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**ACL inmaniac** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 3:16 PM

ACL Regionals 3 - Blizzard World Championship Series Qualifiers!

The Australian Cyber League is proud to announce the details of our Starcraft 2 Regionals 3 dates. If you missed the announcement, you may be pleased to hear these events are also home to the Australian Blizzard World Series Qualifiers! If successful at one of these tournaments you will earn yourself a spot at National event held later in the year. The Nationals event (details TBA) will host all the qualified players in a tournament with $6000 in prizes to be given away thanks to Blizzard. On top of that, the top 6 players from the Nationals will be invited to complete for $12000 in cash at the Oceanic finals. Read below for all the details and how you can register yourself for one of these qualifiers!

Blizzard World Series Qualifiers being ran in conjunction with ACL Regionals:
The Starcraft II World Championship Series consists of tournaments held in nearly every part of the world, bringing players from all over the globe together to compete for pride, glory and prizes.

Starting with National Qualifiers, players will battle it out for a chance to prove they have what it takes to be the best in the country, and qualify for the Oceanic Finals in their part of the world. Then, the winners of the Oceanic Finals will earn a place to fight in the Starcraft World Championship Series, where they’ll compete for not only prizes, but the title of World Champion.

The Australian Cyber League have been named the Primary Partner of the Australian stage of the Blizzard World Championship Series and as such our Regionals events and ACL Melbourne will be qualifiers for the Nationals event to be held later in the year. The Nationals event (details TBA) will host all the qualified players in a tournament with $6000 in prizes to be given away thanks to Blizzard. On top of that, the top 6 players from the Nationals will be invited to complete for $12000 in cash at the Oceanic finals.

ACL Season Structure:
For those new or unfamiliar to the Australian Cyber League, there are 3 components to our competitions and season, each awarding points for your performance in these events.

- ACL Regionals: As announced, an open invite to compete for season points in each city.

- Online Events: An open invite for all to compete online against players in Australia & NZ.

- National Events: 4 of these in 2012. The next to be shortly announced as ACL Melbourne. These have the biggest attendance & biggest prizes.

How the circuit will work in brief:
You will earn points for every placing you receive within the top 32 at each event you compete in during 2012. Each component of the competition has a varying weighting of points distribution.

The National events for Starcraft 2 are Invite Only for the Pro Bracket. Invitations will be sent out based on your season points and only the top 16 ranked players in Australia by season points will be invited to the most advantageous spot for the Tournament. All other competitors at National events must fight their way through the Open Bracket.

Everyone in most capital cities will have 2 chances to accrue season points before the first national event. 1 x Live Qualifier (ACL Regionals event) and 1 x Online Round before each National event.

Dates & Locations:

SYDNEY
Sunday June 3rd
City Hunter Cyber Cafe
Level 1, 374 Sussex St, Sydney

MELBOURNE
Sunday June 10th
Venue TBA

ADELAIDE
Sunday June 17th
ARENA Net Cafe
264 Rundle Street

BRISBANE
Sunday July 1st
LanSmash WinterSmash
QSAC - Kessels Road, Nathan

ACL MELBOURNE
Sunday June 10th
MC Internet Cafe
Level 1, 276 Russell Street, Melbourne CBD

Perth RedFlag LAN #40

Perth Barcraft Star League #1

APL Online

Landing Pages:
For all information, including registration links, click below.
ACL Regionals 3 Landing Page
Brisbane
Sydney
Melbourne
Adelaide

Predictions & Discussions Thread:
All discussion and predictions on the qualifying events can be found here: ACL Regionals Starcraft 2 - Predictions & Discussion

**ACL inmaniac** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 3:17 PM

Can a SC2SEA Mod/Admin move this to the news thread?

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Dox:

double post, but done anyway :p

**Eddie** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 4:36 PM

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BRISBANE
Sunday June 30th
LanSmash WinterSmash
QSAC - Kessels Road, Nathan

June 30 is a Saturday. Sunday is July 1.

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zenabi:

June 30 is my 18th :D

**ACL inmaniac** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 4:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Eddie

June 30 is a Saturday. Sunday is July 1.

Thanks mate. Day was right, date was wrong. Now fixed.

iM SundeR · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 4:38 PM

Time to take another day off work to play Starcraft!

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EveSigns:

yeh brother the sacrifices we make!

**ACL inmaniac** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:06 PM

Just added new information to the OP regarding exciting Nationals and Oceanic information!

dippa · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ACL inmaniac

1 x Liver Qualifier (ACL Regionals event)

this should be the most entertaining qualifier of all; in fact, we should make it standard to have one alcoholic qualifier for every tournament

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	syfChadMann:	Razer water ftw.
	Eddie:

**ACL inmaniac** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dippa

this should be the most entertaining qualifier of all; in fact, we should make it standard to have one alcoholic qualifier for every tournament

Fixed.

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syfChadMann:

but it wasn't broken.. T_T

**Maynarde** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:08 PM

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Originally Posted by dippa

this should be the most entertaining qualifier of all; in fact, we should make it standard to have one alcoholic qualifier for every tournament

Best step back dippa, a Liver qualifier is one I actually legit have a chance of winning!

**ACL inmaniac** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Maynarde

Best step back dippa, a Liver qualifier is one I actually legit have a chance of winning!

Challenge accepted!

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Maynarde:

BRING IT

**Dox** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:14 PM

Uhhhh isn't Inmaniac from Tamworth? This should be one hell of a showdown...

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Maynarde:

I don't afraid

**Maynarde** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dox

Uhhhh isn't Inmaniac from Tamworth? This should be one hell of a showdown...

