[Benji]

After many months of hard work, today we can announce the Xeria Gaming Team League, a team league to take place during June and July this year.

Event Website: www.xeriagaming.com/xgtl

The league features a pretty nice prize pool of $650 cash, over $2000 in Hardware prizes and a Champions Trophy to be won.

Map Pool:

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[xGTL]Sanshorn Mists
[xGTL]Metropolis
[xGTL]Cloud Kingdom
[xGTL]Korhal Compound
[xGTL]Daybreak
[xGTL]Antiga Shipyard
[xGTL]Bel'Shir Winter
[xGTL]Entombed Valley
[xGTL]Ohana

Maps will be uploaded to SEA over the next few weeks, and are subject to change should issues arise with the current maps

Details on the format can be found on the website.

We have invited 8 Asia based Pro teams to participate in the event and are as follows:

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Xeria Gaming


The host team of the event, and sporting some very impressive results since the creation of the team including 2 international appearances at Blizzcon and IEM, as well as victory in the Frog Cup

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Flash eSports


Singapore's Pride, and the recently expanded roster give this team some depth. Spearheaded by Revenant and Muse, this team are in a very good position to score some upsets over the favourites

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StorM


The Taiwan clan that has consistently strong showings in the Taiwan scene participating in their first English event. After victory in TCL3 and a strong 3rd place finish in TCL4 ahead of Xeria Gaming, they are surely a team to be wary of.

+ [Team 4] +

Sequential Gaming


Recently expanding their roster gives this team some good options week to week, as well as having some very strong players such as yang and Ninja to lead, this team has potential to perform quite well in the event.

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MiTH


The Thailand team, and the dark horse in the event. An in form RedArchon is a very strong player capable of defeating any SEA player, and with quite a few names in their roster, they are capable of putting pressure on some of the tournament favourites.

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Wayi Spider


Current champions of the TeSL (The main Taiwan league) and performing very well in the current season, Wayi are one of the best teams in Taiwan. We have seen them defeated in show matches vs SEA teams, but we have not yet seen their complete A team play a Western team.

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Mineski


The Phillipines team, with the very strong Enderr spearheading a deep line-up of skilled players. Will Mineski be able to perform against the Taiwan teams and do well in the event?

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Gama Bears


The leaders of the current TeSL season over previous champions Wayi Spider, with one of the best Foreign zergs in the world as ace and with some very solid players backing him up, this team is one of the favourites going into the event.

The 9th team will be decided based on an Open Qualifier. Details on the open qualifier will be posted in a separate thread. http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=4412

Giveaways:

We have a ton of gear we are able to give away on the stream, from USB's to RAM to headsets and we plan on giving them all away. Simply tune into the stream for details on how you can win!

Sponsors

Special thanks to our sponsors:

Kingston
Razer
City Hunter
V Energy Drink

And a special thanks to Blizzard for assisting us with a few requests.

For more information on the sponsors, please visit http://www.xeriagaming.com/xgtl/index.php/sponsorlist

Streaming

All games will be streamed on my stream at www.twitch.tv/benjisc2. Each week beginning June 4th there will be 4 nights of games on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

There will also be Chinese commentary, stream link and casters will be updated at a later date.


FAQ

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Why isn’t X or Y team invited to the event?

Our invites and proposal to sponsors was done back in January and February before a lot of these newer teams were announced. It is unfortunate these teams have not been invited, however we recently were able to accommodate these players and teams by holding an open qualifier for a 9th spot.

For future seasons of xGTL we plan on inviting teams that missed out this time, or having more open qualifier spots.


Flash only recently announced their expanded team, why did they get an invite?

Flash management was kind enough to keep us informed of their plans to expand their roster


How can I help?

Simply tuning into the stream for any games you are interested in.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact me via PM. I will respond to every reasonable question I get via PM.

Quick Comments

	ToRSpartaz:	Sick
	Stallion:	very cool :D
	nirvAnA:	Thanks for making this league possible :)
	ROOTPetraeus:	chobo
	xGKingdelete:
	ToRSmotPokingFish:	oooh :D
	SoloZ:	Thanks for the invite
	Reere:	Love the TW invites~!
	x5.Revenant:
	Frogmite:
	neon:	great work, should be some great games.
	jump:	<3
	FvRsolis:	.... no invidia? Wtf.