The Foreign Hope - presented by Madals

The main English stream will be

Madals

Dates

Open Qualifier Tuesday, Sep 30 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Day 1 Wednesday, Oct 08 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Day 2 Thursday, Oct 09 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Day 3 (and final) Friday, Oct 10 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

VODs:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYLL3KthuCsPG5IeSVCd-oXiIP8a_ndsS



The Foreign Hope is a 6 player, community driven tournament with the aim of finding the best foreigner in the world. With 4 players coming from a community vote, 2 from an open bracket and a minimum prize pool of $2000 (increase from donations and indiegogo).



Tuesday, Sep 30 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

TO ENTER, CLICK: HERE FOR THE BINARY BEAST SIGN UP!

The open bracket has a maximum of 1024 players, limited to Masters of above Non-Korean players. The qualifier will take place on the EU Server. The top two players from the qualifier will earn their spot in The Foreign Hope!

Round 1024 to 256 will be BO1.
Round 256 to QF will be BO3
SF will be BO5



The voting poll was selected by the top 21 (most I can put in the poll) Non-Korean players in the WCS Global Ranking as of 17th Aug 2014. Voting Closed Sunday, Aug 31 9:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Invited players - Snute, Bunny, Nerchio & Scarlett

VOTE RESULTS
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THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY - so I am going to let you all vote on the format of the tournament. There are two options, each with benefits and drawbacks that I have detailed below.

Both options will run over 3 days

Option 1: Massive round-robin group with all 6 players

Pros: Everyone plays everyone = no denying who is the best.

Cons: Someone could win before the final game based on scores. A tie would have to be resolved with either map score or head to head (both have critics).

Option 2: Two round robin groups of 3 with 2 advancing. Day 3 would be an elimination bracket!

Pros: There would be a grand finals, potentially meaning more hype!

Cons: Not everyone would play everyone, meaning people could argue the "best" player didn't win?

THE VOTE (in spoiler tag)

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The prize pool started at $2000. This is from a combination of money I have put in myself from my twitch channel subs and donations as well as 2 current sponsors. If you would like to see this prize pool raised - here is how!

Donate via PayPal

Current Prize Pool = $2368.36

1st = 50% = $1184.18
2nd = 25% = $592.09
3rd 4th = 10% = $236.83
5th 6th = 2.5% = $59.2

As donations from my channel go towards putting on more events - from now until the event goes live ALL donations I receive will go to increasing the prize pool (stops 30th Sept - futher contributions go towards future events). I will also keep below a list of all the people who contribute more than $50, in order of how much they have contributed. If you would like to be on this list - leave a note on the donation paypal link with the name you want!

I'm not a saint and do need to eat / get paid for the amount of time I put into this event. Donations go towards the event prize pool, but I will be taking the ad revenue I generate from the event to pay myself and any other casters I get involved. If I am able to secure sponsorship from companies / anyone specifically donates to me (and they say that in the donation) then I will make some more from that