The Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament for Starcraft 2, Heart of the Swarm. $150 prize on offer to the winner, $75 2nd prize, $30 3rd. $255 prize pool*! There is also 300 sea power rank points up for grabs. No league restrictions apply. This event is sponsored by Tt eSPORTS, Eddie, Silicon Sports, and sc2sea.com
SEA Power Ranks is the system we shall use to determine seeding. We shall be allocating points for placing highly in each Masters Cup, wT Weekly, and other online sea tournaments. These are then added to a players career total points to work out our tournament seeds. Masters Cup is one of, if not the toughest event in our region, so points will be given from 1st to 16th place to reward those who finish highly, but might just fall short of the 1st-3rd cash prizes. It also serves to reward regular participation.
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Silicon Sports are a Melbourne based company, responsible for the succesful Melbourne Barcrafts. They also have a quality casting team, and are all passioante gamers.
Sponsors and donations for this event are welcomed, if you'd like to help out, please pm me. Masters Cup usually gets around 10,000+ viewers, and 100-150 of the highest quality players in the SEA region.
xGKingBenji for casting MC 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17, 20 + 22
System casting MC 6, 14,15, 16 + 19 + co-casting MC 8 + 10
HDPhoenix casting MC 1 + 2
Dox casting MC 12, 15 + 25
Flamga for casting MC 22, 24 + co-casting MC 29
Duckvillelol for casting MC 18, 23, 26 + 29
Loach for casting MC 17 + 19
LiviBee for casting MC 21, 27 + co-casting MC 14, 17 +19
FaDeMeatex for casting MC 13 + co-casting MC 12
Jaczie for casting MC 7 + co-casting MC 1
Frogmite for casting MC 8
SiliconSports for casting MC 25
Maynarde for casting MC 23
Rageboredguy casting MC 16
Baldie for casting MC 21 + 26
CleighMoores for casting MC 29
BaseTradeTv for casting MC 24, 27 + 28
TAZain for co-casting MC 15, 16, 19, 21 + 22
Zepph for co-casting MC 9, 11, 13, 23 + 26
nGenXeen for co-casting MC 3 + 5
Paz for co-casting MC 7
NvPinder for co-casting MC 15
DrKvMigranT for co-casting MC 16
TADeL for co-casting MC 17
NvmOOnGLaDe for co-casting MC 21 + 27
TAXanT for helping Admin MC 1- 18, 20, 21, 23, 25
Rhuubarb for helping Admin MC 22, 24, 26, 27 + 28
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
Nemo for helping Admin MC 19
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)
One lucky person shall receive $10! While not a massive prize, its a free pizza, or a couple beers, etc, just for liking our page and supporting our tournament! 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!). We shall randomly select one lucky person from the facebook page, and annouce the winner live on stream during the cast.
Details
Date: Sunday, 7th of April, 2013. Time: 6pm AEST, 4pm SGT Location: SEA Battle.net region. Tournament Eligibility: SEA residents + citizens only. No league restrictions apply for this edition. How to Sign Up:Post your SEA ID, country + account most known by (If different from registered account, eg NA, KR ID).
Example: rainbow.766 - South Korea - ST_RainBOw TeamLiquid Thread Live-Stream: A: http://www.twitch.tv/cleighmoores B: http://www.twitch.tv/duckvillelol Prizes: -Winner gets the $150 prize and bragging rights for being the best of the best. $75 for 2nd, $30 to 3rd - *Prize pool may increase
-300 power rank points up for grabs
-Tt esports will be giving away a Saphira Mouse to one lucky Aus/Nz stream viewer!
-There is also a lucky draw prize! One lucky person shall get $10 just for joining! Battle.net Group: Join the group SEA Masters Cup. (starcraft://group/6/5214) If you missed out on pre-registering, the late replacement channel shall be sc2seaMCx. DevianT shall be organizing replacements, message him in game or talk in channel.
· All results must be PMed to DevianT.811 or TAXanT.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 player disconnects occur the match is to be resumed via replay. If a player drops twice on the same game, (G1,G2,etc), it is their opponents right to take the map win, If both players don't agree to resume the map again.
· 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 account, playing on a friends is not allowed
. You are allowed to switch races
. If you are lucky enough to win two SEA Masters Cups in a row, you must take a break from the next SEA version. Just so we can spread the wealth and glory around. International editions are exempt.
. 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: DevianT.811, Rhuubarb.634, TAXanT.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: Daybreak (B01 no 2nd game) (R1 on bracket) Ro64: Akilon Wastes (B03) (R2 on bracket) Ro32: Bel'shir Vestige (B03) (R3 on bracket) Ro16: Whirlwind (B03) (R4 on bracket) Ro8: Star Station (B03) (R5 on bracket) Semi-Finals: NewKirk Precinct (B03) Finals: Neo Planet S (B05)
(3rd Place Match Neo Planet S, B03)
Loser can pick from any the following maps:
Cloud Kingdom, Daybreak, Akilon Wastes, Bel'shir Vestige, Whirlwind, Star Station, NewKirk Precinct, Neo Planet S
* Players are allowed 1 veto each per round. The first game cannot be vetoed. Maps cannot be repeated twice in a series.
Signups will close at 3.45pm SG/5.45pm AEST on Sunday 7 April, Brackets will be published on challonge.com shortly after and updated in this thread. Players will be seeded by SEA Power Rankings.
Late chance to join in channel sc2seamcx if there are no shows.
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Sun Tzu 孫子
"If storm finishes I survive, otherwise terran is op" xGKingDelete 2012
Can Flamga and I nominate ourselves for one of the streams? His stream is still wonky, but I can host it with him on my stream page.
EDIT: I should note the quality of my stream has improved dramatically since Baldie reminded me of Dxtory the other day, so while the bitrate is still around 500 it's now of a watchable quality
Tt esports will also be giving away a Saphira Mouse to one lucky Aus/Nz stream viewer!
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Originally Posted by Av.NXZ
" Masters Cup usually gets around 10,000+ viewers" thats a lot, are you sure about this :P
That's total viewers for the night across 2 streams, not live.
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Originally Posted by CleighMoores
Can Flamga and I nominate ourselves for one of the streams? His stream is still wonky, but I can host it with him on my stream page.
EDIT: I should note the quality of my stream has improved dramatically since Baldie reminded me of Dxtory the other day, so while the bitrate is still around 500 it's now of a watchable quality
I've offered the spot to someone else, waiting to hear back, if not you can
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