The first group stage and the map pool are revealed for the next ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament, going live at August 2 in Helsinki, Finland.

One week to go and the fourth ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament is getting ready to start the battle for the $30 000 USD.
32 players have been announced and now it’s time to put them in their starting positions in the first group stage.

Remember the groups are being played out GSL style: four players and double elimination until the best two players have been determined and they advance to the next stage. Also, all the games in the group stages are best-of-5.

Change in the roster: (Z)

Bly has cancelled his participation to the tournament. He has been replaced by (T)

BRAT_OK.

First group stage

In the first round of a group, the player 1 plays against player 2, and the player 3 plays against player 4.

Group 1 *

Group 2

Group 3 *

Group 4

Group 5 *

Group 6 *

Group 7

TLAF-Liquid.Ret
Menace.MeteoRain ***
Empire.Kas
EG.Suppy

Group 8

* Group 1 has been switched with Group 5, and Group 3 has been switched with Group 6 (same players, only name and order changes) for scheduling reasons. Apologies for the mix up.

** aTn.Socke, viOLet, ROX.KiS.Pomi and RoX.KIS.fraer cancelled their participation soon after the groups were released. They have been replaced by Fuzer, dignitas.Bischu, FnaticRC.Harstem and iP.Satiini respectively.
Note that in case any group falls short on players, the group will be played in Round Robin format instead of the GSL style.
*** Ai.Cytoplasm announced that he is unable to attend the event. He is replaced by Menace.MeteoRain.

Maps

GSL_Atlantis Spaceship - TeamClash (Building blockers at ramps)
GSL_Daybreak - TeamClash (Building blockers at ramps)
TSL4 Antiga Shipyard - TSLAdmin (Cross spawns only, gold bases removed, building blockers at ramps)
TSL4 Entombed Valley - TSLAdmin (Horizontal spawns disabled)
TSL4 ESV Cloud Kingdom - TSLAdmin (Building blockers at ramps)
TSL4 ESV Ohana - TSLAdmin (Building blockers at ramps)
TSL4 Metropolis - TSLAdmin (Creep tumors on islands, building blockers at ramps)

The maps and their order will be selected by player vetoes.

Schedule

Thursday 2. August 2012

11:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups 1-4 Round 1
12:30 GMT (+00:00) Groups 1-4 Round 2
14:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups 1-4 Round 3
16:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups 5-8 Round 1
17:30 GMT (+00:00) Groups 5-8 Round 2
19:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups 5-8 Round 3

Friday 3. August 2012
11:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups A-B Round 1
12:30 GMT (+00:00) Groups A-B Round 2
14:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups A-B Round 3
16:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups C-D Round 1
17:30 GMT (+00:00) Groups C-D Round 2
19:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups C-D Round 3

Saturday 4. August 2012
09:00 GMT (+00:00) RO8 A & B
10:30 GMT (+00:00) RO8 C & D
12:00 GMT (+00:00) RO4 A
13:30 GMT (+00:00) RO4 B
15:00 GMT (+00:00) Bronze match
17:00 GMT (+00:00) Final

Results and rules
Official tournament results page at tournaments.peliliiga.fi.
For the full rule set, please refer to asus_rog_summer_2012_starcraft_ii_rules.pdf.

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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.

About ASUS
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X3GoldDot

Malaysia3840 Posts

July 26 2012 10:29 GMT

1: MC,titan
2:violet,moon
3:mana, forgg
4:taeja,idra
5:hero,socke
6:stc,huk
7: ret,kas
8:sase,puma

these are my predictions, left name being 1st and right being 2nd.

Champloo

Germany1850 Posts

July 26 2012 10:30 GMT

Poor Kas.

DailYLeet

Germany827 Posts

July 26 2012 10:31 GMT

oh no 2 pvp's for socke. I think he is dropping out in group stages :/

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

July 26 2012 10:32 GMT

Oh what sick groups

IdrA vs Taeja
DeMuslim vs Violet (revenge match from IEM Sao Paulo)

Curious to see how JonnyRecco will do in a LAN like this.

