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Arena Internet Cafe, Avant Gaming Series and myself are proud to announce a $5000 StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm tournament held at AVCon 2013 July 12th - 14th at the Adelaide Convention Centre (http://www.avcon.org.au)

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AVCon (July 12th – July 14th)
Website: www.avcon.org.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeamAVCon Twitter: twitter.com/AVConVG

AVCon is Adelaide's premier Anime and Video Games Convention. It is a non-for-profit event organised and run by a dedicated group of volunteers, known as Team AVCon. Founded in 2001, the convention has been held annually since 2002, and was initially located at the Adelaide University in the heart of the CBD.

As a result of its continued popularity AVCon moved to the Adelaide Convention Centre in 2009 to allow for a greater number of attendees. AVCon fans responded to the change in location by attending en-mass, with over 6,000 people through the doors over the course of the weekend. The 2009 AVCon was a fantastic start at its new location. Since then numbers have risen to 14,000+ people through the door (AVCon 2011). The larger venue allows AVCon to present its attendees with more of the anime, manga, video games, vendors, cosplay, Japanese popculture, related art and other favourite and new events.

All this comes with one upfront cost at the entrance. Once within AVCon, our attendees are only asked to pay for food, drink and any items they wish to take home. All video games, anime screenings, entry into events (either as a contestant or an audience member) are covered in the entry fee.

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Arena eSports Lounge
Website:http://www.arenanetcafe.com Facebook...14626728611247
For the first time at AVCon, competitive gaming takes another step forward with the convention hosting eSport competitions for large scale amounts of cash & prizes.

Arena Internet Café will be hosting the eSports lounge for the first time in the conventions 10 year history.
Arenahas been involved with eSports in South Australia for nearly a decade. Located on Rundle St in the Adelaide CBD. Arena has become the home for competitive gaming for a large range of titles. No matter your passion, Arena looks to provide an outlet for taking your game to a new level. With competitions hosted regularly players will always have the chance to meet likeminded people and test their skills amongst some of Australia’s best in a fantastic, passionate environment.

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Avant Gaming Series
Website: www.agseries.com.au Facebook: www.Facebook.com/agseries
Avant Gaming Series is the product of our success from the AVANTGARDE ESPORTS organization. AVANTGARDE has become one of the biggest competitive gaming organizations in Australian e-Sports and using the success generated through our teams and staff, we wish to develop the Australian scene as a way of giving back to the community through AGS. We hope that in the future this will encourage other companies to branch out and develop our growing scene even father.

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THE MAIN EVENT:

The main event at AVCon will be held on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th of July, and will have 16 players.
2 of these players will qualify via LAN qualifier, and 14 will qualify via online qualifier. If you are unable to attend the event in Adelaide, do not play in the qualifiers

The prize pool is $5000, distributed as follows:

1st: $2500
2nd: $1250
3rd: $750
4th: $500

The Ro16 will be Best of 3 dual tournament group format (like WCS group stages), and the Ro8 onwards will be single elimination, Best of 5 (3rd/4th place match will also be Bo5).

SCHEDULE:

Friday 12th July: All set up, the AVCon opening ceremony, but there will be no StarCraft or League of Legends played on Friday.

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We will be running a LAN qualifier rewarding two (2) places, and an online qualifier rewarding fourteen (14) places for the main event.

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Online qualifier: The top 14 players will qualify to compete live in the Arena Esports Lounge (Powered by Plantronics) at AVCon 2013 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.[/CENTER]

If you cannot attend AVCon 2013, please do not register for the online qualifier.

SIGNUP HERE: http://www.agseries.com.au/signup

Date: Sunday, June 30th 2013.
Start Time: 2pm AEST
Check In: 1pm AEST
Entry fee: $10 (paid through Paypal) - your ticket to AVCon will be paid for if you qualify
Played on SEA server.
Double elimination, Best of 3 Games.
The tournament will be played in full for seeding
Map pool will be: Akilon Wastes, Bel'Shir Vestige, Neo Planet S, Whirlwind, Red City LE.

Each player will veto one map from the map pool, the player placed higher in the bracket will choose to have either first veto or map choice, the other player will recieve the other. The loser will pick the next map.

Prizes:

The only prize is qualification to the LAN for the top 14, players that place 13-16 will play off in a Best of 3 dual tournament (like WCS groups) to decide who places as 13th and 14th.

All 14 qualified players will have their Weekend Pass AVCon 2013 paid for.

LAN qualifier: The top 2 players will qualify to compete live in the Arena Esports Lounge (Powered by Plantronics) at AVCon 2013 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Date: Saturday, June 29th 2013.
Where: Arena Internet Café, 264-268 Rundle St, Adelaide.
Start Time: 1pm
Entry fee: $15 - pay on the day
Played on SEA server.
Double elimination, Best of 3 Games.
Map pool will be: Akilon Wastes, Bel'Shir Vestige, Neo Planet S, Whirlwind, Red City LE.

Each player will veto one map from the map pool and then flip a
coin/rock paper scissor/decide amongst themselves for first map
choice. Loser of each game picks the next map.

Prizes:

Top 2 will qualify for AVCon 2013 & have their weekend Pass paid for

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If you have any queries about Stacraft II, contact me (Marc Onofrio)

Email: marconofrio1@gmail.com
Twitter: @marconofrio
Skype:marc.onofrio

I hope to see you playing in the qualifiers and at the event, and watching when we broadcast!