Nijmegen Student StarCraft League

Tonight at 20:00h the first matches from the round of 16 will be broadcasted LIVE on Twitch.tv/NSSLeague – TUNE IN! And tell your friends! It will be much cooler than MLG anyway .

At 20:00h sunZor vs. Thoms will go at it, and at 21:00h it’s iznobest vs. Andre! We’d like to tell you a bit more about these players, who have been rather anonimous during the tournament so far. And how better to do that than by letting the players tell you themselves? That’s why Draco has sent out interview questions over the past few days – click the button to read the players’ answers and find out more about who will be going head to head tonight for a place in the round of 8!

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All of the matches of the RO16 have been planned in! Whip out those agenda’s and write down:

All of these matches will be broadcasted LIVE at Twitch.tv/nssleague – make sure to tune in! It’s going to be a lot of fun Check out the schedule & results-page for details about the match-ups.

The first definitive scheduling for the RO 16 is in: on Wednesday May 23rd VanCaspel vs. Recoome will be played at 20:00h and right after that, at 21:00h, Soul and Night will go head to head for a spot in the RO 8! The matches will be casted LIVE by Rannasha (with a co-caster) and can be seen on Twitch.tv/NSSLeague. Make sure to TUNE IN everyone!

More match dates will be announced soon. In fact: make sure to keep this Sunday night available, as well as Tuesday the 22nd. As soon as I’ve gotten confirmation from all the players I’ll post the details. Starting from tomorrow, interviews with the players will be posted on the website too, so keep an eye out for that.

Lastly: some webcasts from group phase B have gone live. Frank & RmF casted metic vs. PoesMiAUW and Frank & Albert looked at some riveting matches between Patjuh & Thoms and metic & Fububu. All of these games are highly recommended! WATCH THEM!

- DruidzPatjuh vs. Thoms

Game 2
Game 3

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Hello again all you wonderful, wonderful people, Draco’s back with another plate of letter-spagetti. This time we’ll be having a retrospect of group phase B of the NSSL. And what a phase it was. With a slacker-density considerably lower than in group phase A, and the overall level of the players having risen a league or two, things got a hell of a lot more exciting. With still some people managing to squash their way through their unfortunate opponents, other groups had tense climaxes, where the difference between being knocked out and going on was only 1 game, but more on that further down below.

Group phase B also got the NSSL-crew in better shape, with the casters getting in better shape and more experienced (for most of us, this was actually our first time casting) and the website it’s managing got more streamlined. All and all, it’s safe to say the finals are going to be nothing short of a total blast and every single one of us is definitely looking forward to it. After all, what’s not to like about getting together, playing and watching an amazing game, having drinks, talks, interviews, video’s and all that good stuff having been put together by people that put all that time and effort into it, all for the love of the game.

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This morning the single elimination bracket was determined – see below for a video of the draw. Now it’s gettin’ serious! Keep a close eye on the website in the coming days, I’ll post the schedule for the live broadcasts of the matches & interviews with the players.

Who will you root for? Let me know in the comments!

Heads up! Tomorrow at 11:00h the draw for the brackets will be broadcasted LIVE at Twitch.nl/NSSLeague. Make sure to check it out!

All the info will be on the site afterwards, in case you missed it. Also: in the coming days interviews with all of the players from the RO16 will be posted – y’all need to know who to root for!

Our researcher friends are still looking for you to join them. Sign up to play a Ladder Match and get a chance to win cool prizes. Weekend sign-ups now possible! Send an e-mail to SC2study@gmail.com or check the StarCraft & Science-page! Participating is real easy: just show up and play a match!

Take a quick sneak peek into their game room right here:

Group phase B ends tomorrow! The deadline for sending in the results of the remaining 11 matches is 23:59h tomorrow night. Who will get the remaining 5 spots in the round-of-16? Keep an eye on the results-page to find out!

On Wednesday the brackets are drawn LIVE – I’ll announce the exact time as soon as possible. The 8 players that came in first in their group have earned the privilige of not having to play each other in the RO16, so during the draw they are randomly matched against the 8 players who came in second in their group.

The full schedule for the RO16 & RO8-matches will be published as soon as possible, we’ll try to cast all of them LIVE! In the meanwhile: stay tuned for webcasts from group stage B, we’re working on casting all of the matches.

The first 6 contestants to advance to the round of 16 have already been decided – the battle for the remaining spots is really heating up! So far 65% of the games in group phase B have been played, and the remaining matches will decide who the other 10 players are that will advance to the merciless playoffs. Check the results-page to see the current group standings.

More webcasts have also been released recently! SHAM vs. Markovian was casted by Frank & guest caster Pim. Pim is the guy behind BarCraft.nl, you should all definitely check out the Facebook-page. Next weekend they’ll have another BarCraft in Utrecht for MLG Spring Arena!

And there’s more: Rannasha & Draco casted sunZor vs. Markovian (group 3), kkDash vs. Patjuh (group 1) and an upsetting match between Bahamuth and Soul (group 7). Draco also teamed up with me – we casted Phanteks vs. Bahamuth (group 7) and Bblack vs. Rindkind (group 6). All the matches are on the webcasts-page – or just click the button .

- SHAM vs. Markovian

Game 2
Game 3

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The tournament has been going since the start of April, and some of the maps in the map pool have gotten quite outdated. So we decided to update the map pool at the start of the play offs! Just to be clear though: this change does not affect the current group stage.

Starting with the round of 16, the mappool will be updated to reflect Blizzard’s latest ladder map pool: Cloud Kingdom LE, Daybreak LE, Korhal Compound LE, Ohana LE, Entombed Valley, Antiga Shipyard, Metalopolis, Shakuras Plateau & Tal’Darim Altar LE.

The way the first map is chosen will also change: the players take turns to vote off a map, until only one map is left. That will be the starting map for the match, after which the loser picks the next map (just like before). Which player may vote off a map first is determined at random. We hope this’ll bring some more diversity to our battlegrounds!