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ChiCraft LAN is a Starcraft 2 LAN held at Ignite Gaming Lounge on January 10th. Entry is free! There will be a $500 prize pool, as well as a raffle, giveaways, and prizes for even the scrubbiest of scrubs! Come out and play the game we all love! Sounds awesome already? Register here!
PRIZE POOL
Total prize pool: $500
1st place - $250
2nd place - $150
3rd place - $75
4th place - $25
VENUE
If you live in Chicago and haven’t heard of Ignite Gaming Lounge by now, you may have been living under a rock. This place is only the best LAN Center/Internet Cafe in the best city in the Midwest! Tons of PCs, Consoles, private gaming rooms, including a café on site. They even hosted the Red Bull Detroit Qualifier back in August. We are working together with Ignite to bring you guys an awesome tournament experience. Doors will open at 10AM for our players and the tournament will last til 8PM or until we crown a winner. More info, including directions to the venue can be found on Ignite’s website
TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE
- 32 Player Tournament
- Double elimination with seeding by ladder rank/league.
- Registration closes at midnight (12:00am CST) the Wednesday before tournament, January 7th, 2015.
- The map pool will be the current Battle.net ladder maps, yes this means we’re using the #dreampool! NOTE: This may change because Blizzard will most likely release a new map pool the week of the tournament. We will run with whatever map pool is the current ladder map pool on January 10th 2015.
- All games in the winner’s bracket are best of 3, except the grand finals which are best of 5
- Loser’s bracket are best of one matches with dedicated maps for each round.
- All leagues are accepted and encouraged!
COOL STUFF
To encourage lower league players, we’ll be awarding the top finisher players, players who achieve the highest finish respective of their ladder league. For example, the silver player who makes it the deepest in the tournament will receive a prize that recognizes their achievement. There will be a raffle, raffling off SC2 t-shirts as well as other small prizes.
HOW TO REGISTER
Use this form to register Fill out the info and check your email for updates closer to the day of the tournament!
ON SITE STREAM + CAST
We will be streaming as many matches as we can get to on twitch.tv/nivek706. Get your friends to follow and watch our Caster and co-host Nivek on the day of the tournament.
QUICK RECAP
- CHICAGO LAN organized and paid for by fellow Chicago gamers. #PASSION
- FREE TO ENTER, Raffle, $500 prize pool, and other gimmicky toys (perhaps RedBull) >:D.
- Doors open at 10AM, matches will start Promptly at 11AM. Registration table at the back of the LAN center, along with caster table, and live bracket updates.
- Streamed live from Ignite at twitch.tv/nivek706, January 10th 2015.
- Check out the detailed info and detailed rules for some more tasty info.
- Register here before Wednesday, Jan 07 6:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
What have you got to lose? A Free-to-Enter Starcraft tournament at Chicago's best LAN, with a $500 prize pool and raffle.
If you have any comments or questions, read the detailed info and detailed rules first and then feel free to ask them below!
UPDATE
Guys, I didn't think this would blow up this fast! We've had 30 responses on the first day already. That means that spots are very limited now (2) :O. I'm going to be closing registration soon as we've only enough room for 32 players. Everyone is more than welcome to come by to support and watch the games. We will be having alternate players for the inevitable few that don't show up, so as long as the form is available to sign up, you should go ahead and do that.
So far the distribution of Races is very interesting:
T 52%
P 21%
Z 28%
Terran OP, confirmed.
UPDATE #2
As of 12/10/2015 9:45 AM CST, we have 32 players, so we're at our limit for players in this tourney. I will keep the registration page open with a notice at the top for people that do want to still sign up that they will be signing up for alternate spots.
UPDATE #3
Registration is closed. We've got 7 alternates. Look here for more details in the future.
