Holy crap that's a massive prizepool compared to the standard. That's like the standard 1st place prize, which was the ONLY prize, is the third place prize.

You know anything about the sponsor? What is it?

Epoxide

Magic Woods9326 Posts

July 05 2013 17:08 GMT

#683

http://www.istarpcmall.co.kr/

Sky and a number of other players have them as their head sponsor on their streams.

KristofferAG

Norway25712 Posts

July 05 2013 17:13 GMT

#684

Yeah I remember it comig up when there was talk of a "proleague" hosted by Sonic as well, as one of the teams.

Mewka

Poland1458 Posts

July 08 2013 10:29 GMT

#685

Great news !

snipealot

Korea (South)494 Posts

July 08 2013 10:50 GMT

#686

Sonic Ranking Tournament 15

1st 1,000,000KRW ( $875 )
2nd 300,000KRW ( $262 )
3rd 200,000KRW ( $175 )

Structure for the group stages:

Set 1 - bo3
Set 2 - bo3
Winners match - bo1
Losers match - bo1
Final game - bo3

Mapcycle:

1. New 815
2. Fighting Spirit
3. New wind and cloud
4. Neo Requiem
5. Match Point

Schedule:

7/9 Ro32 Group A -

Shuttle,

so..fma,

Ample,

eNvy.Bisu
7/10 Ro32 Group B -

Pusan,

ZergFight,

Hint,

Sexy
7/11 Ro32 Group C -

PerfectMan,

Larva,

sSak,

Zelot
7/12 Ro32 Group D -

HiyA,

Olympus,

SanTa,

Hero
7/16 Ro32 Group E -

Tyson,

Satang,

Hi,

Mong
7/17 Ro32 Group F -

Movie,

Beast,

Zergman,

Crack
7/18 Ro32 Group G -

Sea,

Changers,

eros_lucifer,

Cola
7/19 Ro32 Group H -

Killer,

Shinee,

Lazy,

Ogdol

7/23 Ro16 Group A
7/24 Ro16 Group B
7/25 Ro16 Group C
7/26 Ro16 Group D

7/30 Ro8 A + B
7/31 Ro8 C + D

8/1 Ro4 A + B
8/2 Grand Finals

Disclaimer: This can all be changed at any moment in time, even 5 minutes before a broadcast

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15차 랭킹전

1위 상금 : 100만원
2위 상금 : 30만원
3위 상금 : 20만원
1set - 3판2선
2set - 3판2선
3승자조 - 단판
4패자조 - 단판
5.최종전 - 3판2선

1.set 신 815
2.set 투 혼
3.set 신 풍운
4.set 네오 레퀴엠
5.set 매치 포인트

7월 9일 (화) 32강 A조 김윤중P 황재성Z 김태영T 송민재P
7월 10일 (수) 32강 B조 박지호P 이고부Z 김규회P 이영웅T
7월 11일 (목) 32강 C조 김태균P 임홍규Z 최호선T 서문지훈Z
7월 12일 (금) 32강 D조 구성훈T 올림푸스P 박필형P 조일장Z
7월 16일 (화) 32강 E조 박수범P 사 탕Z 노강호P 윤찬희T
7월 17일 (수) 32강 F조 진영화P 유진우Z 박성준Z 정민기T
7월 18일 (목) 32강 G조 염보성T 원지훈P 오현명P 노재상Z
7월 19일 (금) 32강 H조 박준오Z 샤이니T 김기훈P 이동호T
7월 23일 (화) 16강 A조
7월 24일 (수) 16강 B조
7월 25일 (목) 16강 C조
7월 26일 (금) 16강 D조
7월 30일 (화) 8강 A조, B조
7월 31일 (수) 8강 C조, D조
8월 1일 (목) 4강 A조, B조
8월 2일 (금) 결승전

KristofferAG

Norway25712 Posts

July 08 2013 10:53 GMT

#687

Sick with the new prize pools. Going to be a whole lot of games to cover. Glad he's switched up the map pool a tiny bit too.

Still not a fan of how there's no break between semis and finals, or Ro8.

snipealot

Korea (South)494 Posts

July 08 2013 10:53 GMT

#688

황재성, 송민재 and 이고부 are players I could not find any information on at all
If anyone knows anything please post it here

Edit: Epoxide saves the day

2Pacalypse-

Croatia9489 Posts

July 08 2013 10:54 GMT

#689

LOL, New 815?? and Neo Requiem?

