Winner of the PokerStrategy.com League Pedro "LucifroN" Moreno Duran managed to win the PokerStrategy.com league to bring down $2.500 after 70 maps, with 46 wins. His last match against TITAN added him another 8 points ( final results 8:2 ) to overcome Kas eventually by 5 Points. With an overall score of 5 wins 1 tie and only one loss in the entire league, one can say that LucifroN well deserved this first place. A few interesting stats are listed below. We wish all of you a merry christmas!
As you might see we have outstanding mapscores on Ohanas PvZ ( difference of +11 in favor of Protoss ), in Cloud Kingdoms TvP ( difference of +7 in favor of Terran ), in Whirl winds TvP ( difference of +7 in favor of Terran ). Please note, that the sample size of these stats is pretty low and therefore its hard to make any statement on the balance of those maps.
Out of all matches, the most often result was 7:3 with eleven times. Followed directly by the 6:4 result which appeared eight times , while all other results happened to be four times.
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Every player will play 10 maps against every other player. So you get to see 80 maps from every player!
Each map is worth one point. The player with the most points wins the league!
We have 3 players from each race. So you will see plenty of awesome games in every matchup!
This is the ultimate test of StarCraft skill. Join us in the coming weeks to see who will become the PokerStrategy.com League Champion!
Most of the players will also be streaming their matches on their own channels. So if you prefer to have a first person view on the games you will have the chance to do so!
Players of the league have to play one match against each of the listed opponents. Matches always consist of 10 maps - all maps have to be played out.
Spectators are only allowed in-game if both players agree. The exception are the official casters.
Every map win scores 1 point. In case two players are equal in score, the rank is shared – and the prize pool averaged. Example: three players share #7 means that they all get ($600+$500+$400)/3 = $500.
Map pool:
For every match, the order of the 7 maps will be determined randomly in advance. The 7 maps are then played in the determined order.
At any time before the match starts (can be days or weeks in advance), both players veto two maps each in ABBA order. The player listed on the left will be player B. The 3 remaining maps are then played in the order they appear in the initial map order for the match.
TSL4 Daybreak ESV Muspelheim TSL4 Antiga Shipyard TSL4 Entombed Valley TSL4 Ohana TSL4 ESV Cloud Kingdom GSL_Whirlwind
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90 Maps from every player? wow, thats a unbelivabel amount of Games. I wonder if every match will be streamed, and how long the league will take. 90 Days, kk? :D
On August 04 2012 01:21 Megiddosc wrote: Wow, I wonder who the random player is...
Ourk comes to mind, I think he's the highest rated non-Korean that's played all 3 races recently. Might be TLO going back to his old ways as well, even though I'd rather he didn't.
10 Maps per match and 9 players are 80 games per player only, although I'd like to see Grubby vs Grubby Don't like caster lineup very much but let's wait and see.
On August 04 2012 09:02 Xantos wrote: Dirk from Team Grubby just made me aware of one thing we didn't really get out in the announcement:
Players will stream their own games!
Means: 1. First-person view for the fans. 2. Players are able to earn some additional money through their streaming.
But it will still be organized as an actual event when the games are actually being played, right? In the sense that we at least know the dates/times when the games are played and it appears on TL event sidebar.
On August 04 2012 06:59 Brandish wrote: wow this is a ridiculous amount of games
Right? And the best thing is that every single game counts so even if one of the players loses 1-9, the one point can still help him to win the league; for the same reason it's also an ill decision to get angry and just throw games away if you're behind in the series.
"Most of the players will also be streaming their matches on their own channels. So if you prefer to have a first person view on the games you will have the chance to do so!"
This is a very important point which should not be missed It's kinda like a Showmatch league but with prestige and a lot of prize money! ^_^
lol, I of course miscalculated once again - I should just keep my mouth shut about numbers.
It's 10 maps in 36 matchs, i.e. 360 maps. If you'd watch them in succession from both player perspectives AND the caster perspective, it would at least be a bit more than 1000 * 0.25 = 250 hours.
On August 08 2012 05:45 Xantos wrote: lol, I of course miscalculated once again - I should just keep my mouth shut about numbers.
It's 10 maps in 36 matchs, i.e. 360 maps. If you'd watch them in succession from both player perspectives AND the caster perspective, it would at least be a bit more than 1000 * 0.25 = 250 hours.
I bet I still did a mistake :D
Lets just agree that ther will be a lot of freaking good games.
On August 08 2012 05:45 Xantos wrote: lol, I of course miscalculated once again - I should just keep my mouth shut about numbers.
It's 10 maps in 36 matchs, i.e. 360 maps. If you'd watch them in succession from both player perspectives AND the caster perspective, it would at least be a bit more than 1000 * 0.25 = 250 hours.
This looks utterly incredible, can't wait for the launch. Really pleased to see SCV Rush getting the recognition as well, and co-hosting this tournament. Good arrows.
