[Baldie]

ACL Starcraft 2 Online Round 3 (Season 2)

The 2013 Pro Circuit has kicked off and has now completed its first season. With Brisbane complete, attention now moves on to Melbourne for Season 2 and it is our pleasure to announce the first online round for Season 2. 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 second Live event of 2013. For this online round, seeding will be conducted based on season 1 points. However season 1 points will not be considered when seeding players for ACL Melbourne so we cannot stress enough the importance of doing well in this online round! So warm up your micro and get gaming in preparation for a very important event!

Details:
This is the first of two official Online Rounds of Season 2. This tournament will award ACL Season 2 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 2 Online Round 1 & Online Round 2 have been completed, Season points will be added up and used to seed players at the second live National event in July, ACL Melbourne. The current points for 2013 are shown on Stats Central, where we will continually update Season and Yearly points throughout the year.

Registration:
Registration for this tournament is live, to register for this tournament go here. Registration will close on Friday the 17th of May at 11.59pm AEST.

Registered Players:
A list of Registered Players can be found here.

Landing Page:
The ACL Starcraft 2 Online Round 3 - Season 2 landing page can be found here.

Day/Time:
Date: Sunday the 19th of May.
Time: 11:30am AEST - 10.30pm AEST.

10.30pm is the latest the tournament will be played to unless all players left agree to continue. If players do not agree to continue matches will be rescheduled at the earliest possible convenience. Players entering and competing in this tournament are obligated to play until AT LEAST 10.30 AEST and if you choose to leave before this time you will be penalised.

Tournament Structure:
This tournament will host a typical straight up Double Elimination bracket. This means no pool play will be played for this tournament. All seeding for this tournament will be from Season 1 points as earned throughout the season.

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

[syfMiley]

Alright baldie show me your private parts

Quick Comments

mGGDaedalus:

Wondering if he's a baldie where it counts?

[T3CHavOc]

Heck yes! So excited

[Maynarde]

Shall actually be around to cast this one, wheee

[Fenner]

Any date for the live event yet?

[pXtAYY]

Awesome! This is gonna be sweet.

[x5_Bard]

Signed up! Now just to buy HotS

Quick Comments

	Baldie:	Who even are you?
	asdfSchnitzel:	Who?

[Snx.FigJig]

I'll ez you now Bard.

[Malice]

Just wondering if this will be played on SEA?

Want to check before I sign up.

[Baldie]

Originally Posted by qmX.Malice

Just wondering if this will be played on SEA?

Want to check before I sign up.

We will play SEA unless the ping issue is not resolved which in that case we will move to NA if necessary.

I'd like to think the issue will be resolved within a month but we will see.

[Malice]

Originally Posted by Baldie

We will play SEA unless the ping issue is not resolved which in that case we will move to NA if necessary.

I'd like to think the issue will be resolved within a month but we will see.

Unfortunately the ping issue will never be resolved for players who are on Optus though -_-

Quick Comments

	ToRSpartaz:	True
	SLCN.NXZ:	If its played on NA some players might have bad poing too. Always someone has to lose.

[SLCN.Kez]

Any chances you could call the tournament online round 1 season 2? My OCD feels weird about OR round 3 S2 >.<

Quick Comments

	metaGameGods:	Round 1 Season 2, agreed.
	ToRDjvillian:	+1
	Maynarde:	+1
	UHF:	Season 2: Qualifier 1
	TACeeSerps:	WCS SEA: Premier League Qualifier 1
	Dox:	Challenger League Qualifier for the World Championship Premier League Qualifier Consolation Show Match
	|Erasmus|:	see, dox -is- evil...

[ETL.Santi]

I reckon NA should be used.

[SLCN.Kez]

In regards to SEA or NA, have it on SEA, but make it known that if 2 players agree to play their match on NA, then that is allowed. If a player wants to play on sea, and a player wants to play on NA, have it on SEA (imo). You could also do something like play 1 map each on selected region, starting on SEA

[Baldie]

Originally Posted by Kez

In regards to SEA or NA, have it on SEA, but make it known that if 2 players agree to play their match on NA, then that is allowed. If a player wants to play on sea, and a player wants to play on NA, have it on SEA (imo).

We will do this.

Originally Posted by Kez

Any chances you could call the tournament online round 1 season 2? My OCD feels weird about OR round 3 S2 >.<

Although I understand and would agree from a OCD point the reason it is the way it is, is because of how it all works in the back end of the system and it being easier to manage/find and admin pages and results.

I can have a conversation with the team but just wanted to let you know the reasoning. Hopefully putting the season in brackets will be less confusing as the seasons are just another way of bunching up certain online rounds and LANs together.

[SLCNPezz]

imo force players to play on NA. It's better for me that way.

