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IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE!
Because of Dreamhack 2011, we will be push back the date of the cup to June 25th, 2011. We hope this does not inconvenience anyone. Sorry for this.
By popular demand and the success of our Europe partner ESL EU Female Gaming, National ESL is proud to bring you the very first edition of the Iron Lady cup series: Iron Lady Cup 1
This event is a specialized event restricted to female gamers only. Its purpose is shine light on a part of the scene that does not receive very much attention. We have other non-restrictive events including our Go4SC2 Cup Series in which anyone can compete for $400 in monthly prizes. We also offer Open ladders for users to enjoy.
With that said lets get to the event!
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Find us at IronLadySc2.com or find us on Twitter @IronLadyESL!
Date of the Cup:
Cup 1 is set for June 25th and will begin at 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Location:
The cup takes place online on the Battle.net US server. Anyone can play that has an account on that server.
How to Sign up:
Information:
+ Show Spoiler +You will register an account at National ESL; enter your game account, and proceed to click sign up on the cup. After that you will be contacted by email, and you will be provided with the option to join a Ventrilo server or communicate on Skype. During the verification process you may be asked several Starcraft 2 related questions in attempt to prove your understanding of the game as a real female player. Any suspicion of faking will prevent you from being accepted into the cup. Please, no trolls!
Proceed to Sign Up Here: http://www.nationalesl.com/us/sc2/ironlady/news/161193/
See current accepted members: http://www.nationalesl.com/us/sc2/ironlady/cup1/database/members/*/
Brackets: http://www.nationalesl.com/us/sc2/ironlady/cup1/rankings/
Format:
The tournament will be double elimination. The cup starts with Best of 1 matches until the Semi Finals, then matches become Best 2 out 3.
How maps are selected:
+ Show Spoiler +Best of 1: Each player eliminates 4 maps from the map pool they they do not want to play on. The player with the higher seed goes first and then player 2 goes next, alternating until you each have picked 4 maps. The last map remaining will be the map you play on.
Best of 3 - Semi Finals and Finals: Each player eliminates 3 maps from the map pool. Player with the highest seed starts first. Of the 3 maps remaining, player with higher seed picks Map 1 for the series, then player 2 picks Map 2 for the series. The map remaining will be the 3rd Ace Map of the series.
Map Pool
GSL Terminus SE - Aurthor MildCocoA
MLG Metalopolis
MLG Shattered Temple
MLG Shakuras Plateau
Xel Naga Caverns
Tal'darim Altar LE
Backwater Gulch
Scrap Station
Typhon Peaks
Prizes:
1st place: $ 100
2nd place: $ 50
3rd place: $ 25
All monies will be paid through paypal, so make sure you have a valid paypal account.
Streams/Coverage:
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Facebook Communities:
Girls of Starcraft
ESL SC2 Female Gaming
Questions or Concerns:
For any questions, suggestions or concerns, you have a multitude of ways to get in contact with us at NationalESL. You can send me a pm here, or post a support ticket Here or post on our forums here
About the Admins:
+ Show Spoiler +My name is Daniel Brooks, known as D4nny at NationalESL, and better known as pHaRSiDe.358 on battle.net. I head all SC2 operations at NESL. I am joined by Andrea 'Yui' also known as Yui.183 on Battle.net who is a Master League Admin of the event so show her some love! Not a female player but looking to help out? Join our staff by sending an application here
Links:
IronLadySc2.com
@IronLadyESL
Go4SC2 Cup Series
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Great initiative! Good luck.
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Any questions, let me know 
Yui
ESL SC2 Female Admin.
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Get Anna (Inc's GF) and That other woman (Lea? from SOTG sorry) to either be headlining players or commentators!
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Can we please, please, please avoid ruining this thread with the usual arguments about why white males cannot participate in female only tournaments and why they're the ones who are excluded from things for once.
That said ladies fighting!
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so far nothing but support from people, good to see!
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Thanks guys for not trolling this! ^_~
I am looking forward to this event  I am gathering some GOOOOD players :D
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that is very nice, let's bring more female players to play sc. what would make this game less nerdy if not women?? Good luck!
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These kind of events are great to see, GLHF girls
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Cool, hope it brings more women to the sport.
Now we just need a tournament just for male gamers only :D
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every tournament almost male gamers only already xD
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pHaRSiDE United States. June 05 2011 01:04. Posts 3
Are you a wizard? o.O
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I will just have to try to participate finally =)
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im sure this gonna be fun
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pretty sure megumixbear will win this for sure...
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Make sure you girls join us on Facebook Group page.. and Girls if u already did before double check cause the link has changed ;] and join this one~!~ gogogogo
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I wish I could play!  I'll 1v1 Navi!!!!! :D
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Google image Iron Lady :p
That's what I thought of when I saw this.
Tournament looks fantastic GLHF girls
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On June 08 2011 04:44 mGMUSE wrote:
pretty sure megumixbear will win this for sure...
