In an exclusive reveal to WellPlayed, the NASL has announced the official schedule for its debut season as well as the prize distribution for players and an infographic detailing the map pools for each matchup.
The season will kick off on Tuesday, April 12th with a total of five matchups. Pre-show begins at 5:30pm PST/8:30pm EST. European fans will be able to catch a rebroadcast that starts at 5:30pm for the UK, 6:30pm for Central Europe and 7:30 for Eastern Europe.
The first day's matches consist of Moon vs. Grubby, ViBE vs. TLO, Artosis vs. Sheth, Fenix vs. KiWiKaKi and Rainbow vs. Morrow.
Each division will play on the same map pool for a full week, and then rotate to a different map pool on the next. Division 1, for example, will begin with Terminus RE, Crossfire SE and Backwater Gulch and then move to a pool consisting of Shattered Temple, Terminus RE and Crossfire SE for the second week. Full information on map pools can be found in the graphic below.
Prize pool distribution, which has only been speculated about up until now, has been revealed as well. The overall winner for the season will take home $50,000. The second place finisher will earn $25,000, third will take $10,000, and fourth earns $5,000. Those players placing 5th-8th will get $1,500 and 9th-16th receive $500. All players will receive an additional $500 for attending the finals.
The full match schedule is listed below.
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Tuesday April 12
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Wednesday April 13
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Thursday April 14
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Friday April 15
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Saturday April 16
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Tuesday April 19
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Wednesday April 20
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Thursday April 21
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Tuesday April 26
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Wednesday April 27
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Thursday April 28
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Friday April 29
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Saturday April 30
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Tuesday May 3
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Wednesday May 4
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Thursday May 5
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Friday May 6
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Saturday May 7
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Tuesday May 10
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Wednesday May 11
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Thursday May 12
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Friday May 13
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Saturday May 14
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Tuesday May 17
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Wednesday May 18
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Thursday May 19
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Tuesday May 24
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Tuesday May 31
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Wednesday June 1
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Friday June 3
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Tuesday June 7
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Wednesday June 8
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Thursday June 9
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Friday June 10
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Saturday June 11
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I'm glad I got my car fixed so I can be home at 5:30 now instead of 6:00.
I assuming the matches are going to be Bo3s?
8Yep would assume a best of 3 given all the map pools have just 3 in them. Hope it's not, and couldn't imagine it being a Bo1. I'd cry.
3Yet another tournament ignores iCCup maps.
The map pool without Backwater Gulch and Typhoon Peaks but with Testbug and Neo Enigma would much much better
6Definitely happy this is starting soon. I love the GSL but I very much want to see more of the foreign scene and MLG was too short. First day is looking epic.
Also if your not signed in please don't tell me to sign in then lose my text.
2gah, It's gonna be a hell of a time trying to catch every single one of these games, but I bet i can do it!!!
225 matches a week for 9 weeks, that's insane! How am I suppose to watch 225 matches? That's anywhere between 450-675 matches. No chance in hell I'm gonna actually be able to watch every one of those.
2So many matches like 30 minutes after I come home from work. Guess I might want to merry my girlfriend asap to create some security for a while ;)
1When you go to the site the production value looks like it is going to be really really amazing.... SOTG spoke about it with so many matches and such a high prize pool this is gonna be the main attention getter for the SCII community other tournaments will either need to step up or hit the road...
1500$ per player to attend the finals? thats a nice way to make sure fans that make it can get autographs & more from pros.
1Anyone else hate how the NASL website has virtually nothing on it? It's been unchanged for so long. The only that has ever changed is when they added in the players in each division. I'd really like it if the site expanded a little bit. Maybe hosted some of the information on the website too, like the stuff we are reading here. Or atleast have some sort of link to here.
1Looks really awesome (obviously) with so many matches, but I worry that because the groups are SO big that individual matches feel like they have no impact. Anyone else share this concern?
1you can make this argument about any season based sport. If you're a fan, you'll watch at least your favorites, but i find every match compelling, because there's still a lot on the line even if you're not going to make it out of your group, you don't want to be the bottom of your group either, otherwise you face removal from the group section next season and have to try to qualify. Think 9 bo3 matches is rough, wait till you have to slug through the qualifiers to earn your 1 spot!
1Hey guys at NASL. You see that poster in the first post? You know, the one YOU made? Starting European rebroadcast an hour earlier is not by any definition cool.
I got home 10 minutes before the preshow (supposedly). Found out stream is already going for 20 minutes into the games and has some issues (not just for me, for people in chat as well). Well, luckily I dropped 25$ on VODs today.
Oh... except VOD's are on justin.tv, and apparently with 30 MBps I have to wait for buffering. Great. Just great.
What exactly is great? The fact that I am downloading VODs from torrents. Yay, let's watch some NASL!
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SO. MANY. MATCHES.
With all of this stuff going on I'm not going to be able to keep up with everything. D:
10Apr 6th 2011 4:25 AM