Legend of the Stars 2025

hybrid_

Swiss Stage

Now that we're past the qualifiers, I'm happy to announce the final 16:
Invited:
Tagada
waffelznoob
Lunyshko
Nexus
Rhaelya
Blast_Chilled
BlinChik
Robogear

Qualified:
Grimplex
TheWeakie
Maomaoo
Shen
Turbo2
ZLO
Swatoslav
Wifi_

There are also a few other announcements I would like to make, so please take the time to read this:

After getting feedback from the players, the Swiss Stage will last only 1 day (Saturday, 13th). However with time constraints if both players agree, they may play their remaining matches on the Sunday only IF it does not delay the other matches.

The mappool will be released this evening.

In terms of player cards, the Yow clan have kindly offered their help so that we get them again this year! They will hopefully be made by the time of the Swiss Stage, however not confirmed.

I've had an idea that was inspired by osu! tournaments which is that for all of their tournaments, they use Google Sheets to display all the necessary information. The Swiss bracket that was intended simply does not function on challonge, so I decided to make it on sheets as well. It will be where the official bracket and relevant information to the Swiss Stage is located.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bKy9FmcSnja_9tnJFXBoLdgv8Db4FOajERDPh523GKM/edit?usp=sharing

Please take the time to have a look at it and familiarise yourself with it, as it will be used for this weekend.

hybrid_

Here is all the information regarding the mappool and vetos. There will be faction vetos this tournament.

Hope you enjoy the pool!

ThomasHiatt

@hybrid_ said in Legend of the Stars 2025:

Hope you enjoy the pool!

I enjoy the pool. At least 20x20 maps are almost as disrespected as 5x5 maps these days. Some of the 10x10 maps are fun and you only spelled two of their names wrong.

hybrid_

@ThomasHiatt oops i forgot to double check the list, i've updated it on the sheet

Skrat

I am glad to present you the players' cards! Many thanks to @fichom for creating the cards, and to @swatoslav, @neytron and @lunyshko for collecting information and generating images!

Skrat

Part 2.

Skrat

Legend of the Stars champions:

2025:
1st - TheWeakie;
2nd - Nexus;
3rd - waffelznoob.

2024:
1st - Tagada;
2nd - Nexus;
3rd - Lunyshko.

2023:
1st - Yudi;
2nd - Tagada;
3rd - Nexus.

2022:
1st - Tagada;
2nd - Espi;
3rd - Yudi.

2021:
1st - Nexus:
2nd - Tagada;
3rd - TURBO2.

2020:
1st - Nexus;
2nd - Blackheart;
3rd - Espi.

2019:
1st - Petricpwnz.;
2nd - Blackheart;
3rd - Nexus.

2018:
1st - Petricpwnz;
2nd - Adjux;
3rd - TheWeakie.

2017:
1st - Petricpwnz;
2nd - Zock;
3rd place - Adjux.

2016:
1st - Mephi;
2nd -Adjux;
3rd - Nexus.

Interesting facts:

This is the 10th anniversary LOTS tournament. Finally, all the declared players came to the tournament, and the average rating of participants is the highest in the history of tournaments!
Nexus is the only player who participated in all the LOTS tournaments. In second place is ZLO, who also played in all the LOTS tournaments, except for the 2024 tournament, which was held in a reduced format (8 players instead of 16)
4 players participating in LOTS 2016 tournament are playing this year. This: Blast_Chilled, ZLO, Robogear, Nexus
The most titled player is Nexus. He won 2 first places, 1 (+1 according to the results of the tournament) seсond places and 3 third places
The most popular maps in LOTS tournaments: Daroza's Sanctuary and Point of Reach. They were in all the LOTS tournaments. Information about the map pool is available only from 2019.

Please correct me if I made a mistake somewhere.

Neytron

@Skrat 2018 won petric

hybrid_

Mappool and the google sheet with all according information will be posted this evening.

hybrid_

Mappool is now on the sheet. Please read all the veto rules as its now BO5 and BO7.

I will stream the matchup draw probably tomorrow morning on my own channel, just as proof that there's no biased seeding.

hybrid_

The matchups have been drawn!

Nuggets

@hybrid_ said in Legend of the Stars 2025:

I will stream the matchup draw probably tomorrow morning on my own channel, just as proof that there's no biased seeding.

Proof?

JaggedAppliance

I was gonna link to his twitch but I guess he doesn't save past broadcasts. I did see it though and so did Bully.

Nuggets

@JaggedAppliance said in Legend of the Stars 2025:

I was gonna link to his twitch but I guess he doesn't save past broadcasts. I did see it though and so did Bully.

paid actors

waffelzNoob

The stream did not happen. My word against theirs. I guess we need another stream.

hybrid_

I forgot to save the VOD. I cant believe it....

ZLO

Whoever was streaming probably has a local video file then?

Nuggets

@ZLO said in Legend of the Stars 2025:

Whoever was streaming probably has a local video file then?

Surely. Otherwise its basically confirmed it didnt happen and is rigged

hybrid_

Okay so for those of you who didn't see the draw, here's the video link:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2645389208

In terms of scheduling this weekend, as usual the 3rd place decider will be played first at 14:00 UTC on the Sunday. And the grand finals will follow when that match ends.

Casting this weekend we have:

20th - @foley and @jaggedappliance
21st - @derpfaf and @ftxcommando

In regards to the pool, the Mapgens are pre-generated, the seed will be given as you are about to play it. And each player has 1 re-roll each for each Mapgen pick. I am also still deciding whether to make the Mapgen 15x15 instead of 20x20, the decision will be confirmed on Friday.

I will hopefully gather all the replay ID's so far in the next few days too. Once I have, I'll release them on the forum and attach them to the google spreadsheet.

Nuggets

@hybrid_ said in Legend of the Stars 2025:

Okay so for those of you who didn't see the draw, here's the video link:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2645389208

Edited.... rigged.... scammed...