[nirvAnA]

iMaster wants to see the SEA ladder scene more active. So he has come up with an awesome idea to get the MIA pros like RedARchon, GLaDe and OxygeN to start laddering again.

Every week he will sponsor $50 to the #1 ranked player on the top 200 list, starting from today!

In addition, the top player each week qualifies for a final tournament. At the end of every 3 months, there will be a big tourney which includes the rank 1 player each week. If he has already won the previous week, he can still win the money but the qualification slot will go to the #2 player. So at the end of 12 weeks there will be 12 players invited to play in the tournament with a nice prize. format is undecided atm but im learning towards the IEM grand final format. Two groups of 6, #1 of group goes to semi finals, #2 and #3 qualify and go to quarters. that way there will be tons of nice games to watch.

-ladder games will be checked for abuse and suspicious activity wont receive any money.
-admins decision aka mine and imasters will be final
-winner will be determined as of blizzards official top 200 ranking
-to claim prize money winner has to sent me a replay pack of his last 10 LADDER games for the community to enjoy and also as a side measure to check the legitness of the games.
-you need ALL latest 10 reps(including ur losses. hi jesse) and they must match up with ur match history. if u miss even 1 rep = no prize so just tick the bnet option to save all replays so you dont forget ^^

Heres the current Top 200 ranking as of 12th Feb which can be checked real time at sc2ranks.com.

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Heres the previous top 200 lists and the 6 players already qualified. Qualifications end march 31st.

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Top 200 List, 2011 History - Jan-March Qualifiers

Date	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	Qualified Player
Jan 4, 2011	inF	Kroniic	YoonYJ	nGenJazBas	nGenMaSteR	inF
Jan 11, 2011	JesseTheKING	nGenStarhunt	Kroniic	YoonYJ	NEOindy	JesseTheKING
Jan 19, 2011	YoonYJ	inF	aLtKinGJessE	nGenLight	Alchemist	YoonYJ
Jan 24, 2011	inF	inF	pokerface	nGenLight	WeepingElla	inF
Feb 1, 2011	inF	inF	SwEEt	aLtKinGJessE	nGenLight	SwEEt
Feb 7, 2011	inF	nGenWild	aLtKinGJessE	NEOindy	inF	nGenWild

Any feedback/questions are welcome! Start climbing, the clock is ticking!

[JacziE]

Master!! You are too much!! ♥♥

[nGenWild]

... now i have no chance of being #1

[NvPinder]

whilst this is a great idea, I'd wait till after the supposed ladder reset,I'm not sure $50 motivates glade to get horrible practice before gsl for like 400 games straight while he burns his 1.5k bonus pool 5 points at a time...

if you do it after the reset and everybody starts on even ground so you dont have to play a silly ammount of games to get #1, he might do it.

[Xeen]

Was the reset also resetting MMR?

[JacziE]

Originally Posted by nGenWild

... now i have no chance of being #1

poor wild :<

[Stroggos]

trying to get to the top of sea ladder with a high MMR and 1000+ bonus pool is like dragging your dick through a mile of glass. Still im sure the top 20 players will start getting a lot more competitive

[TAEdgE]

Agree 100% with Pinder and Stroggos. It's also not often i agree with protoss !

[nirvAnA]

yea not for everyone(like i doubt im ever gonna play lol) but it looks like it got redarchon and a bunch of other to players to start laddering again like crazy so awesome ^^

and btw red has insane high bonus pool + mmr and it seems hes getting good points i.e +40 points still u guys shld try laddering and see what points u get.

[frequency]

I think having the top 4 play off against eachother every week would be much better - so we can have a lot of laddering during the week and then a scheduled final on saturday/sunday.

Regardless I think it's good, so keep it up.

[deL]

Doubt glade will participate. Code A practice or $50?

Agree with freq's idea though, maybe do something that includes more of the Top 200 because the top player is going to be there no matter what and people who can't make #1 place won't feel incentivised.

[DRFT]

wow! thats a good way to waste money! why didnt i think of that....

[DRFT]

oh yeh LOL!!!! @ Stroggos comment

[Tom]

I hate you nirvana! Yesterday i was RedArchon fodder four games in a row!

[iMaster]

Theres alot of GOOD SC2 Gamer out there,but they stop laddering,
would like to encourage them to ladder more. Give SEA a chance,
Consistent of being top 10 in SEA is a big opportunities for Gamers,
Offer will come, Sponsorship will come, and most important is Top Gamers of SC2 will know SEA have GOOD Players. . .
Good Luck Guys...

[JacziE]

Grats to revenant, hehe! THANKS FOR DINNER, SON