Starcraft II Melee Contest #1

[HINDYhat]

Starcraft II
Melee Contest #1

• Two contests will be run in parallel but separately: one for NA and one for EU.
• The contest mode is elimination, i.e. players who win advance in the bracket, and players who lose are instantly eliminated from the tournament.
• The bracket will be randomly generated.
• The semi-finals will be best-of-threes, i.e. the first player to win two matches advances from this round.
• The finals will be a best-of-five, i.e. the first player to win three matches advances and wins the tournament.
• In order to report a victory or a defeat, a replay of the game must be posted in this thread.
• Any form of cheating is prohibited, and cheaters will be disqualified.
• No handicap may be used in any match.
• Observers are allowed to spectate games. However, they must be spectators and not referees. Additionally, any communication between players and observers is strictly forbidden and will result in disqualification.
• If a player disconnects from a game within the first two minutes, the match will be replayed. Otherwise, the remaining player is given the victory.
• If you wish to participate in this contest, you must post in this thread and include the following information in your post: Your Starcraft II username, your character code, and the server on which your account is registered.
• It is up to the players to contact each other to arrange a match. If your opponent is not responding, notify the contest's host. If both players refuse to show up and give no reason for their absence, they will both be disqualified and their eventual opponent will be given a bye.
• The map pool will consist of the following maps:
  • Steppes of War
  • Blistering Sands
  • Xel'Naga Caverns
  • Desert Oasis
  • Scrap Station
  • Kulas Ravine
  • Delta Quadrant
  • Lost Temple
  • Metalopolis
  To select a map, both players must successively eliminate a map from the pool until only one remains. If a map has already been played in a best-of-five or best-of-three series, then it is eliminated from the map pool for that series.
  

• First Place: X reputation points and an award icon
  
• Second Place: Y reputation points and an award icon
  
• Third Place: Z reputation points and an award icon

• The contest shall begin on Date and conclude on Date, GMT

Participants
North America

THW Username	SC2 Username	Character Code	Server
HINDYhat	HINDYhat	433	NA
Urgloshkin	Urgloshkin	890	NA
PurplePoot	Pewt	907	NA

Europe

THW Username	SC2 Username	Character Code	Server
X-OMG-X	Scorp	960	EU
Foopad	Foopad	757	EU
Dark Hunter1357	Darkov	133	EU
Eccho	Metadrone	339	EU
Mechmap	Cryptis	820	EU
shiiK	shiiK	953	EU

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Shouldn't this be in the 'Starcraft II' Section instead of here with all the other Warcraft III stuff?

PS: Sorry, I'm just asking, I hope you won't mind...

 

[HINDYhat]

It's an arena contest so I put it in contest submission. There is no such forum in the SC2 section.

 

[X-OMG-X]

Cool. I will be in. Scorp.960 EU

 

[Foopad]

I would like to participate.
Foopad.757 EU

 

[Urgloshkin]

Count me in on this one.

Urgloshkin.890 NA

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

I want to join
Darkov.133 EU

Also this rule:
"If a player disconnects from a game within the first two minutes, the match will be replayed. Otherwise, the remaining player is given the victory."
should be changed to this:
"If a player disconnects from a game within the first two minutes, the match will be replayed. Otherwise, the remaining player is given the victory, unless both players agree that the disconnected won."

 

[HINDYhat]

If a player wins in the first two minutes, then something is terribly wrong.

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

If a player wins in the first two minutes, then something is terribly wrong.

What i mean is, if player1 is about to destroy the opponent and the opponent knows that. Then player1 gets disconnected and loses. But player2 is not an *ss and admits he was beaten.

 

[HINDYhat]

If player2 wants to surrender then he can just surrender.

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

Both players agree who wins, if they don't, a referees decides from the replay, that's how it's done. More participants pls ZZZZZ...

"Observers are allowed to spectate games. However, they must be spectators and not referees."

 

[HINDYhat]

.......

In any case, there seems to be some sort of haxx which allows you to change servers (just saw TT1 do it on his stream). So if any of you can get that working, you can participate in both EU and NA variants of the contest.

EDIT: Nevermind, seems like you still need to have purchased two copies of the game. lol

 

[Eccho]

I would not say I am great at ladder, particulary not on 1on1, but I still would attempt participating, if this gets approved at some time.

Metadrone.339 EU

And yeah, lets hope the patch on tuesday will add more support for clients.

 

[Pyritie]

I'll move this to the arena and get it started when you guys are okay with it.

 

[HINDYhat]

I might make a few more changes today and then I'll ask you to host it.

But Imtor, are you sure that your nickname is correct? I can't find you on sc2ranks (although maybe the site is bugged, I don't know). Just want to be sure that I'm not adding people who don't actually play or something.

 

[HINDYhat]

Hosting the contest in the arena and maybe having one of those silly contest announcements might attract more participants, after which the contest should begin. Dunno though.

 

[Mechmap]

Cryptis. 820. EU

Hope this thing gets going. Would be really interesting to see who will win if more people join in!

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I guess I could join in, not really a hardcore player, but I'm sure it'll be fun.
shiiK 953 EU

 

[Eccho]

Yeah but I think we should wait to post it for about 1 or 2 days. The patch is scheduled to come within 24 hours.

 

[Foopad]

Patch notes have been released and I spotted a little something something.
"Maps
Desert Oasis
Destructible Rocks have been added to make natural expansions easier to protect. "
Sounds like a "novice" map to me.
Maybe Desert Oasis should be excluded from the map pool?

 

[HINDYhat]

It's still an okay map.

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

i guess this is not progressing...

 

[HINDYhat]

Haven't had time to play recently (midterms) so I don't really want to start this right now.

 

[Pyritie]

midterms already?!

 

[HINDYhat]

i fucking know right

 

[Eccho]

I'm currently at the same situation. I wont be able to play right now and about 3 weeks onward either.

 

[The World Is Flat]

I'll join, but anyone better than gold will pwn the fok outta me.

TWIF.122 NA

 

[Raven0]

I would participate in this.

I would lose, but it'd be fun imo

 

[Freyleyes]

I am in.

Xiliger - 491 EU

 

[Eccho]

If I am still entering, change my name:

Mexaprone.503

 

[The World Is Flat]

I now have an EU account aswell...

WorldCraft.953

 

[Deolrin]

If this still has a chance of happening, I'm in.

Deolrin \ 145 \ EU

 

[The World Is Flat]

ok...

TWIF.122 NA
Worldcraft.953 (Frozen) EU
DiGITAL.642 EU

 

[The World Is Flat]

Trust me, If it didn't feel like a neccesity, i wouldent have.

But yes, Finiances aren't much of an issue when you work your ass off most days.

 

[Gausslander]

I will definitely participate. I'm in North America, my username is Gauss and my character code is 510. I'm gold league and play a s*** ton of 1v1.