CyberGamer's WD PSI Storm 2010 Qualifier #1
Sunday 12th September
Registration: OPEN
Western Digital PSI Storm Qualifier #1 Events Page
Bracket 1 - Bracket 2 - Bracket 3 - Bracket 4
This is the first of four qualifiers for the Western Digital CyberGamer PSI STORM 2010 StarCraft 2 event. It will be an open, single-elimination tournament in a best-of-three (BO3) format and the top 8 competitors will advance to the 32-player final in October.
Games will start on Sunday September 12th; 5:00PM Sydney time (7:00PM NZST; 3:00PM SST; 4:00PM KST) and continue until the final 8 players are left standing.
On the Event Page you will see four brackets (under Tournaments) to which you may sign up. Please note that you may ONLY SIGN UP FOR ONE BRACKET PER QUALIFIER and that each bracket will have it's own supervising administrator. Failure to follow this rule may see you disqualified from participating in a given qualifier.
You are so save and upload all replays HERE, and do not allow ANY spectators in your games or it may not count (CG event staff and casters excepted).
The prize for this tournament is qualification for the WD PSI Storm 2010 finals, which boasts AU$5,000 in prizes all the way down to 16th place - so anyone can benefit!
In addition, the winner of this qualifier will play a BO5 against a top member from the fnatic SC2 team! See more information here:
Live coverage will be provided by gamestah casters kitfox and daman, with support from local Australian commentators deth and Unstable on Gamestah TV, supplemented by CyberGamer's MatchTV.
Please read THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW before signing up to the tournament.
To sign up to the tournament you must have an account at cybergamer.com.au complete and full including your Battle.net information included in your profile and a link to your battle.net account page (under Game Information). You can then sign up via the events page linked here, by clicking on ONE of the brackets and selecting [colour=orange]CREATE TEAM[/colour]. Please only sign up to ONE bracket per qualifier.
Event Page
Western Digital PSI Storm Qualifier #1 Events Page
Sign up to ONE of these brackets. Each bracket will have it's own supervising administrator on game day.
Bracket 1 - Bracket 2 - Bracket 3 - Bracket 4
The maps used will be chosen from the current CyberGamer 1v1 Map Pool, including at the time of this post:
Registration is open to all Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asian participants with their own SEA Server account.
Please note: By joining the event you agree to the following conditions
- You must be ready to play your first game at the Start time. Not showing up or being later than 10 minutes will result in your forfeit.
- You will not leak or pass out your replays until the conclusion of the last match of the Finals.
- You will submit replays of every game to http://www.cybergamer.com.au/upload/ on the day. Please select "StarCraft 2" from the drop-down menu. Failure to provide match replays will have you blocked from the remaining qualifiers.
- You agree to be patient and considerate should for the duration of the event should any unforeseen difficulties arise, and acknowledge that the supervising administrator designated to your bracket has full authority over decisions pertaining to the game and may enforce the rules at his or her discrepancy.
- CyberGamer tournament administrators are free to join any game that they see fit. You are not to refuse entry to a caster or commentator and failure to do so may result in disqualification.
- You agree that by entering this tournament that you will not publicly slader or reproach any of the staff or sponsors associated with this tournament on any public medium.
- There are to be no spectators of any kind except the aforementioned CyberGamer PSI Storm 2010 administrators and the casters.
- You may sign up to any bracket but the event staff reserve the right to reshuffle the participants and enforce seeding for the tournament, which may move you from your initial bracket.
Please note well that the full CyberGamer StarCraft II Ruleset is in effect, you can read the specifics HERE.
This even runs on Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drives - the PC enthusiasts' favorite 10,000 RPM hard drive is still the fastest, most dangerous carnivore around.