-Double Elimination format
-Earlier start time
-Games will be played on NA server
-Double ranking points for International edition! (Last International MC for this season of SCS)
1 September 2013 11:00 AM SGTCountdown to 1st September 11am!
This Masters Cup is a double elimination style tournament for Starcraft 2, Heart of the Swarm. $100 prize on offer to the winner, $50 2nd prize, $20 3rd + $10 4th. $200 prize pool*! There is also 600 SEA Championship Series points up for grabs. This event is sponsored by Eddie, eSports SG, Xmashed Gear, Silicon Sports, and sc2sea.com
SEA Power Ranks is the system we shall use to determine seeding. SPR allocats points for placing highly in tournaments such 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.
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.
Xmashed Gear is the place to get all your geek and gamer apparel. They promise the most elite tees you can find this side of New Tristam! For more information, please visit http://www.facebook.com/xmashedgear
xGKingBenji for casting MC 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17, 20 + 22
BaseTradeTv for casting MC 24, 27, 28, 32, 33 + 34
Duckvillelol for casting MC 18, 23, 26, 29 + 34
System casting MC 6, 14,15, 16 + 19 + co-casting MC 8 + 10
LiviBee for casting MC 21, 27 + co-casting MC 14, 17, 19 + 34
HDPhoenix casting MC 1 + 2
Dox casting MC 12, 15 + 25
TAZain for co-casting MC 15, 16, 19, 21 + 22
Zepph for co-casting MC 9, 11, 13, 23 + 26
Flamga for casting MC 22, 24 + co-casting MC 29
Loach for casting MC 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
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, 1st of September, 2013. Time: 1pm AEST, 11am SGT Location: NA Battle.net region. Tournament Eligibility: You must be in Diamond, Masters or Grand Masters League on any server. Lower players will be disqualified. How to Sign Up:Post your NA 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/duckvillelol B: http://www.twitch.tv/basetradetv Prizes: -Winner gets the $100 prize and bragging rights for being the best of the best. $50 for 2nd, $20 to 3rd + $10 4th place - *Prizes are in AUD
-600 SEA Championship Series points up for grabs
-Our friends at Xmashed Gear are giving out 10% discount vouchers available form 28th Aug to 10th Sep. Visit Shop.xmashed.com. (They have also designed some new sc2 shirts, so take a look if you're keen for some new gear.)
And be sure to like them on facebook eSports SG and Xmashed Gear
-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. 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:
Upper Bracket:
Ro128: Whirlwind (B01 no 2nd game) (R1 on bracket) Ro64: Akilon Wastes (B03) (R2 on bracket) Ro32: Neo Planet S (B03) (R3 on bracket) Ro16: Derelict Watcher TE (B03) (R4 on bracket) Ro8: Star Station (B03) (R5 on bracket) Semi-Finals: NewKirk Precinct TE (B03) Finals: Bel'shir Vestige (B03) - double chance for winners bracket player
Loser can pick from any the following maps:
Derelict Watcher TE, Akilon Wastes, Bel'shir Vestige, Whirlwind, Star Station, NewKirk Precinct TE, 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.
Lower Bracket:
Lower bracket is best of 1 until 3rd/4th placing. Both players veto 3 maps each from the map pool, and play the remaining one
(4th Place Match is a B03 on NewKirk Precinct TE)
(3rd Place Match is a B03 on Bel'shir Vestige)
Signups will close at 12.45pm AEST/10.45am SG on Sunday 1 September, 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.
If i make day 2 of MoK will probably play that one over this. Thus continuing my string of truly excellent reasons why I keep not playing this tournament
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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.
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If i make day 2 of MoK will probably play that one over this. Thus continuing my string of truly excellent reasons why I keep not playing this tournament
^ I approve this message. Best of luck to everyone in Masters Cup, and to everyone playing in MoK Invitational alike.
___________________________________ Vice-captain of the Fusion Slugs
Member of the Masters of Koreign casting team.
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