MLG 2011 Circuit Prize Money Announced - Page 11

On February 04 2011 03:42 Kazzabiss wrote:

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On February 04 2011 01:03 OperatoR wrote:
Guys, you have to attend the regular events and get a top 8 seeding throughout the season. Once you have accomplished top 8 (accumulated points from previous event placings) you will get a invitation to the nationals. So Koreans will not be able to attend Nationals out of the blue.

On February 04 2011 04:11 SmoKim wrote:
i wish the National finals were only for high ranked players and not sign ups, the 5 they have is more than enough, would love if the national finals was just all the big names from the 5 others

On February 04 2011 03:47 legatus legionis wrote:
Shibby - "With 3 mainstages, the Old Spice Swagger matches, over 700 competitors, spawn across 6 major titles in the business. 5 regular stops and one grand final for the Pro Circuit. For those of you who weren't so good at maths in school, that is one major event every 2 months, bit by bit. The MLG is looking like a top seed, for this years e-sports events. The pressure is on, IEM you better not be sleeping......

On February 04 2011 04:38 TofuFox wrote:
It looks like this is the championship bracket format, at least as announced for 2009 (I can't confirm if the same format was used for 2010, or even if they changed it for 2009 - MLG has taken down all their 2010 sites):

http://media.mlgpro.com/site/images/features/faq_bracket5.png

It can be a bit odd (but, then, so is GSL). It gives a massive advantage to the 16 seeded players, who would play 5-10 rounds to win while open bracket players would play 15-20 rounds to win.

Basically, there is the Open Bracket (256 Player, Double Elim, Not Shown above) and the Championship Bracket (16 seeded players, 16 through Open Bracket)

For the Open Bracket, they play (given the image) through 6 rounds of the Winner's Bracket and 8 rounds of the Loser's Bracket. This leaves 16 players:
4 players in the Winner's Bracket. ("C")
4 players that lost in WBR6 and haven't played in Loser's Bracket (They would play in LBR10) ("B")
8 players that have played in the Loser's Bracket (making it to LBR9) ("A")

Championship Bracket:

16 seeded players are in the winner's bracket.
The losers of the WBR1 and WBR2 are put in a placement bracket (PBR).
WBR1 Losers go in PBR1.
WBR2 Losers go in PBR2.
WBR3 and Winner's Bracket Finals (WBR4) Losers go into the Loser's Bracket.

"A" Players from Open Bracket are placed in LBR1
"B" Players from Open Bracket are placed in LBR2
"C" Players from Open Bracket are placed in LBR3
PBR1 Losers go in LBR4
PBR2 Losers go in LBR5
PBR2 Winners go in LBR6
WBR3 Losers go in LBR8
WBR4 Losers go in the Loser's Bracket Finals (LBR10)

And then Winner's Bracket and Loser's Bracket winners meet in the Grand Finals.

On February 04 2011 04:14 DystopiaX wrote:

Leaving it open gives a huge incentive for players to go, though. Foreign players are unlikely to travel for a 5000 dollar first place prize, but I could see even Koreans coming out for a potential 50k for a weekends worth. Having a large prize pool will likely get tons of good players for nationals, so that's exciting.