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Registration for the Collegiate Starleague will be open on November 2nd for StarCraft 2, League of Legends, and Dota 2. Official league games will start on the weekend of November 23rd. Coordinators should finalize recruiting their teams and rosters for their Division 1 teams and Division 2 teams. Be sure that each member of your team has a valid university email address to be verified as a student. Any exceptions to registration will be handled on a case by case basis and should be submitted to admin@cstarleague.com. Teams are expected to commit to the entire season of games, and some teams may be penalized if they forfeit excessively after registering for the league.
Teams will be sorted into groups determined by their region (we will do our best to accommodate). Games will be played once a week over the course of the season, and the top teams in each group will advance to the playoff bracket which will be played through the final portion of the season. Number of groups and who advances will be determined by the number of teams that register for each game.
Below is an updated season schedule. We are taking feedback on our schedule, so please let us know your comments!
2013-2014 Schedule
Nov 2 - registration
Nov 24 - week 1
*THANKSGIVING BREAK*
Dec 7 - week 2
*FINALS/CHRISTMAS BREAK*
Jan 12 - week 3
Jan 19 - week 4
Jan 26 - week 5
Feb 2 - week 6
Feb 9 - week 7
Feb 16 - week 8
Feb 23 - week 9
Mar 2 - week 10
Mar 16 - ro128
Mar 23 - ro64
Mar 30 - ro32
Apr 13 - ro16
Apr 20 - ro8
Apr 27 - semi final
We are aiming to have the CSL Finals be played live at the end of May, or in June, pending venue availability and locations!
Regional LANs
Yes! Regional LAN events are back! We have two Regional LANs lined up for this season.
Late January, 2014 - West Coast Regional @ San Jose State University
Early March, 2014 - East Coast Regional @ University of Maryland, College Park
We'll be announcing exact details in the next month or two for how you can register to attend, prize information, and stipend applications.
FAQ
What's new this season? We'll be offering Division 1 and Division 2 play. Division 1 will be for teams who are more competitive, Division 2 will be for casual play. The choice to enter Division 1 is voluntary, there will be no up-downs, or anything of the sort. Anyone who wants to field a competitive team can do so. Teams can have both a Division 1 and Division 2 team in the league (players can't swap between teams)!
What are scrims? Think 1 match a week of collegiate action isn't enough for you? We can solve your problem! You will be able to challenge any team to a scrimmage (either ranked or unranked) to get your fix. Ranked scrims will count for a team's ELO and may qualify teams for additional tournaments and prizes. Unranked are purely for fun - teams can also have some flexibility in choosing their own formats.
What's taking so long? We're trying to build a website that doesn't exist anywhere in eSports. We're not running off a template - everything on our site is custom built, and specially designed. The scope of the project is pretty large, and unfortunately, we lack the funds to pay a development team to work full time. Our dev team consists of two interns who are also full time students and have to balance their work on the CSL website with their own school and work. This means that we haven't been able to finish as quickly as expected - but we are working hard! If you are an experienced Ruby developer looking for an internship or interesting career opportunity - please email duran@cstarleague.com for info!
What's the prize pool? CSL is no longer working under a corporate entity (Azubu), and as such, will be funding the season ourselves. This means we are currently raising money to host all the events and fund all the prizes that we can. When we have funding confirmed, we will announce prizes for the year. Currently, we have earmarked budgets for each of the Regional LAN events and are looking for sponsors to be able to fund a live finals and prize pool for the season. Stay tuned for more updates as 2014 rolls around. We won't announce anything until we have the funds fully confirmed because we want to avoid the headache of delayed prize payouts and uncertainty.
Please note, our goal here is transparency. We want to be honest with the community about where we stand, what we're doing, and what we want to contribute to the community. We hope that this will be the best year yet for CSL and our amazing staff will be working hard to put on a show for everyone.
Stay tuned to our social media channels and website for updates on the process and stand by with your teams.
www.twitter.com/cstarleague
www.facebook.com/collegiatestarleague
Like Dota 2: https://www.facebook.com/CollegiateDota
Like League of Legends: https://www.facebook.com/lol.cstarleague
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They said the day would never come, yet here we are. CSL finally comes out if its abnormally long summer hibernation
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your regional LAN in March is happening at University of Maryland, College Park. Please stop making this mistake we're like an HOUR away from UMBC....
