[Eddie]

Welcome to the 4th 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, 20th of March, 2011.
Time: 4pm SGT, 7pm AEST
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, 19 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: http://www.livestream.com/champisc2
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 10/4/11 and the chance to win the $70 1st prize, $20 2nd, and $10 3rd for that event. Wildcard qualifying spots may also be given for impressive play outside of the top 8.
Battle.net Chat-Channel: "sc2seaGPD".

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
. No late replacements.

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: Backwater Gulch (B03)
Finals: Typhon Peaks (B05)

Loser can pick from any the following maps:

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

[Eddie]

TAChampi shall be casting this week!

Sign ups open tomorrow

[Eddie]

Sign ups are now open here

[gengka]

gengka.960
Platinum

[haiZR]

haiZR.587
Diamond

[Eddie]

Starts in 7 hours. Join up and play

[ThisIsBlurry]

Hey Eddie, last 2weeks was below 3000points, now also 3000? Supose to be at least 3100 diamonds and below. =)

[ProAnnn]

Originally Posted by ThisIsBlurry

Hey Eddie, last 2weeks was below 3000points, now also 3000? Supose to be at least 3100 diamonds and below. =)

Dont be greedy and join both GPD and Master cup lolz

[ThisIsBlurry]

Originally Posted by ProAnnn

Dont be greedy and join both GPD and Master cup lolz

Not greedy la. Join master confirm tio own-ed. At least this one still got hope. =)

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by ThisIsBlurry

Hey Eddie, last 2weeks was below 3000points, now also 3000? Supose to be at least 3100 diamonds and below. =)

I will allow a little leway upwards of 3k, atm the top 300 diamonds are 3090+, so i try and keep the GPD excluding top 250-300 diamonds and masters.

[cruxBsK]

is it still possible to sign up for this one guys?

[Eddie]

Signups still open for another 15m, 7 spots left.

[ranrange]

Checkmate.237
1500 diamond player.

[Eddie]

Congratulations to Lithium/Kit on winning the 4th GPD Weekly Open! Lithium beat Phoenix 3-2 in the final. He came from 2-0 down. Both played very well. Lithium wins his 3rd GPD in row!

A big thank you to TAChampi and TaZain for casting and streaming the event.

Players who qualified for the Masters Cup on 10/4/11 are:

Lithium.232
Phoenix.338
TApow.455
nGGDedvo.959
EzXarT.889
ThisIsBlurry.593
TAcawkballs.753
WonTon

* By winning 3 GPD's in a row, Lithium has proven he might be too good to play in this competition every week. So in future he can participate in 1 GPD per month. Plus play in Masters Cup. So no Lithium for the next 2 weeks...

[ProAnnn]

Awesome trolling by phoenix. Playing zerg toss and terran LOLZ.

[MKP]

Agreed... Haha.