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China6331 Posts
China Team Championship Season 2 begins on August 25th, with 12 teams participating.
Teams will be drawn into two groups with round robin format. Top 2 of each group advance to playoffs, the fifth playoff spot will be determined by a qualifying match between two 3rd place finishers.
Group A: LP, Newbee, BraveStar, Invictus Gaming, Jin Air Green Wings, KaiZi Gaming
Group B: Triumphant Song Gaming, Pixel 1, Ocean Gaming, Black Night, PsiStorm Gaming, Chivo SC
The top 2 finishers of each group will play an additional seeding series to determine final playoff seedings.
Regular season match format is the same as last season with 3 best of two series followed by a best of one Ace match if total map score is tied.
Playoffs matches uses a new all kill format where players play a best of two series, if the score is 2-0, then the winner keeps playing, if the score is 1-1, then both players are eliminated.
Schedule
Regular season: August 25th - October 3rd
Offline Playoffs: October 10th - 13th
Prize pool
1st: CNY 100,000 (~$14,147)
2nd: CNY 50,000 (~$7,074)
3rd: CNY 40,000 (~$5,659)
4th: CNY 30,000 (~$4,244)
5-6th: CNY 20,000 (~$2,829)
7-8th: CNY 10,000 (~$1,415)
9-12th: CNY 5,000 (~$707)
Streams
Broadcast begins 11:30 GMT (+00:00) every match day on:
 SCboy
 Wardi
 Ziggy
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where can we view the registered player roster for this season? Especially not familiar with KaiZi's players.
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OH MY GOD. I am infinitely grateful to you, SCBoy. Infinitely grateful to them and offer them all our appreciation. Thank you~ thank you so much!
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China6331 Posts
On August 12 2019 18:05 CicadaSC wrote:
where can we view the registered player roster for this season? Especially not familiar with KaiZi's players.
Roster and schedule will be up on Liquipedia later I guess, too much info to fit into one post.
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I've been waiting this for a long time.
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Team Bravestar have 3 players:Dream,Hurricane,Cyan
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Rumors: KaiZi have three players: Super, Bunny and Misaki. Remains to be confirmed.
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Very nice. Even with JAGW again, despite them not coming to the offline playoffs last time.
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United States33592 Posts
fucking awesome ^_^
I liked the old playoff format better, tho. For the viewers, the coolest thing about team league formats is when a player goes on a ridiculous rampage (yeah yeah I know teams prefer the format require even roster construction, but I don't care)
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Absolutely amazing, thank you SCboy!
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A big thank you to the Chinese scene.
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A big issue with the old playoff format was that it just lasted way too long. I think the finals actually lasted till something like 1-2am in China.
Xiaose infamously said that “现场观众都得死” (Everyone here will die tonight from fatigue) because of how long the series was taking.
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China6331 Posts
Pretty sure the finals last season dragged all the way to nearly midnight so yeah, truncating the match isn't exact a bad idea.
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On August 12 2019 20:31 qwerty23455 wrote:
A big issue with the old playoff format was that it just lasted way too long. I think the finals actually lasted till something like 1-2am in China.
Xiaose infamously said that “现场观众都得死” (Everyone here will die tonight from fatigue) because of how long the series was taking.
Huang Xudong has already realized the issue.
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I wish some of these teams had their gear for sale to western fans. Those TSGaming jackets are SEXY. AS. F.
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On August 12 2019 19:48 Waxangel wrote:
fucking awesome ^_^
I liked the old playoff format better, tho. For the viewers, the coolest thing about team league formats is when a player goes on a ridiculous rampage (yeah yeah I know teams prefer the format require even roster construction, but I don't care)
We can still have that, right? They just have to win 2 games against every opponent now.
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China truly saving esports. LP even signed Happy in wc3, hopefully they can do well here.
Edit: wrong team, LF signed Happy
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Russian Federation367 Posts
This is actually super big. Hopefully this tournament will be able to evolve into something like LCS/Proleague and will be a constant competition.
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On August 12 2019 23:45 Musicus wrote:
China truly saving esports. LP even signed Happy in wc3, hopefully they can do well here.
Not LP, LP is LaoPaoer, whose wc3 members are Focus, Fortitude and Colourful.
Lucky Future (LF), signed Happy in wc3.
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Wasn't there rumors of Alpha X merging with Blacknight for the CTC? Niceto see all the koreans back in Teams. I hope this League will groth and go on the next years!
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Invictus should have tried to partner with Splyce or something. Things aren't gonna get easier for them with the all-Chinese line-up.
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On August 13 2019 00:39 Elentos wrote:
Invictus should have tried to partner with Splyce or something. Things aren't gonna get easier for them with the all-Chinese line-up.
This would be so nice to have TY and Stats in this.
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On August 12 2019 23:56 SeVpresty wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2019 23:45 Musicus wrote:
China truly saving esports. LP even signed Happy in wc3, hopefully they can do well here. Not LP, LP is LaoPaoer, whose wc3 members are Focus, Fortitude and Colourful. Lucky Future (LF), signed Happy in wc3.
Oh, then I mixed that up, so Happy is not in the same team as Focus as I thought, thanks for clearing that up!
