Season 3 - the beginning.

Update: vVv has been uncontactable. They have been dropped and replaced with wD

Before I announce the start of Season 3, I'd like to welcome a new match admin to our staff team, EPGL|LizarD. He will help out during this hectic phase of the season.

How qualifiers will be ran

Qualifiers will run for 4 weeks, starting today. The bracket will be a full, double-elimination bracket. We are taking 12 teams in addition to our 4 autoqualifiers, to total 16 teams (2 groups of 8 teams).

After 2 weeks we will be taking the 8 teams that win both of their matches and eliminating the teams that lose both of their matches. This will leave us with 16 teams for 4 slots.

These 16 teams will duke it out single-elimination style (as they have already lost 1 match, meaning it's single elimination anyway) and 2 weeks later the final 4 qualified teams will be determined.

Lower Bracket matchups will be determined by highest seed vs lowest seed. Upper Bracket will only last 2 weeks anyway, so I won't need to set out too elaborate a bracket.

I am aware that the seedings may have some inaccuracies, but in order to reduce these I have asked several knowledgable people and, combined with my personal knowledge, have made seedings based off peoples' average opinions on where the teams stand. If you have an issue with your teams' seeding and don't actually believe that I have gone through this process, I will personally send you the Microsoft Excel worksheet used...however I accidently forgot to include MsY into this equation. I apologise in advance, your seeding is 100% my estimation (and probably 100% wrong).

That being said, because PwRG failed to confirm I am left stuck with 31 teams. Whoever applies will be granted the #32 seed and a chance to qualify for EPGL Season 3. Otherwise, the #1 seed will have a bye for the first round.

Important!!! Teams will receive 1 joker and 1 sub for the first 2 weeks of qualifying. And roster additions made will now give rise to "barred player status". Barred players CAN NOT PLAY EVEN IF THE OTHER TEAM ALLOWS IT.

Seedings

1 GA
2 DreamS
3 CoB
4 pCp
5 GE
6 LiQ
7 InfC
8 GFO
9 MAD
10 tG
11 EV
12 rG
13 cGz
14 WsG
15 TFW
16 sYs
17 mG
18 MsY
19 BECS
20 LaG
21 wD
22 iG
23 LgdC
24 !?
25 DaT
26 Muse
27 sC
28 RoS
29 Ls
30 NAE
31 CoRV
32 Myth

This Yields QW1 Matches:

1. GA [4-0] 32. Myth - Friday September 18th | 11EST | 17CET
2. DreamS [0-4] 31. CoRV -Wednesday September 16 | 10EST | 16CET
3. CoB [4-2] 30. NAE - Sunday September 20th | 14EST | 20CET
4. pCp [4-0] 29. Ls - Sunday September 20th | 14EST | 20CET
5. GE [0-F] 28. RoS - Sunday September 20th | 11EST | 17CET
6. LiQ [4-2] 27. sC Thursday September 17th | 16 EST | 22 CET
7. InfC [3-4] 26. Muse - Sunday September 20th | 14EST | 20CET
8. GFO vs 25. DaT - Extenstion granted until Tuesday 22nd September
9. MAD [1-4] 24. !? - Friday September 18th | 11EST | 17CET
10. tG [4-1] 23. LgdC - Tuesday September 15th | 14EST | 20h CET
11. EV [4-3] 22. iG - Friday September 18th | 9EST | 15CET
12. rG [2-4] 21. wD - Saturday September 19th | 11:30 EST | 16:30 CET
13. cGz [3-4] 20. LaG - Friday September 18th | 18EST | Midnight CET (23:59)
14. WsG [3-3] 19. BECS - Under Dispute
15. TFW [4-2] 18. MsY - Saturday September 19th | 14EST | 20CET
16. sYs [2-4] 17. mG - Saturday September 19th | 11EST | 17CET

Unscheduled
Completed
Scheduled
Late Schedule (0.5PP)
Under Dispute
Cancelled and moved to another playweek

EPGL S3QW1 Starting Map: Ancient Isles

* Please have your matches scheduled by Thursday the 17th of September
* Playweek ends on Sunday the 20th of September
- Please send in your lineups to lineups@epic-league.net 30 minutes before your match is scheduled to start
- Scheduling in EST and CET is fine. (CET = EST +6)
- Each team should bring at least one host (if the match is cross-continent)
- The replay upload data base is here:http://www.demonreps.com/EPGL/upload/
- Replay upload password is 12345
- Failure to schedule in QW1 will get you kicked out of the qualifiers
- If you are experiencing issues, scheduling or otherwise, please contact an admin asap...if no admin is online, send an e-mail to Rift@Epic-League.net with the issue (bm, disconnect issue, etc)
- You are welcome to schedule in the battle reports
- Feel free to make predictions at: http://www.epic-league.net/general-discussion-f2/epgl-s3qw1-predictions-t678.htm

thnx for the welcome ^^ ill do my best to run this league smoothly with u guys ! GL HG ALL TEAMS!!!

Nice, but i cant find GEs team profile

http://www.epic-league.net/s3-qualifier-profiles-f11/generation-esports-t669.htm

Nice reading rift, btw EPGL logo is outdated, shouldnt we hear some proposals?

if u wana have a succesful season make the league 8 teams only 4 auto and 4 new that way the quality of teams is better and it will be much much easier to run the league,

muse vs infc - 20:00 CET! not 21

go MAD!

wow vvv dropped i am surprise

where link to brackets??

lol uncontactable? the war vs rg is shcheudled for sunday 6pmest... well gl lol biased strikes again to the best american team

ye we hate america so we kick the no1 american team...

yo duck im really happy for you and imma let you finish but, forrest gump was the best retard of all time, all time

lol i hate kanye as much as the next person but he's basically provided the best jokes ever...george bush was the same way imo.

but yea lol @ vvv...i wonder how many other leagues will do the same

duck are you joking ?
You're team is top 1 in american ?

And my ass is a chicken.

Seriously, i'll be honest with you :

You're team is the worst one of the wc3 world.
-19 in WHL after 6 playdays and you come here to speak ?

Plz man, stop to be ridiculous go away and try to up your team @ Sims for sure you're result will be much better.