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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
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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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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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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 $$ so all we can do is suggest (over and over) the best way to do it 
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On September 10 2010 10:09 Unstable87 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2010 10:03 zor.au wrote:
Looks like this bad organized tourny got a little improvement at least.
Yea I cant refute that it has been a shamble from the very beginning. All the casters + admins they have asked to help are doing our best to get some kind of structure/hype going >.< but it is their tournament and prize $$ 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 $$ so all we can do is suggest (over and over) the best way to do it To be fair, SEA Blizzard only has one eSports staff member.
And you have people working for you?
How many SEA esports events are they running?
I think you get my point :p
They've reached out by the looks for community help(just a bit late).
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On September 10 2010 11:48 Shinta) wrote:
wooo very psyched for this! Too bad it's at 6am my time >.<!
6am is a good time for some Starcraft :p
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On September 10 2010 12:08 zor.au wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2010 11:07 deL wrote:On September 10 2010 10:09 Unstable87 wrote:On September 10 2010 10:03 zor.au wrote:
Looks like this bad organized tourny got a little improvement at least.
Yea I cant refute that it has been a shamble from the very beginning. All the casters + admins they have asked to help are doing our best to get some kind of structure/hype going >.< but it is their tournament and prize $$ 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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omg can someone put up a cheap stream for today's games? Will be really cheap if games don't go up now as I sacrifice sleep and instead are put up when I have to be working... >.<
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Shinta, They are not permitting us to stream live (because they are noobs). And as a result, we would not have any games to cast untill 11pm or so AEST (horrible time to START a cast).
The decision was made to cast the Friday games on Saturday ^_^ sorry dude.
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On September 10 2010 17:05 Tenz wrote:
Shinta, They are not permitting us to stream live (because they are noobs). And as a result, we would not have any games to cast untill 11pm or so AEST (horrible time to START a cast).
The decision was made to cast the Friday games on Saturday ^_^ sorry dude.
I figured they wouldn't be live but fudge... Guess I'll /wrists and cry myself to sleep then T_T
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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.
only one? geez, where do i apply?
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I don't think i've ever been so angry following a tournament ever.
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is there results anywhere?
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jesus christ an amazing amount of upsets!
not going to post the results until the blizz referees do, they gonna post the brackets and stuff on tl.
but for those generally wondering abit
+ Show Spoiler +singapore is owning it up
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all of my predictions for round 1 were correct except for renson/fpx
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On September 10 2010 22:36 stroggos wrote:
all of my predictions for round 1 were correct except for renson/fpx
Renson is so bad though !
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got my alarm set. looking for to it.
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On September 10 2010 17:05 Tenz wrote:
Shinta, They are not permitting us to stream live (because they are noobs). And as a result, we would not have any games to cast untill 11pm or so AEST (horrible time to START a cast).
The decision was made to cast the Friday games on Saturday ^_^ sorry dude.
By not allowing casting it means there will be less chance of lag issues, which is arguably in the best interests of the players and the integrity of the competition. How do you allow for cheating with a live stream? What if some clown decides to message critical information to the players while the game is playing?
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T minus 1 hour 10 minutes
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Is there an updated bracket anywhere? Or results at all?
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Updated Bracket/Results are here, follow the link at your own spoiled risk.
+ Show Spoiler +http://www.facebook.com/note.php?¬e_id=153282294691263
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what a waste of money the players are terrible.
User was temp banned for this post.
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The replay is played at 2x speed? D:
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On September 11 2010 15:16 illumination wrote:
what a waste of money the players are terrible.
User was temp banned for this post.
Nah. Its great, even if the players were not that good its about the merchandise.
The level of the first game wasnt indeed very high but still very watchable.
Altho i think the streamers are a bit weird suggesting to get Broodlords vs Terran who could instantly build Vikings is just stupid. Broodlords are pretty much never good vs solid T players.
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Glade switching to terran is O.o
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Awesome day
Thanks for everyone who tuned in! Finals tomorrow!
