ASUS ROG Tournament for Starcraft II is here again, this time at ASSEMBLY Winter 2012, on 24.-25. of February 2012. The tournament provides a battlegorund for 32 players to compete for the prize pool of 20 000 USD.
Soon a full year has passed since the first professional Starcraft II tournament in Finland took place at ASSEMBLY Winter 2011. Many might remember it from its ambitious 64 player line-up or the one-sided and quick zerg mirror finals where Liquid`Ret defeated Mouz.MorroW. Starcraft II has come a long way since then, abroad and in Finland, where two more professional competitions have taken place in year 2011 with the help of ASUS ROG; first of were the ROG Tournament at ASSEMBLY Summer 2011 with mTwDIMAGA crowned Champion and later ASUS ROG Stars Invite at DigiExpo 2011 with EGIdrA crowned Champion. The first year of Starcraft II in Finland and Nordic in general was with no doubt a success, but Starcraft II tournaments are constantly growning bigger and better, and we certainly have no intentions of being left behind. It’s time to start a new great year with ASUS ROG as ASSEMBLY Winter 2012 takes place in Helsinki, Finland on 24th to 26th of February with ASUS ROG Starcraft 2 tournament set as the main competition of the event.
Tournament details
Players: 32 players selected among the applicants (details below)
Prize pool: 20 000 USD
Format: Group play + single elimination bracket
Streams: Two free HD online streams in English + additional international streams
Where: Helsinki, Finland -- ASSEMBLY Winter 2012
Players -- How to apply To play in the tournament, an invite must be requested by sending an email to info@peliliiga.fi with the subject of “ASUS ROG Starcraft II” and details describing at least the full name, nationality, player name and achievements of the applicant. Applications will be received until the end of January 2012. Note that a player may only be granted a slot in the tournament, no expenses are covered.
ASUS ROG Finally, to remind you all of the company who makes this tournament possible, ROG -- Republic of Gamers, a gaming sub brand of ASUS that is comprised of cutting edge hardware tailored for serious gamers. The product branches include; Motherboards, Graphics Cards, LCD Monitors, Gaming Peripherals, Desktops and Notebooks. The ASUS ROG Tournament will be solely powered by ASUS and ROG hardware.
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Looking forward to this! I like the line about how they have no intention of being left behind in terms of tournaments. That sort of mindset is good for the community, it'll keep growing and evovling as a result.
This is a cool announcement but PLEASE FINALLY STOP THE INVITE ONLY tournaments. Why not make at least 4 qualifier spots or so? There are so many talented players who deserve a chance who will never be invited because they are not well known enough.
yay! I hope we wont have to wait for more than one month to see who is invited! 32 players will be so much more fun and exciting! Hopefully there will be a fair amount of North American and Korean invites.
Looks good. Traditionally Assembly have never really invited Koreans aside from a few exceptions. We'll see if that changes here. I guess it's more down to stipend issues than some sort of policy.
i am buying a top of the line ASUS Gaming Laptop. how can i best indicate to ASUS that part of my reason for purchasing their high quality product is that they support SC2 e-Sports?
On January 10 2012 11:13 JimmyJRaynor wrote: i am buying a top of the line ASUS Gaming Laptop. how can i best indicate to ASUS that part of my reason for purchasing their high quality product is that they support SC2 e-Sports?
On January 10 2012 11:13 JimmyJRaynor wrote: i am buying a top of the line ASUS Gaming Laptop. how can i best indicate to ASUS that part of my reason for purchasing their high quality product is that they support SC2 e-Sports?
On January 10 2012 07:50 DiMano wrote: Good news but why can't you make online qualifiers for each region? I hate these free invite systems.
These invite systems make you watch IdrA vs MC instead of Random 1 vs Random 2. It's unfortunate that not all pros are able to participate in qualifiers for events but that's just the way it is, just look at the IEM qualifiers :/
On January 10 2012 10:48 Seraphone wrote: Looks good. Traditionally Assembly have never really invited Koreans aside from a few exceptions. We'll see if that changes here. I guess it's more down to stipend issues than some sort of policy.
