Wk2 - VT Gaming Open Series presented by Justin TV

Mirhi

United States389 Posts

January 04 2011 00:00 GMT

VT Gaming is pleased to announce another series of open tournaments for the community!

In partnership with Justin TV, we are hosting two events on the US server, each one week apart.

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SIGNUPS ARE NOW CLOSED!

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Update:

VT Gaming Open #2 will now have additional prizes as ZOWIE GEAR will be providing hardware prizes for all three prize positions.

"ZOWIE GEAR wants to support those who deserve it anyway they can, VT Gaming is a strong organisation who deserve the success they are seeing, for this reason ZOWIE is showing an interest in their work" - James Banks, RTS marketing at ZOWIE GEAR

We're very grateful in the interest ZOWIE GEAR has taken in our tournament and VTG's community!

Remember to go to VT's IRC to be backups!

Coverage:
Trump
Peanut & Moletrap
TorcH & Seltzer
Wolf
Cecil
Grats

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Tournament #1:
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Event 1 Day 1 Recap:
http://vtgaming.net/news/spades-others-to-vtg-open-1-final-4/

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Day 1 - January 10th 2011 8pm EST
Day 2 - January 11th 2011 9pm EST

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Seeded Players:
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Pokebunny (VT Gaming)
Bubbles (All 4 One)
ThisIsJimmy (Check 6 Gaming)
Antimage (compLexity Gaming)
Shuffle (Requiem Esports)
dde (Team Energy)
DarkCell (Requiem Esports)
Capoch
Looky (VT Gaming)
Agh (Lazarus Gaming)
CocoA (Team Energy)
Response (Lazarus Gaming)
bLuR (VT Gaming)
allaboutyou
Catz (Root Gaming)
Avilo
Spades (VT Gaming)
Kyhol
Optikzero (FX Open)
Hashe
NGry (vVv Gaming)
KawaiiRice (Fnatic)
Zeus (Requiem Esports)
Attero (Dreamvision)
Ranged (Lazarus Gaming)
Stalife (compLexity Gaming)
LZGamer (Team EG)
Murder (vVv Gaming)
Ryan (compLexity Gaming)
Ddoro (Root Gaming)
AlexCMoi (Dreamvision)
Sheth (FX Open)

Open Players:
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aldjzair
giX (VT Gaming)
retro
Ascension (All 4 One)
reveNge (VT Gaming)
nYqCrumpets
Telecom (EverZ)
Ranall
Spslogic
Theeman
Moomoomugi
Ulfsark
Wonkman
Tejin
Agtemd
Complex
Chadus
Gafftape
Parasite
HolyToilet
Future (VT Gaming)
Grapz
Ver
desRow (VT Gaming)
Deathcaesar
Changsta
Lagttnomi
CrunCher (All 4 One)
Swu (VT Gaming)
Apples
Narwhal
Serenity
Philo
Krazy
Celious
Kefka
Arlock (VT Gaming)
Rookie (Requiem Esports)
Candide
Patatefrite
xss
slayersjuxx
perfect
Philibird (Requiem Esports)
Grats (VT Gaming)
Moa
Johnmadden
Abebisi
Aquanda
Baronrojo
Mrhobbers
NExt (Chaos Factors)
Jmack
Inkfish
SunDevil (Root Gaming)
iccupAod
Looknohands
hakeen
Coramoor
Whiplash (VT Gaming)
handsome
HammeR
Time (vVv Gaming)
PsYlaR

Tournament #2:

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Day 1 - January 17th 2011 8pm EST
Day 2 - January 18th 2011 9pm EST

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Each tournament is a 96 player tournament.

From the signups, tournament organizers will select the best 32 for guaranteed entry into the tournament, the remaining 64 will be on a first come, first serve basis. The 32 selected players will have first round byes.

Day 1 (Monday) - 8pm EST:

Round 1 (96) - Best-of-one - 8:00pm EST - Starting Map - Xel'naga Caverns
Round 2 (64) - Best-of-one - 8:30pm EST - Starting Map - Metalopolis
Round 3 (32) - Best-of-one - 9:00pm EST - Starting Map - Shakuras Plateau
Round 4 (16) - Best-of-three - 9:30pm EST - Starting Map - Steppes of War
Round 5 (8) - Best-of-three - 10:30pm EST - Starting Map - Lost Temple

Day 2 (Tuesday) - 9pm EST:

Round 6 (4) - Best-of-five - 9pm EST - Starting Map - Metalopolis
Round 7 (2) - Best-of-five - 10:30pm EST - Starting Map - Xel'naga Caverns

Map Pool:
Blistering Sands
Xel’naga Caverns
Steppes of War
Jungle Basin
Lost Temple
Delta Quadrant
Metalopolis
Shakuras Plateau

When the best of three matches in the round of 16 start, each player will have one map veto that they must announce before the match starts.

Both before and after each semifinal, and after the third place and championship matches, players may be interviewed by VT Gaming's casting crew during the live broadcast.

The top 8 players from the first tournament will automatically receive the top 8 seeds in the second tournament.

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To sign up for each event, please respond to this thread with your name and identifier as well as which event you are signing up for.

Example:

VTMirhi.841
Event #1 & Event #2

There is NO check in for this event. In the case of no-shows, replacements will be chosen in the order that they respond.

For issues or support join #VTGaming @Gamesurge. Also for help with organization, please go to channel "VTG Open" on battle.net.

In order to be on reserve in the case of no-shows, you must be in the IRC channel with your name set to your Battle.net ID.

To report matches, message one of the tournament administrators in VT IRC channel and they will report it and update the bracket.

Tournament Administrators:

VT|Mirhi
VT|Genocide
VT|Skayde

Check back here and on VTGaming.net frequently for rule updates.

I'd also like to thank TeamLiquid for being the amazing community site that it is.

Good luck and have fun to all players! Have a great 2011 season!