WardiTV are excited to bring you a new weekly tournament, the WardiTV Weekly! The SC2Improve Weekly was an event that shaped our organisation and we are happy to be host a similar event many years on under our new brand. The WardiTV Weekly will be ran in Seasons, with each season being separated by a larger WardiTV event (think Wardi Open or WardiTV Christmas Invitational). Players who win WardiTV Weekly events during the season will be invited to the Season 1 Finals.
Season 1 Finals
We are happy to be announcing the Season 1 Finals in partnership with OSC & Matcherino, allowing us to reward OSC Points throughout the qualifiers and the event as well as increasing the prize pool through Matcherino base crowd funding. The $600 event will host two $50 Qualifiers which will qualify 4 players, plus 12 invites from WardiTV Weekly performances & OSC Rankings. This leads us into the $500 main event which will host the same format as our WardiTV Christmas Invitational. Dates can be found below (but are currently provisional).
Groups & Dates
RO16 Group A - Monday, Feb 20 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
I like it tho I find it weird you, as someone who lives in Europe, makes a weekly tournament in KR and NA server at times that are really bad for NA players. It feels like this is a tournament made for Koreans more than anything. It is really really early for NA players, and the ping from EU to KR I'm guessing is not very good.
On January 07 2017 18:27 DARKING wrote: I like it tho I find it weird you, as someone who lives in Europe, makes a weekly tournament in KR and NA server at times that are really bad for NA players. It feels like this is a tournament made for Koreans more than anything. It is really really early for NA players, and the ping from EU to KR I'm guessing is not very good.
I think it's quite obviously aimed towards Korean players. They are the players who bring in a lot of viewers consistently atm. The rotation between KR and NA Central is so EU players can play too if they want (it's an experiment to see what sign-ups look like on both occasions).
So yeah, I don't think it's a secret that this is pitched toward Korean players. Maybe the next four events will be EU based, but I don't know yet. The nice thing about the time slot we use here also is that it's very unlikely something comes up and runs over it, unlike in EU time slot where there always seems to be something popping up last minute.
On January 09 2017 20:26 Edpayasugo wrote: Can someone explain what the OSC organisation/events are to me please?
The OSC League is a conglomeration of numerous partnered online tournaments, investors and community members who have united to share their time, skills, resources, data and assets, to create a rapidly growing ongoing event for players to compete in on a daily basis!
The league follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing highly in all partnered tournaments, along with points acquired through bonuses and challenge matches. These points and player data act to form the OSC World Rankings and seeding system.
In 2016, combined the League gave out $250,000+ to players, and yesterday, just finished up the $10,000 Championship
On January 09 2017 20:26 Edpayasugo wrote: Can someone explain what the OSC organisation/events are to me please?
The OSC League is a conglomeration of numerous partnered online tournaments, investors and community members who have united to share their time, skills, resources, data and assets, to create a rapidly growing ongoing event for players to compete in on a daily basis!
The league follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing highly in all partnered tournaments, along with points acquired through bonuses and challenge matches. These points and player data act to form the OSC World Rankings and seeding system.
In 2016, combined the League gave out $250,000+ to players, and yesterday, just finished up the $10,000 Championship
More info at SC2Online.
perfect, thanks.
So the top 50 players who gather points at various events then compete in the finals.
I actually watched some of the finals yesterday without realising, thanks!
On January 24 2017 00:04 CynicalDeath wrote: Zest is playing really really well but ByuN took some dubious engagements...
Hey, it takes 2 to tango. ByuN's engages may have been dubious, but I don't think many Protoss players can recover from the spot Zest was in in game 2 against ByuN no matter how he engages.
Team Korea is back home from NationWars already, right? So is Zest not at all affected by jetlag travelling east? Didn't seem like he had any problems.
We are happy to be announcing the Season 1 Finals in partnership with OSC & Matcherino, allowing us to reward OSC Points throughout the qualifiers and the event as well as increasing the prize pool through Matcherino base crowd funding. The $600 event will host two $50 Qualifiers which will qualify 4 players, plus 12 invites from WardiTV Weekly performances & OSC Rankings. This leads us into the $500 main event which will host the same format as our WardiTV Christmas Invitational. Dates can be found below (but are currently provisional).
Main Event- dates to be confirmed. RO16 Group A - Monday, Feb 20 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) RO16 Group B - Wednesday, Feb 22 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) RO16 Group C - Thursday, Feb 23 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) RO16 Group D - Friday, Feb 24 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Playoffs - Wednesday, Mar 08 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Prize Pool
Qualifiers 1st - $50 + 60 OSC Points + Qualified to Season 1 Finals 2nd - 30 OSC Points + Qualified to Season 1 Finals 3rd/4th - 15 OSC Points 5-8th - 5 OSC Points 9-16th - 2.5 OSC Points
On February 20 2017 20:04 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: Woah, this snuck up on me. Sick group to open with, top-tier TvZ and maybe Kelazhur stealing some games
yeah sick group, hope the two ByuN vs Z matches will deliver
On February 20 2017 23:53 CynicalDeath wrote: ...you're talking about the Abyssal Reef game... I was talking about game 1...
That was even less of a hold, he lost 2 rax, 20 workers and all his ground units. I mean basically you complimented him for not leaving despite being dead
So I guess the only macro games Dark plays today are ZvZs?
On February 20 2017 23:53 CynicalDeath wrote: ...you're talking about the Abyssal Reef game... I was talking about game 1...
That was even less of a hold, he lost 2 rax, 20 workers and all his ground units. I mean basically you complimented him for not leaving despite being dead
Was there any more fitting way to end this group than with an entire company of marines move commanding to their death and floating to the surface of Abyssal Reef?
Great few weeks of events in Season 1 of the WardiTV Weekly! We will be bringing Season 2 when some spaces opens up on the calendar / when some VSL & SSL dates are more visible.
If you missed any of the action we already have 40+ series in the WardiTV Weekly S1 playlist, with the rest of the S1 Finals being uploaded over the next few days - enjoy!
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