Koreans tend to cancel them coming more often, resulting in last second replacements who obviously aren't as high level as the invites. Since they don't have as good sponsoring in korean teams to be able to send players to all events. It's not like there has been almost any koreans on any foreign tournaments who aren't part of foreign organizations or some other special situation (like MLG pool invs). Hero, puma etc. of course attend everything since they have the sponsors for it. As far as I know koreans don't even send applications all too often. It's just not likely enough to win enough from prizes in 20k$ prizepool tournament to make it worth it.
I'd expect some koreans from foreign teams, and some koreans who live in Europe to attend, but doubt we're going to see MVP or MKP in Finland this time, unfortunately
On January 10 2012 10:48 Seraphone wrote: Looks good. Traditionally Assembly have never really invited Koreans aside from a few exceptions. We'll see if that changes here. I guess it's more down to stipend issues than some sort of policy.
Koreans tend to cancel them coming more often, resulting in last second replacements who obviously aren't as high level as the invites. Since they don't have as good sponsoring in korean teams to be able to send players to all events. It's not like there has been almost any koreans on any foreign tournaments who aren't part of foreign organizations or some other special situation (like MLG pool invs). Hero, puma etc. of course attend everything since they have the sponsors for it. As far as I know koreans don't even send applications all too often. It's just not likely enough to win enough from prizes in 20k$ prizepool tournament to make it worth it.
I'd expect some koreans from foreign teams, and some koreans who live in Europe to attend, but doubt we're going to see MVP or MKP in Finland this time, unfortunately
If we get MC, DRG, Zenio, Puma, Hero and JYP that will do just fine for me. All those players are sponsored by foreign teams.
Love that you have a new tournament, but please stop inviting players. At least let a few players get in qualifiers, that way everyone has a chance to get into the tournament and we can see great talent that otherwise will probably not be there...
On January 10 2012 22:57 bocca wrote: This was bound to happen. I'll probably buy a ticket just to get inside and watch the tournament with my some friends.
I really hope they have a better area for watching the tournament - and more games on the stage!!
On January 11 2012 05:14 OldManZerg wrote: I really wish they would do online qualifiers instead. The whole requesting an invite thing reeks of the ol boys network.
I think it would be nice to see qualifiers (just b/c it brings weight to a few tournaments). However, I really don't have a problem with they way they do it. We'll see if the higher prize pool gets some code s talent to make the trip...
On January 10 2012 11:13 JimmyJRaynor wrote: i am buying a top of the line ASUS Gaming Laptop. how can i best indicate to ASUS that part of my reason for purchasing their high quality product is that they support SC2 e-Sports?
Commenting here at Teamliquid.net works great
We are very happy to hear that you are looking at purchasing one of our products. Comments like these are huge help to us in our ambition to continue supporting high production level e-sport content, free to watch without limitations.
On January 10 2012 11:13 JimmyJRaynor wrote: i am buying a top of the line ASUS Gaming Laptop. how can i best indicate to ASUS that part of my reason for purchasing their high quality product is that they support SC2 e-Sports?
Commenting here at Teamliquid.net works great
We are very happy to hear that you are looking at purchasing one of our products. Comments like these are huge help to us in our ambition to continue supporting high production level e-sport content, free to watch without limitations.
Thank you!
FWIW: the ROG tournaments have ensured that my next purchase will ASUS.
On January 10 2012 11:13 JimmyJRaynor wrote: i am buying a top of the line ASUS Gaming Laptop. how can i best indicate to ASUS that part of my reason for purchasing their high quality product is that they support SC2 e-Sports?
Commenting here at Teamliquid.net works great
We are very happy to hear that you are looking at purchasing one of our products. Comments like these are huge help to us in our ambition to continue supporting high production level e-sport content, free to watch without limitations.
Thank you!
The ASUS tournies are one of the reasons I went with the G74SX, but really the price/quality of Asus blows the rest away. No one else gets that the super-shiny-plastic-cases look and feel horrible. Also the cooling on the Asus gaming laptops is second to none. Ty very much Asus.
I'm always blown away with the stream quality of Assembly and Dreamhack. Kinda silly that the GSL paid for quality is in far worse bitrate than the free ones from Assembly and Dreamhack.
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