[AsylumofSouls]

SC2SEA.com BSG Open #67
Admins: AsylumofSouls (Suipr.712), Asrathiel & ToRozliam



The weekly SC2SEA BSG is a 64 player, single elimination style tournament.

Date:
Saturday September 29th 2012.

Time:
6pm ; 8pm Sydney ; 10pm

Location:
SEA Server, Channel sc2seaBSG

Report Results and Questions to:
Suipr.712 or ToRozliam.515 by b.net PM

Casting this week will be provided by ToRVenom
here
Previous weeks' VODs -> here

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Join Tournament Here
(Scroll down on new page and click "Join")
Link to Hall of Fame

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Prizes
The winner of the BSG each week is awarded with one hour of professional coaching from a coach in this thread (link) and...
"Unearthed Talent" Achievement

Awarded to every sc2sea BSG winner!
Plus top 4 each week get invited to the four-weekly BSG Cup!
Sponsored by Clan Carnage and Razer
Next held on Saturday October 27th

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Please read the rules if this is your first time entering

+ [ Rules, Regulations and Tournament Eligibility] +

Tournament Eligibility:
You must be legitimately in the Bronze, Silver or Gold league (1v1 - SEA license) and you must be active on ladder.
Everyone will be checked for typical smurf activity designed to keep them in a lower league.
Anyone found to be smurfing will be added to the BSG Hall of Shame so everyone can be aware of their shameful acts.

Battle.net chat channel: "sc2seaBSG"

Rules

• You must contact your opponent on Battle.net preferably by being in chat channel "sc2seaBSG" to play your match
• You have ~15 minutes to start your Round 1 match; anybody that is not contactable after 10 minutes will be disqualified. This 10 minute timeout rule applies throughout the tournament.
• You must play your main ladder race throughout tournament.
• The only race switch allowed is to and you may not switch again.
• Observers: Tournament admins or official streamers are always allowed and the only ones to observe your game
• Problems/Questions: When in doubt about anything, contact an admin
• Reporting Results: After the match has been played, you must report the result by pm to an admin
• Disconnects: If a player disconnects, the game must be replayed. If a player disconnects for a second time, his opponent will be awarded a free-win. A win may also be awarded if the player that disconnected was significantly behind at the time of disconnection. Contact an admin if you would like your game/replay reviewed.
• Pauses: You must notify your opponent in game if you wish to pause. This pause should not exceed 5 minutes. Excessive pausing in game may lead to disqualification.
• Bad Manner will not be tolerated. Anyone caught BMing will be warned. Further offenses will lead to disqualification. Any racist, hateful or excessively derogatory language may lead to removal without warning. We are a friendly group and we'd like to see it stay that way.
• Replays: Should be saved at least until the following tournament. Anyone asked by admins to provide a replay who cannot do so will be disqualified.
• Anyone suspected of smurfing (playing another person's account, manipulating ladder to be in a lower league) will be thoroughly investigated and if found guilty, prizes will be stripped and they will be reported to Blizzard and added to the Hall of Shame.

Format
1. Round of 64 bo1 on ESV Bloody Ridge AE
2. Round of 32 bo1 on ESV Ohana
3. Round of 16 bo1 on ESV Khaydaria
4. Quarter Finals bo3 on ESV Muspelheim
5. Semi Finals bo3 on ESV Odd Eye AE
6. Grand Final bo5 on ESV Frigid Pass

For finals rounds that are best of 3 or 5, loser of previous game may pick any map from the following ESV map pool listing

+ [Map Pool] +

Map Pool

ESV Bloody Ridge AE
ESV Khaydaria
ESV Odd Eye AE
ESV Tanzanite
ESV Muspelheim
ESV Frigid Pass
ESV Gauntlet AE
ESV Ohana
ESV Discord

Any questions find an admin in game at: Suipr.712, Asrathiel.926 or ToRozliam.515 or send me a pm here on sc2sea.

GLHF

[FSBenAD]

Thanks once again for doing this Suipr! We are starting to run low on active BSG players, but Ill try and get as many as I can in!

[FSDele]

i'll see what i can do, but i'm sooooo out of practice i'll be lucky to get further than round 1.

Quick Comments

	FSBenAD:	BSG is good practice :D Make him play Suipr!
	AsylumofSouls:	I hereby decree FSDele must play the BSG Open on Saturday night.
	mGGNemesis:	wooo that royal decree...

[ToRGreenArchon]

Top 4 here i come!!! (hopefully :P )

[AsuraE]

I swear that his week I'll make it past my first game :>

[TCPZooZoo]

Ahh BSG, how I miss it.

-Redux

[SaranghaeTV]

Wish i can still play, Missing BSG ;(

madORyung

[ToRZooS]

In.