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Really nice casting guys! Saw some good feedback about the casting - less about the play though
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Brackets are up, should be up to where we are
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I only saw one game I have been looking forward to this tourney and watching the local players to see how they match up to international talent but am pretty much out all weekend so that will have to be the only game I see. I'm glad that big prize tournaments are happening in/around Aus/region!
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On September 11 2010 21:58 grnat wrote:I only saw one game I have been looking forward to this tourney and watching the local players to see how they match up to international talent but am pretty much out all weekend so that will have to be the only game I see. I'm glad that big prize tournaments are happening in/around Aus/region!
Its ok we will be making VOD's
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so is the the winner of both games today considered #1 and #2 in the tourney (and hence invited to blizzcon)?
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Not quite, the loser of the upper bracket (Oxygen vs Ice) will play the winner of the lower bracket game (Redarchon vs Glade). and then the winner of that match will go on to play the winner bracket finalist for first place, who I think will have to lose two best of 3's to be knocked out.
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ZvZ Final would be hilarious.
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+ Show Spoiler +My heart broke when deth (I think it was him casting on the Tenz stream) said "and GLaDe gg's... GLaDe gg's... ... ... I think I need a moment here" I really wanted GLaDe to make it to BlizzCon since he is my favorite SEA player but props to RedArchon, his pushes in that last game were just so scary.
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i think he went all in because he couldn't stand the attrition from red archon anymore.
plus, he has no more minerals while red archon sitting on the high yields.
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Good casting guys on Unstable87's stream, nice to see some aussies who know what they're talking about. The occasional lag is understandable with how awful our net is -_-
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rofl @ blizz's attempt to race balance by only inviting 3 terrans to the top 16 and failing as 2 made the top 3 and the one that didn't only lost a tvt
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It wasn't an attempt at race balance, it was simply inviting the best performing players. Anyone could see that.
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there's currently 8 in the top 16 in pts, it'd be pretty strange to only have 3 in the "best performing" 16
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On September 12 2010 18:31 Scarecrow wrote:
rofl @ blizz's attempt to race balance by only inviting 3 terrans to the top 16 and failing as 2 made the top 3 and the one that didn't only lost a tvt
Yeah you couldn't be more wrong, nice whine though.
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Luoson vs. TenderSteak was started as a 2v2 on Lost Temple. This restricts the starting positions to top+left vs. bottom+right. None of the players seem to notice this as both scouted the only position the opponent couldn't spawn first.
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Because points are also decided by who has time to play more games? Everyone knows there's a hidden rating and is the basis behind the Top 200. Being a Zerg player I'm not a fan of how strong the Terran army is either but you're just being uneducated with your statements. Take your whines elsewhere and present it in a more constructive manner please, we don't need more people like you.
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Grand Final Result
+ Show Spoiler +RedArchon 4-0 ice
Congratulation to RedArchon. Go go Thailand!!!
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On September 12 2010 20:52 nakam wrote:
Luoson vs. TenderSteak was started as a 2v2 on Lost Temple. This restricts the starting positions to top+left vs. bottom+right. None of the players seem to notice this as both scouted the only position the opponent couldn't spawn first.
lol, good observation
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I don't have time to watch all the vods so I'd be really grateful if someone could recommend some of the most entertaining/quality games.
Thanks!
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What's taking Blizzard so long in releasing the replays =[
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Considering that this is an official tournament with a big prize pool, it seems rather poorly run and not very hyped at all.
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On September 16 2010 19:29 Nilaus wrote:
Considering that this is an official tournament with a big prize pool, it seems rather poorly run and not very hyped at all.
Of course.. It was a very big tournament but it was put together in a very short period of time and was done so with a very limited amount of staff. Even though I also complained a lot, you shouldn't have expected it to be any different. We can just be happy Blizzard hosted this for us.
On September 16 2010 19:52 Garnet wrote:
ice = that dota player?
yes, ice = iceiceice
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EPT
