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The Siege Perilous - $5,000 in top-end hardware!

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CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-13 14:34:53
March 19 2021 19:00 GMT
#1
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On behalf of Silver Knight PCs, I am pleased to announce an exciting Starcraft 2 tournament that features a completely open bracket with no invited players. [image loading]The Siege Perilous will award top players with high-end PC hardware, commemorative plaques, and some additional swag. In addition, one lucky viewer will win a top-notch graphics card!



Format
  • Four open qualifiers (explanation video here)
  • Each bracket winner is automatically granted a seed in the bracket stage and wins $50.
  • Placement points
    • One point per match win
    • Two points for a third/fourth-place finish
    • Three points for a second-place finish
    • Highest 4 points-earners are awarded the remaining spaces in the bracket stage.
  • Single Elimination Bracket Stage
The complete rules document is available here.

Dates and Times:
  • Qualifiers:
    • Qualifier #1: Tuesday, Apr 13 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
    • Qualifier #2: Wednesday, Apr 14 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
    • Qualifier #3: Thursday, Apr 15 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
    • Qualifier #4: Friday, Apr 16 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
  • Championship Bracket Stage
    • Quarterfinals: Saturday, Apr 17 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
    • Semifinals and Grand Finals: Sunday, Apr 18 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Prize Pool
  • 1st Place - EVGA RTX 3080 10GB FTW3 Ultra graphics card + $250 + Commemorative Plaque
  • 2nd Place - EVGA RTX XC3 Ultra 3070 8GB graphics card + $100 + Commemorative Plaque
  • 3/4th Place - 1TB Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD + $75 + Commemorative Plaque
  • Top 8 players will all receive a Silver Knight PCs Sweatshirt
  • Top 16 players will all receive a Silver Knight PCs T-shirt
  • Winner of each Open Qualifier will receive $50
  • One viewer will recieve an EVGA RTX 3060Ti FTW3 Ultra graphics card (tune into the stream for entry details!)

Broadcast
  • us CreightonOlsen
    • Joined by nl Lowko on the final day
  • fr LegendK
  • mx Enki
  • pl Indy (14th, 15th, and 17th)
  • ru gL1de
  • kr iNu (Championship Bracket only)

Keep your eyes on this thread for additional talent announcements!
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Brutaxilos
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2624 Posts
March 20 2021 02:40 GMT
#2
Sounds cool. Signed up. Thanks Creighton!
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Husyelt
Profile Blog Joined May 2020
United States830 Posts
March 20 2021 03:05 GMT
#3
Damn, this is a great tourney prize concept.
You're getting cynical and that won't do I'd throw the rose tint back on the exploded view
CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
March 20 2021 03:31 GMT
#4
On March 20 2021 12:05 Husyelt wrote:
Damn, this is a great tourney prize concept.


Silver Knight PCs has been crazy generous to put these graphics cards and SSD’s up for grabs, so I really hope people turn out to support the event! Should be a fun format too.
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CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
March 30 2021 20:53 GMT
#5
Update:

Our prize pool has been expanded to include a $50 prize to the winner of each Open Qualifier!
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CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-06 20:06:33
April 06 2021 20:06 GMT
#6
Update:

The Siege Perilous will be played on the newly-announced map pool:
  • 2000 Atmospheres
  • Beckett Industries
  • Blackburn
  • Jagannatha
  • Lightshade
  • Oxide
  • Romanticide
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CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
April 10 2021 20:03 GMT
#7
Update:

The prize pool has been juiced with $500 cash in addition to the RTX 3080/3070 Graphics Cards and 1TB Hard Drives. Sign up now if you want to win.

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CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
April 12 2021 22:54 GMT
#8
If you're curious how the qualifiers work, check out my latest tweet explaining the open bracket process!

https://twitter.com/CreightonOlsen/status/1381742468471865363?s=20
https://www.twitch.tv/CreightonOlsen
True_Spike
Profile Joined July 2004
Poland3421 Posts
April 13 2021 06:32 GMT
#9
Cool idea!
datastuff
Profile Joined September 2020
31 Posts
April 13 2021 10:10 GMT
#10
Not that I'm complaining about prizes, they seem fair for a tournament this size and it's a cool idea, but how is this $5000 in top end hardware. The 2 ssds are $115 each at basically every retailer and the 3 GPUs combined retail for about $2000. Even using scalper prices $5000 is pushing it.
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6906 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-13 11:37:58
April 13 2021 11:35 GMT
#11
On April 13 2021 19:10 datastuff wrote:
Not that I'm complaining about prizes, they seem fair for a tournament this size and it's a cool idea, but how is this $5000 in top end hardware. The 2 ssds are $115 each at basically every retailer and the 3 GPUs combined retail for about $2000. Even using scalper prices $5000 is pushing it.


