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SHOUTcraft Invitational 4 - "Colin Smith"

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TotalBiscuit
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United Kingdom5437 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-15 00:42:11
January 09 2012 02:49 GMT
#1
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"Colin Smith is saving ESPORTS!"

The $5000 SHOUTcraft 2-day Invitational

Powered by the community, for the community


The SHOUTcraft Invitational series is the biggest, self-funded, unsponsored tournament series in Starcraft 2. Thus far we've done everything with no corporate sponsorship and intend to keep doing that. This tournament is a community-fueled, high-stakes, electrifying live event with some of the best players SC2 has to offer, battling it out in the SHOUTcraft Single-elimination format.

STOP THE PRESSES, SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF GREAT GRAVITY AND IMPORTANCE

The SHOUTcraft Single-elimination format is no more. It has been ground to a fine paste and rebuilt in a new player and spectator friendly form.

"In our tournament, every group is a Group of Death!"

Format - Introducing the SHOUTcraft Single-elimination group-stage invitational format. After careful discussion with various players and casters we have come up with a revamped format which we will test in this tournament. The RO8 will consist of 2 groups of 4 players. Each player will play a BO3 against every other player in the group. The top 2 players will proceed forward and the bottom 2 players will be eliminated. The remaining 4 players will be seeded into the RO4 depending on their performance. Seed 1 from group A will then play Seed 2 from group B. Seed 1 from group B will play Seed 2 from group A. These matches will be BO5. The tournament proceeds as normal from that point with the winners advancing to the Grand Final for a BO7 matchup and the losers entering the bronze match to compete for a 3rd place prize.

Solving the problem of the "meaningless match"

Over the past few months, particularly in the recent Blizzard Cup incident, the issue of "meaningless matches" has come to light. The idea that if a match does not gain you anything because you are already out of the tournament having lost too many games in the group-stage. Not only is this an issue when two players who cannot possibly advance in the group end up playing each other, but it is also a problem when who advances can be determined by a match with a player who is already out and may not play seriously as a result. This can affect the validity of the results of the tournament.

SHOUTcraft has always been about both entertaining the audience with star-studded matches and giving back to our pros, so to deal with this issue we will be trialling a "bounty" system. Players who have no chance of advancing (which will occur if they lose have lost their first 2 BO3s) will qualify for a $50 comeback bounty, if they are able to win their final BO3. As always, nobody walks away empty handed from the SHOUTcraft Invitational and disheartened players have the chance to win back their pride and an extra cash prize if they are able to rally for a glorious last-stand.

This system will be on trial this invitational and we'll see how it works out. The tip-jar system will also make a return, allowing spectators to "tip" their favourite players. Last tournament over $1500 was given to players out of respect for their skills and entertaining matches.

When? - Saturday, Jan 14 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) and Sunday, Jan 15 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

How will you split up the games between the two days? - All group-stage games will be played on the Saturday. This will result in a whole lot of games, as you can imagine, but myself and Apollo are confident that we are capable of pulling it off without issue.

Is this live? - The entire event will be streamed live, no replays will be used and broadcast delay will prevent ghosting.

Why has it taken so long to do another invitational? - Myself and Apollo have had extremely busy schedules, as have the players, making it impossible to schedule another invitational. We made several attempts but we had to abandon plans for a 4th invitational in 2011 due to schedule clashes for players and casters.

Prize distribution - Once again, everyone gets paid for their time. The participation fee we pay to the players for their time is $100, so every player walks away with that. The rewards grow significantly larger as we hit the RO4.

First Place - $2500
Second Place - $1200
Third Place - $600
Fourth Place - $300

Knocked out in RO8 - $100

Who sponsors this tournament? - This tournament is paid for by the ad revenue from the Showcraft livestreams and generous donations from the community during SHOUTcraft Invitational 3. Of special mention is Colin Smith, after whom this tournament is named, who has donated an outstanding amount of money to this series not once, but twice.

Casters - TotalBiscuit and d.Apollo. Once again, we will return with our casting duo, now adding SCI3, IPL4 UK, ASUS ROG and Dreamhack Winter to our duo experience. We continue in our mission to try and climb to the top of the EU casting scene.

Players - We will once again invite US and EU players to this tournaments. Koreans will not be invited due to the impossibility of playing a tournament live across so many timezones.

Stream - As always the event will be streamed on http://www.twitch.tv/totalbiscuit

VoDs? - Will be available on my Youtube channel after the fact as well as in raw uncut form on Justin.tv.

Any other improvements? - We have we believe nailed down the final problems with our audio setup and are prepared for a clean and smooth tournament experience. The ground-loop based humm that could be found in the audio of SCI3 has been eliminated thanks to the additional of ground-loop isolation equipment. We have also revamped the map-pool which was out of date. Xel'naga caverns, Shattered Temple and Crevasse are gone. We have replaced them with the no-goldbase variant of Antiga, Dual-sight and Daybreak. The map pool is completed by Terminus, Taldarim, Shakuras and Metalopolis.

