China5720 Posts
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Netease returns with the first season of their flagship esports competition in 2021.
Format
16 player dual tournament.
All 16 slots will be determined through server qualifiers: 7 from KR, 6 from EU, 2 from NA and 1 from CN.
Playoffs changes to best of 5 with best of 7 finals.
Prize pool
1st: $7,668/¥50,000, plus 250 EPT points
2nd: $4,601/¥30,000, plus 180 EPT points
3rd: $3,067/¥20,000, plus 125 EPT points
4th: $1,534/¥10,000, plus 125 EPT points
5th-8th: $920/¥6,000, plus 75 EPT points
9th-12th: $460/¥3,000, plus 50 EPT points
13th-16th: $153/¥1,000, plus 25 EPT points
Total: ¥ 150,000/$23,003
Schedule
Server Qualifiers:
KR #1: Tuesday, Apr 20 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) 
Dark advances
KR #2: Wednesday, Apr 21 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) 
Zoun advances
KR #3: Monday, Apr 26 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
KR #4: Tuesday, Apr 27 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
KR #5: Wednesday, Apr 28 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
KR #6: Thursday, Apr 29 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
KR #7: Friday, May 07 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
EU #1: Tuesday, Apr 20 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) 
Clem advances
EU #2: Wednesday, Apr 21 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Reynor advances
EU #3: Monday, Apr 26 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
EU #4: Tuesday, Apr 27 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
EU #5: Wednesday, Apr 28 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
EU #6: Thursday, May 06 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
NA #1: Thursday, Apr 22 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up
NA #2: Thursday, Apr 29 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
CN: Monday, Apr 19 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Solar advances
Further qualifiers sign up links will be communicated through event Discord: https://discord.gg/qSN7YEmq
Group Stage: June 7-8, 9-10, 14-15, 16-17
Playoffs: June 21, 22, 23, 24
Broadcast
Useful Links
Liquipedia: 
Netease Esports X Tournaments/2021/1
Official website: https://next.163.com/match/nextsc2_2021spring
Discord: https://discord.gg/qSN7YEmq
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United States132 Posts
NA #1: Friday, Apr 23 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up
NA #2: Friday, Apr 30 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
I think the NA qualifiers are Thursday, Apr 22 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) and Thursday, Apr 29 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
China5720 Posts
NA #1: Friday, Apr 23 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up
NA #2: Friday, Apr 30 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Sign-up TBD
I think the NA qualifiers are Thursday, Apr 22 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) and Thursday, Apr 29 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Fixed!
United States238 Posts
Anyway, it is always good to have another tournament that has EPT points.
Canada6856 Posts
China5720 Posts
On April 19 2021 01:39 pzlama333 wrote:
I think it is dumb to have only one person per qualifier, but you may also have a lot of more chance if you fail.
Anyway, it is always good to have another tournament that has EPT points.
Same. Feel that they could just do like 3 with top 2 advance + one wildcard with winner advance for KR, and 3 for EU with top 2 advance, cuts down resources and time need for the admins and avoid this KR #7’s conflict with TSL7 KR quali.
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France1323 Posts
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On April 21 2021 00:54 tigera6 wrote:
To add more flavor, Showtime went with 10 Stalkers build against Clem only to find out he researched Glaive instead.
Yes so sad for Tobias when he tried to blink in Clem’s main base and understood that he has researched glaive… Instant GG.
GG to Clem for beating Serral in such convincing way… Not worried about the king of the north he will qualify next time except if hyperion cross his way 
Canada6856 Posts
That’s a 2000+ difference in aligulac rating–I can’t remember the last time anything of the sort happened. Pretty crazy. And hyperion is presumably dealing with at least 200 ping?
Is there a cast of that? Seems like a walkover to me, if not, then it’s hilarious.
Holy shit it’s real hahahaha: + Show Spoiler +
Spain3457 Posts
Is there a cast of that? Seems like a walkover to me, if not, then it’s hilarious.
Holy shit it’s real hahahaha: + Show Spoiler +
amazing,
France22743 Posts
Is there a cast of that? Seems like a walkover to me, if not, then it’s hilarious.
Holy shit it’s real hahahaha: + Show Spoiler +
unfreakievable hahaha
I wonder three things :
1) how this will affect their aligulac ratings
2) what the chess equivalent of such a series would be… Something like Carlsen losing to a 2200 player ? And I’m not even taking the EU server factor into account !
3) is it the biggest rating (still on aligulac) gap in a series that the lower rated player won ?
Iraq16680 Posts
That’s a 2000+ difference in aligulac rating–I can’t remember the last time anything of the sort happened. Pretty crazy. And hyperion is presumably dealing with at least 200 ping?
Is there a cast of that? Seems like a walkover to me, if not, then it’s hilarious.
Holy shit it’s real hahahaha: + Show Spoiler +
unfreakievable hahaha
I wonder three things :
1) how this will affect their aligulac ratings
2) what the chess equivalent of such a series would be… Something like Carlsen losing to a 2200 player ? And I’m not even taking the EU server factor into account !
3) is it the biggest rating (still on aligulac) gap in a series that the lower rated player won ?
In the current aligulac period for ZvZ (which does include a few other ZvZs for both players) Hyperion has gained 53 points, and Reynor has dropped 82, so a 135 point swing.
It’s pretty hard to do a comparison to chess since top level chess is so draw heavy, and top players much more rarely play much weaker players, but a 700 FIDE elo does sound about right. That gives an expected value of: 0.02 which is fairly similar to hyperion’s odds against Reynor in a bo3 (though given that it’s chess it’s basically the chance of a 2000 drawing Carlsen).
The last question is the most interesting one to me. I certainly can’t remember any upset of the sort. This could probably be queried from the aligulac postgres db.
edit: I’m looking through the Aligulac db right now and this seems to be the biggest upset in SCII history.
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(3074) Reynor 0-0 Hyperion (1132)
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94.00% 2-0 0-2 0.09%
5.73% 2-1 1-2 0.18%
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99.73% 0.27%Median outcome: Reynor 2-0 Hyperion
Estimated by Aligulac. Modify.
The ratings were 3156 and 1079 before the match.
United States240 Posts
After match “prediction”:
(3074) Reynor 0-0 Hyperion (1132)
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94.00% 2-0 0-2 0.09%
5.73% 2-1 1-2 0.18%
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99.73% 0.27%Median outcome: Reynor 2-0 Hyperion
Estimated by Aligulac. Modify.
The ratings were 3156 and 1079 before the match.
the Chinese scboy forum went on national holiday on this one.
It was soon filled with loads of people dropping in to congrats Hyperion. Even Hyperion says he was so surprised, and extremely happy about.
And not surprised bunch of trolls recommends he should retire from SC2 right away to keep the 100% win rate vs Reynor. lol
Germany4442 Posts
Easy Coinsmart. Beste Bitcoin-Börse in Europa
Source: https://tl.net/forum/sc2-tournaments/572074-next-2021-season-1-sc2-masters
