After the success of season one of the Highschool Starcraft 2 League we are back for Season 2! As always this an initiative to increase awareness of Starcraft and e-sports in high schools and hopefully from the success of this league, one day it will be accepted within schools. This season we are sponsored by Tt eSPORTS so a big thanks to them for their support. We are now looking for schools to play in season 2 of the Highschool League, to sign up simply post your rosters with ID's, League, Race and school name.
Format:
Four best of 3 1v1's
One best of 3 2v2
All games are worth one point and they all must be played out, the team with the most point after each match will be the winner. The 1v1's will be played simultaneously and the 2v2 will be played at the end.
Rules
Default time for games are on Fridays at 8.00pm, if players are unable to make this time it is up to the team captains to re-arrange to play earlier in the week or later. However as we all have school I know Friday or the weekends will be the most preferable time for teams. You have until Wednesday to play all your games every week, if they are not then there will be a walkover for the team that cannot make it.
Before each match teams will send me their lineups for the night. Teams will send their lineup and rank their players from highest to lowest. I will then send out the games lists to the team captains. Lineups must be sent in at latest by Thursday 8.00pm, failure to do so will result in a penalty. Players must stick to the race submitted in the lineup each week. If you are not playing on friday night then you must inform me before friday night of your scheduled play day.
I will give a list of starting maps at the beginning of each week, losers get to pick the next map and each player is allowed one veto.
Teams are to be highschool students from Australian High Schools. Schools will be reviewed for legitimacy.
Disconnects - Unless there is a clear advantage for one player the disconnect will result in a re-game. If the player disconnects again then it will result in a forfeit, if there are any disputes send the replay to myself and I will determine the result.
Submitting Results
Results must be submitted by the winning team before Monday via this thread otherwise it will be deemed a draw for both teams. Results must be submitted in the example format shown below. All matches must be played.
MHS 3-2 ABC
Shadowz 1-2 Player 1 Player 2 2-0 Player 2 Player 3 2-0 Player 3 Player 4 2-1 Player 4
Player 1, Player 2 1-2 Player 1, Player 3
These rules are subject to being updated at the commencement of Season 2 and anytime after that as needed.
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Sun Tzu 孫子
"If storm finishes I survive, otherwise terran is op" xGKingDelete 2012
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' - is for Boxer - is for Idra - is for I have no self respect'
the great ToRZorba hating on chargelot/archon Previous known as ToRBobby
How about instead of having a merc team you assign a mercenary to each individual team for example... Balwyn High School takes Techtron... MHS takes Delete and soo forth... and Title them as Mercenary...
So This way there are teams that actually have enough people to play as last season the main issue at hand was not enough players to match the other team.
How about instead of having a merc team you assign a mercenary to each individual team for example... Balwyn High School takes Techtron... MHS takes Delete and soo forth... and Title them as Mercenary...
I think this would be better; especially considering the high skill level of the current mercenaries. O.O
But I think this would have to be done after everyone's signed up and we have a full list of merc's, and then distribute them evenly amongst the teams in order to balance up skill levels throughout all teams as well as possible, so we don't end up with one team with a full roster of masters level players and another with all silvers :P
So This way there are teams that actually have enough people to play as last season the main issue at hand was not enough players to match the other team.
thats a good idea too, would also allow some of the lower ranked teams and/or the smaller from last season to continue being competitive. will look into this
if you distribute the players wont if take away from the team, as I teams would just send out there high player mercs... should just make all gm's offrace. no one is allowed to play there main. let me create my super team of best friends
damn you melbourne high kids... always walking across yarra st not looking at cars. one day you'll get squashed like a FF.
Hahaha, I once got half my foot run over doing exactly that... lucky we had to wear those thick shoes.
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Originally Posted by EveTechtron
if you distribute the players wont if take away from the team, as I teams would just send out there high player mercs... should just make all gm's offrace. no one is allowed to play there main. let me create my super team of best friends
It's a trap, techtron has been RvR training hardcore.
Shouldn't be allowed to have more than one GM in each team, maybe two. Wasn't that the rule for CSL? Otherwise its a bit hard on the teams who have lower league players which they have picked just so that they can get a team together. I just don't think teams full of GMs, off racing or not, is really in the spirit of the competition, but that will be for the admins to decide.
Hey all i will not be playing this season but will cast faithfully and every week. thanks all for the patience with season 1 finals casted sc2 is installed ill try to get 1 if not both of the semi finals by the weekend.
(Wolf_Dragunov)
also Brutos can be taken down as a caster when he went to cast last time it crashed meaning he cant cast as his pc cant handle it. thanks all again go what ever ends up the team i was on last year as it was balanced well governed MP FTW
added Mckinnon in, hold in there for now and see if you can find a fourth around your school. If we get more schools with low numbers I might add in a merc to each school to boost up the smaller school numbers.
Hey Shadowz, I was wondering If i could sign up for this with a couple of mates, We are from The Kings School Parramatta! It is a high school. I am 14 years old, GM Random
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I am Adam "Elessar" Saleh! I am Aussie and part Egyptian
Currently highonas 15 y/o playing random, come watch me play!
