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Hello everyone, I would like to announce that we are planning on hosting a monthly tournament that will (hopefully) make people play the european ladder and take it more seriously.
March will be the first month we hold this tournament and we want to use this as a test run, so don’t expect everything to be perfect and please provide feedback on things that the tournament can improve on.
EU Ladder tournament
-Monthly buy in (50euro) send money to Rifkin on paypal with acc name, players will be added to a group as well as a skype chat
-Weekly ranking which awards points, 4 or 8 players(depending on the number of sign ups) with most points at the end of the month get in the final tournament.
-Money incentive for #1 at the end of each week (2.5% of total prize pool)
-No barcodes, but smurfs are allowed.
-Points Awarded at end of each week (sunday 23.59 CET) Top 10 gets points, rank 1 gets 10 points, rank 10 gets 1 point.
-Sign up for the tournament - Start of the month(have to sign up before Friday 6 march 23:59 CET )
-If a player is caught being impolite on his account or a different account he might get points deducted
-If you decide to enter the tournament, you are only allowed to play on 1 account on the ladder, if you are found playing on another account it will be an immediate dq from tournament.
-Following a ladder reset, we will use masters ranking(points) to award that week’s winner
-If players are tied in points at the end of the month, a bo5 match between them will decide who gets invited.
-Rifkin is the admin, he sets the tournament rules and awards points at the end of the week.
Have the tournament a week within the month ending(work around players schedule)
Top 8 gets invited if 16+ people sign up, top 4 gets invited if less people sign up
You can sign up by sending 50 euros to MapControlco@gmail.com on paypal
Attach a note to it saying your username and your battle net link for example: battlenet://starcraft/profile/2/5805463210458873856
The point system is as follows:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/JeizQ41.png)
prize pool split 4 man tournament:
5% for #1 gm at end of each week
#4 10%
#3 15%
#2 25%
#1 30%
prize pool split 8 man tournament
2.5% for #1 gm at end of each week
rank 5-8 get 5%
#4 10%
#3 15%
#2 20%
#1 25%
Players that signed up so far:
-Targa
-Harstem
-Major
-Marinelord
-bunny
-snute
-CatZ
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Hype. Bunny lilbow ladder king
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In addition, BaseTradeTV will be adding funds to the prize pool based on the participant sign ups.
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So the weekly ranking is determined by amount of ladder points?
The fact that there's a buy-in without a guarantee of making the month-end tournament may be questionable. I'd imagine you'd get more support if the buy-in was only for the tournament. I'm not sure people will want to buy in to a contest to see who gets the most ladder points, but I could be wrong.
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On February 28 2015 03:21 Doodsmack wrote:
So the weekly ranking is determined by amount of ladder points?
The fact that there's a buy-in without a guarantee of making the month-end tournament may be questionable. I'd imagine you'd get more support if the buy-in was only for the tournament. I'm not sure people will want to buy in to a contest to see who gets the most ladder points, but I could be wrong.
The goal is to get people to take ladder more serious and add a competitive environment to the ladder. As we do not have a sponsor we use buy ins to generate a pricepool.
We take a screenshot of the ladder ranking each week and give points based on ranking.
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Awesome idea to make the ladder a more competitive place with some stake. Good job !
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Which ladder? EU is supposed to be very strong already, so I don't see the value of this unless it is an AM thing.
A version of this would be fun for similar skilled player communities.
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OMG! That is so fucking awesome!!
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Denmark145 Posts
Challenge accepted 
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United Kingdom31935 Posts
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-If you decide to enter the tournament, you are only allowed to play on 1 account on the ladder, if you are found playing on another account it will be an immediate dq from tournament.
Is this rule really necessary ? Some of us like to play on 2 different account, especially for streaming and secret practice. I would participate for sure without this rule :/
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That's awesome. I hope there will be a lot of sign ups. I also like the fact that the number one in GM gets 5 percent extra no matter what. He's the number one after all yo.
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On February 28 2015 04:59 PtitDrogo wrote:
-If you decide to enter the tournament, you are only allowed to play on 1 account on the ladder, if you are found playing on another account it will be an immediate dq from tournament.
Is this rule really necessary ? Some of us like to play on 2 different account, especially for streaming and secret practice. I would participate for sure without this rule :/
Yeah maybe they meant that one account only can compete ?
EDIT : or maybe not 
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Norway839 Posts
On February 28 2015 05:01 v_lm wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2015 04:59 PtitDrogo wrote:
-If you decide to enter the tournament, you are only allowed to play on 1 account on the ladder, if you are found playing on another account it will be an immediate dq from tournament.
