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MrCon
France29748 Posts
Someone made subtitle to a 15 minutes GOM video they brodcasted before season 1. Everything was explained, code S, code A, seeds for the first season (now we are in pre season) For some reason the video was removed from youtube because of copyright violation, but I guess that was a mistake, as this was free content. Well, if the person who translate it is stil laround here, perhaps he could reup this vid. | ||
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Cyanocyst
2222 Posts
I originally thought that S class players would just get favorable brackets and maybe even have to play preliminary anymore. And match-ups or high level players would happen later on in the tournament. Which is really good, since we wouldn't have any BS happening again like with Tester or Top for instance. | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On October 30 2010 14:35 Ocedic wrote: Especially in Japanese. I play SSF4 and S rank is commonly superior to A rank in fighting games. When people talk about character tiers S tier is above A tier as well. Well, from researching around, it looks like this system of ranking originated in Japan. However, I highly doubt that the origin of the "S" rank is an English word. | ||
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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
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ey215
United States546 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=141496 Enjoy. | ||
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koppik
United States676 Posts
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
in terms of the GSL though, it just relates to their seeding structure for 2011 tournaments | ||
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Cyanocyst
2222 Posts
Obviously 3*8=24 so theres 8 additional spots. Also double/triple counting for players that make top 8 more than once, will free up more spots. So while its favorable to make a Top 8 spot, its not necessary to get in to S-class. Though it says that the total tournament will have 96 players, Does anybody know how that works? 96 boils down a 3 person finals. My best guess is all A-class players 33-96 will vs each other so that the Top 32 A-class players move on. Then in the round of 64 every S-Class player will receive an A-class player to face. | ||
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
On October 30 2010 13:25 Belligerent wrote: In monster rancher, it was better than A Confirmed. I miss that game ... | ||
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GagnarTheUnruly
United States655 Posts
As far as I know S rank comes from video games. Word on the street is that in Japan C is a pretty poor rank (whereas Americans find it acceptable). So programmers of games that provide ranks for things wanted to add another rank that's even awesomer than A, and they made up S-rank. In practically every game with a ranking system made in the past 10 years S rank has been the dop rank. No doubt BW was inspired by that. | ||
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
On October 30 2010 14:53 andrewlt wrote: Well, from researching around, it looks like this system of ranking originated in Japan. However, I highly doubt that the origin of the "S" rank is an English word. Actually, I'm pretty sure it's from "Super" or "Special" | ||
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Fa1nT
United States3423 Posts
That's how most ranking work in everything that exists. But America has to be super special awesome and leave out S rank in most things because we are cool like that =/ | ||
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bjwithbraces
United States549 Posts
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lim1017
Canada1278 Posts
if they auto qualify for how long? i think it would be unfair for a player who achieve S class once to get seeded into GSL top 64 for the next year or w/e. (espically if they cant keep up) ive actully never heard of A class, how would seeding of A class players work? | ||
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Niick
Australia426 Posts
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Sobba
Sweden576 Posts
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JoeJin
United States77 Posts
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cablesc
United States1540 Posts
There are two separate tournaments. The S-class and the A-class will not play against each other. The S-class tournament is a 32 player tournament that will be the top tournament with the higher profile, prestige, and presumably prize pool. The A-class tournament is a 64 player tournament that is the lessor tournament in terms of attention and probably prize money. It's similar to what happens in college basketball in the US. There's a top tournament (NCAA's) and a secondary tournament (NIT). In order to keep things fresh and allow players improve their standings, after every GSL there will be a qualifying round to promote/demote players. The bottom S-class players will play against the top A-class players for a spot in the S-league. The bottom A-class players will play against the top 32 in battlenet for a spot in the A-league. Hope this clears things up. | ||
Comeh
United States18919 Posts
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Sobba
Sweden576 Posts
On October 30 2010 16:03 cablesc wrote: There's a lot of misinformation still over this issue. There are two separate tournaments. The S-class and the A-class will not play against each other. The S-class tournament is a 32 player tournament that will be the top tournament with the higher profile, prestige, and presumably prize pool. The A-class tournament is a 64 player tournament that is the lessor tournament in terms of attention and probably prize money. It's similar to what happens in college basketball in the US. There's a top tournament (NCAA's) and a secondary tournament (NIT). In order to keep things fresh and allow players improve their standings, after every GSL there will be a qualifying round to promote/demote players. The bottom S-class players will play against the top A-class players for a spot in the S-league. The bottom A-class players will play against the top 32 in battlenet for a spot in the A-league. Hope this clears things up. Ye thats how i understood it. But i think this sucks.. it will be almost impossible for any foreigners now to make a namn for themselfs unless they go to GSL 3. | ||
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