EPTLionsgate announces $20,000 NA-only SC2 tournament - Page 8
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Detri
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coL.hendralisk
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Virium
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felisconcolori
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c0ldfusion
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Marcinko
South Africa1014 Posts
On February 04 2014 04:52 coL.hendralisk wrote: Yay, excited to play in my first na invitational Congratulation on your 1000th post and good luck in the tournament. This is pretty awesome and hope they will sponsor a few more tournament in the future! | ||
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Sufinsil
United States760 Posts
Tournament: There is two qualifying rounds of 16 players. One round will be broadcasted on Twitch, Feb 5-9. One round will be broadcasted on MLG, Feb 11-16. The winners will advance to the Ender's Game on Blu-Ray Tournament: Championship Round on Feb 22nd, broadcasted by Twitch. Twitch Details http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/02/enders-game-on-blu-ray-tournament/ http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=442588 About the Tournament Sixteen players currently residing in the United States have been invited to play out a galactic battle to promote the release of Ender’s Game on Blu-ray and DVD. On top of a $7000 prize pool, the winning player will be invited to a showmatch against the victor of MLG’s GameOn Tournament to compete for a larger prize pool of $10,000, to be broadcasted on Twitch. Format Players are placed into 4 groups of 4 to be played out GSL style. The top 2 from each group will advance to the single elimination brackets Round of 8. Group play will be commentated by Nathanias from February 5th-7th. The combination of RotterdaM and MrBitter will commentate from February 8th-9th and during the Grande Finale on February 22nd. MLG/Gameon http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/enders-game-on-blu-ray-tournament/ http://gameon.gg The press release says "The winners from each event, in addition to winning cash prizes, will advance to the Ender’s Game on Blu-ray Tournament: Championship Round taking place February 22nd and airing on Twitch. The StarCraft II player who wins the championship round will win a grand prize of $10,000." MLG's news article says "MLG invited 12 players and fans will vote on the remaining four players to compete for $5,000 in prizes.....The winner will advance to the Ender’s Game on Blu-ray Tournament: Championship Round on February 22 to compete for a grand prize of $7,000 and a runner-up prize package of $3,000. For more information on the Ender’s Game on Blu-Ray Tournament, check out the complete press release here." PRIZES: 1st place – $3,000 and advances to compete in the “Championship Round”; 2nd place – $1,000; 3rd and 4th place – $500/each FORMAT: The players will begin in WCS-style Group Play (Ro16) with the top two players in each Group advancing to a 2nd Round of Group Play (Ro8). Finally, the top two players in each Ro8 Group will compete in a 4-player single elimination bracket. Players: MLG, partnering with GameOn will have 12 invited players and 4 voted players. Voting takes place Feb 3-5 at gameon.gg. Twitch player list http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=442588 So it seems there is $7k, $5k, $10k prize pools. Championship Round is the winner from Twitch and MLG. | ||
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Sufinsil
United States760 Posts
“The skills used to develop battle leaders in Ender’s Game are drawn from real-world gaming, especially the types of skills used by premier tournament level players,” Lionsgate executive vice president of marketing Anne Parducci said. “We are excited to partner with Major League Gaming and Twitch, both leaders in the e-sports world, to present this unprecedented movie tie-in aimed directly at those who take gaming seriously.” This is the biggest thing to look at. $20k is not a large amount for marketing a big movie. But MLG and Twitch are able to show their engagement numbers and are starting to get noticed. Lionsgate also barely broke even at the Box Office and are probably willing to experiment to get more out of their movie. If they get good ROI from this hopefully other companies will take notice. | ||
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ZaMa
United States38 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6169 Posts
The thing is, young people (kids, really, although some are teenagers) in Ender's Game generally go to a school where they are tested and monitored. If they do really well, they get sent to an orbital Battle School, where they learn tactics, unit management, and teamwork. These are all framed as games of skill, similar to RTS games iirc. For more, read the book, or if you don't care (or dislike giving Orson Scott Card money)... + Show Spoiler + Eventually, the best of the best is promoted up to engage in tactical simulations, controlling a fleet of units against the enemy aliens. Ender, being the most promising, is the one controlling the battles, while the others take his orders and translate them into action for the units. (Kind of like having a single army move out, or fall back, while the underlings are taking care of pathing.) + Show Spoiler + Seriously, read the book, don't read this.+ Show Spoiler + The penultimate scene is when Ender undergoes his "final exam" - and destroys the enemy race using novel tactics with glorious disregard for the lives of his units. At a fairly high cost, he wins the simulation - only to discover it was not a simulation, he was commanding live forces, and he has just committed genocide against an entire species. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23580 Posts
On February 04 2014 04:52 coL.hendralisk wrote: Yay, excited to play in my first na invitational Good luck, well deserved invite! | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
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TheFlock
United States389 Posts
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
On February 04 2014 05:30 Canucklehead wrote: Nice sponsor. As someone who has never read the book, I thought the movie was great as a stand alone! Wonder why all the book readers hated it. That's just how it is. You always get so much more from a book and the movie can't measure up to what you had imagine it to be. Such is life. | ||
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dgwow
Canada1024 Posts
Nice sponsor. As someone who has never read the book, I thought the movie was great as a stand alone! Wonder why all the book readers hated it.[/QUOTE Actually as a book reader I thought it was really well done, with the exception of the character development which was severely lacking, due to the movie's short film time. It had the potential to be really good though  | ||
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Squat
Sweden7978 Posts
On February 04 2014 05:39 AlternativeEgo wrote: That's just how it is. You always get so much more from a book and the movie can't measure up to what you had imagine it to be. Such is life. Absolutely, in no way did the Twilight movies measure up to the books. | ||
Destructicon
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Bigtony
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ElMeanYo
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