[ACL VaNzR]

ACL Starcraft 2 Online Round 1 - Season 1

The 2013 Pro Circuit has just kicked off and ACL is proud to announce its first Starcraft 2 Online Round! 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 first Live event of 2013. So warm up your micro and get gaming in preparation for a very important event!

ACL has recently announced changes in our Pro Circuit structure, including the introduction of Seasons. The 2013 ACL Pro Circuit will be broken down into 3 season, each season ending with a live National event. Our official Online Rounds will seed yourself leading up to National LAN events, where points mean everything. Do you have what it takes to be ranked within the Top 16 leading up to our first National event in April? Here our Top 16 players, the Professional players, will be treated to an exclusive 'Pro Zone' which will be entirely their own. Secluded away from the rest of the Starcraft 2 playing area players will have their group stages live streamed to everybody at home and most importantly secure themselves a place in Group Stages, meaning they will not have to participate in Open Pool Play and will have earned themselves the best possible position to progress to the Championship Bracket and from there take out the tournament. Keep in mind that Season 1, our current Season, will host two official Online Rounds, meaning the Top 16 players ranked by Season points leading into the first National Event will be awarded Pro status, and gain access to all the benefits this title allows. So practice hard, and play your hearts out, because Online Rounds have never been more important!

Details:
This is the first official Online Round of Season 1 however Season 1 will host two official Online Rounds. This tournament will award ACL Season 1 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 1 Online Round 1 & Online Round 2 have been completed, Season points will be added up and used to seed players at the first live National event in April. All Season and Yearly points will be available on Stats Central, which should be relaunched shortly.

Tournament Information:

Live Bracket, Registered Players, Landing Page:
http://www.aclpro.com.au/2013/events...-landing-page/

Tournament Structure:
This tournament will host a typical straight up Double Elimination bracket. This means no pool play will be played for this tournament and all seeding for this tournament will be seed off 2012 end of year rankings. While the first Online Round of Season 1 will be seeded by 2012 ranks, Online Round 2 will be seeded by 2013 Season 1 points.

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


In The Zone Episode 2 - Starcraft 2 in 2013:
For those who missed In The Zone last night where we talked about Starcrat 2 in 2013, be sure to check out the rebroadcast below!

You Tube

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[Fenner]

Don't think i can play on that day :'(

edit: which lan does this qualify you for?

Quick Comments

ACL VaNzR:

BOTH OR1 and OR2 are added together to give you your points for the season.

[syntox]

Is there confirmation on whether the live event will be HOTS yet?

Can we qualify as one race and play as another in the main tournament?

Quick Comments

	NvRossi:	the live event will be HoTs and offcourse
	JaYbOc:	hahaha oliver gonna qualify with zerg and play in HotS as terran I see

[iM MaFia]

i cant sign up for it, wont let me reply i get this thing [#103133] You do not have permission to reply to this topic.

[syntox]

Originally Posted by fray`fenner

Don't think i can play on that day :'(

edit: which lan does this qualify you for?

Brisbane I think

[ToRSpookToR]

Originally Posted by iM mafia

i cant sign up for it, wont let me reply i get this thing [#103133] You do not have permission to reply to this topic.

are you logged in?

[ACL Beware]

Originally Posted by iM mafia

i cant sign up for it, wont let me reply i get this thing [#103133] You do not have permission to reply to this topic.

I just manually validated your 'iMMaFia' account, so you should be able to post now. You also have a 'iM Mafia' account which is tied to your team-immunity email, in case you would like to use that one.

And yes, these Online Rounds will seed players coming into ACL Brisbane, our first National LAN event this year.

[Norksman]

Confirming that the qualifiers will be played on WoL and the LAN event will be played on HotS. We discussed this as well as a few other things on the show linked.

OR1 and OR2 are both for qualification into the Brisbane LAN.

[iM tgun]

don't think i can play on this day lollll

Quick Comments

syfChadMann:

Sick dodge.

[syfMightyKiwi]

Pity i cant go to the Aussie LANS, sound like heaps of fun

[ACL Beware]

Originally Posted by IrisMightyKiwi

Pity i cant go to the Aussie LANS, sound like heaps of fun

Our Online Rounds are open to all players in AUS/NZ, regardless of your intention/availability to attend ACL Live Events

[syfChadMann]

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

Our Online Rounds are open to all players in AUS/NZ, regardless of your intention/availability to attend ACL Live Events

So anyone living in Aus/NZ can sign up?.. People like KingKong or TargA if he came back are allowed to play? but someone living in Thailand or Singapore isn't permitted to play in the online qualifiers? What about, and I'll use PiG's trip to Korea as an example - While Overseas and Australian Resident wants to play online round, is that allowed if not IN Aus/NZ??

Plz clarify the ruling.

I'd say it should be SEA Residents (Anyone living in) or Aus/NZ (Anyone *usually* living in Aus/NZ)

Quick Comments

Reere:

Yes, open to SEA please~

[Dox]

Originally Posted by fray`ChadMann

or Aus/NZ (Anyone *usually* living in Aus/NZ)

it's always been this way, are you forgetting TargA came 2nd at ACL Sydney last year?

Quick Comments

syfChadMann:

Not forgetting, just clarifying incase anything has changed and if open to outside SEA.

[syfMightyKiwi]

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

Our Online Rounds are open to all players in AUS/NZ, regardless of your intention/availability to attend ACL Live Events

that's cool, i might have to play now!

[nirvAnA]

its great to see ACL back!

[Eddie]

Can't wait for the ACL circuit to start back up. Great fun

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

Our Online Rounds are open to all players in AUS/NZ, regardless of your intention/availability to attend ACL Live Events

Not a fan of people doing this. There is no cash prize, so why play to try and take a spot/knock someone out who could attend?

Quick Comments

	syfChadMann:	Agree 100% - if you don't plan on attending the live event, entering is only mucking up others chance to attend.
	ROOTPetraeus:	+1
	FvRsolis:	+1 it hinders players who can actually make the event, because it is local to them

[SayfT]

Cannot validate account aswell just like Mafia, getting [#10120] We could not find the validation request you are attempting to verify. error

[ACL Beware]

Originally Posted by Eddie

Can't wait for the ACL circuit to start back up. Great fun



Not a fan of people doing this. There is no cash prize, so why play to try and take a spot/knock someone out who could attend?

Our first 2 National events are not invite only, anyone can attend. There are no 'spots' for attendance, only Season and Yearly points and though a participant may not plan/be able to attend our first National event, maybe they will be able to attend the last National event/Finals - then those points will come in handy. Also, for the simple reason of having fun.

Originally Posted by Gerlan.au

Cannot validate account aswell just like Mafia, getting [#10120] We could not find the validation request you are attempting to verify. error

I just had a look at your account, looks good on my end, still can't post?

Quick Comments

SayfT:

It works now, thank you

[Reere]

So just for clarification, is this open to people living in SEA?

[Dox]

Originally Posted by ACL Beware

all players in AUS/NZ

10charrrrrrrrrrrr

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Reere:

roger that! Thank you~