Ladies and gentlemen, zerglings and queens, protoss and... well, all the others not mentioned.
The HomerJ Show and ESET are very proud to introduce you to our second cup series in this year.
After the successful ending of the ESET Summer Masters 2012 with an offline final between ESCDaisy and Ai.Tarra held at the ESET/XMG stage in Cologne during gamescom, we spent a lot of time collecting feedback, ideas and money to improve the whole series for the viewers as well as the players. So finally, with all those important things done, we present:
The ESET Winter Masters 2012!
Qualifier:
- 12 Ranked Qualifier (RQ), with 200$ prizemoney each (150$ for the winner, 50$ for the second place)
- the top 16 players of each RQ will earn qualification points
after the RQ series, the 12 players who earned the most points, will advance to the Grand Final Online (GFO) - 3 Direct Qualifier (DQ), also with 200$ prizemoney, but only the winner will advance to the GFO
Grand Final Online:
- 15 qualified players of the RQ and DQ and the winner of the ESET Summer Masters 2012 (Ai.Tarra) will face their respective opponents in a bo3 single elimination bracket
- the top 8 players will advance to the Grand Final in Hamburg
Grand Final in Hamburg:
- the offline Grand Final will be held in Hamburg/Germany with live audience in attendance
- Ro8, Ro4 will be bo5, the Grand Final will be bo7
- Location: Magnus Hall, Amsinckstr. 70, 20097 Hamburg (Germany)
Now the interesting part for most of you:
Prize Pool:
Qualifier:
250$ for each of the 12 Point Qualifier (1st place 175$, 2nd place 75$)
+ 250$ for each of the 3 Direct Qualifier (1st place 175$, 2nd place 75$)
= 3.750$
Grand Final:
1st: 5.000 $
2nd: 2.500 $
3rd: 1.500 $
4th: 1.000 $
5th: 600 $
6th: 600 $
7th: 400 $
8th: 400 $
= 12.000 $
Mappool:
HomerJ Ohana
similar to Ladder edition
HomerJ Daybreak
similar to current GSL edition
HomerJ Cloud Kingdom
similar to Ladder edition
HomerJ Entombed Valley
cross spawn only, GSL-similar
HomerJ Antiga Shipyard
cross spawn only, no gold
HomerJ Abyssal City
similar to current GSL edition
Casters:
German: HomerJ
English: ZeddSC
French: GameCreds
Polish: EmScTv
Russian: Knoxville
Spanish: SavageTV
Dates:
- 1. RQ: Thursday, Oct 18 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 2. RQ: Monday, Oct 22 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 3. RQ: Thursday, Oct 25 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 4. RQ: Monday, Oct 29 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 5. RQ: Thursday, Nov 01 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 6. RQ: Monday, Nov 05 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 7. RQ: Thursday, Nov 08 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 8. RQ: Monday, Nov 12 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 9. RQ: Thursday, Nov 15 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 10. RQ: Monday, Nov 19 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 11. RQ: Thursday, Nov 22 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 12. RQ: Monday, Nov 26 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 1. DQ: Thursday, Nov 29 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 2. DQ: Monday, Dec 03 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- 3. DQ: Thursday, Dec 06 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- GFO: Saturday, Dec 15 3:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
- GFiH: Saturday, Jan 19 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Doors: 11:00 CET - 13:00 CET, show starts: 14:00 CET
Region:
- All confrontations will be held on the European Battle.net-Server.
Sign-In/Rules/contact:
- You can sign-in at our Cup Area: » www.eset-masters.de/index.php?show=cups
- The Rules are here: » www.eset-masters.de/index.php?show=rules
- There are also the series rules and further information: » www.eset-masters.de/
Liquipedia:
ESET Winter Masters 2012