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AfreecaTV Starleague Season 1

[e][h]ASL Season 1
League Information
Series:
ASL ASL
Organizer:
Kongdoo, AfreecaTV
Sponsor:
VANT36.5, KT, JEJU Air
Type:
Offline
Location:
South Korea Seoul
South Korea Busan
Format:
Ro24 and Ro16 Dual Tournament Groupstage Ro8 and on Single-Elimination
Edition:
1st
Prize pool:
₩ 24,000,000 KRW
(≃ $21,736 USD)
Start Date:
2016-06-25
End Date:
2016-09-10
Liquipedia Tier:
Premier
Links
Winners
South Korea  Shuttle
South Korea  Sharp
South Korea  Last
South Korea  Sea
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:
16
4
8
4
Maps
Chronology

Overview[edit]

The 2016 AfreecaTV Starleague Season 1 (2016 아프리카TV 스타리그) or AfreecaTV Starcraft League, is an offline tournament broadcasted live on AfreecaTV, organized by Kongdoo and AfreecaTV.[1]

The Starleague was announced on June 15, 2016 with two open offline qualifiers scheduled for Seoul and Busan on June 25 and 26, 2016, respectively.

The grand final of the tournament was held at Seoul Children's Grand Park alongside 2016 GSL Code S Season 2 Finals (StarCraft 2).[2]

Tournament Information[edit]

Participants[edit]

Protoss Protoss (4) Terran Terran (8) Zerg Zerg (4)
From VANT36.5 National Starleague
South Korea Sharp South Korea EffOrt
From Busan Preliminary
South Korea Shuttle South Korea sSak South Korea Larva
South Korea Last South Korea ZerO
South Korea Sea
South Korea Mong
From Seoul Preliminary
South Korea BeSt South Korea Mind South Korea hero
South Korea Jaehoon South Korea PianO
South Korea free South Korea Flash

Prize Pool[edit]

₩24,000,000 KRW (~$21,600) is to be awarded to the top placing players per the distribution below:

(Converted USD prizes are based on the currency rate on Sep 10, 2016: 1 KRW ≃ 0.00091 USD.)

Format[edit]

Preliminary Qualifiers
  • 14 groups of 32-128 players each, seven groups in each of Seoul and Busan
  • Single-elimination bracket: best-of-three
  • Winner of each group advances
Round of 16 Group Stage
  • Group selection: July 10, 2016
  • Four groups of four players each
  • Top two players in each group advance
Elimination Stage
  • Eight player single-elimination bracket
  • Quarterfinals through finals: best-of-five

Maps[edit]

AfreecaTV Starleague Season 1
Circuit BreakerFighting SpiritTaebaek MountainsOverwatch (ASL Map)
Circuit BreakersFighting SpiritTaebaek MountainsOverwatch (ASL Map)

Results[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A preview Review
1. South Korea  sSak 2-1
1. Korea (South)  Shuttle 2-1
3. South Korea  free 1-2
3. South Korea  EffOrt 1-2

Group B[edit]

Group B preview Review
1. South Korea  Sharp 2-1
1. South Korea  Jaehoon 2-1
1. South Korea  PianO 2-1
4. South Korea  Larva 0-3

Group B Tiebreaker[edit]

Group B Tiebreaker preview lrthread Review
August 7, 2016 - 19:00 KST
1. South Korea  Jaehoon 3-1
2. South Korea  Sharp 2-2
3. South Korea  PianO 1-3

Group C[edit]

Group C preview Review
1. South Korea  Sea 2-1
1. South Korea  Flash 2-1
3. South Korea  Mind 1-2
3. South Korea  ZerO 1-2

Group D[edit]

Group D preview Review
1. South Korea  Last 3-0
2. South Korea  hero 2-1
3. South Korea  BeSt 1-2
4. South Korea  Mong 0-3

Elimination Bracket[edit]

Quarterfinals
 South Korea sSak
1
sSak 
 Sharp
August 14, 2016 - 19:00 KST
preview lrthread Watch Game 1 Watch Game 2 Watch Game 3 Watch Game 4 recap
 South Korea Sharp
3
 South Korea Sea
3
Sea 
 hero
August 16, 2016 - 19:00 KST
preview lrthread Watch Game 1 Watch Game 2 Watch Game 3 Watch Game 4 Watch Game 5 recap
 South Korea hero
2
 South Korea Shuttle
3
Shuttle 
 Jaehoon
August 21, 2016 - 13:00 KST
preview lrthread Watch Game 1 Watch Game 2 Watch Game 3 Watch Game 4 recap
 South Korea Jaehoon
1
 South Korea Last
3
Last 
 Flash
August 22, 2016 - 19:00 KST
preview lrthread Watch Game 1 Watch Game 2 Watch Game 3 recap
 South Korea Flash
0
Semifinals
 South Korea Sharp
3
Sharp 
 Sea
August 28, 2016 - 13:00 KST
preview lrthread Watch Game 1 Watch Game 2 Watch Game 3 Watch Game 4 Watch Game 5 recap
 South Korea Sea
2
 South Korea Shuttle
3
Shuttle 
 Last
August 29, 2016 - 19:00 KST
preview lrthread Watch Game 1 Watch Game 2 Watch Game 3 Watch Game 4 recap
 South Korea Last
1
Finals
 South Korea Sharp
0
Sharp 
 Shuttle
September 10, 2016 - 14:30 KST
preview lrthread Watch Game 1 Watch Game 2 Watch Game 3 Interview
 South Korea Shuttle
3

Racial Distribution[edit]

  Protoss Terran Zerg Random
Round of 16
484
Quarterfinals
251
Semifinals
13
Finals
11
Winner
1

Media[edit]

Streams[edit]

Live broadcasts:

VODs[edit]

Gallery[edit]

  • ASL venue2.jpg
  • ASL finals venue.jpg
  • ASL finals winners check.jpg
  • ASL finals winners check2.jpg
  • ASL finals venue2.jpg
  • ASL finals winner.jpg

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Starleague announcement page, archived
  2. ↑ [1]
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