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| SETT TV June 21 2012 06:17. Posts 67 | Profile # |
The fourth ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament launches at 2.-4. August. The three day tournament will have 32 high class players competing for a $30 000 prize pool. The roster will be filled with invites and qualified players through two online qualifier tournaments.
This summer the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament will consist of - 32 top notch players
- Six familiar casters and hosts
- Two free HD streams
- Three days of action
- $30 000 of prize money
Venue
ASUS ROG has one again choosen the biggest Finnish LAN party, ASSEMBLY Summer, as the battlegrounds for the 4th installement of the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament.
Last year this digital festival was the start of the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament series which have since taken the place as one of the major StarCraft II tournaments in Europe.
Players
The tournament has 32 player slots. A number of the slots will be given as invites to notable and successful players who request an invite by email at info@peliliiga.fi. We are accepting invite requests from now on until the 20th of July.
The remaining slots will be given through two qualifier tournaments which will be played at the EU battle.net server. More information about the qualifiers will be given later.
Tournament format
The tournament format has been totally changed since the last ASUS ROG Tournament. We have talked to the players and asked feedback and suggestions on how to improve our system. One of the things that came up was the problem with round robin group stages (all vs all), where sometimes the success of a player depended too much on the other players in the group. Another thing we noticed was that players actually would prefer best-of-five matches in a group stage rather than the now popular best-of-three matches. One more issue was raised especially by the Koreans, which was that a two day tournament is too fast to properly prepare for each match.
We appreciate the feedback and have modified our tournament format accordingly. The next ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament will be played in three days, there will be two group stages with GSL style double elimination groups with best-of-five matches and finally single elimination playoffs with best-of-five matches and a best-of-seven finals.
Rough schedule- Thursday, 2 August
First group stage (32 players, 8 groups, bo5, GSL style)
- Friday, 3 August
Second group stage (16 players, 4 groups, bo5, GSL style)
- Saturday, 4 August
Playoffs (8 players, bo5)
Prize pool
The total prize money in the tournament is $30 000 USD which will be distributed among the top eight players as follows:
1. $13 000
2. $6 500
3. $4 000
4. $2 500
5.-8. $1 000
Stay tuned for more info about the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament at ASSEMBLY Summer 2012. We will be announcing info about the qualification tournaments, invited players, casters, map pool and tournament details later.
Updates
August 4: Playoffs
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August 3: Second Groups
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July 26: Groups, Maps and Schedule
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July 16: Qualifier Results and Final Eight Invites
+ Show Spoiler +ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament is only roughly two weeks away. The 32 players coming to ASUS ROG Summer 2012 on August 2 to attend the $30 000 tournament are now known as the two online qualifiers finished this weekend. Players qualified through ASUS ROG Summer 2012 Online Qualifier #1Players qualified through ASUS ROG Summer 2012 Online Qualifier #2Besides thess online qualifiers, eight invites were missing to complete the 32 player roster. Here are the final invites for the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament. New invites We also have a line-up change, as   FnaticRC.aLive has unfortunately cancelled his participation. He will be replaced by his team mate  FnaticRC.Moon. 16.7.2012 invite list updated Quantic.SaSe and Quantic.TheStC will represent Quantic Gaming Quantic.NaNiwa cancelled his participation. Complete ASUS ROG Summer 2012 Line-upWe will be releasing maps, groups and rules in roughly one week.
