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An update on the grand finals, both teams havent scheduled yet and it WILL be played sometime this week so stay tuned to find out! Until then, hit up www.sgleague.net and check out the new site!

FnaticMSI vs.

ROOT Gaming
Grand Final Matchup

Time of Clan War: Unscheduled

Administator(s) Present:

ROOT Statement:

Fnatic Statement:

ROOT Lineup:

Fnatic Lineup:

Games:

ROOT Gaming vs.

FnaticMSI

xXxXx [0-0]

xXxXx - Steppes of War

ROOT [0-0]

Fnatic

Notes:

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inFlow Gaming vs.

CNB eSports Club
3rd Place Matchup

Time of Clan War: Unscheduled

Administator(s) Present:

inFlow Statement:

CNB Statement:

inFlow Lineup:

CNB Lineup:

Games:

inFlow Gaming vs.

CNB eSports Club

xXxXx [0-0]

xXxXx - Steppes of War

inFlow [0-0]

CNB

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Hello SGL followers! I am here to shed some light on the current situation at hand dealing with the semi-final match of

ROOT Gaming vs.

inFlow Gaming. For those of you who aren't aware of the matter,

ROOT and

inFlow played Saturday night at 10 PM EST for their semi-final match of the Starcraft Gaming League. The clan war went to inFlow up 3-2 with

Qxc being ROOT's last player. At this time, Qxc was playing in a bo5 series for another tournament and couldn't attend the clan war that instant. inFlow agreed to wait 10 minutes(which ended up being about 20) for Qxc to finish his tournament but that wasn't enough time. Then TadH, the head manager of inFlow, made the decision to wait no longer and take the free win. This is a rule written in the SGL rulebook saying you can wait a total of 10 minutes for the next series and if the team isn't prepared, you have the right to a free win. This action ended the clan war at 2-4 with inFlow winning. Here is where the errors come in:

I, SGL]GnR, am responsible for making the weekly posts and the process of the league. I should also add that I am Head Administrator and oversee EVERYTHING that goes on in the SGL. For the playoffs, I unfortunately failed to mention that the 'Joker Cards and Sub Cards' would not be used in the playoffs. This is obviously an utterly unacceptable error made on my behalf and there are no excuses I can make that can change my actions. I am fully aware, that because of my mistake, this entire fiasco has happened and I am sincerely sorry for any stress or discomfort I have caused the teams. With this being the first season of SGL and my first season as a Head Admin, there are mistakes made and we will live and learn from our experiences. I can truly say that this entire season I have tried my very hardest to make this the most fun and competitive SC2 league offered. I know that I made a huge mistake and I hope everyone is willing to look past this and move on with me to make the SGL the very best league it can be. I can ensure you, next season will run much better with one season under our belt and experience for all the administrators. Again, I'm very sorry and ashamed for this mistake that I have made and there's no excuse for it, I'm just trying my best to recover the damage that I have done. Now here's the solution the SGL has found:

Everyone at the SGL has taken this matter seriously, we tried to make the call that would be fair. After speaking with

ROOT.Catz and

ROOT.SunDevil(newest ROOT manager), we have decided to force a reschedule with

inFlow. After speaking with TadH he happily agreed that this was the right decision to be made and was excited to finish his clan war with

ROOT. The series will leave off with inFlow.Looky against Qxc and the battle report will be updated. The winner of this clan war will move on to face

FnaticMSI to crown the SGL Champion, and the loser will move on to fight

CNB eSports Club for the 3rd place prize. We believe this to be the right thing to do for the situation and we hope we can bring peace to the teams. Stay tuned to find out when the two teams will finish the war.

To conclude, I again personally apologize for my mistake I understand it was a terrible error and I can be positive that it will NEVER happen again. I hope this entire event hasn't scarred anyone's opinion of the SGL as a whole. We are all only humans, working for free to bring everyone a great opportunity. Everyone on the staff has a love for eSports and wants to give back to the SC2 community. We hope everyone can have love for the SGL and support us for our seasons to come. Best of luck to the teams left in the league.

Now that we have addressed the issue at hand, I have an update for the qualifiers! We will be extending the application period until Tuesday December 7th at 23:59 EST. The foreign teams that will be playing in the SGl are getting everything prepared for their NA accounts. If you still want to apply, you can find our application here.

Now for the SGL Grand finals!

FnaticMSI has already secured their spot in the final defeating

CNB eSports Club 4-0!

