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China6331 Posts
Formerly known as China Team Championship (CTC), the team competition is now under Gold Series, Netease's premier esports competition brand.
For the first season of 2020, 9 teams will compete for CNY 300,000 (~$42,727) in prize money.
Triumphant Song Gaming:  TY,  Solar,  Cloudy,  Star
Team LP: Impact, Patience,  QzDdb, Jieshi, wanted
Dian Lake Gaming: SortOf, EF, DynaMite
Invictus Gaming: MacSed, XiGua, XY, Coffee, Jim, iA
Chivo SC: SpeCial, RagnaroK, TooDming
BraveStar: Cyan, Hurricane, Dream
Kaizi Gaming: Dear, Bunny, INnoVation, Nice
Dragon Phoenix Gaming: Cure, Dark, FireFly, PartinG
Alpha X: Astrea, Zoun, BreakingGG
Format
Regular season: 9 team round robin, top 5 advance to playoffs. Format is the same as last season, with best of 2 individual matchups.
Playoffs: single elimination bracket, match ups in reverse order (5th place team plays 4th place team, winner advances to play 3rd place team).
All-stars: 5 players from 5 playoff teams will join 3 top players in Gold Series ranking.
Prize money
Total: CNY 300,000 (~$42,727)
1st: CNY 100,000 (~$14,242)
2nd: CNY 60,000 (~$8,545)
3rd: CNY 40,000 (~$5,696)
4th: CNY 30,000 (~$4,272)
5th: CNY 20,000 (~$2,848)
6th-7th: CNY 15,000 (~$2,136)
8th-9th: CNY 10,000 (~$1,424)
Schedule
Regular season runs from March 23rd to June 6th, playoffs and all-star from June 25th to 28th.
Streams
 https://www.douyu.com/3484
 https://www.twitch.tv/wardiii
Broadcast starts at 11:00 GMT (+00:00) every matchday.
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China6331 Posts
More info forthcoming, including lineup and a full schedule.
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GLS and CTC are back, this is so awesome!
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Any information about DLG sports?
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United States33617 Posts
Wasn't this sorta-technically a gold series tournament before? Anyway, cool to see it going forward
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From reddit, don't know if legit:
Teams and rosters!
TSG - TY, Solar, Cloudy and Star
TeamLP - Impact, Patience, QzDdb, JieShi and wanted
Dian Lake Gaming - SortOf, EF and DynaMite
IG - MacSed, xiGua, XY, Coffee, Jim and IA
Chivo - SpeCial, Rangarok and Toodming
BraveStar - Cyan, Hurricane and Dream
KaiZi - Dear, Bunny, INnoVation and Nice
DPG - Cure, Dark, PartinG and Firefly
Alpha X - Astrea, Zoun and BreakingGG
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On March 18 2020 17:26 kubaPS wrote:
From reddit, don't know if legit:
Teams and rosters!
TSG - TY, Solar, Cloudy and Star
TeamLP - Impact, Patience, QzDdb, JieShi and wanted
Dian Lake Gaming - SortOf, EG and DynaMite
IG - MacSed, xiGua, XY, Coffee, Jim and IA
Chivo - SpeCial, Rangarok and Toodming
BraveStar - Cyan, Hurricane and Dream
KaiZi - Dear, Bunny, INnoVation and Nice
DPG - Cure, Dark, PartinG and Firefly
Alpha X - Astrea, Zoun and BreakingGG
 EF, not EG ...
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So Jin Air dropped out? Well that makes this pretty DPG favored I'd say.
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China6331 Posts
On March 18 2020 17:49 Elentos wrote:
So Jin Air dropped out? Well that makes this pretty DPG favored I'd say.
Eh I'd say it's a 3 way race between TSG, DPG and KZ.
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United States33617 Posts
On March 18 2020 18:24 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2020 17:49 Elentos wrote:
So Jin Air dropped out? Well that makes this pretty DPG favored I'd say. Eh I'd say it's a 3 way race between TSG, DPG and KZ.
