[OSC]NA Masters Cup #57 Friday 8 August

SEA Masters Cup #57

Saturday, Aug 22 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

$100 USD prize pool + earn points toward $5000+ end of season tournament

Only Citizens from the WCS NA umbrella are allowed in this edition
- Oceania & SEA, America, China, Latin America, Taiwan, HK & Macau

Brackets here



This Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament for Starcraft 2, Heart of the Swarm. $75 prize on offer to the winner and $25 2nd prize $100 prize pool*! There is also a 410 Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship points up for grabs! (Points count towards qualifying for the $5000+ end of season tournament). This event is sponsored by Eddie and sc2sea.com

The Masters Cup is a biweekly tournament, the first fortnightly cup will be region locked to WCS North American citizens. The second fortnightly cup will be open to everyone (EU + KR). Repeat. While Eddie is away however, Namakaye will be running the tournament monthly.

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Times + Format

Saturday, Aug 22 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Location: NA Battle.net
Battle.net Group: Join the group OSC

Single Elimination.
- All series Bo3
- Semi's + Grand Final Bo5

Casters: TBD

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Prizes:

1st $75 + 130 OSC points
2nd $25 + 80 OSC points
3rd + 4th 40 OSC points each
5-8th 10 OSC points each
9-16th 5 OSC points each
17-32nd 2.5 OSC points each
*Prizes are in USD

Bonus OCS points can be earned if:

Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 16: 5 OSC points
Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 17-32 ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
Anyone ranked 16th - 9th beats anyone ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
1st - 8th have no chance to earn bonus points

Current season rankings and database can be viewed here

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Signup

Post your NA ID, Account most known by (If different from registered account, eg EU, KR ID), Team/Clan and Country. Either here or the sc2sea thread.

Example: TossImba.111 ( Scarlett ) - Team Acer - Canada

Signups will close at 9.45am KST on Saturday 22nd August, Brackets will be published on challonge.com shortly after and updated in this thread. If you missed out on pre-registering, the late replacement channel shall be sc2seaMCx. Namakaye shall be organizing replacements, message him in game or talk in channel.

Updated Registered Players List can be found here

Map Pool: + Show Spoiler +

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Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series

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What is OSC?

For those who are unaware, The Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC) is the Oceanic, South East Asian, North American and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. Although the network is based in and focuses on these regions, many events are open to everyone in the world.

The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the 2 day minimum $5000+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion! OSC World Rankings were established in December 2012.

In 2014 OSC partnered tournaments gave away $29691 combined prizepool, ($ bounties, Terran Bonus initiative, Invitationals, and LAN events were not included in this!), ran 155 completed partnered tournaments (up from 77 last year, which equates to 100% growth), and had 358 individual players with points earned (up from 138 in 2013 = 159% growth)

GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.

Current OSC rankings and database can be viewed here

Factors which influence how many OSC points tournaments are allocated include: prizepool, format, frequency, open qualifiers and region locking.

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Some unique/interesting features of OSC tournaments and rankings.

• Players are seeding via points acquired from previous OSC placings. (Points often are awarded to 16/32nd place)
  
  
• If you defeat someone ranked in the top 32, or higher than yourself, you earn scalp/bonus points (These are used in the event of a tie for yearly finals qualification)
  
  
• Players can challenge each other to show matches and put their points on the line, winner takes all.
  
  
• There are $ Bounties on top tier players if you can defeat them in a Bo3+ series
  
  
• Rankings reflect tournament success, participation, and direct individual series
  
  
• We have an active paid news writing team who provide fresh sc2 content and OSC coverage, available at sc2sea.com
  

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OSC Supporter Packages

You can show your support towards OSC, and help us put on events for the community for just $8 USD per month! One less chocolate bar/One less beer at the pub/a couple less songs on iTunes, etc, and the money goes towards supporting the scene It's quite common place for players/casters to have a subscription option on twitch tv (which isn't an option for us), and we feel we have much more to give back in terms of entertainment, competition and rewards. Subscribers are also another way we can potentially market ourselves to prospective sponsors, which in turn will result in further growth.

We also provided supporters with bonuses such as event replay packs, and chance to win 1 hour of coaching from top tier players.

If you are interested, you can subscribe here.