RTS-League: Clan Leagues for Strategy Gamers

We at RTS League are proud to announce the launch of the StarCraft II competitions open to all the clans out there!

RTS League is the prominent 10-years-in-running competition focusing on teamplay in the real-time strategy games genre. We have hosted leagues in various titles, including Age of Empires II - The Conquerors, our most successful competition with its 26th season under way, and games like Command & Conquer 3, Empire Earth or Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. RTS League's aim is to provide quality opportunity to test your clan's skills and have fun while playing the game you love, all in a friendly setting moderated by dedicated staffers who understand the ins and outs of their games and who are ready to help whenever and wherever they can. We offer players a rewarding tournament experience bringing both fun and pride to the clans successful in our league battles, and by the responses from our community, we can see nothing more is necessary.

We welcome every clan wanting to participate, be it a top team aiming to prove their supremacy over the gaming scene, or a group of friends looking for a bit of fun in their spare time. RTS League knows no bounds and we are prepared to open leagues for every region with enough teams ready to take part, wishing only to find the answer to the most important question there is - which clan rules them all?

As we are well aware of the fact that different players prefer different tournament formats, we have prepared two league setups for you to choose from - one based on 3v3 team games, and the other on 1v1 duels. You just choose the version better suited to your clan's tastes (or you don't choose at all and take part in both) and sign up through the forms below.

Here is the look at the competitions - following signups, clans are separated according to their estimated skill level into balanced divisions, in which they play each other in a series of one-week rounds. Further proceedings differ according to the play system:

Each match consists of two games with the default setting being 3v3, an option best promoting teamplay skills and showing the true team spirit of every clan. After the group stage, standard BO3 playoff decides the top clans of the season.

Questions & Answers Forum for the 3v3 Clan League

Every round is divided into four 1v1 matches, each battle taking place on a set time and featuring different players, determining overall individual qualities of the clans. Playoffs then bring BO5 matches with increased number of games played, making clans prove their worth before they take their place as the best teams of the season.

Questions & Answers Forum for the 1v1 Clanwars League

We are, of course, also preparing grounds for match casting and VoDs to make your epic battles of wit and prowess famous across the globe, letting the whole world know who they should worship as gods of skill or praise as masterminds of ingenuity.

So, is your clan ready to make history?

Signups are open until Friday, 17th September, and the first seasons will start on Monday, 20th September.

3v3 Clan League Signup Form

1v1 Clanwars League Signup Form

I know that many of you have been waiting, for several years now, for the RTSL Hall of Fame to return. This was a very popular feature on the old website, and we plan to recreate it here with as much detail as we can.

At this point, we have finished a basic hall of fame page for our Age of Kings clan league. As you will be able to see, most of the winners and award signatures are there, but a good number of them have gone missing. If you (or anyone you know) still has a copy of a missing image file, please let us know and we will add it to the Hall's collection.

We have collected signature images for almost all of our other leagues, and we will be unveiling them as the respective sections are finished.

You can see the overall Hall of Fame page here, and the full AOC section is available here. You can also access the Hall of Fame via the link in the site header. Enjoy!

I am very pleased to announce our brand-new, fully redesigned RTS-League website!

I have been working on the new look, behind the scenes, since early this Spring. The most important changes to our new website are actually under the hood - the code that runs everything from our replay system, to the league standings, to our news page has been completely rewritten from scratch. I hope that the new systems will allow our staff to better serve you in the years that follow.

Because all of our website's functional code was being rewritten anyway, it made sense to provide a completely new user experience as well. Our old website was functional, but that's all it was - there was no real style, nothing attractive that jumped out and made people want to stay on the site. I hope that I have improved our website in this regard.

For the staff at other sites who wish to link back to us, whether from their forums or in their news feeds, we have a number of images available which represent our new theme:

600px-wide header image:

400px-wide header image:

88x31 link image:

All of our images are available for you to use, modify and share under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license (US version). In addition, the background for our banner image was derived from the work "ray of light" by Novak Peter Janos, available at http://art.gnome.org/, and released under the Free Art License.

Please let me know if you find any glitches or bugs with the new website. With changes this extensive, there are bound to be a few that I missed. You can report them in our Technical Support forum.

I hope everyone enjoys our new website. We are planning a number of new announcements over the next few days, so please stop by and check us out again soon. Good luck and have fun!

August is coming to its close and the remaining days of summer will see the battles for the Age of Mythology - The Titans title take place. Will Deities of Death triumf again or will they fall this time?

The following active clans have been placed in the brackets:

TSM, DoD, mG, GDM, ONU, SUD

Glhf and may the best one win!

Brackets

Scheduling forum

We have now opened sign-ups for the DOW2 clan league. Thank you to everyone for your patience!

As stated earlier, each team will play 2 games per week, with the default setting being 3v3 - an option best promoting teamplay skills and showing the true team spirit of every clan. After the group stage, a standard BO3 playoff will decide the top clans of the season.

The new season is scheduled to begin on Monday, September 13. Signups will close at midnight GMT on Tuesday, September 7.

EDIT: Times have been extended to give more teams an opportunity to sign up.

All clans wishing to apply for entry into the league should post the following information in this thread:

Clan Tag:
Clan Name:
Clan Website:
Operator Name:**
Operator e-mail or MSN:
Number of Active Members:
Agreement that the Operator has read and agreed to the rules.

**(This is the person responsible for scheduling matches for your clan, uploading replays, etc.)

The official league rules can be found here.

Please take care when reading the rules - they are used in every aspect of running the league, and it is important that all clans understand and agree to them before signing up.

Also keep in mind that English is the official language of the RTSL forums, and each clan's operator must be a fluent English speaker. The use of online translators is not acceptable (and is also easy to spot). This ensures that clans from around the world can schedule games and communicate effectively with one another, as well as with our League Staff.

Thanks for signing up! A list of accepted clans will be released shortly after signups are closed.

Good luck and have fun, everybody! :D