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Overview: Hello Team Liquid! I am excited to announce the first (hopefully of many) Retro Map Championship hosted by Surreal gaming! We’re a small for fun team that has been around since the release of Wings of Liberty who are passionate about Starcraft 2 and want to see a great tournament on the maps we have loved throughout the years. To do this we have put in our own money in for a prize to go to the top 3 players of this tournament!
Basic requirements: must be a top ranked master or gm player on the North America server. Players must be active on the NA ladder. Any proven instances of manipulating the ladder such as hacking/account boosting will result in immediate disqualification from this tournament and any future events hosted by Surreal gaming. Players must play on an account with their real name or proven legal alias to participate. To sign up for the tournament send a message to me via skype @ Miserytheory , or email me @ mmonkhou@lakeheadu.ca as I will be making the brackets.
Format: The tournament will be a 32 man single elimination format. Each round will be a Best of 3 with the exception of the semi finals and the finals. The semi finals will be a best of 5 with 1 map veto for each player and the finals will be a best of 7 with 1 map veto per player.
Map pool: Xel Naga Caverns, Metalopolis, Terminus SE, Scrap Station, Shattered Temple, Shakuras Plateau, Blistering Sands, Delta Quadrant, Steppes of War
Prize Breakdown: First Place: $150.00
Second Place: $75.00
Third Place: $25.00
Total Prize pool : $250.00
Donations: I am looking to make the prize pool bigger for the participants anyone interested can donate via paypal @ mmonkhouse13@yahoo.com
Date: RO32-RO8 -Saturday, Dec 14 8:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00), Semis and Finals – Sunday, Dec 15 8:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Caster(s): Nan “NanMan” Johnson, Brandon "Muataran" Mucciarone (Co-Caster), Sean "Kuran" McCoskey (Observer)
Stream: www.twitch.tv/TheRealNanMan
EVERYONE PLEASE MEET IN THE CHAT CHANNEL RETRO MAP CHAMPIONSHIP 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE START OF THE TOURNAMENT
Best of luck to everyone who signs up and we hope to see a great turn out!!!
PUSHED BACK THE TIME FOR DAY 1 TO 3:30PM EST DUE TO ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
CONGRATS TO OUR TOP THREE PLAYERS Fiasco who took 3rd place, Envious who took 2nd and Guitarcheese who won the first Retro Map Championship!!
Changed out Antiga Shipyard and Ohana for Delta Quadrant and Steppes of War.
HERES THE BRACKET FOLKS BEST OF LUCK TO ALL!!!
http://challonge.com/retromaplchampionship
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I will definitely watch this, love me some xel naga caverns.
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United Kingdom1381 Posts
Oh god, oracles on Scrap Station! Good luck with your tournament.
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Wait, Antiga Shipyard and Ohana are "Retro" now? I've been away from SC2 for too long, it seems.
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This looks awesome. Added you on skype.
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replace ohana or antiga with delta quadrant, the two former aren't really that old
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Steppes of war is a must ! and also on scrap station i have some good memories, i was basically spawning banshees in oppoents base :D
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Hope to do many more of these so if you don't see your favorite map don't fret!! We will probably have it in the next championship!!
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I'm so going to watch this. Gonna be epic.
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Looking forward to watching this!
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Scrap Station I miss you so...
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Awesome! I'd love Jungle Basin aswell!
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This should be fun to cast
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So excited to cast up this event! Gotta love those old school maps 
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Kulas Ravine is the definition of retro when it comes to SC2 maps. I remember watching that map in the battle reports before beta haha. Hope to see it in a future tournament! As bad of a map as it was it brings back good memories lol
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emailed to sign up but didn't hear back?
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sorry i have not responded to emails as quickly as skype contacts, if you have emailed me check your inbox as i have just emailed back everyone who has emailed me
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oh yehhhhhhhh, my kinda tourney, only lacking some Jungle BASIN.
Gl qxc
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would like to see terminus  .
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Jungle basin will definitely be in the next one as for terminus if you look closely Ej its in the map pool 
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Watching mediocre players on crappy maps? Might be fun!
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So much tears shed on Xelnaga Caverns and Scarp Station
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This is awesome! Gotta say I miss Steppes of War, Scrap Station and Blistering Sands. Throw rocks at me (:
ah shit, Desert Oasis should have been there too, sad
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Ohhhhh helll yessss! I miss Xel Naga oh so much I feel some of the newer maps are lacking a bit.. blizzard could do a better job with the ladder pool. C'mon map makers we need some cool new maps, step it up!
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Cool idea. Can it be a problem if most of the old maps are biased toward one race though?
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Aww man didn't see the last edit, so it's 330 PM now? lameee
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Great idea! Im sure quite a few will tune in
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There better be Lost Temple and Blistering Sands
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There will be lots of exciting games today we'll be live with our preshow in about 30 minutes so be sure to tune in!
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Terminus (RE) and Shakuras, my 2 all time favorite
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Fun tournament, thanks for hosting!
Next time i'd like to see brackets made after check-in though, someone had 3 walkovers to the semi-finals rofl o.o
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In 1 hour we'll be live with the semifinals Guitarcheese vs JimRising and Envious vs Fiasco!
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Wish Blizzard would do something like to their map pool for ladder, add one past map for 1-2 weeks and then rotate it to another old map. Give some sort of option in the Map Preferences to not play on the Old Maps for people not interested in playing the old maps... Wouldn't hurt, just be for fun...
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It was quite a fun tournament, at the end Colter had some problems with the stream, but overall i enjoyed the tournament a lot ^^
And it was nice to see the players playing on those old maps, i actually learned a few things from the games, and i'll see if i can try to apply my ideas on my future maps, thanks for the stream guys!
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Sorry about that, I had a blackout here and couldn't stream the last few matches
Was a fun tourney, lots of good games and tons of memories
Thanks everyone
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