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Hong Kong Esports Limited Presents:
The 1st Hong Kong e-Sports Tournament!

The largest eSports event in Hong Kong History!

Overview:

Hong Kong Esports Limited is proud to announce their 1st e-Sports Tournament! The tournament will feature a $1,500,000 HKD ($200,000 USD) total prize pool across 5 different games: League of Legends, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, and FIFA 2013.

The Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm tournament will consist of 8 qualifiers. There will be different qualifiers for different regions. The winners of the 8 qualifiers will be flown into Hong Kong to compete in the grand finals for $100,000 HKD (~$13,000 USD) in cash as well as other prizes!

Qualifier Information:

Qualifier #1: North America

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Server: North America
Date: August 12th, 2013 (tentative)
Max Participants: 64 players (Masters/Grandmasters, priority given based on ladder rank)
Format: Best of 3 single elimination, Finals best of 5
Map Pool: TBA
1st Place: Qualified for Grand Finals + Round trip Business Class Flight/Accommodations in Hong Kong

Casted By:

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Nour "PrOmise" Moussa:
PrOmise has casted numerous online events and countless community showmatches. Some of his casting experience includes working with CSN (Cyber Sports Network), IEM (Intel Extreme Masters), & Quantic Gaming. He was chosen as the Top 8 of the IGN/IPL Caster Search in late 2012. Currently he is partnered with SC2Links.com, a site aimed for providing up-to-date VODs for StarCraft 2.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/sc2promise
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PrOmiseCAST

Qualifier #2: Europe

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Server: Europe
Date: August 13th, 2013 (tentative)
Max Participants: 64 players (Masters/Grandmasters, priority given based on ladder rank)
Format: Best of 3 single elimination, Finals best of 5
Map Pool: TBA
1st Place: Qualified for Grand Finals + Round trip Business Class Flight/Accommodations in Hong Kong

Qualifier #3: Korea

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Server: Korea
Date: August 14th, 2013 (tentative)
Max Participants: 64 players (Masters/Grandmasters, priority given based on ladder rank)
Format: Best of 3 single elimination, Finals best of 5
Map Pool: TBA
1st Place: Qualified for Grand Finals + Round trip Business Class Flight/Accommodations in Hong Kong

Qualifier #4: China

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Server: TBD
Date: August 15th, 2013 (tentative)
Max Participants: TBD (Invite Only)
Format: Best of 3 single elimination, Finals best of 5
Map Pool: TBA
1st Place: Qualified for Grand Finals + Round trip Business Class Flight/Accommodations in Hong Kong

Qualifier #5: Taiwan

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Server: Korea
Date: August 16th, 2013 (tentative)
Max Participants: 64 players (Masters/Grandmasters, priority given based on ladder rank)
Format: Best of 3 single elimination, Finals best of 5
Map Pool: TBA
1st Place: Qualified for Grand Finals + Round trip Business Class Flight/Accommodations in Hong Kong

Qualifier #6: Hong Kong

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Server: South East Asia (At local LAN Café)
Date: August 17th, 2013 (tentative)
Max Participants: 64 players (Open to all leagues)
Format: Best of 3, double elimination
Map Pool: TBA
1st Place: Qualified for Grand Finals + WCG 2013 Representative for Hong Kong

Qualifier #7: South East Asia
Server: South East Asia
Date: August 18th, 2013 (tentative)
Max Participants: 64 players (Masters/Grandmasters, priority given based on ladder rank)
Format: Best of 3 single elimination, Finals best of 5
Map Pool: TBA
1st Place: Qualified for Grand Finals + Round trip Business Class Flight/Accommodations in Hong Kong

Qualifier #8: Wild Card

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More information coming soon!

Grand Finals Information (LIVE IN HONG KONG)

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Venue: 3rd Floor KITEC, Hong Kong
Date: 10am-10pm, August 31st, 2013
Streams: English/Cantonese
Casters: TBA
Format: Best of 3, double elimination. WB Finalist starts Grand Finals with 1-0 lead in a best of 7.

Venue Pictures:

This is the foyer, where a smaller stage and various booths will be setup. It can accommodate roughly 1500 people.


This is the main auditorium, accessible through the foyer. It has seating for 702 people, but it can hold up to 1000 people.


Another angle of the auditorium.

