[Eddie]

Introducing the Terran Hope
Initiative $$$
Powered by Silicon Sports

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Where are all the top tier Terrans at?

Nobody knows? It's been a sad occurrence in our heavily Zerg and Protoss dominated scene for a while now.

Some statistics to consider.

• Of the 41 Masters Cups, 33 have been won by , 5 by and only 3 by .
• In the current OSC rankings there are only 2 Terrans ranked in the top 32 (Down from 5/32 in season 1).
• iaguz is the only non zerg to have won an ACL championship (once).
• If you look through most of the top SEA team lists, you'll be lucky to find a Terran representative.

So it seems Terrans are a bit of an endangered species atm.

Silicon Sports and the OSC team are partnering together to do something about this discrepancy!

ANY Terran player who places in the money in a OSC partnered tournament will be awarded double their earnings up to $100 in value for SEA residents and $25 for International players (Korea, Europe, NA)!

+ [Examples] +

If a SEA Terran player wins a SEAcraft Weekly $30 first place, $60 will be coming your way.
Win $100 in a Masters Cup, $200 will be coming your way.

If an international Terran player wins a SEAcraft Weekly $30 first place, $55 will be coming your way.
Win $100 in a Masters Cup, $125 will be coming your way.

Before everyone switches to try terran for a week, remember that you'll still have the best chance at winning if you play your main race. This is designed to encourage up and coming SEA terrans, and international big names to play in OSC tournaments. You must play the entire tournament as Terran, no switching mid series/mid tournament.

*Note, playing as random doesn't count as Terran. A cap of $150 per player will be set, you can't earn bonuses once this amount has been reached Invitationals and WCS NA Qualifiers will be excluded from future bonuses, as already a very rewarding prizepool!

Terran Hope initiative finished on 31/8/2014

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Silicon Sports

Silicon Sports is a Melbourne based eSports events organisation, responsible for successful events such as BarCraft Melbourne. They also have a quality StarCraft 2 Pro team, SLCN.pro, and academy programme as well as a dedicated casting team.

Twitter: @SiliconSports
Facebook: /SiliconSports
Twitch: /SiliconSports
Website: SiliconSports.net

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Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series

The Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC) is the SEA regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. The top 32 players ranked via SEA Power Rankings / OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion!

PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.

Current 2014 rankings can be found here

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[rezyn8]

Help us Obi-Wan Terran, you're our only hope!

Terran Beneficiaries

Tournament	Name	Nationality	Place	Bonus	Total
Masters Cup #42	uThermal		3rd	+$45	$45/$150
Saturday Showdown #14	Tree		2nd	+$50	$50/$150
SEAcraft Weekly #9	Hack		3rd	+$15	$40/$150
WCS/ANZ Season 3 Qualifier	iaguz		3rd	+$100	$130/$150
Saturday Showdown S2W1	Hack		3rd	+$25	$25/$150
Hairy Bash #3	iaguz		3rd	+$30	$30/$150
SEAcraft #4	Heart		2nd	+$15	$15/$150
Total Paid				$280

Already $280 AUD given away!

*Some adjustments to the rules:

WCS NA Qualifiers will be excluded from future bonuses, as already a very rewarding prizepool!
A cap of $150 per player will be set, you can't earn bonuses once this amount has been reached
$50 bonus for International players (Korea, Europe, NA) changing is to $25


My personal views on why I (SLCN) have partnered with OSC in this initiative:

• I am Terran, always have been, always will be
• The local scene is completely overrun by Zerg
• I feel Terran brings a lot more diversity to games for spectators
• It shines a bit more light on the local seen internationally
• I wanted to do something a little more innovative

As for Protoss, yes the number of winners are very similar to Terran in the Masters Cup but across the majority of tournaments, Protoss is quite well represented. If someone wants to front up money for a similar initiative, go for it!

[Philosopher]

Hopefully this entices some high ranking Terran's not usual wanting to compete to have a go!

[Elusory]

We need a TvTournament every TvTuesday.

[ROOT`iaguz]

huzzah for subsidies

Quick Comments

Philosopher:

now join SEAcraft Weekly and win!