[NvRossi]

for me sea ping has been fixed

[Fenner]

Can we get information on how the group selection will be done for the live event before we commit to playing in the online qualifier?

Aka will seeds get group selection or is it going to e the same as last time with only open brackets getting a choice?

Quick Comments

	ToRGreenArchon:	I think i remember something about gsl group style or something different
	Baldie:	You have until the Friday of the event to register. I will have a definitive answer by then made public

[Turkle]

Can't wait! Go the fonz and Jambi!!!

[Dox]

Loser gets to pick the map; makes sense to allow them to pick the server too. Just make sure they declare their preference during the veto process.

[x5_Bard]

Baldie where can I buy one of the shirts on your dp? If you tell me I promise to give you a new photo to use

[VB_Blake]

Crap I just signed up but then realised I won't be able to make it, is there any way to remove myself from the registered players list?

[Dox]

Last time I checked, if you click the "Register" URL while logged in, it gives you the option to delete your registration.

[ToR.Arnor]

website is offline

signing up for Sam

xGKingkOng

[Baldie]

Reminder this bad boy is next Sunday (19th)!

Group selection processes will be made clear before the online round at the request of Fenner and others.

The ACL site has been experiencing a lot of traffic as of late and has been known to crash from time to time so please be patient when trying to register!

Also remember this is one of two online rounds for Season 2.

In regards to confirming the dates of ACL Melbourne and its location I cannot disclose as of yet but will post on SC2SEA as soon as it is made public.

[Dox]

Originally Posted by Baldie

Group selection processes will be made clear before the online round at the request of Fenner and others.

Bump!

I've removed Andy's registration since he's boarding his flight to New York at the same time

[SLCN.Kez]

super keen for this!

[fray`Alpha]

Wish I could play in this but moving houses on Sunday Gl to all those who do play.

[Maynarde]

Casting this with Zepph and inFeZa obs / stream. It's gonna be cooler than a polarbear's toenail dipped in Antarctic waters during winter.

[Baldie]

I can confirm the format of group/open bracket selections has been finalised.

For at least this season both top 16 seeding and the 8 open bracket seeds will and have been preselected. In other words, there will be no choosing for either top 16 or open bracket with it looking something like this:

Group A
1st
8th
12th
13th

Group B
2nd
5th
11th
15th

etc.

Open bracket will occur the same in that 1st seed may go into group A while seed 5 may go into group B. The seeds will not be revealed until after both online rounds for Top 16 and after open bracket concludes as to ensure players don't manipulate the brackets to get into the group they want.

Moving forward we will look at shifting to player choices but it is not a priority right now - we just want to have a objective and transparent system at the moment.

[SLCN.Kez]

I guess it doesn't really matter what they're seeded, but will players from open bracket just be seeded 17th-24th and slotted in? Only reason I ask is some people might advocate that the winner of the open bracket should be seeded higher than joe shmoe who finished 15th overall from the two qualifiers. In any case, transparency is always a good thing

[syfChadMann]

Originally Posted by Kez

some people might advocate that the winner of the open bracket should be seeded higher than joe shmoe who finished 15th overall from the two qualifiers. In any case, transparency is always a good thing

No, Joe Schmoe played the qualifiers and shouldn't be penalised because he is Joe Schmoe. The guys in the open bracket should have played the qualifiers if they wanted a higher seed. In a perfect world, the best 16 players make it into groups and the others that come through the open bracket are the Joe Schmoe up-coming players. Have to be objective and set clear seeding rather than saying... Well 16th seed in groups isn't as good as sikkunt that won open bracket.. sikkunt should have played the fkn qualifiers if they wanted a better seed.

Quick Comments

asdfSchnitzel:

best explanation

[Baldie]

It doesn't matter in this case as the top 8 open brackets will feed equally among the four groups and because of the way pool play works in that you play each of your 5 opponents it doesn't matter if you seed them 1st or 24th - they still end up playing the same people.

Open Bracket seeds would take 17th - 24th however if there came a need to split.

PS: Remember signups close midnight tonight!

[Baldie]

BUMP!

Reminder ACL Melbourne - Online Round 3 begins tomorrow at 11:30AM AEST SHARP. At some point before 11:30AM tomorrow please log onto SEA and join the group "Australian Cyber League" as this will be where we will run this and future tournaments through. If you have any issues doing so PM me in game and I will invite you (Baldie.410).

Brackets are finalised and will remain hidden until the start of the event.

[Baldie]

Brackets will be released 5 minutes before the start of the event so people can do vetos and start their games right on 11:30.

See you all online in an hour!

[NvRossi]

whats the channel on bnet

Quick Comments

mGGSouth:

group 'Australian Cyber League'