[deL]

With the upcoming NationWar League on sc2sea I thought I'd get a head start and get the Australian community involved before it officially kicks off.

History of SC2 in Australia

About Team Australia

While the gap in player depth has arguably increased between Australia and our Southeast Asian rivals, some stiffer competition will be joining the tournament in the form of China and Taiwan. Add to these powerhouses the fact that minnows like the Philippines and New Zealand have strengthened their rosters and this should be the most competitive (read: only other) NationWar league yet.

Team sizes are from 8-12 players, with 4 roster changes allowed during the season. As Team Australia manager I have elected to go for a hybrid of invites and qualifiers to make up the team, and we will be using all 12 available player slots. The following players are considered the draft constituents of the team.

Azz
TAdeth
TAEdgE
nGenLight
FXOmOOnGLaDe
iMYoonYJ
TARossi
inFiSpider
FXOtgun
aLtiaguz
aLtJimdiddy
LzHsAint
TAhocus
TAVoices
GGFighT
nGenMafiA
aLtPiG
Shuffle
TAamnesiac
pokerface

While I have a good idea of what the team will eventually look like I'd like some community input in the form of a poll as to who should recieve direct invites aside from mOOnGLaDe and Azz, who have proven themselves enough on the international stage. The remainder of the players outside of ~8 invitees will be put into groups to fill up the remaining 4 spots, and the rest will form the B-Team.

Additionally, any ideas on the format of the qualifiers would be appreciated. If you can think of something better than two round-robin groups of 4 (or one of 8) then please post below! Ideas about how to distribute the prizemoney are also welcome (e.g. how to reward dedicated, active players, should we reward people who perform better?, should managers be rewarded?, etc.).

Also feel free to post any cheerfuls or other support you wish to show before the official threads are up

Want to help out with management or coverage? Contact TAdeL#159 on the SEA Battle.net server or PM me here on sc2sea.com

Have a suggestion for another player to be considered for selection? Justify your suggestion below. Please note that this is a serious competition with a large prizepool and if you would not expect to be invited to a 1v1 tournament with a significant prizepool you may not be up for consideration for this event.

Note: Filthy has quit competitive SC2 and is not considered at the moment, though that may change.

[TargA]

why no targa???

[deL]

Originally Posted by TargA

why no targa???

Team Norway not recruiting atm! Haven't been here long enough to play for Aus sorry ;(

[TAEdgE]

oh **** you can click alot of people

[pRoTimber]

zomg team roster, Australia looking stronger than before.

tgun & jimdiddy need more votes!

[TargA]

kk, then i'll get my hong kong passport.

[Benji]

Non Australians should be banned from voting! :P

As for who I voted for and the logic, tgun, YYJ, Edge and deth are sponsored players, which in my eyes says alot about a player, plus, we know those 4 are strong players. And for a 5th I said Light because hes such a clutch player, and has been consistently good for a few months. Rossi/iaguz/PiG would be good additions as well, but adding them to the numbers would be 10 players total (for a 8-12 team, that would pretty much round it out).

I'd actually go so far as to say that you shouldn't even hold Open invites for the A team Del, consider that a player could play poorly in a single Bo3 qualifiers. There's enough tournies around that you can kind of see where the skill level is at, and upsets in the qualifiers could leave you with a slightly weaker team.

[crAzerk]

Wow Australia is REALLY strong. I hope Singapore can put up a good showing again this time round!

Btw, is the poll meant to only include 10 players? I count 20 players in that list, minus Glade and Azz, so should be 18? Am I reading something wrong here

[deL]

Polls can go to a maximum of 10.

[Eddie]

A very talented squad of 20 there! Some players are going to be unlucky having to miss out, as they'd probably make the cut in another SEA country.

+ [My 12] +

Azz
TAdeth
TAEdgE
nGenLight
FXOmOOnGLaDe
iMYoonYJ
TARossi
FXOtgun
aLtiaguz
aLtJimdiddy
LzHsAint
aLtPiG

Tough picking only 12!

Go Team Australia

[nirvAnA]

should have had pig instead of saint in the votings, apart from that the Au Team lineup looks incredibly strong

[deL]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

should have had pig instead of saint in the votings

PiG has done nothing lately, sAint out of nowhere has been doing well in ESL and we are short on Protoss with heaps of Zergs already.

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by deL

sAint out of nowhere has been doing well in ESL and we are short on Protoss with heaps of Zergs already.

Spot on. Doing some good things in ESL, that's why he'd get my vote.

Australia a bit light on Protoss's

[PiG]

Originally Posted by deL

PiG has done nothing lately, sAint out of nowhere has been doing well in ESL and we are short on Protoss with heaps of Zergs already.

Yeah well despite MG putting a dampener on most of my tourney entries whenever I Get the chance to avoid him I've been failing vs Iaguz. Still, did get 2nd in CO last week :P. Definitely need to step up my game though. Would be sick to be on the team

[AvPoker]

Wow, I'm surprised that I was considered in the drafts when I've been playing very poorly recently.

[jump]

a lot of gosu in here !!!!!!!!!!

[ToRDeathsFang]

Lol Saint voted for himself, cheeky.

[cRSenSei]

Originally Posted by DeathsFang

Lol Saint voted for himself, cheeky.

figured i should since nobody else is haha

[DeNile]

I will withhold my votes for who to be invite. as i have not studied enough of aus pro players to be able to vote properly. But i am keen to follow the team and cheer them on .

