On February 9–10, it is time for the finals of University Star League, a StarCraft II tournament for university students in Stockholm, Sweden. The finals will be played in front of a live audience at the student union building at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. All details regarding the tournament can be found at http://unisl.se/
Location
Nymble, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden. Adress: Drottning Kristinas väg 15–19, 10044 Stockholm Free admission!
Schedule
Saturday, February 9
12 Doors open 13–17 Ro16 starts, first four matchups 18–22 Ro16 continues, last four matchups 23 Doors close
Sunday, February 10
12 Doors open 13–17 Quarter finals 18–22 Semi finals & final match ~22 Prize ceremony 23 Doors close
BarCraft
The bar will be open during the entire event. This means that you have to be 18 or older to attend.
Players
64 participating players have been reduced to 16 through two qualifying rounds. The Ro16 looks like this:
NiNMrX (t) vs shAz (z) ecTheovide (t) vs GLMinneh (p) GöranPersson (t) vs Maelstrom (z) SPXylla (p) vs mrmustasch (p) FuBar (z) vs ProxyPanda (p) NjaL (t) vs vMGSholdar (p) prOpDash (t) vs Daneh (p) SPDoomsday (t) vs MaddeLisk (z)
Wow, I just heard about the University Star League and this tournament looks awesome. Since I live in the US I don't get to see much up-and-coming Swedish talent, so I'll tune into the stream for sure!
I've also recently applied to several grad school programs in Stockholm, so hopefully I can make it to the USL events in the future
The stream is live now, at http://www.twitch.tv/universitysl, and games will begin shortly! NiNMrX (terran) vs shAz (zerg) are the first to play in the Round of 16.
On February 11 2013 06:08 TheDougler wrote: Maddelisk could just make a ton of mutas for the win right now I think.
Yeah, a bit derp-y not to do that move against a starving terran with five banshees. I guess it's the cold speaking. So hard to make decisions when you got a cold.
Isn't 500 SEK a bit low? I mean I understand that it isn't MLG but 500 SEK is like 58 Euro/77 dollar. For such an event a 250 dollar prize wouldn't be weird.. Ahwell, money isn't everything ofcourse, and I understand she helped to organise it all so Maddelisk herself will be probably be ok with it
On February 11 2013 06:49 Loxley wrote: Isn't 500 SEK a bit low? I mean I understand that it isn't MLG but 500 SEK is like 58 Euro/77 dollar. For such an event a 250 dollar prize wouldn't be weird.. Ahwell, money isn't everything ofcourse, and I understand she helped to organise it all so Maddelisk herself will be probably be ok with it
Why should it be higher? If price money is your way of attracting viewers or players, then going $100 -> $250 won't change a thing (or $1000 for that matter). People are not flying in from all over the world, or coming to earn money. 500SEK works well if it is just symbolic, and for a student it is still a nice bit of pocket change.
Overall it was a nice event and I enjoyed it. Congratulations to Maddelisk.
The event was really neat! It's great to see tournaments and opportunities for lesser known (and lesser skilled) players to get some time in the light.
This made me wish there was a Swedish Star League, not only for the Students.
On February 11 2013 06:49 Loxley wrote: Isn't 500 SEK a bit low? I mean I understand that it isn't MLG but 500 SEK is like 58 Euro/77 dollar. For such an event a 250 dollar prize wouldn't be weird.. Ahwell, money isn't everything ofcourse, and I understand she helped to organise it all so Maddelisk herself will be probably be ok with it
Why should it be higher? If price money is your way of attracting viewers or players, then going $100 -> $250 won't change a thing (or $1000 for that matter). People are not flying in from all over the world, or coming to earn money. 500SEK works well if it is just symbolic, and for a student it is still a nice bit of pocket change.
Overall it was a nice event and I enjoyed it. Congratulations to Maddelisk.
I think what he means is that the prize pool is not really coherent with the overall production quality. For a university tournament, it's extremely well produced : booths, animations for each players, members of The GD Studio casting on a real casting table, animation for the map picks, hosts, etc... We might expect a higher prize pool with all that.
On February 11 2013 06:49 Loxley wrote: Isn't 500 SEK a bit low? I mean I understand that it isn't MLG but 500 SEK is like 58 Euro/77 dollar. For such an event a 250 dollar prize wouldn't be weird.. Ahwell, money isn't everything ofcourse, and I understand she helped to organise it all so Maddelisk herself will be probably be ok with it
Why should it be higher? If price money is your way of attracting viewers or players, then going $100 -> $250 won't change a thing (or $1000 for that matter). People are not flying in from all over the world, or coming to earn money. 500SEK works well if it is just symbolic, and for a student it is still a nice bit of pocket change.
Overall it was a nice event and I enjoyed it. Congratulations to Maddelisk.
I think what he means is that the prize pool is not really coherent with the overall production quality. For a university tournament, it's extremely well produced : booths, animations for each players, members of The GD Studio casting on a real casting table, animation for the map picks, hosts, etc... We might expect a higher prize pool with all that.
