[NA] Masters Cup #34

EddieSc2

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August 29 2013 07:37 GMT

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

Sunday, Sep 01 3:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
03:00 GMT (+00:00)
*Sunday 1st September, 2013, 12:00pm KR Time, NA Battle.net

- Chance to win $10 just for playing
- $200 prizepool
- 600 SEA Championship Series points up for grabs which go towards $1000+ end of season tournament
- Double Elimination format
- Games will be played on NA server, open to all D, M + GM's from any region

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This Masters Cup is a double elimination style tournament for Starcraft 2, Heart of the Swarm. $100 prize on offer to the winner, $50 2nd prize, $20 3rd, $10 4th. $200 prize pool*! There is also There is also 600 SEA Championship Series points up for grabs. This event is sponsored by Eddie, eSports SG, Xmashed Gear, Silicon Sports, and sc2sea.com

SEA Championship Series/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. SPR allocates points for placing highly in tournaments such 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.

These points count for the SEA Championship Series season 1, with the top 32 players invited to the $1000+ 2013 Grand Finale!

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]

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 /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 #34
Date: Sunday, Sep 01 3:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Time: 03:00 GMT (+00:00)
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, $10 4th - *Prizes are in AUD
-600 SEA Championship Series points up for grabs
-Our friends at Xmashed Gear are giving out 10% discount vouchers available form 28th Aug to 10th Sep. Visit Shop.xmashed.com.
-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 #34
A: http://www.twitch.tv/duckvillelol
B: http://www.twitch.tv/basetradetv

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:

Upper Bracket:

Ro128: Whirlwind (B01 no 2nd game) (R1 on bracket)
Ro64: Akilon Wastes (B03) (R2 on bracket)
Ro32: Neo Planet S (B03) (R3 on bracket)
Ro16: Derelict Watcher TE (B03) (R4 on bracket)
Ro8: Star Station (B03) (R5 on bracket)
Semi-Finals: NewKirk Precinct TE (B03)
Finals: Bel'shir Vestige (B03) - double chance for winners bracket player

Loser can pick from any the following maps:
Derelict Watcher TE, Akilon Wastes, Bel'shir Vestige, Whirlwind, Star Station, NewKirk Precinct TE, 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.

Lower Bracket:

Lower bracket is best of 1 until 3rd/4th placing. Both players veto 3 maps each from the map pool, and play the remaining one

(4th Place Match is a B03 on NewKirk Precinct TE)
(3rd Place Match is a B03 on Bel'shir Vestige)

Signups close at 11.45pm KR time on Sun 1 September, brackets to be posted on challonge.com shortly after.

Sign up here, or on Sc2sea