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/sftaelessar
Hey all im thinking we have to many Mercs . so in this Videogamers Opinion the mercs should be spread out over the teams as there are so many of them and that some teasm already have 6 people . so maybe a drafting system between teams under 5 people ?
Well, this is my POV. At the moment people are saying mercs should be spread out because of the skill level. This would be true, if it were last season. Have you seen the people on the other teams? Most teams have at least one grandmaster. Another problem I have with splitting the Pineapple Marauders up is this. Last season we were like a family! THIS is what the High School League should be about, a bunch of friends having fun playing Starcraft, the best game in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE!
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Sun Tzu 孫子
"If storm finishes I survive, otherwise terran is op" xGKingDelete 2012
regarding strong mercenary team:
since it is bo3 1v1s just make sure the matchup isnt insanely unfair, i.e. GM vs bronze, and i reckon that will be alright, make it like GM vs Masters, if other team doesnt have GM or Masters just dont use GM that week...
just try and make it fair by saying teams should try make it BSG vs BSG and P/D/M/GM vs P/D/M/GM if possible, this is rather incoherent by my thoughts are everywhere at the moment, cookies if it makes sense to you
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' - is for Boxer - is for Idra - is for I have no self respect'
the great ToRZorba hating on chargelot/archon Previous known as ToRBobby
regarding strong mercenary team:
since it is bo3 1v1s just make sure the matchup isnt insanely unfair, i.e. GM vs bronze, and i reckon that will be alright, make it like GM vs Masters, if other team doesnt have GM or Masters just dont use GM that week...
just try and make it fair by saying teams should try make it BSG vs BSG and P/D/M/GM vs P/D/M/GM if possible, this is rather incoherent by my thoughts are everywhere at the moment, cookies if it makes sense to you
I agree with this, I think I will enforce that more heavily this season to have similar matchups. For teams with less depth than I will spread some of the mercs out so that there will be players in each league for each team.
Lastly I think I will also keep a main merc team, will have players from last season who want to stay together. This will provide a range of players for all teams so all teams will be on fairly even grounds
Edit: Also to balwyn kids you guys should have put up more of a fight in badminton today
regarding strong mercenary team:
since it is bo3 1v1s just make sure the matchup isnt insanely unfair, i.e. GM vs bronze, and i reckon that will be alright, make it like GM vs Masters, if other team doesnt have GM or Masters just dont use GM that week...
just try and make it fair by saying teams should try make it BSG vs BSG and P/D/M/GM vs P/D/M/GM if possible, this is rather incoherent by my thoughts are everywhere at the moment, cookies if it makes sense to you
Eh, I think if you're gonna make it BSG vs BSG, you can't really go P-GM; you need to seperate it out a bit more fairly (think about the MMR difference between low masters and high masters/GM). A platinum player will stand no chance against a GM, there's just no way unless it's a complete BO win.
I think that it should be that the players can be matched-up against players from one league either side of their current league. So a silver player would be matched against either a bronze, silver or gold player, and a diamond player would be matched against a platinum, diamond or masters player. That's how I see it anyway.
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Sun Tzu 孫子
"If storm finishes I survive, otherwise terran is op" xGKingDelete 2012
merc team balanced, three top 16 GMS in one team vs other teams with just 1 gm, nice balance
and I thought whiners wouldn't be able to find balance issues beyond protoss, terran and zerg...
It's going to be a fair league. If there's any problems with balance, and the suggestions above your post don't work, offracing is always an option. I would be even happy to not play at all if that makes you happy.
Love to see Starcraft entering the High School atmosphere! Any dates/times planned as of yet? Just wanting to get the word out about this
planning start this in the next few weeks, want to give it a little more time so we can spread the news as much as possible and get teams to sign up. Once I get logos and banner done I'll try to set in a date.
If anyone in the community would like to assist in the graphics or casting please contact me
If you want to take a crack at it, have it similar resolution to last season's one. Also I want to keep the school's name out of this one and have it as a general one that can be used for many seasons
I feel like this should be a 6 people per team what with the keyboard prizes but then we might need subs, some schools have too few, this is going to be hard to figure out :P
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Hey all ive made a video about this on my youtube but i would like to tll you all here. xsplit doesnt like me recording Starcraft 2. what happens is a randomly while recording or with xsplit open it glitches my pc out eg making cpu 100% and mouse movement laggy as ****. not only this when i try to click it doesnt register and then makes a Beep shound everytime on click. so far i have reinstalled xsplit i have updat3ed all my drivers i have new hard drive and done been checking other parts of my hardware. so as for Casting im going to try a new recording solfware to try and get you your Finals from last season. again im sorry and thanks for pacience even though i dont deserve it!
Hey Shadowz, Can u Sign me up for merc Team?
nGenReVeNGe.581 Random GM (Top 100)
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I am Adam "Elessar" Saleh! I am Aussie and part Egyptian
Currently highonas 15 y/o playing random, come watch me play!
