More details have been announced regarding the qualifiers for SPOTV's new SC2 league.
The qualifiers will be held on December 11, 2014 at the Intel Shindorim Technomart Stadium. The players will be divided into Best of 3 single elimination brackets. The semi finalists will then compete in a Best of 3 dual tournament where the top 2 will advance to 'Challenger League'.
The map order will be: 1. Overgrowth 2. Daybreak 3. King Sejong Station
Registration will begin on November 24, 2014 until November 28, 2014. All interested parties should send an email to SC2@spotvgames.com . Any Masters League player above the age of 12 can participate in the qualifiers. There are no region restrictions as long as you can attend the offline qualifiers.
The tournament will be broadcast live on the following channels: - KT Olleh TV channel 283 - SKB TV channel 262 - LG U+ channel 109 - CJ Hello Vision channel 122 - Online via Afreeca, Youtube, Naver, mobile, etc.
On November 24 2014 11:05 Gamegene wrote: Daybreak Akilon Wastes Ohana
Swarm Hosts get Daybreak, 4 Base Terran gets Akilon, Protosssssssssssss gets Ohana.
Would have been balanced.
When somebody saying Ohana, one mr. Bitter somewhere smiling on our planet Btw, u may successfully play Swarmhost-turle style on Akilon, I've experienced a lot of such trash
On November 24 2014 11:05 Gamegene wrote: Daybreak Akilon Wastes Ohana
Swarm Hosts get Daybreak, 4 Base Terran gets Akilon, Protosssssssssssss gets Ohana.
Would have been balanced.
When somebody saying Ohana, one mr. Bitter somewhere smiling on our planet Btw, u may successfully play Swarmhost-turle style on Akilon, I've experienced a lot of such trash
every map is a good map for swarmhosts if you cover it with enough creep lol
On November 24 2014 11:05 Gamegene wrote: Daybreak Akilon Wastes Ohana
Swarm Hosts get Daybreak, 4 Base Terran gets Akilon, Protosssssssssssss gets Ohana.
Would have been balanced.
When somebody saying Ohana, one mr. Bitter somewhere smiling on our planet Btw, u may successfully play Swarmhost-turle style on Akilon, I've experienced a lot of such trash
every map is a good map for swarmhosts if you cover it with enough creep lol
Try to cover deadwing :D The main reason why I liked to play it PvZ macro on Deadwing! And now I'm missing it just like Frost
they put daybreak in as the second map, meaning that every match will have to play daybreak. meaning that the laddering that the players have done on this season's godawful map pool will at least count for something.
as bad as Daybreak can get when both players control their respective tower, it's a map that almost guarantees enough stability to get and establish a third base. I would consider Ohana and Akilon Wastes to be pretty egregious enough in the later stages of the game to be worth removing.
On November 24 2014 11:07 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Daybreak? Seriously? I don't like the set map order to begin with, much less having that as one of them!
It's funny. In its time, Daybreak wasn't really all that bad of a map.
On November 24 2014 11:07 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Daybreak? Seriously? I don't like the set map order to begin with, much less having that as one of them!
It's funny. In its time, Daybreak wasn't really all that bad of a map.
It was T favored in TvZ (~56%?) but it was alright. I just wish they'd use this opportunity to use their own maps.
On November 24 2014 11:07 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Daybreak? Seriously? I don't like the set map order to begin with, much less having that as one of them!
It's funny. In its time, Daybreak wasn't really all that bad of a map.
It was T favored in TvZ (~56%?) but it was alright. I just wish they'd use this opportunity to use their own maps.
On November 24 2014 11:29 DARKING wrote: So, basically same format as the GSL qualifiers. Daybreak as a map is ok, isn't it considered one of the most balanced map of all time?
It's a pretty bad map due to how easy it is to split it which is never fun.
Daybreak has actually managed to worm its way back into competitive play? This has to be a sick joke. Fuck tournaments that just mindlessly ape the ladder and fuck Blizzard for not realizing that is what happens and actually going through with this stupid dreampool bullshit. The shitty stagnant map pool of the last year of WoL does not get villified enough. We have already seen thousands of games too many on Daybreak.
On November 24 2014 13:43 Exarl25 wrote: Daybreak has actually managed to worm its way back into competitive play? This has to be a sick joke. Fuck tournaments that just mindlessly ape the ladder and fuck Blizzard for not realizing that is what happens and actually going through with this stupid dreampool bullshit. The shitty stagnant map pool of the last year of WoL does not get villified enough. We have already seen thousands of games too many on Daybreak.
On November 24 2014 13:43 Exarl25 wrote: Daybreak has actually managed to worm its way back into competitive play? This has to be a sick joke. Fuck tournaments that just mindlessly ape the ladder and fuck Blizzard for not realizing that is what happens and actually going through with this stupid dreampool bullshit. The shitty stagnant map pool of the last year of WoL does not get villified enough. We have already seen thousands of games too many on Daybreak.
You sound like you got blink all in'd every game.
How are Daybreak and blink all-ins even connected in your mind?
On November 24 2014 13:43 Exarl25 wrote: Daybreak has actually managed to worm its way back into competitive play? This has to be a sick joke. Fuck tournaments that just mindlessly ape the ladder and fuck Blizzard for not realizing that is what happens and actually going through with this stupid dreampool bullshit. The shitty stagnant map pool of the last year of WoL does not get villified enough. We have already seen thousands of games too many on Daybreak.
You sound like you got blink all in'd every game.
How are Daybreak and blink all-ins even connected in your mind?
