The rivalries between the states and territories of Australia are some of the most competitive rivalries in sport. Each year the highlight of the sports calendar down under features State vs State competitions across various codes of football, and the StarCraft II State of Origin competition seeks to bring this same competitive rivalry to the online arena. The event was memorable for various reasons, as the BW scene in Australia at the time was all but dead. The community rallied together to make SoO a closely-fought tournament with a massive participation rate, even bringing big names out of retirement such as Legionnaire, and featuring future SC2 stars like Pinder, deth and mOOnGLaDe.
Continuing on from the popular first SoO series in StarCraft: Brood War the competition will see defending champions Queenslandtake on season 1 finalists New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and newcomers Australian Capital Territory.
Queensland have been historically strong in RTS games in Australia, producing the only internationally recognised BW player in Legionnaire, as well as arguably the best WC3 player mOOnGLaDe. This was accentuated with a convincing win in the finals of season 1, but in SC2 the scene has undergone drastic change. No longer is there a lack of depth in the Australian scene, and participation is at an all-time high with events in the SEA server prospering. Queensland and New South Wales are again title contenders, but Victoria and ACT have stronger teams that previously, and WA and SA are strong enough to field their own teams.
The matches are best of 5 (First to win 3), ProLeague format with an ace match. The lineups are submitted confidentially by team captains and the full lineups are published before the match day. A lineup will consist of four players to play a Bo3, and an ace player who can be any player, even one who has already played. Each of the teams play each other once in the round robin phase, before qualifying for an elimination playoff. All six teams will be involved in the playoffs for the finals with the bottom four seeds playing off in preliminary finals for the right to face the top two in the semi finals.
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The format was chosen in order to promote a fair competition, and in homage of the Brood War team leagues that inspired this competition. By limiting the series to Bo1 and just four players rather than an all-kill format teams with less depth are given a chance at the title. An additional rule in place to prevent the vastly favoured teams from killing the competition is that QLD and NSW teams cannot use the same lineup twice in the round robin stage of the tournament (it resets for the playoffs). This way they have additional factors to manage and it mitigates the problem of superior depth.
NOTE: If a team cannot find five players they will be allowed to recycle players if they want, for example Hellee may choose to try and all-kill every state.
The event will span a total of seven weeks just like the Masters SoO with games being played on the Saturdays (except for major event clashes, where Friday or Monday will be the preferred day). Times will vary depending on the timing of the Masters SoO:
Schedule
Round
PD Date
BSG Date
1
Saturday 7pm 30th June
Sunday 7pm 1st July
2
Saturday 7pm 14th July
Sunday 7pm 15th July
3
Saturday 7pm 21st July
Sunday 7pm 22nd July
4
Saturday 7pm 29th July
Sunday 7pm 30th July
5
Saturday 7pm 6th August
Sunday 7pm 7th August
Prelim
Saturday 13th August
Sunday 14th August
Semi
Saturday 20th August
Sunday 21st August
Final
Saturday27th August
Sunday28th August
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Last edited by MezjE; Sun, 1st-Jul-2012 at 9:37 AM.
Derped hard, maybe Sunday BSG and PD on Saturday...
Maybe do what I did for the cheese competition. either prior or after the BSG/PD respectively. That way the BSG/PD players are still online and it doesn't interfere with the other contest.
Also less of a problem getting casters for the event then too
Just wanted to say, this is really confusing. I gather BSG matches are being played Sundays? And round 2 is on the 31st of June for PD?
lol i think you're both wrong. I counted my knuckles and june has only 30 days. I know I can't be wrong because it's the only thing i remember learning at school.
edit: damn it i thought i was being witty, didn't realise there were more comments on another page
lol i think you're both wrong. I counted my knuckles and june has only 30 days. I know I can't be wrong because it's the only thing i remember learning at school.
