[Asrathiel]

SC2SEA.com BSG Open #89
Admins: Asrathiel
QEDShockwave



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

Date:
Saturday May 11th 2013.

Time:
8pm Sydney time

11 May 2013 8:00 PM AEST

Location:
SEA Server, Group sc2seaBSG

Report Results and Questions to:
Asrathiel.926
QEDShockwave
by b.net PM

Casting this week will be provided by HavOc
Stream Link

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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!

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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 group: "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 1v1 ladder race throughout tournament.
• 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, use the 'Resume from Replay' feature to continue the game. If the player has gone offline completely, inform an admin and wait 10 minutes for them to return.
• 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 32 bo1 on Bel'Shir Vestige LE
2. Round of 16 bo1 on Star Station
3. Quarter Finals bo3 on Derelict Watcher TE
4. Semi Finals bo3 on Akilon Wastes
5. Grand Final bo5 on Neo Planet S

For finals rounds that are best of 3 or 5, loser of previous game may pick any map from the following list. Maps may be repeated as many times as players wish.

+ [Map Pool] +

Map Pool
Please use Blizzard created maps from current ladder map pool

Akilon Wastes
Bel’Shir Vestige LE
Derelict Watcher TE
Neo Planet S LE
Klontas Mire TE
Star Station
Whirlwind LE
Zerus Prime TE

Any questions find an admin in game at: Asrathiel.926, QEDShockwave or send us a pm here on sc2sea.
We will also be in the chat channel on the night

GLHF

[T3CHavOc]

Pop me down for casting - I want to cast a game 3 of the finals like Lokth did last week

Quick Comments

Asrathiel:

I'll just check what Lokth's plans are :)

[onlywin]

Originally Posted by T3CHavOc

Pop me down for casting - I want to cast a game 3 of the finals like Lokth did last week

It was a pretty good 3rd game to be honest. I couldn't not stop laughing when I watched the VODs =)

Quick Comments

T3CHavOc:

So hilarious!

[DarthBruton]

Pre-Tournament Write Up:

This week is round number #89! From what I can see at this current time our finalist Narse will be hoping to get revenge on bluey and maybe even take out the finals this time around! Will we see a finals just as epic as last week? or will someone come up with something just as creative! only time will tell. Nothing has changed from last weeks, maps and layout are the exact same to keep it nice and smooth. I am keeping my ear down for the GSL maps to be released and add them to the map pool! anyone with ideas please PM me or asrathiel. I am active most of the day so I can see what you say, jump on skype and tell asrathiel with ease!

GLHF TO ANYONE ENTERED!

If you haven't entered but want to... do it now! the more players the better!

[mGGSlayer]

I anit going to miss this one im down for sure

Race-
League

[Asrathiel]

Originally Posted by Slayer_sc2

I anit going to miss this one im down for sure

Race-
League

You need to click the 'Join Tournament' link in my post

[ToRPandarine]

pssssssssssssssst...Asrath, I got replaced in ...can I play? :P

Quick Comments

DarthBruton:

join away Panda. I will check on the night :P

[mGGSlayer]

Originally Posted by Asrathiel

You need to click the 'Join Tournament' link in my post

ah ok done thanks for that

[TriSense]

Stocked for my second BSG gl all

[Lokth]

Lokth is sick; not a problem... unless its a sore throat. No long winded talking for me this week. Time to go clan war instead! :P

Quick Comments

	T3CHavOc:	Get well soon <3 :D
	onlywin:	Too much epic games to cast, i think :D
	Seffy:	After last week's epic games I think a recovery week is good. :P
	DarthBruton:	Pansy! I casted last week and I will be up again this week! GROW A PAIR! :P

[ToRPandarine]

got promoted to last night...hmmm...

Quick Comments

DarthBruton:

still eligible Panda :P at least we know you are laddering now xD

[Allibath1]

Gonna practice my 1 base Night elf timing in preparation for sc2.

[unthunder]

I wanna join but I cant -____-

Quick Comments

onlywin:

Go smurf and go great :D

[IXLNeoZack]

i wanna join too but i cant

[T3CHavOc]

Thanks for letting me cast guys - was really good fun!

Congrats to Dreadnaught for taking out the final series 3-2 against Sketch! Was a really entertaining series to cast

GG to everyone who played

[Asrathiel]

I'd just like to note an incident that happened during last night's tournament, in case anyone didn't know what happened, or heard half the story.

A player named Logik (Pomachu on the forums) contacted me in game about 2 hours before the tournament to let me know that he felt that another player was dropping games suspiciously. I replied that I'd take a look later.

About an hour or so after that, he contacted me again to ask if I'd checked yet. I believe the wording was "Well?? Have you looked yet?" which I felt was rather impolite and vaguely aggressive. I replied that I had not, as I'd been admining another tournament all day, and the player in question was not yet online.

After the other tournament had finished (about 20 mins before BSG), I was waiting in the BSG group for the player (Dreadnaught) to come online so I could have a look at his match history. A third player (Inka) came into the chat and started typing in caps about how Dreadnaught was a cheater, and I said that I'd been made aware of accusations of dropped games, and would have a look when he came online, and that it was none of their business.

