Proud to announce the Eastern Starcraft League Season 1.
ESCL Season 1 will see five qualifiers over the space of two weeks seeding thirty-two players across Oceania, SEA, Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan into a SSL style tournament. All thirty-two qualified players will compete in a best of 5 against another qualified player, the winner continuing to group stage round of sixteen while the loser is knocked out of season 1. We then have a sixteen player group stage followed by a eight player single elimination finals bracket.
Five qualifiers will be ran to give players a chance to play, dates for the qualifiers can be seen below.
8pm AEDT Sunday January 18th - China & Taiwan Qualifier (8 seeds) Sign Up (Korea Server)
8pm AEDT Thursday January 22nd - Korea Qualifier (6 seeds) Sign up (Korea Server)
5pm AEDT Saturday January 24th - SEA/Japan Qualifier (6 seeds) Sign Up(SEA Server)
3pm AEDT Sunday January 25th - Oceania Qualifier (12 seeds) Sign Up(NA Server)
Note: All qualifiers are double elimination with best of three games.
Prize pool:
1st - $250 + 260 OSC Points
2nd - $100 + 160 OSC Points
3rd - $35 + 100 OSC Points
4th - $15 + 60 OSC Points
5-8th - 25 OSC Points each
9-12th - 10 OSC Points each
13-16th - 7.5 OSC Points each
17-32nd - 5 OSC Points each
830 total OSC Points and $400 up for grabs!
Happily partnered with LeiFeng who will be broadcasting the whole event with a Chinese stream along with Insano and CautioN we will be giving you all stages of the tournament packed into 13 live broadcasts.
You can follow all updates and announces for ESCL on our twitter page https://twitter.com/EasternSCL All the support we get is very much appreciated!
We are looking for more a additional admin and caster to improve ESCL, if you're interested feel free to contact ESCL on easternscleague@gmail.com
Saulo Silva fine photography is the major sponsor for ESCL Season 1, Were very happy to be working alongside them and we would love if you could show the same support for them as they do for us. So please check out their website http://saulosilvaphoto.com The website has some awesome photographs that are definitely worth having a look at as well as some brilliant content from Dreamhack events.
ESCL is a partnered tournament of the Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC). The OSC is the Oceanic, South East Asian and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. (Only around the top 10-25% gain points from each tournament). The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the 2 day minimum $4000+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion!
Current season rankings and database can be viewed here
GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.