CNB will fight this week vs the loser of

ROOT and

inFlow for the third place spot! Take note, these four teams will all have a spot in the next season and wont have to go through any of the qualifiers! Both of these times will be assigned so we will let you know ASAP about what's happening with the finals.

Starting map: Steppes of War

Grand Final:

FnaticMSI vs.

ROOT Gaming -- Unscheduled
3rd Place:

inFlow Gaming vs.

CNB eSports Club -- Unscheduled

I would like to thank this seasons sponsors, BigFoot Networks, ZOWIEGEAR, and ItsGosu.com for making our success possible. Here is a quick reminder of the prizes you guys are fighting for!

1st Place: $200 dollars and four ZOWIE HAMMER Headsets.

2nd Place: Four ZOWIE G-TF Mouse Pads.

3rd Place: Four ZOWIE P-RF Mouse Pads.

Sorry for the long post too much to address! Good luck to the teams this week and look for an update around Wednesday!

FnaticMSI vs.

CNB eSports Club

Time of Clan War: Friday at 8:00 PM EST

Administator(s) Present:

SGL]Kelstar,

SGL]Felix

Fnatic Statement:
We had a really fun match vs CNB last time, barely winning it 4-3... and CNB is coming off an impressive win vs EG. I'm sure they prepared quite a bit for this match so it should be a good one. Hopefully we will be able to come out with a victory and make it to the finals. I think we're favored, but with these types of matches, you never know what can happen. Here's to hoping for another Gretorp all-kill!

CNB Statement:
We're excited to play versus Fnatic tonight. They have the strongest team on this league. We are confident that we can win tonight, but the odds aren't favorable. Good luck to Fnatic, have fun. Wish to see good games here.

Fnatic Lineup:

KawaiiRice <-- Starter

Gretorp

TT1

Fenix

CNB Lineup:

Ikki

Lamp

Levin

Lombrastic

Games:

FnaticMSI vs.

CNB eSports Club

KawaiiRice [1-0]

Ikki - Metalopolis

KawaiiRice [2-0]

Lombrastic - Xel'Naga Caverns

KawaiiRice [3-0]

Lamp - Lost Temple

KawaiiRice [4-0]

Levin - Blistering Sands

FnaticMSI [4-0]

CNB eSports Club

Notes:
-This war will be streamed by GosuTV! You can find their stream here!
-Congratulations to

Fnatic for moving on to the grand finals!
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ROOT Gaming vs.

inFlow Gaming

Time of Clan War: 10:00 PM EST Saturday

Administator(s) Present:

SGL]Fade

ROOT Statement:

inFlow Statement:

ROOT Lineup:

inFlow Lineup:

Games:

ROOT Gaming vs.

inFlow Gaming

Drewbie [1-0]

MiniGun - Metalopolis

Drewbie [1-1]

Spades - Xel'Naga Caverns

Sheth [1-2]

Spades - Metalopolis

Catz [1-2]

Spades - Blistering Sands

Catz [2-3]

Looky - Scrap Station

Qxc [3-3]

Looky - Lost Temple

Qxc [4-3]

Minigun - Jungle Basin

ROOT [4-3]

inFlow

Notes:
-Information about this matter will be released Sunday night
-This war will be continued Sunday at 10:30 PM EST
-Wolf will stream this war! Find his stream here: http://livestream.com/thepassingshadow

Hello again! Playoffs week one went very smoothly with everyone completing their matches with no problems at all. Well played to both

inFlow and

CNB on winning their matches and thanks to

EG and

NOVA on playing in season one both of you played remarkably well all season long!

EG and

NOVA receive the top 2 seeds in the upcoming Season 2 Qualifiers! Here is the current state of the playoffs:

This weeks matches are:

FnaticMSI vs.

CNB eSports Club -- Scheduled for Friday at 20:00 EST

ROOT Gaming vs.

inFlow Gaming -- Unscheduled
Starting Map: Metalopolis

And dont forget! There's still one week to send in your team's application for season two! Applications will close next Sunday and if you would like to participate in SGL Season two, you can fill out this application here and send it to SGLeague@live.com. We have already received a lot of applications and we hope to get YOURS!

Good luck to teams this week!

CNB eSports Club vs.

Evil Geniuses

Time of Clan War: Scheduled for Sunday at 13:00 EST

Administator(s) Present:

SGL]GnR

CNB Statement:
Yeah... EG again. We never defeated them Zergs! We see EG as the hardest team for us to beat. We are confident, we practiced a lot for this day. Good Luck, Have Fun. Let's do great games on this quarter finals.

