A dedicated fan of mine has been looking to support the NA scene but struggled to run the tournaments on his own so after talking things through with him, we are launching the desRow's Weekly NA Tournament series. We have funding for a total of 6 months and potentially more depending on player attendance and so on. We will also have a 200$ monthly final. I'll also be paying a different co-caster every week to come co-cast with me. The tournament is open to anyone so come test your skills in this weekly cup .

desRow NA Weekly

The reason This cup is on a week day is because I'm traveling to Detroit for Gamers for Giving (a sc2 tournament)

Thursday, Feb 19 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Sign Up link

My co caster for this week will be Livibee

If you have any questions about the tournament you can tweet at me @desRowfighting on Twitter!

This is a weekly NA tournament.
The chat channel is desRowCUP
There is a check in 1 hour before the tournament.

The format is bo1 for Ro256 and Ro128
Bo3 for all following rounds except the finals

The prize distribution is 75$/25$

There is a monthly final of 250$
If you finish Top 2 in one of the first 3 weeklys, you are ineligible to play until the monthly final.
The monthly final is a 8man single elim bracket.
The last 2 players will be invited based on the top 4 finishes and based on performance.

Bracket link: http://challonge.com/desrowweekly4
The qualified players for the monthly finals are:
ROOTHydra
Arthur
Kane
Funk

Streams:
desRowfighting (English)

If you are interested in casting in another language or english, send me a PM here on teamliquid or tweet at me.

Format:
The tournament is single elimination
First round is Bo1
The rest is Bo3 except the finals which is Bo5

Player A Veto
Player B Veto
Player A Veto
Player B Veto

Player A picks map 1
Player B picks map 2
Last main remaining is map 3


Map Pool:
Map Pool
Expedition Lost (2)
Overgrowth LE (2)
Secret Spring (2)
Vaani Research Station (2)
Catallena LE (3)
Deadwing LE (4)
Inferno Pools (4)