Before you read everything in this post, you may care to note two things that will sudden a lot of you, especially those in CHCH =(
1: This is a Physical 'LAN' tournament
2: It will be held in Auckland
Now, if you aren't suddened by the above, then keep reading!
RydogStarcraft will be hosting a Starcraft II tournament on the 4th December. This will be held at EchoLan #6, and will be the main event. Cool things about this:
> EchoLan is run from 3-5 December, and is not restricted to only Star2. There will be multiple games and tournaments running - but Star2 will be the premier event!
> There will be a full coverage set up of the event. This will include a TV Broadcast van being brought in, and live cameras, big screen spectatorship, and live commentating done by RydogStarcraft.
> We have sponsorship! So there are actually prizes for the tournament. This is still hush hush. On the bright side, we are not settling with what we have! We are in talks with a number of big well-known names to obtain further sponsorship as well!
The goal for this tournament is to get as many people entering as possible. If this first (Star2) event goes, we will be able to run a MUCH larg scale event next time. And with it's success, we hope to be able to run a simular event in Christchurch as well.
A lot more of the details are still being finalised, but that's the important information so far. We are really pushing with all our might to make the eSports scene here in NZ huge, and get the competition to a stage where the prize pools are CrAZy!!
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