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The Australian Cyber League is proud to announce its second live event to be held in Sydney at the end of June!

Recently, ACL announced preliminary details for the second event of its 2015 season, to be held in Sydney on June 27-28. Just 20 minutes from the CBD, ACL Sydney is shaping up to be one of the most exciting LAN events of the year. We are pleased to announce the addition of Counter Strike: Global Offensive to our offering alongside our more traditional titles. As esports is starting to pick up globally, ACL is proud to be accommodating the most competitive and professional Australian live tournaments and streams. With a few new features, plans and surprises to raise the bar for our events, you don’t want to miss this one!

For full details please visit the official website announcement.

Please note: This event is a MA15+ event. For full details please visit our website.
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Held at Macquarie University and combining forces with MaqLAN, this event will run exactly the same as standalone ACL events, with designated zones, stages and live streams for each primary title. In and around our stage areas will be a separate BYOPC LAN run by our friends at MaqLAN.

Titles
The Australian Cyber League is proud to announce it will bringing live competitions for the following titles at ACL Sydney.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - 5v5 - PC
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - 1v1 - PC
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – 4v4 – Xbox One
Halo 2 Anniversary – 4v4 – Xbox One

Entry Fee
REGISTER HERE

For the 16 players who advance straight into the group stage a fee of $60 inc GST per player will occur. This must be paid online prior to the event.

For anybody who competes in the open bracket a fee of $30 inc GST per player will occur.*
For the 8 players who subsequently advance from the open bracket to group stage an addition fee of $30 must be paid at the time of advancement to match the group stage fee.

*Any player who fails to prepay will incur a $10 surcharge on the day for a total of $40 inc GST per open bracket player.

Equipment Requirements
Keyboard, Mouse, Mousepad (headset optional).

Prizes
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm [1v1] - $4000*
1st - $1,400
2nd - $850
3rd - $500
4th - $300
5th - $125
6th - $125
7th - $100
8th - $100

*Prizes based on 50+ players for SC2. Due to only 40 players competing, the prize pool was reduced to $3,500.

Structure

Preceding Online Tournaments
There will be two preceding Online Rounds which will act as seeding for ACL Sydney. Players are not required to play in these Online Rounds but the 16 highest points earners from both Online Rounds will automatically qualify for ACL Sydney’s group stage.

ACL Sydney Online Round #1
Register
Date: Sunday, 24th May
Format: Double Elimination / Best of 3
Talent: Casted by Zepph and Maynarde with Insano observing
Stream

ACL Sydney Online Round #2
Register
Date: Sunday, 7th June
Format: Double Elimination / Best of 3
Talent: Casted by Zepph and Maynarde with Insano observing
Stream

Top 16 Pro Confirmation

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Seed	Name	Race	Points	Status
1.	Frustration		464
2.	Law		440
3.	Probe		430
4.	KingKong		408
5.	Pox		390
6.	Crimson		366
7.	Azure		316
8.	Yours		307
9.	Kez		245
10.	EnDerr		240
11.	Namakaye		200
12.	Redemption		170
13.	NaMeK		164
14.	Wally		142
15.	DevianT		137
16.	DarK		131

Pro Groups

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We hope to see you all at Sydney June 27-28!