FXOpen e-Sports is proud to announce the 6th installment of the FXOpen Invitational Series. New to the 6th event are a doubled number of players, 16 qualifiers and a new format.
After much consulting and feedback about our most recent event, we have decided on a few changes, changes include Group stage play into single elimination bo5/bo7 over double elimination bracket, Multiple qualifier events in all regions SEA/KR/EU/US to give some up and coming talent a chance to show what they can do and get noticed and introduction of two new casters to supliment the FXOpen casting lineup with JoRoSaR and Lyrian.
Prizes from last event
There are still some outstanding prizes from our previous event, the full list of prize winners is below, please contact us (PM on TL) if you have not received your prize yet so we can get it to you ASAP.
Equipment winners: - g2wolf - Banshee Headset - komprezzor - Spectre Mouse - brxleg - Zerg bag - purpl3ninja - Zerg bag - lolstarz - Zerg bag
Ro64: Dual groups (Bo3, same as Code S) into a 32-player single elimination bracket (Ro32-4 Bo5, Grand Final Bo7)
$5000 in prizes
All games broadcast
High quality production for free
16 players qualifying, 4 from NA, Europe, Korea/TW and SEA
Group A IMHappy FXOLeenock MVPMonster NvYoonYoJun
Group B MarineKingPrime FXOGuMiho XpecIM-Hui TSLInori
Group C TSLRevival FXOTear FXOStrelok NSHSan
Group D NSHJjakji STKingKong BBoongBBoongPrime SlayerSYuGiOh
Group E STSquirtle Grubby viOlet xGKing.iaguz
Group F STPartinG SlayerSCrank QuanticTheStC cRFenner
Group G TSLSymbol MVPKeen FXOLoWeLy FXOBabyKnight
Group H STHack TSLPolt MVPSniper FXOLucky
Group I SlayerSPuzzle NSHSeal TSLRagnarok SlayerSArthur
Group J NSHSting FXOJKS FXOChoya mouzMaNa
Group K SlayerSMMA WELoveCD iM`Yang TSLHyuN
Group L MaruPrime IMYongHwa iM`Mafia FXOasd
Group M FXOwhale iSCrazymovinG IMSeed QuanticIllusion
Group N LiquidHerO IMFirst FXOSiriuS AcerScarlett
Group O CreatorPrime SuperNoVa GoSutgun coLgoswser
Group P IMLosirA NvmOOnGLaDe MVPsC coLTriMaster
The tournament will be broadcast over 13 broadcast days, each Saturday and Sunday from the 28th of July to the 9th of September.
Group play:
Opening Weekend Friday, Jul 27 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Groups A, B and C Saturday, Jul 28 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Groups D, E and F Sunday, Jul 29 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Groups G and H
Sunday, Aug 12 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Groups I, J, K, and L Sunday, Aug 12 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Groups M, N, O, and P
Bracket:
Saturday, Aug 18 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Round of 32 Day 1 Sunday, Aug 19 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Round of 32 Day 2
Saturday, Sep 01 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Round of 32 Day 3, Ro16 Day 1 Sunday, Sep 02 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Round of 16 Day 2
Saturday, Sep 08 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00): Round of 8, Round of 4 and Grand Final
As YouTubeLive is blocked in Germany, we will be also including a region locked own3d.tv stream for German viewers. Anyone outside of German that tries to view the own3d stream will be redirected back to YouTubeLive.
FXOpen is a forex trading company seeking to get more involved in the game they are passionate about - StarCraft 2. FXOpen currently sponsors MMA, drift car series and various other sporting events.
Siiiiiiick! I'm digging the format. Only concern is Atlantis Spaceship, but meh, major tournaments like the GSL have it, so I guess my personal issues with the map are insignificant.
On June 01 2012 04:19 stormfoxSC wrote: Siiiiiiick! I'm digging the format. Only concern is Atlantis Spaceship, but meh, major tournaments like the GSL have it, so I guess my personal issues with the map are insignificant.
