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We are expecting top professional teams to be in alpha league. Lesser teams will fall to Beta-league. We are extending the league because of interest and we are unlikely to end up casting any of the beta-league games beyond season 1 as we expect Beta-league to be for platinum and lesser diamond players.
We have some really strong players registered from team NrG, and VP gamers, if you would like to call them BillyMasters I suggest you re-evaluate how you view grandmaster league players. If you, "Fingulfin" are actually a smurf account for some pro player in korea, then you can reserve the right to call people BillyMasters, BobDiamond, and BretPlatinum, but otherwise I suggest you refrain from insulting the time that people put into learning the game and building their skills.
There are more than 32 professional gaming teams out there. Without a prize pool we cannot expect to gather them all immediately, but we will grow the American ProLeague Alpha-League into a truly professional league.
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May xi elevengaming still apply? Sorry I've been out of the loop for awhile. Thanks.
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yes!
We would love to have xi in the league. the registration page is still open and will be open until June12th.
http://machtechcorp.net/apl/?page_id=30
based on the past few posts....
Alpha and Beta League placement for season 1 is currently based on registration timing, but because of people doubting the level of professionalism we are evaluating this decision and possibly looking to do a simple ranking system upon registration close based on some general ranking of the team in terms of the ladder to better place teams into the correct league.
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SHOWMATCH teams have been decided!
We will announce them shortly with banners for the showmatch.
Matches will be played with APL rules and will be played on Thursday May 19th at 7pm Eastern Time.
we will cast the games at www.justin.tv/aegisstarcraft
vods will be available at www.youtube.com/aegisstarcraft2
Refer to the first post of this thread for more information.
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This is so cool! i cant believe no one else thought about this!
Question tho, will there be an european aswell? i mean my clan can host it themselves but dont wanna take credit away! Please consider this!
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like if you want to run this with inclusion of teams from Europe?
A: We accept teams from all around, as long as they can play on the NA server.
or run this on the EU server?
A: If you would like to take our method and run it on European Server it will have to wait until after season 1 begins. Our staff is small and not yet capable of supporting a second tournament to be run with the high quality of production and playing experience that we strive for. - PM me if this is the question that you were trying to ask. However, we are excited to be able to explore all of our options and will seek to understand the best way to implement any extensions of the APL.
-AEgis
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CANT WAIT FOR THE SHOW MATCH! 
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Show match will be exciting I'm sure!
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ShowMatch will be between VP Gamers and NrG! We hope to put a banner up soon! :D
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no one is mad about the 5 day in advance lineup submission?
really?
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I dont see qq ers in the CSL. No reason to change the rules. :D
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just cause they have bad rules and ppl deal w/ it
doesnt make the rules good
rookie sc2 admins, w/e
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On May 13 2011 14:17 DuxDucis wrote:
just cause they have bad rules and ppl deal w/ it
doesnt make the rules good
rookie sc2 admins, w/e
provides a different format for players to practice with. This is a much better format than I have seen other leagues use such as the Home/Away format.
No need to get all ad-hominem at someone volunteering their time, relax champ.
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On May 13 2011 14:17 DuxDucis wrote:
just cause they have bad rules and ppl deal w/ it
doesnt make the rules good
rookie sc2 admins, w/e
I stand by my rules and this aspect of the APL will never change.
and by the way CSL has been around for 3+ years and has used similar lineup submission methods.
The CSL is a very well run tournament that has over 144 teams. I can imagine that there are very few people that think CSL is poorly run.
Either you deal with it or dont play in this one. im sure you can go and make your own or just play in one that is better run. Right?
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It also benefits the more structured teams who don't have to run around finding ringers or something 
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On May 13 2011 14:17 DuxDucis wrote:
just cause they have bad rules and ppl deal w/ it
doesnt make the rules good
rookie sc2 admins, w/e
lol i award you troll of the day.
i agree with NrG
if there was no rule that required a 5 day advanced line up submission then people would not take it seriously. with no deadline there is no officialism to the line up (if that is a word).
Putting all that aside its only 5 days. grow-up and learn to manage time how hard is it to submit a player line-up?
rookie sc2 trolls w/e
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i said i'd be fine w/ a 1 day deadline
the problem i think you'll run into is sc2 players w/ a life as well
i have a fairly normal schedule with school and work, yet i cant tell you what my schedule in 5 days is like
your asking 18-22yr olds to have a set in stone schedule ?
have you ever managed before?
lol
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just gotta set aside some time for the matches on saturday. Theres a reason why we dont limit team sizes and can have rare-exceptions for rescheduling if both teams agree.
I dont see why an 18 - 22 yr old cant figure out what they are doing on saturday afternoon a few days in advance and set aside some time.
And yes I have managed many things before. This is one of the first events that Im managing that has even this much leeway. I usually set a zero tolerance/no late policy. These more relaxed rules that I have provided will better help teams prepare for matches and also give enough time for teams to review replays of their opponents from previous weeks, etc. - or perhaps I should have let the iron fist side of me write the entire rule book?
Late lineups will be punished in the following manner (first place I saw this was CSL, so credit to them for coming up with this)
one day late : ace game forfeit
two days late : 4th game forfeit
three days late : forfeit match, other team recieves 3-0
In other news - SHOWMATCH is coming up! Both teams are submitting their lineups on sunday at 11:59 pacific time in preparation for matches on Thursday 7pm eastern time. VP Gamers vs NrG!
join us on the livestream early for some music by Infinity State Music at 6:45 at http://www.justin.tv/aegisstarcraft
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This is because they don't have any prizes, so it's purely for fun and competition. If they ever get sponsored, they'd get more professional teams to sign up.
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