The 'Plunder Down Under' Invitational!
Brought to you by Saddle Club Entertainment, 'I Heart eSports' and Tt eSports
Original Artwork by Kalikah - http://jasminekurda.carbonmade.com/

The 'Plunder Down Under' Invitational is the brainchild of Alicia ‘femFxRogue’ Oliver and Nicolas ‘TAChadmann’ Russo, combining to bring the South East Asian Starcraft II Community a Tournament ... with a twist.

The 16 Player Invitational (14 SEA invites, 2 international invites) will be run strictly Random vs Random on what we have determined to be the worst maps ever created. With the players unable to choose their main races and playing on maps which are not in the ladder pool they will be forced to think outside their normal styles and deliver fun and exciting games for those spectating on the stream.

The Tournament will be casted live by Leigh ‘Maynarde’ Mandalov of ACL Gold Coast, along with the Tournament creators, femFxRogue and TAChadMann.

The whole tournament will be streamed on Twitch.tv @ www.twitch.tv/TteSPORTS.

Players:
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SEA Invites:

SQLyang
NvPinder
Nvdeth
SQLSenSei
NvDox
CruxStallion
FlashRevenant
TtPiG
xGKingiaguz
TAEdgE
mOOnGLaDe
NvRossi
BalloonSPR
NvYoonYJ

+ Show Spoiler [Our international invites!] +

+ Show Spoiler [Invite #1] +

EG.Machine!
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Must focus - Must get 200/200 banelings

Machine, the American Zerg from team Evil Genius will show that living in a house with other gamers can make you crazy and design the most ridiculous builds ever seen!

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Always giving to his fans - Machine will deliver the funny games

+ Show Spoiler [Invite #2] +

SlayerSCella!
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Holy Check!

Cella, the king of 'Funny games for his fans' will be bringing his best Random builds. As the SlayerS team coach he knows all the races well and will be a serious contender for the title.

13 gates? you ain't seen nothing yet

Date: Saturday 24th March
Time: 3:00pm AEDT - (GMT +11) - PST 9pm - 5am CET - 1pm KST.
[B]Where: NA Battle.net Server
Stream: www.twitch.tv/TteSPORTS

Format: 16 Player Double Elimination Bracket.

Prize Pool:
Currently $350 cash prize pool!
1st Place$150
2nd Place$75
3rd Place$25

Funny game awards:
Players will be Judged on Funny builds and games
There will be 4x$25 prizes given out for the best/funniest/strangest play styles and builds!
Also, Tt eSports will be giving a Shock Spin Headset for the best Funny game for the Fans build (with bonus points awarded for the Build name)

Map Pool:

Debris Fields
Elysium
Plunder Isle
Monsoon
Novice Blistering Sands
Novice Steppes of War
Abyss
Incineration Zone
Scrap Station
Toxic Slums

+ Special surprise Map in the final Trolololol...

Event Goals:
With this event, we aim to promote SEA and SEA eSports - showing the rest of the world that SEA know how to do it.. and have fun while we do! We hope to bring exposure to some of SEA's top players in a fun and exciting medium.

There will also be some great Stream give away's to the viewers!
I <3 eSports will be providing complete sets of their Stickers
Tt eSports will be giving away 5 Diablo 3 beta keys and 2 White Ra Mouse Pads!

Saddle Club Entertainment, you should have expected us!
We would like to thank our sponsors, the players in this event and Jasmine 'Kalikah' for the amazing original artwork!
<3

riiChard

Australia65 Posts

February 28 2012 11:38 GMT

siiickkk!!!

ChaoticBlack

Australia288 Posts

February 28 2012 11:42 GMT

Wow sounds awesome! Excellent idea to bring more exposure to the SEA players!.

John Madden

American Samoa894 Posts

February 28 2012 11:53 GMT

Hectic mate! I <3 SEA not as much as I <3 beards or football.

Peleus

Australia420 Posts

February 28 2012 12:42 GMT

haha sounds so weird it's kinda awesome. Novice blistering sands? lol.

Sated

England4983 Posts

February 28 2012 12:47 GMT

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flakmonkey

Australia254 Posts

February 28 2012 12:47 GMT

Moonglade will probably take this.

EDIT: WTF @ the map pool! Novice maps?? Perhaps it would've been better to have a few extra showmatches on those maps than have the tournament based around it...All the best for the tournament anyway. Good to see the aussie scene in action.

