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Why We Game (WWG) Open -- $500 Prize Pool!

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Drang
Profile Joined September 2010
United States10 Posts
May 17 2011 00:37 GMT
#1
Open to any player in Diamond, Masters, or Grandmasters League.

http://www.z33k.com/starcraft2/tournaments/849-wwg-open-tournament

Prize Pool:
1st Place: $300
2nd Place: $150
3rd Place: $35
4th Place: $15

Hello Starcraft Community!

The "Why We Game" Open is a tournament featuring a large prize pool of $500!

This tournament is a part of a high school project that two seniors from California are creating to help the E-Sports community. After almost 50 hours of tutoring sessions, these two high school seniors have raised almost half a thousand dollars that will all be going towards the large prize pool of the WWG Open. In the hopes of attracting all sorts of players, this Open offers a large prize pool in order to give many players the feeling of playing that "big game". With money on the line, we hope to see a dazzling display of skill across all of the games. The tournament will take place on Friday, May 27th starting at 4:00 P.M Pacific Standard Time. Seeing as this tournament will take place in only one day, its important to have backups. Feel free to sign up even if all the spots have been filled. All games will be a BO1 until Round 5 and 6 which will be a BO3 and BO5 respectively.

In the BO3 and BO5 matches, the first match will be played on the designated map. After each game, the loser chooses the next map from the map pool of GSL Crevasse, Metalopolis, MLG Shakuras Plateau, GSL Terminus RE, Xel'Naga Caverns, and GSL Tal'Darim Altar. A map can only be chosen once in each BO3 or BO5 series.

To determine 3rd and 4th place, a separate match will take place after the Grand Finals between the two losers of Round 5.

Transfer of Payments will be done through PayPal at the end of the tournament.

Games will be casted and important VOD's will be uploaded to TL after the tournament.

On a side note, this tournament is only part of the project. These two seniors are also doing a YouTube series that discusses their past gaming experiences and the pros and cons of being a "gamer". The "Why We Game" series is a great way for us to expand on our experiences with gaming and really flesh out the feelings we've had towards the whole scene since we started gaming at the early age of 6.

You can check out the series here at

http://www.youtube.com/user/wpslax10?feature=mhee.

Thanks for all the support and we hope to see you soon!

~~ 3200 Masters Terran
ravenKRaz
Profile Joined March 2011
United States580 Posts
May 17 2011 01:39 GMT
#2
Looks cool i signed up :D
DarkneSS.1360
BroboCop
Profile Joined December 2010
United States373 Posts
May 17 2011 01:45 GMT
#3
signed up looks great, however, with such a large prize pool and relatively small tournament (only 64 players) i strongly advise making all rounds at MINIMUM bo3 and the semis bo5, and finals bo7.
thundertoss
Profile Joined March 2010
United States1166 Posts
May 17 2011 01:54 GMT
#4
Where in cali you guys from?
Underneath David Kims banelings is another control group of banelings.
ThE_OsToJiY
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada1167 Posts
May 17 2011 01:56 GMT
#5
sick, I doubt I can play on friday but GL to everyone involved nice initiative.
@ostojiy
Rupyness
Profile Joined January 2011
52 Posts
May 17 2011 02:10 GMT
#6
signed up
lazydino
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada331 Posts
May 17 2011 02:26 GMT
#7
Pumped!
"I have this moron thing that I do, it's called thinking" - George Carlin
Drang
Profile Joined September 2010
United States10 Posts
May 17 2011 07:05 GMT
#8
On May 17 2011 10:54 thundertoss wrote:
Where in cali you guys from?


We're from the Bay Area. Like an hour south of San Francisco.
~~ 3200 Masters Terran
Drang
Profile Joined September 2010
United States10 Posts
May 18 2011 21:04 GMT
#9
EDIT!

WE HAVE INCREASED THE SIZE OF THE TOURNAMENT TO 128
It is our hope that with the remaining days before the tournament, we can get a bit more attention for the tournament to field all 128 players with backups.
Remember, the tournament will start at 4 PST Friday the 28th and will last until a winner is found.

Happy Gaming!
~~ 3200 Masters Terran
L3g3nd_
Profile Joined July 2010
New Zealand10461 Posts
May 18 2011 21:08 GMT
#10
woot! signing up!
https://twitter.com/#!/IrisAnother
L3g3nd_
Profile Joined July 2010
New Zealand10461 Posts
May 18 2011 21:15 GMT
#11
GoOdy qxc and dde signed up already, looks like a solid line up
https://twitter.com/#!/IrisAnother
TheAngelofDeath
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2033 Posts
May 18 2011 21:35 GMT
#12
On May 17 2011 16:05 Drang wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 17 2011 10:54 thundertoss wrote:
Where in cali you guys from?


We're from the Bay Area. Like an hour south of San Francisco.



I lived in Antioch for 8 years heh. Nice choice of living. Signed up for the tourney, should be fun! :D
"Infestors are the suck" - LzGamer
laharl23
Profile Joined February 2011
United States582 Posts
May 18 2011 21:38 GMT
#13
Looks good ill be playing in the tournament.
Th0R
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada359 Posts
May 18 2011 22:51 GMT
#14
Sweet EVO will be there
Protoss Player | @ScThoR_ | www.Twitch.tv/ScThoR | Business Student and Entrepreneur
Gatored
Profile Joined September 2010
United States679 Posts
May 27 2011 02:30 GMT
#15
You guys should expand the bracket to 256 because of the waitlist.
Th0R
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada359 Posts
May 27 2011 04:55 GMT
#16
Big list! Seriously expand the bracket size, and thank you for bringing a lot to the e-Sports table!
Protoss Player | @ScThoR_ | www.Twitch.tv/ScThoR | Business Student and Entrepreneur
luxx
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States140 Posts
May 27 2011 19:09 GMT
#17
nice prize for an open tournament, good luck guys
Lead Developer Z33K.com
oDieN[Siege]
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2904 Posts
May 27 2011 19:11 GMT
#18
Wow, such a big list.. this looks like loads of fun.. I wish I could sign up, but I won't be able to play until later tonight.
If streamed, I will watch! :D
말크 : ^_^~ NeO)GabuAt, vGODieN
Drang
Profile Joined September 2010
United States10 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-27 20:01:35
May 27 2011 19:57 GMT
#19
RE-EDIT!
WE HAVE INCREASED THE SIZE OF THE TOURNAMENT TO 256.
We have gained so much attention for the tournament over the past couple of days that we feel comfortable hosting a larger tournament while still having enough players to serve as backups. This means that timing will be very important so make sure when you come to the tournament you're ready to play until its over.

And those wondering about a stream can always check z33k.com on the front page for Relentless Heroes streaming the tournament, as well as on TL under the Relentless Heroes channel.
http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/Relentless Heroes
~~ 3200 Masters Terran
starcraft911
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Korea (South)1263 Posts
May 27 2011 22:36 GMT
#20
lol, I laughed when I saw someone signed artosis up and put him as diamond. Poor artosis, forever not grandmaster.
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