Look, I don't really care for your booklearnin' OK? 31st, 30st, same deal!
looking at the numbers for ACT and NSW i find it only fair that you remove me from the NSW roster and place me in the ACT PD roster since i am from ngunnawal country.
also might want to update the schedule in the op, you have only saturdays and no sundays
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Originally Posted by CombatEZ
Schedule
RoundPD DateBSG Date
1 Saturday 23rd June Saturday 24th June
2 Saturday 30th June Saturday 1st July
3 Saturday 7th July Saturday 8th July
4 Saturday 14th July Saturday 15th July
5 Saturday 21st July Saturday 22nd July
Prelim Saturday 28th July Saturday 29th July
Semi Saturday 4th August Saturday 5th August
Final Saturday11th August Saturday 12th August
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looking at the numbers for ACT and NSW i find it only fair that you remove me from the NSW roster and place me in the ACT PD roster since i am from ngunnawal country.
also might want to update the schedule in the op, you have only saturdays and no sundays
Ty for letting me know, moved you however 2 more people just signed up for ACT/TAS etc so if you want back in NSW let me know!
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For the PD SA team, I assume need to pick a captain?
I see we have ToRZenabi, GuessWho and Vulcan asking to join in the thread..
I dont mind being captain. I know Zenabi has leadership expereince to, so I am happy for him to do it also if hes keen.
Hellee, FlashFlamga, Mox are any of you keen?
I dont wanna steal it from anyone, im more then happy to just be a player
If you need someone, i can take some sort of leadership role, its been weird having none for the past month (wow a month already ).
More than happy to co-captain too.
And more happier to stay as a player if someone else wants a shot at a leadership role
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Ok so I guess Zenabi/Mox and myself will be co captains for now and we'll sort out who is point of contact between us
FSNeiloGD will play for the ACT/Territories BSG, he is silver. (He posted earlier in the thread too).
I am working on getting some more people for BSG in the ACT/Territories team and SA teams, I'll let you know how I go. Huge thanks for setting this up CombatEZ
Ok so I guess Zenabi/Mox and myself will be co captains for now and we'll sort out who is point of contact between us
FSNeiloGD will play for the ACT/Territories BSG, he is silver. (He posted earlier in the thread too).
I am working on getting some more people for BSG in the ACT/Territories team and SA teams, I'll let you know how I go. Huge thanks for setting this up CombatEZ
As I am now having to play my games on Saturday, I'm not sure whether I will be available for every week, so its probably best if I'm not captain. I'll leave it in your capable hands
do we have any volunteers to captain the territories team? i would give it a try but due to family and work i would be fairly restricted when it comes to being online.
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Some of our players who signed up have got promoted this week to masters, so now cant play
Is there a cut off for people who get promoted above the limit? Or is it as soon as you hit masters you cant play in this (or if you hit platinum, you cant play in the BSG team)?
As soon as you are promoted you can no longer play.
Lucario what rank are you?
I will be posting brackets tonight and players must organise a team captain for their state ASAP! Penalty points may be involved if a captain is not decided by Friday.
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As soon as you are promoted you can no longer play.
Lucario what rank are you?
I will be posting brackets tonight and players must organise a team captain for their state ASAP! Penalty points may be involved if a captain is not decided by Friday.
I thought the rule was people can play out the league as long as they're legit BSG or GP at the start of the league?
Considering how hard it is to organise players already, I don't think you should penalise teams that have ladder success during the relatively short league.
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Can CombatEZ please update the player rosters for each team with league and race so we can have an idea of what we'll be up against in the first round?
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I think what needs to happen is the contacts for all team captains sorted and then players willing to play can sign up.. make sure there are enough for each team
I'm able to captain the NSW PD team if no one else wants too.. >.>
It is really hard for me to find out everyone race by going through their posts asking to play so if each team could do what Acies has done I would love it!
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It is really hard for me to find out everyone race by going through their posts asking to play so if each team could do what Acies has done I would love it!
Also Lucario what I meant before was whatever league you are the day before round 1 shall be the league you play.
Did you miss the SA BSG line-up? ->http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?p=103298
And are you planning to compile the line-ups somewhere? Maybe copy/paste the posted tables into spoilers in the OP? That would be sweet
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If you don't PM me your details, and i haven't been able to contact you, you will NOT get put into the team each week. I need to know that i can count on the players to turn up. So those that don't respond to my messages will not get put on the team.
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So tonight 7pm, ACT/NT/TAS BSG guys, would anyone like to take on the role of captain? (I noticed we don't have one currently). I would offer except I might have a bit of trouble some sundays making it for the full thing.
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