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Swiss Golden Panda Open
Congratulations to the winners of the Golden Panda Open!
1st - EViLPrO
2nd - BananaHands
3rd - Jukijuice
Thank you to all those that came and participated! It was a great event and we will definitely do it again! Huge thanks to The GamerzFunk! All those who participated were given free time at The GamerzFunk to play some more. Thanks again to everyone. It was fantastic!
What
The Swiss Golden Panda Open - Open Tournament for all Utah Starcraft 2 Players
When
Monday July 18th 12PM-5PM
Check in starts at 11:00 AM. First round begins at 12:00PM
Where
GamerzFunk
1720 West 5000 South
Taylorsville, UT 84118
(801) 963-2461
All ages and skill levels are welcome! GamerzFunk requires anyone under 17 to fill out a Parental Release Form in order to play. You can bring one filled out or fill one out the day of if needed.
GamerzFunk provides the computer mouse/keyboard but if you would like to bring your own keyboard/mouse you are more than welcome too. Also headphones are not provided and cost $2-$3 rental fee for the day or you can just bring your own 
Entry Fee
None but the price is $13 for five hours at GamerzFunk.
Format/Rules
Swiss Style with Top 8 Elimination Bracket.
● There is no elimination in a Swiss format. There will be 4 rounds of Bo3. Each round you will be paired with an opponent and given a predetermined map to start. After the first round, the loser will pick the next map (No map may be played twice in a match) and so on until the Bo3 is over. After the four rounds of Bo3 the top 8 players (subject to change based on attendance) will then move on to the bracketed elimination finals. The quarter finals, and semifinals will be played in a Bo3 format. The finals for the tournament will be a Bo5.
● Tardy rule: Since we are running a Swiss tournament, we cannot start a new round until all of the players have finished the current round. Any player who is more than 10 minutes late to a round will receive a forfeit loss for that round.
● Observers: Because no one is eliminated during the Swiss portion of the tournament participants are not allowed to spectate other matches. During the elimination bracket spectating is fine but cheating of any kind will result in disqualification.
● Reporting Results: All tournament players are required to report their result. Failure to report a result may end up in a forfeit for that round.
● Technical Difficulties: Any drop occurring before the 5 minute mark will result in a rematch using the same map. Any other drop will be reviewed by the tournament coordinator.
Map Pool
Current Season 2 Ladder Maps
● Scrap Station
● Xel'Naga Caverns*
● Backwater Gultch
● Delta Quadrant*
● Metalopolis
● Shakuras Plateau
● Slag Pits
● Tal'darim Altar LE*
● The Shattered Temple*
● Typhon Peaks
Prizes
1st Place - Starcraft 2 T-Shirt
2nd Place - Marine Mouse Pad
3rd Place - Starcraft 2 Poster
Each place will also receive free play time at GamerzFunk.
Sign Ups
Please leave the following information here if you plan to attend the event.
● Starcraft 2 ID & Character Code
● League
● Race
Tournament Coordinators:
Eric Saupe
ericsaupe@gmail.com
Pandacraze.932
Matt Ginsburg
mpginsburg@gmail.com
Jukijuice.590
Please put Swiss GPO in any emails! Also, this tournament will be the foundation for future tournaments. Basically, if we have a great turnout for this event, our future events will be bigger. ONE more thing. We originally planned on not allowing Grand Masters level players to participate but later decided it would but alright but please realize that this is just a small tournament with the goal of having a good time, none of us are all that great we just Love the game and enjoying getting together with others to compete and have a great time!
Participants
+ Show Spoiler +Pandacraze.932  Jukijuice.590  cOnIncursus.195  Jorbear.740  Terranasaur.557 vazor.863 EViLPrO.666 cOnAvenger.969 DeltaCo.805 Killuminati.990 Cdrmittens.190 lolp.941 BananaHands.482 MellowYellow.574 Esco.560 cOnEnigma.617 Snarmanarma.512 cOnTopRamen.912 MyBigBrazil.863 BloodyBuletz.276
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I would be interested in another tournament. Loved the last one in Provo.
Jorbear.740
(I think it is 740...)
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$13 is too much imo, I'll probably not be able to attend.
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cOnIncursus.195
Protoss
Masters League
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@Jorbear - What Race/League are you?
@LooKe - Yeah the $13 is the cost of playing for 5 hours there. We were going to rent it out for the tournament but were not sure how big of a turn out we could get. If we get a big one, or even a reasonably sized group, we will definitely rent it out for future events.
@Dalguno - Yes any age and any skill level though GamerzFunk requires a Parental Release Form if you are under the age of 17. So just fill that out and bring it the day of or one can be filled out there as well.
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Terranasaur.557
Zerg
This looks like it should be a good time.
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@Pandacraze
I'm a Gold Level Terran, but you seem to already have that information.
