tournaments than available days. This is just a qualifier ! There's more chances to qualify for the league as well!
On May 26 2012 07:24 Xacez wrote: Sad to see another tournament clash, this time with DreamHack Summer (16th - 19th) and the second EU HomeStory Cup qualifier (14th).
There's more tournaments than available days. This is just a qualifier ! There's more chances to qualify for the league as well!
While this may be the case, I am still saddened. Regardless, I hope the event will be excellent.
On May 26 2012 07:35 pStar wrote: Its not an open if you have to pay...
Its open as in anyone can enter, meaning no invites, its the same as MLG and IPL "Open Bracket", where you have to buy player passes to play in the open bracket.
For those of you late to the scene NASL started out saying that they had funding secured for 3 seasons minimum, so this new season must be a indicator of things going well for them or at least them seeing future success.
On May 26 2012 08:13 Aegeis wrote: Season 4 is confirmed!!!
For those of you late to the scene NASL started out saying that they had funding secured for 3 seasons minimum, so this new season must be a indicator of things going well for them or at least them seeing future success.
Excellent news indeed. Here's to another 100 seasons of the NASL!
Hey Xeris, I don't know if you can comment on this but how has NASL3 been going in comparison to other seasons? Are you guys doing better as far as viewers and making money?
Man I really love the NASL. Hope they can keep it up. It's great having that much competitive SC2 to watch. I may enter just to get annihilated and give them ten bucks. Actually I'd really be interested in casting some of the pre-lims.
On May 26 2012 08:13 Aegeis wrote: Season 4 is confirmed!!!
For those of you late to the scene NASL started out saying that they had funding secured for 3 seasons minimum, so this new season must be a indicator of things going well for them or at least them seeing future success.
Yes! They've stepped it up hardcore this season, I was hoping it wasn't too late.
might not be the entirely right place to ask but couldnt find it on nasl page or on liquipedia for season 3. How many players will be on the finals? Will it still be top 2 of each group + those 2 here + this playoff bracket winners which consists of top 20 behind the top 2 of each group?
On May 26 2012 07:24 Xacez wrote: Sad to see another tournament clash, this time with DreamHack Summer (16th - 19th) and the second EU HomeStory Cup qualifier (14th).
and GESL (15th -17th).
Glad to see that bigger events will announce a date months after smaller lans and probably manage to snag all the viewers. #killingesports
Charging 10$ kind of makes it so you go from supporting up and coming players to not so much...Sure it's only 10$ but a cost without a profit sure isn't good for an unstable new career for anyone...
On May 26 2012 23:51 Primadog wrote: Not like NASL doesn't know about when we're hosting the gigabyte lan...
Oh well. Won't be the first event I work on that beats nasl handsomely.
What? You're comparing a $11,000 LAN event to an online qualifier. This makes no sense. There's about 5-10 events/tournaments every weekend. Not sure what this aggression is all about
On May 28 2012 04:52 Sargonian wrote: Charging 10$ kind of makes it so you go from supporting up and coming players to not so much...Sure it's only 10$ but a cost without a profit sure isn't good for an unstable new career for anyone...
If you can't afford $10 you might want to reconsider what you're doing.
If Players qualify for the ro8, and are at Dreamhack, is there any chance this tournament could be scheduled around DH play times, to allow for both tournaments to be played
On June 03 2012 19:35 BathTubNZ wrote: 6 players! I guess since the prize is entry into another tournament rather than a cash prize, players are a little reluctant?
Still, the lack of interest is shocking. I mean, the winner goes directly to the playoffs right?
On June 03 2012 19:35 BathTubNZ wrote: 6 players! I guess since the prize is entry into another tournament rather than a cash prize, players are a little reluctant?
Still, the lack of interest is shocking. I mean, the winner goes directly to the playoffs right?
Not this time. Top 2 go into the wildcard playoffs to get to the finals.
Hey guys, NASL is a tournament that has improved significantly over this season. It's a great chance for exposure and nice way to win 150 dollars a week. Please sign up for it.
