Masters Cup Sun 11th March! $10 prize just for joining
Welcome to the 14th SEA Masters Cup!
The Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament. $100 prize on offer to the winner + Gray L Sc2sea Tee, $50 2nd prize, $25 3rd. $185 prize pool total*! This event is sponsored by Eddie and sc2sea.com
Sponsors and donations for this event are welcomed, if you'd like to help out, please pm me. Masters Cup usually gets around 10000+ viewers, and 100-150 of the highest quality players in the SEA region. Our last few Cups have had 13000+ viewers!
In this months Cup we shall be trialling two dedicated streams. This will offer variety in games and casters, as well as more advertisement opportunities for potential sponsors.
We are also looking for a Sc2sea + Masters Cup promotional video to be aired during events. Prize on offer is a White-Ra mouse pad, box signed by WhiteRa himself, courtesy of Mayo + Tt eSPORTS. See thread for details.
HDPhoenix casting MC 1 + 2
xGKingBenji for casting MC 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 +14
System casting MC 6, 14 + co-casting MC 8 + 10
Frogmite casting MC 8
Dox casting MC 12
nGenXeen for co-casting MC 3 + 5
Jaczie for casting MC 7 + co-casting MC 1
Paz for co-casting MC 7
FaDeMeatex for casting MC 13 + co-casting MC 12
Zepph for co-casting MC 9, 11 + 13
LiviBee for co-casting MC 14
XanT for helping Admin MC 1- 14
System for helping Admin MC 3 - 5 +7, 8
BakaInu for helping Admin MC 1
Veretis for helping Admin MC 2
SorC for helping Admin MC 6
One lucky participant shall receive $10! While not a massive prize, its a free pizza, or a couple beers, etc, just for playing some sc2! Even if you are eliminated early be sure to stick around, watch the high quality games, and listen out for who will win (It may well be you!). Purpose of this is to encourage player participation, and offer a small reward for those who fail to place, as every game is of a high level. Depending upon future donations/sponsorship this may continue or be replaced by some other sort of prize, eg hardware. It shall be trialed this Masters Cup, as always, feedback welcomed. The prize draw shall be done live on stream using http://www.random.org/. If the number generated, matches your randomly seeded number on challonge.com, you're the winner! (Except if you no showed and got walked over in the early rounds, then we'll redraw, as it is designed to reward participants)
Details
Date: Sunday, 11th of March, 2012. Time: 6pm AEDT, 5pm AEST, 3pm SGT Location: SEA Battle.net region. Tournament Eligibility: You must be in Masters or Grand Masters League (1v1 - SEA license). Lower players will be disqualified. How to Sign Up: post your SEA user name + character code in this thread Live-Streams: A:http://www.twitch.tv/benjisc2, B:http://www.twitch.tv/systemtv Prizes: Winner gets the $100 + Gray L Sc2sea Tee prize and bragging rights for being the best of the best. $50 for 2nd, $25 to 3rd - *Prize pool may increase
There is also a lucky draw prize! One lucky person shall get $10 just for joining! Battle.net Chat-Channel: "sc2seaMC". If the event is full, the late replacement channel shall be sc2seaMCx. Someone shall be organizing replacements, message them in game or talk in channel. If not message FaDeEdOne in game.
· All results must be PMed to FaDeEdOne.139 or TAXanT.665 in-game.
· 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.
· 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 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
. If you are lucky enough to win two Masters Cups in a row, you must take a break from the next one. Just so we can spread the wealth and glory around.
. Non SEA residents/international players can join every 3rd 'open' Masters Cup. The 2 beforehand and 2 following are just for SEA players to compete amongst themselves.
Refs: FaDeEdOne.139, TAXanT.665
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:
Ro128: WCG Anitga Shipyard (B01 no 2nd game) (R1 on bracket) Ro64: WCG Metalopolis (B01 no 2nd game) (R2 on bracket) Ro32: GSL Daybreak (B03) (R3 on bracket) Ro16: GSL Metropolis (B03) (R4 on bracket) Ro8: Cloud Kingdom LE (B03) (R5 on bracket) Semi-Finals: GSL Bel'shir beach (winter version) (B03) Finals: WCG Shakuras Plateau (B05)
(3rd Place Match WCG Shakuras Plateau, B03)
Loser can pick from any the following maps:
WCG Metalopolis, WCG Shakuras Plateau, GSL Daybreak, Tal'Darim Altar LE, WCG Shattered Temple, GSL Metropolis, Cloud Kingdom LE, GSTL Dual Site, WCG Anitga Shipyard, GSL Bel'shir beach (winter version)
* Players are allowed 1 veto each per round. 2 vetos are allowed in the B05 final. First game cannot be vetoed.
Signups will close at 2pm SG/5pm AEDT on Sunday 11 March, Brackets will be published on challonge.com shortly after and updated in this thread, along with seedings.
Although these GPD players are qualified, they will have to post in this thread to confirm their participation or their qualified spot will be given to someone else.
Any questions please ask. If you are a high level player, who doesn't ladder much, but want to join, pm me and i shall consider it.
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