EPT* Replay pack (spoiler-free)
* Tournament info and donation page
* SCI Master Playlist, relatively spoiler free
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WHATEVER THEY'RE PAYING YOU, I'LL DOUBLE IT!
The $5000 SHOUTcraft 2-day Invitational
Powered by the community, for the community
The SHOUTcraft Invitational series is the biggest, self-funded tournament series that Starcraft 2 has ever seen. Thus far we've done everything with no corporate sponsorship and intend to keep doing that. This tournament is a community-fueled, high-stakes, electrifying live event with some of the best players SC2 has to offer, battling it out in the SHOUTcraft Single-elimination format.
Format Our famous single-elimination 8-man tournament in a Best of 5 formatm makes it's return. Every series until the finals will be best of 5, the finals will be best of 7. The tournament will feature a best of 5 bronze match before the grand finals.
When? - Saturday, Sep 10 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) and Sunday, Sep 11 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
How will you avoid the overrunning from last time? - We hope that by starting earlier and streamlining our process further, we will avoid excess running times and player fatigue.
Is this live? - The entire event will be streamed live, no replays will be used and broadcast delay will prevent ghosting.
Prize distribution - Once again, everyone gets paid for their time. The participation fee is $100, so every player walks away with that. The rewards grow significantly larger as we hit the RO4.
First Place - $2500
Second Place - $1200
Third Place - $600
Fourth Place - $300
Knocked out in RO8 - $100
This is the first tournament powered entirely by the fans - We were able to raise $5000 in donations from the fans of SCI2. All of that is going into this tournament. There was also $1700 raised from the stream that month with my ad revenue, that will roll over to SCI4 to make sure we can keep the prizepool high.
Casters - TotalBiscuit and d.Apollo. Once again, we will return with our casting duo, now adding SCI2, IPL2, TLOpen, Assembly Summer and i43 to our duo experience. We continue in our mission to try and climb to the top of the EU casting scene.
Players - We will once again invite US and EU players to this tournaments. Koreans will not be invited due to the impossibility of playing a tournament live across so many timezones. We have a plan for Koreans which will be revealed later.
Stream - As always the event will be streamed on http://www.twitch.tv/totalbiscuit
VoDs? - Will be available on my Youtube channel after the fact as well as in raw uncut form on Justin.tv.
Any other improvements? - Last time we had a great Day 1 but suffered audio problems on Day 2. I believe I have identified the reason and am eliminating software mixing ENTIRELY from the equation. That means all our mixing will be hardware, cables, mixing desks and all, this should completely eliminate the issues we had last time and allow more direct control. We have also upped the quality of our stream, providing a much crisper 720p experience.
So who is playing? - We like to tease, so we're going to be doing what we did last time by revealing one player a day in this thread. This time, since you guys know the format, we'll start off with the #1 and #2 champions from SCI2. The new reveals will begin on a daily basis. Expect our usual mix of big names and a darkhorses.
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- Destiny Player Profile.
- TLO Player Profile
- Dimaga Player Profile
- Tyler Player Profile
- Strelok Player Profile
- White-ra Player Profile
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This is NOT the order the matches will be played in by the way. That is done in such a way as to ensure the US guys don't have to start playing really early in the morning and we can work around WCG Ukraine.
The bracket video which contains some indepth discussion of the bracket, the reasoning behind it and some player info is here
. Very excited for this.
