[nirvAnA]

Thanks to our awesome donators for the month of March - skybreaker, Disadvantage and learner123 - we will be able to run a really cool tournament.

And as an event needs to be $100 to be listed on TL to get 10x the viewers, the prize pool will be this amount so we will give a lot more exposure for our sea community. Ty benji for the suggestion.

Im currently thinking of running a slighty different format for this tournament, but this is a familar format we have used for the COTH and something we have never used in our tournament brackets before, with a nice prize pool. It will be a "KOF/Winners style" format with teams of 3!

The KOF Format
For those who dont know how it works, basically u get 3 of ur fav players/practise buddies and make a team together with a cool name like perhaps "benji win trades". You choose a default starter for all rounds and all matches are 1v1, bo1. The starters play each other and the winner stays continues to play a member of the opponents team of their choosing not yet defeated, until there are no players left.

It makes for some tense moments , clutch play with all kills and reverse all kills, etc. Theres also a tactical element where the team of the losing player can choose a player who is strong against the current winner, ie sniping based on race or map. So since there are 3 players in each time it basically it turns every round into a bo5, as a team needs to elminate the other team (3 wins) to move foward.

Back in the beta, our "Team AU" team comprising of filthy, me and moonglade even knocked out teams like EG, and Fnatic. We got all killed by idra tho haha!

Poll
Anyway to provide the best expereince, I do need some feedback for this -

Should the tournament be selected applicants or open sign ups?

Selected applicants meaning from the list of sign ups we pick the absolute best 8 teams. This means that the tourney has lots of strong/close matches with the best of SEA so its good for SEA or NA viewers who happen to tune in, and it can also finish all in one day. The bad point would be not everyone can enter the tournament.

So just send in your votes, and also, you can start signing up your teams by posting here in the following format.

Team Name:
PlayerA
PlayerB
PlayerC

It will tentatively be in 1-2 weeks time and on a weekend.

Prizes tentatively:
#1 70
#2 30

5 Teams Signed up So far:

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Name - derpytastic's cute:
Player A :Cute
Player B :Zergtastic
Player C :derpy

eam Name: inFinity
PlayerA : Revenant
PlayerB : Roz
PlayerC : RedArchon

Team Name: Nerdlings
Player A: MnMKoros
Player B: Greenwood
Player C: nDLKaiZ

Team Name : Gview
Player A : GviewToONaC
Player B : GviewKatsu
Player C : GviewArtist

Team Name: WsWg
Player A: Han
Player B: DsDStarfish
Player C: SouJ

[ToRSpartaz]

Sounds cool Nir

[cure]

Sounds good ! Gogo invitational !

[learner123]

any1 wans 2 team wif me =S

[deL]

We should nominate captains from a bunch of high level players and they take turns drafting lower level players who want to participate into their team so it's even. It would be boring if there was one team of like mOOnGLaDe, Revenant and RedArchon they would never lose. Players couldn't complain about having a noob team cos they get to choose them too n_n

[Benji]

Originally Posted by deL

We should nominate captains from a bunch of high level players and they take turns drafting lower level players who want to participate into their team so it's even. It would be boring if there was one team of like mOOnGLaDe, Revenant and RedArchon they would never lose. Players couldn't complain about having a noob team cos they get to choose them too n_n

Theres enough good players to make 8x3 teams tho.

Unless youre referring to the Open one, and you'll end with teams of a High level Master with a Diamond and a Gold player, the matchups would come down to which Master won.

[deL]

Originally Posted by Benji

Theres enough good players to make 8x3 teams tho.

Unless youre referring to the Open one, and you'll end with teams of a High level Master with a Diamond and a Gold player, the matchups would come down to which Master won.

Surely that's better than a team of all masters beating on a bunch of diamond and gold teams.

Also prize is quite low for a team of 3, less that normal community opens etc.

[Benji]

Originally Posted by deL

Surely that's better than a team of all masters beating on a bunch of diamond and gold teams.

