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A high class StarCraft 2 tournament will be held at Assembly Summer LAN in Helsinki, Finland at 4th-7th of August. Assembly Summer is the big brother of Assembly Winter, which some of you might remember because of its star packed StarCraft 2 tournament line up.
The tournament is non-BYOC. The prize pool is not yet confirmed, but it's guaranteed to be bigger than in Assembly Winter, which had a 5000 € (~7130 $) prize pool.
The casting is performed by TotalBiscuit and Apollo.
Attending players at this stage include
- Liquid`ret
- Liquid`TLO
- Liquid`Haypro
- VirusNaama
- VirusElfi
- VirusSatiini
- eXelon-Welmu
More info about the event coming soon!
More info about Assembly Summer can be found on http://www.assembly.org/summer11
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Was last Assembly also in Hartwall arena? It could make for a sick setting for a final if set up right.
Looking forward to this.
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Assembly Winter was in Kaapelitehdas (Old Cable Factory). Assembly Summer has been held at Hartwall Arena for a few years now. There are a few pics of the place at the Assembly site.
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nice. will be awesome with apollo and TB
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Ret fighting! Glad to see the Liquid members participating!
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gogo Welmu <3
last Assembly was amazing  and this one should be too
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TotalBiscuit is awsome! + Hopefully we will see a ZvZ final!
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On May 20 2011 19:12 archonOOid wrote:
TotalBiscuit is awsome! + Hopefully we will see a ZvZ final!
ZvZ finals would be horrible. The most exciting matchups are PvT, PvZ, TvZ and TvT at the moment, most others are horrible to watch (and in case of ZvZ also horrible to play).
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Assembly Summer will be held at Hartwall Arena, Helsinki. You can get to Hartwall easily with local trains (4 minutes from center of Helsinki) or by trams (around 15 mins from center). Hartwall Arena is actually hockey stadium with around 11 000 spectator seats.
Summer Assemby started originally as demo competitions which still play huge role in this event. When Winter Assembly is dedicated only for eSports. There will be 5 000 computer places old every year for Summer Assembly and margin for 3 000 - 4 000 spectators on top of that. When at the Winter Assembly there was only 1 000 computer places for LAN-festival and only around 100 seats for spectators.
But I can promise that weather will be really much warmer than at the Winter Assembly where there was - 30 C (-22 F). On Summer it will be around +25 to +30 C (77-86 F).
Welcome to Finland!
Last years Photo Gallery will you glimpse of what to expect.
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On May 20 2011 20:36 Morfildur wrote:Show nested quote +On May 20 2011 19:12 archonOOid wrote:
TotalBiscuit is awsome! + Hopefully we will see a ZvZ final! ZvZ finals would be horrible. The most exciting matchups are PvT, PvZ, TvZ and TvT at the moment, most others are horrible to watch (and in case of ZvZ also horrible to play).
ZvZ can be entertaining and not onesided or short. As a zerg player I find zvz thrilling but my main point was that zvz finals are very rare
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Can't wait! Apoll and Totalbiscuit make a really great pair so I'm glad you've got them commentating together :D
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Should be epic.
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Why Ausgust feel like it's so far away?
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Guess I need to watch this in silence, why must people have total biscuit as a caster. He is terrible!
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On May 20 2011 21:52 Vanyd wrote:
Guess I need to watch this in silence, why must people have total biscuit as a caster. He is terrible!
Because your personal preferences don't dictate tournament staffing decisions I would imagine.
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so many awesome european Lan events
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On May 20 2011 21:52 Vanyd wrote:
Guess I need to watch this in silence, why must people have total biscuit as a caster. He is terrible!
Not sure how you come to this conclusion, he is an excellent caster and creates a great pace and hype around every matches he commentates on. Wish we had more like him, Apollo will bring the analytical side to the proceedings if thats what you crave.
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Awesome. It was great tournament in the winter, and I don't see why it would be any worse since summerASM is the big thing, winterASM is just smaller event. Prizepool ofc deserves a boost if it becomes as skill intensive event as it did then.
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On May 20 2011 20:36 Morfildur wrote:Show nested quote +On May 20 2011 19:12 archonOOid wrote:
TotalBiscuit is awsome! + Hopefully we will see a ZvZ final! ZvZ finals would be horrible. The most exciting matchups are PvT, PvZ, TvZ and TvT at the moment, most others are horrible to watch (and in case of ZvZ also horrible to play).
You do realize that it's a matter of opinion? I love watching ZvZ and think TvT can be extremely boring. I just hope to see the Teamliquid guys do good. Sad that Tyler won't be attending this years.
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If the tournament is going to be half as successful as the Winter edition, I'll be very happy with this event! See you in Finland...
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EPT
