NEO Star League

Overview

The NEO Star League (NSL) is a tournament hosted by Chinese Esports broadcasting company NeoTV. It was the first Chinese e-sport tournament broadcast on television and the Internet. It was NeoTV who first applied online/offline format to their tournament in China. Previous NSLs features StarCraft: Brood War and WarCraft III.
In 2011, NeoTV held 2 seasons of NSTL (Neo StarCraft II Team League), which is played online and features clans consist of amateur players mostly.
The first NSL StarCraft II tournament was held in 2012, which also gave seeds to WCG 2012 China Finals.
In 2013, NeoTV started NEO Star League 2013 which they claimed to be the first professional tournament featuring Heart of the Swarm since its release in China.
After one year's slience, in 2015, NeoTV organized StarCraft League, a brand new StarCraft II team league. At the finals of SL 2015, it was announced that NSL is back.

Events

Individual Tournament

Event	Dates	Winner	Runner-Up	Third Place	Fourth Place
NEO Star League 2012 Season 1	2012-03-22 – 2012-04-15	LoveCD	Loner	TooDming	F91
NEO Star League 2012 Season 2	2012-12-24 – 2013-01-18	Lure	XiGua	dreamertt	MacSed
NEO Star League 2013	2013-08-19 – 2013-09-24	TooDming	Jim	Courage	XY
Event	Dates	Winner	Runner-Up	Semifinalist	Semifinalist
NEO Star League 2016 International	2016-08-01 – 2016-08-07	Snute	Cyan	uThermal	Scarlett

Team Tournament

Teamleague	Date	Winner	Runner-Ups	Score
NEO Star League 2016	2016-03-27 – 2017-06-04	Invictus Gaming	SCBoy	3-2
NEO Star League 2017	2017-07-01 – 2017-12-30	Invictus Gaming	Dawn Raid	3-1

External Links

• NSL 2012 Season 1 thread
• NSL 2012 Season 1 Semifinals Promotion video
• NSL 2012 Season 2 thread
• NSL 2012 S1 & S2 Promotion video and behind the scenes
• NSL 2013 thread
• NSL 2016 International thread
• NSL 2017 official web site