SL i-League Season 2 details out

22-7-2016 22:44

StarLadder have revealed the details for the second $300,000 season of SL i-League StarSeries, which will feature 16 teams at the finals in Nanjing, China, from September 7-11.

A total of $300,000 is reserved for second season's SL i-League StarSeries, which is a $100,000 increase from last season's finals, which saw fnatic emerge victorious from a decisive grand final with Natus Vincere in mid January.

Last season's champions fnatic are among the invitees

The total amount of teams will also see a significant bump, as this time the finals will feature 16 teams, eight of which have received direct invites, while the other half will come from European, Chinese and North American qualifiers.

The exact distribution of slots is following:

fnatic	G2	Natus Vincere	Liquid
Astralis	SK	Virtus.pro	Ninjas in Pyjamas
EU qualifier	EU qualifier	EU qualifier	NA qualifier
NA qualifier	China qualifier	China qualifier	China qualifier

Stage 1 of the Chinese qualifier is already underway, details for the North American and European qualifiers have not been revealed yet.

Prizepool distribution:

1. $150,000
2. $50,000
3-4. $25,000
5-8. $10,000
9-12. $4,500
13-16. $3,000

EZ G2 NUMBER 1 TEAM IN THE WORLD!

2016-07-22 22:45

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ence

2016-07-22 22:50

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3 china spots?

2016-07-22 22:56

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More sponsors, i think

2016-07-23 00:31

The tournament is in china after all, they probably want to have some regional spots to boost attendance/sponsors. Although idk if China will want to see their teams get crushed. Given how PGL faired (X (ex-SK) and Epsilon going undefeated against the 6 Chinese teams that included Tyloo and VG.CyberZen) I doubt they will have any success here.

2016-07-23 00:43

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Two NA\SA teams already invited directly, we just decided that 4 NA\SA teams will be enough this time + china qual's has AUS teams in it.

2016-07-23 02:09

Accurately, "3 china spots" do not mean 3 Chinese teams (although there are some possibilities). The "China qualifier" represents 3 spots to the Asia-Pacific region, including Oceania counties, which means team Renegades from Australia and team MVP from South Korea will join in the qualifier in China. So, in my opinion, the 3 teams from China Qualifier maybe are TYLOO, VG.Cyberizen, and Team Renegades.

2016-07-23 07:22

hltv.org/news/18281-sl-i-league-starseri..

2016-07-23 08:22

2016-07-22 23:17

Cant pass group stage at majors.

2016-07-22 23:05

cry

2016-07-22 23:47

Outside England G2 = Bots

2016-07-23 00:30

2016-07-23 01:47

So these 8 teams were invited, not confirmed to attend?

2016-07-23 15:44

I am so excited :)

good

yay

EZ SK

gunna be gud

gjjgj

excited

nice

3 Chinese spots LMAO

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Could be worse. Could be 3 mongolian spots..

2016-07-22 23:19

It's like the 5 NA invites that tournaments in the U.S. Have xD

2016-07-23 01:40

one of the best non-major tournaments

wow, the groups should be interesting

EZ TyLoo, EZ G2, EZ SK, EZ Liquid.

2016-07-22 22:46

China more qualifier slots than NA

2016-07-22 22:47

StarSeries always good

- 1 China Qualifier + 1 SA Qualifier :D

this is rise of SA teams

2016-07-22 22:48

China > NA

3 CN spots, wut, why not at least one OCE or SA spot. Doesn't seem fair that CN gets 3, I get that they are trying to grow the scene there but still...

2016-07-22 22:51

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Athletico is in the Chinese qualifier

2016-07-22 22:53

Oh I didn't see the link for the CN qualifier, thanks for letting me know. Since it was called the Chinese Qualifier I expected it was just for CN teams, good to see RU/SK/AU teams also in it.

2016-07-22 23:09

Actually it's Asia qual, there are Au, Korean and Russian team

2016-07-23 02:33

This takes place in China, it's legit they have 3 places

2016-07-22 22:52

CHINA 3 SLOT > SA 1 CHINA > NA

no envy hahah

ez vp 4Head

Does the NA qualifier have South American teams in it? Surely it must because you'd probably see FalleN calling the tournament organisers out on twitter about it if that wasn't the case. Edit: I'm really happy this tournament has 16 teams. now we can see a proper format imo.

2016-07-22 22:55

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of course not, unfortunately, however, there will be 2 brazilian teams trying to qualify through the na qualifiers, immortals and winout.

