The StarCraft II Community Team League

2013 – 2016

The SC2CTL was designed as the premier, community-oriented team league. From the ground up, it was built for maximum participation of everyone involved, without forgetting the joy that comes from being determined the sole winner. Seasons were long, to maximise the amount of play every team got before being eliminated.

In its later years, SC2CTL operated like the community league that might be down the street from your house: it organised fun and unique events and helped its members reach their potential in every way it could. It was an organisation that loved StarCraft.

History

May 10, 2013

The idea is born

While playing in the team league organised by the "Strength in Numbers" forum (who absorbed the former FXO NA), I was very displeased with the organisation and cohesiveness of the experience. I thought I could do better.
June 30, 2013

Version 1 launches

After many frantic 13-hour programming days and skipping out on handing in university assignments and quizzes, version 1 of the site is ready. The inaugural reddit post is met with a relatively tepid response.
July 11, 2013

Das Keyboard sponsors Season 1

A fantastic sponsor pickup for a small, new league. Das offers five mechanical keyboards to the winning team, plus swag for the lower leagues. The reddit thread gets a lot of attention and 80 teams register.
July 13, 2013

WingnutSC and Gallagation join the team

WingnutSC and Gallagation join as casters-in-chief. In a partnership made in heaven the duo go on to cast over 50 matches totalling hundreds of hours of game time.
September 22, 2013

The Season 1 finals, cast live from Michigan University

In an absolutely incredible finals, Team Gravity take on the favourites, YOUNGMONEYCASHMONEYBILLIONAIRES. Players like Hendralisk and MaSa are fielded against some up-and-coming American players.
November 2, 2013

Youmacon 2013

SC2CTL hosts the StarCraft II tournament at Youmacon Detroit.
January 7, 2014

The largest Dogecoin showmatch ever

Through some incredible community generosity SC2CTL raises over a million dogecoins for a showmatch between Clarity and SEED. Just after the match, those coins were worth well over two thousand US dollars.
March 25, 2014

Season 2, sponsored by MYTHLOGIC

MYTHLOGIC joins as a sponsor with over $1,100 in prizes, giveaways and support. WingnutSC and Gallagation reprise their roles. Over 100 teams register, making SC2CTL the largest team league in the world by enrolment two years running. Also announced: some interesting new awards, including the Bellcurve Award and CombatEXTreme.
June 28, 2014

Grubby and iNcontroL guest cast the Season 2 finals

SC2CTL hits its peak stream viewership, over 3,000 sustained viewers, as Grubby and iNcontroL join to guest cast MicroGamerZ against Miraculous Gaming in a fantastic series.
November 3, 2014

Youmacon 2014

The team is back for another year of hosting Youmacon, pulling in the likes of Winter and DesRow.
March 3, 2015

SC2CTL Jeopardy

In an extreme change of pace, SC2CTL hosts the first StarCraft II game show, in a Jeopardy! format. It gets its own page.
June 6, 2015

Jeopardy episode 11 is the last regular broadcast

Starcraft Jeopardy moves from a weekly occurrence to an occasional special event.
October 30, 2015

Youmacon 2015

For yet another year, the team hosts Youmacon Detroit.
March 19, 2016

Starcraft Jeopardy, live

Starcraft Jeopardy is invited to perform a live episode at Kings of the North. Watch it here.