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As promised, here are the details of the second Open Tournament!
What's at stake?
The Top 8 from this tournament will advance to a 32 player tournament, called the "Semi-Open". The winner of this tournament will advance to the NASL Grand Finals, earning a minimum of $2,000 and have a shot at getting part of the $100,000 prize. The top 4 from that tournament will also qualify for NASL Season 3.
Dates & Times
- October 8th: Ro256 – Ro16 starting at 1:00pm EDT (19 CET)
- If there are less than 256 players, we will start whatever round October 8th!
Format
- The format will be a single elimination tournament, all games being Bo3.
- The top 8 players will advance to the “Semi-Open” Tournament
- New maps from The Planetary Workshop will be used
Registration
- The tournament will be held on Binarybeast – all players must register an account on Binarybeast, click on the tournament link, and click to “Join” the tournament.
- All players must read and write that they accept the terms and conditions, accept the tournament rules, and pay a $10 entry fee (we accept paypal payments only) in order to successfully register.
- Players must register with their NORTH AMERICAN battle.net USER NAME and CHARACTER CODE.
Map Pool [all the NA maps should be published by IRONMAN]
All the other rules/regulations can be read and must be agreed to prior to signing up for the tournament! Remember, if you want to qualify for NASL Season 3, you must play in this tournament!
Who Qualified From Open Tournament 1?
+ Show Spoiler [OPEN 1 RESULTS] +
1. dKiLLeR
2. coL TriMaster
3. FnaticPogiro
4. RoX.KiS LiveZerg
5-8: QxGZelniq
5-8: QxGShuffle
5-8: 4kLost
5-8: iSMentalist
Think you could have made it through? You have 1 week to sign up for the second Open Tournament to find out if you have what it takes!
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Not a big fan of this tournament for a spot. For Puma, who won this tournament and the entire NASL season, I felt like he wasn't even part of the actual season.
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On October 02 2011 15:17 StyLeD wrote:
Not a big fan of this tournament for a spot. For Puma, who won this tournament and the entire NASL season, I felt like he wasn't even part of the actual season.
Not a fan of how the top seed gets the tournament winner. Tournament winner is probably stronger than the invites since he actually earned a spot and wasn't invited.
But, I don't think that will happen this year. Since, of course, this is basically a Korean blackballed league.
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Well hopefully more people join this one then the last one.
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On October 02 2011 15:54 Corrik wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2011 15:17 StyLeD wrote:
Not a big fan of this tournament for a spot. For Puma, who won this tournament and the entire NASL season, I felt like he wasn't even part of the actual season. Not a fan of how the top seed gets the tournament winner. Tournament winner is probably stronger than the invites since he actually earned a spot and wasn't invited. But, I don't think that will happen this year. Since, of course, this is basically a Korean blackballed league.
The tournament winner is not #16 seed this season
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I have a question about this:
If you win this Open Bracket, does NASL pay you the trip to wherever the tournament is? Like what kind of support does the NASL give to the players that have to travel to the tournament once they get past the open bracket.
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On October 03 2011 14:21 Kabi wrote:
I have a question about this:
If you win this Open Bracket, does NASL pay you the trip to wherever the tournament is? Like what kind of support does the NASL give to the players that have to travel to the tournament once they get past the open bracket.
I think they give a $500 travel stipend.
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Some of those maps look huge, how much testing have they had with real play? Or is it just a throw players into the deep end.
Not saying it's a bad thing but should bring a cool new variable into the games :D
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On October 03 2011 15:23 SenorChang wrote:
Some of those maps look huge, how much testing have they had with real play? Or is it just a throw players into the deep end.
Not saying it's a bad thing but should bring a cool new variable into the games :D
So far these maps were used in NASL Open Tournament 1. A few of them have been finalists in the Map of the Month Contest, and these are all designed and tested to the maximum by a melee map-team called TPW - The Planetary Workshop. Players have time to practice the maps before the tournaments.
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I think the maps should be 50%-50% because this may reduce their competitiveness in the later stages of the tournament when they use known maps.
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On October 03 2011 15:08 Andrew2658 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 03 2011 14:21 Kabi wrote:
I have a question about this:
If you win this Open Bracket, does NASL pay you the trip to wherever the tournament is? Like what kind of support does the NASL give to the players that have to travel to the tournament once they get past the open bracket. I think they give a $500 travel stipend.
Based on the minimum of $2000 for winning the open I'm betting they upped the number to $1000 travel and $1000 for 8-16th place. Though I haven't seen anything stating specifics so that's just a guess. Either way you'll get at least $2000 to pay for expenses if you consider the first round money as well. That should cover anyone who isn't coming from Korea with a little to spare. So for a 1 in 16 shot at ~50K I think it's definitely worth it. If the open winner is from Korea I doubt they will only make it to the first round so even if $2000 is a little short it will still be well worth it for them to attend.
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It's $1,000 travel stipend + $1,000 minimum prize.
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Also -- I will be casting / streaming games from the 1st Open Tournament starting from Tuesday and running through Friday!
If you want to check out these new maps in action, tune in. Some of the games were pretty good :D!
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Right now you can get into the semi open just by signing up :p
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For all of you that don't know, this tournament is held at ridiculous hours that are not convenient for anyone involved. Additionally, NASL is not flexible at all with setting up a different time to play. Unless you have nothing currently going on in your life or you are attempting to be a pro gamer, I would check the schedule and ensure you will be able to play during their allotted time slots if you happen to advance a few rounds in
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On October 04 2011 15:00 Carthac wrote:
For all of you that don't know, this tournament is held at ridiculous hours that are not convenient for anyone involved. Additionally, NASL is not flexible at all with setting up a different time to play. Unless you have nothing currently going on in your life or you are attempting to be a pro gamer, DO NOT WASTE YOUR 10 DOLLARS.
What are you talking about? I got absolutely 0 requests to reschedule, postpone, or change the times of any games, neither through email or pm or anything else. Also, 1pm est is hardly a ridiculous hour, that's a good time for East Coasters and Europeans... and 10am is hardly ridiculous for West Coasters.
Did you not show up and get forfeitted last week?
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On October 02 2011 15:17 StyLeD wrote:
Not a big fan of this tournament for a spot. For Puma, who won this tournament and the entire NASL season, I felt like he wasn't even part of the actual season.
I didn't like that as well, but to be honest, this is not the fault of the NASL.
Now regardless of the fact that the players attending the grand finals already only contained the very best of all the invites, normally if a player who comes from the qualifier tears through the invites, it is because the tournament organisers invited too weak players. However before he showed up to the NASL, PuMa was pretty much unkown outside the Korean scene (i.e. to people who do not ladder or practise with the Koreans and only have the GSL as the prime influx of information on the Korean scene).
What I am saying is that PuMa's NASL run was and probably will be an isolated case, the isolated case that happens when somebody with incredibel potential and little exposure suddenly lives up to his potential and, for a while, looks absolutely unbeatable.
Apart from those isolated cases, seeding the top finisher of that qualifier into the grand finals should be fine. It makes the qualifier much, much more significant compared to only fighting for spots in a league with the possibility of qualifiying for the grand finals a couple of months later and only then being payed out.
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In 1 hour I'll be casting some NASL Open games!!
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EPT
