O'Gaming presents: NationWars IV

Christmas is just around the corner and, for the occasion, O'GamingTV offers an exceptional menu from December 8th until January 21st.
We hope you brought an appetite for OGamingTV's specialty: Nation Wars !

O’GamingTV is proud to announce the launch of Nation Wars IV, in partnership with Blizzard Entertainment. This new edition of the national team tournament will feature top players from all around the world battling for a 30.000$ cashprize with an offline Final Stage in our studios in Paris, France.
Everyone can participate: you only need to be Grand Master to represent your country!

Our determination? Bringing the community and player at the center of the action to support your nation until victory.


As with the last editions, players will be able to sign up to represent their countries. Sign-ups open on December the 8th, and will run until the 12th of November, 20:00 CET. The community voting phase will begin on the 13th at 21:00 CET, and last until the 19th at 12:00 CET.




Players:
To register for the voting phase, candidates have to be a 2016 non-barcode Grand Master on the European, American or Korean Legacy of the Void server.

Link to registration: http://nationwars.tv/en


Nation Wars IV is a worldwide tournament. Any country can participate in the qualifiers.
If three players from the same country meet the criteria listed above and register, their country will officially compete in Nation Wars IV. All registrations need to be approved by the tournament director.

The registration phase starts on the 8th of December and ends the 12th of December at 20:00 CET.

Community members & fans:

Your votes are important and will decide which players will represent their country. The voting phase will take place from the 13th of December at 21:00 CET until the 19th at 12:00 CET.




To enhance this tournament, we have prepared a top team of trained professionals.

Pomf ; Thud ; MoMaN ; Imre ; FunKa ; Koka ; Yogo ; TKL and Ailye will be your french hosts and commentators here : http://www.ogaming.tv/sc2

For our english speaking guests, ToD ; Rotterdam ; FunKa and ZombieGrub will take care of the international stream here : http://www.ogaming.tv/inter


And of course Nation Wars would not be truly itself without its community streams, you can follow the action in multiple languages:

TaKeTV : https://www.twitch.tv/taketv

EmilTV : https://www.twitch.tv/emstarcraft

Alex007 : http://www.twitch.tv/starladder_sc2_ru

ScBoy : http://www.douyu.com/scboy

SupplyBlockTv : https://www.twitch.tv/supplyblocktv

CrankTV : https://www.twitch.tv/tvcrank




- The teams will consist of the three most voted players, matches will be played in Bo7 All-Kill format with one Revival
- Group stage "Ro16" is played online in GSL style
- Bracket stage "Ro8" is played online in a single-elimination format, and the winners will be invited to Paris
- Ro4 and finals will be played offline, in our studio in Paris, France.


The Nation Wars IV prize pool is $30 000 USD!




Registration phase: 8th of December to 12th of December, 20:00 CET
Voting phase: 13th of December 21:00 CET to 19th of December, 12:00 CET




Group Draft: 20th of December
Qualifiers: 21st of December
Group Stage A: 22nd & 23rd of December
Group Stage B: 2nd & 3rd of January
Group Stage C: 4th & 5h of January
Group Stage D: 6th & 7th of January
Ro8: 8th of January




Ro4 and finals in our studio in Paris: 21st of January


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