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Gone are the days where we refer to players as an "NA Ladder Hero" as a derogatory term referencing their struggle toward a goal of little meaning or value! Competition breeds ingenuity, hard work and skill! And NA Ladder Heroes is here to increase the competition!
This is a Blizzard sponsored event now as they are providing the bulk of the prize pool. Big thank you to Blizzard for supporting this project.
Stream for the monthly finals can be found on my channel:
http://www.twitch.tv/feardragon64
Be sure to keep up to date with the amazing website run by Troy Pavlek.
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Credit to Troy Pavlek for making the website!
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NA Ladder Heroes is a system to incentivize players to give more meaning to their ladder practice. The system is split up into two parts that tie into each other. I will note that all of the values listed are the base prize pool values and may increase depending on both patreon and my own contributions to the prize pool.
1) Weekly Ladder competition
- Every(or close to every) Saturdays at 9pm PST/12:00am EST, the top 20 registered players on the North American Grandmaster list will be awarded points for finishing at the top of the ladder. Higher placement will result in more points earned. Point values will be as follows.+ Show Spoiler +1st - 23 point
2nd - 21 point
3rd - 20 point
4th - 19 point
5th - 17 point
6th - 16 point
7th - 15 point
8th - 14 point
9th - 12 point
10th - 11 point
11th - 10 point
12th - 9 point
13th - 8 point
14th - 7 point
15th - 6 point
16th - 5 point
17th - 4 point
18th - 3 point
19th - 2 point
20th - 1 point - The top 6 registered players will also win $50/$30/$20/$20/$15/$15 respectively for that week of the ladder competition.
2) Monthly Finals From Ladder Qualifications
- Every month, the top 12 point holders from the weekly ladder competition will be invited to a monthly tournament with a $400 prizepool. The event will take place during a single day.
- The tournament will be a single elimination with every round but the Finals being a Bo3 & the Finals being Bo5. A Bo3 3rd/4th place match will also be played before the finals.
- The top 4 players are seeded one round in(into the ro8). Seeding is done in accordance to points that qualified them.
- The tournament will pay out $200 to 1st, $75 to 2nd, $50 to 3rd, $25 to 4th. and $12.50 to 5th-8th.
- Players in the monthly finals will also earn OSC points depending on their placement as follows:+ Show Spoiler +1st 250 OSC points
2nd 175 OSC points
3rd 100 OSC points
4th 60 OSC points
5-8th 25 OSC points each
9-12th 12.5 OSC points each
Please note this event is constantly adapting and thus, everything here is subject to change.
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Players will submit registration to participate in the event. Approved players will be added to a registered players list and will be subject to banned permanently from the event if they break any of the rules.
- No Barcodes/Shared Accounts - Registered players agree to use an account that displays their real username(no barcodes) and agree that no other player or person will use the account for a ranked ladder match at any point. You also may not use name changes during the competition unless approved by me.
- Publicly Listed Players - Registered players will be publicly displayed on the website, as well as players who have been banned from participating due to rule breaks.
- Don't Be a BIG Jerk - I reserve the right to ban players from the event that show excessive levels of bm during ladder games(I will be very reasonable about this. I'm not going to ban you for dropping manner mules or offensive gg'ing. Just don't be dumb and start doing things like using racial slurs, extremely personal attacks, etc.)
- Don't Be An idiot - Players of course agree not to hack/mod/stream cheat/etc.
- Reregister if you name change - Ladder Heroes is tracked via an automated system. If you name change you need to reregister your new account name with me and justify the change.
To register, send an email to feardragon64 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com with the the subject line "NA LADDER HEROES APPLICATION" and the following information in the body:
- Your most well known username
- A link to the battle.net account you will use for the event
- The paypal account you would like to be paid at
- A replay of at least 15 minutes in length for identity verification/hotkey analysis if accused
- The best way to reach you(skype preferred, otherwise e-mail address, etc.)
Registered Players
Viewable over at http://www.ladderhero.es
History can be viewed on the 
NA Ladder Heroes liquipedia page or on the Ladder Heroes webpage.
Point standings:
Point standings available on the official website, http://ladderhero.es/standings !
History of standings also available on the website, http://ladderhero.es/history !
NA Ladder Heroes liquipedia page or on the Ladder Heroes webpage.Point standings:
Point standings available on the official website, http://ladderhero.es/standings !
History of standings also available on the website, http://ladderhero.es/history !
The Prize Money/Patreon
Currently, the total prizepool between the weekly and monthly totals to $1000 per month. However, each month will actually have a slightly larger prize pool based on Patreon contributions.
With the additional funds I'm using there, I may increase the total prizepool for a particular month based on the percentage values listed above. Of course, as with everything, this is subject to change in the future and it is simply where I'm currently spending the patreon money I'm getting. If you do decide to contribute to the Patreon, the replays for the monthly finals will be available to those contributing at least $10. A link to the Patreon can be found here:
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1) What About Europe/Korea/South America/SEA/Etc?
I will start by saying that ALL players from ANY region are allowed and encouraged to participate, regardless of your citizenship, residency, etc. The only inherit requirement is that you of course have to be in the North's Grandmaster list. However, if you are interested in playing on the EU Server, EU Ladder Heroes has also been launched and you are free to particulate in both NA and EU Ladder Heroes. If you can place in both then more power to you.
2) Won't maphackers/win traders/etc. just win?
Keep in mind every player participating *has* to register for this. A strict list will be maintained and anyone caught maphacking, win trading, cheating, etc. will be perma banned from the list and listed in the "banned" section of this thread. This is to ensure the participants able to earn any money will not be map hackers.
3) Can I play in both NA and EU Ladder Heroes?
Yes! If you can keep up your ranking on multiple servers then more power to you. Just remember to register for both individually!.
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