StarCraft II StarLeague

StarCraft II StarLeague (SSL)

Logo for 2015 season.
Sport StarCraft II
Founded December 2014
Country South Korea
Continent Asia
Most recent champion(s) Kim "herO" Joon Ho
Official website SPOTV GAMES Official Page (Korean)

The StarCraft II StarLeague, also known as SSL or S2SL in short, is a large StarCraft II tournament hosted by SPOTV GAMES that is played offline in South Korea. This tournament is held in parallel with the Global StarCraft II League (GSL) as qualifiers for the StarCraft World Championship Series (WCS) held yearly at BlizzCon.[1]

History

Prior to the 2015 season, the StarCraft World Championship Series only had one StarCraft II individual league in South Korea, the GSL. On October 31, 2014 Blizzard Entertainment announced changes to the WCS system and that SPOTV GAMES would be holding a second individual league that would reward players with WCS points.[2] It was announced on January 15, 2015 that Naver, Korea's largest search engine, would sponsor the first SSL tournament.[3] The following two tournaments in the year were sponsored by SBENU, a casual footwear company.[4]

Tournaments

Year Name of Tournament Winner Result of Final Runner-Up
2015 2015 Naver StarCraft II StarLeague Season 1 Cho "Maru" Seong Ju 4 - 1 Cho "Dream" Joong Hyuk
2015 2015 SBENU StarCraft II StarLeague Season 2 Kim "Classic" Doh Woo 4 - 1 Cho "Dream" Joong Hyuk
2015 2015 SBENU StarCraft II StarLeague Season 3 Kim "herO" Joon Ho 4 - 2 Han "ByuL" Ji Won
2016 2016 StarCraft II StarLeague Season 1 Park "Dark" Ryung Woo 4 - 2 Kim "Stats" Dae Yeob

Format

Challenge League

The Challenge League are the qualifiers for the main event. Players that qualify for the league and players that were eliminated early from the main event face off in a best of five match. The winners of each match move on to the main event and the losers fall out of the league and have to participate in the general qualifiers again.[5]

Main Event

All 16 players start off divided into four groups of four. Matches are best of three in the group stage and the top two players from each group move onto the playoffs round whereas the bottom two players in each group fall down to Challenge League for the following season. Players that advance to the playoffs stay in the main event the following season. Matches in the quarterfinals are best of five and the semifinals and finals are best of seven.[5]

Prize Pool

The prize pool for each tournament in 2015 awarded a total of 75,000,000 KRW for the main event.[6] In addition, all players that lose in the Challenge League and do not proceed to the main event are awarded 200,000 KRW each.[7]

Place Amount (KRW)
1st 40,000,000
2nd 10,000,000
3rd - 4th 4,500,000
5th - 8th 2,000,000
9th - 16th 1,000,000

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