[Eddie]

Welcome to the 2nd Gold, Platinum and Diamond Weekly Open!

The event shall start as a 64 player competition, but if we get a massive amount of sign ups, could be extended to 128. It will be a single elimination style tournament.

Details

Date: Sunday, 27th of February, 2011.
Time: 7pm AEST, 4pm SGT
Location: SEA Battle.net region.
Tournament Eligibility: You must be in the Gold, Platinum or Diamond league (1v1 - SEA license). Diamond players must be under 2700pts, higher players will be disqualified.
How to Sign Up: Sign ups will open on Saturday, 26 February. Register in the signup thread once it's up, and post your user name, character code, league, and if diamond how many ladder points
Live-Stream: http://www.justin.tv/benjisc2
Prizes: The winner of the GPD Open will take home the $10 first prize
The top 8 players from this event shall qualify for the Masters Cup on 13/3/11 and the chance to win the $70 prize for that event. Wildcard qualifying spots may also be given for impressive play outside of the top 8.
Battle.net Chat-Channel: "sc2seaGPD". If the event is full, the late replacement channel shall be sc2seaGPDx

Rules and Regulations

· All results must be PMed to FaDeEdOne in-game.
· Players must be logged into SCII SEA region 15 minutes before their match-up. Players who are 15 or more minutes late will be disqualified, if a replacement cannot be fount their opponent will be given an automatic win.
· Matches will be played as a Bo3 with the exception of the round of 64 & 32 which will be best of one, and finals which will be played as a Bo5.
· If any disconnects occur within the first two minutes of game-play, the match will be replayed. However if the disconnect occurs after two minutes of game-time, then it is up to the discretion of the referee to decide whether; A) the game is to be replayed, or B) player X/Y is to be awarded the win.
· Any disputes will be handled by the GPD admins after reviewing all associated replays.
· Any inappropriate behaviour will result in a disqualification.
· Players must have their own Sea account, playing on a friends is not allowed
. You are allowed to switch races

Map List

The first map of each round is pre-determined and outlined in the following list. The losing player will decide the subsequent map. The map pool is as follows:

Ro64: Xel'Naga Caverns (B01 no 2nd game)
Ro32: Metalopolis (B01 no 2nd game)
Ro16: Backwater Gulch (B03)
Ro8: The Shattered Temple (B03)
Semi-Finals: Slag Pits (B03)
Finals: Typhon Peaks (B05)

Loser can pick from any the following maps:

Xel'Naga Caverns, Metalopolis, Shakuras Plateau, Lost Temple, Blistering Sands, Delta Quadrant, Scrap Station

*The new ladder maps shall only be for the first game in the BO3's and the final. They cannot be selected again by a losing player. This shall allow people another week to practice on them.


Brackets

Brackets are automatically generated when the tournament begins and will be posted directly into the sign up thread so you will see who your opponent is, with ease, throughout the tournament. When the brackets are created, it is your sole responsibility to find your opponent, their character code and add them in-game and begin your matches.


Pleasure ensure you have your correct SEA SCII name and character code in your sc2sea.com profile, which can be found here. This will help reduce any problems people may face when having to search for their opponent's character name & code.


* Was happy with the length for week 1, went just over 4 hours, so shall keep the R16 as Bo3.
*Increased the Diamond cut off by 100.
*Players who qualified for the Masters Cup on 13/3/11 are:

DsDPsyche.709/Gabbb
nDLSunShine.190/vlky2064
ILoveCoffee.761
Feeder.593
Animal.439
Cryptika.963
nDLsicaJung.893/sicaJung
jason.957

[Eddie]

Signup are open here

Click join tournament.

[Eddie]

Updated the Map List due to today's patch release.

The new ladder maps shall only be for the first game in the BO3's and the final.

They cannot be selected again by a losing player.

This shall allow people another week to practice on them.

[Eddie]

GPD is today!

[Eddie]

1 hour left to register...

[AZKwitchdoc]

registered already. where do i start?

[Eddie]

Brackets will be up in 20 mins.

[Crankenstein]

Nice commentary Benji, really enjoying the stream

[Eddie]

Congratulations to Lithium/Kit on winning the 2nd GPD Weekly Open! Lithium beat Cryptika 3-0 in the final.

A big thank you to NgenBenji for casting and streaming the event, especially since it went longer than anticipated.

Players who qualified for the Masters Cup on 13/3/11 are:

Lithium.232/Kit
Faytz.507
rLsCure.677
aoWcrafT.683/v3k3r3
ndlsontot.290
aowgunduii 781/weeA
FadeAfflatus

*Cryptika.963 has already qualified in GPD 1, so only 7 this week.

As mentioned above, the tournament ran about an hour longer than last week. Next weeks GPD shall be altered to reduce the likelihood of the event running 5+ hours.

[Crankenstein]

Originally Posted by Eddie

As mentioned above, the tournament ran about an hour longer than last week. Next weeks GPD shall be altered to reduce the likelihood of the event running 5+ hours.

Disqualify anyone who goes marine tank viking in TvT. That should fix things. rofl ^__^