[Baldie]

ACL Starcraft 2 Online Round 3 (Season 2)

The 2013 Pro Circuit has kicked off and has now completed its first season. With Brisbane complete, attention now moves on to Melbourne for Season 2 and it is our pleasure to announce the first online round for Season 2. Open to unlimited registrations, the competition will be run over one day, with all participants being placed into a double elimination bracket. This tournament will reward participants with valuable season points that will put high placing players in the best position coming into our second Live event of 2013. For this online round, seeding will be conducted based on season 1 points. However season 1 points will not be considered when seeding players for ACL Melbourne so we cannot stress enough the importance of doing well in this online round! So warm up your micro and get gaming in preparation for a very important event!

Details:
This is the first of two official Online Rounds of Season 2. This tournament will award ACL Season 2 points as well as yearly points. Yearly points will seed payers at the National FINAL event at the end of year (Season 3), however Season 1 and Season 2 National events will be seeded by their preceding Online Rounds. After Season 2 Online Round 1 & Online Round 2 have been completed, Season points will be added up and used to seed players at the second live National event in July, ACL Melbourne. The current points for 2013 are shown on Stats Central, where we will continually update Season and Yearly points throughout the year.

Registration:
Registration for this tournament is live, to register for this tournament go here. Registration will close on Friday the 17th of May at 11.59pm AEST.

Registered Players:
A list of Registered Players can be found here.

Landing Page:
The ACL Starcraft 2 Online Round 3 - Season 2 landing page can be found here.

Day/Time:
Date: Sunday the 19th of May.
Time: 11:30am AEST - 10.30pm AEST.

10.30pm is the latest the tournament will be played to unless all players left agree to continue. If players do not agree to continue matches will be rescheduled at the earliest possible convenience. Players entering and competing in this tournament are obligated to play until AT LEAST 10.30 AEST and if you choose to leave before this time you will be penalised.

Tournament Structure:
This tournament will host a typical straight up Double Elimination bracket. This means no pool play will be played for this tournament. All seeding for this tournament will be from Season 1 points as earned throughout the season.

Live Stream:
The whole tournament will be livestreamed and casted on ACL twitch.tv channel here.

[syfMiley]

Alright baldie show me your private parts

Quick Comments

mGGDaedalus:

Wondering if he's a baldie where it counts?

[T3CHavOc]

Heck yes! So excited

[Maynarde]

Shall actually be around to cast this one, wheee

[Fenner]

Any date for the live event yet?

[pXtAYY]

Awesome! This is gonna be sweet.

[x5_Bard]

Signed up! Now just to buy HotS

Quick Comments

	Baldie:	Who even are you?
	asdfSchnitzel:	Who?

[Snx.FigJig]

I'll ez you now Bard.

[Malice]

Just wondering if this will be played on SEA?

Want to check before I sign up.

[Baldie]

Originally Posted by qmX.Malice

Just wondering if this will be played on SEA?

Want to check before I sign up.

We will play SEA unless the ping issue is not resolved which in that case we will move to NA if necessary.

I'd like to think the issue will be resolved within a month but we will see.

[Malice]

Originally Posted by Baldie

We will play SEA unless the ping issue is not resolved which in that case we will move to NA if necessary.

I'd like to think the issue will be resolved within a month but we will see.

Unfortunately the ping issue will never be resolved for players who are on Optus though -_-

Quick Comments

	ToRSpartaz:	True
	SLCN.NXZ:	If its played on NA some players might have bad poing too. Always someone has to lose.

[SLCN.Kez]

Any chances you could call the tournament online round 1 season 2? My OCD feels weird about OR round 3 S2 >.<

Quick Comments

	metaGameGods:	Round 1 Season 2, agreed.
	ToRDjvillian:	+1
	Maynarde:	+1
	UHF:	Season 2: Qualifier 1
	TACeeSerps:	WCS SEA: Premier League Qualifier 1
	Dox:	Challenger League Qualifier for the World Championship Premier League Qualifier Consolation Show Match
	|Erasmus|:	see, dox -is- evil...

[ETL.Santi]

I reckon NA should be used.

[SLCN.Kez]

In regards to SEA or NA, have it on SEA, but make it known that if 2 players agree to play their match on NA, then that is allowed. If a player wants to play on sea, and a player wants to play on NA, have it on SEA (imo). You could also do something like play 1 map each on selected region, starting on SEA

[SLCNPezz]

imo force players to play on NA. It's better for me that way.

[NvRossi]

for me sea ping has been fixed

[Baldie]

Originally Posted by Kez

In regards to SEA or NA, have it on SEA, but make it known that if 2 players agree to play their match on NA, then that is allowed. If a player wants to play on sea, and a player wants to play on NA, have it on SEA (imo).

We will do this.

Originally Posted by Kez

Any chances you could call the tournament online round 1 season 2? My OCD feels weird about OR round 3 S2 >.<

Although I understand and would agree from a OCD point the reason it is the way it is, is because of how it all works in the back end of the system and it being easier to manage/find and admin pages and results.

I can have a conversation with the team but just wanted to let you know the reasoning. Hopefully putting the season in brackets will be less confusing as the seasons are just another way of bunching up certain online rounds and LANs together.

[Fenner]

Can we get information on how the group selection will be done for the live event before we commit to playing in the online qualifier?

Aka will seeds get group selection or is it going to e the same as last time with only open brackets getting a choice?

Quick Comments

	ToRGreenArchon:	I think i remember something about gsl group style or something different
	Baldie:	You have until the Friday of the event to register. I will have a definitive answer by then made public

[Turkle]

Can't wait! Go the fonz and Jambi!!!

[Dox]

Loser gets to pick the map; makes sense to allow them to pick the server too. Just make sure they declare their preference during the veto process.