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![[image loading]](http://bitsperbeat.com/ussc2/files/2010/08/us.jpg)
Hi everyone,
For those who play on the North American servers, we are finally going to start our CraftCup tournaments. The first one will be happening August 19, 2010 - 21:00 UTC (check out the countdown here) and you will have a chance to win $20. The reason we're not offering much for the prize money is that there has not been enough time for signing up and the main purpose of this first tournament is in fact testing our new optimizations. So, I would like to ask everyone to please join and I challenge you to try to make the site go down 
It is of course going to be more fun with more players joining so let everyone know about this FIRST CratCup tournament 
P.S. I'm the web/interface designer behind the bitsPerBeat network, basically responsible for everything visual on our websites.
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wait Where will this be happening?
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Good to see the CraftCup back - you guys did an excellent job in beta!
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Is thursdays going to be the normal timeslot from now on? or will it go back to saturdays like during
Beta?
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Thursday's a pretty hard day to participate in a tournament - I'm sure plenty of others would agree. Is there a chance that these might be moving to a weekend date every now and then?
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From the picture it should be renamed the US craft cup.
Edit: nvm it is on the website.
Nice to see a weekly tournament start up.
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This is going to be stupid but where do we sign up for it on the website because I can't find it.
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On August 19 2010 04:55 manicsquare wrote:
This is going to be stupid but where do we sign up for it on the website because I can't find it.
http://bitsperbeat.com/ussc2/
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Signed up. ^^
Interesting time though, it's at 3:30pm in Calgary, many people just getting back from work. Still nice to see some new weekly tournaments popping up in the NA server.
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On August 19 2010 04:54 Cloud295 wrote:
Thursday's a pretty hard day to participate in a tournament - I'm sure plenty of others would agree. Is there a chance that these might be moving to a weekend date every now and then?
Of course we're going to move the future US tournaments for future events. This first tourney is just a quick one to start with BUT we still need lots of people to join to test our system. More prize money and a much more comfortable day/time will be used for our future weekly events.
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I would LOVE to play this, but it's just a bad time for me lol.
5pm eastern (according to the countdown at least)?
I'll ask me boss "Dude, sc2 tournament, come on, let me go home at 2pm, i need to play some games before too!" 
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I actually really like that this is during the week. There are already so many other tournaments and events on the weekend that it is really crowded. The only issue I think this has is the time. If it was an 8 pm eastern, 5 pm pacific start it would allow people from both coasts to participate. Keep it during the weekdays CraftCup!
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Damn, would love to play in this but GosuCoaching weekly is around the same time. 
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We simply couldn't wait 2 more days =)
You are right when you are saying that during the week is not the perfect timing. I assure you this has basically technical reasons. In the near future we hope to establish our tournament on our old timeslot on Saturdays.
By the way: Mea culpa, I didnt have much time to follow other American tournaments lately. Is there any regular event happening on Saturdays already?
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Same day as gosucoaching weekly :S
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is the server fixed? because last time 500 players refreshing didnt do good at the webserver
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On August 19 2010 05:35 Mutaahh wrote:
is the server fixed? because last time 500 players refreshing didnt do good at the webserver
We found a pretty cool bug that was kinda killing the database with a huge amount of queries. That one is fixed, and also a cache has been installed to make F5 spamming less painful. We didnt get much sleep last days i can tell you.
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On August 19 2010 05:24 TheAngelofDeath wrote:Damn, would love to play in this but GosuCoaching weekly is around the same time.
Omg, it starts at the exact same time too? Planning mishap I suppose. I was really looking to play in both, now I gotta choose -.-
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For those players with conflicting schedules, typically you can get two tournament games out of the way at the same time (downtime between rounds). I've done it before, just try to alternate so neither side is waiting long. Also, if you get eliminated earlier from one, you don't have to worry about it anymore.
Anyways, www.RAGEQUIT.tv is currently planning on casting this tournament, so hope to see some good players out there!
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