Remember the groups are being played out GSL style: four players and double elimination until the best two players have been determined and they advance to the next stage. Also, all the games in the group stages are best-of-5.

Oh wow sick, so that makes it interesting.
1 vs 2
3 vs 4
winner vs winner
loser vs loser
loster of winner vs winner of loser

ALL IN BO5, haha going to be a LONG TOURNAMENT xD

Thursday 2. August 2012
14:00 Groups 1-4 Round 1
15:30 Groups 1-4 Round 2
17:00 Groups 1-4 Round 3
19:00 Groups 5-8 Round 1
20:30 Groups 5-8 Round 2
22:00 Groups 5-8 Round 3

Wait so your leaving 3hours to play all those games :S

Guess its going to be difficult to show all the games ;(

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

July 26 2012 10:36 GMT

nice!
although 3 hours for potentially 25 games is optimistic lolol

Relaaja

Finland193 Posts

July 26 2012 10:38 GMT

Why they want to use map Atlantis Spaceshit? It is really one of the worst and boring maps ever made. There are no terrans who doesnt veto that map.

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

July 26 2012 10:40 GMT

Oh goddamn, this is the suckiest group ever for Kas. -.-

Tidus Mino

United Kingdom1108 Posts

July 26 2012 10:42 GMT

1: MC,titan
2:violet,moon
3:mana, JonnyReco
4:taeja, Idra
5:hero, SortOf
6:stc, Seiplo
7: ret,kas
8:sase, BratOK

bgx

Poland6595 Posts

July 26 2012 10:43 GMT

#10

gogo MILFORG

Aeceus

United Kingdom1278 Posts

July 26 2012 10:44 GMT

#11

Those are some really good looking groups guys.

Swiv

Germany3674 Posts

July 26 2012 10:45 GMT

#12

poor socke, i don't think the group is going to end well for him

Bagi

Germany6799 Posts

July 26 2012 10:45 GMT

#13

On July 26 2012 19:30 Champloo wrote:
Poor Kas.

Kas is the only foreigner that I feel isn't hopeless in TvZ.

Although that's mostly offline, his performance at LANs can be super disappointing.

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

July 26 2012 10:46 GMT

#14

Good luck Suppy. America could use a strong showing from an up and comer (sorry Idra, but you were so beta :p)

Tonttu

Finland606 Posts

July 26 2012 10:47 GMT

#15

Interesting groups. Go Finland!

johnnywup

United States3858 Posts

July 26 2012 10:53 GMT

#16

On July 26 2012 19:46 Bagration wrote:
Good luck Suppy. America could use a strong showing from an up and comer (sorry Idra, but you were so beta :p)

suppy shouldn't even be called an up and comer he's so good lol

Azhrak

Finland1196 Posts

July 26 2012 11:01 GMT

#17

On July 26 2012 19:32 Pandemona wrote:

Show nested quote +

Wait so your leaving 3hours to play all those games :S

Guess its going to be difficult to show all the games ;(

That's 14:00--19:00 for groups 1-4 and 19:00--00:00 for groups 5-8, so it's 5 hours per group. Each group has 3 rounds and each round has two or one matches. With 4 groups playing simultaneously that's maximum of 8 games at a time. Two games will be covered by the official streams each round and some of the rest are covered by other streams. In the second group stage there's only two groups playing simultaneously.

massivez

Belgium653 Posts

July 26 2012 11:01 GMT

#18

Gogo Taeja!!

eme

Finland105 Posts

July 26 2012 11:05 GMT

#19

Great player line-up, here's hoping for a great tournament!

CrazyBirdman

Germany3509 Posts

July 26 2012 11:14 GMT

#20

Sick, no group really looks weak. Only few groups where someone is the obvious first (only group 1 and 4 with Taeja and MC as the seemingly unstoppable players).