[Tournament]Masters Cup Sun 26th August! $10 prize just for joining
Welcome to the 21st SEA Masters Cup!
The Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament. $100 prize on offer to the winner, $35 2nd prize, $20 3rd. $175 prize pool total*! This event is sponsored by Eddie, Silicon Sports, and sc2sea.com
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. Our last few Cups have had 15000+ viewers!
We are aware that the City Hunter SCII ROCCAT Cup is also on this Sunday, starting at 10am. Hopefully it will almost be completed when we start our tournmanent, if not, there may be the option of playing from the venue, speak to Chris/Arnor at City Hunter regarding this. We hope you can participate in both
xGKingBenji for casting MC 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17 + 20
System casting MC 6, 14,15, 16 + 19 + co-casting MC 8 + 10
HDPhoenix casting MC 1 + 2
Dox casting MC 12 + 15
Loach for casting MC 17 + 19
LiviBee for casting MC 21 + 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 casting MC 8
Rageboredguy casting MC 16
Duckvillelol for casting MC 18
ToRBaldie for casting MC 21
TAZain for co-casting MC 15, 16, 19 + 21
Zepph for co-casting MC 9, 11 + 13
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
XanT for helping Admin MC 1- 18, 20, 21
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, 26th of August, 2012. Time: 6pm AEST, 4pm 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: A: http://www.twitch.tv/baldie24 B: http://www.twitch.tv/thebeeduck Prizes: Winner gets the $100 prize and bragging rights for being the best of the best. $35 for 2nd, $20 to 3rd - *Prize pool may increase
There is also a lucky draw prize! One lucky person shall get $10 just for joining! 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 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 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
. 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, 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: GSL Daybreak (B01 no 2nd game) (R1 on bracket) Ro64: WCS Cloud Kingdom (B01 no 2nd game) (R2 on bracket) Ro32: WCS Shakuras Plateau (B03) (R3 on bracket) Ro16: GSL Metropolis (B03) (R4 on bracket) Ro8: WCS Ohana (B03) (R5 on bracket) Semi-Finals: WCS Anitga Shipyard (B03) Finals: (B05) WCS Entombed Valley
(3rd Place Match WCS Entombed Valley, B03)
Loser can pick from any the following maps:
WCS Cloud Kingdom, WCS Shakuras Plateau, GSL Daybreak, Tal'Darim Altar LE, WCS Entombed Valley, GSL Metropolis, WCS Ohana, WCS Anitga Shipyard, GSL Bel'shir beach (winter version)
* 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 3pm SG/5pm AEDT on Sunday 26 Augst, Brackets will be published on challonge.com shortly after and updated in this thread, along with seedings.
Late chance to join in channel sc2seamcx if there are no shows.
Reminder this Masters Cup is for SEA citizens and residents only. There will be an open event in 1 month, on September 23, where non SEA players are welcome to join.
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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