International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in.
Vote is conducted here: http://gold.blizzard.cn/minisite/allstar , however you need to have a bnet china account and to register for one, you need a chinese identification no. , so limited to chinese citizens.
So far, the most popular players besides the chinese are, Scarlett and Snute, who actually have more votes than some of the chinese players.
Format of the All-Stars Challenger Match is as follows:
1. International All-Stars will be competing against the Korean All-Stars. Each team will comprise of 6 players.
2. The teams will be competing on 6 maps. There will be 4 BO1 played on each and every map for a total of 24 BO1.
3. Every player will play 4 games. They can be sent out on the same map but the whole team of 6 players have to finish 24 games.
Byun isn't surprising considering he's on a Chinese team. Guessing PartinG will join them if he signs for ZoO. Going to be tough to get names though with the Proleague Round 1 final scheduled for the day before
Hey I like that format, I hope we get some top kespa, and not just the traditional, Hyun, MC, Taeja, Parting, Jaedong. I don't know if it would be possible with pro-league going on but it would be nice.
On February 26 2016 02:27 Nakajin wrote: Hey I like that format, I hope we get some top kespa, and not just the traditional, Hyun, MC, Taeja, Parting, Jaedong. I don't know if it would be possible with pro-league going on but it would be nice.
I think it's better to have MC, taeja, parting etc because they don't have anything to play in except gsl/ssl. Kespa players still have proleague
It looks like a great idea and I am looking forward to that but it still makes me kind of mad that all players have to be there so early and leave so late because pretty much everyone stays 1 day longer just so 4 players can play this all-stars. Meh ;p
On February 27 2016 04:25 Nerchio wrote: It looks like a great idea and I am looking forward to that but it still makes me kind of mad that all players have to be there so early and leave so late because pretty much everyone stays 1 day longer just so 4 players can play this all-stars. Meh ;p
Tournament is 21-26 and my travel is 18-28 TT
Well, they released the date/info in the original announcement so shouldn't have been a surprise:
On February 04 2016 21:58 digmouse wrote: Schedule:
March 21st - 24th: Group play (GSL style) March 25 and 26th: Playoffs March 27th: Special events.
On February 27 2016 04:25 Nerchio wrote: It looks like a great idea and I am looking forward to that but it still makes me kind of mad that all players have to be there so early and leave so late because pretty much everyone stays 1 day longer just so 4 players can play this all-stars. Meh ;p
Tournament is 21-26 and my travel is 18-28 TT
Well, they released the date/info in the original announcement so shouldn't have been a surprise:
On February 27 2016 04:25 Nerchio wrote: It looks like a great idea and I am looking forward to that but it still makes me kind of mad that all players have to be there so early and leave so late because pretty much everyone stays 1 day longer just so 4 players can play this all-stars. Meh ;p
This is a pretty great format!!!! I expected one BO7 and instead, there will be 24 matches! And even if it does not involve the best players, BuyN is enough so far for me, I will be happy with Stork as well and will hope, they manage to get someone from the teams, who will not play Proleague on the previous day. As it looks in the moment, e.g. Jin Air will not get into the play off, so they might have time :-)
On February 27 2016 04:00 Nerchio wrote: It's online or what? :o
it's offline
I wonder when it is going to be played out since we are going back on 28th?
Don't worry Nerchio, they wrote "International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in." and nobody will be voting for you ...
On February 27 2016 11:14 Diabolique wrote: This is a pretty great format!!!! I expected one BO7 and instead, there will be 24 matches! And even if it does not involve the best players, BuyN is enough so far for me, I will be happy with Stork as well and will hope, they manage to get someone from the teams, who will not play Proleague on the previous day. As it looks in the moment, e.g. Jin Air will not get into the play off, so they might have time :-)
On February 27 2016 04:00 Nerchio wrote: It's online or what? :o
it's offline
I wonder when it is going to be played out since we are going back on 28th?
Don't worry Nerchio, they wrote "International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in." and nobody will be voting for you ...
