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The NA Apprentice - a league for NA semipros

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DoctorFoxer United States96 Posts December 02 2018 16:37 GMT #1 Introducing The NA Apprentice, a GSL-style tournament for up and coming NA semi-pro players. A total of 16 players will be competing in this tournament: 8 invited and 8 from qualifiers. In order to accommodate players' different times of availability, they will be given a specific time frame to complete their matches (listed under Important Dates). More specific details and rules can be found in the Challonge links below. Links Main event: https://challonge.com/ApprenticeSeason1 Qualifier 1: https://challonge.com/ApprenticeSeason1Qual1 Qualifier 2: https://challonge.com/ApprenticeSeason1Qual2 Eligibility Only NA residents who have not reached a Group Stage 3 (Top 32) in any 2018 WCS event may participate in this. Main Event Format Ro16 - Bo3 round robin group stage with 4 players in each group. The top two players will advance to the Playoffs. Playoffs - Single elimination. Ro8 and Ro4 are Bo5. Finals is Bo7. Players have until the specified date to play their matches. If both players cannot agree on a scheduled match time, a default date/time is set. Qualifier Format Bo3 double elimination. Top 4 qualify for the main event. Important Dates Qualifier 1: December 22nd @ 7 PM EST Qualifier 2: December 23rd @ 7 PM EST Ro16 round robin group stage: December 31st - January 5th Ro8: January 7th - 12th Ro4: January 14th - 19th Finals: January 21st - 26th Prize Pool 1st - $80 $100 2nd - $40 $50 3rd/4th - $15 $25 Other Information Discord server: https://discord.gg/b4VREDm In-game chat channel: ApprenticeNA Default server: NA Central EDIT: Thanks to a generous $50 donation from Reddit user aquanutz, the total prize pool is now $200! Changes to the prize pool distribution have been made above. Additional donations will first go towards adding payouts for the 5th - 8th place finishers. EDIT 2: feardragon will be covering the Ro16 games on his Twitch channel. You can see the schedule here: https://www.twitch.tv/events/FkrYKNtaQ0ueXu82jfKO3A

DoctorFoxer United States96 Posts December 02 2018 16:51 GMT #2 The 8 invited players are: DisK Raze Tesla (American Protoss player) jheffe FuturE CalebAracous WarreN starkiller

DoctorFoxer United States96 Posts December 07 2018 21:32 GMT #3 Added a Liquipedia page where the information is presented in a more visually-friendly manner. https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/The_NA_Apprentice:_Season_1 Also a reminder to sign up for the qualifiers if you wish to participate! Qualifier information can be found here: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/The_NA_Apprentice:_Season_1_Qualifiers

DoctorFoxer United States96 Posts December 25 2018 16:44 GMT #4 Ro16 groups have been announced! Who do you think will advance?

VengefulTree Canada628 Posts December 26 2018 05:18 GMT #5 Very cool! Future should be the clear favorite if Cheesadelphia is any indication

Xain0n Italy2389 Posts December 26 2018 15:12 GMT #6 It seems nice to me as well! I wouldn't underestimate Astrea.

DoctorFoxer United States96 Posts December 27 2018 18:49 GMT #7 feardragon will be casting the ro16 games on his Twitch channel one group per day starting at Jan 7 at 9 PM EST the full schedule can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/events/FkrYKNtaQ0ueXu82jfKO3A

DoctorFoxer United States96 Posts January 08 2019 02:31 GMT #8 Ro16 Group A is live now! https://www.twitch.tv/feardragon64

DoctorFoxer United States96 Posts January 11 2019 02:02 GMT #9 Ro16 Group C is live now! https://www.twitch.tv/feardragon64

DoctorFoxer United States96 Posts January 21 2019 21:48 GMT #10 The semis and finals will be streamed on feardragon's stream on January 27th @ 5 PM EST. https://www.twitch.tv/feardragon64

NrG.Bamboo United States2517 Posts January 22 2019 16:43 GMT #11 GO CUDDLEBEAR! I don't actually know any of these people but that's a name for a champion.

speakerbox Canada324 Posts January 28 2019 01:20 GMT #12 GG from Epic. Nice work.

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