Solar Premier Cup

Premier Cup provides club teams the ideal preseason tournament experience, boasting superior facilities and competition as well as its guaranteed three-game format – making this tournament the premier tournament for ECNL clubs in Texas.

Solar District Cup provides multidisciplinary collegiate student teams the chance to design and model optimized distributed energy systems for mixed-use campuses or districts (groups of buildings served by one electrical distribution feeder) at mixed-use campuses or communities. For details, refer to the official Class 2023-2024 Rules.

Pre-Season Training

Solar Premier Cup is an ideal pre-season tournament, featuring superior facilities and competition in a guaranteed 3-game format. Last year’s tournament featured over 300 teams; register early to ensure your team’s spot.

Preseason training included continuous low-intensity running at either a steady or varied pace, moderate and high-intensity interval training with short rest between runs, small-sided games and friendlies integrated into training sessions, power training involving plyometric jumps and dynamic strength exercises, small-sided games against friendly rivals as well as small rest intervals between runs.

Results indicate that preseason training significantly enhanced anthropometric measures and anaerobic performance, but changes to IS and TS were not maintained throughout the season. This could be due to low-intensity aerobic-type exercises combined with an overall heavy training load, which caused fatigue symptoms. Though IS and T’s performance improved during preseason training sessions, this could likely be attributed to the combination of power-training sessions with game-oriented training that was included. Future research should compare the effects of various training regimes on anaerobic performance during both preseason and in-season phases. Furthermore, it would be interesting to examine whether or not the methods utilized by this study resulted in improvements in anaerobic performance at both points in time.

Pre-Season Tournaments

Solar continued his strong form into the Legacy of the Void era by dominating online tournaments. He won several tournaments – such as the inaugural Leifeng Cup, SanDisk SHOUTcraft League Weekly Tournament, and two monthly tournaments in a row – including GSL Season 2, where he defeated Hush in the finals. However, during Proleague 2015 Round 2, he struggled greatly, losing three times via Ace matches to place 6th overall.

Solar had an outstanding start to 2016 in the SSL Challengers. He upset an elite Polish Zerg team of Elazer and Nerchio to reach the top 16. Eventually, he faced GuMiho and Zest before facing Dark. Unfortunately, he couldn’t defeat Protoss player Dark and lost by a game margin.

DreamHack Open Stockholm marked his inaugural non-Korean premier tournament appearance, and he made quite an impression by reaching the finals. He beat Jaedong, Bunny, and HerO in the group stage to advance to the bracket stage; SpaceMarine and Snute were defeated before meeting up with Dark a second time for a final matchup that ultimately resulted in the loss by a 3-2 scoreline.

Solar faced Dark in the final round of the event; their match would determine his chances of qualifying for the WCS Global Playoffs. After being tied 2-2 for much of the overtime period, both players exchanged games until it ended with four players tied 4-4 apiece.

Referees then decided who had won, with Dark eventually emerging victorious 5-4 and Solar finishing 19th overall in the world rankings – an outstanding conclusion to an incredible year in which Solar overtook many veteran Korean StarCraft II players, winning premier Legacy of Void tournaments such as DreamHack ROCCAT LotV Championship.

Post-Season Tournaments

Solar SC was victorious at both ends of the National Premier League Finals for girls’ and boys’ teams on Monday, winning both titles over five days of competition. Other familiar NPL clubs also demonstrated their prowess – in 1974, Newark FC won both U-14 boys titles, while Sockers FC claimed the U-16 boys’ championship after falling just short last season by penalty kicks in the final.

The 2023 Premier Cup is an unrestricted pre-season tournament designed to offer top facilities, stellar competition, and guaranteed three-game formats for teams representing USYS, US Club, and USA rosters.

Solar was determined to show his mettle at the Legacy of the Void tournament after having had an underwhelming start to the Legacy era. He made short work of group stage matches without suffering a single defeat; advanced to the winners’ bracket and defeated Bunny, Jaedong, herO, and SpaceMarine each by two games; later beat SpaceMarine and Snute by three scores each before facing PartinG from the losers’ bracket in finals; won in game 7.

Solar took down Dark in an intense finals game, seven wins to claim his first-ever Starleague victory and take another step toward becoming a Legend.

The Class of 2023-2024 Solar District Cup challenges multidisciplinary student teams to design a distributed energy system that maximizes energy offset and financial savings for an existing mixed-use campus or district, using renewable energy sources or multiple sources from renewables by applying their knowledge of electricity load data and site conditions to design an integrated energy solution that meets target specifications. You can find details regarding this competition’s scope and requirements in its official Rules document; registration for its one-semester/two-quarter version of this event is now open.