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NESL Iron Lady Opening Cup - $175 Prize

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pHaRSiDE
Profile Joined March 2011
United States752 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-22 19:16:38
June 02 2011 09:46 GMT
#1
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IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE!
Because of Dreamhack 2011, we will be push back the date of the cup to June 25th, 2011. We hope this does not inconvenience anyone. Sorry for this.


By popular demand and the success of our Europe partner ESL EU Female Gaming, National ESL is proud to bring you the very first edition of the Iron Lady cup series: Iron Lady Cup 1

This event is a specialized event restricted to female gamers only. Its purpose is shine light on a part of the scene that does not receive very much attention. We have other non-restrictive events including our Go4SC2 Cup Series in which anyone can compete for $400 in monthly prizes. We also offer Open ladders for users to enjoy.

With that said lets get to the event!


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Find us at IronLadySc2.com or find us on Twitter @IronLadyESL!

Date of the Cup:
Cup 1 is set for June 25th and will begin at 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Location:
The cup takes place online on the Battle.net US server. Anyone can play that has an account on that server.

How to Sign up:
Information:
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You will register an account at National ESL; enter your game account, and proceed to click sign up on the cup. After that you will be contacted by email, and you will be provided with the option to join a Ventrilo server or communicate on Skype. During the verification process you may be asked several Starcraft 2 related questions in attempt to prove your understanding of the game as a real female player. Any suspicion of faking will prevent you from being accepted into the cup. Please, no trolls!


Proceed to Sign Up Here: http://www.nationalesl.com/us/sc2/ironlady/news/161193/

See current accepted members: http://www.nationalesl.com/us/sc2/ironlady/cup1/database/members/*/

Brackets: http://www.nationalesl.com/us/sc2/ironlady/cup1/rankings/

Format:
The tournament will be double elimination. The cup starts with Best of 1 matches until the Semi Finals, then matches become Best 2 out 3.

How maps are selected:
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Best of 1: Each player eliminates 4 maps from the map pool they they do not want to play on. The player with the higher seed goes first and then player 2 goes next, alternating until you each have picked 4 maps. The last map remaining will be the map you play on.

Best of 3 - Semi Finals and Finals:
Each player eliminates 3 maps from the map pool. Player with the highest seed starts first. Of the 3 maps remaining, player with higher seed picks Map 1 for the series, then player 2 picks Map 2 for the series. The map remaining will be the 3rd Ace Map of the series.

Map Pool
GSL Terminus SE - Aurthor MildCocoA
MLG Metalopolis
MLG Shattered Temple
MLG Shakuras Plateau
Xel Naga Caverns
Tal'darim Altar LE
Backwater Gulch
Scrap Station
Typhon Peaks


Prizes:
1st place: $ 100
2nd place: $ 50
3rd place: $ 25

All monies will be paid through paypal, so make sure you have a valid paypal account.

Streams/Coverage:

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Imba.Tv
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VampireLady
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EZ-Pikachu

(If you wish cover this event please send a ticket Here or send a pm )



Facebook Communities:
Girls of Starcraft

ESL SC2 Female Gaming


Questions or Concerns:

For any questions, suggestions or concerns, you have a multitude of ways to get in contact with us at NationalESL. You can send me a pm here, or post a support ticket Here or post on our forums here

About the Admins:
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My name is Daniel Brooks, known as D4nny at NationalESL, and better known as pHaRSiDe.358 on battle.net. I head all SC2 operations at NESL.
I am joined by Andrea 'Yui' also known as Yui.183 on Battle.net who is a Master League Admin of the event so show her some love!

Not a female player but looking to help out? Join our staff by sending an application here


Links:
IronLadySc2.com
@IronLadyESL
Go4SC2 Cup Series
twitter.com/ThePharsideESL / ESL IEM NA Admin / WCS NA Qualifier Admin
stormLP
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada19 Posts
June 02 2011 17:08 GMT
#2
very nice
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
June 02 2011 17:13 GMT
#3
Great initiative! Good luck.
get rich or die mining
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Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9014 Posts
June 02 2011 17:15 GMT
#4
hell yeah!.
Yuis
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada134 Posts
June 02 2011 17:17 GMT
#5
Any questions, let me know

Yui
ESL SC2 Female Admin.
fem-fx.com | "We are not advertising that we are girls, we are advertising that girls do play games and we can be pretty good at it" (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Molly
Profile Joined February 2011
United States5 Posts
June 02 2011 17:25 GMT
#6
I can't wait :D
Mattchew
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States5684 Posts
June 02 2011 17:27 GMT
#7
Get Anna (Inc's GF) and That other woman (Lea? from SOTG sorry) to either be headlining players or commentators!
There is always tomorrow nshs.seal.
iG.Zeep
Profile Joined May 2008
Mexico253 Posts
June 02 2011 17:50 GMT
#8
awesome shit^^
life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
Sandro
Profile Joined April 2011
897 Posts
June 02 2011 20:10 GMT
#9
Can we please, please, please avoid ruining this thread with the usual arguments about why white males cannot participate in female only tournaments and why they're the ones who are excluded from things for once.

That said ladies fighting!
pHaRSiDE
Profile Joined March 2011
United States752 Posts
June 03 2011 08:53 GMT
#10
so far nothing but support from people, good to see!
twitter.com/ThePharsideESL / ESL IEM NA Admin / WCS NA Qualifier Admin
Yuis
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada134 Posts
June 03 2011 15:06 GMT
#11
Thanks guys for not trolling this! ^_~

I am looking forward to this event I am gathering some GOOOOD players :D
fem-fx.com | "We are not advertising that we are girls, we are advertising that girls do play games and we can be pretty good at it" (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
fLyiNgDroNe
Profile Joined September 2005
Belgium3996 Posts
June 03 2011 15:23 GMT
#12
that is very nice, let's bring more female players to play sc. what would make this game less nerdy if not women?? Good luck!
Drone is a way of living
Happy Frog
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia490 Posts
June 03 2011 15:25 GMT
#13
These kind of events are great to see, GLHF girls
Greggor
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden119 Posts
June 03 2011 15:49 GMT
#14
Cool, hope it brings more women to the sport.

Now we just need a tournament just for male gamers only :D
what ?
pHaRSiDE
Profile Joined March 2011
United States752 Posts
June 04 2011 16:04 GMT
#15
every tournament almost male gamers only already xD
twitter.com/ThePharsideESL / ESL IEM NA Admin / WCS NA Qualifier Admin
Molly
Profile Joined February 2011
United States5 Posts
June 04 2011 17:14 GMT
#16
pHaRSiDE United States. June 05 2011 01:04. Posts 3


Are you a wizard? o.O
pHaRSiDE
Profile Joined March 2011
United States752 Posts
June 06 2011 17:30 GMT
#17
so what if I am?
twitter.com/ThePharsideESL / ESL IEM NA Admin / WCS NA Qualifier Admin
Railin
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada96 Posts
June 06 2011 22:38 GMT
#18
I will just have to try to participate finally =)
~~femFxRailin~~ "Sc2 strategies have an interesting history of being developed in Europe, perfected in Korea, and used on unsuspecting Americans" [Tree.Hugger]
bier_
Profile Joined April 2011
Switzerland3 Posts
June 07 2011 19:36 GMT
#19
im sure this gonna be fun
just came to say hello :)
mGMUSE
Profile Joined October 2010
Singapore112 Posts
June 07 2011 19:44 GMT
#20
pretty sure megumixbear will win this for sure...
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