Legend of the Stars 2023

Overview:
Hello everyone and welcome to this years Legend of the Stars championship.

Schedule (All tournaments start at 14UTC):
Legend of the Stars Open Qualifier: November 25th
Group Stage A+B Day 1: December 2nd
Group Stage C+D Day 2: December 3rd
Playoffs Day 1: December 9th
Playoffs Day 2: December 10th

Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Organizer: NOC-
Tournament Directors: NOC-, (hopefully more)
Streamers: TBD

Current Prize Pool: Current Prize Pool $1900
Current Donators:

FAF - $1900

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE: Please contact NOC- or post in this thread directly.

Prize Pool:
1st - 1st place LotS avatar - $600
2nd - 2nd place LotS avatar - $375
3rd - 3rd place LotS avatar - $275
4th - 4th place LotS avatar - $150
5th-8th - $75 each
9th-12th - $30 each
13th-1th - $20 each

Rules:
This tournament will run via the new set of tournament rules.
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6167/official-tournament-rules

Invited Players:
This year there will only be 8 invited players based on the Invitational points system.

Yudi
Tagada
Espi
Turbo2
Zlo
Nexus
Turin
Grimplex

Rejected:
Turin

New Invited:
Shen

This tournament will have 1 qualifier stage tournament to make up the additional 8 players entering the 16 man group stage.

Then a 16 man group stage split across two different days to maximise casting before entering a final 8 man battle until we get to the Gold, Silver, Bronze and 4th place matches.

Qualifier: 25th November 2023

Followed by a 16 player round robin event group stage.

Group Stage - split between Groups A & B, Groups C & D.
Groups A & B : 2nd December 2023
Groups C & D : 3rd December 2023

Round of 8 and Semi-Finals: 9th December 2023.
Finals Bronze and 4th Place matches: 10th December 2023.

Qualifier 1 - 25th November 2023:

This is a 1v1 Double Elimination bracket with BO3 games in the winners bracket and BO1 games in the losers bracket. The bracket will be seeded based on ladder rating.

This tournament is only open to players currently placed in 1v1 Masters, Grandmasters, and/or those with 1500+ ladder rating.

There is no maximum number of players. The number of BO1s vs BO3s in the winners bracket will be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament.

Date: November 25th
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #Qualy
Challonge: ----
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Link: ----

Prizes:
The top 8 players of this tournament will fill 8 slots in the LOTS 2023 player list.

A separate post will follow for signups to this tournament.

16 Player Group Stage:
Group Stage - split between Groups A & B, Groups C & D.
Groups A & B : 2nd December 2023.
Groups C & D : 3rd December 2023.

3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.
All brackets are BO5.

Day 1:
Date: December 2nd
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS23
Challonge: https://challonge.com/42fafngn
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Streamers: TBD

Day 2:
Date: December 3rd
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS23
Challonge: https://challonge.com/42fafngn
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Streamers: TBD

Final 8 Playoffs:

These matches are BO5.
3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.

Date: December 9th 2023
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS23
Challonge: https://challonge.com/42fafngn
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive

Final 4 Playoffs:

These matches are BO7.
3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.

Date: December 10th 2023
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS22
Challonge: https://challonge.com/42fafngn
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive

Substitutions:
In the event players are unable to attend a substitute will be brought in.
These substituted are from the Qualifier Stage Tournaments.

Player Cards

With Thanks to:

Accepted Invites:

Yudi
Tagada
Espi
Turbo2
Zlo
Nexus
Grimplex
Shen

Note: Players in Russia may be unavailable to claim prize pool due to sanctions.

We can either hold funds for a later date if transfer becomes available or reroll them into prize pool.

This is the players decision.

@noc said in Legend of the Stars 2023:

Note: Players in Russia may be unavailable to claim prize pool due to sanctions.

We can either hold funds for a later date if transfer becomes available or reroll them into prize pool.

This is the players decision.

Pay them via crypto?

Not my area to handle, I do not manage the banking

Jeez, I guess I have to play qualifier

Are you sure that BO7 RO8 and BO9 semis and finals is not a little too much? That will take hours

I brought start time forward 1 hour were fine

We can adjust as needed

Sign up.

@noc We never had BO7 RO8 and BO9 Semis/bronze/finals. I think that's just a bit too much. If I were to play full BO7 in the RO8 followed by a BO9 in the semi Final I probably would just stop at some time, that's simply too many games. I think that 8-10 games per day is a max.

Bo5 group stage is also pretty brutal, but prize pool is way higher than usual. Could keep this format if you give more days to play on, but for now i agree with tagada

I like thats we have bo9, Thats going not to be a free money for a losers thats join to play once per year. Thats I protest to make it less quality games (we are fighting over prize pool, As FTX once said: "This distinguishes the best from the best")

Final 8 and Final 4 at bo7 now

The girls were cried. GG.

@NOC
I've added the streams to the FAFLive schedule on twitch

Avatars are as follow's:

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Map Pool is Created and will be posted after the Qualifier is complete and Groups have been picked.

@noc said in Legend of the Stars 2023:

Avatars are as follow's:

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

If people are interested, I can make some new avas. Looks like the same ones are being used that I made 3-4 years ago so thought I would offer to update a bit.

Colour changed but I liked them so went with for ease