[HDPhoenix]

Welcome to Singapore Starcraft League January Tournament Thread!!!

Main Sponsor: Mothership Studios
Official Community Site: www.SC2SEA.com
Location Sponsor: Colosseum, 7th floor, Iluma, Bugis
Shoutcasters: HDPhoenix and KellyMilkies
Stream: www.justin.tv/MothershipStudios

-THIS IS A SINGAPORE LAN TOURNAMENT-

Hey everyone and welcome to Singapore Starcraft League's first tournament for the year! 2010 was a great year and 2011 is just going to get better for e-Sports! Colosseum once again has opened its doors to host SSL and we have a bunch of things that have changed, including the first ever Raynor's Party Tournament!! So stay tune and lets play some STARCRAFT!!

HUGE THANKS to Mothership Studios for sponsoring the $300 Prize Pool!

Mothership studios is once again happy to sponsor SSL, where commentators can train their skills and players can train to be better, not just at gaming but also excels in studies and their physique.

To that end, Mothership has the required equipment for HD quality streams and will be inviting casters, not just from SC2 but other e-Sports as well to come and cast at its studios, to promote e-Sports and communities. So look forward to more quality streams from us for SC2 and more!!!


1st Prize: $150
2nd Prize: $100
3rd Prize: $50

Registration:

1) You must be at least 1,500 points in the Diamond League

2) You must write your character name and code (e.g. HDPhoenix.202) in this forum or any of the forums the SSL is posted in

3) You must send an email, with your handphone number to HDPhoenixx@gmail.com (this is for admin purposes only)

Important Info:

1) The cost of the tournament is $0.00. All LAN Time is kindly sponsored by Colosseum, which is on the 7th floor of Iluma, at Bugis!

2) Date of Tournament: 29th January, Saturday, 6pm - 9pm. Come at 5pm for registration and admin processing

3) There is no more SSL Wildcard. Instead, it is now the Singapore Amateur League (SAL) and will be first hosted by MysteryBox, at basement 1, Golden Wall Towers. For more info, visit the other tournament thread on the SAL.

4) Number of competitors: Unlimited players. Due to popular demand, SSL will no longer have a player cap. Instead the top 2 players from SSL Dec (Oxygen and Revenant) will be seeded in the Round of 16 and the rest will battle it out in 7 seperate group stages. Those that place highly (top 4 in any recent tournament) will be seeded random in the 7 groups, with the rest being randomly placed after that.

5) GROUP STAGE: Will be online. Registration opens today and ends on January 14th. I apologize for the late notice but I could only confirm our location today. Group stage will be played on Jan 15th-16th, 6pm to midnight SGT and your matches can be recorded on Challonge.com. Starting map will be Xel'Naga Caverns and each match-up is a best-of-3. A win counts as 2 points, a lost counts as 1. 3 Marshals will be online, as well as myself for score reporting. The Group stage ends Jan 16th midnight (All matches not played counts as 0). The top 2 in each group stage will advance to Round of 16.

6) Round of 16: The Round of 16 will be streamed LIVE on Jan 22th, starting at 6pm. It will be best-of-3, single elimination. Starting map will be Metalopolis. Round will be played till Semi-Finals

7) SSL Jan FINALS: Finals will be played offline, LIVE at COLOSSEUM on Jan 29th, starting at 6pm. It will be best-of-3, coin-toss to determine starting map. All current SC2 starting maps are open, with players about to veto 1 map each.


Patch Notes for SSL Jan:
1) Unlimited Player sign-ups: We did this to accommodate as many players as possible, so the group stage was added in to facilitate that

2) Only Semi-finals and finals on Tournament day: We did this to make it more exciting and less draggy for viewers + more time for community events!

3) Is there things for spectators to do: Yes, there will be LAN computers opened at special tournament-only rates before the tournament and there will be a Raynor's Party tournament as well for spectators! Check out the seperate Raynor's Party Tournament page! There will also be event-only specials for Colosseum LAN time so be sure to take advantage of that!



CONGRATS TO nGenRefallen for walking away with 1st place!! inF takes 2nd and aLtOxygeN takes 3rd!! Congrats to our winners and thank you to all our supporters, players and viewers!!