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Shopify TSL 7

Text bySeaGnome
Graphics bySalon Alpin
April 16th, 2021 14:48 GMT
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Hello folks! I’m Andrew Quan, the new tournament director for TSL. I’m handling all of TL’s tournaments moving forward, with some of the previous staffers acting as advisors. Though this will be my first TSL to run, I’ve actually had the pleasure of working on several SC2 events before. It’s an honor and privilege today for me to announce some of the details for the seventh TeamLiquid StarLeague. As a recent addition to the Team Liquid- er, team, but an old school StarCraft fan, I’ll work hard to make TSL 7 a worthy addition to TSL. Before I really start diving into the details, I’d like to give a huge thank you to our sponsors. The Shopify TSL 7 would not be possible without Twitch, Secretlab, IMC, and of course, Shopify!

Now, on to the event. We’ve taken the feedback from TSL 6 and made some adjustments that we think make sense. For the most part, things will be staying the same. We’ve got a very similar roster of talent lined up, we’ll be playing for three full weekends of games, and Shopify is returning as our wonderful title sponsor.

There are some things that we’re changing, though, and I’ll be breaking down each of those changes below. If you want an overview of all our changes, here’s a TL;DR:
+ Show Spoiler +

6 Qualifiers: 2 KR, 2 EU, 2 NA/Rest of the World. Region locked.
15 Qualifying Players: 6 EU, 5 KR, 4 NA/Rest of the World
8 Invited Players -> 1 Invited Player: Dark
32 Players -> 16 Players
TSL 7 will be entirely Double Elimination, effectively removing the Ro32 from TSL 6.
Best of 7 matches will be adopted earlier in the tournament. The first rounds will remain Bo5.
We’re starting 2 hours earlier, at 9 AM Eastern/3 PM Central European/10 PM Korea

The biggest feedback for us was the long hours. Our casters, players, and production team were all exhausted each day of TSL6. It’s clear to us that the schedule wasn’t feasible to maintain. This was the primary motivator for two of our changes:

  • First, we’ll be dropping the total number of players from 32 to 16.
  • Second, we’re making the format a full Double Elimination bracket.
These two combine to drop out 16 Best of 5s at the start of the event, which helps even out our schedule and have more consistency between the first few rounds. To help balance out this drop in total matches, we’re also making an adjustment to the series length earlier in the event:
  • Now, all matches that are in or past the Winner’s Round 2 or Loser’s Round 3 will be Best of 7.

A result of this change in players is that we also needed to reexamine our invitations. Previously, we invited 8 players, which would now mean half of our players were invited. To try to avoid a “rich getting richer” scenario with regard to EPT points, we’re changing that, too. This time, we’ll only have a single invitation, to our most recent champion: Dark.

The other 15 players will qualify through a series of 6 Qualifiers. We’ll be hosting 2 each in Korea, Europe, and North America. We’ve decided to region lock each of these qualifiers, and will only accept players participating in that region if they’ve had residence in an applicable country for a minimum of 6 months. Here’s how it breaks down:

Region# Qualified# QualifiersTop X per Qualifier
South Korea52Top 3, then top 2
Europe62Top 3
North America42Top 2

We will be maintaining the same format for the qualifiers: Single Elimination (plus Third Place) for Korea and Double Elimination for Europe and North America. Here are the Qualifier schedules:

RegionStart TimeEst. End TimeQualified
Korea #1Apr 30 4:00am GMTMay 01 10:00am GMTTop 3
Europe #1May 01 11:00am GMTMay 02 6:00pm GMTTop 3
N. America #1May 01 5:00pm GMTMay 03 12:00am GMTTop 2
Korea #2May 07 4:00am GMTMay 08 10:00am GMTTop 2
Europe #2May 08 11:00am GMTMay 09 6:00pm GMTTop 3
N. America #2May 08 11:00pm GMTMay 10 6:00am GMTTop 2

Expect more information on the qualifiers in the next week, including where and how to join! We’ll also be releasing all the information and process for any community casters who are interested in covering those matches.