Not sure if that was meant to be a joke or what :x
On February 27 2016 11:14 Diabolique wrote: This is a pretty great format!!!! I expected one BO7 and instead, there will be 24 matches! And even if it does not involve the best players, BuyN is enough so far for me, I will be happy with Stork as well and will hope, they manage to get someone from the teams, who will not play Proleague on the previous day. As it looks in the moment, e.g. Jin Air will not get into the play off, so they might have time :-)
On February 27 2016 04:03 Nerchio wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:02 MiniFotToss wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:00 Nerchio wrote: It's online or what? :o
it's offline
I wonder when it is going to be played out since we are going back on 28th?
Don't worry Nerchio, they wrote "International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in." and nobody will be voting for you ...
Not sure if that was meant to be a joke or what :x
He hates anything WCS related. Probably wasn't intended as a joke
Well rested Koreans with time to prepare, vs Foreigners that just went through an entire LAN tournament. This has strong potential to be even more Onesided than usual foreigners vs Koreans. And it's Best of 1 too, gonna see some sick timings
On February 27 2016 11:14 Diabolique wrote: This is a pretty great format!!!! I expected one BO7 and instead, there will be 24 matches! And even if it does not involve the best players, BuyN is enough so far for me, I will be happy with Stork as well and will hope, they manage to get someone from the teams, who will not play Proleague on the previous day. As it looks in the moment, e.g. Jin Air will not get into the play off, so they might have time :-)
On February 27 2016 04:03 Nerchio wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:02 MiniFotToss wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:00 Nerchio wrote: It's online or what? :o
it's offline
I wonder when it is going to be played out since we are going back on 28th?
Don't worry Nerchio, they wrote "International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in." and nobody will be voting for you ...
Not sure if that was meant to be a joke or what :x
Joke? No. I am seriously afraid, Jin Air will not manage to get to the play offs in season 1. So they might be free and could participate in the Showmatch. You are a big optimist if you think, that is a joke.
On February 27 2016 11:14 Diabolique wrote: This is a pretty great format!!!! I expected one BO7 and instead, there will be 24 matches! And even if it does not involve the best players, BuyN is enough so far for me, I will be happy with Stork as well and will hope, they manage to get someone from the teams, who will not play Proleague on the previous day. As it looks in the moment, e.g. Jin Air will not get into the play off, so they might have time :-)
On February 27 2016 04:03 Nerchio wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:02 MiniFotToss wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:00 Nerchio wrote: It's online or what? :o
it's offline
I wonder when it is going to be played out since we are going back on 28th?
Don't worry Nerchio, they wrote "International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in." and nobody will be voting for you ...
Not sure if that was meant to be a joke or what :x
He hates anything WCS related. Probably wasn't intended as a joke
On February 27 2016 11:14 Diabolique wrote: This is a pretty great format!!!! I expected one BO7 and instead, there will be 24 matches! And even if it does not involve the best players, BuyN is enough so far for me, I will be happy with Stork as well and will hope, they manage to get someone from the teams, who will not play Proleague on the previous day. As it looks in the moment, e.g. Jin Air will not get into the play off, so they might have time :-)
On February 27 2016 04:03 Nerchio wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:02 MiniFotToss wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:00 Nerchio wrote: It's online or what? :o
it's offline
I wonder when it is going to be played out since we are going back on 28th?
Don't worry Nerchio, they wrote "International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in." and nobody will be voting for you ...
Not sure if that was meant to be a joke or what :x
Oh no, he goes into a frotting rage even thinking about WCS and you've said in the past that you like the new system without Koreans. So he hates you.
On February 27 2016 11:14 Diabolique wrote: This is a pretty great format!!!! I expected one BO7 and instead, there will be 24 matches! And even if it does not involve the best players, BuyN is enough so far for me, I will be happy with Stork as well and will hope, they manage to get someone from the teams, who will not play Proleague on the previous day. As it looks in the moment, e.g. Jin Air will not get into the play off, so they might have time :-)
On February 27 2016 04:03 Nerchio wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:02 MiniFotToss wrote:
On February 27 2016 04:00 Nerchio wrote: It's online or what? :o
it's offline
I wonder when it is going to be played out since we are going back on 28th?
