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With the Intel Extreme Masters Season V over in the Americas, StarCraft II competitions are just heating up. Today the National ESL proudly announces the addition of the very popular GO4SC2 Series! StarCraft II fans will have plenty of action over the next few months. More details below!
Details
Two (2) GO4SC2 cups a week (Sunday and Wednesday)
Winner of the Sunday Cash Cup receives $50
The Top 16 Cup Finishers earn points towards the monthly standings
The Top 8 from the monthly point leaders qualify for the GO4SC2 Monthly Finals and a chance at $200!*
The Cup series are OPEN to anyone with a North American Battle.net account!
*Any ESL member will be able to join the cup with Premium Account. Details regarding Premium will be announced later this week.
Schedule for the month of October
Schedule
Check-in Period: 7:00 - 7:40 pm EST
Matches Start: 8:00pm EST
10/24/10 SUN - Go4SC2 Cash Cup 1 - Winner: $50
10/27/10 WED - Go4SC2 Open Cup 2
10/31/10 SUN - Go4SC2 Cash Cup 3 - Winner: $50
11/09/10 TUE - Go4SC2 Monthly Final (October) - Winner: $200
How to sign up?
+ Show Spoiler +The easiest way to sign up is to simply go to our GO4SC2 Portal and find the newest cup advertisement in the upper left and upper center page. Also, you can visit our SC2 Portal to find the cup information. New to National ESL? No problem!We have created an easy to understand Registration Guide CUPS Guide with instructions on how to register and how to find your match and opponent. You can also visit our Beginners Guide . *Cash prizes will be paid out as soon as possible via Paypal
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Congratulations ... the NA scene is starting to look really strong
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Awesome! Now I can play int his :D
Although when I try to sign on says my account is currently barraged? What lol.
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Pretty pathetic prize pools tbh.
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yeah, it's like a tournament of 512 people fighting over 50 bucks 
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Aside the money it's awesome to see how well SC2 is being played GLOBALLY.
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Hope this grows in the future, or at least plants seeds for even bigger tournaments
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how much do you have to pay traveling on the internet?
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wow very good news, I think this will really help some players make a name for themselves. To me this event is more about fame than about prize pool.
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Germany223 Posts
yeah wow, $50 wont even cover the travel expense lol
its an online tourny 0o
go4sc2 is pretty good in europe and delivers awesome matches, i hope it gets as big in america as it is in europe
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On October 21 2010 08:07 Tha_Docta wrote:
yeah wow, $50 wont even cover the travel expense lol
I don't know about you, but my computer only charges me $25 each time I launch Starcraft. You appear to be getting ripped off.
On topic:
YUUUUUUUUUUS!
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Guys, If you don't want to compete for $50 from 512 then simply buy premium and you can join the monthly final where the winner will be receiving $200. We think those tournaments will be smaller in size.
Michal Kucharz
National ESL
Community Manager
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United States7481 Posts
glad this expanded to NA, once i get some more time to play i'll definitely be entering the biweeklies
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Sweet, good to see this expanded to NA.
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This is very good for practice not just for the money!
In europe almost all the top players compete in go4sc2!
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Grrr busy this Sunday -.- Ah well. THanks for expanding to NA. Maybe in November! ^^
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I pity the poor bastard that wins $50 playing a video game that 99% of us never make a dime on.
Seriously, wtf is wrong with some of you. Any new cash leagues in NA should be welcomed with open arms.
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I think there was some initial impression that this is an on-site tournament hosted somewhere with an amazing prize pool of $50. Should be clarified that this is an online tournament
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go4sc2 for europe has a similar prize-money (100 € for sunday-cups, nothing on wednesday), still every tournament is packed with top-notch players from all over the world. if you can run an event very smoothly and deliver great coverage, the importance of your prizemoney-pool is fading out. top-tier players want/have to represent their organisation to the max, second-class players are looking to shine under the observation of these great teams and it's great place for young talents to acquire some experience.
so stop bitching about the prize-pool already
(kinda cheap to be able to buy yourself into the monthly final though, disappoint)
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On October 21 2010 09:10 fueNN wrote:
go4sc2 for europe has a similar prize-money (100 € for sunday-cups, nothing on wednesday), still every tournament is packed with top-notch players from all over the world. if you can run an event very smoothly and deliver great coverage, the importance of your prizemoney-pool is fading out. top-tier players want/have to represent their organisation to the max, second-class players are looking to shine under the observation of these great teams and it's great place for young talents to acquire some experience.
so stop bitching about the prize-pool already
(kinda cheap to be able to buy yourself into the monthly final though, disappoint)
lol if you think top players will continue to play for these ridiculously meager prize pools. Many have already ducked out of Go4SC2 Europe. Go4SC2 will become a nice "stepping stone" where amatuers can cut their teeth (and cheat off livestreams, etc), but that's about it. It shows no ambition for ESL to start this league in NA and only offer $50 for the Sunday prize. Couldn't they find a sponsor?!
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EPT![[image loading]](http://gfx.esl.eu/media/special/us/sc2/Go4SC2.JPG)
