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TwitchTV announces European StarCraft 2 Invitational (sponsored by Playhem and Tt eSPORTS)
San Francisco, California - December 15th, 2011 - Today, TwitchTV in coordination with Playhem and Tt eSPORTS is happy to announce a special StarCraft 2 event aimed at supporting and promoting the European StarCraft 2 scene: the TwitchTV European Invitational. This promotional event will feature $2000 in prizes as well as gaming peripherals from Tt eSPORTS in prizes, as well as live streams produced by TotalBiscuit, PlayhemTV, and more, and will take place right before Christmas on December 23 and 24th.
The Invitational is set to support a 16-man cast. While not final, the following players have confirmed their interest in participating:
---------------------------- PLAYERS1. White-Ra 2. Liquid`TLO 3. Mill.Tarson 4. Acer.Nerchio 5. Dignitas.SjoW 6. mTw.Dimaga 7. Imba.FXO.BratOK 8. mouzMaNa 9. aTn.ClouD 10. imba.FXO.Strelok 11. EmpireKas 12. EmpireHappy 13. RoXKIS.TitaN 14. Dignitas.BlinG 15. RoX.KIS.sLivko 16. mtl.tt.Bly OFFICIAL BRACKETS on Playhem---------------------------- PRIZES1st: $1000 + MEKA G-Unit keyboard, Shock ONE headset, White-Ra Saphira mouse, White-Ra mousepad, Dragon Bag 2nd: $500 + MEKA G-Unit keyboard, Shock Spin headset 3rd: $300 + White-Ra Saphira mouse, White-Ra mousepad 4th: $200 + White-Ra mousepad, Dragon Bag ---------------------------- SCHEDULETournament play: December 23rd starting at 17:00 GMT (+00:00) // 18:00 CET // 09:00 PST // 12:00 EST 3rd place and Finals: December 24th starting at 18:00 CET // 09:00 PST // 12:00 EST ---------------------------- FORMATBo3 single elimination, semifinal and final Bo7. Each player remove two maps, the high player in a grid starting first, when 3 maps remain each player chooses one map, if score 1-1 thenplay last map. Map pool: - ESL Metalopolis - ESL The Shattered Temple - Blizzard Entombed Valley - iCCup Antiga Shipyard TE - GSL Terminus SE - ESL Tal'darim Altar - ESL Shakuras Plateau ----------------------------
Ben Goldhaber, TwitchTV's Outreach Manager, had this to say:
"We first made our mark in the SC2 scene by supporting community tournaments and events like this. It is our pleasure to return to SC2 event sponsorship just in time for the holidays to both support the European SC2 teams and players, but also to entertain and engage the SC2 community with yet another awesome tournament!"
Make sure to tune in and follow this event! This post will be updated with the final players as they are confirmed. Thanks!!
UPDATE: Kas, Happy, and TitaN have joined the fray! Only 3 spots remain.
UPDATE #2: A new challenger appears... Dignitas.BlinG!
UPDATE #3: The 16 invited players have been FINALIZED!
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Russian Federation949 Posts
It will be kinda funny if WHire-Ra wins White-ra themed gear. Great line-up so far
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As much as I love eSports and often skip sleep to watch some games. On Christmas eve at 18h00 i'm pretty sure it won't be possible for a lot of people to tune in =\
It's sad, looks like a great tour !
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United States254 Posts
This is gonna be awesome. Gives me something to do Christmas eve before going to the bars. =)
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would love to see Ret and haypro here. well im TL biased..
White-Ra Saphira mouse, White-Ra mousepad,
this gear sounds so badass..
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always same guys for invitational~~~
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Don't seem that they considered that some european countries celebrate christmas (eat, celebrate, open presents and everything like that) on christmas eve and not christmas day -_-
Oh, and why is there keyboards, mice and headsets as prizes in a tournament for Pros? Most (if not all of them) ahave big sponsorships and would have little to no use of them...
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Great lineup. Too bad though, the prize pool seems kinda low...
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Russian Federation51 Posts
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Funny, since the imbaFXO guys used to stream on own3d ^^
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If I some how won I make contest, for community! Look forward and waiting many interest games!
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Russian Federation949 Posts
On December 16 2011 05:08 karkani wrote:
Don't seem that they considered that some european countries celebrate christmas (eat, celebrate, open presents and everything like that) on christmas eve and not christmas day -_-
Oh, and why is there keyboards, mice and headsets as prizes in a tournament for Pros? Most (if not all of them) ahave big sponsorships and would have little to no use of them...
Yeah, but so far a lost of praticipants are from Eastern Europe, where Christmas is on 7th of Jan, so not as big of a problem as u think
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On December 16 2011 05:10 White-Ra wrote:
If I some how won I make contest, for community! Look forward and waiting many interest games!
Infact one might say, special games.
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On December 16 2011 05:07 Growiel wrote:
As much as I love eSports and often skip sleep to watch some games. On Christmas eve at 18h00 i'm pretty sure it won't be possible for a lot of people to tune in =\
It's sad, looks like a great tour !
so why would that be? most people I know fuck of christmas and also it's weekend and for some of us holidays. Looking forward to it
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Gratz on 1000$ nerchio ! 
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On December 16 2011 05:12 Pirat6662001 wrote:
Yeah, but so far a lost of praticipants are from Eastern Europe, where Christmas is on 7th of Jan, so not as big of a problem as u think
Well, four out of ten players atm so quite a lot indeed but they wouldn't have signed in if they couldn't play on that date. I think it will greatly affect the viewers number, though.
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Tarson is not playing for months....
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On December 16 2011 05:10 White-Ra wrote:
If I some how won I make contest, for community! Look forward and waiting many interest games!
Awesome. White-Ra Fighting!
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