On November 24 2014 13:43 Exarl25 wrote: Daybreak has actually managed to worm its way back into competitive play? This has to be a sick joke. Fuck tournaments that just mindlessly ape the ladder and fuck Blizzard for not realizing that is what happens and actually going through with this stupid dreampool bullshit. The shitty stagnant map pool of the last year of WoL does not get villified enough. We have already seen thousands of games too many on Daybreak.
wtf are you talking about? two of the maps are NOT current ladder maps. that's two more than what is typical. so how are they "mindlessly aping the ladder"? they literally used ONE map from the current pool, which was probably done as a courtesy to players as daybreak is the most popular map in the dreampool and the players will have a decent time practicing for it on ladder if they wish
and if they didn't "mindlessly ape the ladder", by which i assume you mean using maps that aren't from the current or previous ladder pool, the players would hate it. totalbiscuit tried it already in some of his tournaments, typically the players (especially koreans) didn't take it very seriously and seemed to dislike playing on random maps. so blaming tournaments is also pretty stupid.
On November 24 2014 11:07 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Daybreak? Seriously? I don't like the set map order to begin with, much less having that as one of them!
It's funny. In its time, Daybreak wasn't really all that bad of a map.
It was T favored in TvZ (~56%?) but it was alright. I just wish they'd use this opportunity to use their own maps.
That was also at the beginning of hots. Daybreak was not exceptionally Terran favored compared to the other maps.
On November 24 2014 13:43 Exarl25 wrote: Daybreak has actually managed to worm its way back into competitive play? This has to be a sick joke. Fuck tournaments that just mindlessly ape the ladder and fuck Blizzard for not realizing that is what happens and actually going through with this stupid dreampool bullshit. The shitty stagnant map pool of the last year of WoL does not get villified enough. We have already seen thousands of games too many on Daybreak.
wtf are you talking about? two of the maps are NOT current ladder maps. that's two more than what is typical. so how are they "mindlessly aping the ladder"? they literally used ONE map from the current pool, which was probably done as a courtesy to players as daybreak is the most popular map in the dreampool and the players will have a decent time practicing for it on ladder if they wish
and if they didn't "mindlessly ape the ladder", by which i assume you mean using maps that aren't from the current or previous ladder pool, the players would hate it. totalbiscuit tried it already in some of his tournaments, typically the players (especially koreans) didn't take it very seriously and seemed to dislike playing on random maps. so blaming tournaments is also pretty stupid.
I am talking about the fact that they felt obligated to include a current ladder map at all. This is not a normal ladder map pool. If they used last seasons maps no one would bat an eye, they are still fresh enough that players would not be disadvantaged. And I did say Blizzard were stupid for creating this situation in the first place.
On November 24 2014 14:22 GTR wrote: daybreak is sc2's equivalent of fighting spirit. boring to watch simply for the fact it has been overplayed to death.
On November 24 2014 14:22 GTR wrote: daybreak is sc2's equivalent of fighting spirit. boring to watch simply for the fact it has been overplayed to death.
So....... You're saying dead game? Or alive game?
needs more fighting spirit
shine vs innovation on sc2 fighting spirit, never forget
On November 24 2014 11:01 Gamegene wrote: eh. with all the crappy maps this season pretty sure daybreak is on most people's nonvetoes.
better than blink kingdom...
this always puzzled me but: shouldnt a completely flat map bring the best results considering balance evaluation? After that proved the balance to be fine we can move on to more complicated maps. But developing maps for years and years just to get the winrate of a special race or tactics down to 50% does point out to the balance not being fine at all. And I am not pointing to a particular race right now, blink is just an example
On November 24 2014 14:22 GTR wrote: daybreak is sc2's equivalent of fighting spirit. boring to watch simply for the fact it has been overplayed to death.
So....... You're saying dead game? Or alive game?
needs more fighting spirit
shine vs innovation on sc2 fighting spirit, never forget
On November 24 2014 20:07 LeLfe wrote: Daybreak had a good run, but during its last months, the games were awful on it, not rly happy of seeing it back
Come on, that Iron Squid game (between Life and DRG IIRC) with an infested terrans fest in the middle of Daybreak was truly something amazing to watch.
On November 24 2014 10:52 lichter wrote:The tournament will be broadcast live on the following channels: - KT Olleh TV channel 283 - SKB TV channel 262 - LG U+ channel 109 - CJ Hello Vision channel 122 - Online via Afreeca, Youtube, Naver, mobile, etc.
On November 24 2014 10:52 lichter wrote:The tournament will be broadcast live on the following channels: - KT Olleh TV channel 283 - SKB TV channel 262 - LG U+ channel 109 - CJ Hello Vision channel 122 - Online via Afreeca, Youtube, Naver, mobile, etc.
So no Twitch stream?
Says there are others aside from those mentioned so probably twitch
On November 28 2014 23:35 Charoisaur wrote: nothing wrong with adding the most balanced map of all time.
It wasn't especially the most funny one though.... :/
An good counter example would be King Sejong. I don't think it's the most balanced map, but it's one of the funniest currently, many games on it are really cool to watch. Yet, I too think Daybreak has a better balance, but I'd rather see games on King Sejong.
On November 28 2014 23:35 Charoisaur wrote: nothing wrong with adding the most balanced map of all time.
It wasn't especially the most funny one though.... :/
An good counter example would be King Sejong. I don't think it's the most balanced map, but it's one of the funniest currently, many games on it are really cool to watch. Yet, I too think Daybreak has a better balance, but I'd rather see games on King Sejong.
On December 04 2014 22:54 xpaperclip wrote: So... apparently the official name is going to be "StarCraft II Starleague" or ... SSL. That's totally not going to overlap anything else.
I actually consider King Sejong to be one of the best maps in a long time.. It has produced so many great and entertaining games! (when you forget something with Petraeus and Stephano)
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