Starcraft Series Switzerland

It is time. Today we proudly announce first details of our upcoming StarCraft 2 cup series. After tons of brainstorming, discussions with ESL and our sponsor, lanforge.ch, we are finally ready to feed you some info.

We, the E-Sport Blog team, have decided to hold the cup series in several parts, similar to the EPS Germany. As the past EPS Germany events have shown, this format was very well accepted by the players. There will be a total of six cups. Each cup is held online on the tournament platform of the ESL and will only be accessible for players from Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

All of the cups will be played during the months of July and August, on Sundays and Wednesdays. The ESL urged us not to hold on to our original plans of having fixed match-days, as effort and gain are not quite as reasonable these days. According to a small survey, the mentioned days seemed to be the ones working out the best for most players.

The format is easily comprehendible: Players can earn points in each cup. The better they perform the more points the receive. Points are awarded to the eight best players of each cup. At the end of the series, the eight players who were able to earn the most points during the cups, are invited to the offline playoffs.

A very important point the E-Sport Blog wanted to achieve: The cup system should hold some fun for every player! Therefore we were able to arrange an ingenious deal with our sponsor lanforge.ch! Every cup participant wins something! How? Simple: For every round of the cup a player reached, a 1% discount is granted at the lanforge.ch store. So even when a player participates in all six cups but drops out in the first round each, a discount of 6% is granted nonetheless! With this we obviously hope to motivate even those players among you, who don’t expect to win this whole thing, to participate in the cup anyways.

The exact dates of the cups, the location of the offline playoffs, the caster who will be casting the event, and especially the prizes worth 2’000,- CHF, will be announced the coming days and weeks. And of course, on the E-Sport Blog we’ll provide you with our homemade, huge coverage of the cup-series. Stay tuned for the coming announcements, and let us look forward to a thrilling Starcraft Series Switzerland, short S³.

Link: www.esportblog.ch

*** UPDATE 27.06.2012 ***

The Dates for the Cups and the Finals are out follow the Link!

Last edit: 2012-06-27 15:06:03

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invinzible Switzerland. June 11 2012 15:31. Posts 81

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Sweet :D Count me in! Not getting my hopes ups to reach the offline finals as a competitor, but definitely as a visitor

APSyy June 11 2012 20:07. Posts 1

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Cool

gonna start my special training today.... maybe i win one match before dropping out :D

robih Austria. June 11 2012 20:25. Posts 958

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is bigs still allowed to play in the EPS germany?

thezanursic Slovenia. June 11 2012 20:30. Posts 2806

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I hope you arent calling it SSS.

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AemJaY Switzerland. June 11 2012 20:47. Posts 24

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biGs is still allowed to play in the EPS Germany, why should he not?
and no we dont name the series SSS, we named it S³

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SilverStar Sweden. June 11 2012 21:16. Posts 5594

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Free money for bigs. He must be happy, anyway good luck.

AemJaY Switzerland. June 11 2012 21:24. Posts 24

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On June 11 2012 21:16 SilverStar wrote:
Free money for bigs. He must be happy, anyway good luck.

Its not Money

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MogA Switzerland. June 11 2012 22:10. Posts 42

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Cool! I'll try to participate in the cups, hopefully i dont always lose in the first round, there are a lot of good players in switzerland!

invinzible Switzerland. June 12 2012 16:12. Posts 81

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Is there any rough estimate yet where and when the offline-playoffs will go down?

Inside.Out Canada. June 12 2012 16:43. Posts 551

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prediction: biGs wins everything

invinzible Switzerland. June 12 2012 16:46. Posts 81

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On June 12 2012 16:43 EcstatiC wrote:
prediction: biGs wins everything

That is if biGs participates

Which would be cool though... unless you would like to win :D

AemJaY Switzerland. June 13 2012 16:27. Posts 24

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On June 12 2012 16:12 invinzible wrote:
Is there any rough estimate yet where and when the offline-playoffs will go down?

We announce that as soon as possible. For the Finals we are looking forward that they will be played somewhere in zurich. but we let you know that in the coming weeks.

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Soe Switzerland. June 13 2012 19:36. Posts 17

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Neat! Very happy to see eSports finally growing a little in switzerland! Really looking forward to it!

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Liquid`TLO Germany. June 13 2012 21:16. Posts 586