[rezyn8]

That’s right people! It’s time for the Silicon Sports Cup! Sponsored by Tt eSports, USA Foods and The Exchange Hotel!

Join Silicon Sports and friends in what we hope will be an epic night for the SEA community!

EVENT SPONSORS

INFORMATION

When
Who
Register
Where to Watch

Wednesday January 30 from 7pm AEDT.
All Battle.net SEA players Bronze to Grand Masters players!
Click Here to register.
twitch.tv/SiliconSports & twitch.tv/SiliconSports2

30 January 2013 19:00 PM AEDTThe Silicon Sports Cup is Live! Stream 1 :: Stream 2

PRIZE POOL

Thanks to Barcraft Melbourne’s generous donations, Silicon Sports is providing a $100 prize pool! There will also be SEA Power Ranks points up for grabs for the top four finishers as well.

1st - $50 & 50SPR
2nd - $30 & 30SPR
3rd - $20 & 15SPR
4th - 5SPR

COMMENTATORS

The event will be commentated by Silicon Sports' very own Lalor 'rezyn8' McMahon and Glenn 'Psynapse' Jones! Andrew 'deadpixel' Hack and Jason 'Meatex' Wright will also round out the casting team to bring you all of the action on two streams!

Lalor McMahon
rezyn8Glenn Jones
PsynapseJason Wright
MeatexAndrew Hack
deadpixel

RULES

Format

• Double Elimination Tournament
• Each round is a Best of 1
• Quarters, Semi & Winners Finals are Best of 3
• Grand Finals are 2 x Best of 3 (if required)
• Lower bracket matches are all Best of 1

Map Pool
The first map of each round is pre-determined and outlined in the following list and labelled in the brackets.

Ro64: WCS Cloud Kingdom (Round 1 :: Bo1 no 2nd game)
Ro32: WCS Ohana (Round 2 :: Bo1 no 2nd game)
Ro16: WCS Entombed Valley (Round 3 :: Bo1 no 2nd game)
Quarter Finals - WCS Anitga Shipyard (Round 4 :: Best of 3 series)
Semi-Finals: GSL Metropolis (Best of 3 series)
Winners Final: WCS Daybreak (Best of 3 series)
Grand Final: GSL Whirlwind (2 x Best of 3 series if required)

Lower Bracket follows the same format

For the Quarters, Semis, Winners and the Grand Final, the loser of the first match can pick from any the following maps - no vetoes:

WCS Cloud Kingdom, WCS Daybreak, WCS Ohana, WCS Anitga Shipyard, WCS Entombed Valley, GSL Metropolis, GSL Whirlwind, GSL Abyssal
Battle.net

• SEA Server Only
• Chat Channel :: SLCN Cup
• Admins :: rezyn :: Psynapse
• Results :: please report results to TBA

Qualification

• You must have placed in the current season on SEA on a SEA Battle.net account you own.

GET INVOLVED!

Volunteers
We need volunteers to help on the admin side of things to ensure the tournament runs smoothly! Please email us at info@siliconsports.net.

Sponsors
Interested in sponsoring The Silicon Sports Cup? Email us at info@siliconsports.net.

Donations can be made via PayPal at info@siliconsports.net.

[Baldie]

Awesome. Goodluck to all involved.

Great to see more events jumping into SPR which will only make the ranking more challenging and competitive!

[ETL.ViTaL]

Looks awesome!!!

[SayfT]

To save ourselves the rage/arguments if it does happen:

- Who : All Battle.net SEA players Bronze to Grand Masters players!

Does that mean ANYONE with access to an SEA account (foreigners) or specifically residents of SEA region using their own SEA accounts

Quick Comments

rezyn8:

No foreigners - it must be your own SEA account

[Philosopher]

I'm gonna get my ass kicked. but I'm gonna have fun doing it.

[TidaL]

Good to sea the SEE power ranks in more tournaments!

[CleighMoores]

Looking good! Hopefully I aint busy with work so I can have a crack at it

[MaruMarine]

looking pretty good will look out for this tourney

[Guni]

This is cool, looking forward to tuning in, BoL to everyone!

[Paladin]

Everyone should get on board this great tournament, looking really well organised and should see a lot of players have some exposure and having some fun! GL everyone.

