Postcards from Phuket signed by players- $100 (+~$80)
T-shirt from 25th Anniversary LAN - $100 (+~70$) (unlimited) + Show Spoiler +
To order you need to email to zzzeropl@gmail.com
All the profit from the souvenirs will be spent 50% on prize pool and 50% to cover the tournament expenses.
SCHEDULE Group A,B - December 9 () Start 11:00 ICT - 05:00 CEST 23:00 EST 20:00 PST Group C,D - December 10 () Start 11:00 ICT - 05:00 CEST 23:00 EST 20:00 PST RO8 Bracket - December 11 () Start 11:00 ICT - 05:00 CEST 23:00 EST 20:00 PST Ro4 & Finals - December 12 () Start 11:00 ICT - 05:00 CEST 23:00 EST 20:00 PST
SPONSOR eSport.Fund The eSport.fund was once set up by Mr. Patyrykin and his dedicated team, who have been in the esports world for nearly two decades. In the early days, they hosted tournaments themselves, tirelessly nurturing the community. As time became a more demanding asset, they shifted their support to different, yet equally significant avenues. For the curious, Mr. Patyrykin (known in the gaming community as Rus_Brain), Mr. Vasilenko (aka Saerjaar), and Mr. Chernyavskiy (aka Mixer) are currently steering a marine insurance portfolio. They employ cutting-edge ML/AI technology to manage this complex field, merging the excitement of esports and strategy games in particular with the innovative world of tech-driven insurance solutions.
ORGANIZERS Rus_Brain - Offline organization and logistics ZZZero - Online organization and stream production
Glad to see Artosis will make the journey, will bring even more hype to the event! I hope he will stick around to cast if he gets eliminated at some point.
Gosudark wasn't able to get his passport at the time of the tournament, he will be replaced with the next player in the qualifiers - Sziky - but Sziky, don't have passport as well and don't want to go, so next player is: Julian!
On October 21 2023 14:18 defn1ne wrote: Why even participate in the qualifiers if you don't have a passport? Maybe in the future add to the rules to have a valid passport available.
Yep, and have 5 players in each qualification tournament.
:D <3 Glad u like it... Woulda prrffered having so many Zergs IDK where to put em in the picture... I wonder if there isn't a Lurker we can't unburrow somewhere... Someone who used to be good back in the day and wants to compete again...
Ugh I wish I wasn't shackled down by other responsibilities... seeing the best foreign broodwar players in a FUN place like Phuket seems like a dream come true.
On December 10 2023 03:46 M3t4PhYzX wrote: Great tournament so far, my dudes. Much GGs.
Keep up the good work and screw the drama queens!
Cheers
You're right, we are taking away from the point of the tournament and making a spectacle of a single point. I truly do wish the players a fun time and apologize for pointing out the glaring misjudgements of a person who has nothing to do with said tournament.
I'll just be off to the side now until another story of how rapid treats women comes to light again. I hope I'm completely wrong but history of abuse repeats itself if left unchecked.
Can someone explain the format to me? On liquipedia it says: If 8-16 players, then 2x groups 4-8 players each, TOP4 WB, TOP 5-6 LB If 16-24 players, then 4x groups per 4-6 players, TOP2 WB, TOP3 LB Making it sound like the "playoffs" are double elim. Yet further down below it shows a single elim bracket. So are the people marked red in the groups out or sent to the lower bracket? Do people who loose in the playoff bracket out or do they go to a lower bracket? Sorry if this was already asked and answered, I didn't see it anywhere.
On December 10 2023 20:15 Lorch wrote: Can someone explain the format to me? On liquipedia it says: If 8-16 players, then 2x groups 4-8 players each, TOP4 WB, TOP 5-6 LB If 16-24 players, then 4x groups per 4-6 players, TOP2 WB, TOP3 LB Making it sound like the "playoffs" are double elim. Yet further down below it shows a single elim bracket. So are the people marked red in the groups out or sent to the lower bracket? Do people who loose in the playoff bracket out or do they go to a lower bracket? Sorry if this was already asked and answered, I didn't see it anywhere.
Bo3 ASL/GSL group formats, except for Group B where there were 5 players. Pure round robin here. Bo5 starting Elimination round.
UltrA > TerrOr @ Broken Curcuit UltrA < TerrOr @ Neo Luna UltrA < TerrOr @ Paradiso UltrA > TerrOr @ Champion UltrA < TerrOr @ Neo Rush Hour TerrOr to advance Round of Four
Huge Thank You to Mr Peak, who delivered free food for the players on day one, and also showed me some of the better places in Phuket. It was great to meet you here, and a happy Terror on the right. + Show Spoiler +
Got like a tone of pics and vids already from Thailand and Phuket, maybe I'll upload them later here, others have posted some of the pics on discord.
Huge Thank You to Mr Peak, who delivered free food for the players on day one, and also showed me some of the better places in Phuket. It was great to meet you here, and a happy Terror on the right. + Show Spoiler +
Got like a tone of pics and vids already from Thailand and Phuket, maybe I'll upload them later here, others have posted some of the pics on discord already.
Nice pics for the most part. Good to know your take on the subject. ^_._^
On December 12 2023 17:42 blackmanpl wrote: Phuket at night
Huge Thank You to Mr Peak, who delivered free food for the players on day one, and also showed me some of the better places in Phuket. It was great to meet you here, and a happy Terror on the right. + Show Spoiler +
Got like a tone of pics and vids already from Thailand and Phuket, maybe I'll upload them later here, others have posted some of the pics on discord already.