I'm from Port Adelaide area which is run by Bikies, inhabited by drug addicts and due to terrible parenting drank at a lot of seedy places with rough alcohol at a stupidly young age and only drink more now that I'm older and not much wiser.

I'll give this Tamworth kid a challenge (I hope).

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Dox:

saddle power

**ACL inmaniac** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Maynarde

I'm from Port Adelaide area which is run by Bikies, inhabited by drug addicts and due to terrible parenting drank at a lot of seedy places with rough alcohol at a stupidly young age and only drink more now that I'm older and not much wiser.

I'll give this Tamworth kid a challenge (I hope).

Tamworth is the Country Music Capital of Australia. This fact is relevant because it proves there is nothing to do in this god-damned city but to drink. Tamworth is also home to Bikies and drug addicts. Every street in the CBD and one particular bad suburb (in which I used to live) are alcohol-free zones, due to the amount of alcohol-related incidences that occur.

I thrived in Tamworth.

Let's go Maynarde!

**syfChadMann** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:18 PM

Carnage has been specifically training for this event.. I think Targa will be strong in this too.. :S

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Dox:

targa is always strong

**syfChadMann** · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 5:48 PM

it's on...

souljah · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 8:00 PM

June 10th, 2 days before my Mid-years. Think I might have to give this a miss =(

TargA · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 8:02 PM

is lansmash a byoc lan ?

can you release prize info etc?

scythah · Thu, 10th-May-2012, 9:52 PM

LanSmash is a BYOC LAN, however there will be computers available for the SC2 tournament (thanks to Fraglabs). Prize info (for those decided) are in the ACL landing page links for each event.

Malice · Fri, 11th-May-2012, 8:55 AM

Damn, I was getting excited for ACL Melbourne, but it's the weekend before my exam >.<

**PiG** · Fri, 11th-May-2012, 11:24 AM

$30 signup fee for qualifiers to a $200 first prize tournament... where is all this blizzard money going?

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UHF:

Would love to drive to brissy, but $50 fuel and $30 entry = ouch

**ACL inmaniac** · Fri, 11th-May-2012, 7:34 PM

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Originally Posted by PiG

$30 signup fee for qualifiers to a $200 first prize tournament... where is all this blizzard money going?

Ummm - $6k for the Nationals, $12k for Oceanic...... Blizzard technically gives us nothing for the qualifiers. As Dox said, these are stand alone events that happen to qualify you for the Blizzard Finals.

**PiG** · Mon, 14th-May-2012, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by ACL inmaniac

Ummm - $6k for the Nationals, $12k for Oceanic...... Blizzard technically gives us nothing for the qualifiers. As Dox said, these are stand alone events that happen to qualify you for the Blizzard Finals.

Right. That clears that up. Well obviously I'm one of the biggest supporters of ACL and what they're doing for the scene so hats off to you guys!

Wasn't trying to sound negative was just surprised at the signup fee. Hoping it doesn't hurt overall signups. Get ya asses down to these LANs guys!

**Dox** · Fri, 11th-May-2012, 11:34 AM

These qualifiers are standalone events

frequency · Fri, 11th-May-2012, 4:16 PM

I feel like numbers will drop having to double the entrance fee

**ACL VaNzR** · Sat, 12th-May-2012, 7:22 PM

Just to further the point Inmaniac is making, running a National Circuit is very expensive. While you can certainly crunch your own numbers on a singular event, bear in mind the costs most people are often not privy to and a string of national events where everyone volunteers.

Benji · Sat, 12th-May-2012, 7:38 PM

Any rules limiting players from competing in multiple qualifiers to give them a better shot at the WCS spot?

**ACL VaNzR** · Sun, 13th-May-2012, 7:07 PM

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Originally Posted by xGKingBenji

Any rules limiting players from competing in multiple qualifiers to give them a better shot at the WCS spot?

No. If you wish to travel to improve your chance of gaining a spot that is entirely up to you. This is direct from Blizzard: you are welcome to compete in multiple qualifiers (even after you've qualified).

Remember that this is also an ACL seeding event, so players like Moonglade & Rossi who have already qualified for WCS can still compete and earn ACL seed points. The WCS qualifier spot for those events would just continue down the placings

**syfChadMann** · Sun, 13th-May-2012, 8:02 PM

yay - Brisbane gets ganked cause it's the last event..

SLCN.NXZ · Sun, 13th-May-2012, 8:12 PM

haha true dat^

Although we all know whos going to win Brisbane anyway...

**syfChadMann** · Sun, 13th-May-2012, 8:17 PM

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Originally Posted by aLtNXZ

haha true dat^

Although we all know whos going to win Brisbane anyway...

Yeah, SenSei is.. but who gets 2nd spot?.. mOOnGLaDe already has one and TargA can't go cause he ain't aussie.

**ToR.Arnor** · Sun, 13th-May-2012, 8:29 PM

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Originally Posted by cR.ChadMann

Yeah, SenSei is.. but who gets 2nd spot?.. mOOnGLaDe already has one and TargA can't go cause he ain't aussie.

Wasnt SenSei kicked out of the last LAN Smash because his mate got into a fight with some fps douche?

Also didnt neko win the last one ? ^_^

Neko to take it all

P.S. TargA will likely attend as it is still a ACL regional as well

**syfChadMann** · Sun, 13th-May-2012, 8:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Arnor@CityHunter

P.S. TargA will likely attend as it is still a ACL regional as well

Yes - as will mOOnGLaDe - the important thing is who gets the qualifying spot for WCS.

**ACL inmaniac** · Mon, 21st-May-2012, 3:54 PM

BUMP!

Details announced for Melbourne. Head to ACL to register!