This is NOT the order the matches will be played in by the way. That is done in such a way as to ensure the US guys don't have to start playing really early in the morning and we can work around WCG Ukraine.

The bracket video which contains some indepth discussion of the bracket, the reasoning behind it and some player info is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ4WetdKmPw

I'd recommend watching that video to get all the info on how the tournament is going to go, but as a quick synopsis for those who don't have the time, some key-points.

Day 1 is all RO8 matches
Day 2 is RO4, Bronze Match and Grand Finals
All matches will be played live with the usual stream delay
This tournament features a contest we are calling "Virtual Stadium", where we are asking viewers to submit pictures of themselves and their friends watching SHOUTcraft Invitational. These are to be submitted to the Cynicalbrit Facebook gallery on http://www.facebook.com/cynicalbrit since that's the easiest way to do things. These photos will be shown in a slideshow as they come in, during the breaks in-between matches. The 5 best photos will each win a 1-hour coaching session with d.Apollo and the best photo overall will also receive a peripheral (keyboard, mouse, headset etc) of their choice.
This tournament will feature a Player Tipjar which is an optional system allowing viewers to "tip" a player with some money and a personal message. The page for this will launch on the day of the tournament and information will be given out on stream.

Herfelt

Denmark89 Posts

September 09 2011 20:20 GMT

#730

Really looking forward to the tournament. Amazing lineup, but Im kinda sad that Stephano isn't one of the 8 invites.

KinQuh

Finland810 Posts

September 09 2011 20:22 GMT

#731

Dimaga vs Socke O.o

obsKura

Ireland1061 Posts

September 09 2011 20:30 GMT

#732

This is so awesome, thank you TB! the player tip jars and virtual arena are very good ideas, like them both. Maybe this will become the first tourney where I'm thinking "awesome game and YAY now a break for photos!" :O

I have another suggestion for SCI4: What about some live poll on the website like we've seen it in TSL3? before the matchup during introduction you can show a live poll on the stream. After every game the poll comes up again and everybody is able to vote again.
I think that's also a cool thing to do to have the audience interact with the tourney/stream.

muffley

United States280 Posts

September 09 2011 20:33 GMT

#733

On September 10 2011 05:11 TotalBiscuit wrote:
[*]This tournament features a contest we are calling "Virtual Stadium", where we are asking viewers to submit pictures of themselves and their friends watching SHOUTcraft Invitational. These are to be submitted to the Cynicalbrit Facebook gallery on http://www.facebook.com/cynicalbrit since that's the easiest way to do things. These photos will be shown in a slideshow as they come in, during the breaks in-between matches. The 5 best photos will each win a 1-hour coaching session with d.Apollo and the best photo overall will also receive a peripheral (keyboard, mouse, headset etc) of their choice.
[*]This tournament will feature a Player Tipjar which is an optional system allowing viewers to "tip" a player with some money and a personal message. The page for this will launch on the day of the tournament and information will be given out on stream.

These are pretty sick. Really looking forward to this!

JelleSlaets

Belgium57 Posts

September 09 2011 20:35 GMT

#734

Like the ideas.

Could also be nice for SCI4, that in between breaks we have some live footage from the recording studio of you guys chiling in between matches, maybe have the slideshow run in the background on some kind of greenscreen thingy.

Tip jar is also nice, but I hope it doesn't explode and lowers future tournament donations. Unless it's limited to say, tip him 1 euro.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

September 09 2011 20:35 GMT

#735

On September 10 2011 05:30 obsKura wrote:
This is so awesome, thank you TB! the player tip jars and virtual arena are very good ideas, like them both. Maybe this will become the first tourney where I'm thinking "awesome game and YAY now a break for photos!" :O

I have another suggestion for SCI4: What about some live poll on the website like we've seen it in TSL3? before the matchup during introduction you can show a live poll on the stream. After every game the poll comes up again and everybody is able to vote again.
I think that's also a cool thing to do to have the audience interact with the tourney/stream.

Main problem with that is that TSL is run via replays and we run live with broadcast-delay so we can't really display up-to-date polls.

Venax

119 Posts

September 09 2011 20:44 GMT

#736

My predictions:

Socke > Dimaga
TLO > Destiny
WhiteRa > Strelok
Tyler > sixjax (not sure about that)

MarcH

United Kingdom362 Posts

September 09 2011 20:46 GMT

#737

This is going to be sooooo sick cant wait.

ALso calling it now Tyler - Dimaga finals

Da3mon

Hungary20 Posts

September 09 2011 20:54 GMT

#738

Totalbiscuit: If polls wont work, maybe read some tweets from the viewers between games or something? Use that #SCI3 hashtag for something

Looking forward to the matches!

Ruscour

5233 Posts

September 09 2011 20:56 GMT

#739

Kinda disappointed, pretty low level of skill in this tournament, was hoping for better invites. I suppose lots of people will tune in for the popular players, so it makes sense, I suppose.

Predicting Strelok and the winner of Dimaga/Socke in the finals.

Ruscour

5233 Posts

September 09 2011 20:56 GMT

#740

On September 10 2011 05:44 Venax wrote:
My predictions:

Socke > Dimaga
TLO > Destiny
WhiteRa > Strelok
Tyler > sixjax (not sure about that)

sixjax is the team, DDE is the player, and DDE is in far better form currently.