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**Eddie** · Thu, 24th-Mar-2011, 8:25 AM

Welcome to the 5th Gold, Platinum and Diamond Weekly Open!

The event shall start as a 64 player competition, but if we get a massive amount of sign ups, could be extended to 128. It will be a single elimination style tournament.

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Details

Date: Sunday, 27th of March, 2011.
Time: 4pm SGT, 7pm AEST
Location: SEA Battle.net region.
Tournament Eligibility: You must be in the Gold, Platinum or Diamond league (1v1 - SEA license). Diamond players must be under 3200pts, higher players will be disqualified.
How to Sign Up: Sign ups will open on Saturday, 26 March. Register in the signup thread once it's up, and post your user name, character code, league, and if diamond how many ladder points
Live-Stream: http://www.justin.tv/sixthsc
Prizes: The winner of the GPD Open will take home the $10 first prize
The top 8 players from this event shall qualify for the Masters Cup on 10/4/11 and the chance to win the $70 1st prize, $20 2nd, and $10 3rd for that event. Wildcard qualifying spots may also be given for impressive play outside of the top 8.
Battle.net Chat-Channel: "sc2seaGPD".

Rules and Regulations

· All results must be PMed to FaDeEdOne in-game.
· Players must be logged into SCII SEA region 15 minutes before their match-up. 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.
· Matches will be played as a Bo3 with the exception of the round of 64, 32 & 16 which will be best of one, and finals which will be played as a Bo5.
· 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 GPD admins after reviewing all associated replays.
· Any inappropriate behaviour will result in a disqualification.
· Players must have their own Sea account, playing on a friends is not allowed
. You are allowed to switch races
. No late replacements.

Map List

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:

Ro64: Xel'Naga Caverns (B01 no 2nd game)
Ro32: Metalopolis (B01 no 2nd game)
Ro16: Shakuras Plateau (B01 no 2nd game)
Ro8: The Shattered Temple (B03)
Semi-Finals: Typhon Peaks (B03)
Finals: Tal'Darim Altar LE (B05)

Loser can pick from any the following maps:

Xel'Naga Caverns, Metalopolis, Shakuras Plateau, Blistering Sands, Delta Quadrant, Scrap Station, Typhon Peaks, The Shattered Temple, Tal'Darim Altar LE, Backwater Gulch

For B03 and B05 each player can have 1 veto

Brackets

Brackets are automatically generated when the tournament begins and will be posted directly into the sign up thread so you will see who your opponent is, with ease, throughout the tournament. When the brackets are created, it is your sole responsibility to find your opponent, their character code and add them in-game and begin your matches.

Pleasure ensure you have your correct SEA SCII name and character code in your sc2sea.com profile, which can be found here. This will help reduce any problems people may face when having to search for their opponent's character name & code.

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NDG.Stitch · Thu, 24th-Mar-2011, 10:21 AM

im 3200 diamond...... >.<

**Eddie** · Thu, 24th-Mar-2011, 10:28 AM

I've made it 3200 now. Above that is the top 250.

NDG.Stitch · Thu, 24th-Mar-2011, 10:33 AM

Alright - Stitch.520 Sign me up thanks!

**Eddie** · Sat, 26th-Mar-2011, 9:07 AM

Sign ups now open here - Click join tournament

Sixth shall be casting this week

intrepidity · Sat, 26th-Mar-2011, 2:24 PM

dang... 3270 xD Thanks anyway

nard · Sat, 26th-Mar-2011, 9:41 PM

so.. i signed up when i was 3100... now im @ 3196... must i absolutely stop laddering?

**Eddie** · Sat, 26th-Mar-2011, 10:45 PM

Well there's only 18 hours left anyway. I'll give a little leeway...

**Eddie** · Sun, 27th-Mar-2011, 10:54 AM

6 hours until the tournament starts.

**Eddie** · Mon, 28th-Mar-2011, 1:58 PM

Congratulations to TkShadow on winning the 5th GPD Weekly Open! TkShadow beat KMARTRULES 3-0 in the final. Final brackets

A big thank you to Sixth and Zertastic for casting and streaming the event.

Players who qualified for the Masters Cup on 10/4/11 are:

TkShadow
KMARTRULES.820
diRty.439
CrazY.866
whistpoo.568
DtorR.199
ExitLight.671

*nGGDedvo has already qualified in GPD 4, so only 7 this week.