ASUS ROG Tournaments return with an online StarCraft II tournament on September 17-19, 2021, featuring 16 world-class players, and a prize pool of $15,000 USD and 1,280 EPT points.
It is a great time to be a StarCraft II fan. The title of World Champion has been joinked from South Korea for the second time in history, and the competition is as stiff as ever on international and regional fields. It feels like the global events especially are delivering some of the best StarCraft II matches and storylines in recent years. Despite the still ongoing global pandemic, esports is thriving, and the SC2 scene continues to amaze us. We are lucky to be part of this community, and as fellow SC2 fans it is with great pleasure and pride that we bring you a new global event, ASUS ROG Fall 2021.
ASUS ROG Fall 2021 is held on September 17-19, and it follows the notes of our previous event from last year, ASUS ROG Online 2020. As the pandemic continues and we are not yet able to host offline events, we are happy the previous event proved online ASUS ROG Tournaments can be awesome too! ASUS ROG Fall 2021 will have three days of action in the familiar GSL-style format, and sixteen players competing for the $15,000 USD cash prize. In addition, the tournament will be part of the current ESL Pro Tour, distributing a total of 1,280 EPT points among the sixteen participants!
Half of the 16 competing players will enter the tournament via an invitation, and the other half will enter through open qualifiers. The invitations are based on the EPT rankings on Monday, August 23, with the top four from both World and Korea regions receiving an invite. The qualifiers will be held on August 31 through September 4 on American, European, and Korean servers without region locks. The best three will advance from the American and European servers while the best two will grab a spot from the Korean qualifier.
The main tournament will be broadcasted on twitch.tv/ROGTournament in English with the commentary provided by Kevin “Rotterdam” van der Kooi, Benjamin "DeMusliM" Baker, Jonathon "Wardi" Ward, and Julian "Lambo" Brosig. And as always, we welcome the community to provide additional foreign language streams.
Group matches are bo3. Playoffs matches are bo5 except the final is a bo7. Groups start with a fixed time but group matces are played with acceledated schedule. Playoffs are played with accelerated schedule.
Community streams We welcome the community to provide additional streams in other languages. However, the qualifiers are open for all languages, English streams included. If you wish to broadcast the qualifiers or the main event, please send us an application preferably before September 8 using this form.
The tournament will be played with one GSL-style double-elimination group stage followed by a single-elimination playoff stage. In the group stages, the 16 contestants will be divided into four groups consisting of 4 players each. The top two players in each group will proceed to the next stage.
All the matches in the groups are bo3, and the playoffs matches are best-of-5 except for the final which is a best-of-7 match.
Participation
The tournament is a global online event and open to all players. To earn ESL Pro Tour points, the player must meet the requirements set in the EPT Structure and Regulations document.
There are two ways to gain one of the 16 spots in the tournament — either by receiving a direct invite or through an online qualification tournament. The invites are based on ESL Pro Tour rankings.
Qualifiers
Note that the qualifiers require you to hold Master or Grandmaster rank in any Battle.net ladder to enter the tournament.
Each of the qualifiers are held in two parts to prevent them for running very late into the night.
2021-08-27 - Added invited players and most of main event community streams. 2021-09-13 - Added Wardi & Lambo as casters.
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Great news, I just hope the defending Champ (Byun) can make it through the qualifer to the main Tournament. Also, another late Sunday - early Monday playoff meaning someone from KR might get screwed with GSL schedule again.
Great news. Only unfortunate bit is that corona has prevented these happening offline at Assembly summer event. The first event on 2019 when event returned was such nice experience.
With 3-4 of the invited players are already from EU, I dont think there will be alot of competition left for the KR in the NA or even EU server qualifiers. Thats why KR servers qualifier only has 2 slots. Cure Zest Solar will probably qualify even if they play on NA server.
On August 05 2021 02:10 tigera6 wrote: With 3-4 of the invited players are already from EU, I dont think there will be alot of competition left for the KR in the NA or even EU server qualifiers. Thats why KR servers qualifier only has 2 slots. Cure Zest Solar will probably qualify even if they play on NA server.
If you think the spots will go to KR players anyway, why not just increase the slots for the KR qualifier? You argument doesn't make much sense to me.
Nice, nice, nice!! This was my fave tournament from 2020 because of ByuN going on an absolute tear. A lot of TvT matchups, too. Looking forward to seeing ASUS ROG Fall 2021.
Once again, only half of the players gets some $$. I realy wish, they would take like 1k of from 1st and 500 of from 2nd and spread it to the bottom 8 finishers. 5k 2.5k 1.5k 750 250 125 would allready look way way better, if you ask me
On August 05 2021 04:18 BaneRiders wrote: Hooray, ASUS ROG is back!
It's a shame half of the players are invited though...
This is pretty consistent with what the organizer always did in the past, that I don't see them changing their policy anytime soon, even if that would be nicer.
On August 05 2021 02:10 tigera6 wrote: With 3-4 of the invited players are already from EU, I dont think there will be alot of competition left for the KR in the NA or even EU server qualifiers. Thats why KR servers qualifier only has 2 slots. Cure Zest Solar will probably qualify even if they play on NA server.
If you think the spots will go to KR players anyway, why not just increase the slots for the KR qualifier? You argument doesn't make much sense to me.