What's wrong with AS? Did you watch MVP Squirtle game 5? Sickest map ever.
game five was metropolis atlantis spaceship is pretty bad imo, terran up
On June 01 2012 04:19 stormfoxSC wrote: Siiiiiiick! I'm digging the format. Only concern is Atlantis Spaceship, but meh, major tournaments like the GSL have it, so I guess my personal issues with the map are insignificant.
What's wrong with AS? Did you watch MVP Squirtle game 5? Sickest map ever.
What MVP did was end the game before the map itself could even be played out. Certainly an amazing and nail-biting end to the finals, but has little to do with the map itself.
On June 01 2012 05:57 TumNarDok wrote: Euro Quali conflicts with WCS Euro Combi Finals.though, you'll miss out on some players (possibly, depends on schedule there I guess)
We did our best to avoid as many other events as possible, MLG/Dreamhack/HSC all on very shortly etc. we did the best we could so there's as few overlaps as possible
Hope someone official can help clarify a few points :
1. Which version of Daybreak is the tournament using (ladder / GSL)??
2. Regarding the main invitational event, how will the prize money be paid? Through Paypal or other channel?
3. Regarding the main invitational event, which server the games will be played on if the players are from different server?
4. Is there anyway for Chinese players to participate in the qualifiers? If yes, which qualifers do they join?
5. In the OP, it says :
You must live in the region in order to play in the qualifiers.
What about Hong Kong citizens (a Chinese) with SEA version SC2, can they participate in the SEA qualifiers? Players in HK bought SEA version cuz we prefer English over Mandarin, and the connection is probably better for us.
I apologise in advance if the information asked is posted somewhere else. Hope people can understand that I am new to the online tournament scene / . \ And thanks in advance for your reply ^^.
You must live in the region in order to play in the qualifiers.
What about Hong Kong citizens (a Chinese) with SEA version SC2, can they participate in the SEA qualifiers? Players in HK bought SEA version cuz we prefer English over Mandarin, and the connection is probably better for us.
I apologise in advance if the information asked is posted somewhere else. Hope people can understand that I am new to the online tournament scene / . \ And thanks in advance for your reply ^^.
To answer your questions.
1 - GSL version 2 - Direct Bank deposit is our primary way (tax audit purposes) 3 - Server rules are being done up officially now by Frequency, in short the main server for this event is the Korean server, in cases like KR vs EU and US vs EU I believe the server used will be NA. 4 - Chinese players can participate in the Korean Qualifier this time around, if there is enough interest I will work on a Chinese qualifier for our next event 5 - I spoke with frequency, we are OK with players in that situation to play in the SEA qualifiers since it is their primary server.
I don't understand why you are making it even more spread out than the previous one. I tried explaining it the last time but this is even worse (for the players, viewers, even you). You can't do it like this and then say "we can't break even" as if it was the universal truth :/
On June 03 2012 04:09 Zax19 wrote: I don't understand why you are making it even more spread out than the previous one. I tried explaining it the last time but this is even worse (for the players, viewers, even you). You can't do it like this and then say "we can't break even" as if it was the universal truth :/
I do remember your posts and we did have discussion on your points however we decided on running the same format broadcast wise as the last event. There is double the amount of games to be broadcast since many of the players advised us the group into single elim is better for them. A main factor to our decision against weekend style tournaments as you suggested was TB's details he contributed about SCI4, which is a much more successful event than ours viewer wise.
We are not perfect, but we will be consistently be evaluating our events, the change from our FIS4 event to FIS5 showed dramatic improvement, we are simply adjusting as we go, if this shows decline in interest then we will adjust accordingly again.
I don't agree how this can be "worse" than any other format though. some reasoning below;
Giving the players time to get their matches played actually reduces the pressure on them, especially with many players having difficult travel schedules. It gives them the option to play out everything in one weekend which most Koreans prefer to do, or stage it out as their schedule requires. This style of scheduling is no different to NASL or IPL in many aspects.
It gives a regular event to tune into as the tournament progresses, some prefer regular things some prefer weekend events, however there was constant growth during every broadcast during our last event peaking with our finals, If we saw differently I would happily agree with you that the broadcast format should be changed.
