| TotalBiscuit United Kingdom. July 15 2011 22:22. Posts 3226 | Profile Blog # |
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We're back and bigger than ever!
The $2600 SHOUTcraft 2-day Invitational
We can rebuild it, we have the technology
The SHOUTcraft Invitational series is the biggest, self-funded tournament series that Starcraft 2 has ever seen. Thus far we've done everything with no corporate sponsorship and intend to keep doing that. This tournament is a community-fueled, high-stakes, electrifying live event with some of the best players SC2 has to offer, battling it out in the SHOUTcraft Single-elimination format.
Format -As with last time, this will be a single-elimination 8-man tournament in a Best of 5 format. Every series until the finals will be best of 5, the finals will be best of 7. The tournament will feature a best of 5 bronze match before the grand finals.
When? - July 23 2011 16:00 GMT[local] and July 24 2011 16:00 GMT
Wait, 2 days? - Correct. In response to feedback from the players and community, we have decided to split the event up into 2 days in order to prevent player and viewer fatigue. The RO8 will occur on the 23rd and the RO4 onwards on the 24th.
Is this live? - The entire event will be streamed live, no replays will be used and broadcast delay will prevent ghosting.
Prize distribution - This time, everyone is getting paid.
First Place - $1000
Second Place - $600
Third Place - $400
Fourth Place - $200
Knocked out in RO8 - $100
The philosophy of the SHOUTcraft Invitational is let's be honest, dirty stinking communist. It's about the redistribution of wealth. I take the streaming money from my gold league nonsense and redistribute it to players that don't suck. In keeping with that philosophy, I believe every pro should get paid for their time and as with the previous tournament, they will be paid promptly, not 6 months later.
Casters Yes I did say Casters. - TotalBiscuit and d.Apollo. This is in response to feedback that indicated a solo cast was not optimal for a tournament of this level. As a result I have selected a co-caster that I have a great deal of experience with. He will be instudio casting alongside me, we will not be using Skype. d.Apollo should be familiar to almost all of you, having co-cast Dreamhack Winter/Summer with Day[9], the Dreamhack Invitational with DeMuslim and the IPL2, UGC, TLOpen, Gadget Show Live and i40 events with me. d.Apollo will add his extensive knowledge of both the game and it's players to the cast and probably prevent TotalBiscuit mistaking a forge fast-expand for proxy 2-gate via a liberal application of slapping him around the head.
Players - Since we are in the business of addressing concerns with the previous tournament, the first tournament was criticised for being an all-European event. We have invited some American players to this event. There will not be any Koreans in this event due to the difficult nature of scheduling a live broadcast with people across a bazillion timezones. We are looking into ways and means of making this happen in future. All of these players are top-class western competitors and you may find a dark horse along the way to make things interesting.
Stream - As always the event will be streamed on http://www.justin.tv/totalbiscuit
WILL ROBOT ANNOUNCER BE ATTENDING?!?? - Robot announcer will be back, though he has been instructed to only take part in the start of every series this time, not every single match.
VoDs? - Will be available on my Youtube channel after the fact as well as in raw uncut form on Justin.tv. We are aware that there has been some delay in getting the cut VoDs from SCI #1 up on the channel. They will all be available before SCI #2 begins.
Any other improvements? - We are aiming to minimise the downtime between matchs as much as possible, though you will still be entertained by some of the best VGM TotalBiscuit's collection has to offer, classic videogame tunes will blare throughout the breaks. In order to minimise downtime, we will be employing an experienced tournament admin to keep the proceedings running smoothly and prevent any map mistakes.
So who is playing? - We like to tease, so we're going to be doing what we did last time by revealing one player a day in this thread. However, to start things off, we'll reveal two, starting with the grand champion of SHOUTcraft Invitational #1. But wait....
A CHALLENGER APPEARS!
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| Baituri Netherlands. July 15 2011 22:24. Posts 1486 | Profile # |
| Looking forward to this! Nerchio with his 2nd win? |
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| HEROwithNOlegacy United States. July 15 2011 22:24. Posts 850 | Profile # |
| Going to be an awesome tournament, can't wait! |
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| Liveon Netherlands. July 15 2011 22:25. Posts 1015 | Profile Blog # |
Nice, good luck on this TB  |
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| Telcontar United Kingdom. July 15 2011 22:25. Posts 15851 | Profile # |
SSSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're doing an awesome job as always John! Keep it up mate. |
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| Lynkilen Norway. July 15 2011 22:25. Posts 193 | Profile # |
| Last one was awesome. This should be even better! Good luck. |
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 Choboo Sweden. July 15 2011 22:26. Posts 2088 | Profile Blog # |
| Bigger prize pool? Better players? Another caster? Robot voice? Wow, you must really hate e-sports. Last edit: 2011-07-15 22:26:34 |
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| fAiryqt Russian Federation. July 15 2011 22:26. Posts 134 | Profile # | |
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| Haddadios Canada. July 15 2011 22:26. Posts 6 | Profile # |
| Epic tourney, Epic caster! fffffff yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah! |
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| JelleSlaets Belgium. July 15 2011 22:26. Posts 57 | Profile # | |
| | Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad. |
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| Savern101 United Kingdom. July 15 2011 22:27. Posts 846 | Profile Blog # |
| Shit, can't believe TB is doing this tournament out of his own income? I could've sworn he was in SC2 just for the money? :O Last edit: 2011-07-15 22:27:10 |
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| RaKooNs United Kingdom. July 15 2011 22:28. Posts 397 | Profile # |
omg this is gonna be epic.
Improvement for SCI3 - get day9 to cast with you. |
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| Tantaburs Canada. July 15 2011 22:28. Posts 1818 | Profile # |
| Anyone else read 28 dayman event Line-Up and think of Always sunny in philidelphia |
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| Dingobloo Australia. July 15 2011 22:29. Posts 1837 | Profile Blog # |
| With the addition of d.appollo this sc2 event couldn't be more British unless it was a demuslim, d.appollo and TB tri-cast over tea and cucumber sandwiches. Also I like the prize distribution change, certainly sets a nice precedent and values player time. |
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| Stoflromp United States. July 15 2011 22:29. Posts 4 | Profile # | |
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| antilyon Brazil. July 15 2011 22:30. Posts 2488 | Profile Blog # |
The first one was awesome, I hope this be as good as 1st one.
On July 15 2011 22:27 Savern101 wrote:
Shit, can't believe TB is doing this tournament out of his own income? I could've sworn he was in SC2 just for the money? :O
Well, this is good for his reputation and makes his fanbase larger, everybody wins |
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| Novacurse United States. July 15 2011 22:30. Posts 21 | Profile # |
| Looks like what was already a great event is being improved across the board. Can't wait! |
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| tuestresfat July 15 2011 22:31. Posts 2478 | Profile # |
| really glad d.apollo will be casting with you ^^ |
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| Lithian Finland. July 15 2011 22:31. Posts 26 | Profile # |
| The last one was epic, definitely going to watch all matches |
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| Elefanto Switzerland. July 15 2011 22:31. Posts 3553 | Profile # |
Nice, looking forward to it!
Hopefully there are some awsome players. |
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