[nirvAnA]

Guess what?

Soulja has just decided to sponsor a $750 1v1 tournament for this very purpose. The money has already been received!

He wants to help increase the exposure of SEA and he plans to do that by opening registrations to NA as well, so all the top players can play, which would lead to more exposure for the region. Kinda what this thread is about, so its cool we get to see it in action. The SEA qualifiers will be restricted to SEA residents (See frogmite's point above) but the NA tournaments will be open to EVERYONE and any Korean will be welcome to play in it. He wishes to run it on z33k.com.

So it will be something like

Format:

4 weekly qualifiers held on NA held at NA times (z33k.com)
4 weekly qualifiers held on SEA held at the CO time spot (sc2sea)

$25 prize for each winner = $200

The 8 winners (or perhaps runner ups as well to make it 16, this can be tweaked) will play a championship double elimination cup at the end for $550

Details can still be changed but basically the sponsor's intention follows the OP's idea that registration should be open to all to increase exposure and since thats his wish the tournament will be done that way.