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Proud to announce the Eastern Starcraft League Season 1.
ESCL Season 1 will see five qualifiers over the space of two weeks seeding thirty-two players across Oceania, SEA, Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan into a SSL style tournament. All thirty-two qualified players will compete in a best of 5 against another qualified player, the winner continuing to group stage round of sixteen while the loser is knocked out of season 1. We then have a sixteen player group stage followed by a eight player single elimination finals bracket.

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Five qualifiers will be ran to give players a chance to play, dates for the qualifiers can be seen below.
Sunday January 18th - China & Taiwan Qualifier (8 seeds) View Bracket
Thursday January 22nd - Korea Qualifier (6 seeds) View Bracket
Saturday January 24th - SEA/Japan Qualifier (6 seeds) View Bracket
Sunday January 25th - Oceania Qualifier (12 seeds) View Bracket

Round Of 16 Information
GROUP A - Friday 13th of February 7pm AEDT
Lobo - RivaL
Hurricane - Spear

GROUP B - Sunday 15th of February 7pm AEDT
VirTues - Armani
XY - TRUE

GROUP C - Tuesday 17th of February 7pm AEDT
eMotion - DarK
Yours - MacSed

GROUP D - Sunday 22nd of February
Ian - Probe
Nice - PSiArc

*If you can't attend your scheduled day, notify admin.
* Everyone join ESCL on NA server for games.

Prize pool:
1st - $270 + 260 OSC Points
2nd - $100 + 160 OSC Points
3rd - $35 + 100 OSC Points
4th - $15 + 60 OSC Points
5-8th - 25 OSC Points each
9-12th - 10 OSC Points each
13-16th - 7.5 OSC Points each
17-32nd - 5 OSC Points each
830 total OSC Points and $400 up for grabs!

Happily partnered with LeiFeng who will be broadcasting the whole event with a Chinese stream along with Insano and CautioN we will be giving you all stages of the tournament packed into 13 live broadcasts.

You can follow all updates and announces for ESCL on our twitter page https://twitter.com/EasternSCL All the support we get is very much appreciated!
We are looking for more a additional admin and caster to improve ESCL, if you're interested feel free to contact ESCL on easternscleague@gmail.com

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Saulo Silva fine photography is the major sponsor for ESCL Season 1, Were very happy to be working alongside them and we would love if you could show the same support for them as they do for us. So please check out their website http://saulosilvaphoto.com The website has some awesome photographs that are definitely worth having a look at as well as some brilliant content from Dreamhack events.

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Eastern Starcraft League is a partnered tournament of the Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC)! The OSC is the Oceanic, South East Asian and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. (Only around the top 10-25% gain points from each tournament). The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the 2 day minimum $4000+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion!

Current season rankings and database can be viewed here

GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.

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