[ACL VaNzR]

ACL Starcraft 2 Online Round 1 - Season 1

The 2013 Pro Circuit has just kicked off and ACL is proud to announce its first Starcraft 2 Online Round! Open to unlimited registrations, the competition will be run over one day, with all participants being placed into a double elimination bracket. This tournament will reward participants with valuable season points that will put high placing players in the best position coming into our first Live event of 2013. So warm up your micro and get gaming in preparation for a very important event!

ACL has recently announced changes in our Pro Circuit structure, including the introduction of Seasons. The 2013 ACL Pro Circuit will be broken down into 3 season, each season ending with a live National event. Our official Online Rounds will seed yourself leading up to National LAN events, where points mean everything. Do you have what it takes to be ranked within the Top 16 leading up to our first National event in April? Here our Top 16 players, the Professional players, will be treated to an exclusive 'Pro Zone' which will be entirely their own. Secluded away from the rest of the Starcraft 2 playing area players will have their group stages live streamed to everybody at home and most importantly secure themselves a place in Group Stages, meaning they will not have to participate in Open Pool Play and will have earned themselves the best possible position to progress to the Championship Bracket and from there take out the tournament. Keep in mind that Season 1, our current Season, will host two official Online Rounds, meaning the Top 16 players ranked by Season points leading into the first National Event will be awarded Pro status, and gain access to all the benefits this title allows. So practice hard, and play your hearts out, because Online Rounds have never been more important!

Details:
This is the first official Online Round of Season 1 however Season 1 will host two official Online Rounds. This tournament will award ACL Season 1 points as well as yearly points. Yearly points will seed payers at the National FINAL event at the end of year (Season 3), however Season 1 and Season 2 National events will be seeded by their preceding Online Rounds. After Season 1 Online Round 1 & Online Round 2 have been completed, Season points will be added up and used to seed players at the first live National event in April. All Season and Yearly points will be available on Stats Central, which should be relaunched shortly.

Tournament Information:

Live Bracket, Registered Players, Landing Page:
http://www.aclpro.com.au/2013/events...-landing-page/

Tournament Structure:
This tournament will host a typical straight up Double Elimination bracket. This means no pool play will be played for this tournament and all seeding for this tournament will be seed off 2012 end of year rankings. While the first Online Round of Season 1 will be seeded by 2012 ranks, Online Round 2 will be seeded by 2013 Season 1 points.

Live Stream:
The whole tournament will be livestreamed and casted on ACL twitch.tv channel here.


In The Zone Episode 2 - Starcraft 2 in 2013:
For those who missed In The Zone last night where we talked about Starcrat 2 in 2013, be sure to check out the rebroadcast below!

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[Fenner]

Don't think i can play on that day :'(

edit: which lan does this qualify you for?

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ACL VaNzR:

BOTH OR1 and OR2 are added together to give you your points for the season.

[syntox]

Is there confirmation on whether the live event will be HOTS yet?

Can we qualify as one race and play as another in the main tournament?

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	NvRossi:	the live event will be HoTs and offcourse
	JaYbOc:	hahaha oliver gonna qualify with zerg and play in HotS as terran I see

[iM MaFia]

i cant sign up for it, wont let me reply i get this thing [#103133] You do not have permission to reply to this topic.

[syntox]

Originally Posted by fray`fenner

Don't think i can play on that day :'(

edit: which lan does this qualify you for?

Brisbane I think

[ToRSpookToR]

Originally Posted by iM mafia

i cant sign up for it, wont let me reply i get this thing [#103133] You do not have permission to reply to this topic.

are you logged in?

[ACL Beware]

Originally Posted by iM mafia

i cant sign up for it, wont let me reply i get this thing [#103133] You do not have permission to reply to this topic.

I just manually validated your 'iMMaFia' account, so you should be able to post now. You also have a 'iM Mafia' account which is tied to your team-immunity email, in case you would like to use that one.

And yes, these Online Rounds will seed players coming into ACL Brisbane, our first National LAN event this year.

[Norksman]

Confirming that the qualifiers will be played on WoL and the LAN event will be played on HotS. We discussed this as well as a few other things on the show linked.

OR1 and OR2 are both for qualification into the Brisbane LAN.

[iM tgun]

don't think i can play on this day lollll

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syfChadMann:

Sick dodge.

[syfMightyKiwi]

Pity i cant go to the Aussie LANS, sound like heaps of fun

[ACL Beware]

Originally Posted by IrisMightyKiwi

Pity i cant go to the Aussie LANS, sound like heaps of fun

Our Online Rounds are open to all players in AUS/NZ, regardless of your intention/availability to attend ACL Live Events

[syfChadMann]

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

Our Online Rounds are open to all players in AUS/NZ, regardless of your intention/availability to attend ACL Live Events

So anyone living in Aus/NZ can sign up?.. People like KingKong or TargA if he came back are allowed to play? but someone living in Thailand or Singapore isn't permitted to play in the online qualifiers? What about, and I'll use PiG's trip to Korea as an example - While Overseas and Australian Resident wants to play online round, is that allowed if not IN Aus/NZ??