[PiG]

Looks cool, a shame I'm away that day! Great banner/post design btw!

[Flamga]

On my BDay as well awesome present will be there!!!

[CleighMoores]

Signed up! Yet to be seen if I can play but I'll tune in regardless
glgl all! Looking like a good tourney!

[rezyn8]

Kicking off in just under 2 hours!

[iM MaFia]

how hard is it to seed a tournament lol

Quick Comments

ToRTinyTeddy:

very hard..

[syfChadMann]

ugghhh - if Tournaments are going to award Power Rankings points - USE THE POWER RANKING SYSTEM TO SEED YOUR TOURNAMENT

kk thnx.

Quick Comments

rezyn8:

Seedings will be done from now on using SPR points

[ROOTPetraeus]

I'm really disappointed in this tourny so far... after such a good #01 =/
Seeding wasn't done properly, I wasn't put in bracket, taking admins ages to respond and admins aren't as listed in thread, the only admin's internet keeps cutting out... I hope all these problems are fixed for the next one.

Quick Comments

rezyn8:

We will get this fixed pet

[NvRossi]

in a lull in the brackets but would like to throw up some tips for next time

1. Already been said but it would be extremely helpful to at least seed the top 10.. Hitting mafia in bo1 ro16 isn't the funnest!
2. Please align the rounds on challonge with maps in the information section

for eg. it says "Quarter Finals: WCS Anitga Shipyard (Round 4 :: Bo3)"
Which is actually round 5 on Challonge

3. Furthermore on the previous point it is extremely confusing to know which map you are playing on in the lower bracket and I'm still unaware how you're meant to work it out. In the information it simply says that the lower bracket follows the same format, yet there are offcourse many more rounds in the lower bracket, make it clear that the order resets for example. This leads to a lot of time being wasted.

looks like my games up but thats about all for now! hope it helps

Quick Comments

rezyn8:

Thanks Rossi - will get this sorted out for next tourney

[rezyn8]

Congratulations to Value making his way to the Upper Bracket Final against Rossi losing 0-2 and being sent into the lower bracket where he defeated Petraeus for a rematch with Rossi. Value won the first Bo3 2-0. Rossi was determined to make a fist of it in the second set of the Grand Final and took the first game, but the constant harassment with warp prisms in the following games really helped seal the deal and finished with a 2-1 scoreline in Value's favour.

Value is a platinum Protoss on the SEA ladder, but a Grand Master on the KR ladder. Is SEA better because of this? Haha! I should also mention that Value is known as Cyrano from the now disbanded TSL and will be playing for a spot in the GSL Code B qualifiers - we wish him all the best in the qualifiers!

Thanks to everyone who played, and watched on the streams. We loved casting the games and reading the comments in chat. Thanks heaps for the retweets and getting the notice out there as well. We had over 80 people watching the main stream several times throughout the night

Thanks to the admins who helped us out through the night. pXDuxxie, FSiLLusion and Baldie.

Big thanks to deadpixel and his sidekick Meatex on the B stream and Baldie once again filling the void when Meatex had to leave.

Thanks also to my co-caster Psynapse, couldn't have done it without you.

Massive thanks to the sponsors Tt eSports, USA Foods, The Exchange Hotel and the BarCraft Melbourne people who donated a bit of coin to the prizepool as well. Many thanks!

We have seen the feedback and we will be making sure that the issues that cropped up last night are addressed for the next tournament in February.

Stay tuned to siliconsports.net, like us on facebook.com/siliconsports and follow us on twitter.com/siliconsports for the latest updates on our next events.

Twitch VODs: Main Stream :: Secondary Stream

Tournament	Date	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Prizepool	SPR Pool
SSC#02	30/01/2013	Value	NvRossi	fray`Fenner	fray`Petraeus	$100	100

[iM MaFia]

Why was value allowed to play when it states in the rules:

Rules
Battle.net
SEA Server Only
Chat Channel :: SLCN Cup
Qualification
You must be local player on the SEA server - no foreigners on SEA accounts
Open to Bronze through to Grand Master
You must have placed in the current season on SEA

[rezyn8]

The aim of the tournament is to encourage players to be active on the SEA server. As Value has an active platinum SEA account he was allowed to play. The above ruling does contradict this and confuse the issue. It will be made clear for our next tournament.

