Collegiate Starleague

http://www.cstarleague.com

CStarleague    CollegiateStarLeague

Overview

The Collegiate Starleague (CSL) is an intercollegiate StarCraft league for North American colleges and universities. The format is modeled after South Korean Proleague, with a regular season and playoff tournament centered around matches between college teams. Twenty-five schools participated in the inaugural season of the CSL and that number has grown to one-hundred and forty four schools by Season 4. Originally corresponding to approximately one semester of university, CSL seasons have grown to encompass the full academic year. Season 4 concluded on March 7, 2011. Season 5 began September 10, 2011 and had their live grand finals on June 3, 2012 at the University of Central Florida.

Eligibility

All students currently enrolled in a North American undergraduate or graduate program are eligible for the CSL. Teams must have a minimum of five verified players before entering the league. Players are cleared for participation by supplying an official school email address.

Players NOT registered as current students can be considered for eligibility under special circumstances on a case-by-case basis. Exceptions can also be made for players from unusually small schools that are affiliated with larger universities.

Staff

Mona hazelynut Zhang Founder, Head Administrator Duran Xeris Parsi Communications, Head Administrator Mark DarthThienAn Ha Head Administrator Kacper yenta Harabasz Head of Operations

Spencer Thegilaboy Campbell Administrator Nick SallyDesu Soh Administrator Timothy shindigs Young Head of Social Media

Josh jdubya Watson Graphics Eugene Hoban Graphics Sean Day[9] Plott Commentator Brooke Kao Banner artwork

Tournaments

Tournament	Date	Winner	Runner-Up	TL Threads	Game Version
Season 1	2009-02-15 – 2009-04-26	University of California Berkeley	University of Texas Austin	-	Brood War
Season 2	2009-10-09 – 2009-12-19	University of Waterloo	University of California San Diego	Official Thread	Brood War
Season 3	2010-02-13 – 2010-05-22	University of California San Diego	Duke University	-	Brood War
Season 4	2010-10-22 – 2011-04-07	University of British Columbia	University of Waterloo	Official Thread	Wings of Liberty
Season 5	2011-09-10 – 2012-06-03	University of North Texas	University of Washington	Official Thread	Wings of Liberty
AZUBU Collegiate Champions	2012-11-10 – 2013-02-03	University of California Berkeley	Chunnam Techno University	Official Thread	Wings of Liberty

Medal Count

Last update: Season 6

Rank	Team
1.	University of California Berkeley	2	0	0
2.	University of Waterloo	1	1	0
2.	University of California San Diego	1	1	0
3.	University of British Columbia	1	0	0
3.	University of North Texas	1	0	0
4.	University of Washington	0	1	1
5.	Duke University	0	1	0
5.	University of Texas Austin	0	1	0
5.	Chunnam Techno University	0	1	0

Notable Players

Professional Players Brood War Assem, Georgia Tech Day[9], University of Southern California Freaky, McGill University Jianfei, University of Toronto MasterAsia, Georgia Tech Nesh, Rutgers University Oldy, McGill University Stryker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yosh, University of California, Berkeley StarCraft II Antimage, University of Waterloo Caliber, University of Washington ExO, University of Houston FireZerg, University of British Columbia Gerbil, University of Waterloo Humble, University of Waterloo KawaiiRice, University of Washington iNcontroL, Oregon State University mOoNan, Stony Brook University MurDeR, Indiana University, Season 4 NerZhuL, University of Maryland Baltimore County ostojiy, University of Western Ontario qxc, Harvey Mudd College Stalife, University of British Columbia Suppy, University of California, Berkeley TorcH, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, Season 3 Tyler, Duke University Whiplash, University of Central Florida Wbc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Season 4

Community Members Atrioc, Arizona State University blabber, University of California Irvine CapO, Rutgers University CaucasianAsian, Radford College dimsum, Rutgers University Empyrean, Duke University FragKrag, University of California Santa Barbara GHOSTCLAW, University of California Irvine Hot_Bid, University of Michigan Ann Arbor JiYan, University of California Riverside Ideas, Georgia Tech LosingID8, University of Southern California LuckyFool, George Mason University mOnion, Texas A&M OneOther, Duke University Saracen, California Institute of Technology Sojourner, Texas A&M Sunyveil, Oberlin College and Conservatory TOP, University of California San Diego Elcoco, Florida International University

Life-time Bans CombatEX, University of Waterloo Doppler, University of Wisconsin-Madison DxT, University of California Berkeley igWare, University of California Berkeley SUGGY, McMaster University Wyatt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Trivia

