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[CSL] Playoff Kickoff

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Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-23 21:20:01
March 21 2011 23:13 GMT
#1
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Welcome to the Collegiate Starleague's awesome thread! Our playoffs are set to begin this coming weekend and we have some exciting stuff planned! If you missed our playoff kickoff event, you can check out the VOD HERE.

Before getting into the juicy details, here's what you all have wanted to hear: what's at stake for the CSL playoff participants? What can you guys win?


CSL Playoff Prizes:
1st. $1,000 + 5 Tt eSports MEKA G1 Keyboards
2nd. 5 Tt eSports Black Gaming Mouse
3rd/4th. 5 Tt eSports Dasher Mousepads

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Who's Casting the Playoffs?
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Like the Season 2 and Season 3 Grand Finals... this year our Grand Finals will be cast live by Day9 on Friday, May 6th! We will also be joined by Quarter Final and Semi Final casting by Diggity, Ro16 casting by iNcontroL and Gretorp. Other awesome casters from Reddit such as Adebisi and CatsPajamas will be joining us as well, along with our very own Xeris and Hazelynut and many more! We hope you are just as excited as we are to watch the games!

Full Caster Profiles Below
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Robbie “Ghostclaw” Nakamura is a long time member of Teamliquid.net, as well as being a banling
and one of the original founding members of Liquipedia. His game knowledge stems from watching
and playing Brood War since the original rise of Nada. In addition to Starcraft, he also studies Electrical Engineering at UC Irvine, and specializes in building hybrid drive systems for racecars.

Timothy "shindigs" Young is the head organizer of the UC Irvine eSports club and the dedicated
streamer/caster for the UCI CSL team, along with co-casters ghostclaw, alia, and darrenc. His major contributions to eSports include watching streams on TeamLiquid without AdBlock and running into BOTH Artosis and Tasteless on his way to the bathroom at Blizzcon. He was also in very close proximity to SlayerS_'BoxeR'.

Wolf "Wolf" Schroder: "Hi, my name is Wolf, and I'm a StarCraft II commentator. I've been doing this for over a year now, and I have covered many well-known foreign tournaments. I'm also on the FXOpen e-Sports Team. I'm really excited to work with the CSL because I feel like it's a great way for StarCraft players to work together in a team environment not only online, but often face to face as well. "

Muny "Ratanak" Tram and "Cragus" are the co-founders and casters of Waterloo CSL TV. Ratanak
is enrolled in Mechatronics Engineering at Waterloo. As an Asian-Canadian, he eats rice and potatoes. Cragus is studying mechanical engineering. As a Dutch-Canadian, he eats pakoras with English stouts.

Dan "Frodan" Chou is a junior at the University of California San Diego. He first started casting to
stream the weekly games for UCSD's coordinator, Xeris. Since Starcraft 2 was released, he has studied the game day and night. During these CSL casts, he found an increased desire to further dive into the game. He does his best to play SC2 whenever he is not casting to understand the meta-game and offer different insight. He hopes to bring CSL entertaining and fun casts in the future and hopes that you guys tune in! "Be sure to say hi if you ever see me online "

Mona "Hazelynut" Zhang is a proud member of the Princeton 2v2 team (5g speedling all the way!),
closet commentator, and CSL mother since 2009. And (hell), it's about time to dust off her commentating idol days to get pumped for CSL Playoff action! Season 4, 4ever.

Duran "Xeris" Parsi is known as That Guy Who Organizes Every SC2 Tournament. Ever. As a UCSD alum who shed a few manly tears in Season 3 when UCSD took the gold, Xeris is now reluctantly taking the backseat and not smurfing for his team this season. He'll be joining the CSL as commentator in addition to his role as a weekly reviewer in which teams bribe him for highlights.

Mark "DarthThienAn" Ha is a sophomore at Princeton and an "undefined" admin in the CSL (meaning he does all the work). Darth is well-known for 2-0'ing Haemonculus (using DTs), beating Duke's ace Terran (using proxy 4gate), and hosting the ever-so-popular CSL Starjeweled Tournament.

Kevin "CatsPajamas" Knocke is an aspiring eSports broadcaster, emphasizing on exciting play-
by-play commentary. He is thrilled to be casting the CSL. You can find him at http://youtube.com/
catspajamassc2, http://twitter.com/catspajamassc2, and http://facebook.com/catspajamassc2

Mike "Adebisi" Van Driel grew up playing the original Starcraft and has been playing SC2 since he got a beta invite. He plays for Dalhousie University and has managed to not drop a 1v1 yet! He began casting a couple of months ago and is very excited to be casting for CSL, hopefully in the future as well, as he will be graduating soon and this is his eligible last season. Check out his YouTube and stream for more here: http://www.youtube.com/adebisistarcraft and http://www.justin.tv/adebisisc

Geoff "Incontrol" Robinson is no stranger to the community- he's a member of team EG, a coach for gosucoaching.com, and one of the main organizers of the new NASL. See more of him at http://www.justin.tv/incontroltv

Andre "Gretorp" Hengchua, analytical Terran and former Fnatic progamer turned NASL commentator, is joining the CSL because he loves Princeton kids and education. Watch out for his tutorials and streams, or you may learn too much.

Zach "Diggity" Smith is an experienced commentator, harkening back to the days of BroodWar,
including the earliest days of the CSL. He's well known for his work with SC2GG, GosuCoaching, and Reddit, and we're glad to have him returning for another season of the CSL!

