North American Star League Season 4

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Overview

North American Star League Season 4

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League Information

Organizer:

NASL

Sponsor:

EIZO
Kingston HyperX
GAMER.minder
iBUYPOWER
EPSON

Game Version:

Wings of Liberty Patch 1.5.2

Server:

North America

Event Type:

Offline

Location:

United States

Format:

Group Stage online
Single-elimination playoff offline

Start Date:

2012-09-12

End Date:

2012-12-09

Winners

HerO

viOLet
Polt	SortOf

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

45

14

15

16

Maps

Cloud Kingdom • Daybreak • Entombed Valley • Metropolis • Muspelheim • Ohana • Whirlwind • Abyssal City

1 About
2 Format
- 2.1 Map Pool
- 2.2 Prize Pool
3 Participants
4 Results
- 4.1 Divisions Overview
5 Playoffs
- 5.1 Main Event Bracket
6 Racial Distribution
7 View Games
8 Additional Coverage
- 8.1 TeamLiquid.net
  - 8.1.1 Live Report
  - 8.1.2 Write-Ups
- 8.2 Coverage Portals
9 Gallery
10 See also
11 References

[edit] About

The North American Star League, often abbreviated as NASL, is a competitive StarCraft 2 league that was introduced in February 2011. The North American Star League Season 4 is the fourth season of the North American Star League. 45 players compete for an unannounced prize pool over a three-month season. 4 players qualified from the Season 3 open tournament, 4 players qualify from the Season 4 qualifiers, 4 players are invited and the remaining 32 players qualified from their placement in season 3.

[edit] Format

The fourth season is composed of several stages:

The Season 4 Qualifiers, a series of 4 single-elimination tournaments, provide players with the opportunity to qualify for the Season 4 Group Stage.
The Group Stage where forty five players compete in five divisions in a round robin - best of three format. The winner of each division advances directly to the Top 16 Main Bracket.

[edit] Map Pool

To keep the season fresh, the NASL Season 4 map pool will be reviewed after the 4th and 9th weeks of competition for potential revisions based on player feedback and internal analysis.^[1]

Initial maps:

After the Review Muspelheim was removed from the pool in Week 7 and was replaced by Abyssal City

[edit] Prize Pool

$60,000 is spread among the players as seen below:

Place	Prize	ID	Team
1st	$30,000	HerO	Team Liquid
2nd	$15,000	viOLet	AZUBU
3rd	$10,000	Polt	Team SCV Life
4th	$5,000	SortOf	Western Wolves

[edit] Participants

Seeded through Season 3 (35)
Protoss (14)	Terran (15)	Zerg (16)
Alicia	PuMa	Stephano
MC	aLive	Ret
HerO	Ryung	Sen
HuK	Beastyqt	Galaxy
TT1	DeMusliM	Zenio
HasuObs	GanZi	LoWeLy
NightEnD	ThorZaIN	DIMAGA
MaNa	Strelok	MorroW
HwangSin	Polt	TLO
finale	SeleCT	Sheth
	ClouD	TargA
	qxc	ViBE
	MaSa
Qualified (4)
Bischu		Dark
Arthur		HyuN
Invited via NASL Leaderboard (6)
NaNiwa *	TaeJa	DongRaeGu
Oz **	MMA	viOLet

*NaNiwa replaced CrazymoviNG who was unable to attend due to personal reasons.^[2]
**Oz replaced Puzzle who was unable to attend due to personal reasons. Oz was selected as the next highest ranking Protoss on the NASL Leaderboard.

[edit] Results

[edit] Divisions Overview

The winner of each division advances to the main event bracket
The standings are by match score, then by total points. So a 2-0 win gives a player 2 points, a 2-1 win gives a player 1 point, a 1-2 loss gives a player -1 point, and a 0-2 loss gives a player -2 points.
Of the second place finishers in each division, the three with the best record advance to the main event bracket
Players ranked 9-22 (14 players) in the league are placed into a wildcard playoff with the top two of the open tournament to determine the remaining 8 spots in the offline finals
Players ranked 23-33 (11 players) in the league are eliminated but will be invited to return next season
Players ranked 34-45 (bottom 12) in the league are eliminated and will not return

Division 1
1.	Polt	8-0	16-2	+14
2.	Arthur	6-2	13-7	+6
3.	HuK	5-3	11-9	+2
4.	DongRaeGu	4-4	9-9	0
5.	MaSa	4-4	8-11	-3
6.	HasuObs	3-5	9-11	-2
6.	Ret	3-5	8-10	-2
8.	aLive	2-6	8-12	-4
9.	MorroW	1-7	4-15	-11

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Division 2
1.	HyuN	8-0	16-3	+13
2.	Oz	6-2	12-6	+6
3.	Zenio	5-3	12-10	+2
4.	PuMa	4-4	10-9	+1
5.	NaNiwa	4-4	9-8	+1
6.	SeleCT*	4-4	10-10	0
7.	Galaxy	3-5	7-11	-4
8.	TLO	2-6	7-12	-5
9.	ClouD	0-8	2-16	-14

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Division 3
1.	viOLet	8-0	16-5	+11
2.	Dark	5-3	12-7	+5
3.	HerO	5-3	13-10	+3
3.	Alicia	5-3	12-9	+3
5.	MaNa	4-4	10-8	+2
6.	Beastyqt	4-4	10-11	-1
7.	GanZi	2-6	7-13	-6
8.	LoWeLy	2-6	5-14	-9
9.	Strelok	1-7	6-14	-8

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Division 4
1.	TaeJa	6-2	14-5	+9
2.	MC	6-2	13-6	+7
3.	ViBE	5-3	12-7	+5
4.	Sheth	5-3	10-7	+3
5.	Ryung	4-4	9-8	+1
6.	HwangSin	4-4	11-11	0
7.	Bischu	4-4	8-10	-2
8.	ThorZaIN	1-7	3-13	-10
9.	TargA	1-7	3-14	-11

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Division 5
1.	finale	7-1	15-5	+10
2.	DeMusliM	7-1	14-5	+9
3.	Sen	6-2	13-5	+8
4.	MMA	5-3	12-7	+5
5.	Stephano	4-4	10-10	0
6.	TT1	3-5	7-11	-4
7.	NightEnD	2-6	5-12	-7
8.	qxc	1-7	4-14	-10
9.	DIMAGA	1-7	3-14	-11