BLinD-RawR Profile Blog Joined April 2010 ALLEYCAT BLUES 45576 Posts Last Edited: 2018-11-22 07:35:52 #1

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Stream



All games will be streamed on Britney's Channel :



VODs will be available on Britney's Youtube Channel :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69uMhRJcUnvMnMxKT2SS0w



No News regarding any official English Stream.



All games will be streamed on Britney's Channel : http://play.afreecatv.com/khm11903/ VODs will be available on Britney's Youtube Channel :No News regarding any official English Stream. Teams, Info and Draft



Team sponsors may change but not the team itself (meaning players/team name/logo)

He also mentions that players will stay on the team even if players go to the army and return.



Ex. MPL2 Gamjeon market Sparkyz → MPL3 Jeil Company Sparkyz → MPL4 Mutube Sparkyz → MPL5 Kim Bong Jun Sparkyz



Team sponsors may change but not the team itself (meaning players/team name/logo)Ex. MPL2 Gamjeon market Sparkyz → MPL3 Jeil Company Sparkyz → MPL4 Mutube Sparkyz → MPL5 Kim Bong Jun Sparkyz On October 14 2018 13:21 Kimoleon wrote:

Team formation:





Coach: There will be an old gamer pre matched with a sponsor



Draft: Will happen at Britney’s studio



Team: Name/Logo/Uniform will be created by viewers and/or the team itself



Profile shooting after uniforms are complete all provided by the sponsor.



(seems Britney is talking about providing everything he can including uniforms created by viewers)



Team Draft information:





In MPL will include every male Star Afreeca BJ and separate 48 players into ELO rankings and separate them into 5 tiers. Females will be picked separately.



The coaches of the 8 teams will get pick priority by a randomizer I assume and will pick Tier 2--5th based on the diagram shown there



Teams 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8



Tier 2 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Tier 3 - 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Tier 4 - 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Tier 5 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8



Talks about draft orders in Football or Baseball based on the rankings of the previous season but Britney is open to suggestions on the best way to draft players.



The female players tier and Tier 1 players will picked based on ELO ranking starting from 8th placed rank. To create more balanced teams the 1st place rank for both tiers will not have a choice in team.



(note: this may change based on feedback)





Team Payroll:





The coaches of the 8 teams will receive a payroll of 5,000$ USD and can pay the players however they see fit. (Britney apologizes about such a small amount, but dude you da mvp)



The sponsors have each put in 10,000$ each for equality.



Half as mentioned will go to players and the other half will go to either prize money or running the league. All monetary transactions will be transparent for the public to see. Created a MPL 2 bank account.



The 8 teams will be revealed at the draft.



Female player matches:



4 seeded players:

Cadenzie(Z), Sera-_- (P)* -, A02)NOgg(T), Darin(T)

*Stargirl Seo Yeonji



The players will pick the teams.



The other 4 slots will be filled by a single day qualifier

Date - 10/30

Place - Jamsil AfreecaTV PC Room

Format - Bo3’s (Map-Fighting Spirit -> Circuit Breaker -> Fighting Spirit)

Requirements to attend: Any female streamer.



To register you need to respond to Britney’s afreeca post concerning this qualifier. At this moment in time there are 13 entrants.



This event will be run just like an ASL qualifier.



Lee Hyun Kyung announcer will attend as well, what a qt.





Team Draft information:

All Male BW Streamers on Afreeca will be separated into tiers via ELO ranking(probably sponbbang ranks)



Females will be picked seperately



Coaches then Draft Players from Tier 2-5 randomly, think of sports drafting(however Britney is open to suggestions on how to handle drafting moving forward)



Female players Tier and Tier 1 Players will be picked based on ELO ranking starting from 8th placed rank.



1st rank players get auto assigned to a Team based on above points to create more balance in teams.





