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Hey everyone!
Incredibly excited to announce the Rival Weekly, looking to bring some weekly region locked action to support the NA/EU scene. This is something that we have been planning for quite some time now and looking forward to getting started.
The Format
A single elimination bracket with bo3 series, concluding with a best of 5 finals, played on Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void, with the current map pool.
Eligibility
For those who are unfamiliar with the RSL, we will be keeping the same eligibility requirements to stay consistent with the main tournament
1. You must be eligible to participate in the unified WCS system.
This means that we will be region locking to exclude Korean participation to focus on the NA/EU regions. This also means we will be enforcing a strict no barcode policy. However for the first few weeks we will have registration open to participants of any ladder league.
2. Going forward, RSL will be complying with The Organizer's Alliance (TOA), and we will be respecting their ban list.
3. You must also not have been in WCS premiere league for the previous season of SC2, in this case we will be using WCS 2015 Season 3.
Prize Pool
We will be starting with a 25$ prize pool, and looking to increase that going forward. We will also be introducing "RSL points", which will help you to secure a spot in the next main tournament for the RSL. Going forward we will award a direct seed to the top 4 earners of RSL points, allowing them to skip the qualifiers altogether.
The prize distribution is currently
1st place: $20 and 500 RSL points
2nd place: $5 and 300 RSL points
3rd/4th place: 200 RSL points
5th-8th place: 100 RSL points.
We would also love to help showcase some community casters for our event as well! If you would be interested in casting our event please feel free to reach out either via twitter, or this thread!
Links
Week 1 Signups
Liquipedia
RSL Twitter
RSL Twitch
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Just to confirm, can SEA players participate, given most folks in our region ladder on the AM server?
Or is this specifically for AM and EU residents?
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Yes SEA is totally cool. The only region that is excluded by the region lock is Korea.
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Wonderful!
I've added it to the events calendar at SC2SEA.com so folks can check it out.
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On November 24 2015 11:21 KabooshSC wrote:
However for the first few weeks we will have registration open to participants of any ladder league.
Does this means later on only players from a certain ladder league onwards can play?
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looks like fun hope its sea friendly time
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Love that you guys are doing a points system to go towards your tournaments. Looking forward to see which players top the points list for this.
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On November 25 2015 09:53 DARKING wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2015 11:21 KabooshSC wrote:
However for the first few weeks we will have registration open to participants of any ladder league.
Does this means later on only players from a certain ladder league onwards can play?
We're setting our eligibility requirements to match with the main tournament, so we're basically excluding Korean participation and Professionals who have competed in the most recent season of the WCS 2015. If you're question is asking about ladder rank (GM, Master, Diamond, etc) then yes, we'll be open for the first few weeks. However, the intent for the league and the weeklies will be GM, Master, and to an extent Diamond level players who can keep up, so we feel any players of leagues below those would not have an ideal time. 
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Where games will be played? EU/NA server?
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On November 27 2015 06:14 TedBurtle wrote:
Where games will be played? EU/NA server?
NA Server will be default. Players are free to play on any server as long as both players agree to it. If there's no agreement reached, it'll default to NA.
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Will there be a specific tournament for EU players, because Week 1 seems like only for NA player. CET Time for Week 1 is 1 AM 
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On November 30 2015 19:29 TheScriptan wrote:Will there be a specific tournament for EU players, because Week 1 seems like only for NA player. CET Time for Week 1 is 1 AM
Our focus is currently for the NA scene, it's hard to find a time that works for everyone, but atleast its a Friday night 
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On December 01 2015 14:22 KabooshSC wrote:Show nested quote +On November 30 2015 19:29 TheScriptan wrote:Will there be a specific tournament for EU players, because Week 1 seems like only for NA player. CET Time for Week 1 is 1 AM Our focus is currently for the NA scene, it's hard to find a time that works for everyone, but atleast its a Friday night
Oh, it's Friday night! I didn't notice that hehe! Thanks for mentioning it out! :D
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If you are in need of casters, I am willing to help. I do have some minor casting experience and I main terran (high diamond/low masters)
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On December 01 2015 22:39 Crazychris1311 wrote:
If you are in need of casters, I am willing to help. I do have some minor casting experience and I main terran (high diamond/low masters)
I just PMed you.
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Just a reminder that our first Weekly is tomorrow night at 7p EST!
*[http://challonge.com/RSLS1W1 Week 1 Sign ups]
*[http://twitch.tv/RSLsc2 Twitch Main Stream]
*[http://twitter.com/RSLsc2 Follow us on Twitter]
*[http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Rival_Weekly_2016_Season_1 Liquipedia of the Rival Weekly]
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Awesome I will definitely try participating in one of these.
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Check in for week two is tonight at 6:30 pm EST. $20 for first $5 for second with a pretty good chance your game gets cast if you get out of the first round.
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