Kelly milkies and megumi are the only females who play regularly that I know of. There's your 1st and 2nd place.
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On June 08 2011 05:48 starcraft911 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 04:44 mGMUSE wrote:
pretty sure megumixbear will win this for sure... Kelly milkies and megumi are the only females who play regularly that I know of. There's your 1st and 2nd place.
Flo is a master league player who plays 4-5 hours a day (and she said that will increase during summer) and has won the last such tournament, therefore I guess she wins.
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My vote is for navi! She is an awesome player!! don't forget!
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Hopefully Flo or Navi can get Grandmasters before Artosis does :3
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I'm sure they've all be training really hard. Looking forward to this. Are their any GM female players?
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kelly will tear it up if she enters, she's got the world's sexiest coach
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On June 08 2011 04:44 mGMUSE wrote:
pretty sure megumixbear will win this for sure...
Megumi will not compete because she does not believe in female cups for her own personal reasons. But none the less we have a great line up of female gamers that will definitely showcase some really good sc2 talent. As others have mentioned, Navi, flo, kellymilkies, and ASUS.Dzejna.
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Navi should do well, she's a fantastic player - love watching her stream.
If I can I'd like to cover/commentate some of the matches - I'm just concerned about the timezone diff. I'll have a look and see what I can do.
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I want to see a match between flo and Navi :D !!!
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On June 08 2011 16:25 pHaRSiDE wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 04:44 mGMUSE wrote:
pretty sure megumixbear will win this for sure... Megumi will not compete because she does not believe in female cups for her own personal reasons. But none the less we have a great line up of female gamers that will definitely showcase some really good sc2 talent. As others have mentioned, Navi, flo, kellymilkies, and ASUS.Dzejna.
I always thought Megumi was cool...
Now I've got even more respect for her, that's pretty awesome.
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Just wondering, do the logos etc always have to be pink?!
Seriously what's wrong with yellow?
Too bad Megumi won't play but very understandable.
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On June 08 2011 16:25 pHaRSiDE wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 04:44 mGMUSE wrote:
pretty sure megumixbear will win this for sure... Megumi will not compete because she does not believe in female cups for her own personal reasons. But none the less we have a great line up of female gamers that will definitely showcase some really good sc2 talent. As others have mentioned, Navi, flo, kellymilkies, and ASUS.Dzejna.
Cuz all she does is play 2s all day and can't handle real competition. 
PROVE ME WRONG, MEGUMI!
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How awesome, every step for female gaming is also a step for e-sport in general so what is there not to love?
Too bad for me its on Swedish midsummer ;(
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No worries, there will be many events to come!
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I hope CheekyDuck will participate
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Welcome our Chinese streamer to the event EZ-Pikachu !
Hope the Chinese community will enjoy!
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Welcome EZ-Pikachu ! !!
Looking forward to see your cast
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Goodluck to everyone 
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Iron Lady welcomes our American stream to the event : Imba.Tv
Gogogo ladies!
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Luway's going to crush this. Go luway!
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beeduck shall win using nr15 trickery
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CadenZa gonna smash every1 =P
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i refuse to believe kellymilkis is master in solo. is that legit or did moonglade level her acct?
User was warned for this post
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I'd like to watch but homestory's running as well atm
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On June 26 2011 02:49 rave[wcr] wrote:
i refuse to believe kellymilkis is master in solo. is that legit or did moonglade level her acct?
Why are you asking if you're too stubbornly ignorant to believe the answer? She's had an account in masters for months.
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On June 26 2011 02:49 rave[wcr] wrote:
i refuse to believe kellymilkis is master in solo. is that legit or did moonglade level her acct?
Can't stand the fact that she might be better than you?:D Anyway, Aurora seems strong and might take this tour.
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pfft gold to masters within less than 4 months? gimme a break. even megumixbear has suspicions its not her playing the acct
User was temp banned for this post.
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On June 26 2011 03:58 rave[wcr] wrote:
pfft gold to masters within less than 4 months? gimme a break. even megumixbear has suspicions its not her playing the acct
btw rave i was diamond all along before i got to masters. jezus christ. jelly much?
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On June 26 2011 03:58 rave[wcr] wrote:
pfft gold to masters within less than 4 months? gimme a break. even megumixbear has suspicions its not her playing the acct
What the hell are you talking about? megumixbear streams her ladder games with webcam...
Going from gold to masters in 4 months isn't even hard either lmao, especially if you are constantly around people who are easily gm level that coach you half the time you play. Stop posting
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On June 26 2011 02:49 rave[wcr] wrote:
i refuse to believe kellymilkis is master in solo. is that legit or did moonglade level her acct?
I can't speak for the difficulty of the SEA server, but my gf is over 1500 in masters on NA at 78-50 after playing 0 games in season 1. Below is a replay of her playing a 1000+ masters zerg who loses his scouting overlord to marines then suicides 6 mutas into turrets killing nothing.