2016-07-22 23:04

so there are SA teams at the NA qualifiers if they're qualifying through the NA qualifiers? you've confused me

2016-07-22 23:35

because they live in na, if they used to live in brazil there wouldn't have any sa team trying to qualify

2016-07-23 00:11

oh right, I see what you mean. you're right in that case

2016-07-23 00:18

nice to see 16 teams

2016-07-22 22:57

2016-07-22 23:08

Cool we have so many teams in the event

2016-07-22 23:25

Looking forward

2016-07-22 23:33

Envy should have been invited too KappaPride

2016-07-22 23:37

Nice, great to see more teams this season

2016-07-22 23:38

Holy shit this season is stacked.

where can we find the European Qualifiers? so as to sign up for it

2016-07-22 23:39

RIP nV

2016-07-22 23:51

No sa qualy ?

2016-07-23 00:02

Its going to be freaking epic!

will be awesome! good luck to immortals on NA Qualifier!

2016-07-23 01:09

AMAZING NA'VI have to take it, but they have 2 weeks of fridays, wtf cmon Natus, one week it's enough :(

2016-07-23 01:36

Teams should be nV Mouz Faze... Possibly Dignitas or Godsent. NA should be C9 and... TSM? CLG? China is gonna be TyLoo and Czen. Should have been these teams and plus immortals. Would be gr9 tourney.

2016-07-23 01:43

Doubt it will be nV. Looks like there's gonna be some changes. Dignitas have a solid squad now, with the addition of Magiskb0y. I'd say swap nV and Dig and you have the 3 EU teams. NA I agree with. CLG looking in a bad place too. Maybe Splyce? ;)

2016-07-23 05:01

wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/StarLa..

2016-07-23 15:51

immortals might qualify through na tho

2016-07-24 07:36

ez 4 NiP

2016-07-23 02:02

WHERE THE FUCK IS FAZE

2016-07-23 08:28

EU qualifier

2016-07-23 09:08

Hopefully they qualify

2016-08-05 00:02

After E-league, it's said there will be roster change in teams, so SL i-League will be the first time with teams who has new members???

2016-07-23 15:01

yes

2016-07-23 15:48

your id says everything :-)

2016-07-23 16:03

)))))))))

2016-07-23 16:14

SK one more time!!!

2016-07-23 16:41

rip sk

2016-08-04 14:34

rip olofo and pennis...dennis! Time to flusha the toilet boys

2016-08-08 20:45

3 china quelifer and 2 na ?gg

2016-07-24 07:24

+mousesports +Gambit +GODSENT +Immortals +Cloud9

2016-07-24 12:42

Good chance for teams to recruit fans in China!!!!

2016-07-25 04:41

I really hope CS can get as big as it is now in EU/NA also in Asia, such a huge population, if just 3 % of the men age 18-30 started playing that would be huge boost for the scene, Asians are #1 in almost every other game, so they shouldn't have any problems producing a couple of pro teams. But if you are a GO player in let's say China, then you can only pracc against low their teams, praccing with EU/NA teams is almost impossible due to the ping. Hard to get good fast if you can't pracc against really good teams. Asians seems to prefer strategy games like LoL, Star Craft etc and not FPS, Why? Strange that FPS is so popular in the West and not in China, Japan, Korea etc. Can you tell me a little about the GO scene in China? I'm very curious. You got fiber in the city's i guess? So ping should not be big problem even if China is a very big country. Sweden has about 9 million people and has 2-3 pro teams, China has 1.3 billion people, they should have 20 000 pro teams statically. But only has 1 that who comes to some events. I think that's very strange :) I might be wrong about that, I don't know much about the scene there but I'm very curious.

2016-08-05 00:23

Man, my wish goes the same way with you. FPS is always a popular game in Asia, CrossFire by Tencent, said has 300,000,000 players. But this game is unfair because you can improve your guns using a large amount of money, not like CSGO, the skins and stickers would never affect the fairness in game. Apparently after CS1.6 China FPS has become less popular. Recently Perfect World has claimed to distribute CSGO in China, this is really good news for China FPS. As in real CS funs, they would never accept other FPS games except CS. Hope this would be a good start for China to recover the glory of old CS times. More people come to play CSGO, more hope for Chinese team to win major. Your consideration is definitely right, right now China has like, 20 pro teams, and maybe 20 young teams, except VG and TyLoo, others just improve so slow. They cannot train with EU and NA teams, thus no way to improve themselves. Even VG and TyLoo still has problems with that. That's why they are considering a bootcamp abroad. But the visa problem and time need to be negotiated. Sweden is always strong in CS, we cannot compare with simply the ratio :-) But only with more people playing this game, can China CS become stronger and stronger.

2016-08-08 05:56

Guess we have to wait 2 months to see a Fnatic vs SK game, Would be a bit disappointed if they where not meet in match, hopefully a BO3.

2016-08-04 23:51

thescoreesports.com/csgo/news/9530-sk-to.. Why is SK still in the list? And why haven't I seen anything about this on hltv? Usually even when the smallest amount of info is given, there will still be a blog about stuff like this. prntscr.com/c1qkfs

2016-08-05 00:36