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Hope there will be a team tournament/league in Asia, Europe,and American.
And WCS Team Global Finals.
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On August 13 2019 01:51 GoodSirTets wrote:
return of FPL???
As long as the format is the same as last season, it's not possible to implement the tournament into the TL FPL application (unless someone would be willing to write a new one :-)
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That's a lot of teams, still looking forward to Splyce boys getting involved tho.
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This is very nice, there are more teams than in S1 and even the price pool is higher.
Do we know if the players actually get a decent salary? It seems to be the case, most of the korean pros are playing except for Dark, INno, TY, Stats and Classic - that should not have economic problems anyway.
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On August 13 2019 06:48 Xamo wrote:
This is very nice, there are more teams than in S1 and even the price pool is higher.
Do we know if the players actually get a decent salary? It seems to be the case, most of the korean pros are playing except for Dark, INno, TY, Stats and Classic - that should not have economic problems anyway.
I only know LP boss gave the players a pay rise for their excellent performance in CTC final.
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Team leagues are the best and there are so many good players in this I can't wait~!
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Chivoooooooo! 
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On August 12 2019 20:31 qwerty23455 wrote:
A big issue with the old playoff format was that it just lasted way too long. I think the finals actually lasted till something like 1-2am in China.
Xiaose infamously said that “现场观众都得死” (Everyone here will die tonight from fatigue) because of how long the series was taking.
I remembered from their previous streams they planned to do bo2 instead of bo3. Not sure if that will happen
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On August 13 2019 14:45 Howard_Kao wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2019 20:31 qwerty23455 wrote:
A big issue with the old playoff format was that it just lasted way too long. I think the finals actually lasted till something like 1-2am in China.
Xiaose infamously said that “现场观众都得死” (Everyone here will die tonight from fatigue) because of how long the series was taking. I remembered from their previous streams they planned to do bo2 instead of bo3. Not sure if that will happen
It will happen.Look at the OP:
Playoffs matches uses a new all kill format where players play a best of two series, if the score is 2-0, then the winner keeps playing, if the score is 1-1, then both players are eliminated.
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Hope for watching more wonderful matches
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Mexico675 Posts
On August 13 2019 00:29 kubaPS wrote:
Wasn't there rumors of Alpha X merging with Blacknight for the CTC? Niceto see all the koreans back in Teams. I hope this League will groth and go on the next years!
There was. I'm guessing there is still some sort of agreement, as two players in Black Night's roster are Alpha X players.
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That's some really GOOD NEWS
Anyone know, if there will be a german stream, too? Or maybe community streams?
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On August 13 2019 19:21 Tommy131313 wrote:That's some really GOOD NEWS Anyone know, if there will be a german stream, too? Or maybe community streams?
Last season NarutO casted most of the games on TakeTV.
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China6331 Posts
On August 13 2019 19:21 Tommy131313 wrote:That's some really GOOD NEWS Anyone know, if there will be a german stream, too? Or maybe community streams?
Expect the usual select of languages in the end, I haven't got the time to arrange everything yet.
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So excited! Makes me want to run team league stuff in Europe again~
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On August 13 2019 19:40 Wardi wrote:
So excited! Makes me want to run team league stuff in Europe again~
Hope to see the WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP one day!
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On August 13 2019 22:06 WenHe wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2019 19:40 Wardi wrote:
So excited! Makes me want to run team league stuff in Europe again~ Hope to see the WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP one day!
A logistics nightmare but it could be fun to watch.
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South Korea2106 Posts
let's just kick OWL out of that arena and move in ourselves
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is it possible to cover it from replays in teh evening since the scheduled time is really not fortunate for EU viewers? :O
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On August 13 2019 00:39 Elentos wrote:
Invictus should have tried to partner with Splyce or something. Things aren't gonna get easier for them with the all-Chinese line-up.
Partnering up is not allowed. We were going to do that with Chivo when they were short on players but was denied.
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Team League?! TEAM LEAGUE returns?! Hold me Tasteless! This is so sick!
Who could have foreseen China propping up the scene..
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Wow chinese league's have tons of bank lol, 14K SC2 tournament is huge!
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It is reported that the four billionaire idiot owners/sponsors of KaiZi gaming already begin to dispute who and how much salary they would hire, and two of them declared that they just create a new team "Dragon Phoenix Gaming", aba DPG, which earns a nickname "Big Ass" from Chinese fans, to compete next season, though they have no players yet.
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SCboy really revived SC2 in China! Without them, SC2 would be dead in China.
Looking for a brilliant season 2 and hope the team championship can continue next year!
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It seems KZ signed Innovation according to the Boss's weibo.I hope this is not his drunken gibberish.
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On August 14 2019 22:43 FBTsingLoong wrote:
It seems KZ signed Innovation.
Huge if true
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On August 14 2019 22:44 sneakyfox wrote:Huge if true
That would be a pretty big deal yea...
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When will we get the official rosters?
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The boss of KZ has just announced that they signed INnoVation.
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China6331 Posts
Innovation is not eligible to play until round 2 as well.
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Russian Federation38 Posts
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Newbee VS JinAir Green Wings August 25
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