We start our new content at the same time every day, and that's 17:00 PDT (-07:00). The re-broadcasts always begin at 09:30 PDT (-07:00).

Monday: IPL TV

Tuesday: IPL Team Arena

Wednesday: IPL TV

Thursday: IPL 2 Main Event

Friday: IPL 2 Main Event

Saturday: IPL 2 Main Event

Sunday: IPL 2 Main Event

So, Monday and Wednesday are IPL TV. There are roughly two hours of new, live casts of viewer submitted and pro replays, before we begin airing content that you may have seen before either from previous IPL TV shows or IPL 2 Main Event games.

Tuesdays are IPL Team Arena, which is our winner's style king of the hill weekly team showmatch. Those games are cast live until they are completed, then re-aired content.

Thursday through Sunday, again starting at 17:00 PDT (-07:00), are main event games and the calendar has always been available at http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft2/calendar

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The eSports division of IGN Entertainment is happy to announce IGN Pro League season two, offering an expanded player pool and a USD $50,000 prize pool. This comes following the success of the first season, an invitational tournament that exemplified the quality of IPL players and demonstrated high production value. In season two, the IPL will be broadening the player pool with an open qualifier to include competitors from the North American, South American and European servers. The top four players from season one have received automatic qualifier spots for season two. The remaining 28 spots will be awarded through IGN’s open qualifier system, powered by Z33K. Z33K, a tournament web service, will maintain the IPL qualifiers and ensure it is a smooth and efficient process.

The goal of the IGN eSports division is to provide a professional, polished viewing experience to fans of eSports while supporting the development of eSports globally through a sustainable tournament system that rewards its players. IPL 2 will be the first full-fledged StarCraft II tournament for IGN Entertainment; the aim is to repeat success and grow out eSports at IGN and beyond.

Get the latest developments from IGN Pro League headquarters by following us:

http://www.youtube.com/user/IGNProLeague
http://www.facebook.com/IGNProLeague
http://twitter.com/IGNProLeague
http://www.justin.tv/ignproleague

Where:

http://www.ign.com/ipl

When:
July 14th to August 14th
Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sunday
5 PM PDT North American Broadcast
6:30 PM CEST EU Broadcast!

Qualified Players:

Seed 1:

EGIdrA
Seed 2:

ReignKiWiKaKi
Seed 3:

dSeleCT
Seed 4:

EGAxslav
Seed 5:

mouzMana
Seed 6:

roxkisBratOK
Seed 7:

vileState
Seed 8:

FXOmOoNan
Seed 9:

sixjaxViBE
Seed 10:

dignitasmerz
Seed 11:

DuckloadRa
Seed 12:

sixjaxdde
Seed 13:

Destiny
Seed 14:

Lalush
Seed 15:

Nerchio
Seed 16:

coLMinigun
Seed 17:

MillDieStar
Seed 18:

MYMClouD
Seed 19:

NrSRaNgeD
Seed 20:

aTnSocke
Seed 21:

FnaticFenix
Seed 22:

sixjaxCocoA
Seed 23:

FnaticNightEnD
Seed 24:

MillTarson
Seed 25:

RGlFuRy
Seed 26:

ESCGoOdy
Seed 27:

coLstalife
Seed 28:

aTnDarKFoRcE
Seed 29:

mouzThorZaIN
Seed 30:

LiquidRet
Seed 31:

imba.FXOStrelok
Seed 32:

coLDrewbie

Bracket

IPL 2 Bracket

Stay up to date with the IPL 2 Main Event by checking our Broadcast Schedule

VODs

Check out our VODs on our Video Archive

Main Event Information

When:

Targeted Date is Thursday, July 14th at 8:00pm EST

Commentators:

PainUser & CatsPajamas
PainUser & HDStarCraft
Tasteless and Artosis
TotalBiscuit and dApollo
DJ Wheat
Day9
Husky

Format:

32 Player Double Elimination
First 3 Winner’s Rounds: Best of 3
Winner’s 4rd Round and Winner’s Round Finals are Best of 5
First 5 Loser’s Rounds: Best of 3
6th and 7th Loser’s Rounds and Loser’s Round Finals: Best of 5
Finals are Best of 5

Map Pool:

MLG Metalopolis
MLG Shattered Temple
MLG Shakuras Plateau
MLG Xel’Naga Caverns
GSL Cross Fire SE
GSL Crevasse
GSL Terminus SE
GSL Tal’Darim Altar

Prizes:

Prize Pool breakdown: $50,000 total

1st - $15,000
2nd - $10,000
3rd - $6,000
4th - $4,000
5th/6th - $1300
7th/8th - $1000
9th-12th - $800
13th-16th - $600
17th-24th - $400
25th-32nd - $200

In addition, the top 16 finishers from this event will be automatically qualified for our next online event. After the conclusion of IPL 2, four qualifiers will occur where the top four players will advance to our next online event.