So who is playing? - We will only be inviting back our #1 champion from SCI3 this time around in order to increase the variety of players in our line-up.



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Thorzain Player Intro
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What about the cryptic message that was given several months ago at the end of SCI3? - This plan has sadly had to be put on hold due to various factors however we fully expect to be able to have it happen in the near future.

Updates can be found at the SHOUTcraft.com website : http://www.shoutcraft.com

CommentatorHost of SHOUTcraft Clan Wars- http://www.mlg.tv/shoutcraft
common_cider
Profile Joined July 2011
342 Posts
January 09 2012 02:54 GMT
#2
noce thxsTB
Never eat at a chinese restraunt located by the pound
CuteZergling
Profile Joined November 2011
641 Posts
January 09 2012 02:56 GMT
#3
Ok, that's a cool format with the comeback bounty. Great idea, looking forward to this.
Team owner of team QTLing
Olinimm
Profile Joined November 2011
1471 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-09 02:58:53
January 09 2012 02:57 GMT
#4
Nice, looking forward to it :DD Thought I do hope there will be a Korean edition at one point:D.
Dumboprime
Profile Joined March 2011
985 Posts
January 09 2012 02:57 GMT
#5
nice!
Rationaleyes
Profile Joined October 2011
Ireland11 Posts
January 09 2012 03:00 GMT
#6
I look forward to it Mr. Biscuit. There can only be one (champion of SCI4)
TotalBiscuit
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United Kingdom5437 Posts
January 09 2012 03:00 GMT
#7
On January 09 2012 11:57 Olinimm wrote:
Nice, looking forward to it :DD Thought I do hope there will be a Korean edition at one point:D.


There will be, the Koreans are just being irksome at the moment and we lost our liason with them recently so we need to work on finding another who can help.
CommentatorHost of SHOUTcraft Clan Wars- http://www.mlg.tv/shoutcraft
Nomili
Profile Joined February 2011
Norway20 Posts
January 09 2012 03:02 GMT
#8
Looking forward to this
It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, rather than open it and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
January 09 2012 03:03 GMT
#9
Awesome. Fantastic tournaments with fantastic casting, and always a great lineup of players. I personally love watching the best from EU and NA battle it out... should be great!
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
DisillusionedAcronym
Profile Joined September 2011
190 Posts
January 09 2012 03:09 GMT
#10
awesome! thanks, TB. :-)
panix
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada36 Posts
January 09 2012 03:12 GMT
#11
show TB some love!!!
lonely french canadian starcraft player
Jono7272
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom6330 Posts
January 09 2012 03:13 GMT
#12
Awesome. Hope it features EU's top terran Kas! DeMuslim would be nice as well..
Innovation | Flash | Mvp | Byun | TY
Quintem
Profile Joined April 2010
England9 Posts
January 09 2012 03:14 GMT
#13
I hope this series is as great as the last. The wait will I hope be worth it.
I'm interested to see what names show up in this tournament as well as less well known names like last time.
I had not heard of DDE before SCI3 but he impressed me with his style and skill.


Bring on next weekend!
ZaKiSC
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden19 Posts
January 09 2012 03:16 GMT
#14
Exciting news, would love to see White-Ra play!

And Im a big fan of Apollo!
Long live the Emperor!
TheSero
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom1 Post
January 09 2012 03:18 GMT
#15
Looking forward to it. Great idea to help solve meaningless matches, hope it works. The tip-jar is also an amazing system. And yey, all the matches are at least BO3, it's annoying when tournaments don't have that, even for early games, even if it does mean it takes longer.

Looking forward to see the players.
kamakaze chickn
Profile Joined January 2012
4 Posts
January 09 2012 03:18 GMT
#16
great news
TheSmartOne
Profile Joined January 2012
Czech Republic53 Posts
January 09 2012 03:19 GMT
#17
awesome, i hope Grubby will be invited
♥ Grubby, DIMAGA, NesTea, Jinro, IdrA, Tastosis, White-Ra
Hxig
Profile Joined October 2011
United States42 Posts
January 09 2012 03:19 GMT
#18
Sounds great, but can someone explain the format in lamen's terms? I never understood all the vocabulary involved in the description of the tournaments since I only started watching eSports late last year.....
ScreamoLuvr // Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
Troxle
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States486 Posts
January 09 2012 03:24 GMT
#19
Hurray for Totalbiscuit! I will be sure to tune in!
If you're homophobic, you're probably ugly, so don't worry about a gay guy coming onto you. - jarrydesque
red4ce
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States7313 Posts
January 09 2012 03:26 GMT
#20
Noice! Can't wait to see the invite list. I hope you guys are serious about the "every group is a group of death" claim. This means only elite players and no fan favorites.
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