Nice pics for the most part. Good to know your take on the subject. Also you caught an unintentional funny:
On December 10 2023 14:32 TT1 wrote: damn bonyth beat sharp in a macro game with carriers after losing probes to vult harass, well done
That sounds like a good game. Where can I watch that? I checked the Sharp vs. best foreigners videos on Zero's Twitch channel but there was only one game between Bonyth and Sharp and Bonyth lost that one. No carriers either.
On December 26 2023 19:57 ZZZero.O wrote: It was practice game between the tournament games, its on sharp afreeca for sure, cuz we was watching it with Bonyth
Check out great video about Bombastic 25th Anniversary LAN made by SaiyanSC
I feel like most of the people viewed this event through the eyes of the drama, but it was actually an amazing event and in this video you can feel the spirit of it.
On January 09 2024 05:57 ZZZero.O wrote: I feel like most of the people viewed this event through the eyes of the drama, but it was actually an amazing event and in this video you can feel the spirit of it.
I mean, looks like people at the event didn't really have a problem with the situation and people online were making a much bigger deal of it than the people attending. So it's definitely unfair that you've taken the majority of the damage here and I agree to some extent you're a victim of the situation.
That being said, some of what you said in your post in the other thread mischaracterizes things a little bit IMO and doesn't sit right. (and apologies to mods for mentioning this here but the other thread is locked and I believe what I'm saying is different from what's already been said)
What about the fact that your actions caused me to lose $200/mo+ on the Patreon and who knows how many potential viewers ?
Not to mention that no one gives a shit about the event, production and the games, but everyone is focused on this shitstorm
What actually happened was that someone with an issue made a thread (with no threats or insults, just asking for more info in a reasonably polite way) it in an open forum where the organisers could see and reply, but then one of the main organisers called them a "dumb lizard brain". Like I said, what matters most is how people at the event feel, not what random people online think, so how hard would it have been to say something more professional like "thank you for bringing it to our attention, we will check in with the people attending and make sure everyone is comfortable"? Like yeah people went nuclear with creating the followup thread but blaming it on them is wrong, since what prompted that was a combination of your silence on the issue plus the other organiser escalating things unnecessarily and turning it into an argument of morals and ethics which at the end of the day wasn't really relevant.
To repeat what I said above, it's true you've suffered as result of this but I don't agree the event was "ruined" by the "coalition of people" against you, when it was actually "ruined" by the actions of the other organiser.
He should apologise to you (and the community), not for inviting rapid, but for allowing the mess to fall on you by acting unprofessionally, and for creating the whole "shitstorm" in the first place by escalating things when it could have been squashed.
Rapid was removed the very next day, so any following dramas afterwards were really unncecessary, didn't help any victims or potential victims. It was selfish of people, who, in their eyes, had the right to receive an answer immidiately, as if removing Rapid wasn't a hint of an answer already.
On January 09 2024 20:30 hrtzdfseas wrote: *mod edit*
All due respect, but i think Bony as a Player personally involved in the scene and present at that LAN understands the situation quite well. Perhaps quite a bit better than you and i do. Oh btw he is polish...
This drama vs Zzzero was uncalled for and way out of proportion. He does not defend Rapid, he cancelled Rapids casting on day 2 and made a statement accordingly. After that, SOME of the users here were not interested in justice for Rapids victims, not at weighing Zzzeros response in a sensible manner, but in a witch hunt.
Or to be blunt: some users used this drama in a despicable manner to voice their personal, childish, non related resentments against Zzzero as a person and the russian and polish community as a whole. I fail to see, from a certain point on, how the "discussion" was advanced by the drama and how it helped the girls that Rapid harmed.
I see only shit beeing thrown at a longstanding community figure for petty shit and from a very entitled perspective.
To be clear, i think Rapid is a despicable guy, no word of defense for him will be uttered by me, but criticism against Zzzero was way out of proportion.
On January 09 2024 20:30 hrtzdfseas wrote: *mod edit*
That btw is racist or at least discrimating. What is the russian/polish block please? Are all polish and russian people the same? A faceless mass who share the same thoughts? Not individuals? Do they not have each their own personal believes and convictions?
for anyone who hasnt gone through this type of work, they really have no understanding or appreciation of what it is like, and how much sleep you can lose over it.
I have organized several international trips for around 14-15 students through a university club. is incredibly stressful and exhausting. it is not a trivial task. it consumed almost 6 months of my life. but was very rewarding.
so, sincerely, thank you for your efforts, and for working so hard to support star1. congratulations on an amazing tournament and LAN. hope to see you again in 2024.
Obviously there had to be a a bonus "ultimate boss'' battle with a well known korean pro, so how come it was Sharp? Was he invited? Did he "invite" himself? If he had been sponsored for this, i am sure a lot of other korean pros would have wanted to fill in the role of the "bonus boss" and get paid for that. Surely he came on his own accord?
On January 12 2024 23:16 Artas1984 wrote: Obviously there had to be a a bonus "ultimate boss'' battle with a well known korean pro, so how come it was Sharp? Was he invited? Did he "invite" himself? If he had been sponsored for this, i am sure a lot of other korean pros would have wanted to fill in the role of the "bonus boss" and get paid for that. Surely he came on his own accord?
*mod edit*
the people who care (you know, the people who actually play the game?) were having fun in Thailand, not sitting on an internet forum.
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Bombastic Starleague/25th Anniversary LAN
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