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Hello friends! Today I am happy to announce the second installment of GauntletSC2 events with a 1K USD NA Series! That's right, we (myself in conjunction with ESL and others) are pitting 8 known, invited pros to play against 8 open bracket qualified players for a total prize pool of 1K USD. Do you have what it takes to take on known pros in an online event? [
~Wait, What?
The tournament will feature 8 open bracket qualified players and 8 invited players battling it out on Heart of the Swarm. Players must be of at least Masters ranking and live/play within the NA region to play in the open bracket, i.e. similar to the WCS region lock currently in place. However, SEA players will be allowed to play in the NA qualifier. Please know I look forward to doing a global event soon tm.
~Back-to-Back Open Bracket
The open bracket qualifier will feature two separate qualifiers, with the semi-finalists from each qualifier (8 total) automatically qualifying for the main tournament. The format will be best-of-three series, single elimination. Winners of the first semi-final matches will get a more favorable seed.EDIT: ESL decided to randomize seeding due to seeding conflicts, apologies for the confusion.
~When?!?
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Open Bracket NA Qualifier Tuesday, Jul 21 11:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Sign Up here for the NA Open Bracket!!
NA Finals will be held on Friday, Jul 24 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
***RULES***
You must be a citizen (passport) or resident with a valid visa of the Americas. SEA Players will be allowed to play on the North American server. More detailed rules can be found on the Sign up page. Masters + only if that wasn't obvious.
~Prize Pool Breakdown will be identical to the first Gauntlet SC2 event.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/The_Gauntlet_Cup_1
- $650
- $200
- $100
- $50
~Where?
~Confirmed Players
~Qualified Players
Thank you to the folks at ESL for helping me get this put together. Also thank you to Element, Bobbyawsm, Ascarecrow, Bloodyrafe, and other admins who have put in a lot of effort to make things run as smooth as possible! I will continue to update this post as we get more confirmations. I apologize that it's somewhat late notice, we wanted to wait until ESL was in possession of the prize money, etc before we made the announcement. Hope to see a lot of players sign up! Cheers and good luck all!
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so 1 qualifier for...8 spots?
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On July 18 2015 02:57 EJK wrote:
so 1 qualifier for...8 spots?
Yes there will be two brackets within the open qualifier, if you make it to the semi-finals you have qualified. If you win the semi-final match you get a better seed. Qualifiers ended up being back to back.
EDIT: Updated the OP to better explain the Open Bracket
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any questions or concerns feel free to ask 
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On July 18 2015 14:39 NightEnD wrote:
lotv or hots?
hots mate
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make sure to use the right account and no barcodes please.
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Very nice! Also very smart choice to not have this in LOTV yet, the game is no where near balanced lol. Awesome work!
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On July 19 2015 12:58 GGzerG wrote:
Very nice! Also very smart choice to not have this in LOTV yet, the game is no where near balanced lol. Awesome work!
thanks mate. surprised low amount have signed up pretty big prize pool and few names have accepted barely any eu players want to so high chance a non pro could take 1st place for eu.
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**Effective Immediately, EU Series has been cancelled, will update OP**
Due to lack of interest from EU pro's after IEM/DH, plus with WCS coming up, Gauntlet-SC2 EU Series has been cancelled, all prize money will be put towards another event that will include the EU playerbase. We will continue on with the NA series as we have a full line up of confirmed players and a decent number of sign ups for the qualifier. I apologize for any inconvenience, I will post a new thread with the replacement tournament for the cancelled EU series once I have more definite information. Thanks
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less than 12 hours to go for am qualifiers.
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We have over 50 signups so far, all you NA/SEA masters please sign up! You will have two chances to qualify for the main event on Friday with the 1K usd prize pool, as we will be running back-to-back qualifiers for you guys.
Remember, all you have to do to qualify is make it to the semi-finals! If you get knocked out early in the first qualifier, you will have another chance. Our admins will speak to you more specifically about the format and answer any questions you have in-game.
Sign Up!!
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On July 21 2015 23:33 Ctone23 wrote:We have over 50 signups so far, all you NA/SEA masters please sign up! You will have two chances to qualify for the main event on Friday with the 1K usd prize pool, as we will be running back-to-back qualifiers for you guys. Remember, all you have to do to qualify is make it to the semi-finals! If you get knocked out early in the first qualifier, you will have another chance. Our admins will speak to you more specifically about the format and answer any questions you have in-game. Sign Up!!
hope to see more people!
