Introducing the Leifeng Cup - $100 + OSC points Daily !!!
Introducing Daily Leifeng Cups!!!
Leifeng Cups are a series of daily $100 online cups organized and casted by Invictus Gaming coach Edison and sponsored by iloveoov16. The purpose of the cup is to raise the skill level of Chinese players by competing with Korean players on a regular basis. The cup will be streamed every day at 8pm KST (10pm AEDT) on DouyuTV for at least 3 months.
iG.Edison has extended an invitation to SEA players to participate in his tournaments, in a strong showing of unity following the merging of SEA + China for online regional tournaments. This merger has a 75% popular vote amongst sc2sea regulars! Continued good will, competitive rivarly and development between the regions players will likely see this grow. So we shall offer them some OSC points to the prizepool to show our commitment to welcoming China and other tournaments into the fold. However since this isn't a SEA run tournament per se, and occurs daily, a smaller amount will be available. The Leifeng Cup will only give points Tues-Sat to avoid clashing with long standing SEA Cups.
Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 16: 5 OSC points
Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 17-32 ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
Anyone ranked 16th - 9th beats anyone ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
1st - 8th have no chance to earn bonus points
9pm AEST Daily
*Prizes are in USD
Location: Korean Battle.net
Open to + league players. Signup Add leifeng_admin via skype, and request to be added to the daily bracket
Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series
The Leifeng Cup is a partnered tournament of the Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC). The 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.
The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the 2 day minimum $5000+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion! OSC World Rankings were established in December 2012.
In 2014 OSC partnered tournaments gave away $29691 combined prizepool, ($ bounties, Terran Bonus initiative, Invitationals, and LAN events were not included in this!), we had 155 completed partnered tournaments (up from 77 last year, which equates to 100% growth), and saw 358 individual players with points earned (up from 138 in 2013 = 159% growth)
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Playing top level players in a tournament situation, where money is on the line is a fantastic way to improve, or have a breakout performance. There are a lot of top teir koreans in these cups so far, but some of the Chinese guys have also taken out a daily. No reason a PiG or iaguz couldn't do the same. Plus SEA bounties will still be on offer for extra incentive.
There isn't a huge amount of points on offer on purpose. Given that these are daily we should see a variety of players gaining points, building our database and awareness.
i think thats silly to say Alo , The better the opponent is the more you see where your actually making mistakes and getting the chance to play a top Kr/Cn player is amazing practice. You DONT have to be top 8 Kr master to play in it
playing people 100 times better then you doesn't help you improve, sign up still but getting crushed by someone that is just doing complete safe builds is not going to help you improve. still lower people should sign up because I would like to get lucky and have a easy bracket thanks .
I think it is a good opportunity at least for pushing the limits of our better players especially in tournament settings, and in a way, 'practising' with higher level players on a more regular basis. Eddie mentioned players such as PiG and iaguz would benefit from this but I'm sure there are more players who will also benefit from this experience.
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