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ChiCraft LAN Tourney - Free Entry, $500 Prize Pool

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gumballdead
Profile Joined September 2014
United States22 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-11 15:54:14
December 09 2014 17:06 GMT
#1
ChiCraft LAN Tourney - Free Entry, $500 Prize Pool

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ChiCraft LAN is a Starcraft 2 LAN held at Ignite Gaming Lounge on January 10th. Entry is free! There will be a $500 prize pool, as well as a raffle, giveaways, and prizes for even the scrubbiest of scrubs! Come out and play the game we all love! Sounds awesome already? Register here!

PRIZE POOL
Total prize pool: $500
1st place - $250
2nd place - $150
3rd place - $75
4th place - $25

VENUE

If you live in Chicago and haven’t heard of Ignite Gaming Lounge by now, you may have been living under a rock. This place is only the best LAN Center/Internet Cafe in the best city in the Midwest! Tons of PCs, Consoles, private gaming rooms, including a café on site. They even hosted the Red Bull Detroit Qualifier back in August. We are working together with Ignite to bring you guys an awesome tournament experience. Doors will open at 10AM for our players and the tournament will last til 8PM or until we crown a winner. More info, including directions to the venue can be found on Ignite’s website

TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE
  • 32 Player Tournament
  • Double elimination with seeding by ladder rank/league.
  • Registration closes at midnight (12:00am CST) the Wednesday before tournament, January 7th, 2015.
  • The map pool will be the current Battle.net ladder maps, yes this means we’re using the #dreampool! NOTE: This may change because Blizzard will most likely release a new map pool the week of the tournament. We will run with whatever map pool is the current ladder map pool on January 10th 2015.
  • All games in the winner’s bracket are best of 3, except the grand finals which are best of 5
  • Loser’s bracket are best of one matches with dedicated maps for each round.
  • All leagues are accepted and encouraged!


COOL STUFF
To encourage lower league players, we’ll be awarding the top finisher players, players who achieve the highest finish respective of their ladder league. For example, the silver player who makes it the deepest in the tournament will receive a prize that recognizes their achievement. There will be a raffle, raffling off SC2 t-shirts as well as other small prizes.

HOW TO REGISTER
Use this form to register Fill out the info and check your email for updates closer to the day of the tournament!

ON SITE STREAM + CAST
We will be streaming as many matches as we can get to on twitch.tv/nivek706. Get your friends to follow and watch our Caster and co-host Nivek on the day of the tournament.

QUICK RECAP
  • CHICAGO LAN organized and paid for by fellow Chicago gamers. #PASSION
  • FREE TO ENTER, Raffle, $500 prize pool, and other gimmicky toys (perhaps RedBull) >:D.
  • Doors open at 10AM, matches will start Promptly at 11AM. Registration table at the back of the LAN center, along with caster table, and live bracket updates.
  • Streamed live from Ignite at twitch.tv/nivek706, January 10th 2015.
  • Check out the detailed info and detailed rules for some more tasty info.
  • Register here before Wednesday, Jan 07 6:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)



What have you got to lose? A Free-to-Enter Starcraft tournament at Chicago's best LAN, with a $500 prize pool and raffle.

If you have any comments or questions, read the detailed info and detailed rules first and then feel free to ask them below!




UPDATE

Guys, I didn't think this would blow up this fast! We've had 30 responses on the first day already. That means that spots are very limited now (2) :O. I'm going to be closing registration soon as we've only enough room for 32 players. Everyone is more than welcome to come by to support and watch the games. We will be having alternate players for the inevitable few that don't show up, so as long as the form is available to sign up, you should go ahead and do that.

So far the distribution of Races is very interesting:

T 52%
P 21%
Z 28%


Terran OP, confirmed.


UPDATE #2

As of 12/10/2015 9:45 AM CST, we have 32 players, so we're at our limit for players in this tourney. I will keep the registration page open with a notice at the top for people that do want to still sign up that they will be signing up for alternate spots.