I think that would depend on the format and how much it lets single players carry
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On March 18 2020 18:24 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2020 17:49 Elentos wrote:
So Jin Air dropped out? Well that makes this pretty DPG favored I'd say. Eh I'd say it's a 3 way race between TSG, DPG and KZ.
I dunno, this being online and what not, having Cure seems like a win condition. Let alone the fact that they also have Dark, PartinG and one of the best performing Chinese players of last year's CTC. Quality wise they're the team to beat.
TSG's Chinese player slot is extremely downgraded as well without Nice. In general they'll be missing herO, having a good Protoss is clutch. They need the format to work in their favor.
Kaizi players aren't reliable anyway 
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The rumors about TIME:
It is said that TIME's contract with Newbee will be ended in July, 2020.
However, in theory, TIME can leave it earlier if necessary.
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Russian Federation38 Posts
No Newbee and JinAir 
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Surprised to see no Jin Air
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China6331 Posts
Jin Air cited military service issues, probably that might leave them shorthanded in the very near future?
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South Korea2106 Posts
good move to have everything officially under one banner
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Canada8990 Posts
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On March 18 2020 21:18 digmouse wrote:
Jin Air cited military service issues, probably that might leave them shorthanded in the very near future?
So basically that would mean sOs and Rogue have their services coming up relatively soon? Or maybe Trap?
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This looks very nice, stacked teams galore.
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Sad about JinAir and Newbee.. but oh well, more Starcraft!
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TSG and DPG are the heavy favourites in this. GL HF to all teams!
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Super hyped! Might have to do the first day from replays (due to my already existing WardiTV Spring event) but have every other day scheduled to be there and ready to cast !
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CTC has been co-hosted by Netease from the start, using studios and crew from the Gold Series for its playoffs. Good thing it's now official, with more support from Netease and Blizzard.
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SortOf joins DLG esports.
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On March 18 2020 23:32 Akio wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2020 21:18 digmouse wrote:
Jin Air cited military service issues, probably that might leave them shorthanded in the very near future? So basically that would mean sOs and Rogue have their services coming up relatively soon? Or maybe Trap?
Seems like sOs
Trap is no where near
Rogue has at least one more year until he'd be forced to go
sOs is older than I thought and is at the age now where he could get forced to go.
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Week 1:
March 23
KZ - DPG
Dear - Cure
Innovation - Dark
Nice - Firefly
BSG - Alpha X
Dream - Astrea
Hurricane - Zoun
Cyan - BreakingGG
March 24
Chivo - iG
SpeCial - XiGua
Rangarok - Coffee
TooDming - XY
TSG - DLG
Cloudy - EF
Solar - SortOf
TY - DynaMite
Cloudy is reactive.
iAsonu and MacSed may not participate in the match in this round.
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Canada8990 Posts
On March 19 2020 21:45 Gemini_19 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2020 23:32 Akio wrote:On March 18 2020 21:18 digmouse wrote:
Jin Air cited military service issues, probably that might leave them shorthanded in the very near future? So basically that would mean sOs and Rogue have their services coming up relatively soon? Or maybe Trap? Seems like sOs Trap is no where near Rogue has at least one more year until he'd be forced to go sOs is older than I thought and is at the age now where he could get forced to go.
I have to say Corona into military service is a shitty three year period.
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On March 20 2020 23:35 thickertom wrote:Week 1: March 23 KZ - DPG Dear - Cure Innovation - Dark Nice - Firefly BSG - Alpha X Dream - Astrea Hurricane - Zoun Cyan - BreakingGG March 24 Chivo - iG SpeCial - XiGua Rangarok - Coffee TooDming - XY TSG - DLG Cloudy - EF Solar - SortOf TY - DynaMite Cloudy is reactive. iAsonu and MacSed may not participate in the match in this round.
Nice, can't wait for it to begin!
