We at BaseTradeTV are crazy, eccentric and dedicated folk, who would do anything to please our subscribers, thus this very unique tournament! The goal with this is not to find out the best player in Europe, but more the best player Europe itself has to offer! There was some backlash on our choice to exclude Koreans from the event, but we'd like to remind you all this is about a celebration of foreigners, and not about discrimination! Between the players involved & the way we handled invites, we were able to experiment with a very different format that was fun for us as organizers, and hopefully will be fun for you as viewers!

It is our sincere hope that this event goes well for you, the audience, as well as the players & anyone else involved. IF this can be a big success we'd love to try out for a NA one to complete the trifecta (as we already did a Korean one with The Big One) but let's not get too ahead of ourselves. Below you will find all the information relevant to the event, so please, enjoy!

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Invited through qualifiers: (Z)

Bly

Starbuck

PiG

Lilbow

MarineLorD (T)

InZaNe Yunga (Russian Terran)

Invited by performance in qualifiers: (Z)

TargA

MaNa

Welmu

uThermal

Invited because this tournament is about the best Europeans: (Z)

Snute

Harstem

ToD

Dayshi

* (16th Player TBA as Nerchio did qualify, but due to a necessary date change he would not be able to compete in the finals. We sent him $50 since we are that confident he would have at least made it to the Ro8, and hope to see him again in future events! This will not affect the tournament's prize pool)

08/26 - DeMusliM added as the 16th and final player
09/02 - Snute has to drop and is replaced by VortiX

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Current Prize Pool: $4000 (Every $ after 3,000 will go towards 1st place reward only)
If you'd like to contribute to the prize pool please click the spoiler tag below
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1st place - $2,500
2nd place - $1,000
3rd/4th place - $200/$100
5-8th place - $50

** PLEASE CLICK THE SPOILER TAGS BELOW THE GROUPS TO SEE ESTIMATED MATCH TIMES / DATES**
The times are [ date ] stamped so if you are logged in to Team Liquid they will show your local time.
("estimated" due to the fact some matches will be faster, some will be slower than others)

Group A
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Friday, Sep 05 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Bly vs Lilbow
Friday, Sep 05 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Dayshi vs Demuslim
Friday, Sep 05 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Loser's Match
Friday, Sep 05 3:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Winner's Match
Friday, Sep 05 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Final Match

Group B
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Friday, Sep 05 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Snute vs Marinelord
Friday, Sep 05 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Harstem vs uThermal
Friday, Sep 05 7:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Loser's Match
Friday, Sep 05 8:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Winner's Match
Friday, Sep 05 9:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Final Match

Group C
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Saturday, Sep 06 3:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Starbuck vs Inzane
Saturday, Sep 06 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Mana vs Welmu
Saturday, Sep 06 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Loser's Match
Saturday, Sep 06 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Winner's Match
Saturday, Sep 06 7:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Final Match

Group D
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Saturday, Sep 06 8:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Pig vs Yunga
Saturday, Sep 06 9:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Tod vs Targa
Saturday, Sep 06 10:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Loser's Match
Saturday, Sep 06 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Winner's Match
Sunday, Sep 07 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Final Match

Sept 7th (Ro8 -> Finals)
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Sunday, Sep 07 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
RO8 Match 1
Sunday, Sep 07 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
RO8 Match 2
Sunday, Sep 07 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
RO8 Match 3
Sunday, Sep 07 3:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
RO8 Match 4
Sunday, Sep 07 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Semi-Finals A (Bo5)
Sunday, Sep 07 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Semi-Finals B
Sunday, Sep 07 8:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
3rd/4th place
Sunday, Sep 07 9:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
GRAND FINALS

We seeded 2 of the qualified players per group and randomly assigned the remaining 8 invited players through the groups.

DATES ARE SEPT 5, 6 & 7 FOR THE TOURNAMENT

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The map pool will be the current WCS/Ladder map pool. Players will veto down to 3 then select their maps (Alternating ABAB)
There will be 4 groups played in total.
Every game in the group stage will be a Bo3 played in the following order:

Match A vs B
Match C vs D
Loser's match
Winner's match
Final match

2 players from each group will be randomly drawn into the Ro8, which are still Bo3's
The Semi-finals & 3rd/4th place matches will be Bo5's with the Grand Finals being a Bo7

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English Stream - ww.twitch.tv/basetradetv

German Stream - http://www.twitch.tv/taketv

Excellent human being - https://www.youtube.com/user/GillyweedSC2

BasetradeTV

Canada1307 Posts

August 26 2014 04:37 GMT

reserved

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

August 26 2014 05:08 GMT

Nice. I hope either VortiX or Bunny is the 16th player as they are definitely in contention for the title of Best European. The fact that PiG is a participant is... interesting. Here's the liquipedia link if anyone is interested in the qualifiers: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Who's_The_Best_European

BasetradeTV

Canada1307 Posts

August 26 2014 05:16 GMT

On August 26 2014 14:08 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Nice. I hope either VortiX or Bunny is the 16th player as they are definitely in contention for the title of Best European. The fact that PiG is a participant is... interesting. Here's the liquipedia link if anyone is interested in the qualifiers: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Who's_The_Best_European