I do not see any downside to this format for us, as you stated, many sponsorship models are advertising for awareness, the FXOpen marketing department has told us how much they believe the exposure is worth, If anything extending the format for more broadcast time for the same cost would show an increase in cost/effect leading to the possibility of more allowance for our events, along with other factors like advertising and such to further increase the investment.
I am more than happy to elaborate on the reasoning and logic behind our format changes in detail if you wish via PM, If i find time I will do up a blog on it on our site shortly
On June 03 2012 04:09 Zax19 wrote: I don't understand why you are making it even more spread out than the previous one. I tried explaining it the last time but this is even worse (for the players, viewers, even you). You can't do it like this and then say "we can't break even" as if it was the universal truth :/
I do remember your posts and we did have discussion on your points however we decided on running the same format broadcast wise as the last event. There is double the amount of games to be broadcast since many of the players advised us the group into single elim is better for them. A main factor to our decision against weekend style tournaments as you suggested was TB's details he contributed about SCI4, which is a much more successful event than ours viewer wise.
We are not perfect, but we will be consistently be evaluating our events, the change from our FIS4 event to FIS5 showed dramatic improvement, we are simply adjusting as we go, if this shows decline in interest then we will adjust accordingly again.
I don't agree how this can be "worse" than any other format though. some reasoning below;
Giving the players time to get their matches played actually reduces the pressure on them, especially with many players having difficult travel schedules. It gives them the option to play out everything in one weekend which most Koreans prefer to do, or stage it out as their schedule requires. This style of scheduling is no different to NASL or IPL in many aspects.
It gives a regular event to tune into as the tournament progresses, some prefer regular things some prefer weekend events, however there was constant growth during every broadcast during our last event peaking with our finals, If we saw differently I would happily agree with you that the broadcast format should be changed.
I do not see any downside to this format for us, as you stated, many sponsorship models are advertising for awareness, the FXOpen marketing department has told us how much they believe the exposure is worth, If anything extending the format for more broadcast time for the same cost would show an increase in cost/effect leading to the possibility of more allowance for our events, along with other factors like advertising and such to further increase the investment.
I am more than happy to elaborate on the reasoning and logic behind our format changes in detail if you wish via PM, If i find time I will do up a blog on it on our site shortly
First off, I apologise for the tone, it’s probably that I value my ideas too much but people online rarely seem interested. I follow FXOBoSs’s blog but FXO webpage is a bit outdated, the jersey design contest faded away so the structure of FIS6 made me rage a bit. I’m surprised you remember and I thank you for your reply.
Considering the prize pool and prize distribution I’m not sure it’s worth the time for the players if they have to attend the event on weekends spread across 2 months. I find the scheduling very risky, there might be frequent walkovers. Personally I watch most Starcraft if there is a big weekend event because of the hype, otherwise I only follow my favourite players - there is too much content. That’s why I watch qxc in NASL from VODs and I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to spread it out, people might lose interest.
One idea I had recently is that there might be a strange conflict of interest because FXOpen it’s the tournament organiser and also one of the two sponsors. My layman’s understanding is that as an organiser you rely on the sponsors and the viewers to break even but as a sponsor you don’t expect the money back directly, you essentially pay for marketing. That’s why I think FXOBoSs was a bit sceptical after the last event and from your reaction it seems you’ve already quantified the return on marketing and decided it’s worth the cost of the event.
Ultimately it’s all up to you, what worries me is the live viewership, attention span of the community and general response from the players. The “redeeming” factor a long league such as NASL is the speed of releasing VODs. It’s important if you want the people to watch the game rather than just look at the results and then decide what to watch and what to skip. For example the MLG Spring Arena 2 released the VODs even after just one week but when I tried watching them I felt it’s “the past” and I wasn’t all that interested because I knew the results.
I sincerely wish you can make it work and once again I apologise for my tone. It seems silly that I’m trying to tell a forex firm what to do with their money :D. I’ll try not to spam you with my concerns.
On June 03 2012 23:27 Fusilero wrote: Happy to see tear be invited, any chance to see more of the hype behind him is good.
He was invited to this because of his most recent in house ranking performance of 35-4 (bo3 against every player in the house) Taking first place over Leenock and Gumiho.
