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China6331 Posts
Source: http://sc2.163.com/articles/1001/71967
NetEase, the operator of Starcraft II in China, announced a new series of China's official domestic Starcraft II competition, the Starcraft II GOLD League. (The GOLD League is a tournament brand by NetEase, which also has Hearthstone competition)
The tournament will run three seasons starting this July, the first season ends in September, the second season starts in October and ends in December with a grand offline event to conclude this year's GOLD League series.
The roster of the first season are formed by:
- Eight Chinese mainland Starcraft II progamers who have played in WCS Challenger and Premier League this year.
- Top four Taiwanese players within the WCS ranking system.
- Two top players from SOC weekly/monthly tournaments.
- Two top players from Chinese Collegiate StarLeague.
- Players qualify from open qualifiers.
The invitees of the first season are:
Chinese WCS participants
 Jim
MacSed
 XiGua
Top
TooDming
Courage
Gemini
Shana
Top Taiwanese WCS participants
Sen
Has
Ian
Slam
SOC participants
 XY
Ein
CSL participants
iAsonu
XluoS
The open qualifier registration starts on July 16th till 20th, the qualifier will be held from July 21st to 26th. The qualifiers are only open to Chinese citizens.
Format
The tournament will run under the WCS system which consists of two dual tournament group stages and a single elimination bracket. The map pool will be the lastest WCS/ladder map pool. After the first season, top 16 of each season qualify for the next season while the last 16 players will have to play a "challenger league" against the 16 qualified players which consists of top 3 from CSL, top 5 from SOC and top 8 Chinese GM ladder for the rest 16 spots.
Prize pool
80,600 CNY (~12990$) each season
Winner: 30,000 CNY (~4834$)
Runner-up: 15,000 CNY (~2417$)
3rd-4th: 5,000 CNY(~805$)
5th-8th: 2,000 CNY(~322$)
9th-16th: 1,000 CNY(~161$)
17th-32th: 600 CNY(~97$)
Broadcasting
The official Chinese cast will be handled by NeoTV, which is also the official broadcaster of GSL, recently they covered The Sandisk SHOUTCRAFT Invitational to wide spread acclaim by the community and the man TotalBiscuit himself. An English cast is likely to be available by a yet to be determined broadcaster.
TL:DR: officially ran mini version of "WCS China", top Chinese and Taiwanese pros, grassroots open qualifier, 40k$ total prize money. And a not so clever title.
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"Gold League" jokes will start raining down the first time anyone makes a single misplay.
Cool to see them invite the Taiwanese, though.
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China6331 Posts
On July 16 2014 20:00 Circumstance wrote:
"Gold League" jokes will start raining down the first time anyone makes a single misplay.
Cool to see them invite the Taiwanese, though.
I've already predicted that since the second I heard about it.
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Nice! Really enjoying the fact that the SCII train starts powering up in China! 
(also, two small typos in the first sentence, both in 'Starcraft II'!)
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China6331 Posts
On July 16 2014 20:03 Anacreor wrote:Nice! Really enjoying the fact that the SCII train starts powering up in China! (also, two small typos in the first sentence, both in 'Starcraft II'!)
Thanks! Fixed!
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The amount of Protoss is overwhelming LOL
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TItle made me read smth like "NesTea announced sponsorship" 
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Just a question, are the leagues on the Chinese ladder called differently than in the others?
Because if no "gold league" is worthy of a facepalm.
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Pretty nice line-up.
Could see some good games in this.
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if SEA region is zerg then CN region is protoss
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"Gold" 
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Was this the same Netease that did that click bait last year. "Click on this website and icon, and we'll add something to the prize pool, you can do this for ..... days"
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Sigh... who was the genius who came up with the name "Gold League?"
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They need more terrans :/
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So China's version of the GSL? Sounds pretty cool.
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SEN/MACSED ftw! i cheer for u guys xd
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On July 16 2014 20:55 cheeseheadlogic wrote:
Was this the same Netease that did that click bait last year. "Click on this website and icon, and we'll add something to the prize pool, you can do this for ..... days"
That was for multiple games. Unfortunately, the starcraft II portion wasn't too big, but at least they made it happen to provide Chinese players more consistent income: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/SOC_2013-2014
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wow i like this news.
" TL:DR: officially ran mini version of "WCS China", top Chinese and Taiwanese pros, grassroots open qualifier, 40k$ total prize money. And a not so clever title. "
so this is like another wcs "region" with wcs points ?
The title is funny :D casters may have a good time .
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This is amazing, mb if they keep it up they can become Platinum.
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This is good news. Also maybe this will make some of the chinese players from WCS AM quit there and open more spots for AM players.
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Yay a new Chinese event to watch. I had no idea China had so many Protoss players though, even better :O
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Is this tied in with WCS points? Will players like  XY be able to gain points from this event if so?