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Haha yeah I did a quick look on sc2ranks to see but thanks for getting back to me!
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● Starcraft 2 ID & Character Code
vazor.863
● League
Silver
● Race
Random
I approve of tournaments for having a good time!!
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I was just thinking about it, but is it $13 even if it ends up going more then 5 hours?
[EDIT]
Oh, just realized it's a Monday, I'll be in school. Keep us posted though, I'll try my best to make it next time!
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EViLPrO.666
Terren
Masters
Less than 5 minutes from my house and I've got the day off. How could I not? =D
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I will be attending.
League: Plat
Race: Protoss
Battle.net ID: cOnAvenger.969
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@Looke the 5 hours is game time so if you log off the computer it won't be using your GamerzFunk game time and therefor will last longer. When my friends and I first went to GamerzFunk we paid for I think four or five hours and were able to be there for about 6 just because we would take breaks and get drinks, food, etc.
Should be updated for everyone so far. Really getting excited for this. Let all your friends know too. We have people from every league so they won't be alone no matter what their skill level may be. We want this to be a fun competitive event for everyone!
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Freak so close to home, but I have work ..... 
I'll check out the tail end of it at least though
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@happyness Sorry about that We originally planned to do this just with our friends and we all have Monday off because we work together but then we wanted to open it to the Starcraft community. This first event is a test and if it goes well we will do more and on a weekend or some other day that is better for the community as a whole but thanks for the support! :D
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I love SLC gl all
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On July 08 2011 03:43 coL.CatZ wrote:I love SLC gl all
Come on out CatZ, we'd love to have you!
I'll just go refresh your stream a few thousand times to help defray the cost of a plane ticket...
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oh wow didnt know anyone in Utah played.
Add me if you want to play
ContactKilla . 811
Terran in Plat
Id go to this tourny if it werent on a monday in the middle of a work day :/
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Alas, no way I can make it on a monday. Otherwise I'd be there. : (
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On July 08 2011 10:26 Pandacraze wrote:
@lolp what race?
Protoss
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Just one more week! Still looking for more people, we are currently at 14 but I think we can have around 20. If you can come try and bring a friend if you can, we want this to be big and fun for everyone!
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Too bad I don't live in Utah anymore. Good luck with your tourney guys!
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I want to come!
BananaHands.482
Zerg
Platinum
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MellowYellow.574
Protoss
Diamond
Should be fun
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Oooh, fancy. I might just have to come to this. I'll just check my schedule n' all that, see what I can do. And hey, coL.Catz dropped by - whoa! Apparently SLC is pretty cool. :D
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scdpride.599
terran
grandmaster
If the prize pool was higher i think more ppl will join. The last tournament was held at neumount had over 70+ ppl and prize pool was 500+ dollars of cash and video cards. =]
also Op of this post please look at
starcraftutah.blogspot.com
just post something on there so brandon could put some sort of advertisement for this tournament.
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Man feel so special that colcatz posted in our tourney! haha Love watching him and Destiny play! Stoked for this touney as well! See you all there!
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User Name: Snarmanarma
Number ID: 512
League: Platinum
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OP You need to update with more of the players registered here. We don't want any awkwardness at the tournament heh.
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cOnTopRamen.912
Terran
Diamond
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That's it! We are all full up! The Gamerz Funk only has 18 computers at their current facility (they are moving to a larger one) and we have 20 signed up. We are so excited for this tournament and everyone participating in it! Please be at The Gamerz Funk on Monday by 11 to check in! If you have any questions don't hesitate to PM me.
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Darn. Well I looked through the OP and couldn't find anything about just coming to watch, other than the bit about spectating games. (Not sure if it's quite the same thing...) If I came would I be able to see the games played?
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You better believe you can come and watch! The more the better! We just need to cut off the competition at some point or we would never get through the rounds having to wait on computers etc. But please! If you want to come out and watch some Starcraft, get to know new people, and just enjoy a day of gaming in Salt Lake come out!!!
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I will be in bunny slippers if you don't know who to talk to for information. Pandacraze (Eric Saupe) is the main guy but if you cant find him, find me!
-Jukijuice (Matt)
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............Well Dangit!!... yeah $13 is a bit much for me at this point in time lol... maybe next time. sorry for such a short warning, but any other tournaments in the area definitely let me know, i'll even give you my number haha
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Big thanks to all those that came out and played! It was so much fun! Because the turnout was not quite as big as we had hoped ~13, we made it double elimination. It was great! EViLPrO came in first beating out BananaHands in a Bo5 and Jukijuice took third place! Thanks again to The GamerzFunk and all those that participated! It was so much fun and well definitely do it again.
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This was okay. They didn't end up doing swiss (with a lame excuse about number of people), so I don't know if I'll go again, but it was alright- on par with other Utah tourneys. Gamerz Funk is a pretty cool place too.
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