[HotS] 1000€ GIGABYTE NVIDIA Invitational #5

GIGABYTE and NVIDIA eagerly announce the GIGABYTE NVIDIA Invitational #5 by myStarCraft.de with some of the finest gamers of StarCraft II from Europe and Korea. Within two days, eight top-notch professionals will compete in a Best-of-Five Single Elimination bracket for 1,000 EUR in total prize money. Cheer for your favorite player and enjoy the action packed and thrilling battles on this week's Tuesday and Wednesday!

Hearth of the Swarm edition

Tournament website
http://gigabyte.mystarcraft.de

Livestreams

Quick Facts

1000 Euro prize money pool
- 1st place: 500 Euro
- 2nd place: 300 Euro
- 3rd place: 200 Euro
8 invited players
Single Elimination bracket
2 days of competition (September 25 & 26)
all games Bo5 (HotS Beta Server)

Mappool

Akilon Wastes
Fractured Glacier
Howling Peaks
Korhal City
Star Station

Schedule
Tuesday, September 25th 2012

1700 CEST[local] Ro8 #1: Welmu vs. HyuN
1815 CEST Ro8 #3: inori vs. Beastyqt
1930 CEST Ro8 #2: Tarrantius vs. MorroW
2045 CEST Ro8 #4: Delphi vs. Kas

Wednesday, September 26th 2012

1700 CEST Ro4 #1: HyuN vs. Tarrantius
1815 CEST Ro4 #2: inori vs. Kas
1930 CEST bronze final: Tarrantius vs. inori
2045 CEST grand final: HyuN vs. Kas

Tarrantius
(P)

Kas

+ Show Spoiler [Quarter final] +

Semi final
HyuN 3:2 (P)

Tarrantius
< Akilon Wastes >
< Star Station >
< Fractured Glacier >
< Korhal Station >
< Howling Peaks >

(P)

inori 1:3 Kas
< Akilon Wastes >
< Fractured Glacier >
< Korhal Station >
< Star Station >

Bronze final
inori 3:1 (P)

Tarrantius
< Star Station >
< Akilon Wastes >
< Korhal City >
< Howling Peaks >

Final
HyuN 3:0 (T)

Kas
< defwin >

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Last edit: 2012-09-27 03:33:08

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MCDayC United Kingdom. September 25 2012 04:25. Posts 11820

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should be a cool tournament ^^

Last edit: 2012-09-25 04:26:24

VERY FRAGILE, LIKE A BABY PANDA EGG

AlternativeEgo Sweden. September 25 2012 18:54. Posts 7889

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Hyun? Well there went all the excitement.

And Morrow will probably be terran all the way.

Mark Munoz looks like Gretorp

Noam Israel. September 25 2012 20:45. Posts 1588

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This is quite a large prizepool for a HotS beta tournament.
I can totally understand why all the medium-sized tournament organizers are trying to innovate and use HotS before the beta is over, but imo it is still a bit early, the beta is barely a month old.

Regardless, its great to see these tournaments continue. The stability and continuity by GIGABYTE the sponsor and the organizers from mystarcraft.de is spectacular.

pluu.mooh Austria. September 25 2012 20:57. Posts 125

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and again the community is out beforehand due to invites. even if hots is a "new" game.. I don't understand why there is no real tournament with real money..

X3GoldDot Malaysia. September 25 2012 21:01. Posts 3840

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On September 25 2012 20:57 pluu.mooh wrote:
and again the community is out beforehand due to invites. even if hots is a "new" game.. I don't understand why there is no real tournament with real money..

theres a prize pool............

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pmp10 September 25 2012 21:38. Posts 1395

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I hope this time invited players are actually familiar with the latest HotS version.
Would be ashame to see someone trying to build warhounds.

garlicface Canada. September 25 2012 21:50. Posts 3676

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I can't even understand the point you're trying to get across. Do you mean no "real tournament" as in no Blizzard-sponsored tournament?

#TeamBuLba

ZeRoX-45 Serbia. September 25 2012 23:08. Posts 801

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Gogo Beasty !

pluu.mooh Austria. September 25 2012 23:13. Posts 125

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On September 25 2012 21:50 garlicface wrote:

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I can't even understand the point you're trying to get across. Do you mean no "real tournament" as in no Blizzard-sponsored tournament?

sry truely bad english there!! This is just something that bothers me all the time. Invites are killing this "esport". I just don't get it why people do invite only tournaments at the very beginning of a "nearly" new game. For real, who knows how good they are really? Don't you think there are already other players out there that got a good idea bout hots? That's what I intentially wanted to say. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Kenpark Germany. September 25 2012 23:23. Posts 488

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Well it takes time and effort to run qualifiers esp over multiple servers. I think this is a great little tourny and I will def tune in. Whoever wondered who Tarrantius is I just looked him up. He is a german player from Alien Invasion and he took down a tourny last month beating Daisy, Bly and Strelok on his way.

renkin France. September 26 2012 00:08. Posts 168

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On September 25 2012 23:13 pluu.mooh wrote:

sry truely bad english there!! This is just something that bothers me all the time. Invites are killing this "esport". I just don't get it why people do invite only tournaments at the very beginning of a "nearly" new game. For real, who knows how good they are really? Don't you think there are already other players out there that got a good idea bout hots? That's what I intentially wanted to say. Sorry for misunderstanding.

If a game needs balancing by high level players then the best environment to do it are tourneys, especially ones with a prize pool. It doesn't really matters if they are fun to watch because they are helping the game in the end. The more tourney we get now, the less GSL and MLG it will take for Blizzard to realize something is wrong.

There wasn't any of those mini-tourneys or invites in the WoL beta. The only "serious" tourneys we had were near the end...
I don't know whether we had more tourneys at that time WoL would have been better, but if HotS beta is as long as the WoL one with the current environement, the should be way more refined than WoL on release.

brokenLoL United Kingdom. September 26 2012 00:24. Posts 418

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If this is online Hyun wins. No stopping that guy.

Save me from myself

NeonFox September 26 2012 00:34. Posts 2355

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I'm getting some heavy lag (only video, audio is fine) on Khaldor's stream other streams are fine.

Edit : Weirdly the lag is less severe on max quality but it's still pretty bad :/

Last edit: 2012-09-26 00:36:21

AlternativeEgo Sweden. September 26 2012 00:35. Posts 7889

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On September 26 2012 00:08 renkin wrote:

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That's true. Although the last hots tournament I watch some of the players hadn't even installed the game, and no one really used the new units. :D

We'll get there. ^^

Mark Munoz looks like Gretorp

[F4U]Ursadon Germany. September 26 2012 00:35. Posts 40

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replays are available in the first post

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red4ce United States. September 26 2012 00:43. Posts 7301

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Khaldor is such a beast casting this right after getting back from code A.

With different expansions on the horizon where do you see yourself in 1-2 years? Flash: I'll be the best in every possible aspect in the game ^^ - Oct 26, 2012