EPTSCOceania.com is proud to announce an ongoing fortnightly tournament for the SEA server. With rankings being tallied from the results of the tournament and a $50(AUD) prize for the winner, a lot of pride is at stake!
Anyone who is a resident of an SEA server nation is eligible to Join this Tournament!
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When and Where?
The 1st Southern Cross Series is 6pm Thursday the 23rd of September. With the final being played at 6pm on Friday the 24th.
Cash Prizes
A $50 cash prize is on offer for the winner of the tournament every fortnight. Proudly sponsored by SCOceania.com staffs backpockets haha.
Other Prizes
Placing higher in the SCOceania.com Southern Cross Series tournaments will yield non-cash benefits such as ranking points that count towards the Oceania rankings calculated on the website.
Tournament Format
The Southern Cross Series Tournaments follow a single elimination format. Matches played up until the semi-finals on Thursday are best-of-one (BO1), the semi-finals are best-of-three (BO3), and the finals on Friday a best-of-five (BO5). The format is not finalised yet, and the number of participants may differ each week. (This week however, we've set a tentative sign-up limit to 64 players - so sign up ASAP!)
Map Pool
The maps will be predetermined, and in BOX series the loser of the previous game will always pick the map (from the map pool) for the subsequent game.
- 1st Round: Metalopolis
- 2nd Round: Xel'Naga Caverns
- 3rd Round: Scrap Station
- 4th Round: Lost Temple
- 5th Round: Delta Quadrant
- 6th Round: Steppes of War
The following maps are available for players to pick upon loss(maps cannot be repeated if just played in the previous game):
- Lost Temple
- Metalopolis
- Xel'Naga Caverns
- Scrap Station
- Lost Temple
- Delta Quadrant
- Steppes of War
- Kulas Ravine
- Blistering Sands
How Do I Sign Up?
By Clicking the sign-up button on the site! It's that easy. Direct link to sign-up: http://scoceania.com/tournament/southern-cross-series-1. If you can't see a sign-up link you need to fill out the quick registration form - we'll never need to ask for your B.Net details for the tourneys again!
Competing
After the signup phase is complete, the brackets will be announced. This usually happens at 12pm on the first day of play, but may differ week to week. Players will need to make contact with their opponent, and set up a game as soon as possible. Once the game is complete, the winning player submits the replay to the tournament admin - email will be provided soon. Players must contact the designated tournament admin if any disputes arise.
Spectating, Live Casts and Replays
Spectators may be invited to join a match only if both players agree to it. Quarter-Final matches onwards, or any round thereafter, may be cast live via a live stream for all to watch.
Unstable will be covering the Grand Final on Friday, view his stream at - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/unstable-tv1
If anyone else would like to stream some games from Thursday, please PM me always happy to help out some Oceanic/SEA casters
Replays
A comprehensive replay pack of all quarter final matches onwards will be released.
For all of the rules and a comprehensive (live) list of players who have signed up go to SCOceania.com - direct link to tournament: Click here
Looking to Help the SEA Community?
SCOceania.com is always on the lookout for enthusiastic community members to join the site for writing articles, news, hosting tournaments, casting, commentating and just generally improving the Oceanic SC Community. If you would like to join our team then please PM me here
Oh and tell me what you think of the layout of the tournament page - It's a new automated tournament system so would be good to hear feedback on it!
If popular opinion would prefer a later start I can change it, however I just worry we could end up running a bit late especially if we go past 64 players ever..
