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UPDATE
Unfortunately   EG.Stephano.RC has cancelled his participation to the event.
EG has provided a quick statement about the matter:
Evil Geniuses will release a comprehensive statement on the matter shortly. We are extremely grateful that the event organizers were so understanding given the proximity to the event. We hope their tournament is a success, and we look forward to cheering on Marcus "ThorZaIN" Eklof who will still be competing. -- Cody Conners, General Manager, Evil Geniuses
Despite the short notice, a replacement has already been found and  TLAF-Liquid.TLO will be taking Stephano's place in the tournament.
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ASUS ROG The GD Invitational announces the groups that are going to start the $10 000 USD tournament off next Saturday, 13. October.
At the end of this week The GD Studio welcomes ASUS ROG under their roof as the ASUS ROG The GD Invitational is about to start. Eight top European players have been invited to the GD house to determine who is the new ASUS ROG champion. With just a few more days until the event gets going, it is time to release the groups.
Groups
Reminder: the groups are played in round robin format with bo3 matches. The top three players in each group advance to the playoffs with the group winners placed straight into the second round.
Rough Schedule
Due to the casual nature of the event, a formal schedule is not available beforehand. However, a rough schedule can be drawn from the fact that all tournament games will be streamed individually, one by one.
- Saturday 13. October
- ~10:00 GMT (+00:00) Group A starts
- ~16:00 GMT (+00:00) Group B starts
- Sunday 14. October
- ~12:00 GMT (+00:00) Playoffs start
Group stage match order
Group A
1. LucifroN vs Nightend
2. Ret vs Thorzain
3. LucifroN vs Thorzain
4. LucifroN vs Ret
5. Nightend vs Ret
6. Nightend vs Thorzain
Group B
1. Kas vs Elfi
2. Mana vs TLO
3. Mana vs Elfi
4. TLO vs Elfi
5. TLO vs Kas
6. Mana vs Kas
Results can be found at Liquipedia.
Previously announced
+ Show Spoiler +Tournament details- Location: The GD Studio, Stockholm, Sweden
- Date: Oct 13-14
- Prize pool: 10 000 $
- Players: 8 invited European players
- Format: Groups + playoffs
- Casters: Apollo & Semmler + guests
- Stream: Free HD stream
- Event type: Studio, no live audience
Full player listPrize distribution- 1st: $4000
- 2nd: $2000
- 3rd/4th: $1000
- 5th/6th: $700
- 7th/8th: $300
Tournament format- 2 x 4 player round robin groups
- Top 3 advances from each group
- 6 player single-elimination playoffs (group winners advance directly to semi-finals)
Map pool- TheGD Daybreak (6x1 middle base)
- TheGD Antiga Shipyard (No gold bases, forced cross-spawns)
- TheGD Entombed Valley (Horizontal spawns disabled)
- TheGD Cloud Kingdom
- TheGD Ohana
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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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Can't wait! Too bad I can't attend myself :/
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Lucifron gets lucky and avoids Stephano. Ret is eminently beatable at the moment, ThorZaIN is somewhat of an enigma and Nightend surprisingly strong, Lucifron and Nightend will advance I'd say, after that it depends on who has a better day between Ret and Master Jane.
A bit too much Stephano vs Protoss in the second group for my liking, it could get a bit boring watching him try to deflect the inevitable all-ins. Kas should go down easily to Stephano, while I'd favour him against Elfi. Mana has two 50:50 games against Elfi and Kas, hard to say who will come out of this group apart from Stephano.
I liked the BO5 GSL style format at Assembly much better than this one, but time constraints force you to go for BO3 I guess. Still, I think GSL format would be more enjoyable to watch for me at the moment, round robin always produces weird scenarios.
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Sure. Go NightEnd and Thorzain. Stephano might meet some poop with Kas if Kas is being his usual self. Nice!
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Group A:
With recent results in mind, I think LucifroN is the only one I wanna bet is gonna make it out of the group. The rest depends on the day each remaning player has. Ret has been looking rather weak as of late, but he might just as well turn his beast mode on and go 3-0
Group B:
Stephano is gonna advance nr.1, unless MaNa still knows how to all-in like a GSL protoss. Then Elfi is gonna beat MaNa in a PvP, lose to Stephano and Kas, Kas is gonna lose to Elfi and Stephano, putting Elfi second in the group. I think Kas is the least likely to advance, but he's definitely not chanceless.
