[nirvAnA]

A benevolent soul has emerged from the shadows!

A big shoutout to JoFritzMD

He came up with the initiative to sponsor a series of tournaments to further the eSports community in Australia. I've asked him to extend this to the whole of SEA, which the Oceania region forms the majority, and he kindly accepted. As such, over the next 2 months, we will probably see the return of the SEACL or SEASL or even both, with approximately $1,000 in total prizes up for grabs! You can learn more about JoFrizMd by reading his TL blogs over here!

Vote for your tournament!
If we can only have one event, or if we can have two, which would you rather have, or have first?

Option 1: SEASL - http://www.sc2sea.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92

Our first major tournament based on the Code S GSL tournament system. Complete with Code S round robin groups and "Code A open tournament qualifiers" which had over 500 people try out in, the tournament saw the very best of SEA compete for over a month. The final match came down to FXOFilthy triumphing over TAEdgE, with xGking.Jazbas coming in third.

Option 2: SEALCL - http://www.sc2sea.com/forumdisplay.php?f=91

Our first major team tournament. Held over a month, this tournament allowed all "social clans" entry with 2 open qualifiers and 4 invited teams. The finals saw iTA TA defeating aLt with 3rd/4th placing between nGen and inFi. The new season we have however, might have a sightly different format so all clans can take place, with different divisions and a league style + cup to go along with it. Have to discuss with frogmite, maynarde, erasmus, bakainu and the other sc2sea admins first and it also depends on what the community wants so vote!

Option 3: Others - Have a suggestion for something else? Post it in this thread!

Quick Comments

	deL:	Exciting!
	aLtShortizz:	Very very exciting!

[TAminimat]

Seacl!!!!!!!!!

[Eddie]

SEACL

Similar format to before.

There's quite a few high level SEA individual based tournaments, but few for the top clans. Play for your team mates! More rivalries.

[iM MaFia]

how about both ? with 1k u could have prizes split up for that

[nirvAnA]

both is possible, poll is to find out if we can only have one event, or if we can have two, which would you rather have, or have first? Because they won't be held concurrently.

[deL]

100% vote SEACL it's much better entertainment and community involvement. I think the format has to be changed because the whole field of clans/teams has changed though so the 3-tier competition (maybe formed into seasons like Korean BW's ProLeague, where you change the format in the middle to mix it up?) is a good idea.

Running the 3 tiers parallel will also help with the administration of it, and it will be less likely to fail or suffer from inactivity. FA Cup I guess is kind of like English Rugby League's Challenge Cup where any division can enter in an elimination type tournament? That would be cool as well though scheduling this is going to be quite big - a lot of time commitment for players and admins. I am happy to help out at any tier for the record.

[wTlzq]

SEACL for all the clans, not just the "big" ones

[Frogmite]

I say SEACL season 2.
We are working on a project with other admins to try to bring back SEACL season 2 with different divisions for different levels (for Pro to BSG).
Coming February 2012

[SouJ]

SEACL. There are definitely more teams ready for this compared to the last time back.

[crAzerk]

SEACL would obviously allow more people to be involved, so I would say SEACL is my preferred one (I voted wrongly! Clicked the SEASL instead lol) A new format would be better, once again, to include everyone.

For which first, it really doesn't matter does it. Whichever one is easier I suppose, I would think SEASL? Since CL would require coordination of significantly more people.

If I have extra time on top of school, SEACoL , I would definitely want to help out in this too

[TCPLemminks]

SEACL, same as last season.

If the BSGCL and the PDCL continue then I see no reason to split the league into three different skill categories. Then again if they are still continuing it basically is three different skill categories.

So the main question for me is:
Do we want a High-Level CL with all the available money put into it.
Or
Do we want to have a High-Level CL AND a FA-style cup, which would reduce the prize pool for the high level CL.

Personally I'd rather have a High-Level CL only.

[iM tgun]

If the SEACL happens, I might have to ninja my way onto a SEA team for this tournament x_x;

[ToR.Arnor]

Originally Posted by tgun

If the SEACL happens, I might have to ninja my way onto a SEA team for this tournament x_x;

I formally Invite you to pretend to be a member of Xeria should a clan league go ahead

[nirvAnA]

For the SEACL, im thinking FAcup will probably have the bulk of the prizes, since its basically a SEACL season 1 with seeds and its open to every team. Team league will have prize for the top division maybe. And lower divisions win achievements.

[deL]

I don't think people who don't join teams in the first place should be able to join one just to try get cash. Nothing against guys like tgun and glade but they don't affiliate themselves with clans or contribute to clans so why should they be rewarded in clan tournaments.

Quick Comments

aLtShortizz:

How does this work? Some ppl have both teams and clans.

[ToR.Arnor]

Originally Posted by TAdeL

I don't think people who don't join teams in the first place should be able to join one just to try get cash. Nothing against guys like tgun and glade but they don't affiliate themselves with clans or contribute to clans so why should they be rewarded in clan tournaments.

I agree with the 'cashing in' concept but if the merely wanted to join in for the fun/community aspect of it Im all for it

[iM tgun]

Originally Posted by TAdeL

I don't think people who don't join teams in the first place should be able to join one just to try get cash. Nothing against guys like tgun and glade but they don't affiliate themselves with clans or contribute to clans so why should they be rewarded in clan tournaments.

No koreans, no proteams, fox only, final destination.

[inFeZa]

Frogdog style!

[aLtShortizz]

Personally id prefer a SEACL. A SL might not generate as much interest as clan leagues(Rivalries and all). Also, id prefer it not to be Invited + Open. Having just a Open bracket starting with group stages with no seeding will make things more interesting! Imagine a small clan getting into the finals with sheer teamwork and a little bit of bracket luck! Just like Chadman's run into Dox cup

Oh and btw, i dunno how the match format was before but id love to see like 9 Bo1s instead of GSTL all-kill format. Imo its pretty retarded for a clan to win if they only have ONE good player, which btw can be any hired Korean these days haha.

PS: How do we differentiate between Teams and Clans? For example, Mafia is part of xGKing but in clan TA. How does that work out?

[Frogmite]

Originally Posted by aLtShortizz

PS: How do we differentiate between Teams and Clans? For example, Mafia is part of xGKing but in clan TA. How does that work out?

Teams have sponsors, like Tt, xGKing, arcmsi, mineski,...

We'll separate Team league and Clan league. The two leagues will have different format as teams can't align more the 3-4 players while clans can align 5 to 7 players per match.

A player playing for Team league won't be able to play for Clan league. However, teams can recruit new players from clans if a player is doing very well in the clan league.

Team League will get a bigger prize pool than clan league.