Don't worry Nerchio, they wrote "International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in." and nobody will be voting for you ...
Not sure if that was meant to be a joke or what :x
Just ignore this guy, he's not worth responding to.
On February 27 2016 11:14 Diabolique wrote: This is a pretty great format!!!! I expected one BO7 and instead, there will be 24 matches! And even if it does not involve the best players, BuyN is enough so far for me, I will be happy with Stork as well and will hope, they manage to get someone from the teams, who will not play Proleague on the previous day. As it looks in the moment, e.g. Jin Air will not get into the play off, so they might have time :-)
On February 27 2016 04:00 Nerchio wrote: It's online or what? :o
it's offline
I wonder when it is going to be played out since we are going back on 28th?
Don't worry Nerchio, they wrote "International All- Stars : Top 4 players of WCS Shanghai + 2 revived players who have been voted in." and nobody will be voting for you ...
You have to be blind if you don't see that he has quite a few fans, especially here on TL, who might very well vote for Nerchio. His chances at getting top 4 are very solid as well.
Could you just take you anger and channel it somewhere else and stop hating on TL?
On February 26 2016 02:27 Nakajin wrote: Hey I like that format, I hope we get some top kespa, and not just the traditional, Hyun, MC, Taeja, Parting, Jaedong. I don't know if it would be possible with pro-league going on but it would be nice.
I think it's better to have MC, taeja, parting etc because they don't have anything to play in except gsl/ssl. Kespa players still have proleague
this is the exact same logic that created WCS for foreigners since they can't play in proleague or gsl
Hmm... can't say I'm super hyped by the invites so far.
But I guess it's good to give guys like Byun and DRG a shot at the limelight since they really wouldn't have many shots, due to their absence in Proleague, difficulty and scarcity of Starleagues and *ahem* the new WCS rules.
This is absolutely impressive!!! So hyped!!! This could reach tens of thousands of viewers! With TY, Dear and ByuN, we have the real top guns of Korean scene!!! DRG is excellent as well, ByuL is not in top shape, but he is definitely not bad. And Stork ... everybody loves Stork!
I think Stork is pretty much in good shape right now, he was 1 map away from getting into GSL Ro16 after all TY and Dear are both in godly form right now, I'm so hyped
OK, Drogo, Harstem, puCK and Snute ... plus iAsonu and Toodming as voted by the Chinese fans ... So where are the liquibets? Let us be optimistic: Drogo: 1 map puCK: 1 map Harstem: 0 maps Snute: 2 maps iAsonu: 0 maps Toodming: 0 maps
On March 25 2016 20:42 Diabolique wrote: OK, Drogo, Harstem, puCK and Snute ... plus iAsonu and Toodming as voted by the Chinese fans ... So where are the liquibets? Let us be optimistic: Drogo: 1 map puCK: 1 map Harstem: 0 maps Snute: 2 maps iAsonu: 0 maps Toodming: 0 maps
I think you are about right but Stork is going to lose a lot of maps in my opinion. I played him on Korean ladder a few times and he wasn't very impressive
On March 25 2016 20:42 Diabolique wrote: OK, Drogo, Harstem, puCK and Snute ... plus iAsonu and Toodming as voted by the Chinese fans ... So where are the liquibets? Let us be optimistic: Drogo: 1 map puCK: 1 map Harstem: 0 maps Snute: 2 maps iAsonu: 0 maps Toodming: 0 maps
I think you are about right but Stork is going to lose a lot of maps in my opinion. I played him on Korean ladder a few times and he wasn't very impressive
Of course, he is not a progamer ;-) But you know, out of respect to Stork, I cannot give him less maps :-)
Curse these chinese fans! They clearly don't want to win or they would have voted MLord + Nerchio! The chinese players are just gonna get even more humiliated.
On March 26 2016 23:09 elfonse wrote: what time is this event?