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I'm guessing we wont be seeing special in this event then
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Russian Federation38 Posts
why is everyone taking special words so serious, I personally feel like 95% of what he's saying is jokes and luls
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Great to see it come back, and nice to see it now branded as Gold Series. With how well Corona is being handled in China and Korea, those June playoff dates might even be plausible.
On March 19 2020 10:45 AlexZhang1012 wrote:
CTC has been co-hosted by Netease from the start, using studios and crew from the Gold Series for its playoffs. Good thing it's now official, with more support from Netease and Blizzard.
Can you elaborate on how Blizzard supports it?
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Is another CTC season really going to begin without us having Chinese team flairs on TL.net?
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China6331 Posts
On March 22 2020 00:41 IncarnatioN_ wrote:
why is everyone taking special words so serious, I personally feel like 95% of what he's saying is jokes and luls
There is a line between jokes and insults. This one is on the wrong side of it.
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United States33617 Posts
look, if TIME can't get banned from GSL studios/Global Finals for making really dumb comments about Koreans in a private chat, I'm sure SpeCial can get away with this too
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On March 22 2020 06:19 Waxangel wrote:look, if TIME can't get banned from GSL studios/Global Finals for making really dumb comments about Koreans in a private chat, I'm sure SpeCial can get away with this too
Things in private chat shouldn't be a big factor, unless special take it to social media, then that is a problem
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On March 22 2020 03:17 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2020 00:41 IncarnatioN_ wrote:
why is everyone taking special words so serious, I personally feel like 95% of what he's saying is jokes and luls There is a line between jokes and insults. This one is on the wrong side of it.
i would expect people to know what sarcasm means.
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On March 22 2020 11:37 Major wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2020 03:17 digmouse wrote:On March 22 2020 00:41 IncarnatioN_ wrote:
why is everyone taking special words so serious, I personally feel like 95% of what he's saying is jokes and luls There is a line between jokes and insults. This one is on the wrong side of it. i would expect people to know what sarcasm means.
I think people were going to struggle with seeing sarcasm in what you said there even regardless of the fact that people struggle in general with identifying sarcasm when all they have is a written comment. I find it's usually best not to say such things even as a joke. At least not when there's a chance it'll be shared on the internet.
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On March 22 2020 18:05 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2020 11:37 Major wrote:On March 22 2020 03:17 digmouse wrote:On March 22 2020 00:41 IncarnatioN_ wrote:
why is everyone taking special words so serious, I personally feel like 95% of what he's saying is jokes and luls There is a line between jokes and insults. This one is on the wrong side of it. i would expect people to know what sarcasm means. I think people were going to struggle with seeing sarcasm in what you said there even regardless of the fact that people struggle in general with identifying sarcasm when all they have is a written comment. I find it's usually best not to say such things even as a joke. At least not when there's a chance it'll be shared on the internet.
Ah well, without any extra fuel it should blow over soon enough. Best to move on.
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On March 22 2020 18:05 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2020 11:37 Major wrote:On March 22 2020 03:17 digmouse wrote:On March 22 2020 00:41 IncarnatioN_ wrote:
why is everyone taking special words so serious, I personally feel like 95% of what he's saying is jokes and luls There is a line between jokes and insults. This one is on the wrong side of it. i would expect people to know what sarcasm means. I think people were going to struggle with seeing sarcasm in what you said there even regardless of the fact that people struggle in general with identifying sarcasm when all they have is a written comment. I find it's usually best not to say such things even as a joke. At least not when there's a chance it'll be shared on the internet.
i was speaking in private with a friend tho
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Nothing exists when i click that link, could someone provide some context please?
And more importantly where can I find vods for the matches??
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On April 04 2020 14:49 StalkyBear wrote:Nothing exists when i click that link, could someone provide some context please? And more importantly where can I find vods for the matches??
It was a Screenshot of a private Chat between Special and Time. Without context it looks like if Special was making fun about the corona situation. As he stated above it was a sarcastic Comment, so we all should just leave this topic for good I think.
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