Seven more names are announced for the $20 000 ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament, starting later this month in Helsinki, Finland. Also, a VIP Player Lounge provided by TwitchTV and ASUS ROG is now made official.
It’s February and Assembly Winter 2012 is just a few of weeks away. Once more we have sent out invitations to the players we believe deserve the opportunity to play at the latest ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament. Now we will announce seven names which brings the current roster size to a total of 23 players. The last eight we promised to pick after the North American MLG Winter Arena qualifier, played at February 8., and the final remaining spot will go the winner of ESV TV/Grand Prix 1, who will also get his travel and accommodation covered by ASUS ROG.
In addition to the seven new players, we are happy to announce that TwitchTV will be joining us on the location by providing a player lounge for the players. The VIP Player Lounge will be a large, hundred square meter, area with places to practise, relax, and a chance for a massage. Read more at the TwitchTV blog.
Tournament details
Players: 32 players
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
When: 24th to 25th of February
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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To the OP: Can you link the liquidpedia article to this tournament or post the date that this is happening? Seems like it would be good information ^^.
Wow I'm blind I never saw Jinro. Hopefully this is his moment to shine again. I'm also glad to see an invite for Brat_OK, but we need more GoOdy and Socke!
Nice to see the Russians are attending. Not too surprising to see JYP and Puma are invited after they didn't show on the MLG qualifiers list, I'm disappointed that the two events clash but with most of the top form Koreans attending MLG there is a much much much better chance of a good foreign showing at Assembly with all the most on form players in Europe attending.
this is gonna be great, not as many players as on MLG, but all of these are high level players which will give high quality games all the way, not just on the latter rounds :D
Personally, I'm most happy about Brat_OK, just because his serial killer looks and cold stare have previously brought out the comedy genius in rotterdam, (Anyone who saw the NASL S2 games between him and Morrow can attest. Great split by Brat_OK!) and I can only hope it will happen again with the casting here.
On February 02 2012 13:51 MildSeven wrote: Stephano is invited again after the debacle is ok, but i hope they make certain formal agreements this time to prevent last catostrophe
Are you mixing up tournaments? Stephano did nothing wrong at an ASUS ROG
I agree that the line-up needs more zergs. However, there aren't that many good zergs in Europe, and Koreans don't just fly anyone abroad. Nerchio and Ret would make the line-up much better.
Very interesting!! The players seem to be very stacked at the top. The Polts/Hero/JYP/Puma will be very interesting to see battle eachother. But with this many Koreans going, its going to be pretty 1 way traffic! Good to watch though.
On February 02 2012 13:51 MildSeven wrote: Stephano is invited again after the debacle is ok, but i hope they make certain formal agreements this time to prevent last catostrophe
Are you mixing up tournaments? Stephano did nothing wrong at an ASUS ROG
Didn't he and Brat_OK throw games because they didn't want to face Sen?
On February 02 2012 13:51 MildSeven wrote: Stephano is invited again after the debacle is ok, but i hope they make certain formal agreements this time to prevent last catostrophe
Are you mixing up tournaments? Stephano did nothing wrong at an ASUS ROG
Didn't he and Brat_OK throw games because they didn't want to face Sen?
I heard 1 base battlecruiser is a legit tactic if it can beat a zerg that was invited to code S this season.
On February 02 2012 13:51 MildSeven wrote: Stephano is invited again after the debacle is ok, but i hope they make certain formal agreements this time to prevent last catostrophe
Are you mixing up tournaments? Stephano did nothing wrong at an ASUS ROG
Didn't he and Brat_OK throw games because they didn't want to face Sen?
Yeah but ofc Stephano is getting all the shit, because he's got a slight attitude and likes to win. Brat_OK even lost (therefore won) that game, which you wouldn't think when hearing the word "Catastrophe". Frankly I don't think the OP for this little thing knows what he talks about.
On February 02 2012 15:39 Elitios wrote: Great players ! All my favorites are here, but I wanted to see some MLG too. Does anyone know if the streams schedules of ROG & MLG will overlap?
I think they are mostly at different times of the day.
On February 02 2012 15:39 Elitios wrote: Great players ! All my favorites are here, but I wanted to see some MLG too. Does anyone know if the streams schedules of ROG & MLG will overlap?
I think they are mostly at different times of the day.
since EET (Helsinki) is 7 hours ahead of EST (NYC) there will probably be a slight overlap with the last games of ASUS and the first games of MLG (each day). However, I don't expect the overlap to be very bad and having 20 (guessing) straight hours of SC2 could be awesome :D
Oh, you made a new thread for the tournament? Then it makes sense that the other one had no discussion, though I'm not sure why you didn't just post in the same thread. Either way, some really nice invites here, especially like Adelscott.