Go AUS.

[NvPinder]

SENSAI OUT OF FKN NOWHERE!



AND PLAYING PROTOSS

[Eddie]

Saint played very well in today's Tt eSPORTS Starcraft 2 Challenge #3.

Wins against JesseYL, Roz, scrawl, mafia, TAyang, + pokerface.

Plays Rossi in the final. Some good wins there ^

[TAriiChard]

Originally Posted by Eddie

Saint played very well in today's Tt eSPORTS Starcraft 2 Challenge #3.

Wins against JesseYL, Roz, scrawl, mafia, TAyang, + pokerface.

Plays Rossi in the final. Some good wins there ^

Yeah I'll give it to Saint, he beat a few good players there.

[deL]

Originally Posted by Eddie

Saint played very well in today's Tt eSPORTS Starcraft 2 Challenge #3.

Wins against JesseYL, Roz, scrawl, mafia, TAyang, + pokerface.

Plays Rossi in the final. Some good wins there ^

You his brother or something?

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by deL

You his brother or something?

A fellow 'brotoss' lol.

Just pointing out some of his good results to those who haven't heard of him/following other tournaments such as ESL.

Seems to be in good form. Plus the fact that Australia lacks Protoss depth...

[nGenLight]

^Have you seen the other SEA countries?

[nGenLight]

Saint voted ONLY for himself -_-"

[deL]

Originally Posted by nGenLight

Saint voted ONLY for himself -_-"

It's actually more helpful than voting for everyone!

[Benji]

Originally Posted by deL

It's actually more helpful than voting for everyone!

Unless you're voting for yourself imo.

Quick Comments

deL:

Nope. Voting for yourself is still more useful.

[cRSenSei]

Originally Posted by nGenLight

Saint voted ONLY for himself -_-"

TBH, I didn't notice it was a "multi" voting pole, otherwise I would have voted for more than 1. Only noticed that it was when I had already made my vote and saw how many other votes there were O_O

[Azure]

yoon got my vote, this guy has some sick terran skills.

[nGenLight]

^ Ah fair enough, I think a few people thought that too!

[ToRDeathsFang]

For future reference there's a difference between the single vote and multi-vote polls.

Single vote polls have circles that you can click 1 while multi-vote polls have square boxes that you can click as many as you want.

Just saying.

[deL]

Yes, this was meant to be multi-vote - I selected that option because the Aus team consists of more than 1 invite.

[Homer]

FXOmOOnGLaDe, FXOtgun, YoonYJ, deth, EdgE would have to be the top 5. Not sure about the others though.

[ShinyA]

From what I've seen so far with my experience on SEA I'd say...
FXOmOOnGlaDe
TAEdgE
FXOtgun
LzHsAint
VTAzz
nGenLight
YoonYJ
TADeth
aLtiaguz


3 of each race ^^ But I don't know who's better between iaguz or rossi oo;

[Tom]

Wanted to vote 1 of each race, so yoonyj/light/edge the obvious choice

[Thunder]

Whatever happened to Fenneth?

[cRSenSei]

Originally Posted by Thunder

Whatever happened to Fenneth?

He lost too many 4 gates.

[TCPLemminks]

TAms doesn't play anymore? I thought he was an Aussie.

[TAEdgE]

Originally Posted by Lemminks

TAms doesn't play anymore? I thought he was an Aussie.

He went inactive. He's been gone for about 3~ months.
We may be seeing a return soon though, who knows O:

[deL]

Going to get a final word on participation from Filthy on how active he is going to be, and then I will update the thread with information about the final team and qualifiers

Qualifier rounds will probably fall on the weekends spanning 9th-10th and 16th-17th of July so we meet the July 24th deadline.

Please note the schedule has been released for the NW now, thanks to everyone's favourite Thai guy jump: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=1580

[Dox]

I think I picked these guys on the poll:


tgun
Light
deth
Rossi
iaguz
YoonYJ

They're all total badasses who i've seen perform really well on LAN. But there's so many more off the poll too!


(intentionally ordered them to spell "tldriy" btw)

[ROOT`iaguz]

I accidentally only voted for myself. Derp.

Anyway, as for my pick? Glade, azz and tgun are solid picks, unless azz has been slacking off recently. I'd add yoon based off of skill but that guy has a hard time scheduling his SC2 events so no. Don't want to waste a team slot like that. Which sucks cuz yoon is the best Terran on SEA but only when he shows up to play.

After that...

Going from the poll above I'd take out spider (out of practice) and sAint (not convinved he's good enough. Not yet anyway. The rest are all viable team members, including me.

Which gives us 9 team slots. 10 if yoon promises to show up the whole time (which i kinda doubt he will sadly). Other slots should run qualifier tourneys for. Also, is that Shuffle guy, recently picked up by Quantic gaming, any good? Cuz if he is then you'll definitely want him on the squad too (why not?)

Quick Comments

deL:

dw I would have voted for myself too.

[iM tgun]

I only voted for myself, because **** you.

Quick Comments

EveRorschach:

a persuasive argument

[nGenLight]

Thats cool man, voting for yourself has been pretty standard in this poll, except me who voted everyone except myself and Saint (sorry just don't know who you were).

[TargA]

bad manner!

[deL]

TargA constantly posting in this thread won't make you Australian ;(

[TargA]

no worries, ive turned asian and will play for hong kong.

[inFeZa]

Deth and Yoon.

too bad you have to put up with del