PSISTORM StarCraft League (PSL): season 1 – Philippines

Published by admin at December 4, 2020

PSL season 1 – Philippines

PSISTORM Gaming is proud to show support to StarCraft 2 in the Philippines. Hence our inaugural season of PSISTORM StarCraft League (PSL) will be for Filipino players. We are creating a tournament league modeled after the prestigious GSL. We all have been fans of Artosis and Tasteless casting the biggest and longest-running StarCraft 2 tournament in the world, with the best players in “Code S”.

We are currently in Round of 16.

VODs and more info are available on all games.

We are basing our tournament style after GSL, with qualifiers to a Round of 32.

PSL players will then be broadcasted competing in a similar format.

Registered players had these Requirements: (any of the following):
• Currently residing in the Philippines
• Philippine citizenship
• Pure Filipino or married to one
• One of your parents is any of the above

Qualifiers:
• All participants will play a Bo3 with their opponent (randomly seeded)
• A maximum of 32 qualified players shall move on to the Group Stage.
• Matches in the Qualifiers will not be broadcasted online.

Group Stage:
• 32 players in 8 groups of 4 players each, played in a Dual Tournament format.
• All matches are Bo3.
• Top 2 players of each group advance to the Playoffs.

Playoffs:
• 8 players in the single-elimination bracket.
• All matches are Bo5. Grand Finals is Bo7
• Finals are Bo7 with a 1-0 lead for the player coming from the Winners’ Bracket.

PSL Prize Pool

$500+ Bonus prizepool

1st $260 + 20% of Bonus Prize Pool
2nd $100 + 20% of Bonus Prize Pool
3rd/4th $50 + 10% of Bonus Prize Pool
5th-8th $10 + 10% of Bonus Prize Pool

Bonus Prize Pool:

– For the season we have 20 broadcast events, for each broadcast we hit avg of 50+ viewers, prize pool goes up $10 ($200 potential)
– If we average 100+ viewers for 3 broadcasts (another $300 added)
– 50% paypal donations during the broadcast goes to the prize pool
– 100% of Matcherino donations

PSL Schedule

all dates/times are US Eastern – please convert to your region

Qualifiers (Bo3)

Dec 9 – 10pm US Eastern – Qualifier 1: https://challonge.com/PSL1_Qd1 meet in US Server, channel “PSL” 1 hour before start time.
Dec 11 – 10pm US Eastern – Qualifier 2: https://challonge.com/PSL1_Qd2 meet in Asia Server, channel “PSL” 1 hour before start time.
Dec 12 – 10am US Eastern – Qualifier 3: https://challonge.com/PSL1_Qd3 meet in Asia Server, channel “PSL” 1 hour before start time.

Stage 1 (Bo3)
Dec 18 – 10pm US Eastern – Group A
Dec 19 – 10am US Eastern – Group B
Dec 25 – 10pm US Eastern – Group C
Dec 26 – 10am US Eastern – Group D
Jan 2 – 10am US Eastern – Group E
Jan 8 – 10pm US Eastern – Group F
Jan 9 – 10am US Eastern – Group G
Jan 15 – 10pm US Eastern – Group H

Stage 2 (Bo3)
TBD

Playoffs (Bo5)
TBD

Official Broadcasters

PSISTORM Gaming – trovo.live/psistorm
KJ “Freeedom” – trovo.live/karljayg

Socials

PSISTORM Gaming – FB – Twitter – Insta
KJ “Freeedom” – FB – Twitter – Insta
DLSMIZEL – FB – Twitter – Insta