O’Gaming TV is proud to announce NationWars III, as well as the Red Dot Invitational, brought to you via the new O'Gaming event brand: O’Gaming ØMS.
Always looking to provide the best player and community experience, O'Gaming ØMS is the new O’Gaming event bringing several eSports tournaments together at once. This first edition will see top gamers battle it out in tournaments for two incredible games: StarCraft II in the NationWars III tournament and CS:GO in the Red Dot Invitational. This article is dedicated to StarCraft II—if you would like more information regarding the Red Dot Invitational for CS:GO, please click here.
The new edition of the national team tournament, NationWars III, will see top players duke it out in Blizzard Entertainment’s upcoming StarCraft II expansion: Legacy of the Void.
By allowing competitors to represent their countries, the tournament brings a new level of passion and interactivity to the StarCraft II scene, putting players and the community at the center of the action!
The tournament will contain online and offline parts, and as with NationWars I and II, players will be able to sign up to represent their countries. Sign-ups open today, and will run until the 6th of November, 20:00 CET. The community voting phase will begin on the 6th at 21:00 CET, and last until the 9th at 12:00 CET.
Details on team line-ups, talent rosters, the venue for the finals in Paris, the event trailer and event tickets will be revealed on November 9th during the Legacy of the Void special release show on O’Gaming TV.
As always, we are eager to do things better than ever—in NationWars III, all countries can compete!
Players:
To register for the voting phase, candidates have to be a 2015 WCS Challenger or a 2015 non-barcode Grand Master on a European, American or Korean Heart of the Swarm server.
If three players from the same country meet the criteria listed above and register, they will be able to represent their country in NationWars III. All registrations need to be approved by the tournament director, all KeSPA players are registred, people are going to vote for Korean players (KeSPA and non KeSPA players), a list of the 10 players voted are going to be given to KeSPA and they will choose 3 players and one sub for the tournament if there are KeSPA players in the top 10, if the top 3 is non KeSPA players these 3 players will be representing Korea.
Link to registration: http://nationwars.ogaming.tv/0ms/#!/en/sc2
The registration phase starts tomorrow and ends the 6th of November at 20:00 CET.
Community members & fans:
Your votes are important and will decide which players will represent their countries. The voting phase will take place from the 6th of November at 21:00 CET until the 9th at 12:00 CET.
-The teams will consist of the three most voted players, matches will be played in Bo7 All-Kill format with one Revival
-Twelve nations will be seeded directly in the group stage, and four more will need to go through qualification to join the 12 seeded
-Group stage "Ro16" is played online in GSL style
-Bracket stage "Ro8" is played online in a single-elimination format, and the winners will be invited to Paris
-Ro4 and finals will be played offline, in a prestigious venue that will be revealed on the 9th of November, along with ticket information
The NationWars III prize pool starts at $15 000 USD, and will be increased by 40% of net donations made throughout the tournament on the French and English streams. This way, you can add extra stake to the games! And it starts today!
NationWars III seeded Nations:
Norway: reigning champion of NationWars I & II
Mexico: runner-up NationWars II
France: third-place finisher NationWars II
Poland: fourth-place finisher NationWars II
Korea: winner of the Norway vs Korea NationWars II showmatch
For the seven other nations, we seeded the nations with most WCS Points:
Germany / China / Taiwan / Netherland / Denmark / Sweden / Finland
Registration phase: 3rd of November to 6th of November, 20:00 CET
Voting phase: 6th of November 21:00 CET to 9th of November, 12:00 CET
Teams, venue and ticketing reveal: 9th of November
Qualifiers: 19th of November to 22th of November
Group Draft: 20th of November after last Qualifier
Group Stage A: 3rd & 4th of December
Group Stage B: 5th & 6th of December
Group Stage C: 10th & 11h of December
Group Stage D: 12th & 13th of December
Ro8: 2nd & 3rd of January
Ro4 and finals in Paris: 13th of January
Pomf statement :
This year, Santa Claus is bringing more presents to your Christmas tree : e-sport e-motions directly delivered by the most skilled proplayers of the World on CSGO & Starcraft VOID.
Following a tradition of intense brainstorming, O'Gaming is launching a federating brand for our next events : 0ms, AKA 'no delay to emotion' e-sport parties.
We will develop the 0ms project of Live events by uniting the actual brands we already produce, being NationWars, Iron Squid, Tales of the Lane or the newly produced Red Dot Invitational under a federating banner.
The first edition of 0ms will feature two of the most emblematic e-sport disciplines, games that were played at the birth of competitive gaming in the 2000's, and are brought on the frontscene today in 2015.
To me this is revealing of the power of good games when they are loved and nourished overtime by a passionate community.
We'll be announcing the Ticketing and the Venue for Finals soon, stay tuned, e-story is still to be made.
Following a tradition of intense brainstorming, O'Gaming is launching a federating brand for our next events : 0ms, AKA 'no delay to emotion' e-sport parties.
We will develop the 0ms project of Live events by uniting the actual brands we already produce, being NationWars, Iron Squid, Tales of the Lane or the newly produced Red Dot Invitational under a federating banner.
The first edition of 0ms will feature two of the most emblematic e-sport disciplines, games that were played at the birth of competitive gaming in the 2000's, and are brought on the frontscene today in 2015.
To me this is revealing of the power of good games when they are loved and nourished overtime by a passionate community.
We'll be announcing the Ticketing and the Venue for Finals soon, stay tuned, e-story is still to be made.
If you would like any additional info regarding the tournament, please feel free to contact our tournament director @Sc2kerri on Twitter.
O’Gaming TV wants to thank Blizzard Entertainment and the entire community for its warm support towards our projects. And please do not hesitate to give us your feedbacks.
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