|
Seoul, South Korea – International E-Sports Group Inc is proud to announce a new StarCraft tournament for North American players called StarCraft SuperStars. This new tournament series will have 16 players battle for $1,000 in cash prizes as well as for one lucky winner, an all-expense paid trip to Seoul to play with the professional StarCraft team, eSTRO.
The first tournament will take place on Sunday October 14th and already has all 16 players confirmed. There are two ways to get you into one of the StarCraft SuperStars event; receive an invitation from one of the StarCraft SuperStars admins or qualify through one of the open qualifiers that will be hosted prior to future S3 events. To be eligible to play in StarCraft SuperStars, you need to be a resident of a North American country.
The lucky winner will be chosen from a pool of the top5 finishers during the inaugural StarCraft SuperStars event by eSTRO’s expert coaching staff. Each of these five players will submit all of their match replays until one is decided the lucky winner. Once chosen, the winner will be flown to Seoul and live amongst the professional StarCraft players of eSTRO.
Prizes:
1st place: $500 cash
2nd place: $300 cash
3rd place: $150 cash
4th place: $50 cash
Total cash prize: $1,000
Current map list for StarCraft SuperStars:
• Tau Cross
• Python
• Peaks of Baekdu
About International E-Sports Group International E-Sports Group is a company based in Seoul, South Korea. International E-Sports Group is the tournament operator and license holder for the Electronic Sports World Cup as well as KODE5 in Korea. In addition to operating events in Korea, IEG is also the owner of the professional gaming team, eSTRO.
For more information regarding StarCraft SuperStars or IEG, please contact Stuart Brooks (stuart@iegroup.co.kr)
The players and first round matches
Artosis vs. LzGamer
TheMachine vs. Nony
Skew vs. Idra
G5 vs. iNcontroL
Xiaozi vs. Response
Dino vs. Schism
Iefnaij vs. Nesh
Slog4 vs. Crayon
http://www.binarybeast.com/?ID=xBW071014A
This event will start at 6pm PST on Sunday the 14th.
On Hamachi server, channel IEG (unless problems occur)
|
anyone awake to move this to the front page?
everyone is asleep on msn.
|
Wow, sounds pretty awesome. By the way, how long will the winner stay in Korea?
|
United States7488 Posts
Wow, this does sound pretty awesome. Thanks for the info PR.
I could see how they would decide on the top four, but any idea how they decide who is going to be in fifth/ Will there be a losers bracket to decide?
|
wow that seems like a pretty dope offer
|
Valhalla18444 Posts
where did the last $50 go
|
United States4991 Posts
On October 12 2007 18:00 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
where did the last $50 go
Into my pocket.
|
They were donated to "progamers without borders" always helping noobs aroudn the world to improve their game. :D
|
Vatican City State1872 Posts
|
On October 12 2007 18:00 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
where did the last $50 go
great, there goes my profit.
prizes updated.
|
|
|
Sweden33719 Posts
I\'ve been looking into evidence to support a case that sweden is really the 52nd state of the US.
Not much success so far.
Seriously tho, this is really cool but I can\'t help but feel they are 5 years late with this.
|
would be funny if assem won the election ^_^;
|
Aotearoa39261 Posts
Really great for the american scene, not so much elsewhere; should be good however!
Also, as already asked how long will the player stay with estro?
FA has a point; it does feel like this is 5years too late
|
This is cool, if testie goes he gets some company!
But how far from eachother are the CJ and Estro club houses...
|
wow this is assem i mean awesome  , on that note i hope assem doesnt get it -.-''
|
51599 Posts
Nice! Iefniaj fighting! Young progamer gogo.
But why don't they do this for europe as well? 
|
51599 Posts
On October 12 2007 18:13 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Seriously tho, this is really cool but I can\'t help but feel they are 5 years late with this.
I'm not sure if you were still following the scene, but eSTRO only just recently picked up the Dream Team. As many might know, Hexatron and eNature IMO struggled pretty much to keep the team up (thus not being able to do awesome tournaments like this).
So it isn't too late.
|
I think he meant that with StarCraft II coming out around the corner and with BW on its declining years, it would've been better if something like this was offered 5 years ago so that the trainees would have enough time amongst the pros to actually accomplish something at the height of the game.
|
Sweden33719 Posts
On October 12 2007 18:54 GTR-2-Go wrote:Show nested quote +On October 12 2007 18:13 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Seriously tho, this is really cool but I can\'t help but feel they are 5 years late with this. I'm not sure if you were still following the scene, but eSTRO only just recently picked up the Dream Team. As many might know, Hexatron and eNature IMO struggled pretty much to keep the team up (thus not being able to do awesome tournaments like this). So it isn't too late.
estro has been estro for like a year havent they? Anyway, I mean more in general - there would have been more interest 5 years ago I think.
|
|
|
|
|
|
EPT![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/teams/8.jpg)