Don't forget that awesome swagger! 8 Sweats and 16 T-shirts + 500 bucks in cash + 50 bucks each qualifier winner. Adds up
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
datastuff
Profile Joined September 2020
31 Posts
April 13 2021 12:59 GMT
#12
On April 13 2021 20:35 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 13 2021 19:10 datastuff wrote:
Not that I'm complaining about prizes, they seem fair for a tournament this size and it's a cool idea, but how is this $5000 in top end hardware. The 2 ssds are $115 each at basically every retailer and the 3 GPUs combined retail for about $2000. Even using scalper prices $5000 is pushing it.


Don't forget that awesome swagger! 8 Sweats and 16 T-shirts + 500 bucks in cash + 50 bucks each qualifier winner. Adds up


I mean, I don't consider shirts/money as "top-end hardware"
But even then call it $2300 in hardware, $700 in cash, that leaves $2000 for 4 plaques, 8 sweatshirts, and 16 t-shirts. Either those plaques are gold plated or they're name brand shirts.
CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
April 13 2021 14:09 GMT
#13
On April 13 2021 21:59 datastuff wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 13 2021 20:35 Harris1st wrote:
On April 13 2021 19:10 datastuff wrote:
Not that I'm complaining about prizes, they seem fair for a tournament this size and it's a cool idea, but how is this $5000 in top end hardware. The 2 ssds are $115 each at basically every retailer and the 3 GPUs combined retail for about $2000. Even using scalper prices $5000 is pushing it.


Don't forget that awesome swagger! 8 Sweats and 16 T-shirts + 500 bucks in cash + 50 bucks each qualifier winner. Adds up


I mean, I don't consider shirts/money as "top-end hardware"
But even then call it $2300 in hardware, $700 in cash, that leaves $2000 for 4 plaques, 8 sweatshirts, and 16 t-shirts. Either those plaques are gold plated or they're name brand shirts.


If you can actually buy the 3080 model we’re giving away for less than $2,000 anywhere, please share your secrets here and on r/pcmasterrace.
https://www.twitch.tv/CreightonOlsen
CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
April 13 2021 14:39 GMT
#14
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datastuff
Profile Joined September 2020
31 Posts
April 13 2021 14:49 GMT
#15
On April 13 2021 23:09 CreightonOlsen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 13 2021 21:59 datastuff wrote:
On April 13 2021 20:35 Harris1st wrote:
On April 13 2021 19:10 datastuff wrote:
Not that I'm complaining about prizes, they seem fair for a tournament this size and it's a cool idea, but how is this $5000 in top end hardware. The 2 ssds are $115 each at basically every retailer and the 3 GPUs combined retail for about $2000. Even using scalper prices $5000 is pushing it.


Don't forget that awesome swagger! 8 Sweats and 16 T-shirts + 500 bucks in cash + 50 bucks each qualifier winner. Adds up


I mean, I don't consider shirts/money as "top-end hardware"
But even then call it $2300 in hardware, $700 in cash, that leaves $2000 for 4 plaques, 8 sweatshirts, and 16 t-shirts. Either those plaques are gold plated or they're name brand shirts.


If you can actually buy the 3080 model we’re giving away for less than $2,000 anywhere, please share your secrets here and on r/pcmasterrace.


