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Date: Sunday, 13th of May, 2012 Time: 11AM SGT, 1PM AEST Location: SEA Battle.net Tournament Eligibility: You must be in Masters or Grand Masters League on SEA server. Lower players will be disqualified. How to Sign Up: Go to http://teameve.com/archives/654 and post your SEA ID and character code. If you are not from SEA, please state the name best known by and your country.
Example: her0.813 - LiquidHer0 - Korea Live-Stream:http://www.twitch.tv/evegaming with Stitch and Special Guest Flamga! We will be offering a high quality 1080p stream on that day of the event! Battle.net Channel: “PokerStratEve” If there are any problems pm EveRekanise.618/EveJaFF.415
Prizes:
1st Prize: $300 Cash + $50 Credit on PokerStrategy.com
2nd Prize: $100 Cash + $50 Credit on PokerStrategy.com
3rd Prize: $50 Credit on PokerStrategy.com
4th Prize: $50 Credit on PokerStrategy.com
Players who place top 8 in our PokerStrategy Eve Cups will be seeded in future tournaments and may have a chance to take part in a showmatch against a professional StarCraft 2 player across the globe, similar to the showmatch we will be having on May 11th.
· Reporting of results must be to EveRekanise.618 or EveJaFF.415
· Players who are late for 15 min or more will be disqualified
. Players will not start games without permission from the tournament admins.
· If any disconnects occur within the first two minutes of in-game time, the match will be replayed. However if the disconnect occurs after two minutes, the decision is up to the admins judging from the replay and the issue at state.
. All players must set their status to busy before starting their games
· In any cases of disputes, the decision of the Admins will be final.
· Any inappropriate behaviour will result in a disqualification.
· Players must have their own SEA account. Regardless of where you reside, as long as you have a SEA account that is Masters or Grandmasters, you are eligible to play. If you go by another alias on a different server, you must specify who you are on that server.
. You are allowed to switch races
Refs: EveRekanise.618, EveJaFF.415 Tournament is capped at 128 players, so sign up quick!
Map List
The first map of each round is predetermined and outlined in the following list. The losing player will decide the subsequent map. The opening map is as follows:
Ro128: GSL Antiga Shipyard (BO3) (R1 on bracket)
Ro64: MLG Shakuras Plateau (BO3) (R2 on bracket)
Ro32: GSL Entombed Valley (BO3) (R3 on bracket)
Ro16: ESV Cloud Kingdom (BO3) (R4 on bracket)
Ro8: MLG Tal’Darim Altar (BO3) (R5 on bracket)
Semi-Finals: GSL Daybreak (B03)
Finals: GSL Metropolis (B05)
Loser can pick from any the following maps:
MLG Shakuras Plateau, GSL Daybreak, MLG Tal'Darim Altar, GSL Metropolis, ESV Cloud Kingdom, GSL Antiga Shipyard, GSL Entombed Valley
Online Poker is a real-time strategy game that needs a lot of skill and passion from a player to succeed. It’s not by accident that so many of the world’s best poker players have a background in eSports.
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Stitch, our main stream caster for Team Eve, who will be leading all of our events in the future. He has devoted much of his time promoting SEA players across the globe, and we are glad to have him permanently cast for us in this upcoming tournament!
Flamga, a very special guest coming from Team Flash in Singapore. He himself lives in Australia, named as one of the most promising casters of South East Asia in 2011, we welcome him to cast with Stitch!
The website looks so good! Really professional job guys . Eve is the true epitome of a team of relatively unknown players working hard and training properly to become a scary force in the scene through determination!
By the way guys, please feel free to invite anybody to join this event that adhere to the rules, since anyone with a SEA account can join! Let's get these brackets filled up for an exciting Mother's Day StarCraft 2 marathon
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