ChadMann

Australia128 Posts

February 28 2012 12:52 GMT

On February 28 2012 21:47 flakmonkey wrote:
Moonglade will probably take this.

EDIT: WTF @ the map pool! Novice maps?? Perhaps it would've been better to have a few extra showmatches on those maps than have the tournament based around it...All the best for the tournament anyway. Good to see the aussie scene in action.

it is meant to be a funny game tournament...
mOOnGLaDe is a fav - but don't discount the other guys...
Silly builds and RvR on these maps is part of the concept - watch the players think outside of the box and have a good time!..

On February 28 2012 21:47 Sated wrote:
Wouldn't the SEA players be better served having a chance to show how well they can perform in normal games against established players from other regions, instead of playing against them in a wonky tournament where results can be attributed to both random race determination and the ridiculous map-pool?

It also seems a waste of time to watch this tournament when none of the match-ups are going to be competitive (and hence less entertaining) given the silly maps.

Way to be a buzz kill bro.. -_- Obviously you haven't played funny games - for the fans...?

Peleus

Australia420 Posts

February 28 2012 12:55 GMT

Honestly, I was thinking the same thing when I first heard about this tournament a while ago. Then I took a step back and looked at it. At the moment there are plenty of opportunities for the SEA community to showcase their talent against 'the world', for example the Masters Cup which happens each month. Previously many of our SEA community took on the likes of Startale members and players from Complexity and still took the 1-2-3 in the event. Do you remember seeing the tournament? Probably not, because like it or not it's simply another blip on the massively saturated tournament scene of SC2.

Unless you have thousands of dollars worth of prizes it's hard to make an impact on the international scene. At least this way it's something different, something that stands out from the masses of other tournaments and we can all have some fun.

Let's face it, if you can only enjoy 'super competitive' games then there are still a couple of tournaments and 10's of streams and 100's of hours of high level play you can still watch on the same day of the tournament, of which I'm sure the vast majority you just won't be able to get too.

On the flip side, I'm sure there is only one tournament being played on novice blistering sands .... lol.

Ftrunkz

Australia2474 Posts

February 28 2012 12:56 GMT

#10

You missed the entire point of the tournament yo ={.

Looking forward to playing this for sure!

moge

United States124 Posts

February 28 2012 13:07 GMT

#11

This should be really fun! An interesting take on a tournament. I hope it produces some fun games. Given the players we should see some crazy builds.
Looking forward to this!

Meatex

Australia285 Posts

February 28 2012 13:10 GMT

#12

This is going to be a lot of fun and with guys like Machine, Cella and Balloon i expect some fun games.
Maybe even carriers OMG
How often will you be able to see carriers in a tournament?

And like Peleus has already said - the whole point is to have "ridiculous" maps and funny games.
Plus it showcases one of the key points to the SEA community that tbh NA and sites like TL lack - and that is having fun.

John Madden

American Samoa894 Posts

February 28 2012 13:16 GMT

#13

That's the point my friend

Dox

Australia1199 Posts

February 28 2012 13:44 GMT

#14

This event is gonna be funny and awesome as hell. I highly recommend drinking whilst watching it. I'm gonna be drinking whilst playing in it.

ChadMann

Australia128 Posts

February 28 2012 13:46 GMT

#15

On February 28 2012 22:44 Dox wrote:
This event is gonna be funny and awesome as hell. I highly recommend drinking whilst watching it. I'm gonna be drinking whilst playing in it.

While tSc Entertainment support drinking in moderation - I recommend this. I'll probably have a few while casting ^_^

TemujinGK

United States483 Posts

February 28 2012 13:53 GMT

#16

I look at the play list and i was like 'Oh moonglade, oh Yoon, oh, PiG so many australian players'

God i'm an idiot.

jaydee81

Germany119 Posts

February 28 2012 13:57 GMT

#17

Haha what a neat idea! I'll tune in, this could be a lot of fun

Steelo_Rivers

United States1968 Posts

February 28 2012 13:58 GMT

#18

lets see if cella shows up this time. lol

Sated

England4983 Posts

February 28 2012 14:10 GMT

#19

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Maynarde

Australia1286 Posts

February 28 2012 14:21 GMT

#20

Looking forward to casting this

The artist's website btw: http://jasminekurda.carbonmade.com/ SICK POSTER.

This is a fun games tourney for cash on terrible maps! It's for fun. How can you NOT be excited.