On August 10 2012 23:55 Shellshock1122 wrote: Hoping for Kas Thorzain and Lucifron for T
Can't be ThorZaiN, MorroW is already representing Sweden.
Anyways, interesting new format. Go Sheth!
oh yea you're right. well maybe it'll be someone like Demuslim then
Sheth representin' US I think Lucifron is a safe bet though.
Demuslim isn't?!
That's kinda the point, one nation gets to have just one player
The guy implied demuslim was from usa..
Yeah because I had a full retard moment. D: lol I expect to see Kas/Lucifron, there are still a lot of countries left though so I'm not sure about the other terran. Could have demu beasty select
S could be Serbia as well as Spain (so Beasty instead of Luci). Likewise U could stand for UK (Demu) as well as Ukraine.
K is obviously Korea though, and I think SeleCT is the most likely candidate there. He's the only Terran not based in Korea which eliminates a bunch of cross server and play time issues with the European players, and he kind of fits the profile and level of other invites and the league the most.
Last bunch of players can now be found in the OP. Kas, Lucifron and SelecT are completing our player roster. The first matches will be played next week and will be announced in a separate thread tomorrow.
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First match starts tomorrow: Grubby vs SeleCT on 21 Aug, starts 7pm CEST (1pm EST) Sheth vs Kas on 22 Aug, starts 7pm CEST (1pm EST) TitaN vs Snute on 23 Aug, starts 7pm CEST (1pm EST)
Streams should be findable through the awesome streams list here at TL. There will be casters, but also first-person streams by some of the players.
Yay, it's gonna be Kas vs Sheth now! A macro terran vs a macro zerg, these are going to be 10 freaking awesome games Hoping to see some Kas mech and Sheth manner!
This is certainly going to get interesting Snute isn't the most conventional zerg, so I doubt it will just be 30 minute camping into hive vs deathball. Should be some interesting games tofay!
Socke played surprisingly well. I hope he will be in good shape again at the EPS finals. First time i saw morrow playing in a tournament/league in a long time. Does anyone know what's up with him?
Grubby vs LucifroN in just a few hours! Grubby's probably my favourite non-BlinG/non-Korean player, so I'm well up for him to smash it today. Two former WC3 pros clashing in SC2. Should be really interesting.
On September 19 2012 03:02 Xoronius wrote: Can you give out information, if SeleCT - Kas has been played yet or if it is rescheduled? Because LP does´nt show a result yet.
T - 38:22 (63% win rate) P - 32:38 (46% win rate) Z - 30:40 (42% win rate)
Ranking in avg. maps per match:
1. Kas 6.5 in 2 2. Socke 6 in 2 2. Lucifron 6 in 2 4. Sheth 5.3 in 3 5. Snute 5 in 2 6. SeleCT 4.5 in 2 7. TitaN 4.3 in 3 8. MorroW 4 in 2 9. Grubby 3.5 in 2
Still plenty of things can happen, as we're not even 28% through the league!
Being behind 1:2 after 3 maps, Snute started to dominate MorroW and books his first win against him with a final score of 8:2. That catapults him into first place in the league temporarily. He is now one of 3 players left that have not lost a match yet, the others being Socke and Lucifron. Is Snute emerging to become a serious contencer for the title of PokerStrategy.com League Champion and the $2.500 prize money for first?
Tomorrow we are looking at Socke vs. LucifroN who both have 12 maps won on their account. And are the only players in the league that have not lost a match yet. It will take 7 map wins for any of them to claim first place in the league. Who of those incredibly good players will emerge as the winner tomorrow? Cast your vote here:
Hopefully Socke can take a few maps...but Lucifron is better in PvT than him, and Socke did lose 0-2 to him at WCS...so i think the winner is already desided.
Well Socke was already not looking very good in the last month. His WCS performance was not too bad but only because he had big bracket luck and a great seed. He definitely could have made more out of that.
We should consider that Lucifron is very strong right now especially against Protoss. He also demolished Grubby with 7:3. Nevertheless socke has to improve a lot to catch up to the europes best players. I hope he does well at DH valencia.
Kas is playing the HotS tournament Khaldor casts atm, that might take a while since he has to play either finals or third place match next in any case. Will this match still happen tonight?
Yesterday Kas beat Snute 6:4 and was the first to beat Snute within this league. Tonight we are looking at the following match at the following match at 20:00 CEST
VS
And as mentioned earlier, we have an additional English cast available for you coming from ESL TV.
That was very frustrating to watch. Sheth had a very solid army and proceeded to throw small increments of it at Grubby. No idea how much his lag issues factored into that but it was a very anticlimatic last game ./.
On September 28 2012 05:32 Shockk wrote: That was very frustrating to watch. Sheth had a very solid army and proceeded to throw small increments of it at Grubby. No idea how much his lag issues factored into that but it was a very anticlimatic last game ./.
He would not have beaten Grubbys army anyway. Had he gotten his infestors out of his main maybe but without them he had no chance.