[x5.RunaMoK]

too many jerg

Quick Comments

x5.Crescendo:

Proxy Battlecruiser operational, Commander

[Blysk]

why dont protosses get the same benefits! we're only 2 more than terrans and those were likely koreans... protosses should get the same benefits! strike! riot!!

[Frustration]

Originally Posted by Blysk

why dont protosses get the same benefits! we're only 2 more than terrans and those were likely koreans... protosses should get the same benefits! strike! riot!!

i AGREE TO THIS

[SLCN.Wally]

Because terran actually takes skill

Quick Comments

	FLuX:	+100000000000000000000
	rezyn8:	Love it!

[eCKoa`ProzeR]

Originally Posted by blysk

protosses should get the same benefits! Strike! Riot!!

Originally Posted by frustration

i agree to this

I agree to frustration agreeing to blysk!

༼ つ ◕_◕༽つ PROTOSS VERSION OR RIOT ༼ つ ◕_◕༽つ

[asdfSchnitzel]

Originally Posted by Eddie

*Note, playing as random doesn't count as Terran.

Eddie ruins all my fun

[YiDaToT]

Why no ProtossT.T, 4 protoss winners are korean.Toss need it

Quick Comments

syfRize:

+1

[ThatGuyDoMo]

Originally Posted by Eddie

Before everyone switches to try terran for a week, remember that you'll still have the best chance at winning if you play your main race. This is designed to encourage up and coming SEA terrans, and international big names to play in OSC tournaments. You must play the entire tournament as Terran, no switching mid series/mid tournament.

*Note, playing as random doesn't count as Terran.

Why not just double the money in the first place? Why do they need to be Terran? Are you that concerned with balancing out the racial statistics? Or is this just a viewer thing to get more Terrans to play and lessen the amount of ZvZ? I don't even know of any new up and coming Terran players in SEA who would get anywhere close to winning this tournament anyways so I'm not sure any new people will show up, and even if they do they'll get stomped (not the international one).

I suppose its a good bit of fun, I just don't like the money idea. If you are trying to incentivize this just double the money regardless but give winning Terrans extra OSC points, the money means nothing in the short term but at least the extra OSC points could make a difference in the OSC rankings and get more in the top 32.

Clever angle though, I like these new ideas getting churned out.

Quick Comments

	syfRize:	PICK A SIDE OF THE FENCE FOR ONCE
	syfPhoenix:	I agree, I mean sounds like a cool~ish idea. But why not just run another tournament?
	Fullmetal:	I am an up and coming terran player, and I plan on becoming a full time progamer in 2016 SO YEAH DEAL WITH IT

[Eddie]

We already have a lot of Protoss OSC representatives. Both in the top 8, and throughout top 32.

We've seen SEA stars like Blysk win the SEA Rising Star, Lobo win weeklies, both and others doing well in WCS. Blysk was incredibly close this last Masters Cup.

There's already some strong foreigners, Arthur, Sage, Huk, Hitman.
Plus SEA stars Pezz, Fighto, Probe, etc and a few up and comers.

Where are all the top tier Terrans at? Or that next level looking to push up.

The aim is to attract more Terrans/entice people to play Terran in our tournaments.

[Kreamy]

PROTOSS INCENTIVES LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

you want my liver as well?

[Seffy]

Originally Posted by Eddie

Of the 41 Masters Cups, 33 have been won by Zerg, 5 by Protoss and only 3 by Terran.

Yeah that's definitely SEA scene in a nutshell alright.

[ROOT`iaguz]

Stop arguing with eddie people, I needs me cider.

[Eddie]

Axiom eSports Heart is the first player to take advantage of this bonus!

He placed 2nd in tonight's SEAcraft Weekly, losing the finals to Australian Protoss Probe from Ecko Esports #YOP

http://challonge.com/SEAcraft4

[Dox]

If only we had something like this in War3 and we'd have more than 1 Human player in WCG every year

Quick Comments

	Maynarde:	Bad race orc 4 eva
	syfChadMann:	Orc4Lyf.

[FLuX]

Originally Posted by Eddie

*Note, playing as random doesn't count as Terran.

Can you please respond with information regarding eligibility of race pickers for OSC tournaments? Would this mean that I could theoretically play T/Z and receive double prize (or an increased prize) if I finished in the money?

Thank you.