On June 03 2012 23:27 Fusilero wrote: Happy to see tear be invited, any chance to see more of the hype behind him is good.
He was invited to this because of his most recent in house ranking performance of 35-4 (bo3 against every player in the house) Taking first place over Leenock and Gumiho.
holllyyyy tearrrr wow. what a boss!
great invites! keep em coming fxo~ creator, maru, life? the underage prodigies haha
On June 12 2012 14:03 GenesisX wrote: Will there be free VODS?
Yes.
On June 12 2012 14:07 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: This is going to be absolutely sick. I'd of been happy with just the lineup we have already. Wish more of IM would represent :/
I will be rooting for big Fenner! He is a total sexual beast and I hear he is also really good at Barbarian in D3 and sometimes wears a robe on his stream
IMFirst & SlayerSArthur qualified from the last Korean qualifier according to FXOpen's twitter here. I love First, but I've never heard of Arthur, will be cool to see what he can do!
On June 24 2012 21:34 Zvenn3n wrote: IMFirst & SlayerSArthur qualified from the last Korean qualifier according to FXOpen's twitter here. I love First, but I've never heard of Arthur, will be cool to see what he can do!
IIRC Arthur got on the team from their latest tryouts.
A little note... during the last FXOpen tournament, I gave you a bit of flak for your audio production. Everything else was really good, really, but pretty please, get the casters to use a good (and possibly the same) microphone!
On June 25 2012 01:19 WigglingSquid wrote: A little note... during the last FXOpen tournament, I gave you a bit of flak for your audio production. Everything else was really good, really, but pretty please, get the casters to use a good (and possibly the same) microphone!
That would be Wolf's mic as he was too poor to get a new one at the time He has a new one now don't worry!
On June 29 2012 01:25 Sepnova wrote: XiGua going to show everyone why he is best foreign zerg.
XiGua got absolutely dominated by Keen 4-0 in a recent showmatch (just a couple of weeks post-patch). He's okay, but honestly, even Toodming looks better nowadays.
On June 29 2012 01:25 Sepnova wrote: XiGua going to show everyone why he is best foreign zerg.
XiGua got absolutely dominated by Keen 4-0 in a recent showmatch (just a couple of weeks post-patch). He's okay, but honestly, even Toodming looks better nowadays.
Yeah, xigua definitely hasn't been on form lately. He got pretty destroyed in the Chinese IPL qualifier, by Loner if I remember correctly.
On July 03 2012 21:23 Hall0wed wrote: So excited for this. Could end up being the best online tournament of the year.
TSL4?
Based on the number of amazing Koreans in this this should atleast have higher level games. Both will be great but we'll see I guess. Plus I assume I will be awake when this is live but I may not be awake for TSL.
On July 03 2012 21:23 Hall0wed wrote: So excited for this. Could end up being the best online tournament of the year.
TSL4?
if this had the prize pool to back it up, the fxopenis would be seriously something.
O_o
Everyone loves the FXOpenis, it is one of the best out there.
This is our biggest one yet. It doesn't stop growing.
Oh god the puns!
Either way, Good luck to Scarlett, Nerchio and Bly!! and good luck to the rest of the participants! Can't wait to see the final outcome of this tournament.
All groups announced, as well as some players being unable to play and some replacements. Casters changed - NerdSwagger and Wolf will not be able to commentate the event, but JoRoSaR will be joining Unstable, Raelcun and Lyrlian.
On July 16 2012 18:30 FXOpen wrote: OP is updated!
Some changes:
All groups announced, as well as some players being unable to play and some replacements. Casters changed - NerdSwagger and Wolf will not be able to commentate the event, but JoRoSaR will be joining Unstable, Raelcun and Lyrlian.
Aw. Sick lineup, anyway, I am looking forward to this. (By the way, you listed Choya as Zerg. Oversight or insider information on a race switch?)
On July 16 2012 18:30 FXOpen wrote: OP is updated!
Some changes:
All groups announced, as well as some players being unable to play and some replacements. Casters changed - NerdSwagger and Wolf will not be able to commentate the event, but JoRoSaR will be joining Unstable, Raelcun and Lyrlian.
