As IPTL Season 1 steams ahead for it's finish, it's time for IPL to bring you the Playoffs and Up & Down matches to both determine the winner and who earns the $9,000 in prize money and who will move down to Contender, and who will ascend to Premier.

Playoff Schedule:
MVP v StarTale: October 31
LG-IM v Evil Geniuses: November 7
IPTL Season 1 Grand Final: November 21

Up & Down Schedule:
Liquid vs NsHoSeo: October 30
TSL v FXO: November 6
Prime v compLexity: November 13
Acer v Dignitas: November 14

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Liquipedia: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IPL_Team_League_Season_1

Stream Link: http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft-2

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When: Tuesday, Oct 30 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)

Format

MVP, StarTale, LG-IM and Evil Geniuses will remain in Premier Division, while Liquid, NsHoSeo, TSL, FXO, Prime and compLexity will battle for the right to play with them. The losers will be in Contender Division for IPTL Season 2. With SlayerS disbanding, Acer and Dignitas battle for who will remain in Contender division while Karont3 is promoted to Premier Division.

The playoff teams battle for the $9,000. Here is the prize distribution:

Premier Playoff Teams:
1st - $9,000
2nd - $4,000
3rd - $2,000
4th - $2,000

Premier Teams:
5th - $1,000
6th - $1,000
7th - $1,000
8th - $1,000

Contender Teams:
9th - $250
10th - $250
11th - $250
12th - $250

Team Liquid
TaeJa
Sea
Zenio
HerO
TLO
Ret
Sheth
NonY

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NSHoSeo
Tassadar
jjakji
Seal
Sculp
Brave
SalvatioN

The First Game of the IPTL Premier Division Group A is on Tuesday, Oct 30 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) (we will also rebroadcast repeatedly afterwards!)

Poll: Who will win?

Team Liquid (35)

78%

NsHoSeo (10)

22%

45 total votes

Your vote: Who will win?

(Vote): Team Liquid
(Vote): NsHoSeo

Results!

+ Show Spoiler [Liquid vs NsHoSeo Results] +

HerO < Ohana > Salvation
HerO < Antiga Shipyard > jjakji
Zenio < Daybreak > jjakji
TaeJa < Entombed Valley > jjakji
TaeJa < Cloud Kingdom > Tassadar
TaeJa < Metropolis > Brave
TaeJa < Whirlwind > Sculp
Sheth < Atlantis Spaceship > Sculp

Map List

IPLMap Khaydaria
IPLMap Atlantis Spaceship
IPLMap Antiga Shipyard
IPLMap Daybreak
IPLMap Whirlwind
IPLMap Cloud Kingdom
IPLMap Metropolis
IPLMap Ohana
IPLMap Entombed Valley

The first map will be on a set rotation, and then it is loser's pick.

Casters

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snorlax1

Singapore233 Posts

October 30 2012 17:57 GMT

Wow, Liquid will play IPTL and 2 hours after will play MCSL, quite a challenge though

anw, gogo Liquid

Fusilero

United Kingdom50293 Posts

October 30 2012 18:00 GMT

Hoseo's new B-team especially salvation and brave have been looking pretty solid in team leagues but in this league they were massacred by jonnyrecco before jjakji had to bail them out. I'm not entirely sure what to make out despite the series of unfortunate events I think salvation, brave and tassadar can stand up to liquid's foreigners but jjakji will have his work cut out to beat hero, taeja and liquid's pet elephant sea while tassadar did tear liquid apart in the GSTL sheth and ret were mia that series yet tassadar did beat taeja and taeja's recent play isn't as dominating as the guy who one man teamed liquid to the finals was so there's the chance for a repeat of liquid's unfortunate GSTL run. Overall hoseo's kind of dispelled their jjakji vs the world image but with the pressure on jjakji I think a B-teamer will have to step it up big time with a struggling jjakji trying to lead his struggling team against the still strong liquid I don't see hoseo bringing down all of liquid's Koreans.
Liquid 5-3 Jjakji

DMXD

United States4064 Posts

October 30 2012 18:06 GMT

man what happen to NSHoSeo's lineup....=(
GOGO TL

.Wraath

United States262 Posts

October 30 2012 18:12 GMT

NSH Fighting!

Any word on when NSH will have their pickup join the team? (couple months back they were in the process of getting a new member)

xXFireandIceXx

Canada4296 Posts

October 30 2012 22:30 GMT

TL belongs in the Premier league =/ should have this one down pat....

PhoenixVoid

Canada32740 Posts

October 30 2012 22:41 GMT

Liquid 5-2
Liquid is a solid team that can take on any GSTL worthy team recently (well, really only TaeJa and HerO) and against an ailing NSHS, this should be pretty clean cut and simple; use TaeJa and HerO well enough, and break HoSeo efficiently.

Olli

Austria24417 Posts

October 30 2012 22:46 GMT

Hey, cool. Thought I was gonna go to sleep. Not happening now, THANKS A LOT IPL

isaachukfan

Canada785 Posts

October 30 2012 22:49 GMT

Teaja or Hero 5-0
Liquid hwaiitiing!

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

October 30 2012 22:50 GMT

#10

oh whew, prime drew complexity haha
gogo NSH!

xXFireandIceXx

Canada4296 Posts

October 30 2012 22:53 GMT

#11

On October 31 2012 07:46 DarkLordOlli wrote:
Hey, cool. Thought I was gonna go to sleep. Not happening now, THANKS A LOT IPL

true story. guess i'm not finishing my problem set tonight =/

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

October 30 2012 22:53 GMT

#12

JJAKJI ALL KILL IT'S HAPPENING

in reality teamliquid 5-2 or something.

Olli

Austria24417 Posts

October 30 2012 22:55 GMT

#13

On October 31 2012 07:53 Dodgin wrote:
JJAKJI ALL KILL IT'S HAPPENING

in reality teamliquid 5-2 or something.

Actually I'd kinda like that against any other team, I miss jjakji.
I did hard physical labor on top of my boring, non physical labor today, 11 hours total and I only wanted to sleep. I should look into suing IPL

for being awesome.

HeeroFX

United States2704 Posts

October 30 2012 23:00 GMT

#14

Liquid will win 5-3

BathTubNZ

New Zealand2556 Posts

October 30 2012 23:04 GMT

#15

This could be close, should be a good game.

DJHelium

Sweden13480 Posts

October 30 2012 23:05 GMT

#16

Don't think that the Jjakji all kill is that far fetched, he is that good. Taeja is of course a problem, but he beat Mvp in TvT kinda recently so don't count him out!

Hope Sea gets to play!