This was definitely something that needed to be done. Welcome to the first big reverse race Starcraft II tournament. Players offrace on ladder or smurf accounts all the time, let's see how professional players fare when they have to play each other's races in a tournament environment. Will they teach each other how their races are really supposed to be played or will we see funny mistakes from all sides? Creative or standard? "Consider switching races" or "never touch that race again"? This tournament would not be possible without our great sponsor Alienware.
Thursday, Jun 28 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
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Not Terran:
ClouD - Carlo Giannacco
Kas - Mihaylo Hayda
LucifroN - Pedro Moreno Duran
GoOdy - Sascha Lupp
meRz - Tim Olsson
Not Protoss:
BlinG - Samayan Kay
Socke - Giacomo Thüs
MaNa - Grzegorz Komincz
White-Ra - Aleksey Krupnyk
elfi - Samuli Sihvonen
Not Zerg:
sLivko - Artem Garavtsov
JonnyREcco - Paul Whyte
Cytoplasm - Jonas Larsson
HappyZerG - Svyatoslav Vlasyuk
Stephano - Ilyes Satouri
Nerchio - Artur Bloch
- 1st place: 200£ (~248€)
- 2nd place: 100£ (~124€)
- 3rd/4th place: 50£ (~62€)
Exchange ratios according to Google on June 22nd.
(2) ESV Korhal Compound TE
(2) ESV Ohana LE
(4) ESV Vicious
(4) ESV Khaydaria
(4) MLG Entombed Valley
Four streams, coverage of all matches!
Main Stream: Martijn & JoRoSaR
http://www.twitch.tv/glhf
Stream 2: Leon
http://www.twitch.tv/leonstarcraft
Stream 3: IMBAtv
http://www.twitch.tv/imbalancedtv
Stream 4: GamerPowered
http://www.twitch.tv/gamerpowered
You just play each other's races, okay? Fine, here you have it in more detail:
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Format: 16 player Single Elimination
Match format: All matches Bo3, Final Bo5
Reverse Race: In each match, players will choose the default race of their opponent.
- Example: (Terran) Grubby vs Kas (Protoss)
Mirror matches: The non-mirror matchups of the other two races will be played first. For a possible third map, the regular races will be played. The upper player in the bracket chooses his race for the first map BEFORE the map veto.
- Example: DarK.FoRcE vs Slivko – DarK.FoRcE chooses Protoss for the first map before the map veto
- - Map 1: (Protoss) DarK.FoRcE vs Slivko (Terran)
- - Map 2: (Terran) DarK.FoRcE vs Slivko (Protoss)
- - Map 3: (Zerg) DarK.FoRcE vs Slivko (Zerg)
Mirror match in Final: Again, non-mirror matchups of the other two races first. For maps 3 and 4, the mirror matchups of those races will be played. For a possible fifth map, the regular races will be played. The upper player chooses his race for the first map (which will also be the mirror race for map 3).
- Example: ClouD vs SjoW – ClouD chooses Zerg for the first and third map
- - Map 1: (Zerg) ClouD vs SjoW (Protoss)
- - Map 2: (Protoss) ClouD vs SjoW (Zerg)
- - Map 3: (Zerg) ClouD vs SjoW (Zerg)
- - Map 4: (Protoss) ClouD vs SjoW (Protoss)
- - Map 5: (Terran) ClouD vs SjoW (Terran)
Match format: All matches Bo3, Final Bo5
Reverse Race: In each match, players will choose the default race of their opponent.
- Example: (Terran) Grubby vs Kas (Protoss)
Mirror matches: The non-mirror matchups of the other two races will be played first. For a possible third map, the regular races will be played. The upper player in the bracket chooses his race for the first map BEFORE the map veto.
- Example: DarK.FoRcE vs Slivko – DarK.FoRcE chooses Protoss for the first map before the map veto
- - Map 1: (Protoss) DarK.FoRcE vs Slivko (Terran)
- - Map 2: (Terran) DarK.FoRcE vs Slivko (Protoss)
- - Map 3: (Zerg) DarK.FoRcE vs Slivko (Zerg)
Mirror match in Final: Again, non-mirror matchups of the other two races first. For maps 3 and 4, the mirror matchups of those races will be played. For a possible fifth map, the regular races will be played. The upper player chooses his race for the first map (which will also be the mirror race for map 3).
- Example: ClouD vs SjoW – ClouD chooses Zerg for the first and third map
- - Map 1: (Zerg) ClouD vs SjoW (Protoss)
- - Map 2: (Protoss) ClouD vs SjoW (Zerg)
- - Map 3: (Zerg) ClouD vs SjoW (Zerg)
- - Map 4: (Protoss) ClouD vs SjoW (Protoss)
- - Map 5: (Terran) ClouD vs SjoW (Terran)