Masters Cup Sun 15th January! $10 prize just for joining
Welcome to the 12th SEA Masters Cup!
SEA vs the World!
The time has come, where every 3rd month, we invite players from all around the globe to come to our server and play with the best SEA has to offer. We hope this brings greater exposure to the SEA scene, and gives some of our players opportunities not always available to them. We are confident many of our players can compete against the worlds best, and as a result we'll have plenty of high quality games for the spectators to enjoy.
The Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament. $100 prize on offer to the winner, $50 2nd prize, $30 3rd. Plus $50 to the highest placed SEA player. $240 prize pool total*! There is also a lucky draw prize! One lucky person shall get $10 just for joining! This edition of Masters Cup is sponsored by roughly half by Eddie and from sc2sea.com's donations this month.
Thanks goes to the donations this month from Volition, Frogmite, JoFritZMD, QEDFridge, freaky_beeky, Soulja and of course Eddie!
Sponsors and donations for this event are welcomed, if you'd like to help out, please pm me. Masters Cup usually gets around 6000+ viewers, and 100-150 of the highest quality players in the SEA region. Our last Cup had 13000 viewers!
HDPhoenix casting MC 1 + 2
nGenBenji for casting MC 3, 4 + 5 + 9, 10 +11
System casting MC 6 + 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 co-casting MC 12
Zepph for co-casting MC 9+11
XanT for helping Admin MC 1- 12
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, 15th of January, 2012. Time: 6pm AEDT, 5pm AEST, 3pm SGT Location: SEA Battle.net region. Tournament Eligibility: You must be in Masters or Grand Masters League on any server. Lower players will be disqualified. How to Sign Up: Post your country (either icon or text is fine), Common gaming user name you are best known by, and the SEA account and character code you will be using in this thread Live-Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/dox_au Prizes: Winner gets the $100 prize and bragging rights for being the best of the best. $50 for 2nd, $30 to 3rd *Prize pool may increase
- $50 also to the highest placing SEA player
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 XanT.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.
. 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.
. When registering post which country you are from, the gaming name most people know you by, as well as the SEA account and character code you'll be using.
. In the event of a tie for the $50 to SEA player, eg 5/6/7/8th, the player who lost to the highest finishing international player shall get the prize.
Refs: FaDeEdOne.139, XanT.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: GSL Daybreak (B01 no 2nd game) (R2 on bracket) Ro32: WCG Metalopolis (B03) (R3 on bracket) Ro16: Tal'Darim Altar LE (B03) (R4 on bracket) Ro8: WCG Shakuras Plateau (B03) (R5 on bracket) Semi-Finals: GSTL Dual Site (B03) Finals: GSL Terminus RE (B05)
(3rd Place Match GSL Terminus RE 1st, B03)
Loser can pick from any the following maps:
Bel'Shir Beach Winter, WCG Metalopolis, WCG Shakuras Plateau, GSL Daybreak, Tal'Darim Altar LE, WCG Shattered Temple, GSL Terminus RE, GSTL Dual Site, WCG Anitga Shipyard
* 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 15 Jan, 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.
Tt eSPORTS have decided not to sponsor our open SEA vs the world version of the Masters Cup this month, instead preferring to focusing more on Aus/NZ gaming. We respect their decision, and look forward to hopefully working with them again when we return to standard Masters Cup format/events primarily for SEA/Aus/Nz.
Thanks also to XaxT for helping me run the tournament, and paying for the lucky prize this event.
Congratulations to Moonglade who played very well throughout the tournament, convincingly winning the final 3-0. Glade in read hot form heading into ACL Gold Coast this weekend.
xGKingPokerface claims 2nd, with some very good wins leading into the final, including knocking out StarTales TiGer. Unfortunately for Xeria it's their third 2nd place in a row.
MskiEnDerr claims 3rd place, after new teammate Azz forfeited the match. Both also played very well with some big wins.
There were a few big name international participants in this event, so its great to see our star SEA players knock them off and claim top 4 for themselves.
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