The NA Breakout Invitational III

feardragon

United States973 Posts

October 09 2014 23:46 GMT

The North American scene is alive with talent that has not been given the opportunity to shine. It's seen some hard times recently, but The Breakout Invitational is more than just another online tournament. It's a chance for you to get the inside scoop on up & coming talent. It's a chance for you to learn about who these people are. It's a chance for you to watch a tournament about players you may not know much about, but have the potential to play against the pro's and break out of the North American scene. Be sure to tune in if you're interested in a seeing who the rising stars of North America, and likely WCS 2015, will be!

Dates
Group A - October 17th at 5:30pm PST / 8:30pm EST
Group B - October 18th at 5:30pm PST / 8:30pm EST
Showmatches - October 19th at 12:00pm PST / 3:00pm EST
Semifinals/Finals- October 19th at 3:00pm PST / 6:00pm EST

Live stream location: http://www.twitch.tv/feardragon64
VOD location: http://www.youtube.com/feardragon64

Be sure to check out each week's episodes on the players to learn more about them!

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Player 8 - Flipsid3 Bails(P)
Player 7 - Complexity Midday(Z)
Player 6 - Dolly Kelazhur(T)
Player 5 - IvD Zan(T)
Player 4 - IvD Intense(T)
Player 3 - Kif1re(P)
Player 2 - Solaris JonSnow(Z)
Player 1 - xIG PandaBearMe(Z)

Map Pool
King Sejong Station
Overgrowth
Catallena
Merry Go Round
Deadwing
Foxtrot Labs
Nimbus

In addition to the tournament, the tournament will features showmatches against well-established North American pro gamers! The semi-finalists of the tournament will be paired up against these pro's in a bo3 on the final day of the tournament, just before the semi-finals themself. Be sure to tune in for this to get a see how these aspiring players fair against others you already respect. The pro-players are:

col.QXC(T), IvD.puCK(P) and col.Hendralisk(Z)

Players will compete for a grow prize pool. The starting value was $1,000 but has remained open to viewer donations to increase. Thanks to the generosity of the community, the current prize pool is now:

$2,000.78 Updated 10/19/2014 10:38pm PST

Donators to this season's prize pool
FilthyRake - sWs - Crot4le - Casey Nicholas - Patrick Quist x 2 - Andrew Nguyen - Kalle Christenson - NanMan - Alexandre Pilon - Connor Worley

If you would like to add to the prize pool to help show up and coming players in North America that their hard work will pay off. The payout is as follows:

1st place - 50%
2nd place - 20%
3rd/4th place - 7%
5th-8th place - 4%

If you would like to add to the total prize pool, you can donate here:

The tournament will be casted by Ravi "feardragon" Pareek, Sean "Day[9]" Plott, Kwame "Temp0" Mensah, Jessica "ZombieGrub" Chernega and EG.iNcontroL!
Day[9] Photo: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nodnod/6271577227/
Photo by: David Zhou
No changes made to the photo other than a cut out.
iNcontroL photo: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/403164-mlg-photos-day-1-winter-championship
Photo by: silverfire
No changes made to the photo other than a cut out.

Special thanks to MinnyMaus for the graphics, Sybert for the video editing and graphics, as well as Noobity for the graphics from Season 1. Also thank you to Temp0, NanMan, MasterDalk, BoisterousSC2, Day[9], Rifkin, iNcontroL and the many others that make Breaking Out possible!

Also, ENORMOUS shoutout to FilthyRake for sponsoring every season of Breaking Out. While he hasn't always been listed as an official sponsor, he has always been very generous in supporting the show and the tournament. Please be sure to check him out over at youtube.com/filthyRake and his new team, PSISTORM Gaming!

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Circumstance

United States11403 Posts

October 10 2014 00:29 GMT

So FilthyRake is the guy behind PsiStorm. Now I'm much more comfortable about their legitimacy.

Anyways, congrats on the continued growth of the tournament! Established names on co-commentary will be a big help in driving up the viewership to where it deserves to be.