[SEA] Masters Cup #17

EddieSc2

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May 31 2012 12:29 GMT

SC2SEA Masters Cup
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Sponsored by Tt eSPORTS + Eddie + Sc2sea.com

The Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament. $175 prize on offer to the winner, $90 2nd prize, $40 3rd. $315 prize pool total*! This event is sponsored by Tt eSPORTS, Eddie and sc2sea.com

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Info about our sponsors + Show Spoiler +

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Sponsors and donations for this event are welcomed, if you'd like to help out, please pm me. Masters Cup usually gets around 10000+ viewers, and 100-150 of the highest quality players in the SEA region. Our last few Cups have had 15000+ viewers!

$10 free prize just for playing + Show Spoiler +

$10 just for joining this Masters Cup!!

One lucky participant shall receive $10! While not a massive prize, its a free pizza, or a couple beers, etc, just for playing some sc2! Even if you are eliminated early be sure to stick around, watch the high quality games, and listen out for who will win (It may well be you!). Purpose of this is to encourage player participation, and offer a small reward for those who fail to place, as every game is of a high level. Depending upon future donations/sponsorship this may continue or be replaced by some other sort of prize, eg hardware. It shall be trialed this Masters Cup, as always, feedback welcomed. The prize draw shall be done live on stream using http://www.random.org/. If the number generated, matches your randomly seeded number on challonge.com, you're the winner! (Except if you no showed and got walked over in the early rounds, then we'll redraw, as it is designed to reward participants)

This Masters Cup is for SEA residents only. There will be an open event in 1 month, on July 1, where non SEA players are welcome to join.

Tournament Details - Masters Cup #17
Date: Sunday, 3rd June, 2012
Time: 6:00pm AEST, 4:00pm SGT
[your timezone 0000 PDT[local]]
Location: SEA Battle.net Region
Tournament Eligibility:
Masters League or Grand Masters League (ONLY in 1v1 SEA License) Lower players will be disqualified.
Prizes: Winner gets the $175 prize and bragging rights for being the best of the best. $90 for 2nd, $40 to 3rd - *Prize pool may increase
There is also a lucky draw prize! One lucky person shall get $10 just for joining!
Battle.net Chat Channel: "sc2seaMC" (used for tournament day)
Referees: FaDeEdOne.139, XanT.665

Livestream for Masters Cup #17
A: http://www.twitch.tv/benjisc2
B: http://www.twitch.tv/loachsc2

Map Pool

The first map of each round is pre-determined and outlined in the following list. The losing player will decide the subsequent map. The map pool is as follows:

Ro128: WCG Anitga Shipyard (B01 no 2nd game) (R1 on bracket)
Ro64: Cloud Kingdom LE (B01 no 2nd game) (R2 on bracket)
Ro32: GSL Daybreak (B03) (R3 on bracket)
Ro16: GSL Metropolis (B03) (R4 on bracket)
Ro8: Ohana LE (B03) (R5 on bracket)
Semi-Finals: GSL Bel'shir beach (winter version) (B03)
Finals: WCG Shakuras Plateau (B05)
(3rd Place Match WCG Shakuras Plateau (B03)

Loser can pick from any the following maps:
Cloud Kingdom LE, WCG Shakuras Plateau, GSL Daybreak, Tal'Darim Altar LE, Korhal Compound LE, GSL Metropolis, Ohana LE, WCG Anitga Shipyard, GSL Bel'shir beach (winter version)

* Players are allowed 1 veto each per round. 2 vetos are allowed in the B05 final. First game cannot be vetoed.

Signups close at 5pm AEDT/2pm SG on Sun 3 June, brackets to be posted on challonge.com shortly after.

The top 16 seeds shall be selected by highest current ladder rank

Sign up here, or on sc2sea