[TheGentleman]

Battle for the Cheese Shield:

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Date: Sunday, 10th of June, 2012.
Time: 8PM AEST (or after the GPD Weekly Open, whichever is later).
Server: SEA Battle.net region.
Tournament Eligibility: SEA license, Open.
Max. Players: 64
How to Sign Up: Click Here!
Casters: Baldie and Flamga
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/baldie24
Prizes: The Achievement: Cheese-master and the Swiss Cheese Shield.

Battle.net Chat Channel: SC2SeaCheese

Rules:

1. If you are participating please ensure that you are in the channel SC2SeaCheese by 8PM AEST.
2. If you are 15 minutes late for the tournament you may be disqualified.
3. 64 players and cheese... lots of it!
4. You should cheese whenever you can or risk earning a permanent penalty chosen at my whim all of which are amusing and completely unfair... more importantly they stack with each other!
5. Failure to adhere to ALL your penalties will result in a disqualification.
6. Bad manners (BM) will also result in a penalty and a warning. Continued BM will result in disqualification.
7. The only race change allowed is to Random.
8. The only observers allowed are tournament administrators and casters.
9. Replays should be kept for at least a week and provided to a tournament administrator if requested. Failure to do so will result in disqualification.
10. You should notify your opponent if you need to pause the game. Pauses may be for no more than 5 minutes. Excessive pausing can lead to disqualification.
11. If you disconnect from the match there will be a rematch (unless a referee determines that the match is already over in which case a victor will be named).
12. If you played a standard game or believe your opponent has played standard please report it to me so that a penalty can be awarded.
13. If a question is asked of you, please answer truthfully. Referees will go over any controversial matches and lying will be met with disqualification.
14. All matches which have a direct effect over the winner of the tournament will be watched.
15. Above all, good luck and have fun!

Example Penalties:

• 50% Handicap.
• Brood War: Queens may no longer use their "Inject Larvae" spell.
• Primative Technology: Terrans can no longer construct Tech Labs.
• Artosis Pylon: At least 3 buildings per Artosis pylon. No building may be powered by more than 1 pylon.

NOTE: This is just a handful of potential penalties.

Tournament Structure:

Single Elimination.

Round of 64, 32, 16, 8: 1v1, Best of 1.
Semi-Finals (Round of 4): 1v1, Best of 3.
Finals (Round of 2): 1v1, Best of 5.

All maps are randomly chosen. Random players are more awesome!

Map Pool:

The map pool consists of 12 horrible maps.

Abyss (8)	Agria Valley (2)	Debris Field (4)	Elysium (3)

Incineration Zone (2)	Lost Temple (4)	Monsoon (6)	Novice Blistering Sands (2)

Plunder Isle (2)	Scrap Station (2)	Slag Pits (4)	Steppes of War (2)

Prizes:

The winner shall earn the achievement "Cheese-master!" and receive the prestigious swiss cheese shield.



I'll see what I can do about other prizes too.

What is considered cheese?

I feel this section is necessary so people are aware of what is considered a cheese and what will earn them a penalty.

A cheese is any strategy that is not standard and has a high level or risk regardless of scouting. Usually this means an aggressive cheese of some description... for example: a 7 pool (heavy sacrifice of economy), Proxy Gateways (no defence at home, sacrifice tech, will likely lose these buildings if the cheese fails), DT Rush (heavy tech investment, will not have much defence until the DTs are on the field).

Economic cheese can occur as well but it's risky and harder to differentiate between standard play. For instance a fast Nexus can be standard... but an early 3rd base is very risky. Alternatively a hidden expansion is risky too because it's hard to defend both your main base and your hidden base. More importantly, most cheese will be the aggressive sort and an economic cheese will often lose to the aggressive alternative.

Quick Comments

	xGKingdelete:
	ToRDjvillian:
	Mox:
	MezjE:
	nirvAnA:
	Baldie:
	mGGNemesis:

[Antel0pe]

I'll do this, matters on the time though

BRONZE CHEESING HWAITING!

[xGKingdelete]

definitely in as long as it's not in the middle of my exams

Quick Comments

syfMiley:

go get em buddy

[mGGAequitas]

i just don't see how i could possibly lose this


be interesting how it works out tho, coz when two people cheese in the same game, terran ends up winning, god damn op mules/lift off

Quick Comments

MooZfY:

silly aequitas

[AvPoker]

does economic cheese count?

Quick Comments

	inFeZa:	Ur not allowed : Bad manners (BM) will also result in a penalty and a warning. Continued BM will result in disqualification.
	SLCN.Kez:	LOL
	ToR.Arnor:	haters gonna hate <3
	TheGentleman:	Yes, but economic cheese is very risky against aggressive cheese and harder to differentiate between standard play.