• Day[9] played for the University of Southern California in Season 1. In later seasons, he took a Boxer-esque role as coach, mentor, and behind-the-scenes professor of StarCraft.
• qxc's entrance into the SC:BW scene began with his involvement with the Harvey Mudd CSL team. He aced for his team and brought HMC to 10th place in Season 1, narrowly missing the cutoff for playoffs.
• UCSD decided to name their team "Xeris," spawning Xeris_Cheese, Xeris_Jaeyun, and the abominably narcissistic Xeris_Xeris.
• The University of Texas, prior to their championship match against Berkeley in Season 1, cited the following as their worst fear: "Along with Texas, Berkeley has one of the highest percentage of Asians in their student body. So the biggest Unknown and also fear is whether or not their entire lineup is composed of Asians, and whether or not they are better than our all-Asian lineup."
• During Season 2, CSL was unofficially named CSL+. After realizing the CSL, Inc. tournament was no longer running, the staff at CSL decided to take back their name.
• In Season 3, there were three female coordinators (Carnegie Mellon University, The Ohio State University, and University of Southern California).
• Half of the head CSL admins are current students at Princeton University in New Jersey.
• As of August 23, 2010 - there are 10 players playing for the CSL in the top 200: qxc, Stalife, IefNaij, Cheese, ostojiy, MasterAsia, xiaofan, Antimage, SlaineD, and Darrenc.
• After winning SC2 beta keys (Season 2 Grand Prize), the University of Waterloo's players suffered a severe hit to their performance in Season 3 and lost early on in the playoffs.
• CSL was featured in The New York Times in April 2009.
• The Collegiate Starleague Liquipedia page is the first page to reference Combat-EX, breaking an unspoken taboo of Liquipedia editors.
• As of May 12, 2012, there are 24 players playing in the CSL who are in the North American server Grand Master League.
• Just before the Season 5 finals, Tt eSports dropped its sponsorship for the CSL. This move drove the CSL to conduct an emergency fundraiser through raffles.

Press

• Boland, Cody. "'Starcraft' invades Western" The Western Courier. Published November 2, 2011.
• Vinicius Cid. "The UBC Starcraft Club, redefining sport?" Ubyssey. Published October 12, 2011.
• Young, Timothy. "StarCraft 2 eSports explodes at UC Irvine" myUCIrvine - ZOT Report. Published April 10, 2011.
• Johnson, Isanel. "Forget the field, these athletes compete in the virtual world" The Oak Leaf. Published on April 4, 2011.
• Lewis, Ariel. "Out of This World: Oberlin StarCraft Team Is On the Rise" The Oberlin Review. Published on February 18, 2011.
• Garcia, Rachel. "College StarLeague battles it out in the cosmos of Starcraft II" The Daily Bruin. Published on February 3, 2011.
• Zakrzewski, Alex. "Humber competes in Collegiate Starleague Team" Humber Et Cetera. Published on February 1, 2011.
• Miller, Patrick. "2011: The Year of eSports" PCWorld. Published on December 29, 2010.
• Yan, Vivian. "StarCraft inspires collegiate league at USC" Bamboo Offshoot. Published on December 22, 2010.
• Schneider, Jordan. "STARCRAFT | The Game in space" Yale Daily News. Published on November 4, 2010.
• Teoh, Jun-Kai. "E-sports taking colleges by storm" University Chronicle. Published October 31, 2010.
• Scharr, Jillian. "Geeked: NYC Gamers Starry-Eyed Over "StarCraft II" Midnight Release" NBC New York. Published July 26, 2010.
• An, So Hyoung. "A different kind of sport" The Daily of the University of Washington. Published May 5, 2010.
• Rogers, Carter. "StarCraft: A game of chess, played at hundreds of moves per minute" The Tufts Daily. Published April 2, 2010.
• Eichenlaub, Mark. "Caltech and the Collegiate Starleague" Arcsecond. Published on April 26, 2009.
• Good, Owen. "U.S. Universities Join the Star League" Kotaku. Published April 12, 2009.
• Cohen, Patricia. "Video Game Becomes Spectator Sport" The New York Times. Published April 11, 2009.
• Wallace, Sara. "Game On" The Daily Princetonian. Published on April 2, 2009.
• Kelly, Christina J. "A New Idea in College Sports" The Harvard Crimson. Published March 17, 2009.
• Rao, Vikram. "Defilers, dragoons and mutalisks, oh my!" The Daily Princetonian. Published February 11, 2009.