[Baldie]

Written by Baldie

It's 8.30am on a Brisbane Saturday morning and gamers eagerly wait to enter the Mercure Hotel for a weekend of gaming. Pro Players start to make their way into the venue receiving their special pro zone passes as general players register for the open bracket. Signups close at 10.30am and the weekend is decided. Starcraft 2 would see 16 pre-seeded pros await their remaining 8 opponents in a 36 man open bracket. Game on.

There were lots of changes to Plantronics ACL Brisbane, the first of three seasons on the 2013 circuit. This event saw the implementation of two sets on stage, noise cancelling headphones and player cam TVs on either end of the stage. Not to forget the brand new Pro Zone and retreat area for the top 16 Starcraft 2 pros to utilize.

The day starts with a double elimination open bracket. This was sure to be one of the fiercest open brackets with names such as Nv.Rossi, Nv.Deth, Nv.JazBas along with New Zealand Protoss player xGKing.Stallion fighting amongst the pack. There was also a special guest from Germany called Teddy who messaged ACL staff expressing interest to play. As a backpacker he had no mouse or keyboard so was allowed to borrow equipment from Staff. We had no idea how well this man was about to play!

The first game on stream would be none other than Rossi, a Terran powerhouse, against Myth.ZenAku, a rising Protoss player. There was no doubt in a lot of people's minds that Rossi was the favourite in this best of 3, however ZenAku had a point to prove. Taking the first game, ZanAku looked strong to take the set however Rossi rallied taking back-to-back wins to take the set 2-1. Rossi remained on stage to then take on his round 2 opponent; Av.Pezz, another strong Protoss player. This time Rossi was unable to deliver the goods and was knocked to the lower brackets with a 0-2 defeat.

Rossi would then spend the remainder of the day fighting his way through lower brackets. He became one of the great Day 1 stories of the tournament not dropping a single map while in the lower bracket until the finals! To put that in perspective he went into the open bracket finals with a map score of 20-4! Speaking of open bracket finals, Rossi's opponent would be his teammate Nv.JazBas who remained in the winners bracket with a map score of 10-2. Both players decided they best save their energy for pool play and made a gentleman's agreement to split the open bracket winnings between each other and move into separate groups.

Open Bracket Top 8 with selected pool:
1. Nv. JazBas - A
2. Nv.Rossi - C
3. Teddy - A
4. Av.NXZ - C
5. Azz - B
6. FvR.Shockwave - B
7. SLCN.Petrify - D
8. Nv.Deth - D

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[VoxMSI.Rogue]

Can you post the article here?
Nirvana has stipulated to me in the past you must post full articles here please. Thanks

[Baldie]

Originally Posted by fray`Rogue

Can you post the article here?
Nirvana has stipulated to me in the past you must post full articles here please. Thanks

It is a request from ACL to only show part of the article to have people visit the site for the remainder of the article so more people are aware of the site and to keep it as the primary source of information for any ACL event. A lot of people constantly ask for everything to be posted here but it defeats the purpose of having it on the official website as a lot of changes and extras make it to the ACLPro site but not here because it's not worth my time mico managing everything onto SC2SEA.

I will speak with Nirvana to get clarity and I will also make sure for ACL Melbourne we have a single thread to make it easy for people to get the information they need.

[ZizLah]

Great event, recommend coming to it, but speaking of melbourne, are you guys any closer to dates? it's alot cheaper if i book flights now.

Quick Comments

	ToRDjvillian:	^^ cheaper to book hotels in advance also. As for myself we need to organize babysitters.
	ROOT`iaguz:	It's in July sometime, that's all I know.

[VoxMSI.Rogue]

I understand that, BUT rules should be for everyone. Other people have been told we can't do this to boost our own site views so to see multiple threads of someone else doing it seems a bit shit tbh.

Either way, everyone should have the same set of guidelines to follow.

[dippa]

I've never been asked to post the full article whenever I linked to my columns/articles, but then I haven't put one up for a couple of months.

Mind you, my editor would be ******* livid if I had to post the full link here ... seeing as he owns the exclusive rights to the content (as is the case with any freelancing, but that's neither here nor there).

[Scorpi]

Wished I'd made it to this event. It was only down the road too. When is the next major event for Brisbane?

[Stallion]

404 not found O.O but i want to read i see my name T_T

Quick Comments

Baldie:

The thread is being merged with the other games will edit the link when it goes live

[iMSystem]

When the thread comes back up just post it yourself if it's that much of an issue.

lol

[T3CHavOc]

Definitely was a great event to attend - can't wait to watch the Melbourne ACL!

[nirvAnA]

ohh yea rogue brings up a valid concern, although i preferred if she was able to PM that instead. what happened before was she posted a fray piece as news with just the link. So I told her she needed to include more information like everyone else, we aren't a link site like reddit. I also don't want us to be used by people solely as a tool that drives traffic to their own sites or have a reputation like that. Sure you can post your own link but make sure there is some decent content in your thread here too.

I would say for news posts, there should be even more content in the OP since its taking up prime space. Then after that you're welcome to link the other half of the article on the original site. As for normal forum posts like what dippa / flash do in other categories these are generally okay and we can more relaxed but ofc it should still have some information and not just a link. I have being editing some flash posts lately because before they are basically one sentence + the link which is exactly what we do not want and Baldie kinda did the same thing here in his original OP.

[Baldie]

All good the thread is being reopened tonight after merging with Halo and CoD so nothing else can go up right now anyway! But it's good to know these things for future reference. In hind sight it's probably something which wasn't necessarily appropriate for news so feel free to move it if you deem necessary!

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

its def news worthy!

[Baldie]

Link updated with new location

Enjoy!

[Dox]

Any chance of getting those replays?

[Baldie]

Originally Posted by Dox

Any chance of getting those replays?

Unfortunately it has come to my attention replays were not recovered before being packed and shipped. Although never a promise to provide replays it is something we want to be able to provide like you did so well in 2012.

I will personally make sure replays are collected so they can be made available after ACL Melbourne.

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Stallion:

<3