North American Star League Season 4

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League Information

Series:

North American Star League

Organizer:

NASL

Sponsor(s):

EIZO
Kingston HyperX
GAMER.minder
iBUYPOWER
EPSON

Game version:

Wings of Liberty
Patch 1.5.2

Server:

North America

Type:

Offline

Location:

Long Beach

Format:

Group Stage online
Single-elimination playoff offline

Prize pool:

$60,000 USD

Start Date:

2012-09-12

End Date:

2012-12-09

Liquipedia tier:

Premier

Player breakdown

Number of players:

45

14

15

16

Maps

Cloud Kingdom • Daybreak • Entombed Valley • Metropolis • Muspelheim • Ohana • Whirlwind • Abyssal City

Chronology

NASL Season 3

About[edit]

The North American Star League, often abbreviated as NASL, was a competitive StarCraft 2 league that was introduced in February 2011. The North American Star League Season 4 was the fourth season of the North American Star League. 45 players compete for a $60,000 prize pool over a three-month season. four players qualified from the Season 3 open tournament, four players qualified from the Season 4 qualifiers, four players were invited, and the remaining 32 players qualified from their placement in Season 3.

Location[edit]

Long Beach, California

Center Theater

Format[edit]

The fourth season was composed of several stages:

The Season 4 Qualifiers, a series of four single-elimination tournaments, which provided players with the opportunity to qualify for the Season 4 Group Stage.
The Group Stage where forty five players competed in five divisions in a round robin best of three format. The winner of each division advanced directly to the Top 16 Main Bracket.

Map Pool[edit]

To keep the season fresh, NASL announced that the Season 4 map pool would be reviewed after the 4th and 9th weeks of competition for potential revisions based on player feedback and internal analysis.^[1]

Initial maps:

After the Review Muspelheim was removed from the pool in Week 7 and it was replaced by Abyssal City

Prize Pool[edit]

$60,000 was spread among the players as seen below:

Place	$ USD	Player	Team
1st	$30,000	HerO	Team Liquid
2nd	$15,000	viOLet	AZUBU
3rd	$10,000	Polt	Team SCV Life
4th	$5,000	SortOf	Western Wolves

Participants[edit]

Seeded through Season 3 (35)
Protoss (14)	Terran (15)	Zerg (16)
Alicia	PuMa	Stephano
MC	aLive	Ret
HerO	Ryung	Sen
HuK	Beastyqt	Galaxy
TT1	DeMusliM	Zenio
HasuObs	GanZi	LoWeLy
NightEnD	ThorZaIN	DIMAGA
MaNa	Strelok	MorroW
HwangSin	Polt	TLO
finale	SeleCT	Sheth
	ClouD	TargA
	qxc	ViBE
	MaSa
Qualified (4)
Bischu		Dark
Arthur		HyuN
Invited via NASL Leaderboard (6)
NaNiwa *	TaeJa	DongRaeGu
Oz **	MMA	viOLet

*NaNiwa replaced CrazymoviNG who was unable to attend due to personal reasons.^[2]
**Oz replaced Puzzle who was unable to attend due to personal reasons. Oz was selected as the next highest ranking Protoss on the NASL Leaderboard.

Results[edit]

Divisions Overview[edit]

The winner of each division advanced to the main event bracket
The standings were by match score, then by total points. So a 2-0 win gives a player 2 points, a 2-1 win gives a player 1 point, a 1-2 loss gives a player -1 point, and a 0-2 loss gives a player -2 points.
Of the second place finishers in each division, the three with the best record advanced to the main event bracket
Players ranked 9-22 (14 players) in the league were placed into a wildcard playoff with the top two of the open tournament to determine the remaining 8 spots in the offline finals
Players ranked 23-33 (11 players) in the league were eliminated but would be invited to return next season
Players ranked 34-45 (bottom 12) in the league were eliminated and did not return

Division 1
1.	Polt	8-0	16-2	+14
2.	Arthur	6-2	13-7	+6
3.	HuK	5-3	11-9	+2
4.	DongRaeGu	4-4	9-9	0
5.	MaSa	4-4	8-11	-3
6.	HasuObs	3-5	9-11	-2
6.	Ret	3-5	8-10	-2
8.	aLive	2-6	8-12	-4
9.	MorroW	1-7	4-15	-11

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Division 2
1.	HyuN	8-0	16-3	+13
2.	Oz	6-2	12-6	+6
3.	Zenio	5-3	12-10	+2
4.	PuMa	4-4	10-9	+1
5.	NaNiwa	4-4	9-8	+1
6.	SeleCT*	4-4	10-10	0
7.	Galaxy	3-5	7-11	-4
8.	TLO	2-6	7-12	-5
9.	ClouD	0-8	2-16	-14

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Division 3
1.	viOLet	8-0	16-5	+11
2.	Dark	5-3	12-7	+5
3.	HerO	5-3	13-10	+3
3.	Alicia	5-3	12-9	+3
5.	MaNa	4-4	10-8	+2
6.	Beastyqt	4-4	10-11	-1
7.	GanZi	2-6	7-13	-6
8.	LoWeLy	2-6	5-14	-9
9.	Strelok	1-7	6-14	-8

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Division 4
1.	TaeJa	6-2	14-5	+9
2.	MC	6-2	13-6	+7
3.	ViBE	5-3	12-7	+5
4.	Sheth	5-3	10-7	+3
5.	Ryung	4-4	9-8	+1
6.	HwangSin	4-4	11-11	0
7.	Bischu	4-4	8-10	-2
8.	ThorZaIN	1-7	3-13	-10
9.	TargA	1-7	3-14	-11

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Division 5
1.	finale	7-1	15-5	+10
2.	DeMusliM	7-1	14-5	+9
3.	Sen	6-2	13-5	+8
4.	MMA	5-3	12-7	+5
5.	Stephano	4-4	10-10	0
6.	TT1	3-5	7-11	-4
7.	NightEnD	2-6	5-12	-7
8.	qxc	1-7	4-14	-10
9.	DIMAGA	1-7	3-14	-11

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Key

Matches Won-Lost | Games Won-Lost

Advance to Top 16

Advances to Wildcards

Eliminated. Returns next season.

Fate not yet determined.

Eliminated.

* SeleCT won't be returning for season 5 as he retired as a Starcraft 2 player.

Playoffs[edit]

Main Event Bracket[edit]

Note: The round of 16 is played online.

Round 1

R1

Quarter-Finals

Q.-Finals

QF

Semi-Finals

S.-Finals

SF

Final

F

Third Place Match

3rd Place Match

3rd P. Match

3rd P.

Racial Distribution[edit]

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Round of 16

6	5	5

Quarterfinals

1	3	4

Semifinals

1	1	2

Finals

1	1

Winner

1

View Games[edit]

Additional Coverage[edit]

TL.net[edit]

Live Report[edit]

Write-Ups[edit]

Preview

Coverage Portals[edit]

Gallery[edit]

References[edit]

[1] ttps://tl.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=366434

[2] NASL Season 4 Roster: CrazymoviNG Withdraws & NaNiwa Invited

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North American Star League Season 4

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