We are pleased to announce already fourth season of the greatest StarCraft 2 League in CIS, where the best players from Europe, Korea and North America participate.
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2013 Ritmix Russian StarCraft II League Season 4.

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Ritmix RSL IV is over.

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Since the last season prize pool has been increased to $95oo and will be divided between two different events.

$75oo goes to main event and will be spread among players as below:
1st — $3,000
2nd — $2,000
3rd — $1,000
4th — $500
5th-8th — $250

And $2ooo will be raffled in special showmatch series.

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Saturday, 2nd, 1600 CET =Played=

MMA vs

Bly
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MMA 3:2 Bly

Kas vs

Slivko
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Kas 2:3 Slivko

Naniwa vs

LoWeLy
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Naniwa 2:3 LoWeLy

Sunday, 3rd, 1500 CET =Played=

Fraer <KeSPA Neo PlanetS>

SortOf
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Fraer 3:0 SortOf

LucifroN <Akilon Flats>

Oz
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LucifroN 3:1 Oz

Scarlett <Whirlwind> [image loading]

VortiX
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Scarlett 1:3 VortiX

Results:

Group A =Played=
Tuesday, 12th, 1600 CET

MMA

iNcontroL

LoWeLy
Replays (sry for file name — our admins are joking)
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MMA 3:2

LoWeLy

iNcontroL 0:3 MMA

LoWeLy 3:0

iNcontroL
MMA goes to winners bracket, Lowely goest to lower bracket.

Group B =Played=
Wednesday, 13th, 1600 CET

BratOK

Goswser
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BratOK

Goswser 3:2

BratOK 3:2

Goswser
Oz goes to winners bracket, Goswser goest to lower bracket.

Group D =Played=
Friday, 15th, 1600 CET
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LucifroN

Slivko

Roll
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LucifroN 3:0 [image loading]

Slivko

Roll 1:3

LucifroN
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Roll 1:3

Slivko
LucifroN goes to winners bracket, Slivko goest to lower bracket.

Group H =Played=
Tuesday, 19th, 1600 CET:

Naniwa

Bly

Pro7ect
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Naniwa 1:3 Bly

Pro7ect 0:3 Naniwa

Bly 3:2

Pro7ect
Bly goes to winners bracket, Naniwa goest to lower bracket.

Group F =Played=
Thursday, 21st, 1600 CET

HyuN

Happy (Russian player)
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TitaN
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HyuN 3:1 [image loading]

Happy (Russian player)

HyuN 3:2 [image loading]

TitaN

Happy (Russian player) 3:2 [image loading]

TitaN
HyuN goes to winners bracket, Happy goest to lower bracket.

Group С =Played=
Sunday, 24th, 1600 CET

aLive

Fraer

VortiX
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aLive 1:3 Fraer

aLive 2:3 VortiX
VortiX 3:0

Fraer
VortiX goes to winners bracket, Fraer goest to lower bracket.

Group G =Played=
Sunday, 26th, 1600 CET

Scarlett

Kas

monchi
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Kas 3:1

monchi

monchi 2:3 Scarlett

Scarlett 3:2

Kas
Scarlett goes to winners bracket, Kas goest to lower bracket.

Group E =Played=
Thursday, 28th, 1600 CET

SortOf

Siw 3:2

Ryung 3:0

Siw 1:3 SortOf
Ryung goes to winners bracket, SortOf goest to lower bracket.

Korea:

Ryung

MMA

HyuN

aLive

Europe and North America:

Scarlett

iNcontroL
~~Nerchio~~

SortOf replaced nerchio, who cancelled his participation.
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Naniwa

CIS:

Pro7ect (yeah, here is no mistake)

Kas

Bly

Happy (Russian player)

Fraer

Roll

Siw

Group Stage
24 players divided into 8 groups of 3 players. 1 zerg, 1 protoss and 1 terran. No mirrors.
The group played in 1 Round, Best of 5, Round Robin. In the case of equal rates for all three players held the Tie-break games with the Best of 1 on the same system. Tie-breaks are held until defined all the places in the group.
First place in group advance to Winners bracket and second place in group advance to Loser bracket in Playoffs.
Playoffs
Double Elimination.
Best of 5. Finals — Best of 7.