Aw. Sick lineup, anyway, I am looking forward to this. (By the way, you listed Choya as Zerg. Oversight or insider information on a race switch?)
JESUS is this tournament stacked. Unfortunately the only SEA player I see advancing is tgun. yang has a small shot too I suppose (PvP vs LoveCD could go either way and he might beat HyuN because he came SO CLOSE to beating DongRaeGu. No chances vs MMA).
The OP is now updated with a few changed broadcast times, as well as a work around for our German viewers. As YouTubeLive is blocked in Germany, we will be also including a region locked own3d.tv stream for German viewers (In 720p and 360p). Anyone outside of Germany that tries to view the own3d stream will be redirected back to YouTubeLive.
See you in a few days for our first broadcast - Groups A, B and C! ^^
I mentioned this in the other thread but since people are asking here too,
own3d were supposed to have a dedicated stream just for German viewers however they msg'd me this morning saying there was an issue and it wont be ready for today's broadcast, they are working round the clock until they get it fixed though
Due to the delay caused by our office's ISP, we want to know how many of you still want to see the Ro32 from our event - keeping in mind that it's really out of date. Below is a list of the Ro32 matches yet to be broadcast, along with a poll
FXOLeenock vs SlayerSPuzzle MarineKingPrime vs FXOJKS NSHSan vs SlayerSMMA STKingKong vs IMYongHwa Grubby vs FXOwhale (Grubby received walkover win) STPartinG vs IMFirst FXOBabyKnight vs CreatorPrime FXOLucky vs NvmOOnGLaDe SlayerSArthur vs MVPMonster mouzMaNa vs TSLInori TSLHyuN vs FXOTear FXOasd vs NSHjjakji IMSeed vs STSquirtle LiquidHerO vs QuanticTheStC iMtgun vs TSLSymbol IMLosirA vs MVPSniper
Poll: Broadcast or skip the Ro32?
Skip Ro32 and continue from Ro16, upload to YouTube (50)
78%
Broadcast the Ro32 (14)
22%
64 total votes
Your vote: Broadcast or skip the Ro32?
(Vote): Broadcast the Ro32 (Vote): Skip Ro32 and continue from Ro16, upload to YouTube
Pending poll results!
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Internet issues from the Office, can't get any reasonable amount of bandwidth even with all the other PCs unplugged. We are going to just put the games from today straight to our youtube videos and try again tomorrow since we're already behind on the schedule.
why dont you let some 1 other cast that has a good internet connection though... watching the games live is 1000 better than going for vods, cause there are 100000000 spoilers than and i know how they did play before i even come to push the play button... please ask some other to cast it for you the 1 day....
On September 27 2012 04:10 FXOUnstable wrote: Disgusting service from the ISP provider we have in our office, we will air it very shortly, some of the r032 games will be out of date, but the rest were not played until we knew when we can get it back up and running
On September 29 2012 19:32 ZerphyR wrote: Dear guys at FXO, sincerely i love your productions but this is just bad for the tournament itself.. Please stream the games already.
I can stream it in 240p but that's the best quality your going to get until the internet has been fixed up, the entire exchange we were connected too was flooded a few weeks ago and they are still rebuilding it all, they say it should be done in less than 2 weeks
Still following this thread hoping for updates, such a great tournament line up the internet situation was really unfortunate. When the games are streamed I will be ready and waiting
On September 27 2012 04:10 FXOUnstable wrote: Disgusting service from the ISP provider we have in our office, we will air it very shortly, some of the r032 games will be out of date, but the rest were not played until we knew when we can get it back up and running
I wish you had told us that once over the last 2 months instead of just leaving us hanging...
On September 27 2012 04:10 FXOUnstable wrote: Disgusting service from the ISP provider we have in our office, we will air it very shortly, some of the r032 games will be out of date, but the rest were not played until we knew when we can get it back up and running
I wish you had told us that once over the last 2 months instead of just leaving us hanging...
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Only concern is Atlantis Spaceship, but meh, major tournaments like the GSL have it, so I guess my personal issues with the map are insignificant.
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He has a new one now don't worry!
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