Our priority is to encourage people to play on the SEA ladder. The ruling was meant for those foreigners who have been using other peoples SEA account to play in tournaments, eg Jjakji using Shieldz's account to play in wT Weeklies.

[AvPoker]

So being platinum in SEA when your a GM in Korea means you'll be active? And using Jjakji as an example is dumb as he played in SEA just to win some wT weeklies and never came back again. This type of logic doesn't seem quite right :/

Quick Comments

mGGDaedalus:

I think he used jakji as example of what the rule is meant to stop

[UHF]

If I'm looking at the right account, Value has played a total of 7 games on the SEA server. Kind of takes away the spirit of putting in the 'active account' rule, when we all know he is only here to win tournaments and not here to ladder.

Other than that, contingency plans for larger player pools would be nice. It was 1am (2am in Rossi land) when I went to bed last night, and they still had the final Bo3 to go. Rossi was in hot form until the break from the winners finals until the grand finals and I suspect fatigue had some part to play.

Quick Comments

Stallion:

Nz players hit that earlier eg - Pet and Crimson

[zenabi]

Well if that be the case, Mafia should techincally not be allowed to play as he has not been placed in a league for this season. No disrespect to Mafia as he is an awesome zerg, but i think if a player wants to play in the tournament they should be able to.

I am for the korean/foreign players to play in our tournaments. Sure it means we may be less likely to win, but it helps promote the SEA region. Maybe having in place something similar to the Masters Cup could be the way to go (1 every 3-4 is open for all nationalities/regions)

Quick Comments

iM MaFia:

theres nothing wrong with playing in a tournament unless the rules are against it

[iM MaFia]

Originally Posted by ToRSoonkyu

Well if that be the case, Mafia should techincally not be allowed to play as he has not been placed in a league for this season. No disrespect to Mafia as he is an awesome zerg, but i think if a player wants to play in the tournament they should be able to.

I am for the korean/foreign players to play in our tournaments. Sure it means we may be less likely to win, but it helps promote the SEA region. Maybe having in place something similar to the Masters Cup could be the way to go (1 every 3-4 is open for all nationalities/regions)

errr, the rules say sea resident, = a person living in sea, i didnt think living in kr = same thing...

and i have been gm on 2 accounts on sea this season, i gave up because its 12 mins + search times and i get a bronze for 2 points so i got removed from ladder for being inactive, i think the point here is, i dont have a choice except to not play on sea, because its impossible to find games for me since my mmr is so high and no one good plays

it's really not hard to play like 10 games to have an "active sea ladder account" in order to play in this tournament

[zenabi]

Originally Posted by iM mafia

errr, the rules say sea resident, = a person living in sea, i didnt think living in kr = same thing...

and i have been gm on 2 accounts on sea this season, i gave up because its 12 mins + search times and i get a bronze for 2 points so i got removed from ladder for being inactive, i think the point here is, i dont have a choice except to not play on sea, because its impossible to find games for me since my mmr is so high and no one good plays

it's really not hard to play like 10 games to have an "active sea ladder account" in order to play in this tournament

Yes i understand and i agree that players at the caliber like yours should be able to play in SEA tournaments. I was just proving the whole active on SEA ladder thing. Sure he has played only 7 games, but yourself have played none. I know he is not a SEA resident, and that is another issue. I was just trying to explain the whole games played issue.

[iM MaFia]

Originally Posted by ToRSoonkyu

Yes i understand and i agree that players at the caliber like yours should be able to play in SEA tournaments. I was just proving the whole active on SEA ladder thing. Sure he has played only 7 games, but yourself have played none. I know he is not a SEA resident, and that is another issue. I was just trying to explain the whole games played issue.

lol...

i've played none? on my account i went 14-1 this season with 14 wins before going inactive (dropped out of gm for breaching 180+ bonus)
i've played and been in SEA GM every season since it came out, on multiple accounts and before that ive had over 7K ladder games played on SEA.

so no I don't think u understand

[Snx.Mufasa]

Originally Posted by iM mafia

and i have been gm on 2 accounts on sea this season

Originally Posted by ToRSoonkyu

Sure he has played only 7 games, but yourself have played none.

yep... makes sense.

