[NA] Masters Cup #31 June 2

EddieSc2

Australia908 Posts

May 31 2013 02:48 GMT

SC2SEA Masters Cup
www.sc2sea.com
Sponsored by Eddie, Silicon Sports, eSports SG, Xmashed Gear + Sc2sea.com

Sunday, 2nd June, 2013 (5:00pm KR Time) NA Battle.net

- Games will be played on NA server, open to all D, M + GM's
- Chance to win $10 just for playing
- $190 prizepool
- 600 power rank points up for grabs which go towards bonus end of season tournament
- All new likes received by eSports SG and Xmashed Gear from 2nd - 7th June will stand a chance to win 10x Xmashed Gear 10% Discount Digital Vouchers!

The Masters Cup is a single elimination style tournament for Starcraft 2, Heart of the Swarm. $100 prize on offer to the winner, $50 2nd prize, $20 3rd. $190 prize pool*! There is also 600 sea power rank points up for grabs. This event is sponsored by Eddie, eSports SG, Xmashed Gear, Silicon Sports, and sc2sea.com

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SEA 'Power ranks' + Show Spoiler +

New player ranking system - SEA 'Power ranks'

Detailed SEA Power Ranks info here
Complete player database + results here

SEA Power Ranks is the system we shall use to determine seeding. We shall be allocating points for placing highly in each Masters Cup, wT Weekly, and other online sea tournaments. These are then added to a players career total points to work out our tournament seeds. Masters Cup is one of, if not the toughest event in our region, so points will be given from 1st to 16th place to reward those who finish highly, but might just fall short of the 1st-3rd cash prizes. It also serves to reward regular participation.

Points break down

1st - 100 points
2nd- 60
3rd - 40
4th - 20
5th-8th - 10
9th-16th - 5

(300 points total for a standard Masters Cup)

* Double points shall be given for International editions.

Info about our sponsors + Show Spoiler +

eSports SG are gaming community based in Singapore but supporting eSports worldwide.

For more information:

Website: www.esports.sg
Facebook: www.facebook.com/esports.singapore
Twitter: www.twitter.com/eSportsSG
Email: [email]contact@esports.sg[/email]

[URL="http://shop.xmashed.com/"]Xmashed Gear is the place to get all your geek and gamer apparel. They promise the most elite tees you can find this side of New Tristam! For more information, please visit [URL="http://www.facebook.com/xmashedgear"]http://www.facebook.com/xmashedgear

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Silicon Sports are a Melbourne based company, responsible for the succesful Melbourne Barcrafts. They also have a quality casting team, and are all passioante gamers.

For more information:

Twitter: @siliconsports
Facebook: /SiliconSports
Twitch: /SiliconSports
Website: siliconsports.net

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Sc2sea is the primary community website for South East Asian, Aus + NZ Starcraft. Plenty of topics, tournaments and features for all passionate gamers

Sponsors and donations for this event are welcomed, if you'd like to help out, please pm me.

$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)

Like us on Facebook and win $10 + Show Spoiler +

One lucky person shall receive $10! While not a massive prize, its a free pizza, or a couple beers, etc, just for liking our page and supporting our tournament! 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!). We shall randomly select one lucky person from the facebook page, and annouce the winner live on stream during the cast.

Tournament Details - Masters Cup #31
Date: Sunday, 2nd June, 2013 (5:00pm KR Time)
Time: US: + Show Spoiler +

1:00am PST/LA, 4:00am EST/NY

EU: + Show Spoiler +

9:00am GMT/London, (Sun) 12:00pm MSD/Moscow

SEA: + Show Spoiler +

5:00pm KR, 6:00pm AEST, 4:00pm SGT

Location: NA Battle.net
Tournament Eligibility: You must be in Diamond, Masters or Grand Masters League on any server. Lower players will be disqualified.
How to Sign Up: Post your NA ID, country + account most known by (If different from registered account, eg EU, KR ID).
Example: rainbow.766 - South Korea - ST_RainBOw
Prizes: -Winner gets the $100 prize and bragging rights for being the best of the best. $50 for 2nd, $20 to 3rd - *Prize pool may increase
-600 power rank points up for grabs
-All new likes received by eSports SG and Xmashed Gear from 2nd - 7th June will stand a chance to win 10x Xmashed Gear 10% Discount Digital Vouchers!
-There is also a lucky draw prize! One lucky person shall get $10 just for joining!
Battle.net Group: Join the group SEA Masters Cup.
Referees: DevianT.811, Rhuubarb.634, TAXanT.665

Livestream for Masters Cup #31
A: www.twitch.tv/maynarde
B: http://www.twitch.tv/siliconsports

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: Daybreak (B01 no 2nd game) (R1 on bracket)
Ro64: Akilon Wastes (B03) (R2 on bracket)
Ro32: Bel'shir Vestige (B03) (R3 on bracket)
Ro16: Whirlwind (B03) (R4 on bracket)
Ro8: Star Station (B03) (R5 on bracket)
Semi-Finals: NewKirk Precinct (B03)
Finals: Neo Planet S (B05)
(3rd Place Match Neo Planet S, B03)

Loser can pick from any the following maps:
Cloud Kingdom, Daybreak, Akilon Wastes, Bel'shir Vestige, Whirlwind, Star Station, NewKirk Precinct, Neo Planet S

* Players are allowed 1 veto each per round. The first game cannot be vetoed. Maps cannot be repeated twice in a series.

Signups close at 4.45pm KR time on Sun 2 June, brackets to be posted on challonge.com shortly after.

Sign up here, or on Sc2sea