Edit: fixed thanks guys :D
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Hey, quick question - I remember last season there was a rule about players being unable to play on teams across multiple games - is that still in place for this season? IE, would I be unable to play on my school's SC2 and LoL team? Just wondering because my team doesn't have a huge gamer population, and there's a decent overlap between our players in these two games.
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Alright, it's that time of the year again
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On October 23 2013 03:54 LlamaNamedOsama wrote:
Hey, quick question - I remember last season there was a rule about players being unable to play on teams across multiple games - is that still in place for this season? IE, would I be unable to play on my school's SC2 and LoL team? Just wondering because my team doesn't have a huge gamer population, and there's a decent overlap between our players in these two games.
We may handle this case by case - talk to us.
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Can't wait for the addition of a Division 2 so we can finally field dedicated players who just don't quite make top 7 on the team! However in previous years, we have noticed that many teams do not take the matches seriously in the regular season. Last year, literally only one of our six matches (in the fall) were played against a full-rostered opponent, and we won three of those six off forfeits. I'm not sure how other schools feel about the whole buy-in approach that we were trying to go for last year, but in my opinion it is a great way to fund additional prize pool as well as ensure that each match during the season is, well, played. The teams that genuinely have a full, division 1 competitive, roster ready to compete can probably obtain funding from their school. Buy-in for Division 1. Division 2 would be free
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^ idk what you're talking about we had to grind it out...hours of weekends gone =o
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Best of luck. Wish I was part of a CSL team.
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Sweet, my laptop screen on the bottom left of the picture
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On October 23 2013 08:13 Zlasher wrote:
Sweet, my laptop screen on the bottom left of the picture
#famous
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Canada409 Posts
For scrims you can mix and match people from your division 1 team and your division 2 team, right? Or is it division locked?
Anyhow, looking forward to this year's CSL! Hope it runs smoothly. <3
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No news on European dates?
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On October 23 2013 13:27 Hydro033 wrote:
What do you do if you want to play CSL but a select few individuals in control of your team are assholes?
You hope they don't know who you are on TL
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Hyped! Going to be a fun one - a CSL event every couple of months would be fabulous
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So... the cstarleague website still hasn't changed, and I haven't seen anything on facebook. Any word on what's up?
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Canada13389 Posts
On November 03 2013 03:36 Mullet_Ben wrote:
So... the cstarleague website still hasn't changed, and I haven't seen anything on facebook. Any word on what's up?
No word
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The website is accepting registrations but I am not authorized to make a team.
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Um why does it need my major and my highest level of education to register? I notice that there's no privacy policy as well, is this one of those arrangements where our information is being given to sponsors?
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Currently I cant find the portal to register my school for CSL.
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Hey guys! There are only 2 days left to register! If you havent signed up yourself or your school, get right on it!
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When does week 1 match start? According to the schedule it starts on 23rd, but registration doesn't end until the 20th.
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Anyone know how to submit lineups and/or know who you're playing? Apparently lineups are due tomorrow..? But idk how to submit them. I am assuming it is NOT by email.
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Canada13389 Posts
On November 22 2013 14:05 Hydro033 wrote:
Anyone know how to submit lineups and/or know who you're playing? Apparently lineups are due tomorrow..? But idk how to submit them. I am assuming it is NOT by email.
Due by tomorrow?? I dont even know who I am playing
I also tried to make a div2 and div 1 team but only my div 1 team went through -_-
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On November 23 2013 01:17 ZeromuS wrote:Show nested quote +On November 22 2013 14:05 Hydro033 wrote:
Anyone know how to submit lineups and/or know who you're playing? Apparently lineups are due tomorrow..? But idk how to submit them. I am assuming it is NOT by email. Due by tomorrow?? I dont even know who I am playing
Neither do we... and they are due in 2.5 hrs..
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On November 23 2013 03:29 Hydro033 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 23 2013 01:17 ZeromuS wrote:On November 22 2013 14:05 Hydro033 wrote:
Anyone know how to submit lineups and/or know who you're playing? Apparently lineups are due tomorrow..? But idk how to submit them. I am assuming it is NOT by email. Due by tomorrow?? I dont even know who I am playing Neither do we... and they are due in 2.5 hrs..