July 12: Qualifiers and Casters
+ Show Spoiler +With less than a month to go until the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament starts at ASSEMBLY Summer 2012 on August 2, it’s time to play the two online qualifiers that we promised. As previously announced, the qualifiers will include players selected among those who have requested an invite to the ASUS ROG Tournament, and the top four of each qualifier will earn a spot to the main tournament. Online qualifiersSaturday, July 14, 15:00 CEST: ASUS ROG Summer 2012 Online Qualifier #1Single elimination, best-of-3 Max 32 players selected among the applicants Top 4 qualifies Sunday, July 15, 15:00 CEST: ASUS ROG Summer 2012 Online Qualifier #2Single elimination, best-of-3 Max 32 players selected among the applicants Top 4 qualifies The first two rounds of the qualifiers will be streamed and casted by community streams, with the last four matches and the round-of-8 which decides the top four players, will be streamed by The GD Studio. The broadcast will start at 18:00 CEST on Saturday and Sunday. Qualifier map pool - Dreamhack ESV Cloud Kingdom - hugge (building blockers at ramps)
- GSL_Metropolis - TeamClash (creep tumors on islands)
- GSL_Daybreak - TeamClash
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MLG Antiga Shipyards - MLGMaps
- TSL4 Antiga Shipyard - TSLAdmin (cross spawns only, gold bases removed)
- TSL4 Entombed Valley - TSLAdmin (vertical spawns only)
ASUS ROG Summer 2012 CastersThis time at the ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament we are doing something different with the free HD streams. Instead of a stage or stadium feel we have previously aimed for, we are giving the lead to The GD Studio which will produce the ASUS ROGs stream, meaning a more entertaining and somewhat unpredictable stream is expected. The caster pairs for the event are Shaun ' Apollo' Clark & Dario ' TLO' Wünsch Thomas ' Khaldor' Kilian & Wolf ' Wolf' Schröder The hosts at the event will be James ' 2GD' Harding & Geoff ' iNcontrol' Robinson Auguste' Semmler' Massonnat & Salome ' Soe' Gschwind Executive Ingame camera director & Editor and Chief of screen locations Michael ' Adebisi' Van Driel The GD Studio Founder James '2GD' Harding statement about the productionWe're extremely happy and not prepared to do a live show for ASUS ROG, Which is why we've invited as many good looking casters as possible in hopes to overwhelm viewers senses, which will distract them from any mistakes we make. Casters and hosts will also interchange rolls, so you will most likely see Incontrol commentate or TLO Host along side myself sometime during the event. Despite a very entertaining lineup of casters and hosts, We will of course be focusing our efforts to help tell the story throughout the tournament about the players themselves, so most of the production efforts this event will focus on this, as it should always be.
July 5: Second wave of invites
+ Show Spoiler +Half of the slots in the 32 player tournament have now been filled as eight new players have been invited to the next ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament from the teams Evil Geniuses (EG), Fnatic (FnaticRC), MouseSports (mouz) and Radical Online X-tremists (RoX.KiS). New invites:
June 29: First invites
+ Show Spoiler +Last week we announced the next ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament is going to be held at ASSEMBLY Summer 2012 at August 2.-4. with 32 players and $ 30 000 prize pool. We also started accepting invite request from players, and have since received a number of contacts from players and organizations. Here are the first eight players that have been granted a slot at the tournament. First invited playersAL.Naama is an exception in the group, since he didn’t request an invite but earned his slot by winning Vectorama 2012 LAN tournament at Oulu, Finland earlier this June.
Like ASUS ROG on Facebook
Head on over to the ASUS ROG Nordic facebook page and like it to not miss any behind the scenes info. Or if you just want to show the sponsors of the tournament some love.
http://www.facebook.com/rognordic
ASUS ROG
Finally, to remind you all of the company who makes this tournament possible, ROG -- Republic of Gamers, a gaming sub brand of ASUS that is comprised of cutting edge hardware tailored for serious gamers. The product branches include; Motherboards, Graphics Cards, LCD Monitors, Gaming Peripherals, Desktops and Notebooks. The ASUS ROG Tournament will be solely powered by ASUS and ROG hardware.
About ASUS
ASUS, the world’s top 3 consumer notebook vendor and the maker of the world’s best-selling and most award winning motherboards, is a leading enterprise in the new digital era. ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today's digital home, office and person, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktops, Eee Box and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, tablet devices, servers, multimedia and wireless solutions, networking devices, and mobile phones. With a global staff of more than 10,000 and a world-class R&D team of 3,000 engineers, the company's revenue for 2011 was US$13 billion.
