Assembly Winter 2013

Azhrak

Finland1196 Posts

January 13 2013 21:00 GMT

ASSEMBLY Winter 2013 features a €1600 StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty tournament which is played on February 22-23 in Helsinki, Finland.

Firstly, there is no ASUS ROG tournament at ASSEMBLY Winter 2013 (read why). However, the LAN event will organize a non-BYOC StarCraft 2 tournament with 16 players and a modest prize pool of €1600. The players will be selected by online qualifiers and by direct invites. The tournament format is traditional groups + single elimination playoffs. The event will be streamed in English, Finnish, German, French and Chinese.

The invites are selected among the players who show their interest in the tournament by sending an application by the end of January.

The qualifier tournaments are held on January 21 and January 23. The top four players of each qualifier will advance to the main tournament. A third qualifier is held if necessary with details announced later.

In addition to the two on-site streams, we are looking for community streams in different languages. PM me if you are interested.

Tournament details

When: 22-23 February
Where: Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
Game: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Prizes: 1600 €
Size: 16 players
Type: non-BYOC
Format: groups + single elimination
Participation: Invite or qualifier, 50 € fee (25 € with a LAN ticket)
Rules: pdf
Streams: Finnish main stream & English, German and Chinese community streams
Results: http://tournaments.peliliiga.fi/winter13/tournaments/view/starcraft-2-pro
Liquipedia: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Assembly_Winter_2013
Replays: assembly_winter_2013_replays.zip

Prizes
1. 750 €
2. 500 €
3. 250 €
4. 100 €

Streams

y0su

Master Dalk

SETT TV

Itachi

iKiBi TV

ESL Taiwan

Players (updated 15.2)+ Show Spoiler +

Invites
- NrS.Welmu
- elfi
- Fnatic.Naama
- cSc.Satiini
- aG.Jagelius
- kiljardi
- Namutin
- aG.Moilanen
#1 Qualifier
- Serral
- supr.Divinesia
#2 Qualifier
- mouz.Protosser
#3 Qualifier, Finnish only
- ZhuGeLiang
- supr.Minkie
- supr.Pupu
- barian

Full Schedule+ Show Spoiler +

Friday, 22. February
- 13:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups A & B, Round 1, bo3
- 14:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups A & B, Round 2, bo3
- 15:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups A & B, Round 3, bo3
- 17:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups C & D, Round 1, bo3
- 18:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups C & D, Round 2, bo3
- 19:00 GMT (+00:00) Groups C & D, Round 3, bo3
Saturday, 23. February
- 09:00 GMT (+00:00) RO8 A & B, bo5
- 10:15 GMT (+00:00) RO8 C & D, bo5
- 11:30 GMT (+00:00) Semi-final A, bo5
- 12:45 GMT (+00:00) Semi-final B, bo5
- 14:30 GMT (+00:00) Bronze match, bo5
- 16:00 GMT (+00:00) Final, bo7

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#6 Update February 23

Final standings
1.

NrS.Welmu, 750 €
2.

Fnatic.Naama, 500 €
3.

elfi, 250 €
4.

Mouz.Protosser, 100 €

Thanks again for the streamers and casters for covering Assembly Winter 2013. A big thank you to the admins and organizers who volunteer to make Assembly possible.

Despite of technical difficulties (aka battle.net) we stayed on schedule and even got seven games in the final which was great. Next Assembly event is Assembly Summer in August. See you then!

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#5 Update February 23

The bracket has been released. Eight players still remain in the tournament. Playoff matches are best-of-5 except for the final which is a best-of-7. The bracket was randomly drawn live on SETT TV stream right after the last group matches.

Official bracket
Liquipedia Bracket

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#4 Update February 16

The groups have now been released.

Group A
1.

NrS.Welmu
2.

ZhuGeLiang
3.

Serral
3.

aG.Moilanen

Group B
1.

elfi
2.

mouz.Protosser
3.

SupR.Pupu
4.

SupR.Minkie

Group C
1.

fnatic.Naama
2.

aG.Jagelius
3.

~~RelaX~~*
4.

barian

Group D
1.

~~cSc.Satiini~~ **
2.

kiljardi
3.

SupR.Divinesia
4.

~~Namutin~~ **

* Relax has cancelled his participation.
** Namutin and Satiini did not show up at the event.

The groups are played in the GSL format (double elimination). The first matches are 1 vs 4, and 2 vs 3.

Changes in the roster
As you can see, the player list has changed quite a bit in the past week. All the non-Finnish players, except for

RelaX cancelled due to various reasons. The replacements are all Finnish players but Grandmaster and Master caliber.

New invites

aG.Jagelius
kiljardi
Namutin
aG.Moilanen

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#3 Update February 4

The third qualifier, for the Finnish players only, was held yesterday to determine the last players to earn a spot in the ASSEMBLY Winter 2013 StarCraft 2 Pro tournament.

The third set of qualified players

ZhuGeLiang
supr.Minkie
supr.Pupu
barian

We also have a cancellation as

CRG.Revolution announced he is unable to attend the event. Due to this, one more spot was up for grabs in the third qualifier and the four players mentioned above got in the main tournament.

New invite

Pink

The Danish Grandmaster Protoss Pink is added to the invite list.

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#2 Update January 23

The second qualifier was played tonight, and four more players got a spot in the ASSEMBLY Winter 2013 StarCraft 2 Pro tournament.

The second set of qualified players

The invite list is also updated as

Mill.Feast has cancelled his participation due to scheduling conflicts. In his stead, we reveal a new invite, which is

cSc.Satiini who has played in two previous ASSEMBLY events too.

New invite

cSc.Satiini

The rest of the invites are to be released next week as we are still accepting tournament applications.