Plz clarify the ruling.

I'd say it should be SEA Residents (Anyone living in) or Aus/NZ (Anyone *usually* living in Aus/NZ)

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Reere:

Yes, open to SEA please~

[Dox]

Originally Posted by fray`ChadMann

or Aus/NZ (Anyone *usually* living in Aus/NZ)

it's always been this way, are you forgetting TargA came 2nd at ACL Sydney last year?

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syfChadMann:

Not forgetting, just clarifying incase anything has changed and if open to outside SEA.

[syfMightyKiwi]

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

Our Online Rounds are open to all players in AUS/NZ, regardless of your intention/availability to attend ACL Live Events

that's cool, i might have to play now!

[nirvAnA]

its great to see ACL back!

[Eddie]

Can't wait for the ACL circuit to start back up. Great fun

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

Our Online Rounds are open to all players in AUS/NZ, regardless of your intention/availability to attend ACL Live Events

Not a fan of people doing this. There is no cash prize, so why play to try and take a spot/knock someone out who could attend?

Quick Comments

	syfChadMann:	Agree 100% - if you don't plan on attending the live event, entering is only mucking up others chance to attend.
	ROOTPetraeus:	+1
	FvRsolis:	+1 it hinders players who can actually make the event, because it is local to them

[SayfT]

Cannot validate account aswell just like Mafia, getting [#10120] We could not find the validation request you are attempting to verify. error

[ACL Beware]

Originally Posted by Eddie

Can't wait for the ACL circuit to start back up. Great fun



Not a fan of people doing this. There is no cash prize, so why play to try and take a spot/knock someone out who could attend?

Our first 2 National events are not invite only, anyone can attend. There are no 'spots' for attendance, only Season and Yearly points and though a participant may not plan/be able to attend our first National event, maybe they will be able to attend the last National event/Finals - then those points will come in handy. Also, for the simple reason of having fun.

Originally Posted by Gerlan.au

Cannot validate account aswell just like Mafia, getting [#10120] We could not find the validation request you are attempting to verify. error

I just had a look at your account, looks good on my end, still can't post?

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SayfT:

It works now, thank you

[Reere]

So just for clarification, is this open to people living in SEA?

[Dox]

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

all players in AUS/NZ

10charrrrrrrrrrrr

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Reere:

roger that! Thank you~

[syfChadMann]

nvm - I can read.

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ROOTPetraeus:

*facepalm*

[SLCN.Kez]

So no regional LAN qualifiers? Not the biggest fan of that decision but will have to make do I guess

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syfChadMann:

agree

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

Our first 2 National events are not invite only, anyone can attend. There are no 'spots' for attendance, only Season and Yearly points and though a participant may not plan/be able to attend our first National event, maybe they will be able to attend the last National event/Finals - then those points will come in handy. Also, for the simple reason of having fun.

By spots, i meant seeding via points + career points.

Our official Online Rounds will seed yourself leading up to National LAN events, where points mean everything. Do you have what it takes to be ranked within the Top 16 leading up to our first National event in April? Here our Top 16 players, the Professional players, will be treated to an exclusive 'Pro Zone' which will be entirely their own.

^ That's pretty cool and worth playing for.

However if someone is zero chance of attending, why play and potentially knock someone out of the online rounds/take away their chance at getting a better seed?

If someone might be able to come at some stage, cool why not have a crack at it. I'm talking about people who definitely can't.

Originally Posted by Reere

So just for clarification, is this open to people living in SEA?

I can't imagine many sea players outside of Aus/Nz would be able to attend. However if extending the rules to make it so, would you allow players located in basically the same area eg Korea/China, to play in online rounds as well?

ACL to the best of my understanding is purely focused on the Australian LAN scene. Each country should have their own circuit.

[FvRsolis]

Tbh, I preferred the groups system last year, where it went into a bracket and you could assign points to players based on their placing in that group, then there would be more for top 1/2 and even more for high placing in the small tournament afterwards. It meant that the players committed to attending the events would always compete, and they would do well.

It was a lot more complex, but it could even be used in SEA/ANZ power rankings. It just seems like this is going backwards. It is simpler and easier to administrate, but it also diminishes the whole premier league feel.

That is my feeling though. I can be wrong/rejected, I don't take it personally.

[Maynarde]

Originally Posted by Kez

So no regional LAN qualifiers? Not the biggest fan of that decision but will have to make do I guess

This decision was no doubt based on attendance to those regionals.