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| Cokefreak Finland. June 21 2012 06:19. Posts 5662 | Profile # |
| Yay! When are the invitees announced? |
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 Daray June 21 2012 06:20. Posts 2840 | Profile # |
Nice nice nice! 8)
amazing format btw i just fear it might be too many games actually but that's an awesome problem to have tbh.
edit. Yeah i think the 2nd group should be bo3... plenty of chances to show that you're the better player. Last edit: 2012-06-21 06:27:38 |
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| Relaaja Finland. June 21 2012 06:25. Posts 103 | Profile # |
| I Think best of 3 is better than best of 5 in group stages. Bo5 creates too many games. Getting through one group takes insane amount of time, like 5-6 hours. |
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| Olinim June 21 2012 06:31. Posts 3982 | Profile # |
On June 21 2012 06:20 Daray wrote:
Nice nice nice! 8)
amazing format btw i just fear it might be too many games actually but that's an awesome problem to have tbh.
edit. Yeah i think the 2nd group should be bo3... plenty of chances to show that you're the better player.
Yeah not sure how that'll work out...we'll see though. |
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| RageCommodore Germany. June 21 2012 06:31. Posts 823 | Profile # |
| Holy group stages :O if Goody gets invited... prepare your bodies for 10 hour panzer action :D Last edit: 2012-06-21 20:37:14 |
| | BW: sGs.sTaRfaLL SC2: NN_Commodore | fan of: Darkforce, DBS, KrasS, Delphi, Last, BoguS | Mass BC/ Ghost ftw! | song of the week: Imagine Dragons - Radioactive |  |
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| ColdSky Finland. June 21 2012 06:32. Posts 25 | Profile # |
| I think that bo5 thing will make this tournament into a cheese & all in fest :D |
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| m0ck June 21 2012 06:35. Posts 3237 | Profile Blog # |
| I prefer round-robin personally - luck-of-the-draw is simply more important in the GSl-format and I consider that a weakness in group-play - but hats off for giving it a try. If the schedule is done correctly, I don't see any problem in doing a bo5 group, though I will agree that it can end up being some very time-consuming groups. In any case, looking forward to the tournament! |
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| RolleMcKnolle Germany. June 21 2012 06:40. Posts 720 | Profile Blog # | |
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 IMNotMvp Korea (South). June 21 2012 06:40. Posts 530 | Profile # | |
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| Hyge Finland. June 21 2012 06:41. Posts 134 | Profile # |
| Dat format and I'm gonna watch this live YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH |
| | I play 1v1 SC2 because I've heard there are people who are currently better than I - and that pisses me off. |  |
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| Tommyth Poland. June 21 2012 06:42. Posts 116 | Profile # |
| Im not sure if bo5 is good, it might be too much, but it also might encourage players to take more risk, which is always fun to watch. We'll see! |
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| Adebisi Canada. June 21 2012 06:53. Posts 1535 | Profile Blog # |
| Props to Asus ROG for talking to players and adjusting the format, looks very cool. |
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| bocca Finland. June 21 2012 06:53. Posts 8 | Profile # |
| Waiting for the caster announcement. Looking good so far though. I already have my tickets for assembly. |
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opterown  Australia. June 21 2012 06:57. Posts 27586 | Profile Blog # |
| epic!!! wow bo5 group stages wow |
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| thachosun1 United States. June 21 2012 07:17. Posts 2 | Profile # |
| YAY! this starts on my birthday :D |
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| mjava Finland. June 21 2012 08:05. Posts 69 | Profile # |
| Pretty unique style for group stages, Hope they will go as planned! Asus ROG has always been one of my favorite tourneys and this year i might be at assembly so im so exited of this!! |
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| Killmouse Austria. June 21 2012 08:08. Posts 3620 | Profile # | |
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| Sumahi Guam. June 21 2012 08:18. Posts 4930 | Profile Blog # |
| The summer of SC2 just keeps on going! Yay Assembly! |
| | Startale <3, ST_July <3, HongUn <3, Savior <3, Gretorp <3, Nada <3, Rainbow <3, Ret <3, Squirtle <3, Bomber <3 | |
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| dogmeatstew Canada. June 21 2012 08:20. Posts 493 | Profile # |
| Bo5's for group stages is going to be a ton of games... pretty excited. |
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