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If you’re a college student who enjoys teaming up with a friend in Archon Mode, we’ve got a tournament for you! Tespa is holding its first ever StarCraft II Archon tournament for college students in the United States and Canada, including an awesome $50,000 scholarship prize pool. If you and a friend have what it takes to dominate the collegiate world in Archon Mode, you won’t want to miss this tournament. Sign Up To enter, register on this site. Create a team and invite your Archon partner to join, or search for uncompleted teams from your school to join. You will need a college e-mail or student ID to participate. Only entries submitted before February 3 will be accepted. Eligibility Students from traditional four-year colleges and community colleges in the United States and Canada who are actively enrolled either part-time or full-time are welcome to participate. A 2.5 GPA is required to receive prizing. Additional eligibility rules can be found here.Format Teams will be placed in one of four regions based on the college they are attending. Each team will play one match per week starting February 8. The main tournament season lasts seven weeks and will be followed by a week of regional playoffs before the final round. For a complete list of rules, as well as match and format details, click here.Viewing You can watch featured matches of the week live at Twitch.tv/StarCraft. Prizing 1st Place - $24,000 USD ($12,000 per player) 2nd Place - $14,000 USD ($7,000 per player) 3rd Place - $6,000 USD ($3,000 per player) Other Cool Stuff Those who participate with one or fewer no-shows will also receive a unique in-game portrait, as shown below. That’s right – you get something cool just for participating! ![[image loading]](https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/gallery/an/ANFPUTKAVH8F1452736665550.png)
Enter Now and Get Practicing!With Legacy of the Void and Archon Mode, teaming up with a friend for scholarships has never been so fun, so get signed up today and get practicing, commanders! StarCraft II Archon awaits! 
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United States1839 Posts
Exciting stuff from Blizzard! Good luck to everyone competing!
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With >= 2.5 GPA the winning team(s) will be eligible for scholarship!
Question: What exactly is that? Like is that hard or good? or easy?
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On January 15 2016 08:46 Arvendilin wrote:
With >= 2.5 GPA the winning team(s) will be eligible for scholarship!
Question: What exactly is that? Like is that hard or good? or easy?
2.5 isn't that good, but it's passing. I assume they want students who are in this to be actually trying in school and not just failouts-in-waiting who practice 24/7 for this event
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This is awesome, you really could have made a better OP though lol
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On January 15 2016 12:03 GGzerG wrote:
This is awesome, you really could have made a better OP though lol
I fixed it for him, bad looking OPs are the worst.
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When will EU get something like this 
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Bisutopia19300 Posts
GPA requirements? Pshhhh.
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Hey, will there be one for students like in Korea?? I'm a US univ student in Koreaaa....
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On January 15 2016 08:46 Arvendilin wrote:
With >= 2.5 GPA the winning team(s) will be eligible for scholarship!
Question: What exactly is that? Like is that hard or good? or easy?
Pretty easy. It's like barely passing. You'll graduate, but your job prospect will be low. 3.0 is the average I think, so you're about below average with a 2.5.
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On January 15 2016 08:46 Arvendilin wrote:
With >= 2.5 GPA the winning team(s) will be eligible for scholarship!
Question: What exactly is that? Like is that hard or good? or easy?
2.5 GPA = 75% = C grade. It means your passing, doing enough to get by. It also depends on other things as well, what college your going to, what major, how many courses your taking at once, how difficult they are, or if your working at the same time. Essentially they want to ensure the scholarship isn't going to someone who is failing.
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Really cool opportunity. GPA depends heavily on program, I'm in Mechanical Engineering, and our average GPA is 2.7-2.8, while my girlfriend in Accounting says the average is 3.2-3.3 for her program. Masters programs have an average of 3.5-3.8.
A/A+ = 4, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, C = 2, etc. Like someone else said, it's just to make sure you are still focusing on school and passing. If you get 2.0 or lower for two semesters is a row, you get kicked out of my program (or 1.5 and lower for one semester).
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Great news for Archon mode. We need something similar in Europe!!
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It looks nice  a lot of money for some students, good luck guys!
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Wow, the price pool is absurd considering it's archon, and a highly limited player pool! Well, go and grab the money you few that are allowed to play! 
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Polt's gonna take it all... if his gpa is good enough... he's still in the US, isn't he?
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On January 15 2016 19:04 MrMischelito wrote:
Polt's gonna take it all... if his gpa is good enough... he's still in the US, isn't he?
