-Event Details-

What:
RUaGamer StarCraft II 1v1 Open Tournament 2.0.

Where:
RUaGamer LAN Center
218 Nottingham Dr,
Cary, NC, 27511
www.RUaGamer.net

When:
TOURNAMENT POSTPONED: Will get the next date out asap.

Who:
Anyone from any league. Local players interested in community fun and friendly competition are encouraged to come play. Spectators are welcome free of charge.

Accommodations: (Updated from 1.0)
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RUaGamer will have 10 store PC's available, each with Saitek Eclipse II keyboards and Razer Deathadder mice. Players will be allowed to use their own peripherals, however, RUaGamer does not allow BYOC at this time.

Food and drinks are available in the store, but we will probably grab a quick dinner from one of the restaurants close by as groups depending on time and preference. There is a japanese steak house next door, a mongolian grill across the street, as well as a McDonalds and Cookout down the street.

(Updated from 1.0) We will have two dedicated 55" HD TV's side by side and double the seating for spectators to watch the matches simultaneously. We are discussing the possibility of livestreaming the event, anyone interested in helping to setup/run/commentate the livestream please send an email to info@ruagamer.net with a brief description of your livestream experience.

-Tournament Details-

Bracket:
1v1 - Bo3 Double Elimination, Bo5 finals.
Seeding will be based off of the July RUaGamer Tournament 1.0. New players will be seeded in random order under previous players. Tournament 1.0 results posted at the bottom.

Prize Pool:
Entry Fee - $25 ($15 to prize pool, $10 for the venue).
1st Place = 50%
2nd Place = 30%
3rd Place = 20%

MLG Map Pool: (Used for MLG Raleigh 2011)
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MLG Dual Sight
MLG Metalopolis
MLG Shakuras Plateau
MLG The Shattered Temple
MLG Tal'Darim Altar LE
iCCup Testbug
MLG Xel'Naga Caverns
(Changes may be made up until September 4th).

Registration:
Please reply to this post with your IGN (with code) and League to register (e.g jondoe.123 Gold). Players may also register at the front desk in the store, or by sending me an email at brad@ruagamer.net. Walk-in registration will be between 10:00am and 10:45am the day of the tournament.

Attending Players:
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vVvRuff - Masters
DUSTWoB - Masters
SetStndby - Masters
Bortlett.547 - Diamond
Swirlyrolls.506
Strobot

You may contact me here:
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IGN: bmthree.716
Email: brad@ruagamer.net
Facebook.com/brad.bm3

Please feel free to use this thread for any questions, comments, or suggestions. Also, you may send me an email and ask to be added to our StarCraft Event email list and get tournament announcements sent directly to you.

Thanks again and we're looking forward to a fun and successful second tournament at RUaGamer, see you guys there!

Tournament 1.0 Results:
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1st Place: vVv Ruff - $115 (mid)
2nd Place: xDice - $70 (right)
3rd Place: Oresama - $50 (left)

http://ruagamer.challonge.com/sc2_1v1

Corrik

United States1416 Posts

August 23 2011 21:21 GMT

Haha, your 16 seed 2-0ed the whole field!

Bm3

United States46 Posts

August 23 2011 21:28 GMT

lol we had to do random seeds the first tournament

Ruff is pretty beast tho, we'll have to see if he's coming back.

BotD

United States136 Posts

August 24 2011 09:07 GMT

Not a big fan of doubling the venue fee and only adding $5 to the prize pool without changing the format in some way. I talked to Jeff earlier in the weekend and mentioned the possibility of doing pools and changing to a 2 day format if you guys are wanting to go in this direction, any chance of that happening? $25 is pretty expensive for a local tournament with the chance of only getting to play 2 bo3's. My suggestion was to go MLG championship bracket style, have everyone do pool-style play on Friday night, then on Saturday you actually play out seeded brackets, where top players are seeded further ahead into the winners bracket, moving down to just starting in the winner's bracket, then starting in the losers bracket. This guarantees that everyone gets a significant number of tourney matches for a kinda significant tourney fee instead of plopping down $25 to possibly only play 4 games.

Jeff also said you still don't know how to do a replay pack :p let me know when you'll be at RUaG and I'll show you how to set up SC2Gears + a naming rule for it, it's probably the easiest way to make a replay pack happen in an organized fashion with little effort on your part. Just have it running in the background on all the computers during the tournament and you'll get all replays autosaved + named appropriately, throw them all in a .zip after the tournament and you're done.

Bm3

United States46 Posts

August 24 2011 17:13 GMT

I totally agree with you, I actually wanted to keep it $15 as we're still testing out the waters with the best way to go about the tournaments at the RUaGamer.

The feedback I've gotten from the higher ups is that the last tournament was too long and took up too much space to be getting only a $5 venue fee from the 20 some competitors (because there's no way we can charge spectators that'd be terrible).

I'm also asked to do it on a Sunday as Fridays and Saturdays are our biggest/busiest days. I'd actually really like to do an MLG style bracket if I could ever get it approved. We'll just have to see, and maybe we can get some good feedback in this thread for a few days and see what we need to do about it.

Bortlett

United States302 Posts

August 25 2011 00:10 GMT

I thought about this some since I spoke with you yesterday - is BYOC still not an option? I'm sure a number of people (myself included) would be willing to bring their PCs and it would speed up the tournament quite a bit.

If you do that, you might be able to run a swiss style tournament, that way everybody gets to play several Bo3s. Swiss style will take way too long though without more PCs.

I will be there no matter what

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EDIT: Since I can't read directions, Bortlett.547 Diamond

Bm3

United States46 Posts

August 25 2011 01:19 GMT

BYOC would help also, but it still isn't an option right now

SetStndbySmn

United States657 Posts

August 25 2011 01:28 GMT

I'll most likely go, master protoss, live in apex, go to state

RuFF_SC2

United States203 Posts

August 25 2011 21:01 GMT

Count me in.

I'll be at as many Events as possible that don't conflict with school or are 4+ hours away. :p

WaveOfBabies

United States5 Posts

August 25 2011 21:07 GMT

#10

I'll be there :D Changed my name from gtWoB to DUSTWoB, though

EDIT: Masters Zerg, DUSTWoB

gastro54

23 Posts

August 25 2011 23:07 GMT

#11

I'm in (strobot), but I agree that we shouldn't have to buy the equivalent of 4 hrs of gaming time (double the original fee) to play in the tournament. I mean look at the pictures from the tournament. How often do they get that many people in their store? Isn't it worth it for them to get all those new people into the venue? Not to mention any concession sales?

Bm3

United States46 Posts

August 26 2011 05:29 GMT

#12

Its definitely worth it. My hands are pretty much tied about the pricing though. If I get enough feedback about lowering the price back to $15 then I'll have a stronger argument for lowering it. Obviously neither side benefits if only 5-6 ppl are willing to pay $25 to compete.

Swiftice

United States35 Posts

August 30 2011 04:31 GMT

#13

On a sunday makes it rather hard for me to try to come up ^^ (xdice) why not saturday? i mean im definately trying to come to this no matter what, but sunday seems an odd day

FLuE

United States1012 Posts

August 30 2011 04:56 GMT

#14

Damn can't make this one again either =(

Bm3

United States46 Posts

August 30 2011 18:49 GMT

#15

We were actually talking about trying to move it to that Saturday instead.

Poll: Would moving the tournament to Saturday, Sept 10th be more convenient?

Yes. (6)