The Breakout Invitational IV

feardragon

United States970 Posts

April 27 2015 09:09 GMT

Not every entertaining game comes from the highest level of play. While North America may not yield players on the same level as the Koreans abroad, we still see players with the potential to become something more. Players that are looking for their chance to break out. Breaking Out has run for four seasons and has seen the rise of players like Kelazhur, JonSnow, Intense, Hendralisk, Arium, and others. Now the fourth Breakout Invitational is here to see who will be the next most likely player to breakout of the North American scene! Who will we be seeing more of in WCS and who has a shot at taking down some of the existing titans we know? There's only one way to find out.

Dates
Group A - May 1st at 5:30pm PST / 8:30pm EST - Casted by Gretorp
Group B - May 2nd at 5:30pm PST / 8:30pm EST - Casted by JaKaTaK
Showmatches - May 3rd at 12:00pm PST / 3:00pm EST - Casted by Temp0
Semifinals/Finals- May 3rd at 3:00pm PST / 6:00pm EST - Casted by ZombieGrub

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]ElhayM
Player 7 - [Ascension]Bioice
Player 6 - [Gravity]Trace(P)
Player 5 - [PSISTORM]SLeet(Z)
Player 4 - [Complexity]Moosegills(Z)
Player 3 - [DG]HuShang(P)
Player 2 - EJK(T)
Player 1 - [Redblood]PiLiPiLi(P)

Map Pool
Coda
Echo
Expedition Lost
Vaani Research Station
Cactus Valley
Iron Fortress
Ganymede

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 Legacy of the Void 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), ROOT.Kelazhur(T) and some others that will announced soon!

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:

$1,914.70 Updated 5/1/2015 11:00pm PST

Donators to this season's prize pool
Boblekonvolutt - Archnog - doenietjigg - peacenluv - mYi.Halcyon - PSISTORM Gaming - Mads Nielsen - Crot4le - Partouf - CrimeEndorsement

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, Andre "Gretorp" Hengchua, Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson, Kwame "Temp0" Mensah, and Jessica "ZombieGrub" Chernega!

Thank you very much to our sponsor this season, PSISTORM Gaming! They've made a big contribution to the prizepool this season! Be sure to check them 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, JaKaTaK, Filthyrake, Day[9], Rifkin, iNcontroL, ReDeYe and the many others that make Breaking Out possible!

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-HuShang-

Canada393 Posts

April 27 2015 16:37 GMT

LMAO my hair what the heck Ravi!?!

Circumstance

United States11403 Posts

April 27 2015 16:40 GMT

BREAKOUT HYPE!

teamgravity

United States354 Posts

April 27 2015 17:20 GMT

Go Trace!!

Adept

United States472 Posts

April 27 2015 17:31 GMT

SLeet hype :D

Poo

Canada536 Posts

April 27 2015 17:44 GMT

hushang looks like spike from cowboy bebop. A+ picture.

Freeedom

United States199 Posts

April 27 2015 18:11 GMT

sweet, GO SLEET GO !

feardragon

United States970 Posts

April 27 2015 18:58 GMT

Very excited to announce that this season of the Breakout Invitational will be sponsored by PSISTORM Gaming! And enormous thank you goes to PSISTORM Gaming for their great contribution to the prize pool!

Be sure to check out PSISTORM gaming's site and follow their player SLeet during the Breakout Invitational!
http://www.psistorm.com

FilthyRake

United States473 Posts

April 27 2015 18:59 GMT

wooo! Glad to continue being a part of this amazing event

ChapatiyaqPTSM

France1887 Posts

April 27 2015 20:26 GMT

#10

As usual, a Liquipedia page for your event: (Wiki)

The Breakout Invitational IV

I had to put EJK's flag as Korean. He requested it at some point, so now it's how we identify him.

Good luck, have fun!

Circumstance

United States11403 Posts

April 27 2015 20:30 GMT

#11

On April 28 2015 03:59 FilthyRake wrote:
wooo! Glad to continue being a part of this amazing event

You are such a hero of SC2, FilthyRake, you really are.

Sleet

United States139 Posts

April 27 2015 20:36 GMT

#12

So hyped :D

feardragon

United States970 Posts

April 27 2015 20:51 GMT

#13

On April 28 2015 05:26 ChapatiyaqPTSM wrote:
As usual, a Liquipedia page for your event: (Wiki)

The Breakout Invitational IV

I had to put EJK's flag as Korean. He requested it at some point, so now it's how we identify him.