Also their website doesnt allow you to post comments with more than 200 characters in them.
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I'm not trying to be mean here, but this website ran much much better before Azubu gave them any money. I know the Azubu website was made for Azubu, I know that without azubu they made a new website. But this new website that we waited so long for has been nothing but a headache for me, my players, and other coordinators I spoke with. The CSL is really failing to impress me for the second year in a row now. 2011 CSL was the best year I played
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On November 23 2013 13:47 ZeromuS wrote:Show nested quote +On November 23 2013 03:29 Hydro033 wrote:On November 23 2013 01:17 ZeromuS wrote:On November 22 2013 14:05 Hydro033 wrote:
Anyone know how to submit lineups and/or know who you're playing? Apparently lineups are due tomorrow..? But idk how to submit them. I am assuming it is NOT by email. Due by tomorrow?? I dont even know who I am playing Neither do we... and they are due in 2.5 hrs.. Also their website doesnt allow you to post comments with more than 200 characters in them. ,,, I'm not trying to be mean here, but this website ran much much better before Azubu gave them any money. I know the Azubu website was made for Azubu, I know that without azubu they made a new website. But this new website that we waited so long for has been nothing but a headache for me, my players, and other coordinators I spoke with. The CSL is really failing to impress me for the second year in a row now. 2011 CSL was the best year I played
These are fair criticisms. We said this before - the Azubu sponsorship + new website did not go hand in hand. We had to go to a new website due to technical issues that were happening, and obviously it didn't go great. I understand how frustrating it is going from something functional to something that isn't (from both a player and admin perspective).
So I don't have any good news to follow that up. We're not ready for tomorrow's games, plain and simple. We're going to take a week to re-evaluate how to make this season not bad, how to make the website not bad, and how to deliver on an experience that is great for the community. Please accept my own apologies for giving your team, coordinator, and everyone a headache in the process.
I'll make sure that what we cook up in the next week will do your 2011 memories justice.
We'll be updating the website shortly with a news post regarding this issue.
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On November 23 2013 15:26 shindigs wrote:Show nested quote +On November 23 2013 13:47 ZeromuS wrote:On November 23 2013 03:29 Hydro033 wrote:On November 23 2013 01:17 ZeromuS wrote:On November 22 2013 14:05 Hydro033 wrote:
Anyone know how to submit lineups and/or know who you're playing? Apparently lineups are due tomorrow..? But idk how to submit them. I am assuming it is NOT by email. Due by tomorrow?? I dont even know who I am playing Neither do we... and they are due in 2.5 hrs.. Also their website doesnt allow you to post comments with more than 200 characters in them. ,,, I'm not trying to be mean here, but this website ran much much better before Azubu gave them any money. I know the Azubu website was made for Azubu, I know that without azubu they made a new website. But this new website that we waited so long for has been nothing but a headache for me, my players, and other coordinators I spoke with. The CSL is really failing to impress me for the second year in a row now. 2011 CSL was the best year I played These are fair criticisms. We said this before - the Azubu sponsorship + new website did not go hand in hand. We had to go to a new website due to technical issues that were happening, and obviously it didn't go great. I understand how frustrating it is going from something functional to something that isn't (from both a player and admin perspective). So I don't have any good news to follow that up. We're not ready for tomorrow's games, plain and simple. We're going to take a week to re-evaluate how to make this season not bad, how to make the website not bad, and how to deliver on an experience that is great for the community. Please accept my own apologies for giving your team, coordinator, and everyone a headache in the process. I'll make sure that what we cook up in the next week will do your 2011 memories justice. We'll be updating the website shortly with a news post regarding this issue.
Thats great. I also would have liked if we could have players on our roster that play other games. I have one guy and potentially a second who would like to play for us once or twice if they are not on the rotation of their DotA2 squad. Its unfortunate that I can't have them on my roster as emergency substitutions or to play in scrims. I mean, assuming you guys do get the scrim system at some point, I would like to use it and have some of my non starters play, and when the website doesnt allow them to sign up, we can't do that.
I understand and was informed by an admin that you don't want people to flake on one game/match over another, and i understand that, but at the same time, I think it should be on the coordinator and the player to be respectful of both squads and their requirements. Honestly, the one person who really wants to be on both squads just wants to play some scrims through the official channels once the feature goes live.
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