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It is time. Today we proudly announce first details of our upcoming StarCraft 2 cup series. After tons of brainstorming, discussions with ESL and our sponsor, lanforge.ch, we are finally ready to feed you some info.
We, the E-Sport Blog team, have decided to hold the cup series in several parts, similar to the EPS Germany. As the past EPS Germany events have shown, this format was very well accepted by the players. There will be a total of six cups. Each cup is held online on the tournament platform of the ESL and will only be accessible for players from Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
All of the cups will be played during the months of July and August, on Sundays and Wednesdays. The ESL urged us not to hold on to our original plans of having fixed match-days, as effort and gain are not quite as reasonable these days. According to a small survey, the mentioned days seemed to be the ones working out the best for most players.
The format is easily comprehendible: Players can earn points in each cup. The better they perform the more points the receive. Points are awarded to the eight best players of each cup. At the end of the series, the eight players who were able to earn the most points during the cups, are invited to the offline playoffs.
A very important point the E-Sport Blog wanted to achieve: The cup system should hold some fun for every player! Therefore we were able to arrange an ingenious deal with our sponsor lanforge.ch! Every cup participant wins something! How? Simple: For every round of the cup a player reached, a 1% discount is granted at the lanforge.ch store. So even when a player participates in all six cups but drops out in the first round each, a discount of 6% is granted nonetheless! With this we obviously hope to motivate even those players among you, who don’t expect to win this whole thing, to participate in the cup anyways.
The exact dates of the cups, the location of the offline playoffs, the caster who will be casting the event, and especially the prizes worth 2’000,- CHF, will be announced the coming days and weeks. And of course, on the E-Sport Blog we’ll provide you with our homemade, huge coverage of the cup-series. Stay tuned for the coming announcements, and let us look forward to a thrilling Starcraft Series Switzerland, short S³.
Link: www.esportblog.ch
*** UPDATE 27.06.2012 ***
The Dates for the Cups and the Finals are out follow the Link!
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Sweet :D Count me in! Not getting my hopes ups to reach the offline finals as a competitor, but definitely as a visitor 
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Cool  gonna start my special training today.... maybe i win one match before dropping out :D
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is bigs still allowed to play in the EPS germany?
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I hope you arent calling it SSS.
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biGs is still allowed to play in the EPS Germany, why should he not?
and no we dont name the series SSS, we named it S³
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Free money for bigs. He must be happy, anyway good luck.
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On June 11 2012 21:16 SilverStar wrote:
Free money for bigs. He must be happy, anyway good luck.
Its not Money
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Cool! I'll try to participate in the cups, hopefully i dont always lose in the first round, there are a lot of good players in switzerland!
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Is there any rough estimate yet where and when the offline-playoffs will go down?
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prediction: biGs wins everything
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On June 12 2012 16:43 EcstatiC wrote:
prediction: biGs wins everything
That is if biGs participates  Which would be cool though... unless you would like to win :D
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On June 12 2012 16:12 invinzible wrote:
Is there any rough estimate yet where and when the offline-playoffs will go down?
We announce that as soon as possible. For the Finals we are looking forward that they will be played somewhere in zurich. but we let you know that in the coming weeks.
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Neat! Very happy to see eSports finally growing a little in switzerland! Really looking forward to it!
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Germany767 Posts
Let Soe cast sometime and the numbers will follow! ^_^
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Yeeeahhh Soe ftw! Let her stream in swiss-german ...wait...she should just stream it!
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omg switzerland new korea!
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We are already casting in swiss german, but I would like to see soe join as a caster Ty for the advice TLO, we've already thought about that haha :D and you should finally go and rock the show
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I guess with her Swiss roots, Soe would actually qualify for participation in the series! How about giving your Progaming career another shot?
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On June 13 2012 21:16 Liquid`TLO wrote:
Let Soe cast sometime and the numbers will follow! ^_^
You know iam dreaming of, that she would cast our series .
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Soe doing a Swiss-german Cast! I'm pretty sure the crowd would love that
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switzerland fighting! :D
Well I'd be more than happy and honored to cast some of the games, thats for sure!
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The honor will be all ours.
Let's kick this revolution into overdrive!
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Cool stuff, will check-in if I'm around.
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I'm from the French part of Switzerland (Neuchâtel - Neuenburg).
French events are too far away for me, and most of the events/webtv in Switzerland are in Swiss German. I feel sad. :'(
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On June 15 2012 22:23 Dodh wrote:
I'm from the French part of Switzerland (Neuchâtel - Neuenburg).
