[Philosopher]

SEAcraft Weekly #58


A SEA Only Open-Bracket, Single Elimination Tournament.

This event is sponsored by SEAcraftTV and Maynarde

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Prize Pool:

1st: $100 + 130 OSC
2nd: $50 + 80 OSC
3rd: $30 + 50 OSC Points
4th: $20 + 30 OSC Points
5th-8th: 10 OSC Points
9th-16th: 5 OSC Points
*Prizes are in AUD

Plus SEA players gain 5 bonus SEA Participation points, which counts towards $700 and lan sponsorship.
Plus there are SEA $ Bounties

Bonus OSC points can be earned if:

Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 16: 5 OSC points
Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 17-32 ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
Anyone ranked 16th - 9th beats anyone ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
1st - 8th have no chance to earn bonus points

Caster: TBA

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Dates + Format:

Single Elimination.
- All series Bo3
- Grand Final Bo5

Date: Wednesday, 18th November, 2015 (KR/AEDT/SG)
Time: Wednesday 8.00pm AEDT, 7.00pm AEST, 5.00pm SG



Channel: SEAcraft

NA Server

+ [Map Pool] +

Dusk Towers
Orbital Shipyard
Prion Terraces
Ulrena
Central Protocol
Lerilak Crest
Ruins of Seras

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Signing Up:

All players are welcome to sign up, regardless of league.

Post your LOTV ID, Team (or Clan) and Country.

Example: TossImba.111 ( Scarlett ) - Team Acer - Canada

Signups will close at 8:20pm AEDT on day of Tournament

Brackets will be finalized on challonge.com shortly after and posted here.

+ [Rules and Regulations] +

1. You have 15 minutes to start your Round 1 match; anybody that is not contactable after 15 minutes will be disqualified. This 15 minute timeout rule applies in all rounds.
2. You must report your results to an Administrator. You will be unable to move ahead in the tournament until your results have been checked and verified by Administration.
3. Race Choosing is not an option during sets. If you are going to change your race you must declare the intended change before each set begins.
4. Only Official Administrators, Casters and Streamers will be able to observe in-game. No Exceptions.
5. You can stream your own games if you would like.
6. If a player disconnects, use of the 'Recover Game' feature will be used to continue the game. If the player has gone offline completely, inform an admin and wait 10 minutes for them to return.If the player does not return within 10 minutes of the disconnect they will automatically forfeit the match.
7. Players are reminded that any disrespectful, disruptive or insulting behavior will not be tolerated. If an Administrator feels that a Player is being disrespectful or disruptive in anyway they will have full digression to Disqualify or Ban the Player from further tournaments.
8. Any Player who wishes to pause their game must first notify their opponent with a pp or ppp. Failure to notify opponent of a pause will result in a warning to the player who paused the game without notification. Subsequent pausing without notification when already issued with a warning may result in disqualification from the tournament.
9. Any intentional or attempted use of any bugs or exploits in the game may result in disqualification from the tournament. Bugs and exploits will be determined at the discretion of SEAcraft and OSC Administration.
10. If Players are playing under an alternative account, they must, reveal the name of their main handle to Admin, and any player who may ask for it. This is in order to maintain a level playing field for all players. If a player refuses to reveal their main handle this may result in disqualification from the tournament.

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Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series



SEAcraft Weekly is a partnered tournament of the Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC). The OSC is the Oceanic, South East Asian, North American and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments.

The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the 2 day minimum $5000+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion! OSC World Rankings were established in December 2012.

In 2014 OSC partnered tournaments gave away $29691 combined prizepool, ($ bounties, Terran Bonus initiative, Invitationals, and LAN events were not included in this!), we had 155 completed partnered tournaments (up from 77 last year, which equates to 100% growth), and saw 358 individual players with points earned (up from 138 in 2013 = 159% growth)

Current season rankings and database can be viewed here

GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.

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OSC Sponsors!
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PSISTORM Gaming



With the catch phrase "Energizing The Game", PSISTORM GAMING, founded on the 27th of August, 2014, is a primarily Starcraft 2 organization composed of players who believe in good mannered play, enthusiastic sportsmanship, and above all, a love for the game. Originally part of KJ clan from karljay.com which has existed for over a decade from the days of BroodWar, the team has been rebranded as a new organization with sponsorship and big plans. The organization has hosted special showmatches with INcontroL, Hendralisk and EnDerr, as well casual tournaments with a significant prize pool for amateurs.

