NEWS
MLG Spring Arena Details Announced
The MLG Spring Arena starts this Friday on April 20th.
By Trial 'Trial_Writer' Writer
Apr 17, 2012 06:02
The MLG Spring Arena starts this Friday on April 20th.The first part of the MLG Starcraft Spring Arena starts this Friday, April 20th. Spanning over a three day period this event will kick off the Spring Season.
Those from Europe who are looking to watch streams may have some long nights or in fact early mornings ahead of you if you're planning on spectating this tournament.
To date there has been no official format announced for what the map order will be or whether it will be a best of x, with this information expected to be announced much closer to the event, we will keep you updated on that once it's announced.
In this seasons MLG there are seven Koreans, with only one foreigner in attendance,
's Chris 'HuK' Loranger, something that isn’t really surprising when taking the current Korean attendance ratio's within tournaments like IPL4, Iron Squid and MLG into account.
You can find all the relevant tournament information below:
For those of you that will be tuning into the live streams of the event the first match aired on each of the two main streams will be free. To get access to all of the rest, you'll need one of two things:
A Spring Arena 1 PPV Pass: This pass is $10 and gives standard access.
A Spring SCII Season Pass: For $30 ($15 for Gold Members) you get full HD access to Spring Arena 1, the Invite-Only Online Qualifiers, Spring Arena 2, and the Spring Championship.
For more information checkout the infographic here : MLG Stream Pricing
We'll keep you updated on the results of this tournament and the upcoming Spring events of MLG so stay tuned!
This post was written by trial editor:
Coen "Mithax" Hup
SK Gaming are recruiting editors. Find out how you can get involved via the Jobs page.
Those from Europe who are looking to watch streams may have some long nights or in fact early mornings ahead of you if you're planning on spectating this tournament.
To date there has been no official format announced for what the map order will be or whether it will be a best of x, with this information expected to be announced much closer to the event, we will keep you updated on that once it's announced.
In this seasons MLG there are seven Koreans, with only one foreigner in attendance,
You can find all the relevant tournament information below:
Schedule
Friday, 20th April
6:00 - Midnight: Pool Play (10pm - 2am GMT/BST)
Saturday, 21st April
2:00pm – 10:00pm: Pool Play (6pm - 2am GMT/BST)
Sunday, 22nd April
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Bracket Round 1 (6pm - 7pm GMT/BST)
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Bracket Round 2 (7pm - 8pm GMT/BST)
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Bracket Round 3 (8pm - 9pm GMT/BST)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Finals (9pm - 10pm GMT/BST)
Players
Jung-Hoon 'MarineKing' Lee
Soo Ho 'DongRaeGu' Park
Min-Hyuk 'Heart' Kim
Chris 'HuK' Loranger
Lee-Sak 'PartinG' Won
Dong Ju 'GanZi' Kim
Kim 'viOlet' Dong Hwan
Map Pool
MLG Antiga Shipyard - Cross Spawns Only
MLG Cloud Kingdom
MLG Daybreak
MLG Entombed Valley - No Close 3rds by Ground Spawns
MLG Metropolis - No Close by Ground Spawns
MLG Shakuras Plateau - No Close by Ground Spawns
MLG Tal'darim Altar - All Spawns Allowed
Casters
Dan 'Artosis' Stemkoski
Marcus 'djWHEAT' Graham
Nick 'Tasteless' Plott
JP 'JP McDaniel' McDaniel
Rob 'Rob Simpson' Simpson
Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen
Tournament Analysts
Bearing their souls to the world the following three race specialists will be giving the audience their insight into the matchups covering the history of the players, their records against each other, their playstyles and expected strategies and so much more.
Nick 'Axslav' Ranish (Protoss)
Kevin 'qxc' Riley (Terran)
Shawn 'Sheth' Simon (Zerg)
Prize Pool
1st Place: $5,000
2nd Place: $3,000
3rd Place: $1,800
4th Place: $1,100
Friday, 20th April
6:00 - Midnight: Pool Play (10pm - 2am GMT/BST)
Saturday, 21st April
2:00pm – 10:00pm: Pool Play (6pm - 2am GMT/BST)
Sunday, 22nd April
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Bracket Round 1 (6pm - 7pm GMT/BST)
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Bracket Round 2 (7pm - 8pm GMT/BST)
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Bracket Round 3 (8pm - 9pm GMT/BST)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Finals (9pm - 10pm GMT/BST)
Players
Map Pool
MLG Antiga Shipyard - Cross Spawns Only
MLG Cloud Kingdom
MLG Daybreak
MLG Entombed Valley - No Close 3rds by Ground Spawns
MLG Metropolis - No Close by Ground Spawns
MLG Shakuras Plateau - No Close by Ground Spawns
MLG Tal'darim Altar - All Spawns Allowed
Casters
Tournament Analysts
Bearing their souls to the world the following three race specialists will be giving the audience their insight into the matchups covering the history of the players, their records against each other, their playstyles and expected strategies and so much more.
Prize Pool
1st Place: $5,000
2nd Place: $3,000
3rd Place: $1,800
4th Place: $1,100
For those of you that will be tuning into the live streams of the event the first match aired on each of the two main streams will be free. To get access to all of the rest, you'll need one of two things:
A Spring Arena 1 PPV Pass: This pass is $10 and gives standard access.
A Spring SCII Season Pass: For $30 ($15 for Gold Members) you get full HD access to Spring Arena 1, the Invite-Only Online Qualifiers, Spring Arena 2, and the Spring Championship.
For more information checkout the infographic here : MLG Stream Pricing
We'll keep you updated on the results of this tournament and the upcoming Spring events of MLG so stay tuned!
This post was written by trial editor:
SK Gaming are recruiting editors. Find out how you can get involved via the Jobs page.
RELATED NEWS
4 comments
Loading comments...

