Thanks to our awesome donators for the month of March - skybreaker, Disadvantage and learner123 - we will be able to run a really cool tournament.
And as an event needs to be $100 to be listed on TL to get 10x the viewers, the prize pool will be this amount so we will give a lot more exposure for our sea community. Ty benji for the suggestion.
Im currently thinking of running a slighty different format for this tournament, but this is a familar format we have used for the COTH and something we have never used in our tournament brackets before, with a nice prize pool. It will be a "KOF/Winners style" format with teams of 3!
The KOF Format
For those who dont know how it works, basically u get 3 of ur fav players/practise buddies and make a team together with a cool name like perhaps "benji win trades". You choose a default starter for all rounds and all matches are 1v1, bo1. The starters play each other and the winner stays continues to play a member of the opponents team of their choosing not yet defeated, until there are no players left.
It makes for some tense moments , clutch play with all kills and reverse all kills, etc. Theres also a tactical element where the team of the losing player can choose a player who is strong against the current winner, ie sniping based on race or map. So since there are 3 players in each time it basically it turns every round into a bo5, as a team needs to elminate the other team (3 wins) to move foward.
Back in the beta, our "Team AU" team comprising of filthy, me and moonglade even knocked out teams like EG, and Fnatic. We got all killed by idra tho haha!
Poll
Anyway to provide the best expereince, I do need some feedback for this -
Should the tournament be selected applicants or open sign ups?
Selected applicants meaning from the list of sign ups we pick the absolute best 8 teams. This means that the tourney has lots of strong/close matches with the best of SEA so its good for SEA or NA viewers who happen to tune in, and it can also finish all in one day. The bad point would be not everyone can enter the tournament.
So just send in your votes, and also, you can start signing up your teams by posting here in the following format.
Team Name:
PlayerA
PlayerB
PlayerC
It will tentatively be in 1-2 weeks time and on a weekend.
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