[Eddie]

For those not aware, in 2013 we created the SEA Championship Series season, SCS finals series and SEA Player/Power Rankings. We allocated SCS (SEA Championship Series) points for most regular online SEA tournaments throughout the year, all counting towards seeding and qualifying for our $2100 Grand Finale weekend.

Season 2 has now started. Leader Board + Player Database can be found here. We've implemented several changes, and improvements, creating more opportunities for players to acquire points.

However, we are re-branding ourselves, and are looking for a new name for our end of season finals championship. (We will still call the tournament points we give out SCS points.) Reasons behind the championship name change, are most of our sponsors and target audience are AU + NZ/Oceania based, so including that in our name will help promotion and marketing in those areas, as well as giving international audiences a greater idea of where our region is located, as SEA can be pretty vague to some. We're not removing SEA, just presenting ourselves in a more marketable manner.

So ideally a new name will have Australia, New Zealand + South East Asia or Oceania +South East Asia in some wording.

So what to call SCS Finals in 2014?

These are the leading suggestions:

OSEANIC Championship
OSSC - Oceanic + SEA SC2 Circuit
ANSAC - Australia, New Zealand + South East Asian Annual Championship

Please vote on which you'd prefer/think best represents our tournament and region.

[TtSYF.tRoy]

Why not have SCS as the name again?

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by TtSYF.tRoy

Why not have SCS as the name again?

Marketing and promotional reasons. We want to keep growing this tournament and season format. Bigger prize pools, show matches, more money to the players etc and feel the best way to do this is to have a name that better associates with the main region and area our current sponsors and future ones are based in. Another reason is it sounds a little similar to Blizzards World Championship Series, and we don't want to be viewed as a poor mans version of that or imitation, even though we were established first and our format is different.

[abstract]

So I guess the problem is you feel that either SEA or Oceania are ambiguous to the region it covers? Personally I prefer just Oceania Starcraft Championship (OSC) as I feel it is simpler and covers the Asian islands surrounding Australia.

Whichever choice is made you should consider not using SCS for the points as it will only become confusing in the future. Why not use whatever the new acronym is?

EDIT: what does the acronym OSEANIC stand for? Oceania, South East Asian, ... NIC?

[Eddie]

Thanks for the feedback abstract

Originally Posted by abstract

So I guess the problem is you feel that either SEA or Oceania are ambiguous to the region it covers? Personally I prefer just Oceania Starcraft Championship (OSC) as I feel it is simpler and covers the Asian islands surrounding Australia.

Not so much ambiguous, just that some people globally might not be aware of where/and which nations make up SEA. Australia and New Zealand aren't technically part of it, just associated by using the same home server. And in reverse, Oceania doesn't include other prominent SEA nations, such as Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc. Thus we'd still like SEA included in some form, or small way, while presenting ourselves more clearly as Aus + Nz from a marketing perspective.

Whichever choice is made you should consider not using SCS for the points as it will only become confusing in the future. Why not use whatever the new acronym is?

SCS would just be for points, and not a marketable or official tournament name. Used as a term the players and tournament organisers are familiar with. It's also pretty catchy, and reflects on our history.

what does the acronym OSEANIC stand for? Oceania, South East Asian, ... NIC?

OSEANIC is using a bit of word play/a merger of the two words, sub out the C, and replace with an S for SEA.

[SLCN.NXZ]

I think that OSSC makes the most sense given that its the shortest, OSEANIC is far too silly for a major event imo. OSSC is short and to the point and could be said O double S C. Which flows fine. Imagine casters saying Welcome this the end of the OSEANIC. The issue being that Oceanic is not a noun so it doesn't make sense whereas an unrelated acronym that isn't associated with a current adjective works fine. Same issues for ANSAC.

Although I would like to see more consistency regarding the points and the tournament. If in your tournament not called SCS you qualify based on SCS points which stand for a completely different thing... doesn't make much sense to anyone who wasn't around for this particular discussion.

