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Information about the tournament can be found at the tournament's website. I'll post the most important info here.
http://i.destiny.gg
Tournament Format
I will be drafting 8 players from the top of the North American ladder. In order to qualify from there, the following conditions must be met -
- You must be playing on an account who's name reflects the person playing it (no barcodes!)
- You must be the only person laddering on the account.
- You can't hack, cheat, boost, trade wins or commit any other obviously silly shenanigans.
- The qualification period for the ladder will end on Sunday, August 3rd, 23:59 EST. At that point I will take the top 8, non-barcoded accounts and invite them to the tournament.
The other 8 players will be invited in. I'll announce the invites as I confirm them.
The tournament will function as follows: the 8 people drafted from the ladder and the 8 invitees will be shuffled into 4 groups of 4 with 2 people from each category being in each group. Each of the groups will play 6 matches (plus a possible sudden death match, if needed) to determine who moves on. Once the 8 group stage survivors have been determined, they will feed into an 8 player bracket where bo5's will be played for quarter finals, then bo7's for semi-finals and a bo9 for the grind final to determine the winner. There will be no 3rd-4th place match.
The group matches will take place one group per day, starting on August 5th and ending on August 8th. The quarter final bracket will start on August 9th, with the semi-finals and grand finals being played on Sunday, August 10th.
All games will start at 10 AM EST (okay time for Americans, perfect time for Europeans, okay time for Koreans) and will probably carry on until about 2-3PM EST, though we'll try to move as briskly as possible.
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If you have any questions/comments/suggestions, feel free to let me know and I'll try to keep up with the responses.
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Canada8157 Posts
Looks like fun, I'll tune in to what I can
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United States97274 Posts
Seems pretty cool. Definitely interested in tuning in
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France7248 Posts
good way to boost the NA ladder I guess! was fun to watch when shoutcraft did it 
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The indiegogo page is probably the best thing I've ever seen. Even better than waxangel's indiegogo.
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Really like the tournament format especially the best of 7 and best of 9's for the semi's and final. Looks to be a really nice tournament.
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Have you received word on any of your invites or is it still a little early for any commitments from any of the players?
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I am very interested to see how successful these types of tournaments can be for "small time" producers (not MLG, Dreamhack, etc.) can be. I am very interested to see if there is any profit in it, or whether it ends up being basically advertising for your brand.
I think the venture capital via crowdfunding is a solid way to get off the ground, also. In your post-mortem, I hope you are willing/able to share how much ad revenue you are able to collect/subs gained for the event. I love statistics like that.
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United States248 Posts
Definitely tuning in. Thanks for putting this on.
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Destiny I eh? I guess you plan for more if all turns out alright.
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Should be great. I'm curious to see how many Korean or European players decide to ladder on NA to try and get one of the top 8 slots.
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4000$ you can bring some pros to competitive like dragon invitation event
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Hey what's up I'm trying to be a decent caster for now and would love to cast for you guys if you can't find anyone ^^ anyone from TL that would like to get ahold of me pm me and I will show you guys how I cast. etc I'm not good enough to be in the tournament yet but maybe next time :D
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This tournament gets featured instantly, but the BasetradeTV tournament gets no attention on TL?
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France7248 Posts
On July 05 2014 10:46 Legio wrote:
This tournament gets featured instantly, but the BasetradeTV tournament gets no attention on TL?
basetradetv doesnt need crowfunding
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Haha, I like the "Message read between series" for $25 >_<
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
So technically speaking anyone from EU/TW/Sea/KR could qualify for the NA Ladder spots?
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EPT
