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Acer TeamStory Cup Season 3 powered by Intel will go on to a 3rd Season! Due to high demand, we decided to expand this season to twelve teams, meaning a total of four qualification slots. As we doubled the qualification slots, we have in turn expanded the number of teams in this qualifier as well. Sixteen teams will play this qualifier across two days. The first round and the first half of the second round will be played on Monday, while the remaining two games will be played on Tuesday. This extended broadcast schedule will allow more games to be shown.
Key facts:
Day 1: Monday, 24th March 13:00 CET (Round 1 and 2 games of Round 2)
Day 2: Tuesday, 25th of March 11:00 CET (Remaining games of Round 2)
Teams: 16
Qualification Slots: 4
Rules and Information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HCSKe-TrkqqBKqe-fMdTjcHAyHkbqYPr2XRguwPNbNg/edit
original News:
http://acer.taketv.net/news/acer-teamstory-cup-season-3-powe-19-03-14-1063
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Ouch! EG possibly versus ROOT...
It's great that the league expanded to 12 teams, I'm loving the ATC :D
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San probably telling his team mates: "Don't worry, I got this".
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The league is expanding to 12 teams?? Thats awesome!
Hoping for EG; YoeFlashWolves, Alternate(Vega or NrS should win though) and mYinsanity.
Surprised to not see Fnatic in here though.
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Nice sick! GL to all teams! 
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Sweden7978 Posts
Wow, that is a substantial line up. This is looking like a fairly sizable undertaking. Cool beans, having a solid teamleague in EU is quite important imo.
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I have to wonder what Empire will do though, they have 2 players+ academy. I would be shocked if they wouldnt team up with another team for ATC (Fnatic maybe, because they are surprisingly absent from the qualifier?) I doubt they'd play with their academy + Kas and Happy alone.
Also for anyone wondering dignitas-HKA is dignitas +  Sen.
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Sweden7978 Posts
On March 20 2014 20:51 NovaMB wrote:I have to wonder what Empire will do though, they have 2 players+ academy. I would be shocked if they wouldnt team up with another team for ATC (Fnatic maybe, because they are surprisingly absent from the qualifier?) I doubt they'd play with their academy + Kas and Happy alone. Also for anyone wondering dignitas-HKA is dignitas + Sen.
They could merge with EG and make a 4 player team!
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On March 20 2014 21:04 Squat wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2014 20:51 NovaMB wrote:I have to wonder what Empire will do though, they have 2 players+ academy. I would be shocked if they wouldnt team up with another team for ATC (Fnatic maybe, because they are surprisingly absent from the qualifier?) I doubt they'd play with their academy + Kas and Happy alone. Also for anyone wondering dignitas-HKA is dignitas + Sen. They could merge with EG and make a 4 player team!
Happy+Kas+Jaedong is only 3 players though.
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Wow intense lineup, not sure which 4 teams will make it, there might be some upsets.
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Mexico675 Posts
I have 1 question: who are the bounty hunters?
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Thats really cool. Im positively suprised that the taiwanese teams are interested, they both have very good lineups. Check, daisy and san made it to the playoffs with western wolves last season. And then im sad that they have to eliminate each other in the first round. Some teams really have bad grid luck...
Only root or EG, myi or xmg, wayi spider or yoe flash wolves.. I want all of them! T.t.
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Bounty hunters lineup:
MC
First
Yoda
ReaL
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Sweden7978 Posts
Happy+Kas+Jaedong is only 3 players though.
JYP man.
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On March 20 2014 21:33 HighArT wrote:
Bounty hunters lineup:
MC
First
Yoda
ReaL
Wait what.
Like seriously what.
Let me rephrase: what
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I was going to say that the 2nd bracket looks not very good when compared to the others but then I saw HighArT's post.
what.
the.
fuck.
best fucking atc
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On March 20 2014 21:33 HighArT wrote:
Bounty hunters lineup:
MC
First
Yoda
ReaL
Then it makes sense when Zest wast saying First had a team
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How about adding some new maps to the pool?
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I dislike when you have multiple qualifications without double elimination. Single elimination works fine when you have one single winner. However, with this format you're saying "one of group [a:d]" qualifies. Instead of getting the top 4 teams you simply get the best from each group and unless some seeding metric was used it's possible that the top 4 teams were in a single group...
E: that worst case scenario aside... ATC3 looks to be AWESOME!
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On March 20 2014 22:00 y0su wrote:
I dislike when you have multiple qualifications without double elimination. Single elimination works fine when you have one single winner. However, with this format you're saying "one of group [a:d]" qualifies. Instead of getting the top 4 teams you simply get the best from each group and unless some seeding metric was used it's possible that the top 4 teams were in a single group...
E: that worst case scenario aside... ATC3 looks to be AWESOME!
well i think its a time restriction. You have a lot of teams from different time zones and its already spanning over two days as it is. With double elimination you'd probably need 4 days.
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EPT
