TLDR 8 player tournament, 10k in prizing, June 16-18, Toronto, Canada

North by Northeast (sister company to the popular South by Southwest) is hosting a music & arts festival at Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto. They wanted to feature some gaming content, and lucky for all of us, that means Starcraft 2. The location is great, and the plaza is huge, and with this we're hoping to really show off to a crowd just how great Starcraft 2 is! This event will take place June 16-18th, and while it's the same days as Dreamhack (unavoidable!) we will be trying to start our show after Dreamhack finishes so nobody has to pick & chooose.

Qualifier sign up links: MORE INFO BELOW
http://challonge.com/GameLandNA
http://challonge.com/GameLandeu
http://challonge.com/GameLandWC
http://challonge.com/GameLandWC2

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PRIZE POOL: $10,000
(All prizes are in CAD)
1st $4000
2nd $2000
3rd $1500
4th $900
5th-8th $400

*Please note that the distribution may change

FORMAT

2 day event. Ro8 will consist of 2x4 player WCS style groups, all bo3 on the current ladder map pool. Day 2 will feature 2x Bo5 semi-finals, Bo5 bronze match, and a Bo7 grand finals.

Group 1:
(P)

Zest vs

KeeN

NoRegreT vs (T)

Soul

Group 2:
(Z)

Leenock vs (Z)

PandaBearMe
(T)

MaSa vs

PiLiPiLi

We will cast as many of the matches as scheduling allows, but we may allow some (such as both group preliminary matches) to play at the same time for sake of time.

THE 8 PLAYERS

**IMPORTANT**IF YOU ARE NOT SURE OR DO NOT KNOW ABOUT GETTING A VISA IN TIME FOR THIS EVENT, PLEASE DO NOT PLAY IN THESE QUALIFIERS (this event is introducing some new sponsors to esports/starcraft and we can't afford no shows due to visa issues)

All invited/qualified players will be provided with hotel accommodations & travel. (Possible exceptions to travel being the WC qualifiers below. There will be a cap on assisted flight costs to be discussed depending where you're flying from. It's safe to guess that any flight $1,000 or below will be covered, however)

3 Invited Koreans: (Z)

Leenock,

KeeN &

Zest
(we wanted to bring some koreans over, because the korean vs foreigner element is always entertaining, but while we could have invited Gods, we tried to aim for demi-gods, increasing the chance for some cool foreigner upsets!)

1 Invited NA Player: TBA

Top 1 player from the North America Qualifier (USA/Canada/Mexico only)

http://challonge.com/GameLandNA Sunday, May 21 - (5:00 PM PDT)

Top 1 player from the Europe Qualifier ("Am I in Europe?" If you have to ask, then just default to the Wild Card qualifiers)

http://challonge.com/GameLandeu Sunday, May 22 - (9:00 AM PDT)

Top 1 player from each of the Wild Card Qualifiers GLOBAL (No Chinese or Korean players allowed)

http://challonge.com/GameLandWC Wednesday May 24 - (9:00 AM PDT)

http://challonge.com/GameLandWC2 Thursday May 25 - (5:00 PM PDT)

SPONSORS

TBA

And of course, covering the event will be none other than the duo of Rifkin & Zombiegrub

https://www.twitch.tv/basetradetv

BasetradeTV

Canada1307 Posts

May 18 2017 09:09 GMT

Reserved

SetGuitarsToKill

Canada28396 Posts

May 18 2017 09:30 GMT

Oh snap what a awesome place to have an event. This should be great

[MD]Frostbite

Canada292 Posts

May 18 2017 16:58 GMT

I'm assuming there will be tickets of some sort to attend?

DieuCure

France3713 Posts

May 18 2017 17:02 GMT

(we wanted to bring some koreans over, because the korean vs foreigner element is always entertaining, but while we could have invited Gods, we tried to aim for demi-gods, increasing the chance for some cool foreigner upsets!)

Ah ok,i was wondering why Cure wasnt in !

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

May 18 2017 17:47 GMT

Damn, this is pretty cool! Will try to follow as much as I can!

Inflicted

Australia18228 Posts

May 18 2017 22:02 GMT

I was expecting a GuMiho invite but at least we got the Zerg version of him

Aunvilgodess

954 Posts

May 18 2017 22:23 GMT

nice!!!!

EnderSword

Canada669 Posts

May 18 2017 22:48 GMT

This sounds like a lot of fun, can't wait

DARKING

Mexico675 Posts

May 18 2017 23:48 GMT

#10

No Chinese or Korean players allowed

Why? And does China includes Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau?

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

May 19 2017 00:04 GMT

#11

On May 19 2017 08:48 DARKING wrote:

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Why? And does China includes Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau?

Probably because of possible visa issues, as they stated. Can totally understand why they don't want to risk, getting no-shows at such event with new sponsors would be really bad.

AshC

United States328 Posts

May 19 2017 00:30 GMT

#12

Very cool event! Best of luck guys.

I personally don't like the invited Koreans. They are good players and all but most of them are just OK at best at the moment (I point at you Zest). I would prefer more solid Korean players to have some quality games.

GohgamX

Canada1096 Posts

May 19 2017 04:37 GMT

#13

On May 19 2017 09:30 AshC wrote:
Very cool event! Best of luck guys.

I personally don't like the invited Koreans. They are good players and all but most of them are just OK at best at the moment (I point at you Zest). I would prefer more solid Korean players to have some quality games.

Reminds me of the old MLG /KeSPA days

GoloSC2

712 Posts

May 19 2017 10:58 GMT

#14

Zest now officially demoted to demi-god :D

i-MajiN

France113 Posts

May 19 2017 11:02 GMT

#15

That's a really good new!
Scarlett and noregret still live in Korea? Any chance to see them at the event?

mosasaure

France32 Posts

May 19 2017 13:20 GMT

#16

Really good news for SC2.
Even if a tournament with 10 000 $ cash prize with only 8 players is a little unexpected !!
But the hype is here !!!

Master of DalK

Canada1803 Posts

May 19 2017 14:30 GMT

#17

On May 19 2017 01:58 [MD]Frostbite wrote:
I'm assuming there will be tickets of some sort to attend?

It's free to attend! No tickets required.
For those out of town trying to make their way in, I suggest parking at a subway station and then riding the train down to Dundas Station (located right next to the square).