*Insert comment about Finland having -25 celsius and people in Kiev complaining about the super coldness when it was between -1 and -7 during the tournament days*
On February 03 2012 03:54 Shikyo wrote: Oh, you made a new thread for the tournament? Then it makes sense that the other one had no discussion, though I'm not sure why you didn't just post in the same thread. Either way, some really nice invites here, especially like Adelscott.
*Insert comment about Finland having -25 celsius and people in Kiev complaining about the super coldness when it was between -1 and -7 during the tournament days*
shhh you'll scare people away! also, i think my eye balls were freezing today...
On February 03 2012 06:20 PsyChoRo wrote: i want idra and whitera !
IdrA is qualified for MLG Arena and White-Ra is trying to qualify to it in the Korean Qualifiers. Since MLG Arena and Asus RoG are on the same weekend, IdrA will not go to Asus RoG and White-Ra I have doubts, only if they are holding out a spot for him in case he doesn't qualify to MLG.
Holy crap this is going to be so awesome. Especially the part about the physical therapist being there. I have been reading so much about pros suffering from Carpal Tunnel Sundromes and RSI's. It is about time that something is being done about it! (outside of korea that is of course, with the teams there signing deals with hospitals and what not).
Man, I hope I can arrange it so that I can attend the winter assembly to see this awesomeness.
On February 02 2012 15:39 Elitios wrote: Great players ! All my favorites are here, but I wanted to see some MLG too. Does anyone know if the streams schedules of ROG & MLG will overlap?
I think they are mostly at different times of the day.
since EET (Helsinki) is 7 hours ahead of EST (NYC) there will probably be a slight overlap with the last games of ASUS and the first games of MLG (each day). However, I don't expect the overlap to be very bad and having 20 (guessing) straight hours of SC2 could be awesome :D
On February 03 2012 17:30 Ringall wrote: Holy crap this is going to be so awesome. Especially the part about the physical therapist being there. I have been reading so much about pros suffering from Carpal Tunnel Sundromes and RSI's. It is about time that something is being done about it! (outside of korea that is of course, with the teams there signing deals with hospitals and what not).
Man, I hope I can arrange it so that I can attend the winter assembly to see this awesomeness.
On February 02 2012 15:39 Elitios wrote: Great players ! All my favorites are here, but I wanted to see some MLG too. Does anyone know if the streams schedules of ROG & MLG will overlap?
I think they are mostly at different times of the day.
since EET (Helsinki) is 7 hours ahead of EST (NYC) there will probably be a slight overlap with the last games of ASUS and the first games of MLG (each day). However, I don't expect the overlap to be very bad and having 20 (guessing) straight hours of SC2 could be awesome :D
This just means there will be no sleep ^^
those of us going to Assembly should try to set up some sort of SC2 all night (ROG / MLG) stream viewing station...
Energy drink manufacturers should really be advertising in light of these events
Shame really that MLG and ASUS ROG overlap datewise. The respective lineups for both tournaments could have been even better. Anyways, Liquid fighting (HerO, TLO, Jinro at ASUS ROG; Ret, Sheth, Tyler, Zenio, HayprO at MLG Winter)!
Really disappointing that you didn't do any qualifying events for this, at least a couple places should be filled out like that (preferably the whole tournament, but still) to give up and comers a chance.
On February 04 2012 06:07 archonOOid wrote: why has finland so hard immigration policy towards zergs? Open the gates and the swarm will flood the gates.
Zergs have won every major tournament held in Finland: assembly winter 11 - ret assembly rog summer 11 - dimaga rog all star invitational - idra assembly rog winter 12 - ??
On February 04 2012 19:21 MCDayC wrote: Really disappointing that you didn't do any qualifying events for this, at least a couple places should be filled out like that (preferably the whole tournament, but still) to give up and comers a chance.
although i have argued that up and comers get plenty of chances with all the daily/weekly cups I do agree that it would be nice to see a few tournaments for players to qualify (maybe even win travel costs - like they are doing with the ESV TV weekly). It's also a good way for the (any) tournament to gain some publicity.
On February 05 2012 07:57 y0su wrote: assembly rog winter 12 - ??
stephano =)
of the zergs so far announced he probably has the best chance... However I wouldn't be surprised to see this tournament go to one of the terrans (pending the final annoucemnts and ESV TV winner).
On February 08 2012 01:04 Champloo wrote: I'm pretty sure Dimaga and Nerchio will still be announced for this. There must be a reason they didn't participate in the MLG qualifier.
Yeah, I really can't think of any other reason to skip the MLG qualifiers! Can't wait for the last invites! (and ESV winner).
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