From my point of view, that just means giving other region some advantage over KR in the qualifer, knowing they will take most of the slot with it being open-region. Make sense? yeah, fair? not really.
On August 05 2021 04:18 BaneRiders wrote: Hooray, ASUS ROG is back!
It's a shame half of the players are invited though...
This is pretty consistent with what the organizer always did in the past, that I don't see them changing their policy anytime soon, even if that would be nicer.
I dont have a problem with having invited players to tournament, because some of the top players might not be willing to play in the qualifier due to a schedule clash with GSL/DH. I mean, TSL did not have Rogue, Maru possibly because of the GSL Final in season 1.
On August 05 2021 02:52 dbRic1203 wrote: Once again, only half of the players gets some $$. I realy wish, they would take like 1k of from 1st and 500 of from 2nd and spread it to the bottom 8 finishers. 5k 2.5k 1.5k 750 250 125 would allready look way way better, if you ask me
Or ESL could use some of that $250,000 they cut from last year's Global Finals that they promised would go to future events to pay them. Yet I haven't seen any extra events compared to last year and prize pools haven't increased so where did that $250k go? I was worried when they cut it that it was a lie and seems I was right they had no outline where that money would go in the future or anything just a promise that "It would go to future events".
On August 05 2021 02:52 dbRic1203 wrote: Once again, only half of the players gets some $$. I realy wish, they would take like 1k of from 1st and 500 of from 2nd and spread it to the bottom 8 finishers. 5k 2.5k 1.5k 750 250 125 would allready look way way better, if you ask me
Or ESL could use some of that $250,000 they cut from last year's Global Finals that they promised would go to future events to pay them. Yet I haven't seen any extra events compared to last year and prize pools haven't increased so where did that $250k go? I was worried when they cut it that it was a lie and seems I was right they had no outline where that money would go in the future or anything just a promise that "It would go to future events".
Asus ROG isn't an event which they control, the prize pool is only on the responsibility of Assembly unless ESL or DreamHack decide to have a direct involvement unless I missed sth (and not just make the event part of the EPT circuit). There's trying to convince Asus to raise the amount of money. Same prize pool as last year so like the invites, I'm unsurprised either.
On August 05 2021 02:52 dbRic1203 wrote: Once again, only half of the players gets some $$. I realy wish, they would take like 1k of from 1st and 500 of from 2nd and spread it to the bottom 8 finishers. 5k 2.5k 1.5k 750 250 125 would allready look way way better, if you ask me
Or ESL could use some of that $250,000 they cut from last year's Global Finals that they promised would go to future events to pay them. Yet I haven't seen any extra events compared to last year and prize pools haven't increased so where did that $250k go? I was worried when they cut it that it was a lie and seems I was right they had no outline where that money would go in the future or anything just a promise that "It would go to future events".
Asus ROG isn't an event which they control, the prize pool is only on the responsibility of Assembly unless ESL or DreamHack decide to have a direct involvement unless I missed sth (and not just make the event part of the EPT circuit). There's trying to convince Asus to raise the amount of money.
I understand it is an event that they don't control but I feel like ESL being the managing organization for the points system and global finals could easily add prize money to any tournament they wanted to not like ASUS is gonna say no we don't want more money for the players. My whole point is there is $250,000 worth of prize money promised to Starcraft Pros in future events that to my knowledge has yet to even come into play at all. Yet we still have tournaments where half the players aren't even getting a dime for participating. I understand your points but I feel like what I asked for isn't unreasonable at all. I honestly believe that ESL owes the community and players an explanation for where that money went because it was supposed to go to players at some point yet it hasn't.
On August 05 2021 02:52 dbRic1203 wrote: Once again, only half of the players gets some $$. I realy wish, they would take like 1k of from 1st and 500 of from 2nd and spread it to the bottom 8 finishers. 5k 2.5k 1.5k 750 250 125 would allready look way way better, if you ask me
Or ESL could use some of that $250,000 they cut from last year's Global Finals that they promised would go to future events to pay them. Yet I haven't seen any extra events compared to last year and prize pools haven't increased so where did that $250k go? I was worried when they cut it that it was a lie and seems I was right they had no outline where that money would go in the future or anything just a promise that "It would go to future events".
Asus ROG isn't an event which they control, the prize pool is only on the responsibility of Assembly unless ESL or DreamHack decide to have a direct involvement unless I missed sth (and not just make the event part of the EPT circuit). There's trying to convince Asus to raise the amount of money.
I understand it is an event that they don't control but I feel like ESL being the managing organization for the points system and global finals could easily add prize money to any tournament they wanted to not like ASUS is gonna say no we don't want more money for the players. My whole point is there is $250,000 worth of prize money promised to Starcraft Pros in future events that to my knowledge has yet to even come into play at all. Yet we still have tournaments where half the players aren't even getting a dime for participating. I understand your points but I feel like what I asked for isn't unreasonable at all. I honestly believe that ESL owes the community and players and explanation for where that money went because it was supposed to go to players at some point yet it hasn't.
Oh sure, part of these 250000 bucks could have easily been split between all the existing regional events. What makes it worse is the base prize pool having been currently lowered rather than raised (for example last year DH Summer EU had a 84,000 dollar prize pool, this year it's only 74,000 or for NA, 38,000 to 33,600. I wonder the justification there.
So while I was just outlining my (not so) educated guess on how this likely works, I do agree with you on a personal level.
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