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The team has grown to have 4 pro, 2 academy Grand Master players with all but 1 from the USA. The casual team consists of many players who organize tournaments, leagues and other events, being active differently with casting, writing articles, and other contributions. The also recently picked up our own local hero EnDerr! Be sure to give them a follow on twitter to stay up to date with all news and results.

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Silicon Sports + digitalanvil.com.au


Silicon Sports are a Melbourne based company, responsible for the succesful Melbourne Barcrafts. They also have a quality SC2 team and academy, plus a dedicated casting team. They also do a lot of work in the DOTA community.

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If you have any questions let me know, also follow me on twitter @PhilosopherSC2 @SEAcraftTV
You can also contact me on SEAcraftTV@gmail.com

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why is it on NA and not sea ?

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by raZiel

why is it on NA and not sea ?

We now have ANZ servers run through NA. The majority of SEA players who signup are from ANZ.

I think G1 NA, G2 SEA, G3 NA might be a fair approach though. Up to your opponents (or Philosopher)

[Philosopher]

Originally Posted by Eddie

We now have ANZ servers run through NA. The majority of SEA players who signup are from ANZ.

I think G1 NA, G2 SEA, G3 NA might be a fair approach though. Up to your opponents (or Philosopher)

I usually leave it up to the players to decide, We will hold it on NA, but if certain players feel like they can perform better on SEA server they can choose to change. They will have to agree with their opponents, and tell me, if they decide to do that.

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Eddie:

*G3 NA

[raZiel]

so wait anz people get bad lag to sea ?

[VB_Blake]

Originally Posted by raZiel

so wait anz people get bad lag to sea ?

Yep, connecting to SEA is worse than playing on NA even without the Aussie server (at least for me).

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Originally Posted by Philosopher

I usually leave it up to the players to decide, We will hold it on NA, but if certain players feel like they can perform better on SEA server they can choose to change. They will have to agree with their opponents, and tell me, if they decide to do that.

Since chat sucks and its impossible for coherent thoughts to occur there. I'll post what I've been saying here.

Server issues has always been a longtime problem for our scene but for the most part we've chosen to play on the SEA server where our SEA friends played with <50 ping and ANZ played with 100-200 ping. This worked out well because the only alternative was the NA server where both SEA and ANZ players had to play with 200+ ping.

Now we have an Australian server where the ANZ players can play against each other with <50 ping. Naturally, this is a preferable option for them then playing against eachother with 100-200 ping. So even if tournaments were played on SEA, we would have every single ANZ player utilizing the above rule to play on Australia.

Signed up to this tournament were 19 ANZ players and 7 SEA players, putting the ANZ in clear majority. Some of those 7 SEA players may have 100-200 ping to Australia, making it an equal option to SEA and therefore irrelevant which server is played. For the sake of argument, lets say 2 of the 7. This leaves 19 ANZ vs 5 SEA. In a single elim bracket with these numbers, there will 13 matches in the first round. At most, 5 matches will need to be played on SEA. Therefore, we should allow the other 8 or more matches to be played on Australia without the hassle of moving server and have the 5 or less matches be discussed and moved to SEA.

If you explain to your opponent, that has 100-200 ping on sea, that you have 400 ping to Australia and would like to play on SEA. Your opponent will agree and move server.

We can either inconvenience 8 or more matches by hosting the tournament by default on SEA OR we can inconvenience 5 or less matches by hosting the tournament by default on Australia. It seems clear to me which is the better option.

Of course its unfortunate that we can't all play on one server but that's just a consequence of how spread out our scene is. We're all each other has, let's try not to get too pissy with one another.

[raZiel]

Originally Posted by Eddie

We now have ANZ servers run through NA. The majority of SEA players who signup are from ANZ.

I think G1 NA, G2 SEA, G3 NA might be a fair approach though. Up to your opponents (or Philosopher)

To be fair, you should rename it to ANZcraft weekly maybe we can do 1 NA 1 Sea and 1 kr ?

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