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Group A:
Ret
Nightend
Thorzain
Group B:
Stephano
Mana
Kas
All 6 should advance with ease past the two who don't
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@StarVe, don't forget THREE players advance from each group. Top player gets a 'bye' and I assume the first round will be A2 vs B3 and A3 vs B2 (winners advance to play A1 and B1). Personally.. I kind of like this format (although a bo5 might be preferable).
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Ok let's be more realistic here guys. Stephano vs Ret in finals with Stephano winning it.
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Those pacific times are listed for 24 hour clock right (ie: AM)? Gotta get my sleep schedule adjusted 
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On October 09 2012 06:16 Catatonic wrote:
Group A:
Ret
Nightend
Thorzain
Group B:
Stephano
Mana
Kas
All 6 should advance with ease past the two who don't
Lucifron gets beaten by Ret+Nightend+Thorzain with ease?
Did you follow the scene the last 2-3 months? What odds are you giving?
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stephano ezpzlmnsqz group.
gogog ret!
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On October 09 2012 05:35 StarVe wrote:
I liked the BO5 GSL style format at Assembly much better than this one, but time constraints force you to go for BO3 I guess. Still, I think GSL format would be more enjoyable to watch for me at the moment, round robin always produces weird scenarios.
Remember that in groups 3/4 advances, unlike the usual 2/4. This makes the round robin more enjoyable as in the GSL format the last match would not hold much weight as both players are already advancing and they are just playing a match to determine seeds 3&5 or 4&6 which isn't much of a difference. Also, now with 3/4 advancing there is a small chance for a 3 way tie situation, the only possible outcome being one players wins all 2-0 and the rest win each other with the same scores (actually in group B this might happen, haha). In addition, there is no chance for the last match of the group being between two guys who are out already, every match counts now that 3/4 advances.
I liked the GSL style bo5 format in last ASUS ROG as well, but now the groups aren't the same and round robin just gives more value and is more fair, even though there is a small chance for the 3 way tie.
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On October 09 2012 06:22 y0su wrote:
@StarVe, don't forget THREE players advance from each group. Top player gets a 'bye' and I assume the first round will be A2 vs B3 and A3 vs B2 (winners advance to play A1 and B1). Personally.. I kind of like this format (although a bo5 might be preferable).
Yeah, I noticed now. Sorry for spreading misinformation, shame on me for not reading everything correctly.
Maybe it's better because we see more games in different matchups from each player, but going all BO5s was a cool change from every other tournament and it just felt more fair to see the better player advance while still producing great games by equally matched pros (can't say it actually is because I haven't looked into stats, that was just how I felt). I'd trade this format for BO5 GSL style any day, but this is still a decent format to adopt, just not my overall favourite thing.
Maybe the format they used at Assembly would get boring, stale and feel like it's way too time-consuming if more tournaments used it, but right now, I don't feel that way yet.
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Gogo Ret. Also cheering for Thorzain of course. And I think that Stephano goes through with ease.
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Steph really got the best group possible I think, only improvement
would be switching Thorzain and Kas. He avoided the only "true" threat. in
Lucifron.
Kas SHOULD advance as well, its possible he will go down to 1
out of the 2 protosses.
Rest I don't really know. Depends which Mana/Elfi/Thodzain showa
up. NightEnD is consistently above-average imo, but I think Thorzain
has a higher potential in general, he also has potential for lower tho xD
Oh and I almost forgot Luci. Should adv as first in his group.
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Cant wait. a lot of great matches
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setting up for lucifron vs stephano finals^^
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Would've liked to see Vortix there for a Karonte brothers' final. But I guess Lucifron vs. Stephano will have to do again.
God those games were great.
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Ret and Mana are going to drop out in groups...
After that, the only thing im sure of is that Stephano is going to win the whole thing
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If this was any other event I probably wouldn't watch with only white guys, but gdstudio production makes anything worth watching, can't wait!
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