Glad to see that baneling busting swine Redux has smashed his way out of the BSG.

(Well played good sir by the way!).

[Asrathiel]

I'll miss you all this week while I'm out having yummy Korean BBQ glhf everyone ^_^

Quick Comments

	ToRGreenArchon:	PiG's BBQ? Sooo lucky
	ToRZooS:	This is just a first course...PiG's true Korean BBQ will come when he gets there as his drones go up against BF Hellions
	AsylumofSouls:	^^lol @ ZooS. Also, lucky you :D

[FSDele]

Originally Posted by AsylumofSouls

I hereby decree FSDele must play the BSG Open on Saturday night.

well, guess i have to play then huh.

Quick Comments

FSBenAD:

:D

[FSDele]

I would also like to open up discussion on a rule...

I've noticed a few players who have been in a higher league ( Platinum ) and have been demoted for whatever reason, most likely inactivity on ladder.

They then get placed back in gold, and joined BSG without having done very many ladder games for the season...

So i would like to suggest a rule regarding people in this situation...

If a player has been ranked in a league higher than BSG in the last 2 seasons, they must play at least 25 games ( more maybe? ) in the current season to be eligible for the BSG tournament.

What are peoples thoughts on this?

Edit:
If this is too hard to police, maybe we could just blanket anyone who has been plat or higher in the last 2 seasons as ineligible, and they'll just have to play the GPD instead?

I don't mean to step on anyone's toes here, It's just something i've been thinking about for the last couple of weeks.

Quick Comments

DarthBruton:

I think that is a good idea, hard to police, but good idea

[mGGNemesis]

Originally Posted by FSDele

So i would like to suggest a rule regarding people in this situation...

If a player has been ranked in a league higher than BSG in the last 2 seasons, they must play at least 25 games ( more maybe? ) in the current season to be eligible for the BSG tournament.

What are peoples thoughts on this?

Edit:
If this is too hard to police, maybe we could just blanket anyone who has been plat or higher in the last 2 seasons as ineligible, and they'll just have to play the GPD instead?

There could be reasons for the demotion such as change of race, inactivity for a season as well as 'blizzard placed me too high a league during placement and I lost heaps to be where I should be, which is BSG' etc.

Even then I have heard of cases of players who were placed plat then was on a losing streak soon after and demoted back to gold (not smurfing but geninue cases of players who might not really be ready for being plat)

Perhaps if we can sieve players placed higher than plat before and how long he was plat that might be a better indication of whether he is suitable for the BSG weeklies?

[Zomgrofl]

I agree with the anti-Smurf rule. I hate playing someone who was demoted from plat (or diamond) who has played 2 games.... its total BS and needs to be revised.

Quick Comments

FSDele:

hope you enjoy GPD Zom!

[DarthBruton]

Time to get back into it! after weeks of training, I have finally hit my long awaited silver!

[Syn]

hopefully ill get to play in this one

Quick Comments

rezyn8:

FaDe REPRESENT!

[AsylumofSouls]

Inactive players do get removed and it's already in the rules that you have to be active on ladder to be eligible to play.

And on the second point, there have been a couple of players who dropped legitimately from Diamond to Gold when they changed races and these players competed at the same level as the other golds in the competition until they were promoted out of BSG again.

If you face anyone who you think breaks the rules, just let me or another admin know and we'll look into the player in question. I know when I'm running admin, I check every person who reports a win to me before advancing them in the brackets.

gl hf everyone. See you all tomorrow

Quick Comments

	ToRZooS:	Well said, Top Admin.
	DarthBruton:	Greatful to have you running this Suipr, one of the best!!

[wTParamouR]

Question for future purposes:

Am currently Gold on NA (where I am active), and am unranked on SEA (previously diamond 2 seasons ago after getting lucky in my placements. I was inactive throughout the season after being placed, however).

Am I able to join such a tournament?

Quick Comments

	ToRZooS:	Today in SEA just place and ladder about 10 games (don't throw them)...and enter. Done.
	AsylumofSouls:	If you're not ranked on SEA, you're not eligible.

[AsylumofSouls]

Well played coktator and PraiseB showing us a great vs to finish off this week's BSG Open.

Congratulations also go out to ironside and Milata also making the semifinals and qualifying for the next BSG Cup

Special mention to the regular competitors TCPStealThor and the two BSG ToRians, ZooS and GreenArchon, making the quarter finals and coming so close to their own BSG Cup qualification this week. Good luck on one step further next week guys
Thank you to all players and check out the vods on Venom's YouTube -> www.youtube.com/venomlord17

[ToRZooS]

Pleasure as always! PraiseB so strong...then coktator played so well in the final...epic game in there def worth watching again.

GA and I will be back...ToR is here!