To celebrate Starcraft 2 and the festive season, Alpha X is excited to announce this 16 player 7 day minimum $1,500 GSL style tournament featuring top Koreans and NA players that is largely sponsored by AfreecaTV!

Starts on Monday December 16th and runs daily for 7 days straight, ending with the playoffs on December 22nd at 7pm PST everyday! Thats a Tuesday start for folks in Korea/Asia at 12pm KST.

Players participating are as follows,
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Tournament format will be
Stage 1 - 4 Groups of 4 GSL style with top 2 advancing from each group
Stage 2 - 2 Groups of 4 GSL style with top 2 advancing
Playoffs - Bo5 Semi finals into Bo7 finals!

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Streams
http://play.afreecatv.com/alphaxsc2 (English Cast)
http://play.afreecatv.com/alphaxesp (Spanish Cast)
http://play.afreecatv.com/aftwsc2 (Taiwanese Cast - Last 4 days only: Group D, Stage 2 and play offs)

For all Alpha X news, notifications, VODs, etc., feel free to follow us @
Twitter - https://twitter.com/AlphaXsc2
Youtube - http://bit.ly/AlphaProSeriesVODs
Discord server - https://discord.gg/4zaUkPM
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/alphaxsc2

Full Liquipedia Page - (Wiki)

Alpha Pro Series XMas Showdown

Should you have any issues with AfreecaTV, try using HTML5 and refreshing. Any further problems, do contact them for help at http://ghelp.afreecatv.com/index.php?

We would really appreciate any form of support on our Matcherino page for this exciting event!

https://matcherino.com/tournaments/22312/marketplace
code : APSXmasHype adds $0.5 for free if you guys could help!
Any additional donation towards the prize pool would be extremely appreciated as well as we try our best to provide as much high quality content as possible

The replay pack for the entire 7 day tournament is also available for sale at $10 which goes towards the prize pool.
Purchase here - https://matcherino.com/marketplace/reward/4329?sourceId=22312&sourceType=bounty

This event is also part sponsored by SaladChefs

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Salad is a miner made for gamers to idle for rewards/loot "AFK the Smart Way."
Their free PC app puts your computer to work earning rewards, like:
- Steam Credit
- Visa Prepaid Cards
- Amazon Gift Cards

You can read more about them and download their app via their website- https://www.salad.io/about-us/
Join their discord server at https://discordapp.com/invite/29Sgfq3

Xain0n

Italy3963 Posts

December 07 2019 18:49 GMT

This tournament has potential, I'd say

Elentos

55550 Posts

December 07 2019 20:37 GMT

Good lineup, nicely distributed groups.

Solidham

United States5 Posts

December 08 2019 01:29 GMT

Future American hope!

AlphaXSushi

838 Posts

December 10 2019 10:43 GMT

Happy to announce that this will also now be an OSC partnered event with the following point distribution and system!

1st 250 OSC Points
2nd 175 OSC Points
3/4th 100 OSC Points each
5/6th 60 OSC Points each
7/8th 30 OSC Points each
9/12th 10 OSC Points each

+ Chance to win OSC $ Bounties
+ Points towards Participation Prizes

Players in this event with bounties on them: Astrea, Zest, Future, INnoVation, Impact, Solar

Check out the 2019 OSC world rankings here - http://sc2online.com/osc-world-rankings/

AlphaXSushi

838 Posts

December 15 2019 13:42 GMT

Less than 2 days to our event now! Offering a HyperX Cloud headset for those who follow and RT!

AlphaXSushi

838 Posts

December 17 2019 06:49 GMT

Today the Starcraft 2 gods and Santa schemed to play musical chairs with us and introduced new players into Group A!
We had Solar, Vindicta, Cure and sOs play instead with Solar showing his class to emerge top of the group despite the disruptions.

Here is the VOD for anyone interested! sOs games were great as usual - http://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/50306495

AlphaXSushi

838 Posts

December 18 2019 02:03 GMT

Day 2 starting soon!

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

December 18 2019 04:13 GMT

Surprising scrappy ending given that soO was floating 3k minerals at the 6 minute mark and having computer issues...

AlphaXSushi

838 Posts

December 18 2019 04:47 GMT

#10

On December 18 2019 13:13 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Surprising scrappy ending given that soO was floating 3k minerals at the 6 minute mark and having computer issues...

Managed to recover for G2 and 3 tho!

VOD for Day 2 is up! http://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/50335764

M3t4PhYzX

Poland4197 Posts

December 18 2019 09:31 GMT

#11

No EU, no fun.

go, go Protoss!

Elentos

55550 Posts

December 18 2019 14:37 GMT

#12

Good lord the amount of times the English casters called Scarlett a him.

AlphaXSushi

838 Posts

December 19 2019 00:04 GMT

#13

Day 3 starting soon!

And new codes!
https://matcherino.com/tournaments/22727/overview
code : aXMVPXmas2019 adds $0.5 to the prize pool if anyone can help!

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

December 19 2019 00:50 GMT

#14

On December 18 2019 23:37 Elentos wrote:
Good lord the amount of times the English casters called Scarlett a him.

They were also occasionally calling the opponent 'her' and sometimes swapping the names of the players. But yeah it was rather distracting at the very least.

AlphaXSushi

838 Posts

December 19 2019 01:22 GMT

#15

On December 19 2019 09:50 ZigguratOfUr wrote:

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They were also occasionally calling the opponent 'her' and sometimes swapping the names of the players. But yeah it was rather distracting at the very least.

Yes we sincerely apologize for this! The occasion got the better of us this time and we will do our best to rectify these mistakes! Hope you guys will enjoy Day 3 onwards!

ZerglingSoup

United States346 Posts

December 19 2019 05:10 GMT

#16

On December 18 2019 23:37 Elentos wrote:
Good lord the amount of times the English casters called Scarlett a him.

I know gendered pronouns can be problematic for certain ESL speakers, even in normal conversation.