We did this with absolutely 0 budget and a lot of help from Komplett.se and QPAD – the prize pool was actually there just to get the tournament on Liquipedia
On February 11 2013 06:49 Loxley wrote: Isn't 500 SEK a bit low? I mean I understand that it isn't MLG but 500 SEK is like 58 Euro/77 dollar. For such an event a 250 dollar prize wouldn't be weird.. Ahwell, money isn't everything ofcourse, and I understand she helped to organise it all so Maddelisk herself will be probably be ok with it
Why should it be higher? If price money is your way of attracting viewers or players, then going $100 -> $250 won't change a thing (or $1000 for that matter). People are not flying in from all over the world, or coming to earn money. 500SEK works well if it is just symbolic, and for a student it is still a nice bit of pocket change.
Overall it was a nice event and I enjoyed it. Congratulations to Maddelisk.
I think what he means is that the prize pool is not really coherent with the overall production quality. For a university tournament, it's extremely well produced : booths, animations for each players, members of The GD Studio casting on a real casting table, animation for the map picks, hosts, etc... We might expect a higher prize pool with all that.
We did this with absolutely 0 budget and a lot of help from Komplett.se and QPAD – the prize pool was actually there just to get the tournament on Liquipedia
Thanks a lot for your answer. And don't worry, it's not a criticism, it was really fun to watch. Congratulations for the organization and your casting is really cool ! Plus, 4000 viewers for a students tournament with only MaddeLisk as a well-known player is huge.
On February 11 2013 08:29 OminouS wrote: Thank you guys for this. Awesome production. I know you've been working hard. Glad to see it succeed Best of luck in the future as well.
Thanks for helping out with the casting OminouS, too bad you couldn't make it to Sthlm for the finals! Look forward to be able to work with you again.
On February 11 2013 06:49 Loxley wrote: Isn't 500 SEK a bit low? I mean I understand that it isn't MLG but 500 SEK is like 58 Euro/77 dollar. For such an event a 250 dollar prize wouldn't be weird.. Ahwell, money isn't everything ofcourse, and I understand she helped to organise it all so Maddelisk herself will be probably be ok with it
Why should it be higher? If price money is your way of attracting viewers or players, then going $100 -> $250 won't change a thing (or $1000 for that matter). People are not flying in from all over the world, or coming to earn money. 500SEK works well if it is just symbolic, and for a student it is still a nice bit of pocket change.
Overall it was a nice event and I enjoyed it. Congratulations to Maddelisk.
I think what he means is that the prize pool is not really coherent with the overall production quality. For a university tournament, it's extremely well produced : booths, animations for each players, members of The GD Studio casting on a real casting table, animation for the map picks, hosts, etc... We might expect a higher prize pool with all that.
Worth to point out as well though is that she got gear worth that costs ~200 $ in retail from Qpad. Which makes the total quite decent. Also we (as in me too!) got sweet trophies :D.
On February 11 2013 06:49 Loxley wrote: Isn't 500 SEK a bit low? I mean I understand that it isn't MLG but 500 SEK is like 58 Euro/77 dollar. For such an event a 250 dollar prize wouldn't be weird.. Ahwell, money isn't everything ofcourse, and I understand she helped to organise it all so Maddelisk herself will be probably be ok with it
Why should it be higher? If price money is your way of attracting viewers or players, then going $100 -> $250 won't change a thing (or $1000 for that matter). People are not flying in from all over the world, or coming to earn money. 500SEK works well if it is just symbolic, and for a student it is still a nice bit of pocket change.
Overall it was a nice event and I enjoyed it. Congratulations to Maddelisk.
I think what he means is that the prize pool is not really coherent with the overall production quality. For a university tournament, it's extremely well produced : booths, animations for each players, members of The GD Studio casting on a real casting table, animation for the map picks, hosts, etc... We might expect a higher prize pool with all that.
Worth to point out as well though is that she got gear worth that costs ~200 $ in retail from Qpad. Which makes the total quite decent. Also we (as in me too!) got sweet trophies :D.
On February 11 2013 06:49 Loxley wrote: Isn't 500 SEK a bit low? I mean I understand that it isn't MLG but 500 SEK is like 58 Euro/77 dollar. For such an event a 250 dollar prize wouldn't be weird.. Ahwell, money isn't everything ofcourse, and I understand she helped to organise it all so Maddelisk herself will be probably be ok with it
Why should it be higher? If price money is your way of attracting viewers or players, then going $100 -> $250 won't change a thing (or $1000 for that matter). People are not flying in from all over the world, or coming to earn money. 500SEK works well if it is just symbolic, and for a student it is still a nice bit of pocket change.
Overall it was a nice event and I enjoyed it. Congratulations to Maddelisk.
I think what he means is that the prize pool is not really coherent with the overall production quality. For a university tournament, it's extremely well produced : booths, animations for each players, members of The GD Studio casting on a real casting table, animation for the map picks, hosts, etc... We might expect a higher prize pool with all that.
Worth to point out as well though is that she got gear worth that costs ~200 $ in retail from Qpad. Which makes the total quite decent. Also we (as in me too!) got sweet trophies :D.
The thing is, did she actually need that gear?
Nah, I think she's happy with her Logitech mx518 and Mionix Zibal. But huge props to Qpad for supporting us and providing additional prizes.
On February 11 2013 06:59 stjartrov wrote: The event was really neat! It's great to see tournaments and opportunities for lesser known (and lesser skilled) players to get some time in the light.
This made me wish there was a Swedish Star League, not only for the Students.
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University Star League and at http://unisl.se/finals