Regionals take a fair bit of resources and time to run versus online rounds, there's paid entry and the turn outs were less than spectacular (I think a Syd regional had 8 people arrive).

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SLCN.Kez:

Yeah I see the reasoning, just dissapointing as more LAN quals always better

[FvRphoneheha]

Right in the Chinese New Year

[Aiya]

I can't make the 10th, February, but I've already registered. Could I un-register? Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Norksman:

Done! Thanks for letting us know.

[Baldie]

I have brought up the points raised by the community in regards to AUS/NZ vs SEA to the ACL body and as a collective we have come to the following conclusion.

Statement from Australian Cyber League

"Upon reviewing the policy on the restriction of Australian Cyber League Starcraft 2 participation to Australia/New Zealand we have come to the conclusion we will not be lifting this policy. Opening up play to the remainder of South East Asia has been deemed too late for such a big change. There is a high chance players from outside Australia/New Zealand would not attend LANs and as a result would take points away from players who would attend. We have also taken into consideration a lack of overwhelming demand communicated from the community. This decision is indefinite and will be reviewed at a later date. We will always take community feedback into consideration."

Signups close in two days ladies and gentleman with cut-off 11:59pm Friday 8th February so make sure you signup before then. There will be no exceptions made for late signups.

I wish to also clarify these are online rounds not qualifiers and as a result the seeding will be formed by adding points gained over both rounds. If you come 4th in OR1 and don't participate in OR2 you are not guaranteed a 4th seed at the event.

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Reere:

ahh :(~

[Zealo]

Day/Time:
Date: Sunday the 10th February.
Time: 10:30am AEDT

this is a map of Australia drawn by ACL

Quick Comments

	Snx.FigJig:	yes, they should accommodate for the 2 or 3 players who live in Perth.
	NOM:	u jelly?
	Zepph:	the first post zealo has made that didnt make me lose brain cells. bravo

[Frustration]

7.30 am it is to get up to play in this mmmmmm

[Law]

Has the map pool been released yet?

[Baldie]

Originally Posted by scSurge

Has the map pool been released yet?

This thread will be updated very shortly with the map pool and all the details you need to know. The earliest information will always be on the ACL website landing page here.

But as you requested it directly the map pool is as follows.

WCS Cloud Kingdom
WCS Daybreak
WCS Ohana
WCS Antiga Shipyard
WCS Entombed Valley
GSL Abyssal City
GSL Whirlwind

[Baldie]

Under 7 hours until signups close make sure you don't forget to put your name down! No exceptions past 11:59PM AEDT tonight.

http://www.aclpro.com.au/forums/topi...ration-thread/

[Norksman]

The brackets have now been released. Seedings were based on career ACL points.

http://challonge.com/ACL13S1O1

We'll be streaming games tomorrow casted by Maynarde and Zepph, with observing powers provided by inFeZa.

Seedings have changed after assigning SundeR the correct career points!

[iM MaFia]

good bracket, yCh PiG ninja and pokerface all on 1 side

[iM SundeR]

Ah, based on ACL career points but I think my account name has stuffed it up..

In my registration post on the ACL forums I noted that I'm actually Discipline as Blizz Support haven't unblocked my iMSundeR account.. and I think I have a bit more ACL career points than the other people who weren't seeded?

No biggie really just thought I'd mention..

[Fenner]

I can't play in this, walk me over. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[UHF]

Do you still have the 2012 points available to peruse?

[Dox]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...0OTlmVVE#gid=0

[x5_dot]

Doc says that PiG is 2nd, but he is seeded 3rd. Is that doc up to date?

Quick Comments

	ToR.Arnor:	EB Expo hasnt been added?
	UHF:	Pet must have gotten 863-1000 points for 3rd @ ebexpo then?

[iM MaFia]

I noticed the brackets changed, howcome the brackets got shuffled abit?

[HuT]

Originally Posted by iM MaFia

I noticed the brackets changed, howcome the brackets got shuffled abit?

Sunder.

asdf

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ROOTPetraeus:

fdsa

[iM MaFia]

why not just put a walkover? it's kinda unfair and can be abusive (not that it affected my bracket at all - it might be easier for me actually, but for others )

because it's just the same as him (sunder) not showing up on the day right?
like it doesn't affect him if he is registered or not in this tournament?

[iM SundeR]

i wasn't seeded and i should have been because i actually have a lot of acl career points, didnt think that a complete reshuffle of the brackets would happen

i was always showing up yo - its fenner that's not showing up

[iM MaFia]

okay well, fair enough
bad luck to gimli got owned quite hard lol

[Eddie]

Will 2012 points be used for anything else this year? If yes can you update the records and change my name to match new id. FaDeEdOne > DevianT. If not, dw Thanks.

