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SEA Masters Cup #64Saturday, Jan 30 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
$150 USD prize pool + earn points toward $7000+ end of season tournament
*Plus one lucky participant will win a bonus $10 just for playing!
Open to all regions
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The Masters Cup is a biweekly-monthly tournament, the first fortnightly cup will be region locked to WCS North American citizens. The second fortnightly cup will be open to everyone (EU + KR). Repeat.
This event is sponsored by Eddie and SC2Online.com
Signup
Post your NA ID, Account most known by (If different from registered account, eg EU, KR ID), Team/Clan and Country. Either here or the SC2Online thread.
Example: TossImba.111 ( Scarlett ) - Team Acer - Canada
Signups will close at 5.45pm PDT on Friday 29th Januray, Brackets will be published on challonge.com shortly after and updated in this thread.
Updated Registered Players List can be found here
Map Pool: + Show Spoiler +
Dusk Towers, Orbital Shipyard, Prion Terraces, Ulrena, Central Protocol, Lerilak Crest, Ruins of Seras
For Best of 3 Series, both players take turns to veto 2 maps from the map pool, so there is 3 left, then they each select the map they most want if they lose, and start with the remaining map.
For Best of 5 Series, both players take turns to veto 1 map from the map pool, so there is 5 left, then they each select the map they most want if they lose, repeat, and start with the remaining map.
For Best of 3 Series, both players take turns to veto 2 maps from the map pool, so there is 3 left, then they each select the map they most want if they lose, and start with the remaining map.
For Best of 5 Series, both players take turns to veto 1 map from the map pool, so there is 5 left, then they each select the map they most want if they lose, repeat, and start with the remaining map.
Prizes:
1st $75 + 200 OSC points
2nd $50 + 125 OSC points
3rd $25 + 90 OSC points
4th 45 OSC points each
5-8th 15 OSC points each
9-16th 5 OSC points each
17-32nd 2.5 OSC points each
*Prizes are in USD
$10 just for joining this Masters Cup! + Show Spoiler +
One lucky participant shall receive $10 AUD! While not a massive prize, its a free pizza, or a couple beers, etc, just for playing some sc2! Even if you are eliminated early be sure to stick around, watch the high quality games, and listen out for who will win (It may well be you!). Purpose of this is to encourage player participation, and offer a small reward for those who fail to place, as every game is of a high level. Depending upon future donations/sponsorship this may continue or be replaced by some other sort of prize, eg hardware. It shall be trialed this Masters Cup, as always, feedback welcomed. The prize draw shall be done live on stream using http://www.random.org/. If the number generated, matches your randomly seeded number on challonge.com, you're the winner! (Except if you no showed and got walked over in the early rounds, then we'll redraw, as it is designed to reward participants)
NA + L.Am players gain 2.5 bonus OSC Participation points, which counts towards $1200 Participation Competition.
ANZ + SEA players gain 2.5 bonus OSC Participation points, which counts towards $1000 Participation Competition.
Plus there are OSC $ Bounties for NA + SEA Players
Bonus OCS points can be earned if:
Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 16: 5 OSC points
Anyone ranked below 16th beats someone in Top 17-32 ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
Anyone ranked 16th - 9th beats anyone ranked equal or higher then themselves: 2.5 OSC points
1st - 8th have no chance to earn bonus points
Current season rankings and database can be viewed here
Times + Format
Saturday, Jan 30 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Location: NA Battle.net
Battle.net Group: Join the group OSC
Single Elimination.
- All series Bo3
- Semi's + Grand Final Bo5
Casters: tba
Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship Series
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What is OSC?
For those who are unaware, The Oseanic StarCraft 2 Championship (OSC) is the Oceanic, South East Asian, North American and Chinese regional championship, which follows a yearly season format, where players earn points for placing in all partnered tournaments. Although the network is based in and focuses on these regions, many events are open to everyone in the world.
The top 32 players ranked via the OSC Player Leader board at the end of the season are then invited to play in the $7000+ Grand Finale to determine the yearly champion! OSC World Rankings were established in December 2012.
In 2015 OSC partnered tournaments gave away $49885 combined prizepool, we had 190 completed partnered tournaments (up 22% on 2014), and saw 498 individual players with points earned (up 39% on 2014)
Solar was 2015's Champion, taking out the $5000 finals series.
GuMiho was 2014's Champion, taking out the $3500 finals series.
PiG was 2013's Champion, taking out the $2100 finals series.
Current OSC rankings and database can be viewed here
Factors which influence how many OSC points tournaments are allocated include: prizepool, format, frequency, open qualifiers and region locking.
Some unique/interesting features of OSC tournaments and rankings.
- Players are seeding via points acquired from previous OSC placings. (Points often are awarded to 16/32nd place)
- If you defeat someone ranked in the top 32, or higher than yourself, you earn scalp/bonus points (These are used in the event of a tie for yearly finals qualification)
- Players can challenge each other to show matches and put their points on the line, winner takes all.
- There are $ Bounties on top tier players if you can defeat them in a Bo3+ series
- Rankings reflect tournament success, participation, and direct individual series
- We have an active paid news writing team who provide fresh sc2 content and OSC coverage, available at SC2Online.com
OSC Supporter Packages
You can show your support towards OSC, and help us put on events for the community for just $8 USD per month! One less chocolate bar/One less beer at the pub/a couple less songs on iTunes, etc, and the money goes towards supporting the scene It's quite common place for players/casters to have a subscription option on twitch tv (which isn't an option for us), and we feel we have much more to give back in terms of entertainment, competition and rewards. Subscribers are also another way we can potentially market ourselves to prospective sponsors, which in turn will result in further growth.
We also provided supporters with bonuses such as event replay packs, and chance to win 1 hour of coaching from top tier players.
If you are interested, you can subscribe here.