Is this rule really necessary ? Some of us like to play on 2 different account, especially for streaming and secret practice. I would participate for sure without this rule :/ Yeah maybe they meant that one account only can compete ?
it's to prevent low-mmr smurfs from doing -20 snipe shots, it's a big problem when used strategically
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On February 28 2015 04:59 PtitDrogo wrote:
-If you decide to enter the tournament, you are only allowed to play on 1 account on the ladder, if you are found playing on another account it will be an immediate dq from tournament.
Is this rule really necessary ? Some of us like to play on 2 different account, especially for streaming and secret practice. I would participate for sure without this rule :/
I've forwarded your question, hopefully an answer comes soon ^^
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On February 28 2015 05:05 Liquid`Snute wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2015 05:01 v_lm wrote:On February 28 2015 04:59 PtitDrogo wrote:
-If you decide to enter the tournament, you are only allowed to play on 1 account on the ladder, if you are found playing on another account it will be an immediate dq from tournament.
Is this rule really necessary ? Some of us like to play on 2 different account, especially for streaming and secret practice. I would participate for sure without this rule :/ Yeah maybe they meant that one account only can compete ? it's to prevent low-mmr smurfs from doing -20 snipe shots, it's a big problem when used strategically
Basically this!
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On February 28 2015 05:05 Liquid`Snute wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2015 05:01 v_lm wrote:On February 28 2015 04:59 PtitDrogo wrote:
-If you decide to enter the tournament, you are only allowed to play on 1 account on the ladder, if you are found playing on another account it will be an immediate dq from tournament.
Is this rule really necessary ? Some of us like to play on 2 different account, especially for streaming and secret practice. I would participate for sure without this rule :/ Yeah maybe they meant that one account only can compete ? it's to prevent low-mmr smurfs from doing -20 snipe shots, it's a big problem when used strategically
You mean people do this on purpose zzzzzzzzz, the ladder points meta is getting too hard for me.
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Norway839 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/TihENGp.png)
hype photoshop
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awsome 
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On February 28 2015 05:05 Liquid`Snute wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2015 05:01 v_lm wrote:On February 28 2015 04:59 PtitDrogo wrote:
-If you decide to enter the tournament, you are only allowed to play on 1 account on the ladder, if you are found playing on another account it will be an immediate dq from tournament.
Is this rule really necessary ? Some of us like to play on 2 different account, especially for streaming and secret practice. I would participate for sure without this rule :/ Yeah maybe they meant that one account only can compete ? it's to prevent low-mmr smurfs from doing -20 snipe shots, it's a big problem when used strategically
Wow that's pretty next level and also not heroic at all.
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Fantastic initiative, good luck guys!
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Finally someone smart started something great!! good job guys|!!
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Cool idea, look forward to watching it.
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Very nice work BTTV! You guys come up with a lot of original and interesting ways to support the pro SC2 scene, keep it up!
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Cool idea, hope you get at least 16 players to play.
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very cool initiative
since no barcodes are allowed i m hoping for some streaming action by the participants
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This sounds amazing, would love watching these tournaments.
Its a hard time keeping track of all the smaller tournaments going on and I rarely know if its any interesting players playing in them, thus i rarely watch them. On the other hand I feel that I miss more interesting tournaments, if this works like inteneded it will be another tournament I will try to watch if I have time =)
Sounds like a good way for skilled players to market themselves (and their sponsors) even more which is a very good thing for those that make it into the tournament. Hopefully that will help this tournament get lots of signups, if not now than maybe in a month or two.
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It doesn't effect me personally, but I really like the caveat of no bar codes, I understand why pro's do it though.
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Somehow the OP does not mention the server it's played on... I take that it is going to be EU, since it's entry fee is in Euros and most the players are on EU... But Major and Catz are both participating.
And, a slight workaround for the rule that you cannot smurf would be to just play on the other servers (with lag) for practice. Or you could always make an anonymous smurf and I doubt they'd be able to figure it out 
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Might be all servers? Cos server wouldnt really matter would it
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On February 28 2015 23:22 Dumbledore wrote:
Might be all servers? Cos server wouldnt really matter would it
NA is a lot easier to get a high rank because there arent as many good players, I assume it is going to based off EU ladder
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Interesting initiative, good luck have fun you guys
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This is a great idea, putting the ladder to some good use as well! Hope to be able to watch some action! 
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This is an excellent idea. I'm all for something like this.
