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The iCCup National Tournament is back for Season 10 after a successful run last year! Last season representatives from nearly every major starcraft nation for their share of the ladder points. This season, ladder point prizes return (see below), with tournaments comprising of 16, 32 or 64 players residing in the featured nation hosted by official iCCup Tournament Admins. There is no ladderpoint fee to enter and the winner will receive much more points than a regular tournament, with ladder points distributed between 1st-4th place.
Either the country leaders will receive a PM or you can take on the role if you find your nation has enough players whereupon you can contact iCCup.Mai-K to claim a tournament for your nation.
Once the tournament time and date are confirmend by your nation's leader you must sign up on the iCCup Tournament Forum and then check in on the tournament page. Note that you may only participate in the National Tournament of a country that you currently live in unless you obtain special consideration. Players registering for tournaments in which they are not a resident of will be dealt with quickly and harshly.
General Information
National tour will be conducted by Country.
You must have the correct flag when signing up for your national tournament.
1. Prizes
A. NO PAY-IN. This means you will play for free. No need to worry about losing anything.
B. The prize depends on how many players will have for national tournament.
As mentioned above, options include 16/32/64 player tournaments, with ladder points distributed as follows:
64 players => 2000/1500/1000/1000
32 players => 1800/1300/1000/1000
16 players => 1500/1000/900/900
The GOSU ICON also makes a return, but is entirely optional.
2. Rules
A. Game setting must be Melee or UMS setting one. NOT one on one. The purpose of the National Tournament is that you do not lose points.
B. No obsservers allowed. If you put any obs in your match during national tour, that match will be canceled and must be replayed without observers.
C. There are two possible formats, depending on the votes of participants
* Bo1 until the Semi-Final and Bo3 for the Final [Lite tournament]
*Bo3 until semi final and Bo5 for the Final [Epic tournament]
D. Maps will be voted by the players, as in last season's tourneys.
3. National Champions Grand Final Tournament
The winners of each National Tournament will be invited to participate in a grand final national tournament at the end of season. The ladder prizes will be even bigger and the games may be broadcast on iCCupTV. We will provide each national tourney winner with the relevant information at a later date.
Please contact iCCup.Mai-K or iCCup.GhOst via PM if you are interested in organising a National Tournament for your country. It can be the National leader or another responsible representative from your country. Minium number of players is 16!
USEFUL LINKS
iCCup National Tournaments forum psot by Mai-K
iCCup USA National Tournament hosted by Mai-K
Last season's Nat Tourney winners
iCCup News Post
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Can we pick a date for the aussie tourny when NrG.GoD is away?
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On September 22 2009 17:30 Marine50 wrote:
Can we pick a date for the aussie tourny when NrG.GoD is away?
lol
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Can we rig the brackets in the Aussie tourny so NrG.God starts off against Marine50?
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How about we try convince FruggA and other good Aussies to play so GoD- doesn't dominate :3
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On September 22 2009 17:55 Cheeseball wrote:
Can we rig the brackets in the Aussie tourny so NrG.God starts off against Marine50?
haha nooo
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On September 21 2009 16:28 iCCup.deL wrote:
B. No obsservers allowed. If you put any obs in your match during national tour, that match will be canceled and must be replayed without observers.
why no observers ? it's alot of fun to obs the games with your fellow nation men, it is pretty boring to wait in the channel for the others to finish 
and no gosu icon this seasion or did i overread that ?
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On September 22 2009 18:07 iCCup.deL wrote:
How about we try convince FruggA and other good Aussies to play so GoD- doesn't dominate :3
Then we will be even bigger losers
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On September 22 2009 18:36 bioboyAT wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2009 16:28 iCCup.deL wrote:
B. No obsservers allowed. If you put any obs in your match during national tour, that match will be canceled and must be replayed without observers.
why no observers ? it's alot of fun to obs the games with your fellow nation men, it is pretty boring to wait in the channel for the others to finish and no gosu icon this seasion or did i overread that ?
No observers, I imagine because many of the players may be friends or something.
