[Eddie]

Welcome to the 3rd 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, 6th of March, 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 3000pts, higher players will be disqualified.
How to Sign Up: Sign ups will open on Saturday, 5 March. 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: www.justin.tv/hutsc2
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 & 16 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: Shakuras Plateau (B01 no 2nd game)
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, Slag Pits, Typhon Peaks, The Shattered Temple, Backwater Gulch



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.


* Last week the tournament ran almost an hour longer than the previous one, so this week shall make the R16 Bo1 in an attempt to reduce the likelyhood of the GDP going as long.
*Increased the Diamond cut off by 200, now 2900.
*Players who qualified for the Masters Cup on 13/3/11 are:

+ [qualifiers] +

DsDPsyche.709/Gabbb
nDLSunShine.190/vlky2064
ILoveCoffee.761
Feeder.593
Animal.439
Cryptika.963
nDLsicaJung.893/sicaJung
jason.957
Lithium.232/Kit
Faytz.507
rLsCure.677
aoWcrafT.683/v3k3r3
ndlsontot.290
aowgunduii 781/weeA
FadeAfflatus

[inFeZa]

Makee the points higher!! plz *puppydogface* i wanna playz

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by PoisoN

Makee the points higher!! plz *puppydogface* i wanna playz

You're the 14th highest diamond in the region! Masters Cup is next week, you can join that one

[Giftbox]

does it have age limit? hehe sorry for my stupid question

[Eddie]

You have to be exactly 21 years, 139 days old.

(No age limit)

[Giftbox]

lol thats not my real age i just created it when i was 11 4 facebook or other sites but okay no age limit thank you!

[TAXanT]

There were some great games last week Hope for another good turn-out this week!

[inFeZa]

Originally Posted by Eddie

You're the 14th highest diamond in the region! Masters Cup is next week, you can join that one

i prefer the term unpromoted masters heheh

[Eddie]

Signups are open here. Click join tournament

[PapaBigBelly]

does the loser get to VETO?

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by ArousalPerMinute

does the loser get to VETO?

Nah. Only B01, and B03 early. Give the loser some chance of not going out 0-2.

[Hawka]

Where is the sign up thread?

[Eddie]

It's in the post 3 above yours Hawka.

[Eddie]

Starts in 6 hours

[Eddie]

1 hour to go.

HuT will be casting this week!

[veteris]

If HuT attaches himself to the tournament when he starts, his stream will show up as casting the GPD in the stream sidebar. Instructions are here: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=833 towards the bottom of the OP. Sorry for posting off topic.
-veteris

[EveParachute]

Sorry for leaving the compy halfway, com got blue screen of death and couldnt start it up

[Eddie]

Congratulations to Lithium/Kit on winning the 3rd GPD Weekly Open! Lithium beat Woozer 3-2 in the final. Both played very well. Lithium wins back to back GDP's as well!

A big thank you to HuT for casting and streaming the event, jumping into help with not much notice, did really well. Also thanks to Zergtasic for co-casting from mid tournament onwards. And thanks to Patski/XanT for refereeing some games.

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

woozer.370
AbsoluteZero 170
Cute.200
Navia.668/aztecx
Giftbox 900
crAzerk 187/atqhteo
Parachute.714/Muthu

*Lithium has already qualified in GPD 2, so only 7 this week.


*There will be no GPD next weekend, the Masters Cup shall be on instead. GPD back in 2 weeks.

Originally Posted by Muthu

Sorry for leaving the compy halfway, com got blue screen of death and couldnt start it up

All good, you've qualified for Masters Cup next week anyway.

[intrepidity]

so the GPD is on in two weeks? sweet, sign me up
also, is the BSG (bronze, silver, gold) tournament still going on? My friend plays for fun and wants to give it a go

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by intrepidity

so the GPD is on in two weeks? sweet, sign me up
also, is the BSG (bronze, silver, gold) tournament still going on? My friend plays for fun and wants to give it a go

Next GPD is Sunday 20/3, 2 weeks.

BSG runs every Saturday.