The OSC League passes $100,000 prizepool for 2016 + closing in on 100 $ Bounties!
As of today, May 31st, we are happy to announce that the OSC League has already given out over $100,000 from various tournaments and competitions in 2016! Smashing 2015's yearly total of $50,000 - with 6+ months left to go in the year!
Massive thanks to all the players who play in our events.
The OSC team, managers, writers, web team, admins, etc.
Our awesome tournament partners
And our supportive sponsors Razer, ADVMoto Magazine and PSISTORM Gaming!
Thanks for sharing our dream and working hard to grow SC2, especially in our home regions.
In other exciting news, we are fast approaching 100 OSC $ Bounties won this year!
If you're not already, we hope to see you playing in or watching our events, as we continue to push hard to increase player rewards and opportunities!
Play OSC and Win!
What is OSC?
For those who are unaware, The Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship (OSC) is the Oceanic, South East Asian, North American and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. Although the network is based in and focuses on these regions, many events are open to everyone in the world.
The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the $7500+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion! OSC World Rankings were established in December 2012.
In 2015 OSC partnered tournaments gave away $49885 combined prizepool, we had 190 completed partnered tournaments (up 22% on 2014), and saw 498 individual players with points earned (up 39% on 2014)
We've already surpassed 2015's total prizepool and players with points earned, as we push towards a $150,000+ 2016 season!!
Solar was 2015's Champion, taking out the $5000 finals series.
GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.
Current OSC rankings and database can be viewed here
Factors which influence how many OSC points tournaments are allocated include: prizepool, format, frequency, open qualifiers and region locking.
Some unique/interesting features of OSC tournaments and rankings.
OSC Supporter Packages
You can show your support towards OSC, and help us put on events for the community for just $8 USD per month! One less chocolate bar/One less beer at the pub/a couple less songs on iTunes, etc, and the money goes towards supporting the scene It's quite common place for players/casters to have a subscription option on twitch tv (which isn't an option for us), and we feel we have much more to give back in terms of entertainment, competition and rewards. Subscribers are also another way we can potentially market ourselves to prospective sponsors, which in turn will result in further growth.
We also provided supporters with bonuses such as event replay packs, and chance to win 1 hour of coaching from top tier players.
If you are interested, you can subscribe here.
Checkout this cool new product from our Sponsors Razer!
Razer Nabu Smartband
Preorder here
ADVMoto Magazine
As of today, May 31st, we are happy to announce that the OSC League has already given out over $100,000 from various tournaments and competitions in 2016! Smashing 2015's yearly total of $50,000 - with 6+ months left to go in the year!
Massive thanks to all the players who play in our events.
The OSC team, managers, writers, web team, admins, etc.
Our awesome tournament partners
And our supportive sponsors Razer, ADVMoto Magazine and PSISTORM Gaming!
Thanks for sharing our dream and working hard to grow SC2, especially in our home regions.
In other exciting news, we are fast approaching 100 OSC $ Bounties won this year!
If you're not already, we hope to see you playing in or watching our events, as we continue to push hard to increase player rewards and opportunities!
Play OSC and Win!
What is OSC?
For those who are unaware, The Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship (OSC) is the Oceanic, South East Asian, North American and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. Although the network is based in and focuses on these regions, many events are open to everyone in the world.
The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the $7500+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion! OSC World Rankings were established in December 2012.
In 2015 OSC partnered tournaments gave away $49885 combined prizepool, we had 190 completed partnered tournaments (up 22% on 2014), and saw 498 individual players with points earned (up 39% on 2014)
We've already surpassed 2015's total prizepool and players with points earned, as we push towards a $150,000+ 2016 season!!
Solar was 2015's Champion, taking out the $5000 finals series.
GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.
Current OSC rankings and database can be viewed here
Factors which influence how many OSC points tournaments are allocated include: prizepool, format, frequency, open qualifiers and region locking.
Some unique/interesting features of OSC tournaments and rankings.
- Players are seeding via points acquired from previous OSC placings. (Points often are awarded to 16/32nd place)
- If you defeat someone ranked in the top 32, or higher than yourself, you earn scalp/bonus points (These are used in the event of a tie for yearly finals qualification)
- Players can challenge each other to show matches and put their points on the line, winner takes all.
- There are $ Bounties on top tier players if you can defeat them in a Bo3+ series
- Rankings reflect tournament success, participation, and direct individual series
- We have an active paid news writing team who provide fresh sc2 content and OSC coverage, available at SC2Online.com
OSC Supporter Packages
You can show your support towards OSC, and help us put on events for the community for just $8 USD per month! One less chocolate bar/One less beer at the pub/a couple less songs on iTunes, etc, and the money goes towards supporting the scene It's quite common place for players/casters to have a subscription option on twitch tv (which isn't an option for us), and we feel we have much more to give back in terms of entertainment, competition and rewards. Subscribers are also another way we can potentially market ourselves to prospective sponsors, which in turn will result in further growth.
We also provided supporters with bonuses such as event replay packs, and chance to win 1 hour of coaching from top tier players.
If you are interested, you can subscribe here.
Checkout this cool new product from our Sponsors Razer!
Razer Nabu Smartband
Preorder here
ADVMoto Magazine