Last up, the change in our main event broadcast time. It’ll always be difficult for us to juggle a good time across the three big regions, but we’d like to make it a little less brutal for the Korean players this time around. For the broadcast, we’ll be streaming on June 12-13, June 19-20, and June 26-27. Each day, we’ll be starting at 9 AM Eastern/3 PM Central European/10 PM Korea.

We realize there’s going to be some overlap here with the World Team League, but we’re in contact with their admins to minimize those issues as much as possible, and to let all the overlapping players compete in both.

We’re enormously excited to begin our qualifiers in two weeks and to announce our commentator line up once that’s all signed and sealed. And once again, this is all thanks to our generous and supportive sponsors. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Shopify for past events and in the preparation we’ve done so far for TSL 7, and they’re excited to be involved as well:

We are thrilled for Shopify to be a part of the event once more! TSL5 and TSL6 had been an absolute pleasure to watch and were two of my favourite tournaments in 2020. The quality of games in the last TSL were absolutely mind blowing. I look forward to more amazing SC2 accompanied by the unique production that comes with TSL.
GL HF everyone!

— Dario "TLO" Wuensch
Head of Player Development, Shopify Rebellion

See you on stream!
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nice__username
Profile Joined April 2018
5 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-16 17:03:14
April 16 2021 17:02 GMT
#2
yay! lmk if you wanna do fun stuff again , i did some things for the last 2
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
April 16 2021 17:20 GMT
#3
Shopify delivering once again!
Mine gas, build tanks.
tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3346 Posts
April 16 2021 17:21 GMT
#4
damn, SC2 is coming full force with all the tournaments, love to hear it. Great job at keeping the event up.
Liquid`MaNa
Profile Joined October 2009
Poland104 Posts
April 16 2021 17:23 GMT
#5
Let's go!!
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HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
April 16 2021 17:28 GMT
#6
Sounds good, great for everyone to see another TSL!
Nathanias
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States290 Posts
April 16 2021 17:35 GMT
#7
The more of these the better.
CommentatorNever give up, Never surrender
SamirDuran
Profile Joined May 2012
Philippines894 Posts
April 16 2021 17:41 GMT
#8
I hope we would have offline TSL event soon!
Don't practice until you can get it right, practice until you can't get it wrong.
CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1605 Posts
April 16 2021 18:06 GMT
#9
over or under 1 NA player qualifying guys?
Remember that we all come from a place of passion!!
Weavel
Profile Joined January 2010
Finland9221 Posts
April 16 2021 18:07 GMT
#10
Really good changes in the format. Less invites and double elim.
Life/Seed//Mvp/NaNiwa fighting! ZeNEX forever!
[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
April 16 2021 18:14 GMT
#11
Wow I didn't even know there was a 6, they're going quickly these days
Нас зовет дух отцов, память старых бойцов, дух Москвы и твердыня Полтавы
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24193 Posts
April 16 2021 18:15 GMT
#12
great news, can't wait ^^
Javah
Profile Joined August 2010
France739 Posts
April 16 2021 18:15 GMT
#13
Hello Andrew, gg wp TLO once again! It's a bit sad to have a smaller field but understandable, and the format should provide for a lot of great series.
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Legendk
Profile Joined October 2012
France230 Posts
April 16 2021 18:21 GMT
#14
Hope that the qualifiers will be open for community caster
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Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12246 Posts
April 16 2021 18:31 GMT
#15
Hellyeah! I love that TSL is happening so much more often these days!
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
M3t4PhYzX
Profile Joined March 2019
Poland4180 Posts
April 16 2021 18:42 GMT
#16
please get some "oldschool korean hype music" back on, TSL 5 and 6 plonking noises were killing me and my hype..

thanks for organizing

GL HF all!
odi profanum vulgus et arceo
thedz
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States217 Posts
April 16 2021 19:53 GMT
#17
can't wait!!
charlie123abc
Profile Joined April 2021
2 Posts
April 16 2021 19:55 GMT
#18
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!
hjpalpha
Profile Joined August 2017
Germany339 Posts
April 16 2021 20:33 GMT
#19
(Wiki)TeamLiquid StarLeague/7
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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
April 16 2021 20:46 GMT
#20
The ratio 6:6:4 is very nice for NA

Also nice for the time change.
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