We're back for the next instalment in our monthly tournament, this time on the 13th of January, starting at 14:00 GMT.
(NB: This tournament is a Wings of Liberty single elimination tournament open to UK players only on the EU server. To clarify, you must be residing mainly in the UK to play, nation of birth isn't a problem, so long as you live here.)
Max of 32 players, starting maps indicated below, and in the case of Bo3 or more it becomes loser picks.
Round of 32: Bo1 on Cloud Kingdom
Round of 16: Bo3 starting on Daybreak
Round of 8 (Quarters): Bo3 starting on Ohana
Round of 4 (Semis): Bo3 starting on Antiga Shipyard
3rd place match: Bo3 starting on Entombed Valley
1st place match: Bo5 starting on Entombed Valley
Map Pool (Preferred map version is WCS):
Atlantis Spaceship
Antiga Shipyard
Cloud Kingdom
Daybreak
Entombed Valley
Metropolis
Ohana
Whirlwind
Abyssal City
Your admin for this tournament is Patrick Carter, add him in-game at Patters.809. Chat channel for this tournament will be 'voctergaming' (Please note the spelling, had a few people sat in vectorgaming last time).
Prize pool is a total of £40 (sponsored by the wonderful Andy Lochtie of 3v3 Production & MancBarcraft) to be split as follows:
3rd - £5
2nd - £10
1st - £25
(All prizes will be paid via PayPal within 24 hours of the end of the tournament. Be sure to contact Patters in-game to inform him of your PayPal address upon placing in one of the top three spots, these will be passed on to me.
Top three seeds will be given to the previous top three placings from the previous tournament; these being RobbyG, Barbaric & Rotcod (should they choose to attend). All other seedings will be done based solely on league, ignoring ranking and points.
Sign-ups (and tournament bracket/info) available through BinaryBeast at http://binarybeast.com/xSC21301074
People are welcome to stream their own games and we have TWO official livestreams for the tournament:
I will be streaming some commentary over at www.twitch.tv/voctergaming
Madals & Pughy will be doing professional level commentary over at http://www.twitch.tv/gamesocialtv (Thanks to Nick Baker for setting that one up).