"Many may be wondering what's happening with competitive play now that the Natural Selection 2 World Championships are over. On the heels of, unarguably, the most successful NS2 event, we're going to carry the momentum into Season 4 of the NSL. I hope you're excited, because I've found a renewed enthusiam for NS2 and her community.

With sign ups open for another week until March 8th, we have 48 teams that have signed up. They've been loosely sorted according to Season 3 finishes and roster changes in consideration. Many new teams have answered the call to arms and without a record for comparison or known players, they've been put into Division 3 and 4. The seedings are estimated best guesses and NOT FINAL. These seedings are to help teams get an idea of where they belong and are CONTESTABLE.

If you're comfortable with your team's placement, do nothing more than wait for the schedule to be released in a few weeks. If you think your team's been placed in a division too low for your skill level, please contact me to set up a seeding match with a higher divisioned team. If, on the other hand, you think your team has been placed in a division too high for you skill level, contact me and we can discuss where you can be placed.

How do you dispute these seedings? PLAY A SEEDING MATCH. The format of the seeding match will be 2 rounds on 2 different maps (4 total rounds). The higher seed team picks the first map. The challenger picks a second and different map. Maps can be chosen from the pool of maps in Season 3. Teams play both sides on each map. If the challenger wins the match with a 4-0 or 3-1 result, they'll move up in seeding. If it's 1-3, there will be no change. A result of 2-2 will receive more consideration, but may not mean a change in division or seeding.

Play these matches no later than March 15th. The season will start the following week on March 22nd.

You can contact me through the NSL website PM or if you'd like a more direct and quicker reply, through Steam. Add me. Here are the tentative seedings:

Season 4 Tentative Seedings

Lastly, let's give Singularity a big congratulations for winning the NSL's second Custom Map Cup. Thank you for submitting your feedback for the maps played in this tournament." by Zefram.

Vindaloo's alternative seedings S4

EDIT : Fisk's division suggestions

Feedback?

That alternate seeding list has Work In Progress and Lucky Fkers in div 2 -and- div 3. Dunno whether that'd change anything on it, but it is very silly -- I mean I know we're awesome and all but we don't need to be in two divisions, haha.

I see Zefram used the ideas. And yes there are some mistakes in my seedings, but the official document corrects those. So I see no need to update mine. Thanks Zefram. The official list now looks very good. ;)

There are always seeding matches for those who feel they can play higher.

Funny thing that Virtual Dejection makes it into div1 when they won like 1 marine round during season 3, including play-off (Troll?).
Won't complain though ;).

If Australia put in a team it could be premiere imo

Assuming vD are or may be flush against the oF, it seems obvious that they have the level to be div1.
What is the Australia Team Seb?

seeding looks pretty good to me. good job ensl :) we're probably going to challenge iM or Godar to a seeding match.

Pelargir

What is the Australia Team Seb?

There isn't one afaik right now, but there were talks of one.

It's a shame we don't have teams like Ascension or 50 Shades Of Awesome indeed...
What happened to them?

Sohma

It's a shame we don't have teams like Ascension or 50 Shades Of Awesome indeed...
What happened to them?

Most teams in the Aus scene simply disbanded and reformed. We actually have more teams this season than last. 10 teams as opposed to 8.

It can be logistically difficult for the Australians to play in the NSL because of the the vast time differences. While 6-7 hours for NA vs EU matches is quite feasible, much more than that and you're playing day and night matches at awkward times. While the NSL will always try to be an inclusive international league, I'll admit that I've paid less attention to our friends from down under because Seb and company have done such a wonderful job at running the AusNS2 League.

wouldn't it be interesting that teams have to play untill there is a difference of 3 wins / losses?

That could be an idea for the playoff indeed, was supposed to be so.

this season will not turn out well if you merge div. 3 and div.4. the new teams that have formed need a lower skill pool to go against. most of the time when div. 3 or higher scrims these newer teams they get rolled and learn nothing other than that they are not good enough. which will most likely end in the team disbanding/quitting. [I.E. ifixit div.4 season 3](they quit cause they felt they couldn't keep up so they disbanded)

Littleevilwolf

[I.E. ifixit div.4 season 3](they quit cause they felt they couldn't keep up so they disbanded)

iFixit disbanded because they decided they couldn't commit the time and energy. Most of the guys coming into the team had literally green names. There's a big difference between a team of pubbies and a team of literal rookies who don't even know the names of lifeforms // structures.

I'ma see if i can't get my fellers to play in this league too. excuse to get the lazy pricks to practice more. Wish me luck.

I believe in regards to div 3, there should be some sort of move up after x games or a re-scheduling after x games so the lower teams who maybe very new and might not be on par do not have to play a team who would be leading div 3 with maybe 2 round loses and then get their morale lowered more. for instance, if team A in div 3 plays higher ranked seeds and does not lose many rounds say after 4 games is 4-0 with 1-2 round loses, move them up to div 2, have them scheduled vs a current standing div 2 team see how it plays.
or i am not sure how many games are in the season, but say there 12 games.
after 3 games, schedule reflects top 4 teams playing each other, almost in a round robin, so therefore by week 6/7 if there is a team that has won out and is 6/7-0 move them up

Sohma

It's a shame we don't have teams like Ascension or 50 Shades Of Awesome indeed...
What happened to them?

50 shades and ascension no longer exist.
asc became envy.
0.o became the bottom end.

With a few player switchups etc.

Fun times..