The eSports team at IGN Entertainment looks forward to providing viewers with quality matches and an exciting tournament. Please tune in to catch the action!

humbuglol

Belgium112 Posts

May 03 2011 20:03 GMT

awesome!

PhiliBiRD

United States2643 Posts

May 03 2011 20:03 GMT

awesome!!! cant wait to see who qualifies ^^

and go Catspajamas awesome caster !

Ichabod

United States1659 Posts

May 03 2011 20:04 GMT

Great to see it announced, gl gl to all!

luxx

United States140 Posts

May 03 2011 20:04 GMT

It is awesome IPL is going with an open tournament, and it is nice to see the z33k starcraft 2 tournament system being used.

Headshot

United States1656 Posts

May 03 2011 20:05 GMT

I'm very interested to see who ends up casting.

Defacer

Canada5052 Posts

May 03 2011 20:07 GMT

Too. Many. Tournaments!

Awesome stuff. Good luck IPL . Really like the open call for casters.

SiguR

Canada2039 Posts

May 03 2011 20:08 GMT

THIS IS HUGEEE!

hehe, Can't wait. Great prize pool!

Edit:
I've signed up!

major kudos for the insanely good website. Seems like you guys remembered to cover everything.

Defacer

Canada5052 Posts

May 03 2011 20:10 GMT

On May 04 2011 05:05 Headshot wrote:
I'm very interested to see who ends up casting.

I always wanted to see husky and HD reunited.

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 03 2011 20:12 GMT

#10

I would also like to preemptively say that do not regard the lack of a caster or casters we used last time as saying we are not going to use them. We have brought on PainUser and CatsPajamas as IGN employees and that is why they are listed, we have not made deals with our other casters yet!

Chill

Calgary25981 Posts

May 03 2011 20:13 GMT

#11

The IGN eSports team will pick a group of commentators for each event and issue each caster a media package with overlay graphics for the live stream. As an added bonus, we will select one caster each day to be the featured IPL commentator, meaning that the caster will gain the privilege of having their cast streamed on www.ign.com/ipl on the IPL justin.tv channel in exchange for promotion on our website.

I don't understand this. Some people get chosen to cast, but it isn't livestreamed? It's just VOD uploaded?

Arc1

Poland849 Posts

May 03 2011 20:14 GMT

#12

Great, very good idea with qualifiers, but kinda sad it will be on NA server only.

Alex.IGN

United States1050 Posts

May 03 2011 20:15 GMT

#13

On May 04 2011 05:13 Chill wrote:

Show nested quote +

I don't understand this. Some people get chosen to cast, but it isn't livestreamed? It's just VOD uploaded?

Sorry Chill I didn't make that very clear. Everyone who gets chosen to stream the qualifiers are totally free to stream on their channels, and we'll pick one person to stream on the IPL channel.

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

May 03 2011 20:16 GMT

#14

Sort of sad to see no iCCup maps again but still this tournament is going to be sick good!

LOVE the open qualifiers, this should be an epic event!

PartyBiscuit

Canada4525 Posts

May 03 2011 20:17 GMT

#15

Well, at least Euro's will be able to participate, even if they do have to play on NA server.

On_Slaught

United States12190 Posts

May 03 2011 20:22 GMT

#16

Really like this open qualifier format. Should result in better players getting in.

Also, an open call for casters? Interesting.

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

May 03 2011 20:22 GMT

#17

Just to clarify: this is for Americans only? @__@!

coolcor

520 Posts

May 03 2011 20:23 GMT

#18

Make sure the GSL maps are the latest versions!! Why no Terminus SE instead of RE they've been using that for a while now?

blade55555

United States17423 Posts

May 03 2011 20:24 GMT

#19

top 16 get seeded in IPL 3 eh? Interesting I thought it was only going too be top 4. Either way should be awesome, its about time a big tournament had qualifiers other then the TSL3 ^_^. You guys rock! :D