Legend of the Stars 2024

NOC- · 12 Jul 2024, 18:36

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

This year will feature a slightly different format.

We have previously had many issues with invitations as such this year we are not doing them. Also due to little change in points as no invitational tournaments were held.

As such this year we will have 2 qualifiers with 4 players qualifying each.
Into a 8 man elimination stage, down to 4 then 2 then 1.

Schedule (All tournaments start at 14:00UTC):

Legend of the Stars Open Qualifier 1: November 23rd
Legend of the Stars Open Qualifier 2: December 7th
8 Man Playoff Stage: December 14th
Finals Stage: December 15th

Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Organizer: NOC-
Tournament Directors: NOC-, Hybrid, Doni & Rhaleya
Streamers: TBD

Current Prize Pool:
Current Donators:
FAF - $2000

1st - $650 - 1st Place LOTS avatar
2nd - $450 - 2nd Place LOTS avatar
3rd - $350 - 3rd Place LOTS avatar
4th - $250 - 4th Place LOTS avatar
5th - $75
6th - $75
7th - $75
8th - $75

You must play all of your matches to be eligible for the prizes you cannot resign after 1 game.
Exceptions being at decision of the organiser.

All payments must follow FAF official payment guidelines: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7161/faf-official-tournament-payout-guidelines

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

Prize Pool:
1st - $650 - 1st Place LOTS avatar
2nd - $450 - 2nd Place LOTS avatar
3rd - $350 - 3rd Place LOTS avatar
4th - $250 - 4th Place LOTS avatar
5th - $75
6th - $75
7th - $75
8th - $75

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

Legend of the Stars Open Qualifier 1:

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 with a minimum of 1000 1v1 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 23rd
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #Qualy1
Challonge: ----
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Link:

Prizes:
The top 4 players of this tournament will fill 4 slots in the LOTS 2024 player list.

A separate post will follow for signups to this tournament.

Legend of the Stars Open Qualifier 2:

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 with a minimum of 1000 1v1 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: December 7th
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #Qualy2
Challonge: ----
Tournament Directors: ?
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Link:

Prizes:
The top 4 players of this tournament will fill 4 slots in the LOTS 2024 player list.

A separate post will follow for signups to this tournament.

8 Man Playoffs:

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

Date: December 14th
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS24
Challonge: https://challonge.com/zeu0idzl
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 15th
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS24
Challonge: https://challonge.com/zeu0idzl
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive

Substitutions:
In the event players are unable to attend a substitute will be brought in.

Skrat · 18 Nov 2024, 18:15

The bad: there hasn't been 1 official 1x1 tournament from faf in a year.
Good: the tournament team came up with a good new format in the current realities

Strydxr · 18 Nov 2024, 18:58

Eh, fuck it. I'll sign up, put me in coach

NOC- · 18 Nov 2024, 19:29

Read the qualifier page

NOC- · 19 Nov 2024, 19:50

All dates are posted:
Qualy 1: November 23rd
Qualy 2: December 7th
Round of 8: December 14th
Final 4: December 15th

ZLO · 20 Nov 2024, 12:40

will there be auto-qualified players?
and if so then who is automatically qualified?

Tagada · 20 Nov 2024, 16:16

There aren't any invites this year. You have to qualify through the qualifiers.

MrBeast · 20 Nov 2024, 16:25

Still no payment to Russia via crypto tho? Sry for ping, was writing to you here a message but cutted it off

NOC- · 21 Nov 2024, 20:26

Yes payment is still same regulations set by the board

NOC- · 7 Dec 2024, 20:57

Our Players are:
Tagada
Blinchlk
Grimplex
Unknow
Nexus
Banani
Robogear
Rhaelya

NOC- · 7 Dec 2024, 20:57

https://challonge.com/zeu0idzl

NOC- · 7 Dec 2024, 20:57

Day 1 is the first round and Semi's - Bo5 then Bo7
Day 2 is 3rd Place matches then 1st Place matches - Bo7

NOC- · 7 Dec 2024, 20:58

Blast_Chilled is the substitute in case of emergency

NOC- · 7 Dec 2024, 21:03

In the theme of Christmas cheer:

Over the next 6 days before the Ro8. 1 Map will be released per day.

So you will see 6 out of a possible 15 maps.

First map will be released tomorrow.

Grimplex · 7 Dec 2024, 21:40

What a great Christmas gift

NOC- · 8 Dec 2024, 15:37

The first map is Crossfire Canal

NOC- · 9 Dec 2024, 17:16

The second map is Zerg Canyon

Vindex · 9 Dec 2024, 20:21

The third map is tag voi vittu

Nuggets · 9 Dec 2024, 21:49

@NOC said in Legend of the Stars 2024:

Blast_Chilled is the substitute in case of emergency

Denied, he lost in the qualifier.

NOC- · 10 Dec 2024, 16:57

The third map is Williamson bridge