[Joslimity]

Hey guys,

For those who don't know, there was a SC2 HotS tournament hosted at Melbourne's Respawn LAN over the weekend. The bracket can be found here. The tournament was open to anyone who attended Respawn, and as you can see, there were some highly skilled players participating. (Also, a score of 99 to 0, represents a disqualification / forfeit of the loser.)

Due to the sign in process, a few attendees were signed up under different aliases (you sign up using the Respawn website, which automatically enters you using your Respawn site username). So here's a translation (this is off the top of my head, so I hope it's right):

• faijunsoo = Rival
• Ling Chou = Kez
• CheezyFluffball = Arrival

Firstly, I just wanted to say congratulations to Rival for winning the tournament! He walked away with $250, out of the total prize pool of $650. Thanks to everyone else who played, you were really friendly, easy to deal with, and I hope you had fun.

Previously, I haven't been involved with Respawn at all, though I put my hand up and offered to run the SC2 tournament. It is the first tournament I have ever run, and the purpose of this post is to get some feedback. All in all, I feel like it went pretty smoothly, but considering the low number of participants and the fact that most of them know each other pretty well, my job was relatively easy.

• For those reading this that didn't attend, is there a reason that you didn't?

As you can tell by the bracket, the turnout was pretty small. Ideally if there is anything about the tournament that can be changed to make it more inviting, I'll do what I can. If it's simply because you were unaware of it, then I can work to help promote it more heavily in the future.

• For those that did attend, are there any suggestions for improvement?

I'm really hoping we can get more people involved next time, and potentially get a caster on board, so those who aren't there can catch the action online.

Thanks for reading,

Joslimity