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Announcing StarCraft 2 League Powered by D-Link!

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iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-10 01:34:54
July 10 2013 00:04 GMT
#1
Hi Everyone,

If you read my Twitter and Facebook, or if you watch any of the various shows I appear on, you may have heard me over the course of the past several months mention a project that has been in the making for quite a while now. Well, I am excited to share the details behind this project with you as we are finally ready to launch! Today, I am proud to announce the SC2L (StarCraft® II League), Powered by D-Link! Our goal with the SC2L is to create a consistent, high-quality team league for the organizations in the West. We want the SC2L to become the Western world's premier team league.

Why the team format? Well, while we are fortunate enough to have plenty of great 1v1 tourneys and leagues available to us in the West, the landscape for team-based competition isn't nearly as strong. We feel it is important to support and feature the West's best team organizations, and in doing so help improve the quality of competition in the West, and the Western scene at large. This is why we are pushing as hard as we can to be the premier team league in the West.

SC2L's first season will be about two months long, and it will feature eight of the West's top teams (including Western team organizations that have Korean players) competing in the traditional ProLeague format (best of 7 rounds, one map per round). Joining us this season will be Liquid, ROOT, MouseSports, Acer, Axiom, EG, and Na`Vi, with Dignitas and compLexity competing as one joint team. Season 1 will be a single round-robin (meaning every team plays every other team once), leading into an online playoff. The final two teams standing after the online playoff will receive travel and hotel stipends to compete for the SC2L Season 1 Championship at DreamHack Bucharest, September 14th & 15th! With our Grand Finals match co-produced with DreamHack, so you can expect the same top-notch production value we've seen from DreamHack Open events over the years.

Our casting lineup for this season is really cool. SC2L Season 1 will be hosted and casted by some of the finest in the biz. I'll be your regular, everyday host and commentator and will be joined on a weekly basis by an amazing rotation of co-casters, which includes djWHEAT, Day[9], and Artosis. I'll be bringing the casts to you live from our studio in San Francisco, with our co-casters joining me remotely via voice and webcam.

Additionally, we are really excited and grateful to have D-Link as a new sponsor for SC2L Season 1. Without their support, we wouldn't be able to bring you the high-quality production and casters that will help make this league one of the best. Additionally, with D-Link's support, we are also proud to announce that SC2L Season 1 will feature one of the first crowd-sourced prize pools in StarCraft II.

How does that work, exactly? It's really simple. D-Link's coming out with an awesome new gaming router, and for every router our tournament's viewers pre-order, D-Link will add $10 to the prize pool. So while SC2L's prize pool will open at $10K, it can be doubled to $20K with the help of our viewers!

If you like what you've read so far, I'd ask that you please check out D-Link's new gaming router by visiting its Newegg.com profile page. If you're interested in purchasing it, make sure to enter promo code "DLNKGAME5" when you check out. By using this code, you'll get a discount on your purchase, and you'll add $10 to the SC2L prize pool!

SC2L's first broadcast will be tonight, July 9th, at 9PM PDT, featuring Day[9] and myself. I hope you'll all join us as we kick off what we hope will be an awesome team league! Also, if you'd like to read more about SC2L, check out our website at www.SC2L.gg !

Also, don't forget to check out our Season 1 YouTube Trailer!

Sincerely,

Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson
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NovemberstOrm
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada16217 Posts
July 10 2013 00:06 GMT
#2
link is broken/incorrect
Moderatorlickypiddy
Thinasy
Profile Joined March 2011
2856 Posts
July 10 2013 00:06 GMT
#3
Sick idea I must say, not that I'll ever buy a D-link router again after the 2 failures i've had unfortunately, but good luck and i'll be sure to watch this.
Jaedong & Faker
CuteZergling
Profile Joined November 2011
641 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-10 00:10:03
July 10 2013 00:08 GMT
#4
Fixed link www.sc2l.gg
Team owner of team QTLing
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
July 10 2013 00:08 GMT
#5
I wish you the best of luck with this. Sounds amazing! Casting line-up is also fantastic.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
UltiBahamut
Profile Joined October 2010
United States102 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-10 00:09:14
July 10 2013 00:08 GMT
#6
Get rid of the explanation mark and it works fine :D
http://www.sc2l.gg/
"Thats Halo, Dont worry" Huk
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33339 Posts
July 10 2013 00:09 GMT
#7
I refuse to call this SC2L

EGTL it is
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
StarVe
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany13591 Posts
July 10 2013 00:09 GMT
#8
Good stuff, gogo Mouz!
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
July 10 2013 00:09 GMT
#9
I took the liberty of fixing your link. Good to see another team league seems like they all dropped off recently.
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
Vindexus
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada76 Posts
July 10 2013 00:10 GMT
#10
Looking forward to it. Having the sponsor increase the prize pool when you buy their product is really cool.
CEO - WellPlayed Productions
FloKi
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
1490 Posts
July 10 2013 00:10 GMT
#11
getting a new sponsor in the scene is cool
Where do whores go?
Siphonn
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States298 Posts
July 10 2013 00:11 GMT
#12
I think it is a bit silly that it was a invite only format for a team league, there should at least be 2 Open Qualifiers (1 for EU, 1 for Americas). Whatever though, cool idea I guess.
Tobblish
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden6404 Posts
July 10 2013 00:11 GMT
#13
This is great news, I've really been enjoying team leagues lately (mainly because of my team being awesome) so I welcome this and will be fun to cheer for a western team.
Cool that D-Link is getting involved as well and putting this up with such a great set of casters, the finals incorporation with DH Bucharest is icing on the cake!
The curse is real
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8230 Posts
July 10 2013 00:12 GMT
#14
Sickkkkkk. Hopefully this will be as cool as IPTL.
rift
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
1819 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-10 00:15:49
July 10 2013 00:12 GMT
#15
So is EGTL bailing Proleague next season?
Keytar
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada156 Posts
July 10 2013 00:12 GMT
#16
Of all the things you could call your league, it's just the Starcraft II League? Isn't that sort of confusing?
I try to be rage-free as I game. As you can imagine, this is difficult.
SchAmToo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1141 Posts
July 10 2013 00:12 GMT
#17
No Quantic?
twitch.tv/schamtoo | twitter.com/schamtoo
NB
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Netherlands12045 Posts
July 10 2013 00:13 GMT
#18
EG has never been good with choosing a name for their leagues, hasnt they?
Im daed. Follow me @TL_NB
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
July 10 2013 00:13 GMT
#19
Team league you say. Studio you say. I'm in Geoff. I'm in.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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aike
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1629 Posts
July 10 2013 00:13 GMT
#20
I hope they aren't looking to sell too many routers off of this... $200 is quite the pricey router, and for most people it wouldn't make a big enough difference over a $50 router. Hopefully some people buy it instead of having an embarrassingly low addition to the prize pot :\
Wahaha
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