On March 26 2016 23:31 RichardNPL wrote: what time does this start?
On March 24 2016 21:51 digmouse wrote: Starts the same time as the playoffs which is 12pm local time/12am ET/6am CEST (Europe switches to summer time that day), full 24 maps must be played so length should be similar to 6 best of 5s. 6 maps, 4 match ups on each map, and every player must play 4 maps, each map winner takes $500.
On March 25 2016 21:15 Musicus wrote: Wow I just saw the format. So they will play 24 maps for sure.
I guess it should 19:5 for Korea.
Anything better than that will be a success for foreigners. If they could get close to 10 maps that would be epic.
Sadly without Nerchio and MarineLorD/Major I don't see that happening.
the new WCS system has already set the illusion that foreigners are good enough to take maps from koreans lol. I expect 23:1 for korea with stork dropping a map.
edit: now that I think about it the koreans might make fun of the foreigners by doing troll builds. so maybe they might drop a few more maps
Poll: How many games will the international team win?
0 KeSPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (6)
25%
1 Maybe Harstem or puCK can win the coinflip against the player coach. (0)
0%
2 (0)
0%
3 Surely they can't do worse than this right? (0)
0%
4 (5)
21%
5 This is the unofficial over-under line (1)
4%
6 (2)
8%
7 Rotterdam predicted this and he's pretty legit (4)
17%
8 (0)
0%
9 (2)
8%
10 Reminder that Stephano isn't playing (3)
13%
11 (0)
0%
12 Wonder what they'd do if this actually happened. Six-headed archon match is my solution. (0)
0%
13 “I Want to Believe” (0)
0%
14 (0)
0%
15 The number of jet lag excuses this result would engender would be hilarious (0)
0%
16 (0)
0%
17 ByuL or TY would have to lose a game for this to happen. (0)
0%
18 (0)
0%
19-23 In retrospect I should have rolled together more of these numbers. (0)
0%
24 Dude. I need whatever you're on. (1)
4%
24 total votes
Your vote: How many games will the international team win?
(Vote): 0 KeSPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (Vote): 1 Maybe Harstem or puCK can win the coinflip against the player coach. (Vote): 2 (Vote): 3 Surely they can't do worse than this right? (Vote): 4 (Vote): 5 This is the unofficial over-under line (Vote): 6 (Vote): 7 Rotterdam predicted this and he's pretty legit (Vote): 8 (Vote): 9 (Vote): 10 Reminder that Stephano isn't playing (Vote): 11 (Vote): 12 Wonder what they'd do if this actually happened. Six-headed archon match is my solution. (Vote): 13 “I Want to Believe” (Vote): 14 (Vote): 15 The number of jet lag excuses this result would engender would be hilarious (Vote): 16 (Vote): 17 ByuL or TY would have to lose a game for this to happen. (Vote): 18 (Vote): 19-23 In retrospect I should have rolled together more of these numbers. (Vote): 24 Dude. I need whatever you're on.
On March 25 2016 21:15 Musicus wrote: Wow I just saw the format. So they will play 24 maps for sure.
I guess it should 19:5 for Korea.
Anything better than that will be a success for foreigners. If they could get close to 10 maps that would be epic.
Sadly without Nerchio and MarineLorD/Major I don't see that happening.
the new WCS system has already set the illusion that foreigners are good enough to take maps from koreans lol. I expect 23:1 for korea with stork dropping a map.
edit: now that I think about it the koreans might make fun of the foreigners by doing troll builds. so maybe they might drop a few more maps
there's 500$ on the line i don't think they'll troll build
On March 27 2016 20:54 oGoZenob wrote: how are the match-up determined ? drogo played twice byun and twice dear, I'm not really surprised he lost.
From what I gather it's like Proleague; they send the player out to play on the map in a certain slot (e.g. 1st game on Dusk Towers), the other team does the same and then those things happen.
EPT![[image loading]](http://blz.nos.netease.com/a/images/2016/2/25/760x270.jpg)
ByuN, 
Stork
DRG, 
that sucks
