A 2V2 tournament with $9,000 in prize pool and top caliber talent, you know the drill.
Lineup
Sixteen pairings from in and outside of WTL will compete in a single elimination bracket event:
Twelve from each current Code S WTL team. Four handpicked by four invited players: Serral, Bunny, HeRoMaRinE, ShoWTimEGoblin, SKillous, trigger, their partner pool will be both outside and inside WTL.
Schedule
January 3-4, 2023: Round of 16 (best of 5) January 5-6, 2023: Round of 8 (best of 7) January 7, 2023: Semifinals (best of 7) January 8, 2023: 3rd place and finals (best of 9)
Pretty exciting move from WTL. Unfortunately whoever picked the map pool didn't look too hard into maps, because half of the map pool is kind of bad. Using any Blizzard 2v2 maps at all is particularly a terrible choice. There have been many maps submitted to TL.net Team Map Contests that would be better here.
On December 20 2022 11:14 MrIronGolem27 wrote: Pretty exciting move from WTL. Unfortunately whoever picked the map pool didn't look too hard into maps, because half of the map pool is kind of bad. Using any Blizzard 2v2 maps at all is particularly a terrible choice. There have been many maps submitted to TL.net Team Map Contests that would be better here.
On December 20 2022 11:14 MrIronGolem27 wrote: Pretty exciting move from WTL. Unfortunately whoever picked the map pool didn't look too hard into maps, because half of the map pool is kind of bad. Using any Blizzard 2v2 maps at all is particularly a terrible choice. There have been many maps submitted to TL.net Team Map Contests that would be better here.
I don't see them using any map outside of the official ladder pool, ever. This has been consistent since WTL started
On December 20 2022 11:14 MrIronGolem27 wrote: Pretty exciting move from WTL. Unfortunately whoever picked the map pool didn't look too hard into maps, because half of the map pool is kind of bad. Using any Blizzard 2v2 maps at all is particularly a terrible choice. There have been many maps submitted to TL.net Team Map Contests that would be better here.
I don't see them using any map outside of the official ladder pool, ever. This has been consistent since WTL started
Golden Kingdom and Catalesque were never on ladder
On December 20 2022 11:14 MrIronGolem27 wrote: Pretty exciting move from WTL. Unfortunately whoever picked the map pool didn't look too hard into maps, because half of the map pool is kind of bad. Using any Blizzard 2v2 maps at all is particularly a terrible choice. There have been many maps submitted to TL.net Team Map Contests that would be better here.
I don't see them using any map outside of the official ladder pool, ever. This has been consistent since WTL started
Golden Kingdom and Catalesque were never on ladder
Hum, fair point, but when they used it ? Because watched the wiki and didn't find it
There is a bad news that everyone of WTL production team is sick, and the the last round of regular WTL season is delayed. I wonder if this 2v2 match may also be delayed as well. Anyway I hope they will have a quick recovery.
On December 23 2022 23:48 ProTech wrote: Don't really understand this, can anyone sign up?
I gues they invited 12 wtl players and the 4 mentioned above and each of them can choose a Partner to play together
Kinda what I deduced, so the players selected from WTL can pick their team mates?
Froim the Liquipedia page : " Every team is composed of two players. For WTL teams, their players should be from their current roster. For invited teams, their teammates can be chosen without any limitation. "
On December 23 2022 23:48 ProTech wrote: Don't really understand this, can anyone sign up?
I gues they invited 12 wtl players and the 4 mentioned above and each of them can choose a Partner to play together
Kinda what I deduced, so the players selected from WTL can pick their team mates?
Froim the Liquipedia page : " Every team is composed of two players. For WTL teams, their players should be from their current roster. For invited teams, their teammates can be chosen without any limitation. "
Roster has been updated minus 2 team, Invictus and SSLT, and Clem not playing for Team Liquid. And it looks like HM, Showtime and Bunny doesnt want to play so WTL has replaced them with other invited players.