Another player in the chat asked what Inka meant by the term 'insta-surrendering', and as I was explaining that it meant leaving games to stay in a lower league, Logik chimed in and said 'Ha! See I told you he was dropping games'. I replied that Dreadnaught was not online yet, and that it was up to myself to decide if he was cheating, and that carrying on about it in the chat was inappropriate.

Dreadnaught came online, I had a look through his match history and found one apparent dropped game. I asked him about it, he said he'd had a blackout. As Dreadnaught has been a longtime BSG player and there was no other evidence, I saw no reason to disbelieve him and allowed him to remain in the tournament.

As it turned out, Dreadnaught's first round opponent was Logik. Dreadnaught won the game, and Logik reported the result to me with the words 'well cheaterboy won anyway.' He continued making accusations, I said I saw one dropped game and believed Dreadnaught's explanation. Logik said that there was more than one dropped game, I said if he could point out these games in the match history I'd have a look. He didn't reply.

Dreadnaught's next opponent was Lazyboy. When Dreadnaught tried to contact Lazyboy to start the game, Lazyboy said he was ingame with Logik. This game was also being casted on stream (check www.twitch.tv/havoc_sc2 for vods) and when I came back from making a cup of tea and Dreadnaught alerted me to what was going on, I contacted the casters and Lazyboy to stop the game.

For this obvious and stupid attempt to cheat, Logik was banned from the tournament. For the remainder of the night, Havoc's stream chat was populated by new accounts (I banned at least 10) from Logik and at least one other person, accusing Dreadnaught of cheating and generally being rude and obnoxious. One of the accounts made was something like 'Asrathiel_is_a_n1ggerb1tch".

Logik/Pomachu is therefore not welcome in any future BSG tournament and is banned from the battle.net group (not to mention personally blocked by me!)

Quick Comments

	yuu:	give me my cake
	Seffy:	DAT BANHAMMAR POWA
	ChowMuddha:	pretty disgusting
	T3CHavOc:	Sorry about the match stuff up on my behalf! I will be more careful next time :)

[Apth]

I had mostly finished typing out a fairly explicit post in response to that, but have decided that I should refrain from abusively venting, even though I think it was justified. This idiot probably has some justification for his actions too, and I can't think of anything that makes mine special.

I would like to mention that I would be very happy if, one day, someone facing consequences for being a dickhead on the internet didn't require a public record of the rationale behind it.

If you're a dickhead, consequences should be expected. That you're on the internet and can afford at least a semblance of anonymity should not matter.

Quick Comments

Zepph:

IMO telling it in public is fine. Sets an example of what happens if youre a rude, cheating asswipe.

[Lokth]

Logik messaged me about the dreadnaught issue (even though I had nothing to do with BSG this week); I said I would look into it, but obviously I had only heard part of the story. Its a shame it came to that; let this be a lesson to you kids. Dont piss off the Queen (she can lob of heads when needed).

Also, casters, dont just accept random invites! Actually check games.

Lokth.

EDIT - There also seems to be a troll going around the BSG stream chat the last 2 weeks. I know we banned someone multipul times during last weeks BSG as well. I have a troll, I feel loved.

Quick Comments

	T3CHavOc:	Yeah, being my first week I should have been more careful checking the matches up :(
	DarthBruton:	No one remembers the prince :c
	mGGNemesis:	Asrathiel might send her heart eating squirrels after you

[DarthBruton]

Originally Posted by Asrathiel

Logik/Pomachu is therefore not welcome in any future BSG tournament and is banned from the battle.net group

This will also go to any affiliates of logik who continue to cause us problems. Trolls will be trolls I understand, but people acting like this over several weeks become tiring for us admins because we give up time to help you lovely people I already have a list of people that I will be looking out for in the coming weeks and will not be afraid to pass the same sentencing.

[ToRPandarine]

wow so much drama D: i think a month or so ago whn I helped to admin there was a fella in chat constantly spamming (and occasionally in caps). tch...to think our community wld have to put up with you trolls...

anyways...got promoted all the way back to so no more BSGs (lol...like I played this week XD) for me :P

glhfgg

EDIT: Do not piss off the Queen of BSG. She can go from Queen Nice to Queen Bitch in a snap. you Asrath for your dedication :3

[Lokth]

Ironically; I almost never see the trolls, to busy casting and im terrible at looking at chat (as the admins well know)

[Paladin]

Trust me so do the viewers !

Quick Comments

Lokth:

Smart arse! :P

[Narse]

I've had nothing, but good vibes from everyone since slowly migrating over to the SEA server! Been having a blast, i know it's hard with my time zone to try and play or do scrims with other people in the BSG, but everyone has been super friendly and willing to help me out on my play as well.

Shockwave has been my main go to person if i've ever had any issues and he's been a great help and reassurance!

Asrathiel has been great to me as well!! Awesome convo's!!

Top points for everyone!

Quick Comments

	T3CHavOc:	Great to hear Narse ^-^
	Asrathiel:	We ♥ you too ^_^

[Sk3tch]

Despite being runner up and not achieving a first place finish I am sad (and happy) to announce I have been promoted to platinum and can no longer take part in the BSG

Quick Comments

DarthBruton:

thanks for letting us know! good luck in the GPD!