[TtSYF.tRoy]

Proud to announce the Eastern Starcraft League Season 1.
ESCL Season 1 will see five qualifiers over the space of two weeks seeding thirty-two players across Oceania, SEA, Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan into a SSL style tournament. All thirty-two qualified players will compete in a best of 5 against another qualified player, the winner continuing to group stage round of sixteen while the loser is knocked out of season 1. We then have a sixteen player group stage followed by a eight player single elimination finals bracket.

+ [Qualifier Information] +

Five qualifiers will be ran to give players a chance to play, dates for the qualifiers can be seen below.
Sunday January 18th - China & Taiwan Qualifier (8 seeds) View Bracket
Thursday January 22nd - Korea Qualifier (6 seeds) View Bracket
Saturday January 24th - SEA/Japan Qualifier (6 seeds) View Bracket
Sunday January 25th - Oceania Qualifier (12 seeds) View Bracket

Round Of 16 Information
GROUP A - Friday 13th of February 7pm AEDT
Lobo - RivaL
Hurricane - Spear

GROUP B - Sunday 15th of February 7pm AEDT
VirTues - Armani
XY - TRUE

GROUP C - Tuesday 17th of February 7pm AEDT
eMotion - DarK
Yours - MacSed

GROUP D - Sunday 22nd of February
Ian - Probe
Nice - PSiArc

*If you can't attend your scheduled day, notify admin.
* Everyone join ESCL on NA server for games.

Prize pool:
1st - $270 + 260 OSC Points
2nd - $100 + 160 OSC Points
3rd - $35 + 100 OSC Points
4th - $15 + 60 OSC Points
5-8th - 25 OSC Points each
9-12th - 10 OSC Points each
13-16th - 7.5 OSC Points each
17-32nd - 5 OSC Points each
830 total OSC Points and $400 up for grabs!

Happily partnered with LeiFeng who will be broadcasting the whole event with a Chinese stream along with Insano and CautioN we will be giving you all stages of the tournament packed into 13 live broadcasts.

You can follow all updates and announces for ESCL on our twitter page https://twitter.com/EasternSCL All the support we get is very much appreciated!
We are looking for more a additional admin and caster to improve ESCL, if you're interested feel free to contact ESCL on easternscleague@gmail.com

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Saulo Silva fine photography is the major sponsor for ESCL Season 1, Were very happy to be working alongside them and we would love if you could show the same support for them as they do for us. So please check out their website http://saulosilvaphoto.com The website has some awesome photographs that are definitely worth having a look at as well as some brilliant content from Dreamhack events.

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Eastern Starcraft League is a partnered tournament of the Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC)! The OSC is the Oceanic, South East Asian and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. (Only around the top 10-25% gain points from each tournament). 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 $4000+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion!

Current season rankings and database can be viewed here

GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.

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[SLCN.Wally]

Anyone getting a bug where they try fill in their character id and it just fills in all the box at once?

Quick Comments

	syfCrimson:	Yep TT
	Blysk:	i am too

[Elusory]

I assume prizes are paid out by Leifeng side and not you?

EDIT: I'm not firing shots, I'm genuinely concerned.

EDIT 2: Ah nice!

Quick Comments

	SLCN.Wally:	S H O T S F I R E D . GG NO RE
	ThatGuyDoMo:	ROFL
	TtSYF.tRoy:	I understand your concern, this $300 is my personal investment.
	FLuX:	LMAO
	ToRsupapower:	LOL

[Eddie]

This is awesome! Not just the tournament - but further strengthens the new alliance between SEA + China.

Together we can do great things. #2015hype #tournamentseveryday

[syfRize]

Glorious.
******* glorious.

[syfCrimson]

Looking forward to this!

[TtSYF.tRoy]

Sign up process was minimised to make it effective and working. Times are posted on sign up link, will post on thread.

[Eddie]

Don't think times are posted anywhere yet? - So maybe hold off signing up until that's locked in.

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SLCN.Wally:

The date is but the time isn't

[Philosopher]

So ready for this. My body is ready for some awesomeness. also hope to see some of the Japanese players take part. I really do enjoy all these new tournaments from China and our own backyard, with this kind of continuing support for our players I can see us really becoming a strong region to contend with.

[uJeanZ]

I love Leifeng cup. There was kick ass players both Chinese and Korean and some balls out games. On top of that, it was every freakin night. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxddddddddddddddddddddddddddd dddddddd

[x5_Namakaye]

Originally Posted by TtSYF.tRoy

Korea

RIP 10char

[eCKoa`ProzeR]

So much hype!!! I can't contain it -- MY BODY IS NOT READY FOR THIS

[PSiArc]

such an awesome tourney!! still can't believe I can participate in great tournaments like this from now on!
gotta play 100 games a day!!!

Quick Comments

	asdfSchnitzel:	yay! gogo gosu psiarc <3
	eCKoa`ProzeR:	Share to all your Japanese friends who play!!! <3

[TtSYF.tRoy]

I have had a few players from Australia and New Zealand sign up for the SEA/Japan qualifier, just to clear this up. Australian and New Zealand players are to sign up and compete in the Oceanic qualifier only. Thanks.

[Philosopher]

Hey tRoy, If you need another stream, let me know SEAcraftTV would love to help out in some way if possible. Also I can't stream myself (due to internet, #BlameAbbott) but happy to be an extra caster if you need.

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TtSYF.tRoy:

Thanks, ill get back to you on Skype :)

[TtSYF.tRoy]

Due to a lack of sign ups in both the Taiwan and China qualifiers we have decided to merge both qualifiers into a single qualifier on the 18th awarding 8 tournament seeds. That frees up one extra seed which is given to the SEA/Japan qualifier, which now awards 6 tournament seeds.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Sign up for the China & Taiwan qualifier Here

[azraiil542]

just wanted to know if there are any pre requisitions for the tournament such as what league you have to be in or if there is an entry fee? im hoping to enter and this would be my first tourney so im be pretty new to this haha, if anyone knows of any minor tournaments than can be entered from AUS or in Melbourne AUS please let me know

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TtSYF.tRoy:

No league requirement and no entry fee, feel free to sign up! :)

[azraiil542]

awesome! thanks troy ill be looking forward to this ive already signed up so im pretty psyched

[azraiil542]

hey guys whats the streaming link for this tournament? i have a lot of people who would like to watch haha

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TtSYF.tRoy:

http://www.twitch.tv/escl_en

[SSfp_Saulo]

Roy, can I add an extra 100$ ? You redistribute the prizes as you see fit.

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TtSYF.tRoy:

Wow :O So generous, add me on Skype (duxxi3) to talk :)