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Dox:

done

[Norksman]

Apologies for the change to the bracket. There was a gap of about 15 minutes between the version published originally and the corrected version currently up so I didn't think it would be an issue. Ultimately nobody is disadvantaged because SundeR should always have been seeded where he is currently.

It should have been picked up in the first instance as SundeR mentioned when he signed up that he was unable to use his regular id. There will be double checking of the id's along with sing ups so that all players are assigned the correct career/season points. In future, once the bracket link has been made public no further changes will occur.

[ROOT`iaguz]

Originally Posted by iM MaFia

okay well, fair enough
bad luck to gimli got owned quite hard lol

Yea was thinking about sleeping in already.

[Norksman]

Only an hour to go before the first ACL online round for the year kicks off!

[syfMiley]

Wake up people! Starting soon

[NOM]

deth can't participate, he has work on Sundays

[BAD.BiGbiRd]

Omfg...forgot to register :'(

Good luck to everyone competing

[Dox]

Originally Posted by dot89

Doc says that PiG is 2nd, but he is seeded 3rd. Is that doc up to date?

i dunno if ACL is using my document, but yeah as far as i knew EB Expo wasn't an official ACL event

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x5_dot:

wasn't it the final national event or whatever??

[UHF]

Originally Posted by dot89

wasn't it the final national event or whatever??

Not according to this:

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

Due to the enormous event that is the EB Expo E-Sports tournament Australian Cyber League will not be hosting another LAN event for 2012. While the EB Expo E-Sports event is not an ACL event, ACL will still crown our 2012 champions from placements in this tournament!

[x5_dot]

Originally Posted by dot89

Doc says that PiG is 2nd, but he is seeded 3rd.

So what is up with that? Am I going out of my mind thinking there's a mix up here?

[ACL VaNzR]

Just to clarify, The EB Expo eSports section was organised in the most part by TLS and EB Games. They received branding, secured all sponsorship, organised all tables/computers/equipment for the event. ACL was there to adminster a fair tournament, run qualifiers in the same vein and use this event to determine our 2012 winners.

The failures/misgivings of that event aside, it was always intended that the event finish off our season. Given that it is the last major event of 2012 with a good spread of competing players (through an ACL qualification process), it is indeed responsible (in part - combined with the rest of 2012) for seeding this 2013 opener.

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x5_dot:

thank you for the clarification! :)

[ROOT`iaguz]

Originally Posted by im mafia

okay well, fair enough
bad luck to gimli got owned quite hard lol

hahahahahahhahahahaahahaahahahhahahaahahahahahahah ahahahhahahaahhahahaahahaahahaahhhahhhahahahaaahaa hahahaahahahahaha

Quick Comments

	|Erasmus|:	what a boss...
	x5_dot:	LOLOL
	fray`Alpha:	lol :D
	ROOTPetraeus:	LOL
	nirvAnA:	so good!
	SLCN.Petrify:	ahahaha
	syfSoundwave:	dayum
	Dox:	gg
	Dingobloo:	Twice in one day? Who are you and what have you done with iaguz?

[ACL VaNzR]

Updated OP to include relevant details today, and also updated the ACL Landing Page with all key information:

http://www.aclpro.com.au/2013/events...-landing-page/

[ROOT`iaguz]

turn over to side two.

HAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA HAHAAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Quick Comments

	nGenLight:	You make me smile
	syfChadMann:	Well played gimli <3

[Norksman]

Todays Online Round 1 has been completed.

The bracket was finalised thinking Light FF'd to Petraeus to go to work. Light called in sick and Vanzr agreed to let them play the Grand Final off stream.

Light won 2-0 and so finishes in 1st place with Petraeus in 2nd place, contrary to the final results in the bracket page on Challonge.

I will update this post with points earned from the event.

[SLCNPezz]

wow i get beaten by #1 and #2 to get knocked out of the tourny... sick

by logic that means im #3?

[AvPoker]

Originally Posted by Av.ToRPezz

wow i get beaten by #1 and #2 to get knocked out of the tourny... sick

by logic that means im #3?

Absolutely not.

Quick Comments

	Zepph:	LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL SHUT. DOWN.
	SLCNPezz:	t'was a joke :)

[Dingobloo]

This was really great from the spectator side, the choices of games to show were excellent, good match up variety, great casting and observing (as usual), plenty of upsets and just ran reasonably smoothly (grand final issues aside).

If I had to nitpick I would say the overlay between games could have had a piece of "next game coming up..." text on it, because it was completely static several people who started watching the stream between games had no idea what was going on and some even assumed the stream was over (though casters interacting with the chat during these times alleviated that somewhat) and of course the inability for mods to link URL's in the chat was also unfortunate as it just made communicating the brackets difficult.

Keep up the good work all involved, looking forward to the next one.