When: The Event will start with the beginning of Season 29.

Current Season is delayed for one month, so Season 29 thus the Ladder Stage of this Event will start at the 1st October.









Main Sponsor

SBWI The Swedish BroodWar Initiative

Non-profit Organization — Event Organizer & Sponsor

To preserve and promote BroodWar tradition

VIP Sponsor

GLINSO.EU

Global Insurance Solutions — Insurance Brokers

In Name of Rus_Brain



Additional Sponsors: Reps)Plumbum & Surf-VI



















It has almost been four years since the ICCup Brood War department featured events with monetary incentives. We experienced dire times with the downfall of our scene after the Wings of Liberty Beta, witnessed the chaos, yet survived. This should be celebrated and what better way to show the world we're still there than with a big time event?



ICCup always tried to enable its users to play and compete with the world's best, to promote Brood War and to simply offer the best place to train. We're still very much in favour of all this, hence the ICCup Ladder Main event will start with the next season in a few days. Every player can participate, if you already have an account no further registration is needed. And you don't really have to do anything out of the ordinary either, just go, play, meet new people and have fun — or train and try to achieve whatever you want to achieve.



Concept



Once the next season is over, we'll start to sort out the 1on1 ladder. The top #288 will be qualified for our $750 event — at least for the first of three stages.



The places #49 to #288 of our 1on1 ladder will be randomly put in one of our 16 Man Single Elimination Qualifiers, while the places #33 to #48 will be seeded in different tournaments. The better you score, the more advantages you'll have!



Each survivor of the Qualifiers will face one of the players ranked #17 to #32 in a best of three in the second stage: The Shoot-Outs.



Now, whoever survived the first two stages (Qualifiers & Shoot-Outs) will advance into our Ladder Main Event; a hard 32 Man Double Elimination stage. Ladder ranks #1 to #16 are obviously already seeded, the rest has to fight hard.



Prizes



The guaranteed prize pool will be at least $750 but we're still raising funds and the final pay-out structure will depend on the amount of money we have for this event and will most likely follow the distribution below:



• Rank 1 gets 40% of the prizepool

• Rank 2 gets 20% of the prizepool

• Rank 3 gets 15% of the prizepool

• Rank 4 gets 10% of the prizepool

• Rank 5 gets 5% of the prizepool

• Rank 6 gets 5% of the prizepool



Furthermore, in both cases a lottery with the remaining 5% of the prize pool will be held. Every qualified player for the Shoot-Outs is signed up for this system; however the already paid places will be ignored.



Miscellaneous Prizes



• Every player in the Shoot-Outs will be granted a month special icon

• Every player in the main event will be granted a season special icon



• The top 3 players with the most games played to qualify will get a special flag

• The top 3 players with the least games played to qualify will get a special flag



Donations



As you can see there are a lot of things every player can benefit from. It's a major Broodwar event which we doesn't see that often anymore and you can help too to make this event as great and big as just possible. Everyone has the option to make a monetary donation towards the prize pool. Any support, even $10, is highly appreciated!







Rules



There are not really new rules for this event. The ladder stage will use the official ladder rules, the tournament rules will follow our tournament set — easy as that. However, the ICCup Brood War administration reserves the right to change certain rules at any time if neccessary. Also, hackers, cheaters, bad manners and other related wrong behaviour will not be tolerated.



Participate



Obviously, this event is designed to support any active player. If you have little time, the best thing to support us is to just go on and play. If you have a bit more time, there are many ways to lend a helping hand. Make graphics, spread the word, think about donating to the pool, join the team in any position — we'll gladly help out and are happy to see any friendly face wanting to contribute in one way or another.



The first stages of the tournament will be huge and it will most likely not be possible for us to stream all games. Consequently any caster or streamer will get the opportunity to add his stream to this event, regardless of language, quality or previous experience.



Coverage







A more detailed introduction of each stage can be found on our A good event needs coverage and we'll try our best to deliver it to you. We're hoping we can write a small article each week, give you the opportunity to bet on the later stages of the event (via forum or spreadsheet) and also try to reward activity — the most active players, even if they don't qualify, will get gimmicks like fun flags.A more detailed introduction of each stage can be found on our Ladder Main Event page . Informations about Maps, Best Of, etc. and any question or concern you may have will take place in the appropiate Event Thread on our Forum. Now, go forth and play! Remember: This season's high ranks will get a bonus for the upcoming and important next season — the new old system we introduced earlier this summer.











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