NoisE Amateur Starleague 2
General Information[edit]
The NoisE Amateur Starleague 2 (ASL2) was announced on 18nd August 2012 [1] and had a prize pool of $600, a substantial increase from the first season. The second season, again, features yellow rank players - with the addition of any qualified player from season one that wants to participate, regardless of rank.
Prizes[edit]
Place | Prize (USD) |
Champion | $400 |
Runner-up | $150 |
Third | $50 |
Total | $600 |
Format[edit]
For the first stage (qualification), each player will be divided into a division of 9 (or 10). Each division will have 5 tiers of 2 players and players in each tier play each other.
The player that wins their game moves up a tier and the player that loses moves down a tier. The player that wins in tier 1 stays in it. Likewise, the player in tier 5 that loses also stays where he is at. If there are 9 people in a division, the bottom tier players sits Round 1 (Bye) and then moves up when tier 4 loser moves down. This is repeated over 10 rounds (10 separate games per player) over the course of two days (5 games per day). The top 4 players from each division will move on to the group stage. The divisions were determined randomly and seeded randomly.
In the next (Group) stage, top 4 players from 6 divisions of the Up & Down stage together with the 6 wildcard players and 2 seeded players from the last season make 32 players of the Group stage. These players are divided into 8 groups of 4 players. Each group has two bottom finishing players (Tier 2 and Wildcard players) from the last stage that play a BO3 in Round 1 to advance to the Round 2 to play a second finisher (Tier 1 player) in a BO3. The winner of that match advances to Round 3 to play one of the top finishers (Tier 1 and seeded players) in a BO5 to advance to the Ro8.
Round of 8 and onwards is a single-elimination bracket with a 3rd place match. Every match is a Bo5, except the Finals, which is Bo7.
Maps[edit]
The newest version of the maps should be used (most of the maps have "Neo" added in front of the name). You can download the mappack.
Used maps are: Fighting Spirit, Neo Electric Circuit, Neo Sniper Ridge, Outsider SE, Neo Jade and Match Point.
VODs[edit]
- TeamLiquid VODs thread (spoiler-free)
- ASL2 YouTube channel