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Hello Everyone!
I’m excited to be able to announce the first Antarctic Cup tournament hosted by www.z33k.com! On behalf of the organization team, I’d like to invite anyone and everyone to participate in this hopefully awesome tournament boasting a prize pool of $250. The tournament will be played on the 17th of December on the European server at 20:00 CEST (Check in begins 19:30 CEST). This event will be cast from replays, so we would like to request that you do not stream your games. Do feel free to redirect your fans and viewers to our stream for the casting of the tournament though!
Link to the event: http://www.z33k.com/z/da6
Rough Playing Schedule (subject to accommodation):
Naturally, we understand that games can go on for ages, so if you’re late for a game because of your previous round, we will understand. We would like to aim to start as close to these times as possible (or earlier, if both players are ready), but if your opponent happens to have a best of 3 with 3 intensely long games, do have some sympathy!
Round of 256: 20:00
Round of 128: 20:30
Round of 64: 21:00
Round of 32: 21:30
Round of 16: 22:00
Round of 8: 22:45
Round of 4: 23:30
Final/Third Place: 00:30
This event will be cast by PengWin and Shan on www.twitch.tv/pengwin_sc. Check out some of their casts at www.youtube.com/nungael (PengWin) or www.youtube.com/shankendorin (Shan).
Grandmasters and other notable signups:
Stjarnan (P)
SHODAN (Z)
Satiini (T)
EmpireWelmu (P)
RoXLiveZerg (Z)
EmpireHappy (T)
bly (Z)
Elbegast (P)
Aristeo (Z)
roxkisFRAER (P)
Boroda (T)
Roxkisabver (Z)
Beastyqt (T)
BLASTǂIndy (P)
Empirekas (T)
mycerion (P)
Empirehobot (Z)
Underdark (P)
Roxkisslivko (Z)
akki (Z)
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Anyone else notice the irony of the Antarctic Cup being played on the European server?
Maybe try calling it Capture the North Pole #1 or something.
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Sadly, we weren't able to convince Blizz to open an Antarctica server for the tournament, so we had to relocate to EU. 
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sounds cool, but why again is it being called the antarctic cup?
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Mainly because I'm PengWin (Penguin) and I'm organizing it, and then everyone who's helping me liked the name so we stuck with it.
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Sounds cool, can golds enter?
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What leagues are you expecting?
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We'll see. I'd like the prize pool to draw some pretty high level players. Might be a good chance to test yourself 
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A link to the tourney page would be super-helpful!
Hope peepz are strongly considering signing up. Quite a bit of cash for grabs!!!! 
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True, Shantastic, will edit the OP. Submitted to the tournament tracker, hasn't been approved yet though. LET THERE BE LINK!
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You spelled penguin wrong... and antarctica isn't in europe.
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I guess my spell check malfunctioned. And DoomsVille, everyone knows Antarctica is the capital of Bulgaria. God.
+ Show Spoiler +Preemptively defending against people who take this literally and think I actually think Antarctica is in Bulgaria.
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Nice, I am going to join!
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Signups are floating in slowly but surely! You know you want to join in, people
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Nice, I am gonna sign up for my penguins!!
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To alleviate any potential concerns about the prize, z33k has received the money and we will be paying out within 24 hours of the event ending.
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Added a "GM's + notable signups" section. Check back every now and then to see who our top favorites are! And don't forget to sign up for a chance to prove your skill against one of them!
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Do you not mean get turned 17 shades of black and blue by them?
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I was hoping somehow that people actually played Sc2 in the antarctic . Oh well!
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One day, radscorpion. One day.
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Still plenty of space for fresh signups!! Some juicy cash just waiting to be won!!!
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Can't you hear the sign up button calling to you?
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nice event , prizes and caster :D
Antartic cup ftw
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Just a reminder, the tournament will be cast from replays, so if you have any friends, families, stream viewers, pets or stuffed animals that are interested, do tell them!
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It would be fucking amazing if Manfred and Amandfred watched the cast =]
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We should have a viewercount for stuffed animals
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Hey guys,
This is a EU tournament that has a $250 cash prize and only 28 players signed up - what are you waiting for??
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He does have a point guys, a pretty nice prize with not so many opponents to go through... I think I hear something... Is that the sound of it being signup time? I think it is the sound of it being signup time!
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You are probably missing out on alot of high level players because this kind of clashes with the HomeStory cup 4 European qualifier. I'll try to play in both, we'll see how it goes.
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On December 13 2011 09:50 radscorpion9 wrote:I was hoping somehow that people actually played Sc2 in the antarctic . Oh well!
Given that Antartica is populated mainly by scientists, I'm sure they would play SC2... if it had LAN.
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Ah that makes sense, Seala. Tried to make it on a weekend where nothing was going on, didn't check for Homestory Cup stuff though. Bah, humbug. We'll see how it goes.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: We will be altering the time to 19:00 CEST to ease the clashing with HomeStory Cup #4 qualifiers. This will, hopefully, allow players knocked out before the latter stages to participate.
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Dont make it later than that or I cant play 
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Discussed time with DoomsVille, we decided 7 is the latest possible, but also gives 3 hours for people to crash out of homestory
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Kicking off in 10 hours! Still lots of open slots!
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Sooo, when does it start?! It says 18:00 CET, but here it sayw 19:00 and at your website it says 2 30h until start!?!?!? Wtf..
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should be 20:00 CEST. In other words, 2 hours and 15 minutes until it kicks off. We delayed it by an hour so it would class less with homestory cup.
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Massive apologies to everyone, the time set for the z33k site was wrong. It's been rectified. Tournament in 1 hour and 30 minutes.
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YES! Come on vOddy, win! :D
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Because we're casting it from replays tomorrow.
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Going live in 3 hours folks! Hope you all tune in for the casting!
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OK so based on viewer numbers, we've come up with some better publicity ideas (mainly TL calendar), and as a result casting will be postponed until January 2nd and 3rd. It will now be a 2 day casting event, with us casting the first 4 rounds on day 1, and the quarterfinals-finals on day 2. This will allow us to cover a lot more of the games, which is ideal given the number of high level signups that we had. Next time, we will ideally have a good number of viewers
Players: Don't worry, prize money has been sent to you already.
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I would easily become the best player in Antarctica.
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Pardon me if I'm asking a silly question, but how do I un-hide the results on the bracket page?
Nice tournament btw, strange you're not pulling more viewers. Keep up the good work!
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northern hemisphere, so Arctic cup
leave antarctic for SEA imo
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EPT
