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SEA Masters Cup #45Sunday, Sep 28 5:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Open to all SEA + Chinese players P, D, M or GM league on any server
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This Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament for Starcraft 2, Heart of the Swarm. $100 prize on offer to the winner, $50 2nd prize, $30 3rd. $190 prize pool*! There is also 400 Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship points up for grabs! (Points count towards qualifying for the $3000+ end of season tournament). This event is sponsored by Eddie, Blizzard ANZ and sc2sea.com
Times + Format
Sunday, Sep 28 5:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Location: SEA Battle.net
Battle.net Group: Join the group SEA Masters Cup.
Single Elimination.
- All series Bo3
- Semi's + Grand Final Bo5
Casters: Silicon Sports
Prizes:
1st $100 + 125 OSC points
2nd $50 + 80 OSC points
3rd $30 + 50 OSC points
4th 25 OSC points
5-8th 10 OSC points each
9-16th 5 OSC points each
17-32nd 2.5 OSC points each
*Prizes are in AUD
Plus $10 to a random player just for playing!
Bonus OSC points can be earned if:
Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 16: 5 OSC points
Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 17-32 ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
Anyone ranked 16th - 9th beats anyone ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
1st - 8th have no chance to earn bonus points
Signup
Post your SEA ID, Account most known by (If different from registered account, eg CH, NA, KR ID), Team/Clan and Country.
Example: TossImba.111 ( Scarlett ) - Team Acer - Canada
Signups will close at 14.45pm AEST on Sunday 28th September, Brackets will be published on challonge.com shortly after and updated in this thread. If you missed out on pre-registering, the late replacement channel shall be sc2seaMCx. DevianT shall be organizing replacements, message him in game or talk in channel.
Updated Registered Players List can be found here
Map Pool: + Show Spoiler +
King Sejong Station LE, Overgrowth LE, Catallena LE, Merry Go Round LE, Deadwing LE, Foxtrot Labs LE + Nimbus LE
For Best of 3 Series, both players take turns to veto 2 maps from the map pool, so there is 3 left, then they each select the map they most want if they lose, and start with the remaining map.
For Best of 5 Series, both players take turns to veto 1 map from the map pool, so there is 5 left, then they each select the map they most want if they lose, repeat, and start with the remaining map.
For Best of 3 Series, both players take turns to veto 2 maps from the map pool, so there is 3 left, then they each select the map they most want if they lose, and start with the remaining map.
For Best of 5 Series, both players take turns to veto 1 map from the map pool, so there is 5 left, then they each select the map they most want if they lose, repeat, and start with the remaining map.
Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series
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Masters Cup is a partnered tournament of the Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series (OSC). OSC is the SEA regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. The top 32 players ranked via SEA Power Rankings / OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion!
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.
Current 2014 rankings can be found here