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China6331 Posts
On July 16 2014 21:30 kugel wrote:
wow i like this news.
" TL:DR: officially ran mini version of "WCS China", top Chinese and Taiwanese pros, grassroots open qualifier, 40k$ total prize money. And a not so clever title. "
so this is like another wcs "region" with wcs points ?
The title is funny :D casters may have a good time .
It was planned as a WCS Tier 3 event unfortunately they didn't made it before Global Event submission closes at the end of Season 2.
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On July 16 2014 20:13 Hunterai wrote:
The amount of Protoss is overwhelming LOL
Actually there are as many zergs as there are protoss...
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Pretty cool. And pretty big that they invite people from the Republic of China as well. Consdering they're still technically at war and stuff. #diplomacythroughsc2
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Yay. That's great for China!
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On July 16 2014 20:13 Hunterai wrote:
The amount of Protoss is overwhelming LOL
On July 16 2014 20:53 SamirDuran wrote:
if SEA region is zerg then CN region is protoss
Am I missing something or is there as many Protoss players as Zerg? I count 7 of them for each race.
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Every player should play with a gold league smurf :D
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This is good, hopefully it'll be success.
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On July 16 2014 21:24 Skynx wrote:
They need more terrans :/
Yeah 
Regardless, this is pretty cool.
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On July 16 2014 21:14 kagamin wrote:
Sigh... who was the genius who came up with the name "Gold League?"
Considering Chinese names for stuff I'm surprised its not "Lucky Happy Fun League 88888"
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"中国台湾" hahaha. Insinuating that Taiwan belongs to China.
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China6331 Posts
On July 17 2014 00:49 Pangpootata wrote:
"中国台湾" hahaha. Insinuating that Taiwan belongs to China.
+ Show Spoiler +Political correct or you end up in jail
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Look at all these terrans I don't have
No, okay, seriously now, I hope the league is successful. But the lack of terran is troubling and the choice of name is not very good.
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hopefully we get lucky and this becomes wcs sea or china for 2015 so the na scene can be given back there spots xD
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United States2633 Posts
Nice. Hopefully Blizzard can officially brand it as WCS China next year. :D
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I thought it was Nestea dropping to gold league in China or something.
I'm kind of tired.
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WOW! I think they "strike gold" with this name. Imagine if Gold league winners will automatically qualify to WCS! That's will be just, well, golden I guess. I think to make it all compile Golden should win it and the prizes money should be paid in gold. Such a noble name to go viral, but I think they will regret or i just have a bit of a gold rush.
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Do you think they did it intentionally? Can it be that they want to harness the power of Internet?
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I thought we designed the game to have three races I know it's historically hard for foreigners to play Terran properly but there usually are some champs that come out to at least represent. Seems like the Chinese threw the entire concept out of the window.
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Where's Loner? He's the only Chinese Terran I know of, it would be nice to see more! Still excited for this though
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whats grass roots open qualifier mean?
when will we see koreans take the short flight over for the qualifiers then eventually fill the entire top 16 with all koreans?
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On July 17 2014 00:49 Pangpootata wrote:
"中国台湾" hahaha. Insinuating that Taiwan belongs to China.
It's okay. The fact that it's written in 簡體 makes it not worth mentioning. :p
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China6331 Posts
On July 17 2014 03:18 mikumegurine wrote:
whats grass roots open qualifier mean?
when will we see koreans take the short flight over for the qualifiers then eventually fill the entire top 16 with all koreans?
Obviously the qualifiers are Chinese citizen only.
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Great to see more tournaments in SC2 appear!
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Yay, more chinese Starcraftt! Good for their scene.
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Happy that Chinese SC2 scene is growing!
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Canada16217 Posts
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#alivegaem???
This is very, very good for the future of SC2. It's not quite as good as if 1/3 of those players were Terran, but it's a start!
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After the introduction of MMR decay, everybody is gold, so that's fine.
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Just in time for some bad news from Taiwan eSports League...
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On July 17 2014 19:16 BreAKerTV wrote:
Just in time for some bad news from Taiwan eSports League...
What's up with TeSL?
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Kinda disheartening to see cure lose there. Played so well.
Edit: Wrong thread sorry
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On July 17 2014 19:18 Zealously wrote:Show nested quote +On July 17 2014 19:16 BreAKerTV wrote:
Just in time for some bad news from Taiwan eSports League... What's up with TeSL?
You'll know when it is announced. Sorry for the cliffhanger, but you'll know. I'll translate the announcement when it is made public.
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Wtf? At least write 中華台灣
That's seriously messed up
User was warned for this post
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China6331 Posts
On July 18 2014 11:18 titan55 wrote:
Wtf? At least write 中華台灣
That's seriously messed up
Keep things in Starcraft.
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