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On February 28 2015 03:24 Harstem wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2015 03:21 Doodsmack wrote:
So the weekly ranking is determined by amount of ladder points?
The fact that there's a buy-in without a guarantee of making the month-end tournament may be questionable. I'd imagine you'd get more support if the buy-in was only for the tournament. I'm not sure people will want to buy in to a contest to see who gets the most ladder points, but I could be wrong. The goal is to get people to take ladder more serious and add a competitive environment to the ladder. As we do not have a sponsor we use buy ins to generate a pricepool. We take a screenshot of the ladder ranking each week and give points based on ranking.
isn't EU ladder taken pretty seriously compared to NA?
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Haha excellent graphics, Harstem! Great idea, really excited for more people to take ladder seriously, making it somewhat of a miniature tournament every time you play
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Are you going to call it Bladder heroes in short?
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Why a picture of Happy whereas he doesn't accept?
Nice initiative, maybe more ladder stream ?
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This is really cool, but one really important question... which ladder is this on? If you let people just do whichever region they want to, some players might just go to NA to get easier points.
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Oh sheesh, this is super cool
Good notion rifkin, we'll see how it plays out
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On March 01 2015 05:09 SC2Towelie wrote:
This is really cool, but one really important question... which ladder is this on? If you let people just do whichever region they want to, some players might just go to NA to get easier points.
I have seen this question a lot and i do think its meant to be on EU but if you think about it, even if just the few player so far that signed up play on NA it will make NA ladder that much better (since everyone thinks its the worst) and isn't that the point of this to make ladder better and even more competitive. Also I don't think its a bad thing because if some players play on NA to get free point then other players will come to do the same and just make NA as hard as EU, which isn't a bad thing because again its making ladder better.
Also i hope this becomes huge GL.
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On March 01 2015 01:49 EJK wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2015 03:24 Harstem wrote:On February 28 2015 03:21 Doodsmack wrote:
So the weekly ranking is determined by amount of ladder points?
The fact that there's a buy-in without a guarantee of making the month-end tournament may be questionable. I'd imagine you'd get more support if the buy-in was only for the tournament. I'm not sure people will want to buy in to a contest to see who gets the most ladder points, but I could be wrong. The goal is to get people to take ladder more serious and add a competitive environment to the ladder. As we do not have a sponsor we use buy ins to generate a pricepool. We take a screenshot of the ladder ranking each week and give points based on ranking. isn't EU ladder taken pretty seriously compared to NA?
yea i would say so but it doesn't hurt to make it even more competitive and serious, all it does it make the game even better. I honestly think this could be really cool if it works out but we'll have to wait and see.
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bunny is going to be very very happy about this hahaha. Great idea, fantastic to see such a bright and positive community trying to incorporate new ways to create motivation for players. Really appreciate it when a group of people can come together and develop an idea that benefits the community.
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Hmm.. I see 7 justice league heroes.. but only 5 face pics
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This is really cool. The rules aren't laid out completely clearly, and there will probably be things to clarify, but this is a sweet project.
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Denmark145 Posts
This is only on the EU server for those asking
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THIS IS SWEEET!!~~.....well done guys!~~ GL all!!
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On February 28 2015 06:44 Liquid`Snute wrote:hype photoshop
Truly the hypest of hypes, awesome and underrated pic
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So where's Happy and Kas?
If ForGG was still in EU he would have taken positions 1-5.
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If ForGG was still in EU he would have taken positions 1-5
I think he is in Germany right now...
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Need to get POTENTIAL in on this
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On March 01 2015 22:47 Harstem wrote:#ezmoney
Wow, that's such a good picture. Even if you don't get first on ladder, you'll at least have that pic.
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But why isn't it a charity offering to the poor American server....
Here's an idea, why don't NA players start a NA server version.
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is TB gonna represent Axiom, would love to see some proxy battleships
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BaseTrade just keeps getting better. Props and thanks to everyone participating!
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On March 02 2015 11:20 Blargh wrote:Wow, that's such a good picture. Even if you don't get first on ladder, you'll at least have that pic.
If this was a pro-photoshop ladder tourney with a buy in I'd watch that shit too.
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THIS WEEKEND WILL BE THE FIRST WEEK'S CUT OFF With some cool additions!
Sunday, Mar 08 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - We'll host a BO5 or Bo7 with 2 of the top point holders. The winner will gain BaseTradeTV Twitch hosting because->
Sunday, Mar 08 7:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - A TL event will be created and the players will stream their ladder grinds for a few hours
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EPT