On September 22 2009 18:43 Cheeseball wrote:Show nested quote +On September 22 2009 18:07 iCCup.deL wrote:
How about we try convince FruggA and other good Aussies to play so GoD- doesn't dominate :3 Then we will be even bigger losers
haha yeah, a very good point - at least even the semi-finalist prizes are really solid n_n
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How is Oct 9th and 10th for the Aussie Nat Tourney for you blokes?
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Belgium9950 Posts
On September 22 2009 18:36 bioboyAT wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2009 16:28 iCCup.deL wrote:
B. No obsservers allowed. If you put any obs in your match during national tour, that match will be canceled and must be replayed without observers.
why no observers ? it's alot of fun to obs the games with your fellow nation men, it is pretty boring to wait in the channel for the others to finish and no gosu icon this seasion or did i overread that ?
you're in the banner you champ
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On September 22 2009 18:43 Cheeseball wrote:Show nested quote +On September 22 2009 18:07 iCCup.deL wrote:
How about we try convince FruggA and other good Aussies to play so GoD- doesn't dominate :3 Then we will be even bigger losers
I think i can take frugga :D.
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On September 22 2009 21:35 RaGe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 22 2009 18:36 bioboyAT wrote:On September 21 2009 16:28 iCCup.deL wrote:
B. No obsservers allowed. If you put any obs in your match during national tour, that match will be canceled and must be replayed without observers.
why no observers ? it's alot of fun to obs the games with your fellow nation men, it is pretty boring to wait in the channel for the others to finish and no gosu icon this seasion or did i overread that ? you're in the banner you champ
Twice, albeit slightly blurred! Someone else made a better banner but whatever that one took like 5 seconds.
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is there a fastest map in the map pool? 
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Norway28781 Posts
kind of a ridiculously easy way to get points in some countries
for poland or whatever this tourney is good but in several countries this is free 1000+ points for some players.. you guys should really be careful with the rank-inflation, already seeing quite a bit of it with the regular tournaments.
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Agree with Eri, saw the post over at GG, it does seem like an awful lot of easy points for some players in certain countries =/
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On September 23 2009 05:49 Liquid`Drone wrote:
kind of a ridiculously easy way to get points in some countries
for poland or whatever this tourney is good but in several countries this is free 1000+ points for some players.. you guys should really be careful with the rank-inflation, already seeing quite a bit of it with the regular tournaments.
The way I see it is that for most countries it will be an A or B player to take at least top2 spots and this early in the season they probably won't be at their maximum rank so this will just speed them along nicely.
If prizes were smaller, however, it might not be enough to attract a lot of B players in countries where there are only a handful of A and B players so it would be dominated by C players who would already be C this far into the season and would be above their true ladder potential.
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Norway28781 Posts
it's just that like, 2 seasons before there were a lot of tournaments for points, a- was legitimately hard to achieve for most nonkoreans, even the good ones, who didn't dodge or do gay shit like matchup pick.. last season you suddenly had quite a lot of worse nonkoreans hitting a- through winning tournaments or whatever, i mean you can move from barely b+ to a- by winning 4 games and at the risk of 50 points, you might get lucky with opponents and get half a rank basically for free.
these national tourneys are a LOT easier, there's not even the 50 point cost of participating, and you award more points.. if norway were to hold one of these it would be pretty much guaranteed that either me oystein or whistler got 1500 points and another one of us got 1000 and the third 900 unless me or oystein or whistler faced off in an earlier round.. if I won, it would make me the currently #33rd player on the ladder and the only b+ nonkorean, and at the moment b+ would genuinely be extremely hard for me to accomplish.. im afraid the green ranks will lose their value if you guys just keep giving away more and more points for tournaments - I also think a- players should absolutely not be allowed to play in any, prolly not b+ either. if you make it like c+ or b- max then it's cool I guess.
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Signed up for the USA one. I think I would rather not have the "GOSU" icon, and just show my regular rank instead. Either that or have something more awesome, like "baller" for an icon. That'd be fuckin sick.
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