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Hey everyone, We are very pleased to announce Season 1 for our Warcraft III Tournament Ladders! This season will be made up of the following tournaments: Frozen Wastes - $300, open, Single Elimination Cup - June 13 Meta Plays Monthly #1 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - July 5 Meta Plays Monthly #2 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - Week of July 19 Meta Plays Monthly #3 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - Week of August 23 Meta Plays Monthly #4 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - Week of September 13 Meta Plays Monthly #5 - CANCELLED Meta Plays Monthly #6 - CANCELLED Season Finale - CANCELLED What about Team Games? We currently have no plans to fund a season for Teams. We do however have the technical capability for keeping this separate and to facilitate it in the first place, and will be keeping our eyes on your feedback. The plan is to leave team tournaments to the community. You Can Help! For any of you looking to support our events, you can increase prize pools by donating (look for the WC III option on this page) - we think with your help, boosting one of the mid-season monthlies to $300 is a very achieve-able first goal! You can also help by becoming a subscriber on the website. Where To Watch We will live stream all of the events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our Youtube. Community casters will have access to cover games as well, as long as we are not covering the match in question. Please contact each event's manager for clearance. How the Season Works Each Tournament we host will not only come with cash prizes, but also Meta Plays Ladder Points. These points go towards the corresponding ladder. Based on your position in the ladder, we assign you to a "Class" - one of D(lowest), C, B, A and S(highest). The classes give you a badge and will be featured on your Tournament Profile. By the time the Season Finale comes around, we will invite the top players based on the Ladder. Check out the Class icons below. The top 4 players will also receive medals corresponding with their final placement in each Tournament. While most are generic, Season Opener and Finale events, as well as any mid-season cup that reaches a prize pool of $300 will receive custom medals. Please note that the Ladders will only be generated after the first tournament has finished. Naturally, Tournament Profiles will also be quite empty at first! You are able to display your Profile and Class in your posts, if you turn these on in your site profile, however. Give Us The Numbers You are curious, as you should be! Based on the number and quality of signed up players, we modify the number of total points that a tournament can provide. Our guidelines for this are below: Base value: 10x Prize pool in USD (or monetary value in prizes). For any class exclusion combination, remove 10% points per class removed. S Class only tournaments are excluded from this ruling on a case-by-case basis. The number of players in the tournaments will scale the points in the following way: 4-8: -50% 9-15: -25% 16-24: no change 24-32: +50% 33-47: +75% 48-64: +100% You can review the point spread between player placements using our Tournament Point Calculator. Can I Host Tournaments Too? Yes! We are in fact looking for additional Tournament Hosts that are willing to contribute to our Seasonal Ladders. You can apply here. The ideal third party Tournament Host will: Have a prize pool for each event Have a solid history of past tournaments Not have been the cause of payout scandals Try not to create conflicts with our event dates That is pretty much it! Let us know what you think in the comments below, join us on Discord for real-time chats, and we will see you on the battlefield!

Hey everyone, Much like with StarCraft II, we have been having trouble finding success with our tournaments in Warcraft 3. The news is not all bad though - same as with StarCraft II, we are going to keep producing high quality content in the form of showmatches. This will help us build our audience, at which point we can reconsider running tournaments again. Let us know in the comments about who you would like to see in showmatches. We are looking for top tier talent only at this time for our self-funded events. You can however commission a specific showmatch via our store to guarantee that your request (or the closest thing to it) will happen. IT'S DATA TIME - we want you to see why we made the decision we did. As you can see, both StarCraft II and Warcraft 3 have had an unsustainably poor viewership performance for our streaming effort to be worth the work. Streaming is one of the main ways for us to generate revenue - mostly through your help. Although the direct Twitch revenue is used for paying staff, rather for events, this is also our main meaningful opportunity to let people know about how to help fund our events - namely Patreon and contributing via donations. Regarding revenue (they are estimates, very hard to track per game), it's not a helpful piece of statistic for Warcraft 3 (or even Starcraft 2 for that matter). Almost all our revenue is coming from Halo Wars 2 and Age of Mythology. Thanks to our generous Halo Wars 2 community, our tournaments for the game are now entirely crowd-funded, with 1 major and 1 minor patron. As for Age of Mythology, we have been very pleased with the community effort to nearly fully crowd fund the $910+ Deathmatch League, as well as the community-boosted $310 AoM Monthly #2. As you can see, we care about community funded events that go through our platform equally as much as the money that directly ends up with staff, or the org itself, and thus offsetting running costs - unfortunately neither Warcraft 3 or Starcraft 2 have delivered on these fronts yet. We can chalk a lot of the above up to us being new in a well-established, and arguably saturated scene, however doing things the way we are doing them clearly isn't working. The help from Back2Warcraft in particular has been much appreciated, and had a notable impact on the days they were around. However as things stand, we are not able to stand on our own legs yet, as made painfully evident during our purely self-casted/promoted Warcraft 3 tournaments. We are hoping to have at the very least a massive jump in the viewership statistics once we switch to showmatches. Any suggestions and criticisms are welcome and will be given due consideration - we will go ahead with the showmatches for the foreseeable future, however. In case you are interested in supporting us directly, please check our new Support Us page, and/or subscribe to our Youtube!