Good luck, have fun!

Thank you so much! I was planning to try and do this myself tonight but you beat me to the punch!

And haha yea, EJK's Korean flag was discussed on the show so I understand! =]

EndOfLineTv

United States741 Posts

April 27 2015 21:04 GMT

#14

so sick

Crot4le

England2927 Posts

April 27 2015 21:11 GMT

#15

Awesome!

Circumstance

United States11403 Posts

April 27 2015 21:13 GMT

#16

It's easy to say PiliPili's the early favorite because he's the one who made Challenger. But I'm really feeling Moosegills and Bioice.

feardragon

United States970 Posts

April 27 2015 22:01 GMT

#17

Big thank you to Mads Nielsen and Crot4le for their contributions to the prizepool! Your contributions are truly appreciated!

yakitate304

United States655 Posts

April 27 2015 23:25 GMT

#18

Excited to see how these guys do. Particularly looking forward to seeing ElhayM this time around.

DanJinwonKim

United States11 Posts

April 28 2015 00:11 GMT

#19

Trace looks fantastic as fuck

feardragon

United States970 Posts

April 28 2015 03:06 GMT

#20

If you missed PiLiPiLi or EJK's episodes of Breaking Out, here's some short videos that should give you the rundown about them in under 2 minutes!

Duckvillelol

Australia1240 Posts

April 28 2015 04:07 GMT

#21

go go el ham!

FilthyRake

United States473 Posts

April 28 2015 13:47 GMT

#22

On April 28 2015 05:30 Circumstance wrote:
You are such a hero of SC2, FilthyRake, you really are.

<3 Thanks!

feardragon

United States970 Posts

April 28 2015 19:52 GMT

#23

Got lots of short videos for everyone today! First of all, the trailer for the Breakout Invitational is out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31u21RooyuE

Next up, two more player highlight videos are out! Check out these quick summaries on HuShang and Moosegills!

Enjoy!

feardragon

United States970 Posts

April 30 2015 00:57 GMT

#24

Big thank you to Partouf for contributing $100 to the Breakout Invitational prizepool!!! We're up to $1,864.70!

Master of DalK

Canada1797 Posts

April 30 2015 03:28 GMT

#25

Got my spreadsheets ready for this weekend, GET HYPE BOYS!

feardragon

United States970 Posts

April 30 2015 20:13 GMT

#26

Quick update on the casters: we're proud to announce iNcontroL and Gretorp as our final two commentators for the event! Gretorp will be casting the Friday group, iNcontroL the Saturday group, Temp0 the LotV showmatches, and ZombieGrub the Semi-finals & Finals!

Also enjoy these two new highlights for SLeet and Trace!

Paljas

Germany6926 Posts

April 30 2015 20:23 GMT

#27

sick city

billynasty

United States260 Posts

April 30 2015 21:48 GMT

#28

thanks Feardragon for putting on what looks to be an exciting event & for all you do for the scene. Looking forward to this weekends tournament!

desRow

Canada2654 Posts

May 01 2015 03:54 GMT

#29

so hyped for this tournament, can't wait to see some of these players get wiped in their groups

GravTrace

United States27 Posts

May 01 2015 23:52 GMT

#30

On May 01 2015 12:54 desRow wrote:
so hyped for this tournament, can't wait to see some of these players get wiped in their groups

Love u man

Circumstance

United States11403 Posts

May 02 2015 00:20 GMT

#31

Here we goooooooooooo!

Master of DalK

Canada1797 Posts

May 02 2015 01:59 GMT

#32

Map vetoes and picks as they happen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XTv0dCO4B6m5DFm9_F5vxehpmT1fiRjWfJt7tywMByk/edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to use it as reference to update LickyPiddy, I've got a bit too much on my hands to do it as the games go on :<

feardragon

United States970 Posts

May 02 2015 06:05 GMT

#33

Enormous thank you to the longest time supporter of Breaking Out, CrimeEndorsement for making a big donation to the prize pool! Thank you for your long and unending support.

And congrats to Trace and EJK for advancing out of Group A! I hope to see everyone tomorrow to find out who is going to advance out of Group B!

feardragon

United States970 Posts

May 03 2015 04:57 GMT

#34

Congrats to Moosegills and Bioice on advancing out of group B! Tomorrow we get started the LotV showmatches, the semi's and the finals! Hope to see you all there starting at 12pm PST!