I think Masters in SC2 is like C players in BW iccup in that they are capable of REALLY solid play, but they are still inconsistent and prone to make big mistakes like this replay shows.
http://www.mediafire.com/?rs93msmzb82w1ad
http://sc2ranks.com/us/2136523/Torpid
I think she's masters and I think she's good, but I also think maybe she's a little inconsistent like many masters player and when they make a mistake people like to act like it's a huge deal when it's not.
On June 26 2011 03:58 rave[wcr] wrote:
pfft gold to masters within less than 4 months? gimme a break. even megumixbear has suspicions its not her playing the acct
It's possible. Here's platinum to 1500+ masters in under 3 weeks without playing any custom 1v1 games to practice. Straight up ladder. http://sc2ranks.com/team/12320644#alltime
The flat point between the 12th and the 19th is because we went on vacation and no chance to play so it could have been done in about weeks of power gaming
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wait......... how are you going to tell if they are female?
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On June 26 2011 04:37 Xenocryst wrote:
wait......... how are you going to tell if they are female?
we do special body checks. Im the body checker ^_^V
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On June 26 2011 04:40 kellymilkies wrote:Show nested quote +On June 26 2011 04:37 Xenocryst wrote:
wait......... how are you going to tell if they are female? we do special body checks. Im the body checker ^_^V
Are you taking applications?
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On June 26 2011 04:40 kellymilkies wrote:Show nested quote +On June 26 2011 04:37 Xenocryst wrote:
wait......... how are you going to tell if they are female? we do special body checks. Im the body checker ^_^V
Should be streamed imo
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kellys legs should have a stream dedicated to them
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This McDuffs guy is a total riot lmao.
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GGs! Awesome job casting, Suna. <3
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I watched the final game of that cup. And I am wondering what leagues they are playing? (e.g. Aurora)
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On June 26 2011 09:02 lovedoctor wrote:
I watched the final game of that cup. And I am wondering what leagues they are playing? (e.g. Aurora)
1700 master, if I read sc2ranks.com correctly. Someone confirm?
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On June 26 2011 09:03 FreshVegetables wrote:Show nested quote +On June 26 2011 09:02 lovedoctor wrote:
I watched the final game of that cup. And I am wondering what leagues they are playing? (e.g. Aurora) 1700 master, if I read sc2ranks.com correctly. Someone confirm?
That's what I saw too, but cannot believe it tbh..
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Big congrats to all the top placers at Iron Lady!
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Good stuff from Aurora and Sylvanas. Congrats on the placing.
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to all to you doubters, I personally met aurora at MLG Dallas where she won a few of her matches, she was masters back then and playing Zerg. She's a particularly shy individual and I assumed she didn't want attention at MLG.
You can check the MLG open brackets and look for aurora, she did play there and did reasonably well considering the stacked event.
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On June 26 2011 09:48 trancey wrote:Show nested quote +On June 26 2011 09:44 trancey wrote:
to all to you doubters, I personally met aurora at MLG Dallas where she won a few of her matches, she was masters back then and playing Zerg. She's a particularly shy individual and I assumed she didn't want attention at MLG. But she's a really good player and those of us who witnesses her play noticed she had really solid mechanics.
You can check the MLG open brackets and look for aurora, she did play there and did reasonably well considering the stacked event.
why did you post and then 4minutes later you quoted your own post without adding anything when no one said anything in between? T_T
back to topic, will the replays of the final be available anywhere? i had to go and missed them T_T
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Watch the final game. Really special tactics ;-)
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Aurora win ? but i still doubt ....
http://www.justin.tv/aurorasc/b/288169952
this stream, aurora play zerg master 1v1 like but it s dude here ...
maybe i'am wrong, but when there are very strong levels, a webcam check it s necessary like migumibearx http://www.justin.tv/megumixbear
cheating is easy, just ask his girlfriend to talk
So why not request a photo, with a sign "ironlady 2" (few people will take the risk to be recognized if it does not play sc2) and if the level is master, diamond and when in doubt, only admins can check from the webcam ?
may be I'm wrong! IMO
good luck to organize tournaments, it's a good Iniative
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These threads always have the same progression: 1) why don't the women just play in the same leagues as men? various social stupidities are then barfed out until the admins start banning. 2) great games are played, people are impressed. 3) people question if the winner could even be a woman, as her play was sooooo good. Repeat for next event.
Yet people continue to wonder why there aren't more female gamers.
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Full replay pack now available on Ironladysc2.com home page. Just look at Hall of Fame table!
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On June 27 2011 00:05 Pugget wrote:
These threads always have the same progression: 1) why don't the women just play in the same leagues as men? various social stupidities are then barfed out until the admins start banning. 2) great games are played, people are impressed. 3) people question if the winner could even be a woman, as her play was sooooo good. Repeat for next event.
Yet people continue to wonder why there aren't more female gamers.
4) People wonder how they get to master league and then they come to conclusion that US server must be nooby as hell
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