This should be... interesting ^^

Epoxide

Magic Woods9326 Posts

July 08 2013 10:54 GMT

#690

황재성 is

so..fma
송민재 is (P)

eNvy.Bisu
이고부 is (Z)

ZergFight

New 815 is Sin 815
Neo Requiem

Dragoons

140 Posts

July 08 2013 12:52 GMT

#691

Can we get some word on how the twitch ad money contributes to Sonics activities?

snipealot

Korea (South)494 Posts

July 08 2013 15:00 GMT

#692

The twitch money goes to sonic, sonic spends some of it on SRTs. I think some of it was spent bringing players to SSL as well but I'm not entirely sure. The income from snipealot2 helps sonic spend less of his own money(but he still spends a lot from what I understand) running tournaments.

The whole process is rather complicated, but here it is:

Step 1: I receive money from twitch on my korean registered paypal account
Step 2: I transfer an amount equal to 95% of the amount received to sonics bank account. This number is 95% due to paypal fees and currency fluctuations
Step 3: I transfer the money from my Korean paypal account to my Norwegian paypal account. This is done because of really really shitty rules by paypal korea where they won't accept my alien registration status(basically only Korean citizens can transfer money from a Korean paypal account to a Korean bank account)
Step 4: I transfer the money from my Norwegian paypal account to my Norwegian bank account

I've been told twitch has finally managed to change my partner registered paypal address though, so from next month I might be able to avoid getting hit by double paypal fees.

Dragoons

140 Posts

July 08 2013 16:16 GMT

#693

Nice, thank you for your work.

Jragon

Australia1471 Posts

July 09 2013 07:53 GMT

#694

When is the next full-blown SSL? Were they happy with how the finals turned out for the last one?

Epoxide

Magic Woods9326 Posts

July 22 2013 23:59 GMT

#695

On July 09 2013 16:53 Jragon wrote:
When is the next full-blown SSL? Were they happy with how the finals turned out for the last one?

I posted it earlier but Sonic has been in negotiation with a company for sponsoring.

Yesterday he posted an update about it how it's moving forward. He also talks about casters, I'm assuming Kim Carrier + LSW again. Also he is getting more help with organization, learned from SSL8 etc. The thing I was most interested in was that he has searched (or companies has shown interested, google translate doesn't make it clear here) for more than 400 companies.

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현재 6.1일 결승 끝나고 난 이후로.
지금까지 스폰서 작업만 소닉TV 직원 및 저 포함. 총 400개가 넘는 업체를 선청해서 제안서를 넣었습니다.
그중 말이 잘 된곳들은 미팅을 계속 적으로 하고 있으며, 9차 스타리그 관련해서 질문 하시는분들이 많은데
무조건 진행 할겁니다.
8차때보다 좀더 화려한 엔트리와. 기술력이라던가 업그레이드 된 부분들이 많이 있습니다.
아직 미확정이지만. 추가 되는 해설진들과 캐스터 및. 여러분들이 생각하시는것보다 더 많은걸 준비하고 있으니 기대 해주시구요!
저번 7차가 12월 1일. 아이템베이 스폰 받은게 이번년 2월이었습니다. 총 3개월이 걸렸던거죠.
지금 8차 6.1결승이 끝난 이후로. 이제 한달 반 되어 갑니다.
정말 스폰서에 대한 답이 안나오면. 신발팜 사장님한테 어필하면 충분히 진행 될수 있는 부분 있으니. ㅋㅋ
걱정마시구.
지금 현재를 즐겨주시면 될것 같습니다.
감사합니다~!!^^

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juki

68 Posts

July 23 2013 02:19 GMT

#696

On July 23 2013 08:59 Epoxide wrote:

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Here's a rough translation. The post suggests that he has sent proposals to all of those companies but hasn't specifically set up anything yet.

Presently, after the conclusion of the previous finals on June 1st, we have been meeting with potential sponsors for SonicTV. We have submitted proposals to over 400 companies. We are continuing to meet with the ones which are well-received. For the many people asking about the 9th Sonic Starleague, know that it will progress as planned.

Compared to the 8th league, the entries will be more impressive and the production values will be upgraded.

Although it is unconfirmed, we are also adding commentators and casters. We are preparing more things than you realize, so please wait for us!

The 7th SSL ended on December 1st, and the ItemBay sponsorship was set up this year in February. It took around three months. The 8th SSL ended on June 1st, so it has only been a month and a half. If we absolutely can't find a sponsor, we can always ask the Sinbalfarm president (keke).

Please don't worry and just enjoy the present.

Thank you~!!^^