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Losers pick.
KeSPA Neo Arkanoid — Akilon Flats — KeSPA Neo Planet S — GSL Whirlwind — GSL Cloud Kingdom — GSL Entombed Valley — Ikarus.

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On Ru language:

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

February 08 2013 15:56 GMT

haha wow Neo Arkanoid in another tournament's map pool? That's sure to make things interesting. RSL is always fun to watch, though, so I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully Leenock will be that last Korean TBA D:

PhoenixVoid

Canada32740 Posts

February 08 2013 16:07 GMT

I like RSL, hope you guys can keep this tournament up! Wonder who the last Korean invite is though, maybe HyuN or Leenock.

Oz is switched with HyuN!

00Visor

4337 Posts

February 08 2013 16:23 GMT

Nice mappool.

RSL is becoming one of the best online leagues.

TheDougler

Canada8302 Posts

February 08 2013 16:26 GMT

I'd be stoked to see Incontrol just dominate this... but I mean, I can't help but think that's one hell of an uphill battle. Probably the biggest underdog story we've seen in SC2 since Thorzain at TSL3 to be honest.

Dexington

Canada7276 Posts

February 08 2013 16:30 GMT

Incontrol eh. I assume this is still WoL?

JustPassingBy

10776 Posts

February 08 2013 16:31 GMT

From a spectator pov, I really like the format.

So, what is the schedule? When can we expect the games to begin?

MyFirstProbe

Netherlands294 Posts

February 08 2013 16:41 GMT

Arkanoid in the mappool and sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question, but who is pro7ect?

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

February 08 2013 16:49 GMT

Yes! My favourite online league is back (if you don't count IronSquid^^)! Great players, format is great, it doesn't take too much time with only three players per group and produces awesome games, it's fun with the handpicked seeding because you don't get mirrors, etc.

Any chance ToD will be back to cast in English?

Edit: Also, why do you always write the letter o instead of 0? It looks weird.

Panishev

208 Posts

February 08 2013 16:50 GMT

#10

On February 09 2013 01:31 JustPassingBy wrote:
From a spectator pov, I really like the format.

So, what is the schedule? When can we expect the games to begin?

Next week we hope to start.

On February 09 2013 01:41 MyFirstProbe wrote:
Arkanoid in the mappool and sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question, but who is pro7ect?

He is progamer from RoX.KIS. Quite popular in CIS.

On February 09 2013 01:30 Dexington wrote:
Incontrol eh. I assume this is still WoL?

Yep, it's still WoL.

On February 09 2013 01:49 StarVe wrote:
Any chance ToD will be back to cast in English?

Cann't say anything about it /-:

Sibiryak

111 Posts

February 08 2013 17:11 GMT

#11

We need 1 korean protoss

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

February 08 2013 17:14 GMT

#12

On February 09 2013 02:11 Sibiryak wrote:
We need 1 korean protoss

Pretty sure there'll be one, two Protoss, one Zerg and one Terran left to be announced, I don't think we'll have two EU Protosses and only T/Z from KR, that wouldn't make much sense.

Maybe Oz or Creator will come back.

Sumadin

Denmark588 Posts

February 08 2013 17:14 GMT

#13

What? Standard map pool format. That is kinda the shame the alternative map pool format of Season III was something i really liked. It could have done without some of the more ridiculous maps but overall i really enjoyed the way alot of maps were added to the pool and pros were still forced to be able to react to each and every map, rather than just being able to decide constant vetoes.

Still an intresting mappool overall through. Arkanoid is a risky pick.

Niko_Thien

Germany2671 Posts

February 08 2013 18:06 GMT

#14

On February 09 2013 01:49 StarVe wrote:
Any chance ToD will be back to cast in English?

Yeah exactly my thoughts, Tod's casts are just amazing. All in all an english cast would increase the popularity of this tourney by far

Alex007

Ukraine211 Posts

February 08 2013 19:03 GMT

#15

Speaking about the mappool - we're trying to balance between pro's and viewer's thoughts. Progamers are not so glad to play on island maps and so on. That's why we're picking maps like Arkanoid and Icarus, which are pretty unstandart in some ways, but also staying with Cloud, Entombed and so on.

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

February 08 2013 19:06 GMT

#16

I think that way of setting up a map pool is good. I've really liked Icarus so far in the GSL. It changes how people play so it's refreshing. Same with Arkanoid when it first started in proleague.