[Eddie]

Great run by Rossi yesterday!

Few little tweaks/clarification to rules to be made before the next edition, but rezyn8 and the team should be able to get that fixed easy.

[Meatex]

Considering that Global Play is no live it is essentially impossible to police any kind of SEA residents only rules
Everyone now owns there own SEA account so at least nobody will be borrowing accounts anymore
So only way to do this will be able to say you need to play x number of games on SEA this season but that would discount players who practice on Korea and it wouldn't be hard for a Korean to do like Value and just play those games on the day

[SLCN.Kez]

I personally don't see a problem with koreans playing in these as long as it states in the rules they are/aren't allowed to do so. For someone like me it doesn't matter as playing mafia is just as difficult as another korean pro, but for someone like pet/delete/fenner/ninja etc it might help to get that bo3/bo5 with a korean pro, as it does offer a different meta game and insight. Sure they play on kr ladder, but its still different. Some of the biggest learning experiences I had were my brief 5-10 games with KingKong, even tho I have played practice games with mafia/pig/light etc, its always good to get different high level practice from people not in the scene, and I believe this helps do it.

I'm also for the opinion that we need our own players in our scene winning the scenes money, so something like the masters cup where 1 in 3 or 4 is open to the world, but instead perhaps have the reverse, where 3/4 are open to the world, and 1/4 is sea residents only. At the end of the day its also up to the admins discretion, as they are the ones running, putting time and effort and most importantly, money, into the scene, and should be able to do with it what they see fit.

Quick Comments

zenabi:

this was basically what i was trying to get at

[iM MaFia]

There is nothing wrong with koreans or anyone that wants to play, play in the tournament...

I was just pointing out the fact that I noticed the rules clearly indicated and said, SEA resident's only.

Why bother having rules if they aren't going to be enforced?

[aLtShortizz]

So just make the next one clear, for SEA residents only or international. Maybe take a page out of the master cup's book.

[FLuX]

Clarify the rules regarding participation.
Enforce the rules regarding participation.

Personally, I'd like to see these tournaments remain open to SEA residents only (that is, residents of SEA territories) only. I can see issues with enforcing this, however; as doing background residency checks on every player in a bracket is sure to be frustrating. I'm sure there's a fairly easy way to go about it though, it just requires some thought about the process. It seems extreme, but once we have a coherent database of who is, and who isn't, an SEA resident; enforcing the rules for these tournaments will be much easier.

[Baldie]

So I started writing a response to my feedback suggestions and because there are so many (all in interest of improvement) I will write up a guide on running online events alike Zepph has for casting, Infeza for observing etc.

By no means am I the best online organiser of events but it might make a difference to people without Event Management experience and provide information on things managers might overlook.

+ [Quick Feedback] +

The biggest thing though for me right now around this event is briefing everybody involved in the event beforehand where applicable and being clear on rules and enforcing them.

To avoid:

1. Issues with which stream casts what (E.G 2nd stream casting Upper Bracket Finals)
2. Admins leaving because they have to go leaving you with nothing
3. Unresolvable situations when there are issues with games, walkovers etc.

Admins

• Know where all the rules are and are clear on each one
• Have a go-to place to communicate with the event manager if need (be that a SC2 chat or admin skype)
• Have access to reporting scores within the bracket
• Are clear on whether they will be required to organise streamed games or not

Casters

• Are clear on whether players are allowed to decline their games being cast or not
• Are clear on whether they are to search and ask for games or an admin will organise
• Have all the necessary sponsor logos and production required
• Have any sponsor shoutouts or requests for the event
• Have a SC2SEA.com and/or Team Liquid account with stream attached

Players

• They will look after themselves providing you are clear with your requirements and rules.

Only a few examples will go into more depth in guide.

Overall I've seen much worse events, we got there in the end - perhaps an oversight with double elim and 80+ signups with how long that would take. Nothing which can't be resolved moving forward.

[Paladin]

If anyone has any replays, could they send them to me jodowd66@hotmail.com, im looking to do some casting and seein as I was around and saw some winners itd be great if I could give it a go with those games.