[Bash]

Originally Posted by TheGentleman

The map pool consists of 11 horrible awesome maps, and the greatest map in existence.

Debris Field (4)

I Fixed it for you.

Quick Comments

	Antel0pe:	is that an island map? o.o
	TheGentleman:	Yes... Yes it is =D
	mGGAequitas:	needs the blizzard greed map too! lava is awesome!
	mGGNemesis:	I can see terrans winning the cheese race on this map :)

[TheGentleman]

Originally Posted by xGKingPoker

does economic cheese count?

Yes.

When I wake up tomorrow I'll have a little think about what will be considered cheese and what will not.

[syfChadMann]

. . . I ... I feel like I'm being replaced..

Best of luck Chad 2.0

[inFeZa]

I found a good name you can use!



the
PLUNDER DOWN UNDER!

It's perfect!

Quick Comments

	syfChadMann:	good name for funny/cheese tournament imo..
	Bash:	its peeeeerfect!

[syfChadMann]

Originally Posted by TheGentleman

Example Penalties:
50% Handicap.
Queens may no longer use their "Inject Larvae" spell.
Terran structures can no longer lift off.
Artosis Pylon.

Protoss penalty - potentially game losing
Terran penalty - not too bad at all
Zerg penalty - gg gtfo no larvae?... o_O

Quick Comments

inFeZa:

but you can just build 1 gate : 1 pylon ratio or something

[SLCN.CautioN]

I'm loving it

[MezjE]

I am keen

[TheGentleman]

Originally Posted by cR.ChadMann

Protoss penalty - potentially game losing
Terran penalty - not too bad at all
Zerg penalty - gg gtfo no larvae?... o_O

Just examples... I have a whole list.another Terran specific one is... You must relocate your first command centre to a new mineral patch.

What I've got so far...

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• 50% Handicap
• "Warp Gate Research" may no longer be researched (Protoss)
• Queens may no longer use their "Inject Larvae" spell (Zerg)
• Terran buildings can no longer lift off (Terran)
• Supply Depots can no longer lower and raise (Terran)
• Only one worker per mineral patch
• The removal of select units (e.g. Zerglings, Colossi, Medivacs)... or even units starting with a specific letter... e.g. M = No Marines, Marauders or Medivacs :O
• Require certain tech to be reached before army may be made (e.g. Hive, Robotics Bay, Armoury)
• Require all workers to participate in all attacks.
• Restrict certain buildings (e.g. Forge, Armoury, Infestation Pit)
• Orbital Command Centers may only scan (Terran)
• Artosis Pylon.
• Overlords may only hover over creep.
• You may not build in your main base (exceptions: CC, Nexus, Hatchery, Pylon, SupplyDepot)
• You must relocate your first CC.
• Probes must act like SCV's and stay near buildings that are warping in until the building has warped in.
• Minerals may never exceed 2000 and gas may never exceed 1000.
• Redundancy: You must have at least 2 of every building you construct (the redundant structure must be built no later than 3 minutes game time aft the original (hatcheries, CCs and Nexi excepted) (useful against zerg).
• Only one unit type may attack at a time.
• With the exception of 1 GW, 1 Cyber and 1 Robo, all structures must be powered by Warp Prisms.
• Other ideas welcome.

Originally Posted by cR.ChadMann

. . . I ... I feel like I'm being replaced..

Best of luck Chad 2.0

I would never replace you

Originally Posted by SQL.inFeZa

I found a good name you can use!



the
PLUNDER DOWN UNDER!

It's perfect!

Nirvana put me onto that... Fantastic idea,not sure I want to reuse old tournament names though.

I found this thread, was great for some map ideas: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=316336

Quick Comments

mGGNemesis:

I'm actually looking forward to see how this all plays out. Pls stream this... shd be hilarious

[Flamga]

I approve of this its gonna be another of those awesome tournies and would love to help out!!!!! we could always say for Terran and Protoss no buildings inside their main base, or even worse, their side of the map?

Whos for Fast Expand to the other side of the map where they cheesed? :P

Quick Comments

mGGNemesis:

omg! this thread is really making my day lolz

[Fourby]

This sounds like my kind of tournament

[TADivinity]

Just another reason to change race to protoss....

[neKo]

Jaeyoong to win!

[SanG]

First place: JYoong
Second place: ToRSpook
Third place: cRFourby

[Pox]

Spook to win it with sang's builds.

[nirvAnA]

The achievement badge looks freaking awesome, so does the post layout and tournament

I told thegentleman initially that it might be too much work to balance the handicaps so it might be better to just use cheesy maps pdu style. Not sure tho, perhaps some good mix can be found. 50% health would be so funny haha