Masters Cup Sun 18th December! $10 prize just for joining + bonus prize for watching
Welcome to the 11th SEA Masters Cup!
The Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament. $175 prize on offer to the winner, $90 2nd prize, $40 3rd. $315 prize pool total*! This event is sponsored by Tt eSPORTS, Eddie and sc2sea.com
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Sponsors and donations for this event are welcomed, if you'd like to help out, please pm me. Masters Cup usually gets around 6000+ viewers, and 100-150 of the highest quality players in the SEA region.
HDPhoenix casting MC 1 + 2
nGenBenji for casting MC 3, 4 + 5 + 9, 10 +11
System casting MC 6 + co-casting MC 8 + 10
Frogmite casting MC 8
nGenXeen for co-casting MC 3 + 5
Jaczie for casting MC 7 + co-casting MC 1
Paz for co-casting MC 7
Zepph for co-casting MC 9+11
XanT for helping Admin MC 1- 11
System for helping Admin MC 3 - 5 +7, 8
BakaInu for helping Admin MC 1
Veretis for helping Admin MC 2
SorC for helping Admin MC 6
One lucky participant shall receive $10! While not a massive prize, its a free pizza, or a couple beers, etc, just for playing some sc2! Even if you are eliminated early be sure to stick around, watch the high quality games, and listen out for who will win (It may well be you!). Purpose of this is to encourage player participation, and offer a small reward for those who fail to place, as every game is of a high level. Depending upon future donations/sponsorship this may continue or be replaced by some other sort of prize, eg hardware. It shall be trialed this Masters Cup, as always, feedback welcomed. The prize draw shall be done live on stream using http://www.random.org/. If the number generated, matches your randomly seeded number on challonge.com, you're the winner! (Except if you no showed and got walked over in the early rounds, then we'll redraw, as it is designed to reward participants)
Tt eSPORTS share a great love of Starcraft 2, and realise that fans play a large role in it's success. Thus they are generously giving one of their quality Tt eSPORTS Dasher mouse pads to a lucky Aus/NZ spectator. So be sure to watch the Masters Cup for your chance to win!
See here for specs, reviews, pictures, etc. If you're in the market for a new mouse pad, definately take a look at the Dasher!
Details
Date: Sunday, 18th of December, 2011. Time: 6pm AEDT, 5pm AEST, 3pm SGT Location: SEA Battle.net region. Tournament Eligibility: You must be in Masters or Grand Masters League (1v1 - SEA license). Lower players will be disqualified. How to Sign Up: post your user name, character code in this thread Live-Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/benjisc2 Prizes: Winner gets the $175 prize and bragging rights for being the best of the best. $90 for 2nd, $40 to 3rd - *Prize pool may increase
There is also a lucky draw prize! One lucky person shall get $10 just for joining!
Also giving away one Tt eSPORTS Dasher mouse pad to a lucky Aus/NZ spectator Battle.net Chat-Channel: "sc2seaMC". If the event is full, the late replacement channel shall be sc2seaMCx. Someone shall be organizing replacements, message them in game or talk in channel. If not message FaDeEdOne in game.
· All results must be PMed to FaDeEdOne.139 or XanT.665 in-game.
· Players who are 15 or more minutes late will be disqualified, if a replacement cannot be fount their opponent will be given an automatic win.
· If any disconnects occur within the first two minutes of game-play, the match will be replayed. However if the disconnect occurs after two minutes of game-time, then it is up to the discretion of the referee to decide whether; A) the game is to be replayed, or B) player X/Y is to be awarded the win.
· Any disputes will be handled by the Admins after reviewing all associated replays.
· Any inappropriate behaviour will result in a disqualification.
· Players must have their own Sea account, playing on a friends is not allowed
. International/non SEA players are welcome, but they must have shown they are active on the SEA ladder, eg. ST.KingKong (yChSPR/gts), SoulmanfOu (Master), Slayers_Dragon
. You are allowed to switch races
. If you are lucky enough to win two Masters Cups in a row, you must take a break from the next one. Just so we can spread the wealth and glory around.
. Non SEA residents/international players can join every 3rd 'open' Masters Cup. The 2 beforehand and 2 following are just for SEA players to compete amongst themselves.
Refs: FaDeEdOne.139, XanT.665
The first map of each round is pre-determined and outlined in the following list. The losing player will decide the subsequent map. The map pool is as follows:
Ro128: WCG Metalopolis (B01 no 2nd game) (R1 on bracket) Ro64: WCG Anitga Shipyard (B01 no 2nd game) (R2 on bracket) Ro32: GSL Daybreak (B03) (R3 on bracket) Ro16: WCG Tal'Darim Altar LE (B03) (R4 on bracket) Ro8: WCG Shakuras Plateau (B03) (R5 on bracket) Semi-Finals: GSTL Dual Site (B03) Finals: GSL Terminus RE (B05)
(3rd Place Match GSL Terminus RE 1st, B03)
Loser can pick from any the following maps:
Xel'Naga Caverns, WCG Metalopolis, WCG Shakuras Plateau, GSL Daybreak, WCG Tal'Darim Altar LE, WCG Shattered Temple, GSL Terminus RE, GSTL Dual Site, WCG Anitga Shipyard
* Players are allowed 1 veto each per round. 2 vetos are allowed in the B05 final. First game cannot be vetoed.
Signups will close at 2pm SG/5pm AEDT on Sunday 18 Dec, Brackets will be published on challonge.com shortly after and updated in this thread, along with seedings.
Although these GPD players are qualified, they will have to post in this thread to confirm their participation or their qualified spot will be given to someone else.
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