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#1 Update January 21

The first qualifier is over and four players earned a spot in the main SC2 tournament of ASSEMBLY Winter 2013.

The first set of qualified players

cSc.Turuk
Serral
supr.Divinesia
RelaX

The first invites have also been sent out.

The first invited players

The second qualifier will be held next wednesday, 23 January.

Cokefreak

Finland8095 Posts

January 13 2013 21:07 GMT

Oh shit on my birthday!

DusTerr

2520 Posts

January 13 2013 21:59 GMT

Glad to see SC2 will be at Assembly!

Killmouse

Austria5700 Posts

January 13 2013 23:12 GMT

so assemly winter is the LAN in helsinki and ASUS ROG was the sponsor of the last sc2 tournaments and they pulled out, am i gettin this right?

iNsaNe-

Finland5201 Posts

January 13 2013 23:29 GMT

On January 14 2013 08:12 Killmouse wrote:
so assemly winter is the LAN in helsinki and ASUS ROG was the sponsor of the last sc2 tournaments and they pulled out, am i gettin this right?

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392380

Azhrak

Finland1196 Posts

January 14 2013 08:41 GMT

On January 14 2013 08:12 Killmouse wrote:
so assemly winter is the LAN in helsinki and ASUS ROG was the sponsor of the last sc2 tournaments and they pulled out, am i gettin this right?

Assembly is a LAN event that is organized two times a year, Assembly Summer in August and Assembly Winter in February. The Summer event is more focused on demoscene (digital arts, see archives) and the Winter event focuses on gaming.

ASUS has been sponsoring Assembly for a long time, but in 2010-2011 as their ROG brand was taking leaps forward they agreed to launch a tournament series in the name of ROG in 2011. The tournament series was organized by Hämälä who already had connections to ASUS because of the long lasting sponsorship between ASUS and Assembly. Now as Hämälä stepped aside, ASUS did too, and we don't have a ROG tournament.

As far as I know, ASUS has always been happy with the ROG tournaments. The viewer counts were rising and the event was developing into a unique thing. I'm sure ASUS would have continued the series, but Hämälä was the reason ROG tournaments happened, and now that he doesn't do it, there is no one at the moment who could step into his shoes.

Solarsail

United Kingdom538 Posts

January 14 2013 09:09 GMT

So Asus ROG is still sponsoring Assembly proper, and Assembly is still holding an SC2 tournament, but Asus ROG isn't sponsoring that tournament solely because one man isn't involved? Doesn't make sense.

Azhrak

Finland1196 Posts

January 14 2013 10:40 GMT

On January 14 2013 18:09 Solarsail wrote:
So Asus ROG is still sponsoring Assembly proper, and Assembly is still holding an SC2 tournament, but Asus ROG isn't sponsoring that tournament solely because one man isn't involved? Doesn't make sense.

No, ASUS ROG is not sponsoring Assembly this time (contrary to what assembly.org suggests).

Waxangel

United States33392 Posts

January 14 2013 10:46 GMT

more money for elfi, I like

Rescawen

Finland1028 Posts

January 14 2013 10:56 GMT

#10

On January 14 2013 19:46 Waxangel wrote:
more money for elfi, I like

This time i wanna try to take that money!

Master of DalK

Canada1797 Posts

January 15 2013 03:32 GMT

#11

This will be cool, and I like the open application for community streams too, gives me a chance at casting awesome stuff

Even though its a small SC2 tourney, its still a big event and should get some love!

FnaticNaama

Finland120 Posts

January 15 2013 17:18 GMT

#12

On January 14 2013 19:46 Waxangel wrote:
more money for elfi, I like

actually elfi almost never wins finnish tournaments

DusTerr

2520 Posts

January 15 2013 17:32 GMT

#13

On January 16 2013 02:18 FnaticNaama wrote:

Show nested quote +

actually elfi almost never wins finnish tournaments

you going to make sure of it?

Sea_Food

Finland1612 Posts

January 15 2013 17:39 GMT

#14

expect alot of sub 10minute games

MarieJohanna

Germany41 Posts

January 15 2013 20:57 GMT

#15

On January 14 2013 06:07 Cokefreak wrote:
Oh shit on my birthday!

funny, mine is on the 21st ;D

markrevival

United States222 Posts

January 15 2013 21:07 GMT

#16

would any swedes go over for this? it could be a really sick lineup of players if it was finnish and swedish players together. many of the best in the world right there

Zealously

East Gorteau22261 Posts

January 15 2013 21:33 GMT

#17

On January 16 2013 06:07 markrevival wrote:
would any swedes go over for this? it could be a really sick lineup of players if it was finnish and swedish players together. many of the best in the world right there

We have something called Finnkampen in Sweden/Finland, which is basicly the two countries getting together and throw their best athletes at each other and see who comes out alive (somewhat simplified, but that's the gist of it) - if nothing else, Assembly could end up being something like that. I think it'd be very cool.

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

January 15 2013 21:44 GMT

#18

On January 16 2013 06:33 Zealously wrote:

Show nested quote +

That could be something... I wonder if any Norwegians might be fluid enough to join as well

Weavel

Finland9221 Posts

January 15 2013 22:18 GMT

#19

Welmu got this. Naama has a good change also. Will watch for sure.

Azhrak

Finland1196 Posts

January 22 2013 09:13 GMT

#20

OP updated:
The first qualifier is over and four players earned a spot in the main SC2 tournament of ASSEMBLY Winter 2013.

The first qualified players

cSc.Turuk
Serral
supr.Divinesia
RelaX

The first invites have also been sent out.

The first invited players

The second qualifier will be held next wednesday, 23 January.

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