Grand Final Prize Pool Distribution:

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1st Place: 75,000 HKD (~10,000 USD) + Other Prizes (TBD)
2nd Place: 15,000 HKD (~2,000 USD) + Other Prizes (TBD)
3rd Place: 5,000 HKD (~650 USD) + Other Prizes (TBD)
4th Place: 2,000 HKD (~260 USD) + Other Prizes (TBD)
5th/6th Place:1,000 HKD (~130 USD) +Other Prizes (TBD)
7th/8th: 500 HKD (~65 USD) + Other Prizes (TBD)
Prize Pool: 100,000 HKD (~13,300 USD) + Flights/Accommodations + Other Prizes

About Hong Kong

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Hong Kong is a unique meeting place for East and West, blending Chinese heritage, British colonial influences, high-tech modernity and Cantonese gusto. Chinese and English are the official languages. English is widely used in the Government and by the legal, professional and business sectors. Hong Kong has among the highest population density in the world. Moreover, Hong Kong has become a world-class financial, trading and business center. Skyscrapers and temples, shopping malls and traditional markets sit side by side. However, amid the urban hustle there are quiet parks and green spaces, beaches and mountain-top views. The city has one of the best, if not the best, skyline of any city and it is alive 24/7. Visas are not normally needed prior to departure for most nationals making Hong Kong one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Hong Kong, Asia’s World City!


The beautiful Hong Kong skyline!

About Hong Kong Esports Limited

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Hong Kong e-Sports is a gaming organization founded by a small group of spirited and dedicated gamers who genuinely love gaming and wish to see it grow and flourish in and around Hong Kong. We come from a variety of backgrounds, but we all have one thing in common: we love e-Sports. Our office is located in Central, and we have 9 full time staff and over 30 part time staff and volunteers. Although this is our first major event as a company, our full time staff have organized events like this in the past. We hope to be able to host more tournaments and events in the future.


The Hong Kong Esports Team

How to sign up

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• Click HERE which will take you to our registration application on facebook.
• Like us on facebook (this really helps us out!) and fill out the application form.
• It’s that simple!

For more information visit our Facebook page or our official website. If you have any questions you can PM me and I will get back to you ASAP. If you would like to help out in any way you can contact me directly or mail us at info@hkesports.com. If you terran players have been wondering why there hasn't been a guide from me recently now you know why =]

Registration Closes July 30th!

Disclaimer: I took the liberty to copy pasta the OP from TL because the post here sucked. Deserves more attention so that some of our SEAtizens can give it a shot. I am not affiliated with HKES or any of its members. So do not PM me regarding anything related to this post. PM StimmedProbe instead.

[Matt93]

That is one massive jump from 1st place to 2nd place in terms of prize money, will be interesting to see the tournament in action though

[Blysk]

1st Place: Qualified for Grand Finals + Round trip Business Class Flight/Accommodations in Hong Kong HOLY SHIZZZ

[NDG.Stitch]

Come to Hong Kong all you awesome people and meet me at the event!!!!

[SLCN.Wally]

If only I had a passport, then I would sign up

[nirvAnA]

oh my god, business class round trip tickets from anywhere in the world? That is some incredible budget they are working with, awesome!!

Anyone know the organisers?

This is hands down looking to be the best non-blizzard event in SEA ever. Hope to see some SEA players in this!

[PiG]

Already signed up, oh god please be half as awesome as you sound!

[Narse]

http://hkesports.com/sponsorship-information/ ....

HMMM interesting partners....

[NDG.Stitch]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

oh my god, business class round trip tickets from anywhere in the world? That is some incredible budget they are working with, awesome!!

Anyone know the organisers?

This is hands down looking to be the best non-blizzard event in SEA ever. Hope to see some SEA players in this!

I know the organizers. It's a new company that is started in Hong Kong about half a year ago, it's promising and the people working there are professional too. The LoL Tournament has already kick-started for the qualifiers and so far the production has been great. The LoL Tournament so far has been casted in Cantonese (Chinese) though.

I think I'll be heading down to their office in the next few weeks, might ask them to join my weekly show too.

[AxSGRiM]

LoL esports ftw

[NDG.Stitch]

For those of you looking to sign up, this might be a better link for that!

http://hkesports.com/sc2signup/