Extremely excited to announce the third edition of King of Battles! Let's see how the players fare after a well-deserved break from IEM and the introduction of a new balance patch!
With $15,000 and 1280 EPT points on the line, it's an opportunity for players to earn fame, fortune and important points towards the IEM Katowice 2023 World Championship!
These qualifiers are server qualifiers, players from all regions may play in as many of them as they like. There is no region lock. Double-elimination, 3 spots awarded in each qualifier, 15 qualifier spots total Seeding rule: EPT Combined Standings from 2021/22 Season.
EU Qualifier #1: Sunday, Apr 10 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) sign up here.
EU Qualifier #2: Wednesday, Apr 13 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) sign up here.
NA Qualifier: Saturday, Apr 23 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) sign up here.
Our only invited player this time around will be last year's winner (and 2x Champion): Maru!
Group Selection
After the qualifiers are concluded and we have our 16 participants we will perform a GSL-style group selection where players nominate each other. This way we will ensure full transparency and a bit of added spice for the players.
Main event
The main event will be held from April 28th to May 1st. Exact times will be announced after the qualifiers conclude. 4 groups of 4 players each will lead into an 8 player single-elimination playoff bracket. You can find all infos on Liquipedia.
Sponsors
Huge thanks to returning sponsors GFUEL, Red Cross and SomeDrunkCanadian while welcoming new sponsor LAYZR, maker of digital trading cards of your streaming stars!
Red Cross
Similar to what we did during King of Battles 2, we will be holding a series of special fundraising showmatches with proceeds going towards alleviating the tragic situation in Ukraine. Participating players and details will be revealed later.
LAYZR
We are pleased to announce a unique experience for King of Battles 3 where viewers can be rewarded with digital cards to commemorate this tournament! One such card will feature 2x defending champion Maru! Here is a sample!
Want to support Alpha X if you are a fan of our events focused style of developing SC2 talent? We frequently organize events of all kinds to support our talents like Astrea, Zoun, Classic & RagnaroK etc and showcase other premier players. Support and more information via Patreon
I thought I saw some KR names signing up, but I guess they knew they had no chance against Serral Reynor Clem on EU server anyway, so they just skipped this one. Probably aiming for the 2nd one.
I'm convinced that the big Zergs purposefully slump in small events to avoid getting nerfed so they can dominate when there is actual money on the line. Only way to explain Rogue and Reynor. It makes SC2 a lot less fun to watch knowing that if they actually choose to try the top 8 of every event will be half Zerg or worse.
soO was out for so long he still thinks swarmhosts are viable lol. its a shame he does not realize lurker upgrades got so OP he just needs to make them to win in these scenarios. instead he is stuck battling terran mech with hydra bane swarmhost :D and the funniest shit is that he actually is kinda winning the engagements with this sucky composition. he wont win though I dont think just was too far behind economically and his army is terrible.
On April 12 2022 23:28 MarianoSC2 wrote: soO was out for so long he still thinks swarmhosts are viable lol. its a shame he does not realize lurker upgrades got so OP he just needs to make them to win in these scenarios. instead he is stuck battling terran mech with hydra bane swarmhost :D and the funniest shit is that he actually is kinda winning the engagements with this sucky composition. he wont win though I dont think just was too far behind economically and his army is terrible.
To be fair, soO sucked with swarmhost when they were op too
Soooooooooo glad to see soO do kinda well again. Pretty sure he could have won vs Dark as well. Hope he sticks with SC2 for the next months, I think he could surprise some people.
On April 24 2022 13:21 tigera6 wrote: 5 Protoss, 4 Terran and 7 Zerg, and still on the same map pool, yeah, this is not looking good for non-Zerg players.
On April 23 2022 09:21 BeoMulf wrote: Man, could not be more excited that I get to work with Artosis on the final day. The other talent are cool as well, I guess... 😍
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