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Nation Wars Season 2 Powered by Neolution


Thanks largely to the efforts of MiTHjump who has managed to secure a sponsor, Season 2 of the highly successful nation wars is gonna happen soon! This will serve as an initial hype + feedback thread. Note: do not sign up here, wait for our official post. None of these details here are final, we will be using this feedback thread and bearing in mind the sponsors requests / and the organisation logistics to make our decisions.

Some of the tentative details

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

Team managers for Nations:
(these are who i plan to invite based on their past demonstrated qualities)

Invited Teams:
DoX has replaced TAdeL
yongming
Navi
MiTHjump
WaWa
CCM.GoMax
OrzRush

Qualifiers
pRo.Timber
Roz
nGenJothree
tGcSeQ

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

Team selection process:
This is entirely up to the individual team manager but I'll advise the team leaders to carry out selection through a 3 step process

1. Auto Invites for the obvious choices.
2. Top GM ladder ranked players at a certain date, for transparency and fairness for the majority.
3. Small wild-card tourney for the players who do not ladder.

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)

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


Date:
Timeline : (Time : 6pm SG Time)
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 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 showing the biggest match of the 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

+ [For Casters] +

: All streamers have to put sponsor banner in every game at bottom stream window.
: All streamers have to upload every match on youtube.

+ [Rules] +

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.

Participating Countries:
7 Invited teams based on number of sc2 players in the nation, strength of sc2 players and past performances.
Australia
Singapore
New Zealand
Thailand
Philippines
China
Taiwan

1 Open Qualifier Spot for the other SEA countries.
Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia

Prize pool: $1200 USD !!
1) $700
2) $300
3) $200

Special Hardware Prize 1: Tournament MVP [Roccat Item]
Special Hardware Prize 2: People's MVP (Voted, not allowed to vote your own countrymen) [Roccat Item]

Sponsor Info:


http://www.neolutiongroup.com




For those of you new to the scene or sc2sea and have no idea what the nation wars is here's a quick history lesson!

+ [The King of SEA - Nation Wars 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

Lastly, don't forget to give your feedback for the event/format/teams by posting in the thread!

[LennX]

History lessons is lulz worthy enough. Mythical creature indeed.

[jump]

thx for ur help nirvana
any update I will post in here

[TAdeL2]

I think I am 100% troll but just look like a man, like Loki from the Thor movie.

Look forward to a NationWar again, great work securing a sponsor! I think done right it has the potential to get a lot of interest, especially with TW and Chinese viewers tuning in to see how their countrymen fare, so the sponsors should be happy!

Most teams have gained a lot of depth, though I think the Bo3 format favours Australia and China (if their top lineup with xiaOt, Loner, etc. participate) over teams with one big ace player like NZ. Will do my best to take out China and prove Aus is the force to be reckoned with in this part of the world!

[Azure]

wow nice always like watching these

[EveRorschach]

looks like fun, great prize pool!

[cRSenSei]

looking forward to aus vs china

[TAdeL2]

Will there be a subforum again this season? It made forming the team so much easier.

[deL]

I think New Zealand will be the dark horse this tournament. With Kowi, JazBas and Soft their lineup could easily take out any of the favourites.

[ETL.Santi]

China? I thought they played in another server.

Are Colombians allowed in AU team del?

[pRoTimber]

i think this time around u should be stricter regarding an individual eligibility to represent a nation.

[deL]

If any Colombians get good at SC2 I'll let you know.

Originally Posted by pRoTimber

i think this time around u should be stricter regarding an individual eligibility to represent a nation.

I can't really think of any cases where this would be necessary except for TargA.

[pRoTimber]

i dunno any particular cases as i dunno who have citizenship or not, but just highlighting what i see is similar problem with the seacl

[ETL.Santi]

Yeah well Australia has a lot of students but players most of them are citizens. There should be a special rule for international students.

[Wawa]

alright!!!! finally!!! it has been.... so long!!!!

[NvJazBas]

Originally Posted by pRoTimber

i think this time around u should be stricter regarding an individual eligibility to represent a nation.

I can scan my passport of me having NZ citizenship o_o

[ShinyA]

Is it based on citizenship?

[Benji]

Originally Posted by pRoTimber

i think this time around u should be stricter regarding an individual eligibility to represent a nation.

I agree, we should go back 3 generations to ensure the players backgrounds are native to the country they are representing.

Quick Comments

	TAriiChard:	LOL!
	JacziE:	lolololol

[deL]

Originally Posted by Benji

I agree, we should go back 3 generations to ensure the players backgrounds are native to the country they are representing.

Good idea, I may revive the White Australia Policy for the national team...

Originally Posted by pRoTimber

i think this time around u should be stricter regarding an individual eligibility to represent a nation.

Yeah it would be pretty tragic if Malaysia lost 0-5 instead of 1-4 just because ethnic Asians can play for their country.

[jump]

prize pool has changed

I will told nirvana to update

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Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

ty jump! sick new prize pool whoaaaa!!