[mGGNemesis]

Welcome to the official GMC #3 thread for all your official groupings/brackets/information etc.

After almost 2 weeks of signups : reference thread, the long awaited brackets are here for our first round.

1st Group Stage Brackets : http://challonge.com/GMC3_1stround

Main Brackets : http://challonge.com/GMC3_GLHF

Format/Schedule :

• Round of 47 : Round Robin (8 groups) BO3 |28 March(Sat) to 12 April (Sun)
  Round of 16 : Double Elimination (4 groups) BO3 Seeding/Group Picks | 15 April (Wed) to 29 April (Wed)
  Quarter Finals BO3|8 May (Fri) to 10 May (Sun)
  Semi Finals BO5| 17th May (Sun)
  3rd place match and Finals BO7| 23rd May (Sat) 2pm AEST

*Dates are subject to change; please check the thread regularly

Some Simple Guidelines :

1. No BM!! DO try to date and schedule a time/date to play out your games way before the deadline. No cheating of any type (including smurfing) will be tolerated. Any cheating will be investigated and the player will be disqualified.
   
2. Starting Map will be based on vetoes by the players to the last map remaining to be begin their sets.
   
3. For the Quarter Finals to Finals, players will veto the # of maps required and remaining maps choose the map they will pick if they had lost and the last remaining map will be starting map.
   
4. At the moment, there are plans to have the games from Semis to Finals to be casted. Can only confirm when the dates are also confirmed. However if any players feel their games were awesome and would like them to be casted from replays, please save the replays and send them to me. After I've collected a reasonable number, I'll try to arrange for that to happen as well

Other important matters with regards to this first round (round of 45) :

1. Please save replays until end of round 1 in case of disputes or if game was epic and players wants them to be casted from replay.
2. Ignore the stage 2 in this link/set of brackets (format for presentation is correct for this round but not for the next, a limitation of challonge)
3. Do not wait for the last minute to complete your games.
4. 1st random participation prize will be picked from someone from the first group who completes all their games

Ok I know the important question a lot of you have been bugging me about... the prize pool. As of 27 March, it is as follows :

1st : $100
2nd : $60
3rd : $40
4th : $20
5th - 8th : $5 each

• 1 random participant from the 1st round (round of 47) 1st group to complete games (prize : key)
• 1 random participant from the 2nd round (round of 16) 1st group to complete games (prize : key)
• player who makes it furthest in brackets gets cookies.
• possible prizes for stream for finals

In addition :

OSC points :
1st 125 OSC points
2nd 80 OSC points
3rd 50 OSC points
4th 25 OSC points
5-8th 10 OSC points each
9-16th 5 OSC points each

Please note that all games/sets must be completed for a participant to be awarded his/her prize.

At this point of time I would like to thank all the people who have made this prize pool possible :
Cash contributions : Zenabi, Pressure, MightyKiwi, Nemesis
Game keys : Rezyn, Schnitzel, 2ezy

*Anyone who still wishes to contribute to the prize pool in any way, please feel free to pm Nemesis or Apoc aka Alon.

Would also note at this point of time my co-admin : Alon. We will be working together to making this event as smooth going as possible.

GL HF!!!
May the Games BEGIN!!