Sean "Day[9]" Plott needs no introduction, but here goes: formerly an A+ Brood War player, he has
become perhaps the world's most famous and most loved commentator, and after his spectacular finals cast last season, we couldn't miss the chance to have him back to cast this season's finals!


All playoff matches can be found at CSL @ Justin.tv!

Playoff Bracket
Red Conference
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Blue Conference
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Full Playoff Schedule
Can be found here!

Fun Contests!!
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CSL Bracket Contest: Fill out your bracket, March Madness style! Just download the bracket image, fill out your teams, and send your submission to cslbracket@gmail.com ! The winner of the contest (who perfectly predicts the result or gets the closest) will receive a prize from Tt eSports and $100 cash!

You can find the full information HERE


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LIKE US Contest: We're going to be giving out prizes to our fans on Facebook, and those of our sponsor, Tt eSports! The contest is simple: encourage your friends to "like" the CSL & Tt eSports on Facebook! Your friends must post in the discussion topics saying your name.

At the end of the 1 month contest period, the person whose name is mentioned the most will win a Tt eSports Mouse. Also, one of his/her friends will be randomly selected to win the same prize. The same will be done for the Tt eSports Facebook!

You can find the full information HERE



Once again, we hope you're all hyped for the playoffs as much as we are! We hope you will support the CSL!

Check out...
  • CSTARLEAGUE.com - your one-shop stop for everything CSL / Collegiate Starcraft 2 related!
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Magrath
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada292 Posts
March 21 2011 23:37 GMT
#2
Can't wait for this. Especially Diggity casting.
Anything can be acheived through persistence and thought
Holcan
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2593 Posts
March 21 2011 23:37 GMT
#3
Lets go WLU :D you're the best Azide, <3 Seraphgod
Reference The Inadvertant Joey, Strong talented orchastrasted intelligent character.
Horse...falcon
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1851 Posts
March 21 2011 23:44 GMT
#4
Xeris casting! such a handsome mofo
Artosis: "From horsssse....falcon"
HELLOKITTY(SS)
Profile Joined November 2010
United States81 Posts
March 21 2011 23:46 GMT
#5
incontrol will come to A&M for a breif grad school visit for a couple weeks so he can play waterloo's combat ex for the ace game
KITTY POWAH
chesshaha
Profile Joined March 2010
United States1117 Posts
March 21 2011 23:50 GMT
#6
Wow, can't wait to see the matches. This is kinda like march madness for sc2. I know some folks from Texas A&M, so wish them best of luck!

Can't wait to fill out a bracket for this, lol.
"Hopefully you're not the real TLO so it's not casted" - SpecialK
eborp
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States266 Posts
March 21 2011 23:56 GMT
#7
UMCP HWAITING!
UMCP CSL NEEDS YOU!
stalife
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada1222 Posts
March 22 2011 00:31 GMT
#8
UBC WIN
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Raisauce
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada864 Posts
March 22 2011 00:34 GMT
#9
It's so obvious that Waterloo is going to take it again. If you guys haven't chosen Waterloo as your favorite to win for the bracket contest then I don't know what's wrong with you!
t3tsubo
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada682 Posts
March 22 2011 00:41 GMT
#10
On March 22 2011 09:34 Raisauce wrote:
It's so obvious that Waterloo is going to take it again. If you guys haven't chosen Waterloo as your favorite to win for the bracket contest then I don't know what's wrong with you!


Waterloo has the deepest pool of talent, but there are plenty of teams with better ace players than CombatEx. Any team with a sick ace and someone decent or a decent 2v2 team can beat waterloo with the ace player playing 2 games and with one other win.
CrazyCow
Profile Joined August 2010
United States308 Posts
March 22 2011 00:46 GMT
#11
Waterloo gonna roflstomp through this bracket.
Phustus
Profile Joined July 2008
Canada81 Posts
March 22 2011 00:48 GMT
#12
On March 22 2011 09:34 Raisauce wrote:
It's so obvious that Waterloo is going to take it again. If you guys haven't chosen Waterloo as your favorite to win for the bracket contest then I don't know what's wrong with you!


UBC's gonna smash Waterloo when they meet, just watch. stalife > CombatEx
Steel
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Japan2283 Posts
March 22 2011 00:48 GMT
#13
No McGill in this league? this is going to change next season...
Try another route paperboy.
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
March 22 2011 00:56 GMT
#14
On March 22 2011 09:48 Steel wrote:
No McGill in this league? this is going to change next season...


McGill didn't make it to the playoffs, they narrowly missed out on a tiebreaker! They were actually in the playoffs Season 1, 2, and 3!
twitter.com/xerislight -- follow me~~
Thegilaboy
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States2018 Posts
March 22 2011 01:06 GMT
#15
Man, CSL is so OP
rocky13
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada70 Posts
March 22 2011 01:07 GMT
#16
WLU Fighting/Hwaiting!!

where's the broadcast schedule? I can't find it posted on the site.
Horses+iNcontrol=hilarious
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
March 22 2011 01:12 GMT
#17
we're posting these tonight / tomorrow!
twitter.com/xerislight -- follow me~~
blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
March 22 2011 01:24 GMT
#18
oh the semifinals will be red vs blue and red vs blue?
blabberrrrr
Headlines
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States482 Posts
March 22 2011 01:25 GMT
#19
What? There's GT but no UGA? Shameful display! Go Rutgers! Do it for Jim Valvano!
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
March 22 2011 01:27 GMT
#20
On March 22 2011 10:24 blabber wrote:
oh the semifinals will be red vs blue and red vs blue?


Noo, it's just a design feature =P!
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