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Disclaimer - Let me start out by saying that I do not work for Blizzard and I am not affiliated with them, anything in this post is not representative of them in any way. I have however been allowed to put this post up with all the information that is already released as the tournament is tomorrow. I am one of the casters.
on Aug 19 Blizzard Entertainment wrote
We're proud to announce the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty 2010 Invitational Tournament for Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand!
Based on their regional ranking and performance on Battle.net, sixteen of the top StarCraft II players from Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand will be selected to take part in the region’s First StarCraft II online tournament.
Prizes
1st place - $3,000 USD
2nd place - $2,000 USD
3rd place - $1,000 USD
Also,
on Aug 19 Blizzard Entertainment wrote
The first- and second-place winners will be invited to attend BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, California!
![[image loading]](http://i51.tinypic.com/14v1a4h.jpg)
Brackets: http://i56.tinypic.com/16jkoki.jpg
![[image loading]](http://i52.tinypic.com/t66tlx.jpg)
Games will be cast on:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/unstable-tv1
- Casters Unstable and Sephyre.
http://www.livestream.com/archaicmsitv
- Casters Tenz and Deth.
Rounds 1 - 4:
Saturday 11th of September, 2pm Australian EST ( 12pm Singapore, 12am East coast USA)
Finals
Sunday 12th of September, 4pm Australian EST ( 2pm Singapore, 2am East coast USA)
Note - Rounds 1 and 2 will actually be played on Friday night, due to the clash with GSL they will be broadcast the following day before the commencement of rounds 3-4
![[image loading]](http://i55.tinypic.com/xgekk6.jpg)
VODs of the live casts will go up on:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/unstable-tv1
http://www.livestream.com/archaicmsitv
I will also try and get as many games as possible on my channel:
http://www.youtube.com/sephyresc
Liquipedia
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Blizzard_SEA_Invitational
The wiki page was done by deL i believe (<3 deL).
Tournament Referee
Dox + presumably Blizzard 
Official links
Original announcement: http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/54298#blog
FAQ: http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/63943#blog
Player list: http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/63946#blog
Final note
Just to reiterate - I am not organizing this tournament, nor am I a Blizzard employee. A few of us SEA casters have been asked to cast the tournament so I have asked to put this thread up as it would be great for e-sports in our region if people tuned in  I know it's late notice!
-Sephyre
Banners are by Fury who I asked to do it in 5 minutes - kind of like this tournament!
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holy jesus, i actually think 6 of the players on the bottom half of that bracket are better than everyone in the top half... rough random draw there =[.
Gl to everyone involved!
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Australia7069 Posts
nice one man! great OP. good to see you're casting
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Going to be some awesome games ! ^_^
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Unstable i hope ur stream isnt unstable as ur name suggests! and please cast the games on ultra!
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unstables stream is better than redtube, believe me.
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Australia5540 Posts
I think I did every LP entry with any mention of Australia on it :3
That banner is gross can you make it clearer to read? 
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Prettied up the post a little :p
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On September 09 2010 16:26 Nuri wrote:
Unstable i hope ur stream isnt unstable as ur name suggests! and please cast the games on ultra!
I assume you mean ingame settings? Then yes it will be on ultra and streaming at beetween 1300-1600kbps quality for yas
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Looks like this bad organized tourny got a little improvement at least.
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On September 10 2010 10:03 zor.au wrote:
Looks like this bad organized tourny got a little improvement at least.
Yea I cant refute that it has been a shamble from the very beginning. All the casters + admins they have asked to help are doing our best to get some kind of structure/hype going >.< but it is their tournament and prize $$ so all we can do is suggest (over and over) the best way to do it 
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Australia5540 Posts
On September 10 2010 10:09 Unstable87 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2010 10:03 zor.au wrote:
Looks like this bad organized tourny got a little improvement at least.
Yea I cant refute that it has been a shamble from the very beginning. All the casters + admins they have asked to help are doing our best to get some kind of structure/hype going >.< but it is their tournament and prize $$ so all we can do is suggest (over and over) the best way to do it
To be fair, SEA Blizzard only has one eSports staff member.
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wooo very psyched for this! Too bad it's at 6am my time >.<!
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On September 10 2010 11:07 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2010 10:09 Unstable87 wrote:On September 10 2010 10:03 zor.au wrote:
Looks like this bad organized tourny got a little improvement at least.
Yea I cant refute that it has been a shamble from the very beginning. All the casters + admins they have asked to help are doing our best to get some kind of structure/hype going >.< but it is their tournament and prize $$ so all we can do is suggest (over and over) the best way to do it To be fair, SEA Blizzard only has one eSports staff member.
And you have people working for you?
How many SEA esports events are they running?
I think you get my point :p
They've reached out by the looks for community help(just a bit late).
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On September 10 2010 11:48 Shinta) wrote:
wooo very psyched for this! Too bad it's at 6am my time >.<!
6am is a good time for some Starcraft :p
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Australia5540 Posts
On September 10 2010 12:08 zor.au wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2010 11:07 deL wrote:On September 10 2010 10:09 Unstable87 wrote:On September 10 2010 10:03 zor.au wrote:
Looks like this bad organized tourny got a little improvement at least.
Yea I cant refute that it has been a shamble from the very beginning. All the casters + admins they have asked to help are doing our best to get some kind of structure/hype going >.< but it is their tournament and prize $$ so all we can do is suggest (over and over) the best way to do it To be fair, SEA Blizzard only has one eSports staff member. And you have people working for you?
Well not so much staff as minions. ;D
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On September 10 2010 13:17 deL wrote:
Well not so much staff as minions. ;D
I always had you figured as an Overlord
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Wait wth, so you guys aren't going to broadcast the streams today? So I'm staying up for absolutely no reason? wtf is this. omg rage...
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On September 10 2010 16:01 Shinta) wrote:
Wait wth, so you guys aren't going to broadcast the streams today? So I'm staying up for absolutely no reason? wtf is this. omg rage...
Going to broadcast tomorrow (Saturday).
We'll be doing the first couple of rounds on Sat and then all the bracket finals and onwards on Sunday.
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