EPThttp://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!