Those are my thoughts.

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Eddie:

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[VorteX]

Originally Posted by abstract

Oceania Starcraft Championship (OSC)

I Don't mind it to be called "Oceanic Starcraft Championship (OSC)" instead of "Oceania Starcraft Championship (OSC)"

In Regards to the thread, i prefer:

Originally Posted by Eddie

OSSC - Oceanic + SEA SC2 Circuit

It's shorter, you don't want acronym itself to be a long winded one

[Eddie]

True OSEANIC isn't an acronym, it's a full title, which should be said as OSEANIC Championship, in the same vein as North American Championship, etc. Shortened it would be either OC or OSC.

[uJeanZ]

I actually like SCS Finals. Having two different names for the series and the finals could cause confusion. SEA Champion Series is a really good name which represents what the whole thing is about. The winner would simply be the SEA Champion. KISS principle - Keep It Simple Stupid

[Fenner]

Other!

I liked SCS. Short, snappy and to the point

[Cyanide]

Asia-Pacific region would be more appropriate, includes practically every country that has taken part in it and more!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific

[Eddie]

More votes please

Originally Posted by Cyanide

Asia-Pacific region would be more appropriate, includes practically every country that has taken part in it and more!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific

It may be more appropriate, but we'd like greater emphasis on AU/NZ/Oceania. Asia-Pacific can also be pretty broad, including China, Korea, etc, which aren't really part of our community.

[Matt93]

From the ones up there I like OSSC, but I like South East Asian Series or Circuit (SEAS or SEAC) better, even though it sounds a lot like the old name, least you wouldn't need to ditch SCS, could use it to refer to the championships still.

[inFeZa]

ANSAC









**** your 10 char bullshit

[mGGJuggerGOOSE]

I don't believe it is too hard a concept to see that Oceania and SEA are essentially the same thing, if you have half a brain (and people that play StarCraft tend to have a whole brain) will be able to understand that, and if not, it is easily explained like this,


Unknown Person: "What is the difference between SEA and Oceania?"
Awesome nerd baller: "No difference, Oceanic and SEA are the same"
Unknown Person:"oh, thanks "


See, its easy. OCS or SCS is fine , anything more than 3 letters is annoying to say (my opinion)

[x5_Namakaye]

Originally Posted by VorteX

"Oceanic Starcraft Championship (OSC)"

This pls, better than all the other names so far

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SLCN.NXZ:

amen

[rezyn8]

I will vote Other, as I do think OSC (Oceanic StarCraft 2 Championship) would be more appropriate. I say this due to the fact that the competition is A/NZ based (organisers/tournament/majority of players). When people also think of Oceanic in StarCraft terms, it is quite widely accepted that players are from Australia and therefore recognised as from the SEA region.

As an alternative, SEA StarCraft 2 Championship or SSC could also work. SCS is a little too generic as it doesn't mention StarCraft, which I think is important (and prolly more-so to Blizzard who will be sponsors of the yearly finals in 2014).

As a side note, if there is going to be a name change then it needs to adopted in its entirety for branding and marketing reasons. SCS needs to be dropped completely and thus points would be referred to as OSC points for example. Using two acronyms for the same organisation breeds confusion for players, spectators and sponsors.

TL;DR - OSC - Oceanic StarCraft 2 Championship

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SLCN.NXZ:

This is good.

[x5_Potter]

I vote other, and put forward this idea.

Australian, New Zealand and Rest of World Starcraft Points System Tournament Season Finals

AKA - ANZAROWSPST Season Finals.

Alternately, we could take out Points system tournament, as well as using and in the acronym, and have the ANZROW Starcraft Season Finals

[sR.Kumo]

Anzrow does sound pretty cool yo

[Eddie]

Thanks for the feedback so far. Will keep voting open until the end of the week.

Likely name change will be: Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship - OSC for short.

More votes please

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Plottel:

+1 for OSC