Also prize is quite low for a team of 3, less that normal community opens etc.

If theres only 8 teams (which makes sense) I imagine 8 teams of 3 Masters wouldn't be too hard to get. It'd make an epic finals when you've got deth/pinder/edge vs aaron/rev/oxygen or something.

[ETL.Santi]

Sign ups with maybe a qualifier? In case there are more than 8 teams.

[EveJeonSa]

Name - derpytastic's cute:
Player A :Cute
Player B :Zergtastic
Player C :derpy

Hope this goes open!

[Roz]

Team Name: inFinity
PlayerA : Revenant
PlayerB : Roz
PlayerC : RedArchon

[nGenWild]

Roz that lineup is unfair!!

[Siewkaiz]

Team Name: Nerdlings
Player A: MnMKoros
Player B: Greenwood
Player C: nDLKaiZ

[toonac]

Team Name : Gview
Player A : GviewToONaC
Player B : GviewKatsu
Player C : GviewArtist

[inFeZa]

Anyone wanna pick me for a team *cuteface*

[nirvAnA]

Most pple voted for open tourney but theres only 4 teams so far. cmon guys if u want to have open toruney we must have at least 16 teams otherwise it makes sense just to have 8 so start signing up!

[SkyBreaker]

This is really awesome, great work on the tournament idea! In terms of voting; I opted for the invitational lay-out; in my opinion I think this would be best for the tournament (in the sense of increasing SEA/ANZ awareness and having a lot of players tune in to watch). Also, I must admit; I would love to relax and watch the best-of-the-best duke it out in the KoF tournament layout!

Look forward to tuning into this event when it goes live!

[SouJ]

Team Name: WsWg
Player A: Han
Player B: DsDStarfish
Player C: SouJ

[FaDeGofire]

Is there a date and time set for this? I'm interested in joining but not sure if i'll be free :P

[svbu]

Team Name: XunwuTeamwork
Player A: xunwuStriKE
Player B: xunwuMinus
Player C: xunwuAAA

[Sixth]

This is awesome! Pokemon battle for the win..

[OxygeN]

Tilt

1) aLtoxygen.576(
2) Gowad(man slut)
3) WRTG(god knows what this stands for)

[Soft]

master and kids

1) ngenmaster 735
2) ngenwild 120
3) ngenjazbas ???

[Micksterzone]

Ill ask some ppl i know see if they wanna sign up, 2 of us do, i just needa ask the other

[UncleTom]

Blades of Aiur
Player A d1_s14
Player B Aean(
Player C UncleTom

[Aean(:]

Originally Posted by UncleTom

Blades of Aiur
Player A d1_s14
Player B Aean(
Player C UncleTom

Aean(: *
@Nirvana, if you havn't decided, make it on a saturday ;D or not too late for sunday

[JesseTheKING]

Jesse and groupies

jesse
sheepy
jimdiddy

[zendex]

JahBeeToe HEAT:
MskiAngel
WaningMoon
MskiJaBiTo

[ETL.Santi]

Team Name: Canberra Team
PlayerA cTraven
PlayerB cTmukade
PlayerC cTsanti

p.s make it a saturday

[aaronkoh]

Team Name: aLt
PlayerA : aLtPiG
PlayerB : aLtAaron
PlayerC : YoonYJ

[PiG]

What happened to thisS?? still happening? Update plz guys!

[nirvAnA]

it will start after SEA SL

[PiG]

Ah cool thnx bryan I thought id missed it :s

[EveRekanise]

Team Eve:
tDpMaltiso
EveJaff
EveRekanise

hope I'm not too late!

[pRoTimber]

Team name: KOF 98
Iori yagami
Kyo Kusanagi
Terry Bogard

nah im only joking

team prodigy
pRoTimber
pRoCobo
pRoScrubiee

[pRosCrUBieE]

Originally Posted by pRoTimber

Team name: KOF 98
Iori yagami
Kyo Kusanagi
Terry Bogard

nah im only joking

team prodigy
pRoTimber
pRoCobo
pRoScrubiee

Yes im Terry!