Grubby beats Sheth 7:3 and collects his first victory in the league. Let's see if that marked a turning point for him. I have updated the league table in the OP for your interest.
Additionally, we are looking at the last PokerStrategy.com League match for this week at 20:00 CEST tonight:
VS
Both players probably have plans: LucifroN wants to take back the seat in the sun at the top of the board and end this week as league leader just as he did last week and SeleCT surely wants to leave the bottom spot of the league table and catch up with the others.
grubby is quite resilient. i think grubby takes it from here, too many immortals and archons for the ultras. unless morrow pulls off some miracle neural parasites
On October 10 2012 04:56 TheDougler wrote: Huh... How did they manage to accomplish having the picture of liquipedia on the front page here more updated than the liquipedia entry itself?
Click "Pending changes" at the top of the wiki pages
On October 10 2012 04:56 TheDougler wrote: Huh... How did they manage to accomplish having the picture of liquipedia on the front page here more updated than the liquipedia entry itself?
In any case, go grubby!
Or log in to the wiki page Had the same "problem", but after logging in you instantly see the updated one.
Wow, LucifroN is dominating this league so much it's not even funny anymore :D. No matter the match-up, he just demolishes his opponents. How did MorroW manage to 5-5 him? o,o
This right here is the weakest game I've seen from Snute in forever. Really impressive run up until now, hope he can close off the series. Snute fighting!
On October 19 2012 03:31 Vermiiifuuge wrote: gogo LucifroN, show this patchzerg who's boss!
Haha, I know you're probably not serious, but you realise that Snute's arguably biggest accomplishment came before the "zerg patch"? He's been a top player (foreigner) for ages now, with his agressive style. If he participated in more MLGs/Dreamhacks he'd be far more known.
On October 19 2012 03:31 Vermiiifuuge wrote: gogo LucifroN, show this patchzerg who's boss!
Haha, I know you're probably not serious, but you realise that Snute's arguably biggest accomplishment came before the "zerg patch"? He's been a top player (foreigner) for ages now, with his agressive style. If he participated in more MLGs/Dreamhacks he'd be far more known.
Obligatory Norwegian response.
People are a bit too trigger happy with the "patch zerg" titles in my opinion... :\
On October 19 2012 03:31 Vermiiifuuge wrote: gogo LucifroN, show this patchzerg who's boss!
Haha, I know you're probably not serious, but you realise that Snute's arguably biggest accomplishment came before the "zerg patch"? He's been a top player (foreigner) for ages now, with his agressive style. If he participated in more MLGs/Dreamhacks he'd be far more known.
Obligatory Norwegian response.
People are a bit too trigger happy with the "patch zerg" titles in my opinion... :\
Yeah I've seen some guys on Reddit call Nerchio a patchzerg. Facepalm.
Gogo, Lucifron! 6-4 for Titan would be the coolest result for me, Luci wins the league and Titan gets 3rd/4th. But I think Lucifron will win the series outright.
Winner of the PokerStrategy.com League Pedro "LucifroN" Moreno Duran managed to win the PokerStrategy.com league to bring down $2.500 after 70 maps, with 46 wins. His last match against TITAN added him another 8 points ( final results 8:2 ) to overcome Kas eventually by 5 Points. With an overall score of 5 wins 1 tie and only one loss in the entire league, one can say that LucifroN well deserved this first place. A few interesting stats are listed below. We wish all of you a merry christmas!
As you might see we have outstanding mapscores on Ohanas PvZ ( difference of +11 in favor of Protoss ), in Cloud Kingdoms TvP ( difference of +7 in favor of Terran ), in Whirl winds TvP ( difference of +7 in favor of Terran ). Please note, that the sample size of these stats is pretty low and therefore its hard to make any statement on the balance of those maps.
Out of all matches, the most often result was 7:3 with eleven times. Followed directly by the 6:4 result which appeared eight times , while all other results happened to be four times.
Total: should be 16, you have in your image 59. that is a huge overlook, can we trust your other stats?
This would also change the overall win % you have for Protoss from 58%, down to a 37%
Edit: Looking at the image again, I believe I found where you got the error of 59 protoss wins from. It seems you may have just not cleared your calculator when you were tallying up that row. You probably had the 43 left over in calculator from adding up the Terran wins, then when you go to add for Protoss wins it just kept adding to the 43, bringing you to a total of 59.
Total: should be 16, you have in your image 59. that is a huge overlook, can we trust your other stats?
This would also change the overall win % you have for Protoss from 58%, down to a 37%
Edit: Looking at the image again, I believe I found where you got the error of 59 protoss wins from. It seems you may have just not cleared your calculator when you were tallying up that row. You probably had the 43 left over in calculator from adding up the Terran wins, then when you go to add for Protoss wins it just kept adding to the 43, bringing you to a total of 59.
As you pointed out it came down to this exactly. Thank you for your attention and sorry for the inconvenience.
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