EPTIts also annoying its so soon, I just threw away a few grand on buying a new PC, so no flights to syd from brissie, might have to drive down :| online qualifier would have been nice lol
EDIT: typo
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FloatPoint
Australia33 Posts
Its also annoying its so soon, I just threw away a few grand on buying a new PC, so no flights to syd from brissie, might have to drive down :| online qualifier would have been nice lol EDIT: typo | ||
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Benjilol
Australia244 Posts
On March 09 2011 19:18 Rampager wrote: ...4v4? $7000? REALLY? Huh... It's weird because I just imagine 4 players deciding to all go Zerg and 6pool and win themselves a tidy sum. That would be pretty hilarious  Dont worry, a few of our better players are planning on entering the 4v4 to prevent such a situation  | ||
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deL
Australia5540 Posts
Also I will be talking with the game scheduler, map and group organisers to give my input there as well to make it more fitting of a competitive SC2 event. In the meantime just spread the word guys and try and get as big a participation as possible! If it works out well for everyone involved there will be more in the future! In addition, see what nGenBenji has gained about the event! The main way to distinguish whether you are entering 1v1 or 4v4 competition is by simply entering a team name or not. So if a competitor does not enter a team name in the registration form, they will be allotted to the 1v1 tourney. We have 4 main sponsors of the event. Corsair, Logitech, Razer and AMD! All have provided us with certain contributions, and due to Altech’s existing relationship with them, we will be working together to simply put on a successful event. We will be filming the event, so will PC Powerplay and APC. Representatives from other IT publications, such as Atomic will also be present to film. I have spoken to certain members of Team Liquid.net and we are in the process of working something out in that regards. APC and Atomic have already posted articles online. As far as the prize pool goes, the current plan is: 1st -3rd place in both the 1v1 and 4v4 will be receiving cash prizes. 4th-10th in the 1v1 will be receiving hardware prizes sponsored by Logitech, Razer, AMD and NRG. 4th-6th in the 4v4 will be receiving hardware prizes sponsored by Corsair and Razer. Just on a side note, Razer will be supplying a lot of the gaming peripherals on the day. They have offered to supply InTime Cyber Café with their latest range of mice, keyboards, etc. | ||
bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
Whoa and some big name sponsors ! This deserves more hype!! | ||
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FloatPoint
Australia33 Posts
On another note, I will be the happiest man on the planet when a starcraft tournament is announced on the TV | ||
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KMARTRULES
Australia474 Posts
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BEARDiaguz
Australia2362 Posts
Hate it when organisers don't follow SC2! | ||
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Australia1901 Posts
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Quanticfograw
United States2053 Posts
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Kar98
Australia924 Posts
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CreepCrepe
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Can't take this seriously. | ||
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KMARTRULES
Australia474 Posts
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Shuffleus
Australia764 Posts
On March 09 2011 17:59 vol_ wrote: Seems you can't bring your own keyboard  + Show Spoiler + General Rules 6. Every player has to use the equipment provided except headsets and mouses. No way can this be allowed to go through... Has anyone talked to admins about this? This is paramount to telling track runners that they have to run barefoot when they've trained their entire lives in spikes. I use a Specific mechanical Keyboard and I am completely adjusted to both the feel and distance of keys (specifically f-keys). If you take that away from a player (or at least certainly in my case) their relative skill level will drop significantly. I'm completely blown away as to why they would put a rule like this in place. I understand that the sponsors need to promote their equipment but why keyboards when you let player specific headsets? A decision like that makes no sense and respectively only ends up leveling the playing field. | ||
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-Shade-
Australia11 Posts
1. On the website (for the actual "Gaming Cafe" running it), when describing the prizes they spell Razer as "Razor". What LAN Cafe on earth would make such a colossal blunder? 2. In pictures of their previous SC2 events, every single person is Korean and if you zoom in on some of the pics, the posters on the wall are also written in Korean script. Kind of dodgy for a downtown Sydney LAN cafe. 3. For such a big prize pool this event should have major coverage, and yet all I can find are a few threads scattered around the web, all started by ordinary posters. My guess is that someone is trolling for contact info, boys. But hey I could be wrong. If anyone else has any more information on it I'd like to hear it, cause if it is real I'm so in. | ||
