Yes, Spectators are welcome, there is a "Barcraft" event being thrown in the SAME BUILDING, where you can watch the live stream as it's being cast, eat, drink, and talk starcraft, and meet the players.

Ulfsark

United States958 Posts

January 12 2012 04:12 GMT

#43

The more spectators the better!

mr17hz

United States33 Posts

January 12 2012 04:59 GMT

#44

62 players registered. Just went into the building to confirm we'll actually be able to provide the power output needed to run this many gaming machines, Tests Passed, we're ready to go :-)

StarcraftChicago

United States51 Posts

January 12 2012 05:48 GMT

#45

I regret to inform everyone that SlayersGolden will not make the intercontinental flight to Chicago for this tournament. He emailed us and said "StarcraftChicago fighting!" though.

.Sic.

Korea (South)497 Posts

January 13 2012 03:05 GMT

#46

What's the format and the map pool?

Jacob666

United States285 Posts

January 13 2012 16:39 GMT

#47

What is the map pool, GSL, MLG, Blizzard, or mix? Want to know so I can start preparing builds.

Silvare

261 Posts

January 13 2012 17:43 GMT

#48

Format is double elimination, and here is the map pool:

MLG Metalopolis (MLGmaps)
MLG Shattered Temple (MLGmaps)
MLG Shakuras Plateau (MLGmaps)
MLG Tal’ Darim Altar (MLGmaps)
MLG Daybreak (MLGmaps)
MLG Dual Sight (MLGmaps)
MLG Antiga Shipyard (MLGmaps)
MLG Xel’ Naga Caverns (MLGmaps)

Moosegills

United States558 Posts

January 14 2012 03:17 GMT

#49

Xel' Naga...booooooo

mr17hz

United States33 Posts

January 14 2012 06:14 GMT

#50

The format is now that winner bracket will be BO3 , and losers bracket will be BO1 until round of 8, at that point it will become BO3. We had to do this because we now have 80 players who will be playing, and we want to get done before midnight :-)

Vinski

505 Posts

January 14 2012 21:40 GMT

#51

Hopefully this tournament goes well. And the rental for a pc is only 10 dollars correcT?

Silvare

261 Posts

January 15 2012 06:41 GMT

#52

Vinski, I would not recommend relying on renting one of their limited PC's - bring your own if at all possible.
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After much discussion, the official rules for the tournament have been finalized. Please give them a good lookover and contact a tournament admin with any questions. The rounds of 128, 64, and 32(winners and losers) will all be BO1, for which we collectively apologize, but it was our only option in regards to time constraints and the sheer number of players.

Best of luck, everyone, gg gl hf!

http://challonge.com/starcraftchicago

Vinski

505 Posts

January 16 2012 00:24 GMT

#53

Supposedly the reason no one was able to connect to the servers is because the tournament license wasn't white listed.

KiF1rE

United States964 Posts

January 16 2012 11:20 GMT

#54

On January 16 2012 09:24 Vinski wrote:
Supposedly the reason no one was able to connect to the servers is because the tournament license wasn't white listed.

its a shame every time this happens, this is the reason i dont ever feel like going to local or semi local events =/ This even happens at major events, IPL3 had issues with the IP address blacklisting garbage from blizzard, and so has every MLG ive attended...

If only there was a way to convince blizzard to care about smaller events more...

SinCitta

Germany2127 Posts

January 16 2012 12:34 GMT

#55

On January 16 2012 20:20 KiF1rE wrote:

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Well, even the EU Blizzard Invitational was delayed because of this according to Socke in the German equivalent of SotG (if I remember correctly). Blizzard needs to include whitelisting IP addresses into the standard process of licensing tournaments.

woody60707

United States1863 Posts

January 16 2012 12:51 GMT

#56

When I got back from work, i was really looking fwd to watching these games. On the up side, I'm glad i didn't call in for work. Will next time tho.

mr17hz

United States33 Posts

January 23 2012 03:40 GMT

#57

We're casting the finals of this right now (redo tourney because of trouble of the original: )

We're casting the FINALS right NOW: http://www.twitch.tv/StarcraftChicago

check out and comment on the quality of our cast, we're looking for feedback to improve.