Schedule and Format

12/1/2018 → Team Draft & Group Ceremony



Round of 8 Format and Schedule

2 Groups of 4 teams each

[list]

[*]Dual Tournament Rules(Same As ASL/KSL/MSL)

[*][b]Match 1 and 2 will be Bo7, Winners, Losers and Final match series will be Bo5.



So it would look like this:

Team A vs Team B (Bo7)

Team C vs Team D (Bo7)

Winner's Match (Bo5)

Losers' Match (Bo5)

Final Match (Bo5)



12/8/2018 → Ro8 Group A match 1

12/9/2018 → Ro8 Group A match 2



12/12/2018 → Ro8 Group B match 1

12/13/2018 → Ro8 Group B match 2



12/16/2018 → A/B Winner's match

12/17/2018 → A/B Loser's match

12/19/2018 → A/B Final match



Round of 4 format and Schedule

Ro4 will be Bo2 series of Bo7(they will play 2 Best of 7 matches)



In case of 1:1 Tie they will have a single Super Ace match after the 2nd set





12/22/2018 → Ro4 1st match set 1

12/23/2018 → Ro4 1st match set 2



12/26/2018 → Ro4 2nd match set 1

12/28/2018 → Ro4 2nd match set 2





Finals

Single Bo7 series for the Finals



Finals to be played Offline at the Afreeca Freecup Studio.(the ASL/GSL Studio)





12/30/2018 → Finals



12/1/2018 → Team Draft & Group Ceremony2 Groups of 4 teams each[list][*]Dual Tournament Rules(Same As ASL/KSL/MSL)[*][b]Match 1 and 2 will be Bo7, Winners, Losers and Final match series will be Bo5.So it would look like this:Team A vs Team B (Bo7)Team C vs Team D (Bo7)Winner's Match (Bo5)Losers' Match (Bo5)Final Match (Bo5) Prize Pool

Prize money: (currently 1$ - 1.1k won ratio)



1st Place - 15,000,000 won



2nd Place - 5,000,000 won



3rd Place - 3,000,000 won



Prize money: (currently 1$ - 1.1k won ratio) Sponsorship and Speculation



Main sponsor for MPL is Shinhan Investment Corp. which is the subsidiary of Shinhan Bank who have a longstanding histroy of sponsoring Proleague and 3 seasons of OSL back in the KeSPA era.



They will also be Sponsoring one of the teams.



Another Sponsor could potentially be an Afreeca Streamer who goes by Gamst.



No News regarding the other 6 sponsors.

Main sponsor for MPL iswhich is the subsidiary of Shinhan Bank who have a longstanding histroy of sponsoring Proleague and 3 seasons of OSL back in the KeSPA era.They will also be Sponsoring one of the teams.Another Sponsor could potentially be an Afreeca Streamer who goes by Gamst.No News regarding the other 6 sponsors. Moderator Woo Jung Ho, never forget.| Twitter: @BLinDRawR

Holint_Casazr Profile Blog Joined July 2011 Germany 45 Posts #2 Britney really delivering. This gives me a feeling of commitment/passion/whatever I haven't felt about a person in the communtiy since the sonic days (well - before THAT happend). Sustainability is very important and it seems like Britney is doing everything he can in this regard.



Also, how awesome is it that we have a foreigner in a BW Proleague (-ish)? Cadenzie fighting! Hope we get some great english cast as well.

DSK Profile Blog Joined February 2015 England 1068 Posts #3 This sounds amazing! Many thanks to Britney for setting this up!. **@ YT: SC2POVs at https://www.youtube.com/c/SC2POVsTV | SC2 First-person POV archive of 7,500+ VODs @**

kogeT Profile Joined September 2013 Poland 1653 Posts #4 Britney is basicially a korean version of Qikz.



( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) https://www.twitch.tv/kogetbw

Ziggy Profile Blog Joined June 2013 Poland 1757 Posts #5 Shame they're still opting to include female streamers. I understand the idea behind the publicity stunt, hope they garner enough attention to do away with that in the seasons to follow, though :d Writer Defeating a sandwich only makes it tastier.

kogeT Profile Joined September 2013 Poland 1653 Posts Last Edited: 2018-10-15 08:04:15 #6 On October 15 2018 16:58 Ziggy wrote:

Shame they're still opting to include female streamers. I understand the idea behind the publicity stunt, hope they garner enough attention to do away with that in the seasons to follow, though :d



Yeah, I agree this should be purely a skill competition. I like the idea of involving females but maybe as kind of a side event? Like they could be a league for their own, while still playing matches at the same time and for the same teams. Yeah, I agree this should be purely a skill competition. I like the idea of involving females but maybe as kind of a side event? Like they could be a league for their own, while still playing matches at the same time and for the same teams. https://www.twitch.tv/kogetbw

Ziggy Profile Blog Joined June 2013 Poland 1757 Posts #7 On a side note, I hope Britney manages to launch a merchandise line for this, I'd defo pick up an MPL mug / shirt (or any of the team jerseys, should they come up with decent logo designs) Writer Defeating a sandwich only makes it tastier.

Qikz Profile Blog Joined November 2009 United Kingdom 11685 Posts #8 On October 15 2018 16:50 kogeT wrote:

Britney is basicially a korean version of Qikz.



( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)



Difference is Britney is actually popular haha.



Well this is sick news to me. Proleague was always the best part of professional Broodwar and I'm glad to see it returning in such a manner. Hopefully the old SKT guys get back together and form a team and coorce Fantasy and oov to come on board. Difference is Britney is actually popular haha.Well this is sick news to me. Proleague was always the best part of professional Broodwar and I'm glad to see it returning in such a manner. Hopefully the old SKT guys get back together and form a team and coorce Fantasy and oov to come on board. FanTaSy's #1 Fan | STPL Caster/Organiser | SKT BEST KT | https://twitch.tv/stpl

Rodya Profile Joined January 2018 527 Posts #9 oov is coaching an LoL team lol he's not going to have time to play in this; his team is in the middle of a tournament right now even.



If Tastosis are too busy to do this then I hope some of the other english speakers that claim to want to become starcraft casters volunteer to cast this event. It's a lot of work but if you want to be a caster then this would be a great opportunity (assuming Tastosis decline). Banned for saying "zerg players are by far the biggest whiners in sc2 history" despite the fact that this forum is full of such posts about Terrans. Foreigner Elitists in control!

BigFan Profile Blog Joined December 2010 TLADT 24444 Posts #10 Great stuff by Britney. His passion is just fantastic too. Hopefully this season becomes even bigger, and better than the first and he gets even more sponsors. I'm glad to see his hard work paying off. Former BW EiC "Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017

chongu Profile Blog Joined February 2009 Malaysia 2537 Posts #11 He is pretty much the 2nd Sonic. But, without the illegal parts. SC2 is to BW, what coke is to wine.

onlystar Profile Joined March 2015 United States 943 Posts #12 gotta be grateful to have such personalities in scbw scene

ne4aJIb Profile Blog Joined July 2011 Russian Federation 3105 Posts #13 There should be at some point Full Foreigner All-Star Team Bisu,Best,Stork,Jangbi and Flash, Fantasy, Leta, Light and Jaedong, Hydra, Zero, Soulkey assemble in ACE now!

CHEONSOYUN Profile Joined August 2017 367 Posts #14 O: what a sponsor! JAEDONG...!!! EFFORT IS ANGRY. ZERG...?!

Yanokabo Profile Joined October 2018 268 Posts Last Edited: 2018-10-15 19:49:02 #15 This is really brilliant so happy to see a return of proleague style competition even if this won’t be quite as big or long as the original proleague it should still break some records for post ‘12/13 action which was the last season of pl. team moo all the way!

AntiHack Profile Joined January 2009 Switzerland 540 Posts Last Edited: 2018-10-16 00:22:54 #16



Do anybody know if there will be 2v2 matches this season?