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vol_
Australia1608 Posts
On March 13 2011 14:49 MooiSh wrote: No way can this be allowed to go through... Has anyone talked to admins about this? This is paramount to telling track runners that they have to run barefoot when they've trained their entire lives in spikes. I use a Specific mechanical Keyboard and I am completely adjusted to both the feel and distance of keys (specifically f-keys). If you take that away from a player (or at least certainly in my case) their relative skill level will drop significantly. I'm completely blown away as to why they would put a rule like this in place. I understand that the sponsors need to promote their equipment but why keyboards when you let player specific headsets? A decision like that makes no sense and respectively only ends up leveling the playing field. Just on a side note, Razer will be supplying a lot of the gaming peripherals on the day. They have offered to supply InTime Cyber Café with their latest range of mice, keyboards, etc. If this doesn't get changed hopefully it will be razer blackwidows all around, at least they are mechanical. | ||
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PiGStarcraft
Australia1004 Posts
The poor organisation and complete reticence from the organisers is very demoralising. Community sites including SC2sea.com. TEAM LIQUID and SCREDDIT have only had mention via links from users. The original APC article covering the event was removed, then put back up 1 week later. At first i assumed the tournament was someone trolling. However It seems to actually be going ahead and I guess the article withdrawal was simply due to the realisation that No-one in the sc2 community had even heard of this event. I am thoroughly disappointed that sponsors like Razer and NRG who are normally so in touch with the community would back a LAN event that appears to be removing balance and competitive play from the equasion. 4v4 REALLY?? This is ludicrous. Some people might say 4v4 seems more fun, cos more stuff is happening! But even people that don't play the game watch husky or GSL and realise that head-to-head is the most exciting spectator sport. Oh and don't even get me started on not being able to use my keyboard... If they are like most LAN keyboards with the ESC key where I'm used to F1 being then I'm sure my opponents will have fun watching me cancel my hatcheries and key tech structures. Thanks alot guys | ||
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KMARTRULES
Australia474 Posts
On March 13 2011 21:25 -Shade- wrote: Yeah, I'm still really sketchy for several reasons: 1. On the website (for the actual "Gaming Cafe" running it), when describing the prizes they spell Razer as "Razor". What LAN Cafe on earth would make such a colossal blunder? 2. In pictures of their previous SC2 events, every single person is Korean and if you zoom in on some of the pics, the posters on the wall are also written in Korean script. Kind of dodgy for a downtown Sydney LAN cafe. 3. For such a big prize pool this event should have major coverage, and yet all I can find are a few threads scattered around the web, all started by ordinary posters. My guess is that someone is trolling for contact info, boys. But hey I could be wrong. If anyone else has any more information on it I'd like to hear it, cause if it is real I'm so in. The pictures of the Cafe are legit. You can see their logo everywhere. Also the asians might have something to do with the cafe being in the CBD and so close to china town? just maybe? Edit: There are pictures of the "koreans" holding Australian currency. | ||
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-Shade-
Australia11 Posts
On March 14 2011 21:29 KMARTRULES wrote: The pictures of the Cafe are legit. You can see their logo everywhere. Also the asians might have something to do with the cafe being in the CBD and so close to china town? just maybe? Edit: There are pictures of the "koreans" holding Australian currency. Ah true I didn't really notice that before my bad. Somethings just looked a little odd to me so I was naturally a bit cautious about signing over my contact information. There's other stuff surfacing around the web like at APC mag and sc2sea so it was probably just the sheer speed that it was announced that kind of threw me off. Might just give this a go  | ||
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SmoKim
Denmark10305 Posts
On March 09 2011 19:18 Rampager wrote: ...4v4? $7000? REALLY? Huh... It's weird because I just imagine 4 players deciding to all go Zerg and 6pool and win themselves a tidy sum. That would be pretty hilarious wanna make a team ^^? god that would be hillarious. "trolololololol" | ||
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vol_
Australia1608 Posts
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