When: January 18th + 19th Where: North American Server Who: 6 invited players joined by 10 qualified players How to qualify: If you aren't one of the 6 invited players you can qualify by playing in our weekly tournaments and earning points.
Points table Here Prizes: $300 prize pool distributed as
1st $200
2nd $100 Format: Two day tournament
Day 1, 4 groups of 4 playing WCS format groups.
Day 2, Round Of 8 single elimination bracket. Stream:
Insano syfgamingtv
TBA PathFinderTV
Player two announced, as Zenabi already 'obviously guessed' is Nv.Moonglade!
The beautiful Australian hope with his famous hair flick is our second invite to the tournament, easily the most achieved Australian SC2 player having representing our region in 5 IEM tournaments, 2 GSL tournaments, 2 MLG, A blizzcon and 2 WCS America 2013 seasons in premier league.
This interview is from his first season in WCS America 2013 were he finished in the top 8.
The third invited player is Suppy.
The Zerg player from Evil Geniuses has been a solid player in the Americas scene for a while now having top 20 results at MLG, WCS America 2013 and IEM NYC. His stand out performance was WCS 2012 where he finished 5th - 8th where he beat players like ViBE, LoWeLy and had a 5 game series against PartinG.
Next to be invited is the Canadian zerg mYi.Kane.
Kane has shown some good results winning SHOUTCraft America and getting a semi final place in Red Bull training grounds. As one of the strongest Canadian players it will be interesting to see how he matches against top NA and SEA players in this event.
Finally a non-zerg player has been announced ROOT.MaSa a terran player from Canada will be joining the list, after strong results in SHOUTCraft America Winter coming second behind EG.HuK he has proven that his one of the strongest players in the Americas scene.
ROOT.CatZ! The captain of ROOT is joining our invite list, one of the most popular personalities in the community is sure to entertain us throughout the tournament. Even though CatZ doesn't have a major result he has been a solid player in the Americas for a long time now.
Quick Question, do you had to of been in the previous tournaments to qualify.
Qualifying players will be determined from SYF points earned through qualifying tournaments. The number of tournaments entered doesn't matter, just the number of points earned.
For details regarding the points that are on offer, have a look at the relevant thread for each qualifying tournament. A full list of points earned can be found here
Unfortunately Moonglade has dropped out on the tournament since his in Korea casting Pro League.
We will be replacing him with a new invited player and will announce the player tomorrow.
The player replacing Moonglade has been found!
Siphonn from Deimos eSports is a Protoss player from the United States, he previously represented Clarity Gaming and has competed at many MLGs along with IEM Katowice in early 2013 and IEM New York.
Siphonn will join group A competing against Kane , Probe and Fenner .
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