French events are too far away for me, and most of the events/webtv in Switzerland are in Swiss German. I feel sad. :'(
This Series is open to EVERYONE from Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Shouldn't matter whether you are French or German speaking, right? And if you qualify for the offline finals: Switzerland is really not that big. Travelling to Zurich shouldn't be much of a hustle
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On June 15 2012 22:25 invinzible wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2012 22:23 Dodh wrote:
I'm from the French part of Switzerland (Neuchâtel - Neuenburg).
French events are too far away for me, and most of the events/webtv in Switzerland are in Swiss German. I feel sad. :'( This Series is open to EVERYONE from Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Shouldn't matter whether you are French or German speaking, right? And if you qualify for the offline finals: Switzerland is really not that big. Travelling to Zurich shouldn't be much of a hustle
Oh yes of course, I wasn't talking about the Series because I know my skill level is too poor to do it haha :D.
But yes, travelling to Zurich isn't that hard (even if Schweizer Bahn are way too overpriced  ) but as a spectator, Swiss German is like... Yeah, strange for me :D
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On June 15 2012 22:28 Dodh wrote:but as a spectator, Swiss German is like... Yeah, strange for me :D
Well, I suppose Swiss German is "strange" everyone who's not quite used to its sound
From what I hear the casting may not necessarily be in German only - we'll see (I guess) uuuuhhh *drumrolls*
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On June 15 2012 22:31 invinzible wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2012 22:28 Dodh wrote:but as a spectator, Swiss German is like... Yeah, strange for me :D Well, I suppose Swiss German is "strange" everyone who's not quite used to its sound From what I hear the casting may not necessarily be in German only - we'll see (I guess) uuuuhhh *drumrolls*
If there's English casting, maybe I could spend some money to travel to Zurich :p
We'll see!
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Online we will have some English Casters, for the Cups.
If the Offline Finalls will be also in English i dont know but we will see.
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The StarCraft Series Switzerland is drawing closer. In this news we inform you about the dates of the upcoming cups as well as of the Offline Final. We chose the dates of the cups according to the results of the survey we were running earlier, about when you guys are most likely available to play in a tournament – the cups will be held on Sundays and Wednesdays.
We decided to have four of the six cups on Sundays, and the two others on Wednesday evenings. This way we hope most of you will be able to earn some of the important points for getting invited to the Offline Final.
Dates of the S³ cups:
Wednesday, July 25th, 18:30
Sunday, July 29th, 17:00
Sunday, August 5th, 17:00
Wednesday, August 8th, 18:30
Sunday, August 12th, 17:00
Sunday, August 19th, 17:00
After these six cups, the eight best players will be invited to the offline Finals. This Final will probably be held on Saturday, September 1st. However, this date is not 100% fixed yet. Eventually we will be rescheduling to a week later, Saturday September 8th. Details on the location and the tournament rules of the whole series will be announced in additional news soon.
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Sounds great, looking forward to this
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France1887 Posts
Here is a Liquipedia page for the event  StarCraft Series Switzerland.
It's just a stub for now, I'm waiting about more details about the series.
Good luck!
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So it starts tomorrow. Any further information available? (Still a lot of TBD's on the Liquipedia page)
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France1887 Posts
Some information about the cast and the prize pool has been posted yesterday on esportsblog.ch:
In German or in English.
I updated the Liquipedia page accordingly.
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ey guys just fell apart this thread, can any1 of u ladz tell me if there are sc2 clans from switzerland? with like a community and active players? not necessairly a high skill level :D
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On July 25 2012 21:46 Foleyyy wrote:
ey guys just fell apart this thread, can any1 of u ladz tell me if there are sc2 clans from switzerland? with like a community and active players? not necessairly a high skill level :D
I think there is a clan called binary evasion.
http://www.binary-evasion.com/
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The first Qualifier is over! mYiFlunigs (www.myinsanity.eu also swiss Clan), wins the First Cup. On Sunday 29.07.2012 the Second Qualifier take a part. So all Swiss Players go and get you a slot.
First Qualifier was well placed with 28 Players!
For Register Second Qualifier:
http://www.esl.eu/alpen/sc2/1on1/s3q2/signup/
To our Coverage and Page:
http://www.esportblog.ch
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Great tournament
I need to go back to training ASAP to try qualifying.
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Third Qualifier is Over.
Wulverate wins the third qualifier. We now have every Cup a different winner. So stay tuned for the last Three Qualifiers. You still can get some Points! Go4it www.esportblog.ch
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