FilthyRake is hosting a tournament for PSISTORM Gaming! For updates to this and rule changes, check out the TeamLiquid thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-tournaments/501771-filthy-na-cup-weekly
This is a $100 prize pool weekly online tournament, open to all North American players (but only NA players). Every 4th weekly tournament will be open to ALL players globally. First place every week will receive $75, with $25 going to second place. There will also be OSC points awarded for the top 16 finishers.
The very first of these cups will be held:
Saturday, Jan 23 3:00pm EST (GMT-05:00)
Registration Link
If this goes well, I may hold larger cups less often as well (monthly? quarterly? tbd).
Streams:
[image loading] filthyrake (English)
Casters:
DrennoC
and
Draven
are confirmed as casters, with other casters still TBD – if you’re interested in casting any of these, hit me up! I would expect a rotation of casters each week, but everything will be streamed on the above channel.
Observers and Admins:
If you want to volunteer to act as an observer or an admin, please let me know.
Where:
The chat channel is FilthyNACup.
All games must be played on the NA Ladder.
Define NA Players:
Citizens of North American countries. No VISA or Green Card holders. In cases of question/debate, this will be left to the discretion of the admins. In future cups this may be expanded to allow Permanent Residents. Every 4th event will be open to all players, globally. The first such Open event will be Feb 13th, 2016.
Format:
The format is bo3 for every round until finals.
The finals are a Bo5.
Single Elimination.
Maps:
Map pool is current blizzard ladder maps:
Dusk Towers
Orbital Shipyard
Prion Terraces
Ulrena
Central Protocol
Lerilak Crest
Ruins of Seras
Vetoes
Vetoes work as below:
If your name is higher on the bracket you decide if you are A or B.
Player A Veto
Player B Veto
Player A Veto
Player B Veto
Player A picks map 1
Player B picks map 2
Last map remaining is map 3.
Vetoes for finals work the same, but with only 1 veto each instead of 2.
Results:
Players are expected to report their own match results on challonge. Players also must submit replays of their matches via challonge.
Prizing:
1st: $75 and 120 OSC points
2nd: $25 and 60 OSC points
3rd + 4th: 30 OSC points each
5-8th: 10 OSC points each
9-16th: 5 OSC points each
OSC:
I am super excited to announce that we’re partnering up with OSC to offer OSC points and other awesome incentives for participating in the Filthy NA Cup Weekly!
NA + L.Am players gain 2.5 bonus Participation points, which counts towards $1200 Participation Competition.
ANZ + SEA players gain 2.5 bonus Participation points, which counts towards $1000 Participation Competition.
Plus there are $ Bounties for NA + SEA Players
