SPOTV have announced the qualifiers and some details for their Starcraft 2 league.
The offline qualifiers will be held starting December 11, with 28 players advancing into a "Challenger League". There are no region restrictions, so any masters player willing to try the qualifiers can participate in the qualifiers. 4 players will be seeded from various regions, chosen by SPOTV, directly into this league to make up the 32 players. They will then play to reach the main tournament: a Ro16 Dual Tournament.
Tournament Format: Finals: Best of 7 Semi Finals: Best of 7, one each broadcast day Quarter Finals: Best of 5, two each broadcast day Ro16: 4 player groups in a best of 3 dual tournament, one group per broadcast day Group Selections: 1 day Challenger: Best of 5, four per broadcast day
The Season 1 finals will be held on March 21, 2015.
Prize distribution: 1st place: 40m Won or ~$35,975 Runner Up: 10m Won or $8,994 Semi Finalists: 4.5m Won or ~$4,047 Ro8: 2m Won or $1,798 Ro16: 1m Won or $899
After each season, each player that lost in the Ro8 will be seeded into next season's Challenger, while all semi finalists will be seeded directly into the main tournament. Season 2 will only have 24 Challenger spots (since 4 players already seeded into main tournament).
I'll try to make this post more detailed once I get a better translation.
On November 21 2014 11:58 Die4Ever wrote: are the qualifiers played online? seeds? any word on how they're choosing seeds? please not by popular vote
Would be cool if they took the Blizzcon top 4: Life, MMA, Classic, and Taeja. Unless MMA's not playing in KR?
On November 21 2014 12:04 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: So it's basically just another GSL?
If you win (or get top 4) you go to the Ro16 of the next one automatically, so it's possible we'll see more consistency than in GSL.
It's actually more like the BW OSL except that you need to get Ro8 to get into next season's "challenger league" instead of Ro16. But that's a good change.
Quick google translate says: *Offline qualifiers *Season finals March 21st *Prize pool: 1st place 40 million won 2nd 10 million top4 4.5 million top8 2 million top16 1 million
On November 21 2014 12:05 DARKING wrote: Quick google translate says: *Offline qualifiers *Season finals March 21st *Prize pool: 1st place 40 million won 2nd 10 million top4 4.5 million top8 2 million top16 1 million
Giant first place prize over the rest? Yup, its a Korean tournament
SPL 2014 was a success (right?), so I'm excited to see what SPOTV can bring to the table. Also, Korea has way too much talent but not enough tournaments to play in. I think this is great news.
On November 21 2014 12:55 dyDrawer wrote: SPL 2014 was a success (right?), so I'm excited to see what SPOTV can bring to the table. Also, Korea has way too much talent but not enough tournaments to play in. I think this is great news.
I think the plan is to have 3 GSLs, 3 SPOTV tournaments, and 3 KesPA cups, so this should be the biggest year in Korean Starcraft since 2011 which had 7 GSLs and like 3 special events.
EPT
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