UPDATE #3


Registration is closed. We've got 7 alternates. Look here for more details in the future.
I'm calm like a bomb.
jibbodahibbo
Profile Joined July 2010
United States5 Posts
December 09 2014 18:09 GMT
#2
I really like the register forms league selection options.
I'll be there, I'm top GM in raffles.
InfVampyWorm
Profile Joined June 2011
United States56 Posts
December 09 2014 20:11 GMT
#3
if you guys need more casters I am available to cast.
DjSpectre
Profile Joined February 2011
United States62 Posts
December 09 2014 20:25 GMT
#4
Just registered, never been to Ignite before but an going to head there tonight to check out the place. Hopefully it'll be fun and I won't get knocked out in the first round! :-D
Consider that before you were alive, you were dead. After your life you will be dead. We spend more time being dead than alive. So don't waste your life.
Bango
Profile Joined April 2011
United States106 Posts
December 09 2014 22:59 GMT
#5
I can't believe it... I'm literally leaving Chicago on that day for an internship..... Anyways I'll be back and hopefully there will be another one! I'm so sad I'm going to miss this. Gl to everyone playing. I'll definitely be checking the place during winter break and watch as much of or steam as I can.
ello x]
qGBrad
Profile Joined February 2012
United States13 Posts
December 10 2014 02:18 GMT
#6
Just applied, See you all there!
Rengen
Profile Joined May 2013
United States4 Posts
December 12 2014 22:33 GMT
#7
Too bad there were only 32 spots. Would've really loved to go out to Chicago and play. Don't get a lot of LANs up in Milwaukee.
No thanks I don't want to include a quote on my profile.
Hypernia
Profile Joined August 2009
United States19 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-13 02:30:16
December 13 2014 02:21 GMT
#8
Can y0u add me as an alternate? I can't access the registrati0n d0cument.

EDIT: Actually, when w0uld we kn0w that we can j0in as an alternate?
carps
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10682 Posts
December 13 2014 04:01 GMT
#9
Omg....I have to go.....Will be in Pittsburgh, might be too far... T_T
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
Qaq
Profile Joined August 2011
United States12 Posts
December 14 2014 05:05 GMT
#10
Should add more spots considering the amount of low league players
nivek706
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
United States62 Posts
December 15 2014 01:15 GMT
#11
On December 14 2014 14:05 Qaq wrote:
Should add more spots considering the amount of low league players


Unfortunately, it's hard to open up more spots because of the constraints of an offline event I think none of us anticipated such a large interest, and so quickly. It is a good sign of the health of the Chicago SC2 scene, so that's pretty awesome! But yeah, it does mean that if we (or others) set up an offline event in Chicago again, there would have to be some more consideration for expanding the player pool.
InfVampyWorm
Profile Joined June 2011
United States56 Posts
December 15 2014 03:36 GMT
#12
you have to remember that people outside from chicago are coming especially since sc2 tournaments are so rare in the midwest in general
jibbodahibbo
Profile Joined July 2010
United States5 Posts
December 18 2014 19:52 GMT
#13
On December 14 2014 14:05 Qaq wrote:
Should add more spots considering the amount of low league players



How do you know that there are a lot of low league players?
DjSpectre
Profile Joined February 2011
United States62 Posts
December 19 2014 20:59 GMT
#14
Looking forward to all these SC2 folks in 1 room without having to fly to Sweden (dreamhak) or California (blizzcon/mlg).

Ignite is a great location too, if you've never been there, you should take time to check it out if you live in Chicagoland, it's cheap, has amazing food and great equipment. Staff is pretty baller too.

I really wish more people in the midwest actually hosted these tournaments....hell it's not like Chicago doesn't have plenty of unused warehouses for this kinda thing. :-D



Consider that before you were alive, you were dead. After your life you will be dead. We spend more time being dead than alive. So don't waste your life.
AprilTerran
Profile Blog Joined January 2014
United States56 Posts
January 08 2015 19:59 GMT
#15
Team Ascension will be there!
Founder | Team .SCA, Team Ascension, Sloth E-Sports Club
InfVampyWorm
Profile Joined June 2011
United States56 Posts
January 09 2015 08:50 GMT
#16
On January 09 2015 04:59 AprilTerran wrote:
Team Ascension will be there!

in force
Recksaw
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States23 Posts
January 12 2015 20:00 GMT
#17
Thanks everyone for coming! We had a great time, wonderful turnout, and the tournament went well with almost no issues.

We plan to have another one in June, details will come closer to the event.

Here's a link to the VOD:
http://www.twitch.tv/nivek706/b/609404025
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