He probably wouldn't even need an ally. Just take a random person and have them sit at a computer and not touch anything.
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Don't really care about TeSPA
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i wish there was some EU stuff once in a while...
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that's a nice idea...will we see Kane return?
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On January 15 2016 17:52 Nerchio wrote:It looks nice a lot of money for some students, good luck guys!
can't tell if genuinely nice or dropping bombs
gz to whoever from NA GM is in uni
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Masterrn I sent you a pm, could you get back about that? Thanks.
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Hmmm. How many grandmaster players are in college right now? Are there any big names that are competing? Is polt still in college?
Are there any high master / grandmaster sc2 players at university of maryland college park? I might take up playing sc2 again just for this, I could probably get high masters/gm very quickly.
But I need to figure out if it's worth bothering putting that level of effort in.
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On January 17 2016 04:45 travis wrote:
Hmmm. How many grandmaster players are in college right now? Are there any big names that are competing? Is polt still in college?
Are there any high master / grandmaster sc2 players at university of maryland college park? I might take up playing sc2 again just for this, I could probably get high masters/gm very quickly.
But I need to figure out if it's worth bothering putting that level of effort in.
im in college and high GM on NA. cant compete because im the only person who plays at my school and its considered too big to team up with someone else so....heres to the sidelines again yay
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2.5 gpa. gg ill just have to break thru wcs
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On January 19 2016 10:48 EJK wrote:Show nested quote +On January 17 2016 04:45 travis wrote:
Hmmm. How many grandmaster players are in college right now? Are there any big names that are competing? Is polt still in college?
Are there any high master / grandmaster sc2 players at university of maryland college park? I might take up playing sc2 again just for this, I could probably get high masters/gm very quickly.
But I need to figure out if it's worth bothering putting that level of effort in. im in college and high GM on NA. cant compete because im the only person who plays at my school and its considered too big to team up with someone else so....heres to the sidelines again yay
it's hard to believe your school is of any decent size and you are the only one who plays tho
if I was you I'd look hard because I'd say any high GM players have a shot at getting a scholarship from this tournament
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On January 19 2016 23:33 travis wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2016 10:48 EJK wrote:On January 17 2016 04:45 travis wrote:
Hmmm. How many grandmaster players are in college right now? Are there any big names that are competing? Is polt still in college?
Are there any high master / grandmaster sc2 players at university of maryland college park? I might take up playing sc2 again just for this, I could probably get high masters/gm very quickly.
But I need to figure out if it's worth bothering putting that level of effort in. im in college and high GM on NA. cant compete because im the only person who plays at my school and its considered too big to team up with someone else so....heres to the sidelines again yay it's hard to believe your school is of any decent size and you are the only one who plays tho if I was you I'd look hard because I'd say any high GM players have a shot at getting a scholarship from this tournament
its a 2 year ghetto community school. It is just big enough to be considered 'too big' but not big enough to have a very large assortment of people. If you arent black you are a nerd playing league of legends, magic the gathering, or hearthstone. It's amazing how no one plays sc2 but I see people using the school library computers to play league of legends....
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On January 20 2016 01:02 EJK wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2016 23:33 travis wrote:On January 19 2016 10:48 EJK wrote:On January 17 2016 04:45 travis wrote:
Hmmm. How many grandmaster players are in college right now? Are there any big names that are competing? Is polt still in college?
Are there any high master / grandmaster sc2 players at university of maryland college park? I might take up playing sc2 again just for this, I could probably get high masters/gm very quickly.
But I need to figure out if it's worth bothering putting that level of effort in. im in college and high GM on NA. cant compete because im the only person who plays at my school and its considered too big to team up with someone else so....heres to the sidelines again yay it's hard to believe your school is of any decent size and you are the only one who plays tho if I was you I'd look hard because I'd say any high GM players have a shot at getting a scholarship from this tournament its a 2 year ghetto community school. It is just big enough to be considered 'too big' but not big enough to have a very large assortment of people. If you arent black you are a nerd playing league of legends, magic the gathering, or hearthstone. It's amazing how no one plays sc2 but I see people using the school library computers to play league of legends....
Take a lol-player and have them sit in the game for you. Maybe you can even have him build the scvs for you until you tell him to stop. Promise them $5 per game, plus 5% of anything you win, and they'll be motivated to help you. 
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