On June 12 2012 12:37 McFeser wrote: Hey guys, NASL is a tournament that has improved significantly over this season. It's a great chance for exposure and nice way to win 150 dollars a week. Please sign up for it.
I really hope this gets more exposure so that more than some 16 people sign up. Though there will be last minute korean sign ups if they hear about it Im sure.
On June 13 2012 01:50 Xeris wrote: You can play both.
Also... team MVP will be participating in the qualifier
How many MVP players are we talking about? DRG maybe? My guess is it's just the mvp players currently in cali for the gigabyte lan, monster, tails and dream.
On June 13 2012 01:50 Xeris wrote: You can play both.
Also... team MVP will be participating in the qualifier
How many MVP players are we talking about? DRG maybe? My guess is it's just the mvp players currently in cali for the gigabyte lan, monster, tails and dream.
Not sure how many exactly, will get a list tonight
Just to make sure, so I don't get screwed here...if you have less then 64 players, this tournament will not start until tomorrow at 6 PDT 9 EDT, correct?
On June 13 2012 07:05 Bonkarooni wrote: Just to make sure, so I don't get screwed here...if you have less then 64 players, this tournament will not start until tomorrow at 6 PDT 9 EDT, correct?
UPDATED Event PLAYING Schedule RO64 - RO8: Wednesday June 13th RO4 : Thursday June 14th Match Times: All the matches start at 6pm PDT (9pm EST, 10am KST)
On June 13 2012 07:05 Bonkarooni wrote: Just to make sure, so I don't get screwed here...if you have less then 64 players, this tournament will not start until tomorrow at 6 PDT 9 EDT, correct?
UPDATED Event PLAYING Schedule RO64 - RO8: Wednesday June 13th RO4 : Thursday June 14th Match Times: All the matches start at 6pm PDT (9pm EST, 10am KST)
Looks like it will start Wednesday for sure.
k thats what I figured. They just didnt delete the old stuff so I was worried x.x
On June 14 2012 08:51 Xeris wrote: ya i'm not sure why it's not shoiwing the player list atm... but you all should be there. perhaps because the signups are closed?
Anything other than 4 Koreans getting the 4 spots would surprise me. That makes me sad, I always thought of NASL as the premier foreigner league with a few good Koreans sprinkled in.
Edit: the only thing I could see being a factor is that none of MvP seems to be in online tournaments on other servers, so they may not be used to the latency.
On June 14 2012 11:34 Xeris wrote: Heavens beats Minigun.
Alkresh 2-1'd coL Heart
pretty interesting upsets so far
He also beat Sniper, which is hard to believe. Also, sad that desrow lost, with Kees's momentum it will be hard to stop him, but DRG will probably take it. Oh, another thing, is MaruKim MaruPrime?
On June 14 2012 11:34 Xeris wrote: Heavens beats Minigun.
Alkresh 2-1'd coL Heart
pretty interesting upsets so far
He also beat Sniper, which is hard to believe. Also, sad that desrow lost, with Kees's momentum it will be hard to stop him, but DRG will probably take it. Oh, another thing, is MaruKim MaruPrime?
maruprime's name is Cho Sung Choo so i doubt marukim is the prime player. would love to be proved wrong since him qualifying would be awesome haha
Just checked the brackets. DRG out makes me a sad panda but this was Puma has a better chance to defend his title. Don't get me wrong, I want a foreigner to win this... But there'd be something just way too cool about Puma winning the first three NASLs.
On June 15 2012 11:34 TheDougler wrote: Just checked the brackets. DRG out makes me a sad panda but this was Puma has a better chance to defend his title. Don't get me wrong, I want a foreigner to win this... But there'd be something just way too cool about Puma winning the first three NASLs.
Give him a golden bulldozer if he wins his 3rd title
please add a link to the brackets/the liquipedia entry to the op and to the calendar entry of the nasl playdays. this way information about this event is much easier to obtain.
EPT
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