[Eddie]

Introducing the ESL Americas Open!!!
$50 USD Weekly Cup

Liquipedia homepage and results

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The ESL Amercas Open is a single elimination style tournament for Starcraft 2, Legacy of the Void.
Tournament starts at 5PM CST Sundays; (Monday 10am AEDT timezone) This series is open to everyone!

The format is Single Elim, Bo1 until the round of 16, and Bo3 for all rounds except the finals which are bo5

Prizepool:

1st $50 + 60 OSC points
2nd 30 OSC points
3rd + 4th 15 OSC points each
5-8th 5 OSC points each
9-16th 2.5 OSC points each

$'s are in USD ($70AUD)

SEA players gain 5 bonus SEA Participation points, which counts towards $700 and lan sponsorship.
Plus there are SEA $ Bounties

OSC points will available from this weeks cup (#44)! (Nov 30th)
Signups will be done through the http://play.eslgaming.com/ site.

Updated weekly signup info can be found here

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Please keep in mind that if this time isn't ideal for you, it is good for others. OSC is a global league, people lead different lives, and are busy at different hours, so we aim to provide tournaments to cater to all. This tournament also increases our support to NA, a key OSC region!

Early start for some players (West AU + SEA), but it's at a playable time for our Eastern Aussie warriors, New Zealand, and of course the NA region, Great opportunity to score some OSC points for those who perhaps work in hospitality (Mon-Tues off), or work nights, as they miss out on a lot of our night time tournaments. ESL Americas Open also replaces SEAcraft Weekly as our Monday Cup, as SEAcraft has now moved to Wednesday nights.

It could be worth setting an alarm to gain those important OSC points which represent your ranking in our $50000 league, and qualification towards the $5000+ finals! Top 32 will be paid $. It also enables our NA playerbase another tournament to earn points in, and allows new players from EU to participate in the OSC league.

We are excited to include an ESL event as part of our OSC League, as they have been a leading organisation in esports for many years. Together, this partnership will allow players from all around the world to gain access to OSC points and our rankings, as well as sharing networking and promotion of events to give more opportunities to starcraft players and fans!

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"We at ESL NA/SEA are excited for the opportunity to be able to have na and sea players have more opportunities to play in high level content. We are been witness to many sea and na rivalries through our time in esl and want to see that same passion increase!"
-Marcus "Ascarecrow" Sully, ESL Admin.

You can follow ESL Starcraft on twitter here.

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Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series

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The Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC) is the Oceanic, South East Asian, North American and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments.

The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the 2 day minimum $5000+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion! OSC World Rankings were established in December 2012.

In 2014 OSC partnered tournaments gave away $29691 combined prizepool, ($ bounties, Terran Bonus initiative, Invitationals, and LAN events were not included in this!), ran 155 completed partnered tournaments (up from 77 last year, which equates to 100% growth), and saw 358 individual players with points earned (up from 138 in 2013 = 159% growth)

Current season rankings and database can be viewed here

GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.

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[PSiArc]

Oh that monday early morning thing finally came in the OSC family?
OSC is so big now I think it's about time to stop playing in literally all OSC tournaments and choose convenient ones

[DuSt.Azure]

Originally Posted by PSiArc

OSC is so big now I think it's about time to stop playing in literally all OSC tournaments and choose ones

YES PSIARC I THINK THIS IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA. In fact why not just stop playing at all till the finals?

Quick Comments

	PSiArc:	YES AZURE 10/10 REPLY! I changed my mind, I will continue playing 10/10 tournaments Kappa
	x5.JevyN:	lmao

[ROOTDemi]

There goes my sleep guess ill start playing in it

[SLCN.Wally]

It's holidays now so seems fine but that's a weekday morning I doubt many sea people would be able to play in it

[syfRize]

Originally Posted by SLCN.Wally

It's holidays now so seems fine

Yeah if it was announced any earlier it would've been pretty painful~ 10am or so is pretty decent for holiday weekdays~

[Fullmetal]

It's cool to hear OSC is expanding it's target audience more!
More representation for sc2sea thus the "sea" scene.

[syfIce]

This used to be on a Saturday night US time now Sunday night damn

[Eddie]

Cup #44 Starts in 12 hours (10am AEDT)

Signup here!

[syfRize]

Goddamnit.. sucks i'm gonna actually miss the first one due to family things, best of luck to everyone else though~!

[Eddie]

Congrats to PiLiPiLi on taking out the first OSC Partnered SC2 Americas Open!
The win sees him move up to 15th in the OSC World Rankings.

SC2 Americas Open #44 Brackets here

Also here is a write-up about the partnership by ESL.

I've recieved positive feedback and interest from NA players about this partnership and OSC 2016, which should ensure next year is even more competitive and hopefully strike up a friendly SEA-NA rivalry!

Hope to see more SEA players get involved next week!