Wow I can't wait for MPL2! Pro Leagues have always been so refreshing and funny, even more now with the female tournament!Do anybody know if there will be 2v2 matches this season? On October 15 2018 23:33 ne4aJIb wrote:

There should be at some point Full Foreigner All-Star Team

Yes please O.O



Yes please O.O On October 15 2018 22:27 Rodya wrote:

oov is coaching an LoL team lol he's not going to have time to play in this; his team is in the middle of a tournament right now even.



If Tastosis are too busy to do this then I hope some of the other english speakers that claim to want to become starcraft casters volunteer to cast this event. It's a lot of work but if you want to be a caster then this would be a great opportunity (assuming Tastosis decline).



Maybe if ppl stop the hate storm toward Rapid and NoRegret and begin to contribute to the community by giving them suggestions and polite feedback we might have more eng casters and more people overall willing to get into bw casting.



P.s. I'm pretty sure that many haters on twitch are sc2 trolls but still Maybe if ppl stop the hate storm toward Rapid and NoRegret and begin to contribute to the community by giving them suggestions and polite feedback we might have more eng casters and more people overall willing to get into bw casting.P.s. I'm pretty sure that many haters on twitch are sc2 trolls but still "I am very tired of your grammar errors" - Zoler[MB]

[AS]Rattus Profile Joined March 2017 384 Posts #17 rapid is great. i thought the hate on him is pretty much over.

and noregret.. well, he did it like twice now and his commentary could be done by anybody with a pair of eyes. he doesn't know bw and i think he doesn't care to know and that's fine, but i certainly don't need his commentary. maybe sc2 players get something from it, i don't know.

AntiHack Profile Joined January 2009 Switzerland 540 Posts #18 On October 16 2018 09:26 [AS]Rattus wrote:

rapid is great. i thought the hate on him is pretty much over.

and noregret.. well, he did it like twice now and his commentary could be done by anybody with a pair of eyes. he doesn't know bw and i think he doesn't care to know and that's fine, but i certainly don't need his commentary. maybe sc2 players get something from it, i don't know.

Just give NoRegret some feedback, sometimes this community looks like we need nothing and anybody while in reality we need to get stronger and bigger especially in the foreign scene.



NoRegret showed some genuine love for bw in his casts, just give him a chance to learn and grow with the community. Just give NoRegret some feedback, sometimes this community looks like we need nothing and anybody while in reality we need to get stronger and bigger especially in the foreign scene.NoRegret showed some genuine love for bw in his casts, just give him a chance to learn and grow with the community. "I am very tired of your grammar errors" - Zoler[MB]

Duceman Profile Joined June 2018 United States 87 Posts #19 Yeah - NoRegret just hasn’t done enough of it yet to be truly comfortable. I really enjoyed him casting with a Artosis during the qualifiers for KSL1, because the Tosis was able to answer all of the questions. NoRegret has the same questions that many viewers do, so pairing him with someone like Artosis or Wolf who knows a lot about the game would be really hype IMO.

AntiHack Profile Joined January 2009 Switzerland 540 Posts #20 On October 16 2018 10:57 Duceman wrote:

Yeah - NoRegret just hasn’t done enough of it yet to be truly comfortable. I really enjoyed him casting with a Artosis during the qualifiers for KSL1, because the Tosis was able to answer all of the questions. NoRegret has the same questions that many viewers do, so pairing him with someone like Artosis or Wolf who knows a lot about the game would be really hype IMO.

Absolutely, sc2 players did't really had the opportunity to come to know sc1 like we did for sc2 because sc1 was pretty much abandoned so a sc2-friendly personality like NoRegret can be the best bridge between the two communities. Absolutely, sc2 players did't really had the opportunity to come to know sc1 like we did for sc2 because sc1 was pretty much abandoned so a sc2-friendly personality like NoRegret can be the best bridge between the two communities. "I am very tired of your grammar errors" - Zoler[MB]

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