StarLadderTV team announced the start of their 4th season. The first 3 seasons of the Star Series successfully ended up with a lot of mind blowing games. This season the teams will provide us much more interesting games, since the rosters were changed in lot of the teams.

This season's games will be fully covered by Vitalii "v1lat" Volochai , Vladislav "mtrx4u" Suzdal and Toby "TobiWanKenobi" Dawson for the English viewers.

Schedule:
Online part: November 13, 2012 - December 11, 2012
Lan-Finals part: December 20 - 23, 2012

Tournament Format:
Online part: The tournament will once again be played in a round-robin format. Each team will compete with all the other contenders until the top 4 are made.
Lan-Finals part: Final will be held in Kiev. The final stage of the season will be played in a best-of-3 double elimination system and best-of-5 Grand Final.

That being said, this season only the top 4 teams will get the chance to compete for the grand prize in Kiev, Ukraine.

Prize Distribution:
1st place – $8000
2nd place – $4000
3rd place – $2000
4th place – $1000

Participating Teams:
Natus Vincere
Team Empire
Team Zero
Virtus.Pro
Pulse Esports
iLuminate
Fubar
Meet Your Makers
FnaticRC
eVo
eL'Pride
Gamer University
XX5
Absolute Legends
Qualified Team #1
Qualified Team #2

Source:StarLadderTV