Sure if you go to EVGA's website you can literally sign up to a queue and get the card for MSRP when there's stock, retailers also do periodic drops at resonable prices. For scalped prices which I literally address in my first comment, if you go to ebay, look at completed listing and sort by price there's plenty of completed listings below $2000.
Also, Steam's hardware survey has the 3080 at 0.81%, .01% lower than last gens 2080 so it's not people aren't getting 3080s in good numbers. In fact if you look at r/pcmasterrace there's pages of posts on the specific 3080 you're giving away including some who specifically thank EVGA for their queue system previously mentioned.
CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
April 13 2021 14:52 GMT
#16
On April 13 2021 23:49 datastuff wrote:

Sure if you go to EVGA's website you can literally sign up to a queue and get the card for MSRP when there's stock, retailers also do periodic drops at resonable prices. For scalped prices which I literally address in my first comment, if you go to ebay, look at completed listing and sort by price there's plenty of completed listings below $2000.
Also, Steam's hardware survey has the 3080 at 0.81%, .01% lower than last gens 2080 so it's not people aren't getting 3080s in good numbers. In fact if you look at r/pcmasterrace there's pages of posts on the specific 3080 you're giving away including some who specifically thank EVGA for their queue system previously mentioned.


Alright, King. You win. We'll cancel the tournament and tell folks to join the queue.

C'mon. Be cool. Our sponsor is giving away tons of valuable free shit.
https://www.twitch.tv/CreightonOlsen
datastuff
Profile Joined September 2020
31 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-13 15:21:13
April 13 2021 15:15 GMT
#17
On April 13 2021 23:52 CreightonOlsen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 13 2021 23:49 datastuff wrote:

Sure if you go to EVGA's website you can literally sign up to a queue and get the card for MSRP when there's stock, retailers also do periodic drops at resonable prices. For scalped prices which I literally address in my first comment, if you go to ebay, look at completed listing and sort by price there's plenty of completed listings below $2000.
Also, Steam's hardware survey has the 3080 at 0.81%, .01% lower than last gens 2080 so it's not people aren't getting 3080s in good numbers. In fact if you look at r/pcmasterrace there's pages of posts on the specific 3080 you're giving away including some who specifically thank EVGA for their queue system previously mentioned.


Alright, King. You win. We'll cancel the tournament and tell folks to join the queue.

C'mon. Be cool. Our sponsor is giving away tons of valuable free shit.


As I said before, the prizes are fair and it's a cool idea, I have no problem with the prize pool. My problem is how it was advertised. Imagine if ESL made some limited edition merch with an outragous price and included it in the prize of weekly cups. Then started advertising said cups as having $1000 in prizes, it misrepresents the size of the tournament and gives a false idea to the viewers of what's at stake.

I even think the prizes are on the generous size, compared to for example WardiTV We Sold Out #2 which had a $1000 prize pool while having more maps and days for the players. So I see no reason to fudge the numbers anyway, just be transparent with what you're offering.
SilverKnightPCs
Profile Joined April 2021
1 Post
April 13 2021 16:56 GMT
#18
Hey Data, so the prize pool does come out to about $5000 altogether when you count the value of the cards and all the other things included. These cards are not nearly as available as you may believe. We work directly with EVGA and in their own words along with other manufacturers such as ASUS "The prices of all cards are about to shoot up through the roof. The days of buying a 3080 for less than a $1000 is pretty much gone." I'm sure you are well versed in your knowledge of the current PC market to know that there is a massive silicon shortage right now which is causing the chiplets for GPU's and other computer products to not be made with the same speed and efficiency. This in turn makes the demand higher while the stock stays extremely low, causing the prices to start soaring. These manufacturers also haven't updated their MSRP's on their websites while they continue to sell us their GPU's well above the MSRP currently listed. We also have all the merch that we sell for a certain price in store which will continue to raise up the value of the entire prize pool as this merch at the end of the day does cost us a fair amount to make since they're higher quality prints and material. We source most of our stuff locally as well because we believe in supporting local businesses during these trying times and sometimes they charge a bit more than your average internet e-tailer. We try to remain as transparent as possible with our business and we greatly appreciate your concern in the way we decided the value of this tournament and hope that you participate in the stream for a chance to win a 3060Ti. Have a great day! - Austin (Marketing Director, Silver Knight PCs.)
CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-13 21:06:13
April 13 2021 20:40 GMT
#19
Here are today's results! For the full list, see the tracking document!

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CreightonOlsen
Profile Blog Joined September 2018
United States366 Posts
April 14 2021 20:58 GMT
#20
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