[nirvAnA]

Nation Wars Season 2 Powered by Neolution

Nation Wars 2 is finally about to begin! The biggest change from Season 1 is that Taiwan and China will be joining the existing SEA nations on the server and there is now a $1,200 prize pool courtesy for Neolution. SEA/ ANZ National teams that are not listed (e.g Brunei, Cambodia) can sign up here for the qualifier. Most of the countries are holding team selections (links below) so nows the time to sign up for your chance to play for your country!

The Participating Nations and Team Managers

+ [Qualifiers - Match Day 23rd July 5pm SGT] +

pRo.Timber Team Selection Thread
nGenJothree Team Selection Thread
Roz Team Selection Thread
tGcSeQ

+ [The Invited Nations - First Match Day 30th-31st July] +

TAdeL - Team Selection Thread
yongming - Team Selection Thread
Navi - Team Selection Thread
MiTHjump Team Selection Thread
WaWa Team Selection Thread
CCM.GoMax
OrzRush

Schedule & History

+ [Full Schedule & Casters] +

Qualifying Teams Final Lineup Deadline : 17 July 2011
Qualifier Match : 23 July 2011
Invited Teams Final Lineup Deadline & First Week Submission : 24 July 2011

Group Play First Match Begins : 30 July 2011 For Group A / 31 July 2011 For Group B
- Group Play Match 1 : 30 July 2011 For Group A / 31 July 2011 For Group B
- Group Play Match 2 : 6 August 2011 For Group A / 7 August 2011 For Group B
- Group Play Match 3 : 13 August 2011 For Group A / 14 August 2011 For Group B

- Semi Final : 20 August 2011
- Rank 3 : 21 August 2011
- Final (day 1) : 27 August 2011
- Final (day 2) : 28 August 2011

Casters:
Two official streams will show the biggest match of each week, played live.
Biggest match of group A will be on Saturday.
Biggest match of group B will be on Sunday.
Tentative list - Will add a * to their names when they have confirmed
1) Kelly+Seguer (Saturday) : http://www.justin.tv/kellymilkies
2) Xeen+Benji (Sunday) : http://www.justin.tv/benjisc2
3) Notynote (Only Thailand’s Match) : http://http://www.livestream.com/thaistreamer

+ [About Nation War Season 1] +

Back in the day when Starcraft 2 was first launched and when dinosaurs were still eating your children - a time before sc2sea.com even existed *GASP!*, there lived a mythical creature named deL. This unique creature was half-man half-troll, for he could at one moment be an extremely contributive member of the community but at the very next morph into a hybrid of uncletom's butt, aean's toe and kringe's right arm on steroids. Fortunately for us, in one of his more lucid moments he came up with a brilliant idea of having a Nation Wars tournament for the SEA region. This tournament would pit the best countries on the SEA server against each other in a league style format, with games being cast live every week. This is the very tournament which established SEA superstars such as mOOnGLaDe & RedArchon as the names you know today, as well as breathing life to a new breed of mutants whom we now call "casters". Seasoned veterans like Unstable, kelly, mezza, Hdphoenix, navi and tenz we silly newbies back then with 640x resolutions who started casting for the first time!

Anyway, after coming out with the format, rules and announcements deL pulled out at the last minute saying the tournament was unable to proceed as he had other commitments and would not have the time to manage it. This is where nirvAnA for the first time in a long while decided to put on his organising boots once again, and took over the running of the league. With the help of the dedicated nation team leaders, over the next 2 months a widely successful Starcraft 2 event for the SEA region was held. Somewhere during this time, on 14th Sep to be exact, sc2sea.com was born! (ok sidetracked!) Anyway, the winner of the tournament came down to an exciting Ace match on the final play day where Australia (which could potentially be tied with Singapore) spurred on by mOOnGLaDe managed to defeat NZ 3-2 in a thrilling ace match against Kowi.

A look back at the final standings of Season 1.

At that point of time the community was much smaller, sc2sea.com did not exist, and people were just playing for fun and pride but we still had an awesome time! For season 2 we have a $1,200 USD prize pool, we are supported by our ever growing community at sc2sea.com and with the Asian powerhouses Taiwan and China been thrown into the mix, things are only going to be bigger, better and more exciting this time around!

King Of SEA Nation War League S1
Intro, Rules, Fixtures
Team Rosters & Early Season Interviews
End of Season Player Statistics

Recap, Results, Replays
Week 1 - SGvsNZ, PHvsVN, THvsIDD
Week 2 - AUvsPH, NZvsID, SGvsVN
Week 3 - SGvsPH, THvsAU, VNvsID
Week 4 - NZvsTH, SGvsID, AUvsVN
Week 5 - NZvsVN, THvsPH, SGvsAU
Week 6 - AUvsID, NZvsPH, SGvsTH
Week 7 - IDvsPH, THvsVN, AUvsNZ

Rules, Format and Maps

+ [Rules, Format and Maps] +

+ [Rules] +

Organisers:
Nation war Head Admin: MiTHjump
Other Nation war Admins: nirvAnA

Server : SEA
Report Result : Report on Sponsor Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/neolutionEsport)
Race : Every Race including Random and allowed to switch races
Disconnect : If there is a disconnect in the first 3 minutes of the game and there has been no contact between players, then the game will be restarted. After this time, the match should be re-gamed unless one player had a great advantage.
Pausing/Unpausing : Players may pause and resume only with permission from their opponent.
Status : Players must set their battle.net status to busy while playing a game.
Referees/Spectators :
- Observers are allowed only manager of both team and caster
Replacing Players : If some player in team can’t play please told Admin to change player before match start around 30 minute if not, the match will be walkover.

+ [Format] +

Tourney format:
2 round robin groups of 4 nations each.
Top 2 of each group qualify for the single elimination semi final playoffs.

Match day format:
Qualifier & Group Play : 5 sets of 1v1s (bo3)
Semis/Rank3 : 5 sets of 1v1s (bo3)
Finals : 2 days Match with 4 sets of 1v1s per day (bo3)

Team format:
Minimum squad size: 8
Maximum squad size: 12
4 Player Swaps allowed halfway through the season.

+ [Map pool] +

• MLG Xel'Naga Caverns by HemLocK
• MLG Metalopolis v1.3 by HemLocK
• MLG Shattered Temple by HemLocK
• MLG Shakuras Plateau by HemLocK
• MLG Tal'darim Altar LE by HemLocK
• MLG Shakuras Plateau by HemLocK
• GSL Crossfire SE by wonderland
• GSL Terminus SE by wonderland
• GSL Dual Sight by wonderland
• GSL Xel'Naga Fortress by wonderland
• GSL Bel'shir Beach by wonderland
• GSL Crevasse (Official) 1.0 by wonderland

In every match admin will told about map selection (change in every week) and then manager pick player to play on each map

About our Sponsor

+ [About our sponsor] +

Neolution is a Thailand company that distributes hardware such as Roccat and nVidia as well as manufacturing their own line of computer's cases. To make their mark in eSports in Thailand they have sponsored the best Thai players in games like Warcraft III, Starcraft II and various other FPS Games. Wanting to continuing their success and widen their reach and awareness of their brand, they have decided to sponsor the Nation Wars 2 as their first regional Starcraft II Tournament open to the whole of South East Asia / ANZ community! They already have had starcraft 2 tournaments in Thailand and now this will be their first foray into regional so lets support them!

Please visit the wonderful sponsor of the Nation League 2 here! http://www.neolutiongroup.com

For more details about the tournament please refer to this thread

Quick Comments

LennX:

Awesome!