EG Statement:
We're very excited to take part in our first playoff match! We're have success playing against CNB in the past, but also know they're a skilled team. Hopefully we can show some great games and I would like to wish our opponents the best of luck.

CNB Lineup:

lamp <-- Starter

greatman

Levin

Ikki

EG Lineup:

LzGaMeR <-- Starter

StrifeCro

Axslav

iNcontroL

Games:

CNB eSports Club vs.

Evil Geniuses

lamp [1-0]

LzGaMeR - Steppes of War

lamp [2-0]

StrifeCro - Scrap Station

lamp [2-1]

Axslav - Lost Temple

Levin [3-1]

Axslav - Xel'Naga Caverns

Levin [3-2]

iNcontroL - Metalopolis

Greatman [4-2]

iNcontroL - Delta Quadrants

CNB [4-2]

EG

Notes:
-This clan war will have a

Brazilian stream! Find it here!
-Congratulations to

CNB for moving on to round two and qualifying for SGL Season 2!
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inFlow Gaming vs.

Team NOVA

Time of Clan War: Friday at 9:30 PM EST

Administator(s) Present:

SGL]enishiyuki,

SGL]Kelstar

inFlow Statement:

NOVA Statement: The time we have all been waiting for. Playoffs are finally here and we are ready to go against Inflow today. It should be an extremely heated and good match and let the best team advance. Have fun everyone!

inFlow Lineup:

Games:

inFlow Gaming vs.

Team NOVA

InflowMini [1-0]

RyanNova - Steppes of War

InflowMini [2-0]

FireZerg - Xelnaga Caverns

InflowMini [3-0]

NOVAstalife - Metalopolis

InflowMini [4-0]

Antimage - Scrap Station

inFlow [4-0]

NOVA

Notes:
-Congratulations to

inFlow for moving on to round two and qualifying for SGL Season 2!

Of course a quick reminder of what everyone is fighting for! Here is the SGL Season 1 Prizes:

1st Place: $200 dollars and four ZOWIE HAMMER Headsets.

2nd Place: Four ZOWIE G-TF Mouse Pads.

3rd Place: Four ZOWIE P-RF Mouse Pads.

Now on to season two! The application period for Season two is OPEN! It will again be hosted on the North American server only however ANY team in the world can participate as long as they have atleast 5 players with North American accounts! Here at the SGL we welcome anyone in the world to participate in season two.

We will accept 16 teams in to the qualifiers with two of those teams being 5th and 6th place in the qualifiers. So basically 14 teams will be accepted from the applications and only FOUR of those teams will participate in season two. The top two seeds will be given to the teams from the S1 playoffs and the rest will be from applications.

The qualifiers will begin on December 20th with the SGL grand finals being on the 12th. This will be a three week qualifier for the teams playing. And of course what everyone is wondering, what is the SGL Season 2 prize? We WILL have a prize and here is what the prize is as of now, this is subject to change.

1st Place: $$500

2nd Place: $$150

3rd Place: $$50

I hope this will give teams a better motivation to play! The application period will be open from today, November 21st, to Sunday, December 5th. I should add, for this season we're giving teams the option of hiding the character codes. If you would like for your players codes to be kept secret from the public, just make a note of it on your application and we will keep the codes private. Send applications to SGLeague@live.com and here is the application format:

Spoiler:

For any of you who have questions, you can contact me in multiple ways:

MSN: SGLGnR@live.com
AIM: SGLGnR999
Skype: Cody.c2
eMail: SGLGnR@live.com

What are you waiting for? Send in those applications!!

The Starcraft Gaming League's Replay of the Week is presented by ZOWIE GEAR

Its that time again folks! More stellar matches were played during week 7 ... and once again SGL (Starcraft Gaming League) picked the best match. Coming out easily with the best performance and most exciting was ROOT.Drewbie vs CNB's very own Lamp.

These two had an amazing match with lots of exciting fights and turn around moments. Get ready to clinch the edge of your seat as you watch this hear pounding game. Who will win?

The match itself lasted a good 39 minutes and if you would like to see the whole thing make sure to download the replay for yourself. This replay of the week was brought to you by ZOWIE GEAR and by SGL]Felix.

For more info on this replay and more background information on ROOT vs. CNB, please visit none other than The Starcraft Gaming League Website. There you can find great news on all the active US Region Starcraft 2 Teams and follow your favorite team.

Enjoy!

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