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/sftaelessar
Hey could you add the leagues to the Balwyn High team i want our team to look prettyful
post the leagues and I'll add it on? you guys didnt give it to me for this season
with regards to the teams I will probably distribute 1 merc players to all teams to balance it across the board, this will mean that the merc team wont be as big, which helps distribution of prizes and the teams will be more even. For most schools I dont think the 6 max will be too much of an issue, teams will have to decide within themselves on how to evenly distribute the prizes.
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Sun Tzu 孫子
"If storm finishes I survive, otherwise terran is op" xGKingDelete 2012
Hey all ive made a video about this on my youtube but i would like to tll you all here. xsplit doesnt like me recording Starcraft 2. what happens is a randomly while recording or with xsplit open it glitches my pc out eg making cpu 100% and mouse movement laggy as ****. not only this when i try to click it doesnt register and then makes a Beep shound everytime on click. so far i have reinstalled xsplit i have updat3ed all my drivers i have new hard drive and done been checking other parts of my hardware. so as for Casting im going to try a new recording solfware to try and get you your Finals from last season. again im sorry and thanks for pacience even though i dont deserve it!
Wolf
Have you tried FFSplit? I was using XSplit and then struggled a couple of times with it glitching out; FFSplit works better for me
original merc team will stay together, new mercs this season will be distributed. I'm looking at putting a starting date in two weeks so I'll be drawing up the details brackets etc. So be prepared for a launch on the 8th of September.
Also that means I will require school confirmation from all players. This is to ensure that all players are current highschool students as I am well aware that there does exist the possibility of student smurfs. Participants who are found to not be current highschool students will be disqualified and their teams will be penalised.
Could the following players please list your school and year level QEDSchnitzel.160 - Pine Rivers, 9 SiegeTemplar.449 - ,12 Delete - Baulkham Hills HS, 12 xGkingPoker Killara High School, 12 EveTechtron Overnewton college, 11 Eros Browns Plains Year 10
ToRSmotPokingFish VBPotthead.898 Salisbury East High School, Year 12 ToRozliam Maffra high school, 10
IXLDrowN.115 ngenReVeNGe The Kings School, 9 x5.StoicWilly Oxley Christian College, 10 mGGCyclone Willetton Senior Highschool, 11
Could these schools please list the year levels of all their players Balwyn Prince Alfred College
Mckinnon Secondary
Logan Park HS Mt Lawley
Names that are bolded means I have already received their details
Last edited by KAshadowz; Fri, 7th-Sep-2012 at 10:02 PM.
Also I would like to request Techtron be part of our team, as his cousin is part of our team. We have a working relationship with the player, so would be easier for him and the players to have a better enviroment.
Last edited by ToRRedemption; Fri, 24th-Aug-2012 at 11:37 PM.
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Sun Tzu 孫子
"If storm finishes I survive, otherwise terran is op" xGKingDelete 2012
Shadowz u havnt signed me up yet I am in year 9 at The Kings School Parramatta
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I am Adam "Elessar" Saleh! I am Aussie and part Egyptian
Currently highonas 15 y/o playing random, come watch me play!
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/sftaelessar
nearly everyone has confirmed so thats great! going to draw up brackets this weekend, and still need a few more to confirm theirs schools/year levels
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He is on the roster because last season you allowed us to let him on the team. So we had put him down originally as a member.
as far as I was aware there was no mention of him being an graduate but instead as a current student
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Originally Posted by FaDeRedemption
Balwyn is adding another person RivaL but may also play . Plays both at a gm level . THank god we found this guy, he was hiding from me or something LOL
I'll add you in, also will need to push starting date back a week to next saturday. haven't been at home much these last few days so I haven't had time to draw up the details
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the great ToRZorba hating on chargelot/archon Previous known as ToRBobby
Ok so i know i havent delivered on the Season1 Finals and its al my fault but i regret to inform that im giving up on my casting until at least ive finished school at the end of next year then i can think about sc2 and cast and where it might take me. but as of now i do not have the time and i find it a hassle to try to get myself to load up sc2 and have a working recording. so im officialy announcing to all here that i hereby declare i am no long the official caster for the HSL (For now i hope) and not a caster at all. i would like to apologize to shadow , and all the players on the HSL thanks for your support on the casts i have done but im throwing in the towel
Having drawn up the team and moving some of the mercenaries around, there were alot less people to move around then I had intended to. Teams have been balanced across the board. Mckinnon had to be moved into mercs to make up for numbers. So the teams so far are:
Gonard ToRozliam - M
thebiff
DJP
Equilibrium
Daznl
Tbank
The numbers for the mercs are a little large but if I can get a few more players OR I know that there will be enough players every week then I would prefer to split the teams. The biggest worry if I do if I do split the team into two, there may be inactive players.
A message has been sent to all the captains regarding the competition, so get into contact with them if you havent already.
PM sent to:
Pineapple: Potthead
Balwyn: Redemption
PAC: MiPhoenix
Logan Park: FluX
Mt Lawley: Gonard
Especially for those who are new to the mercs team, get into contact with potthead
lookout for the official thread which will be posted soon.
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