[Stallion]

what date and time will it most likly be? crux will enter a team but depending on date determines the team the prelim players are cruxStallion cruxDali cruxTempest cruxMyth cruxPeon

[SungInSPR]

Team SPR:

SungInSPR
SoongHeeSPR
MasterSPR

[nGenHypE]

Team Name: KJH's Followers
PlayerA : nGenKJH
PlayerB : uRvHypE
PlayerC : GGBinu

[faytz]

Team Name: Unknown
Player A: Faytz
Player B: LizerG
Player C: kyzersoze

[nirvAnA]

SIGN UP WITH UR TEAM IN THE LINKS BELOW

Announcing sc2sea.com's KOF#1 starting TODAY!!

Yeap i know its really impromptu but with the high demand and lack of my free time next week i've decided that the KOF#1 will start today. As its our first day, it will also be kinda a trial run so we will only have a max of 8 teams today so sign up quick! However we will follow the same format as the COs and the winning team will qualify into the semis/ro8 of the final tourney at the end of the month with a >$100 prizepool.

Date/Time:
Friday(today!) 29th of April, 2011 - 6pm SGT, 8pm Sydney
Battle.net Chat-Channel:
"sc2seaKOF".

+ [What is KOF?] +

KOF stands for King of Fighters, a popular arcade game where you select 3 characters in a team. In this format, if your character defeats the other teams character, your same character will continue fighting until the other team is defeated or your character losses.

Basically we have carried this format into Starcraft 2. So you make an awesome team of 3 with your favourite players/practise buddies. You choose a default starter for all rounds and all matches are 1v1, bo1. The starters play each other and the winner stays and continues to play a member of the opponents team of their choosing not yet defeated, until there are no players left. Very similar to the GTSL.

It makes for some tense moments, clutch players with all kills and reverse all kills, etc. Theres also a tactical element where the team of the losing player can choose a player who is strong against the current winner, ie sniping based on race or map. So since there are 3 players in each time it basically it turns every round into a bo5, as a team needs to elminate the other team (3 wins) to move foward.

Back in the beta, our "Team AU" team comprising of filthy, nirvAnA and moonglade even knocked out teams like EG, and Fnatic. We got all killed by idra tho haha!

Sign up instructions:

Step1:
(For Team leaders only)
Create your team using this link. http://www.sc2sea.com/competitions.php?do=addteam.
For the team's name please use the names of all your members with the first name being the team's starter. i.e Team name: "Jimdiddy iaguz OxygeN"

Step2:
(All)
Team leaders: Give your team members the URL link to your newly created team page. If you forgot it you can find your team here
Team members: At the team page click "join team"
Team leaders: At the team page click "accept request"
Once your team has 3 players you can move on to the next step.

Step3:
(For Team leaders only)
Sign up to the tournament with the team you created in Step1 with this link.

Tournament Eligibility:
The tournament is open to any team with exactly 3 confirmed members. The system wont allow registration otherwise.
Prizes:
The winning team will qualify into the semis/ro8 of the final tourney at the end of the month with a >$100 prizepool.
Maps:
First map shattered temple. Losing team picks any map from the current ladder map pool. All rounds techically being first to 3 wins, with the finals being first to 4 wins allowing for revival of a last Ace player who has already lost.

Any feedback/problems feel free to post in this thread.

[GGnoRe]

Team Name: CAVETROLLGGLOL
Player A: GGnoRe
Player B: GGMuse
Player C: GGfiery

[TAEdgE]

Team Name: Pelican Fetishists ft Frank McFrank
Player A: TAEdgE
Player B: TARossi
Player C: inFiSpider

[nirvAnA]

Guys dont signup in this thread, follow the sign up instructions

[TAEdgE]

yeh, just showing off our team :P

[deL]

Any teams need +1?