Pig's been living in Europe for the entirety of the summer, and because we didn't have super cereal ultra strict rules about anything other than, "no koreans" we let it slide. Besides, he qualified :-)

Also, I didn't know we already had a liquipedia article, I was just about to message someone about making one, so thank you for the link <3

Fkc)Bishop

Peru82 Posts

August 26 2014 05:38 GMT

Snute Op

SC2Towelie

United States561 Posts

August 26 2014 06:22 GMT

Please let Bunny be the 16th player T_T

SatedSC2

England3012 Posts

August 26 2014 09:15 GMT

--- Nuked ---

Musicus

Germany23579 Posts

August 26 2014 09:23 GMT

Damn no Nerchio

windowlicker

46 Posts

August 26 2014 09:26 GMT

Are you really going to do this without Bunny?

Dingodile

4139 Posts

August 26 2014 09:38 GMT

#10

Wow suddenly 3 tournaments about "best european" at the same time. What happened?

HighArT

Croatia189 Posts

August 26 2014 09:45 GMT

#11

lol this tournament has no sense without Liquid.Bunny

ejozl

Denmark3532 Posts

August 26 2014 09:52 GMT

#12

Need Grubby!

Ej_

47656 Posts

August 26 2014 10:27 GMT

#13

Nerchio canceled?

nvm reading too hard for me

Errormx

Poland62 Posts

August 26 2014 11:21 GMT

#14

Why Nerchio? At least you have got chance in Forgein Hope

Yhamm

France7248 Posts

August 26 2014 11:38 GMT

#15

no Bunny or VortiX is really weird

Xoronius

Germany6362 Posts

August 26 2014 12:00 GMT

#16

Hoping for Bunny/Vortix (although they probably declined) or if they can't be there Kas/Happy as the 16th player. Also good job in paying Nerchio anyway, this is probably the best way to handle the date change.

vult

United States9400 Posts

August 26 2014 12:43 GMT

#17

No Bunny, Vortix, Grubby or even LiveZerg or Showtime? Hmmm weird. Would have liked to see the likes of them in this tournament.

Hope Dayshi or Snute wins this!!

SilSol

Sweden2744 Posts

August 26 2014 14:07 GMT

#18

gogo MaNa my mate! ^-^ <3

paddyz

Ireland628 Posts

August 26 2014 15:51 GMT

#19

imo Bunny, Happy, Vortix all top 10 at least. Them not being in it makes me think this thread needs to change title :p

lotteryman

17 Posts

August 26 2014 17:18 GMT

#20

Did Bunny and Vortix decline the invitation?

BasetradeTV

Canada1307 Posts

August 26 2014 17:52 GMT

#21

Bunny is unfortunately unavailable for the dates of the tournament & Grubby wanted to prioritize WCS pracitce (who can blame him? His group is so soon and so scary!)

BjoernK

194 Posts

August 26 2014 17:53 GMT

#22

No Sjaak? Oh... maybe there is some prior history with Axiom

But in all honesty Sjaak was tearing it up today on stream... won against Sacrsi (no1 EU) and had an overall win rate of 70+%. Also went 4-1 against MC.

lotteryman

17 Posts

August 26 2014 19:25 GMT

#23

On August 27 2014 02:52 BasetradeTV wrote:
Bunny is unfortunately unavailable for the dates of the tournament & Grubby wanted to prioritize WCS pracitce (who can blame him? His group is so soon and so scary!)

What about Vortix?

BasetradeTV

Canada1307 Posts

September 02 2014 18:46 GMT

#24

Snute had to drop out due to a conflict with his WEC schedule, Vortix will be replacing him

aLmosTeu

Germany101 Posts

September 05 2014 15:14 GMT

#25

Demuslim <3

seems like a great idea! gonna be watching alot for sure.

Yhamm

France7248 Posts

September 05 2014 15:20 GMT

#26

that shot fired by Dayshi

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

September 05 2014 15:36 GMT

#27

That was a pretty good TvT

BasetradeTV

Canada1307 Posts

September 06 2014 23:14 GMT

#28

Ro8:

PiG vs

Lilbow

Welmu vs

TargA

DeMusliM vs (Z)

VortiX

MaNa vs

MarineLorD

Fixed now, brain damage after 12 + hours doing SC2 casting.

edit (again): Our tournament has done about a million things "different" and "wrong" depending on your point of view (No Koreans, allowing Pig in, doing invites after qualifiers, etc etc etc) that's the wonderful thing about who we are, we get to be a bit different. We actually have no rules regarding the Ro8 draw other than the fact we do it from a hat, to keep it fun! We try to keep it more or less "fair" by not allowing players to play against one another from the same group, but that's about it.
HAT > ALL

Firestorm

Canada341 Posts

September 06 2014 23:33 GMT

#29

Welmu to take it, I think.

Azhrak

Finland1198 Posts

September 07 2014 08:21 GMT

#30

Was about to comment about Pig & TargA and VortiX & MarineLorD being on the same sides of the bracket despite being from the same groups, but apparently it was a more or less full random draw. That's cool too. I hope the players don't mind.