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Reschedule for a weekend so us working folk can participate. 
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On July 22 2015 07:28 Mistakes wrote:Reschedule for a weekend so us working folk can participate.
Go ahead and sign up! We're doing two qualifiers tonight back to back. Sorry I should of made that more clear in the OP. since the semifinal players advance the first qualifier shouldn't take too long, maybe a couple of hours.
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um trying to check in right now, theres no chat channel name, i dont see the admn name, and esl website isnt loading for me
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On July 22 2015 07:52 EJK wrote:
um trying to check in right now, theres no chat channel name, i dont see the admn name, and esl website isnt loading for me
Same issue here. ESL site went down and I'm unable to check in.
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Second Qualifier Sign Up
The link above will allow you to sign up for the second qualifier this evening. Sign ups are open all the way until the qualifier starts.
On July 22 2015 07:52 EJK wrote:
um trying to check in right now, theres no chat channel name, i dont see the admn name, and esl website isnt loading for me
Sorry about that it appears ESL is down across the board right now. Hopefully they get it back up soon. This has obviously delayed the event. Apologies, we'll get going as soon as we can.
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Avilo vs Cellonoob first game of the day!
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apologies to all those that had issues or got mixed up. esl crashing caused alot of hassle first time happening hopefully be good for the rest of the series.
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I appreciate you guys doing this event, but I'm reminded of why non-pro level Starcraft is fun to play, questionable to watch.
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On July 22 2015 13:23 Taf the Ghost wrote:I appreciate you guys doing this event, but I'm reminded of why non-pro level Starcraft is fun to play, questionable to watch.
It's very entertaining in small doses, but after so many cannon rushes into hidden base carriers you start to question if you're actually watching real starcraft.
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On July 22 2015 13:39 Tachion wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2015 13:23 Taf the Ghost wrote:I appreciate you guys doing this event, but I'm reminded of why non-pro level Starcraft is fun to play, questionable to watch. It's very entertaining in small doses, but after so many cannon rushes into hidden base carriers you start to question if you're actually watching real starcraft.
I popped in and saw Avilo vs Ruff game 2. It was around 17 minutes in, Ruff had a contain on Avilo's main that just got broken, at that point. It was 18 minutes in, Ruff was on 3 Battlecruisers and 1-2 tanks, with 2 bases (3rd just about done). Avilo just landed his 2nd (though his main functionally empty) and he had 2 thors and a tank.
I have no idea how that happened.
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On July 22 2015 13:23 Taf the Ghost wrote:I appreciate you guys doing this event, but I'm reminded of why non-pro level NA Starcraft is fun to play, questionable to watch.
FTFY
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Thanks for tuning into the qualifier, come back and see us Friday for the main event! Open qualifiers are fun in my opinion but yeah sometimes the games aren't the highest level
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Here you go boys and girls, the finals are happening tomorrow!
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not long now to see who will claim the na gauntlet cup
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make sure to spread the word guess this tournament will be epic!!!
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less than 6 hours to go!!
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last minute changes xenocider will be replaced by catz
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Oh man, got put in a corner with TWO Koreans gonna have to dig deep here.
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On July 25 2015 02:12 JonSnow wrote:
Oh man, got put in a corner with TWO Koreans gonna have to dig deep here.
luck of the draw mate believe it was done by wcs points. gl mate and too all competitors good to see a good turn out.
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What channel do we go to for this thing?
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On July 25 2015 02:58 avilo wrote:
What channel do we go to for this thing?
just go to gauntlet chat channel make sure to read the email u received has the scheduled.
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last minute change GAMETIME replaces CatZ.
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rip me. Well just wanna say thanks for doing this tournament hope to see another one sometime soon! Besides difficulties casters and admins are all very nice and everyone is always doing their very best
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On July 25 2015 02:12 JonSnow wrote:
Oh man, got put in a corner with TWO Koreans gonna have to dig deep here.
Well you seemed to do okay hahah
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Wow congratulations to Jonsnow that must be a gigantic win for you sir defeating Jaedong puts you among st probably 50 people in the entire world lol
No disrespect to your victory at all but..
It's time for Jaedong to go back to Brood War....holy shit :/
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is tehre any info on the next gauntlet cuP?
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EPT
The Gauntlet Cup 2
