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This tournament is going to be brought to you from the Team Dignitas office with a live interactive show, great SC2 games, prizes to be won and lots of fun to be had! Coverage will be brought to you by dApollo and a special guest to be announced in the near future!
Prize Pool: £1000
1st: £500
2nd: £350
3rd: £100
4th: £50
When? - Sunday September 25th 2011
Starting time:
13:00 CEST
06:00 EDT
03:00 PDT
12:00 BST
Where?
The tournament will launch dApollo's stream and youtube channel, the stream will be here: http://www.justin.tv/dignitasapollo/ and vods will be found on this youtube channel shortly after the event finishes - http://www.youtube.com/user/dignitasApollo
Format:
The tournament will be replay based. 8 player invitational, bo3 until 3rd 4th playoff which is bo5, final also bo5. If these tournament continue to be a success we will be inviting the top 2 from each tournament we host into a grand overall tournament. Map pool and Brackets will be released publicly one week before the tournament goes live!
Why replay based?
All invited players are under strict time management plans with other events and we decided this would be the most convenient way to get the players all playing in one day. The replays will be fresh, played at a maximum of two weeks in advance to the grand finals.
Invited players:
All the invited players have not been announced yet but we will be releasing 2players every Sunday evening at 17:00CEST leading up until when the show goes live on the 25th September!
Pre tournament annoucement schedule
21st - 17:00CEST = TLO/SjoW
28th - 17:00CEST = ToD/Stephano
4th - 17:00CEST = Kas/DIMAGA
11th - 17:00CEST = ..../....
18th - 17:00CEST = Brackets/Map pool released
25th = Live show begins
Today though, is Sunday! So lets now lets introduce our first two players to the tournament, these players really do not need an introduction I welcome these two fantastic players as the first 2 players to be invited into the SCAN invitational.
Player Intros/Announcements
TLO
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Name: Dario Wunsch
Game ID: Liquid`TLO
Race: Terran
Age: 21
Nationality: German
Largest Achievement:
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1st place 2011 PokerIdol.com SC2 European ChampionshipSjoW
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Name: Jeffrey Brusi
Game ID: DignitasSjow
Race: Terran
Age: 24
Nationality: Swedish
Largest Achievement:
1st 2011 Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 European Championship FinalsThe 2011 IEM european Champion currently on the verge of flying over to South Korea to join team-mate Naniwa to live, train and compete in Code A, Sjow finds himself invited into this tournament as a Dignitas Representative. It has one of the most successful European Terran players with incredibly strong tactics and strategies prepared for different players and maps, his smart decision making leaves him assertive and able to instantly jump on any mistakes that his opponent makes.
ToD
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Name: Yoan Merlo
Game ID: M.ToD
Race: Protoss
Age: 26
Nationality: French
Largest Achievement:
1st WCG National Qualifier FranceWC3 legend, he holds unbelievable achievements, I welcome non other than ToD. Finally #1 in France after victories against Adelscott and Sarens at the WCG national qualifiers followed by a great ESL pro series victory. Smart and talented, ToD had a successful event at MLG Anaheim managing to defeat Korean protoss Alicia in the openbracket, he has very high goals and personal expectations as his SC2 career deepens.
Stephano
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Name: Ilyes Satouri
Game ID: M.Stephano
Race: Zerg
Age: 18
Nationality: French
Largest Achievement:
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3rd Place Assembly Summer 201117year old wonder kid! Stephano, known for his close to perfect Zerg vs Terran has been dominating online tournaments for months on end, he took his first large step into the LAN spotlight when he attended HSC3, winning his group with a 2-0 over EG.HuK and managing to finish the tournament in 6th. Shortly after he competed in Assembly where he put his name firmly on the map as one of the best Zergs in Europe. Stephano has so much talent and is a true gem of a player! How will be compete amongst the giants within this tournament?
Kas
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Name: Mihaylo Hayda
Game ID: Empire.Kas
Race: Terran
Age: 22
Nationality: Ukrainian
Largest Achievement:
3rd TSL 3 2011Kas is well known for his humongous amount of games played on the battlenet ladder, which over time, built an all round solid conservative style with few leaks in his game, this makes it very hard to beat him early and to overcome Kas you will need to out play him. Kas really hit the scene hard when he managed to finish in 3rd place in the TSL! He is one of few players to have won the largest amount of online tournaments, will he be able to add another virtual trophy to his desktop folder?
Dimaga
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Name: Dmytro Filipchuk
Game ID: mTwDimaga
Race: Zerg
Age: 24
Nationality: Ukrainian
Largest Achievement:
1st Place Assembly Summer 2011Dimaga has been one of the best Zergs in the world for a very long time with a consistent string of good results but very few big victories. Easily one of his largest achievements ever was being the first person to beat Nestea in a Zerg mirror matchup live on television, also during his stay in Korea he went on a roll beating JulyZerg then MVP within the 2011 GSL World Championship. Still without an offline tournament victory, Dimaga attended and dominated Assembly Summer 2011 to land his first large tournament finish.
Socke
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Name: Giancomo Thus
Game ID: aTn.Socke
Race: Protoss
Age: 24
Nationality: German
Largest Achievement:
1st Back to Back SHOUTcraft Invitational winsSocke is nothing short of amazing, has been regarded as one of the best Protoss players outside of Korea for a while now! During 2011 he has placed well in several tournaments, 4th Assembly Winter, 1st place EPS germany, 2nd WCG germany and 4th IEM cologne, a string of consistent high placing finishes as well as defending his title in Shoutcraft Invitiational. Will this be another excellent result for him?
Strelok
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Name: Eugin Oparyshev
Game ID: imba.FXOStrelok
Race: Terran
Age: 26
Nationality: Ukrainian
Largest Achievement:
1st HD World TournamentA fantastic player who has not really placed his name of the map with a large tournament win yet, he has won many small online cups but has yet to strike gold offline. Regardless, his precise builds and timing attacks and ability to multi-task makes him a very dangerous opponent to face up against, a slight underdog but never to be under estimated.
Map pool and Brackets
Map Pool
ESL TalDarim Altar LE
Terminus SE
ESL Metalopolis
ESL Shattered Temple
GSL Crevasse v1.0
ESL Shakuras Plateau
GSL Dual Sight v1.0
GSL Bel'shir Beach
Ro8 starting map: ESL Metaloplis, loser picks
Ro4 starting map: TalDarim, loser picks
Ro2 starting map: Shakuras, loser picks
3rd 4th place: Starting map: Crevasse, lower picks
Bracket
http://cups.team-dignitas.net/cup/rankings.php?id=16
Dimaga vs TLO
Strelok vs ToD
Stephano vs Kas
Socke vs Sjow
Competition Winner
Congratulations to WILDD who won our guess the last remaining two players competition!! We will send you a PM for details shortly for you to claim your dignitas prize :D !
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/profile.php?user=wildd
CoCaster for the event
Today along with all our announcements, we include non surprisingly that Totalbiscuit will be travelling to the Dignitas Office to commentate along his partner in crime, Apollo. Totalbiscuit and Apollo have been working side by side for a while now and are highly rated as one of the better casting archons out there and join forces once again to bring you non stop action, entertainment and banter all day long!
Remember players 5+6 get announced this Sunday 
