Pandepic Profile Joined February 2011 Australia 176 Posts Last Edited: 2011-04-16 17:23:36 #1



On Saturday April 16th I will be running a tournament for diamond league players that dream of free coaching by a high level player.



The prize for first place in this tournament will be free lessons from ROOTDestiny, right now it's going to be three free lessons and that is not likely to change, but I will confirm the number of lessons after the sign up stage is over, the number of lessons could possibly be increased (they wont be decreased). The prize for second and third place is not going to be announced yet (I'm still working some things out with it), but it will also be something focused around helping you to improve as a player. I'll get that information out as soon as possible.



The purpose of this tournament is to give the diamond league players that are serious about improving a chance to get some advice and coaching that could help them move up into master league, or help them to focus on the parts of their play that are really holding them back.



The tournament format will be decided based on how many people sign up, but the maps will be chosen from the North American server ladder pool. The format will almost definitely be best of one until the round of 16.



Tournament Rules:

Players must be available to report for all matches, if there is a delay longer than 10 minutes without permission from an admin the player could be disqualified from the tournament. If you need a break for any reason you must ask permission from one of the tournament admins.



Players must be respectful in their matches, this means if you are really verbally abusive in your games, you might be disqualified from the tournament. This doesn't mean that you can't have some fun and joke around with your opponents, but if somebody asks you to stop then you must stop, and there must be no use of truly offensive language.



Both players from every match must report the results and also upload the replay file, any disputes over the results of a game must be resolved by a tournament admin.



If a player disconnects from the game anytime before 10 minutes, and the game was judged to be even by an admin (or their opponent), they will be allowed to re play the game. Any disconnects after 10 minutes will result in a game loss for the played that disconnected.



Only those people on the tournament admins and VIPs list are allowed to observe tournament games.



How to sign-up:

You must be a diamond league player on the North America server, and you must make a sign up post in this thread before April 11th, on the 12th I will edit this post to reflect the format information, the brackets and the confirmed prize details (almost definitely wont change).



Sign-up Link: http://challonge.com/tournament/signup/memspmf8mx



Go to the sign-up link and add yourself to the tournament in the format of Character Name.Character Code (Name.123), then come to this thread and post the same thing , also post your season 1 diamond league Elo rating (ladder points). If you were not diamond league before the ladder reset, post your new Elo rating.



There is a limit of 256 participants for this tournament.



Community casters:

This tournament will be casted by the Gosu Crew from the Justin.tv invitational tournaments, and by Benji from the SEA tournament scene.



On Saturday April 16th I will be running a tournament for diamond league players that dream of free coaching by a high level player.The prize for first place in this tournament will be free lessons from ROOTDestiny, right now it's going to be three free lessons and that is not likely to change, but I will confirm the number of lessons after the sign up stage is over, the number of lessons could possibly be increased (they wont be decreased). The prize for second and third place is not going to be announced yet (I'm still working some things out with it), but it will also be something focused around helping you to improve as a player. I'll get that information out as soon as possible.The purpose of this tournament is to give the diamond league players that are serious about improving a chance to get some advice and coaching that could help them move up into master league, or help them to focus on the parts of their play that are really holding them back.The tournament format will be decided based on how many people sign up, but the maps will be chosen from the North American server ladder pool. The format will almost definitely be best of one until the round of 16.Players must be available to report for all matches, if there is a delay longer than 10 minutes without permission from an admin the player could be disqualified from the tournament. If you need a break for any reason you must ask permission from one of the tournament admins.Players must be respectful in their matches, this means if you are really verbally abusive in your games, you might be disqualified from the tournament. This doesn't mean that you can't have some fun and joke around with your opponents, but if somebody asks you to stop then you must stop, and there must be no use of truly offensive language.Both players from every match must report the results and also upload the replay file, any disputes over the results of a game must be resolved by a tournament admin.If a player disconnects from the game anytime before 10 minutes, and the game was judged to be even by an admin (or their opponent), they will be allowed to re play the game. Any disconnects after 10 minutes will result in a game loss for the played that disconnected.Only those people on the tournament admins and VIPs list are allowed to observe tournament games.You must be a diamond league player on the North America server, and you must make a sign up post in this thread before April 11th, on the 12th I will edit this post to reflect the format information, the brackets and the confirmed prize details (almost definitely wont change).in the format of Character Name.Character Code (Name.123),, also post your season 1 diamond league Elo rating (ladder points). If you were not diamond league before the ladder reset, post your new Elo rating.There is a limit of 256 participants for this tournament.This tournament will be casted by the Gosu Crew from the Justin.tv invitational tournaments, and by Benji from the SEA tournament scene. On April 17 2011 01:26 Pandepic wrote:

If anybody is trying to check in and the chat room is full, go to "learnwithdestiny2" or "learnwithdestiny3", I've created those as back up channels.



Check-in and starting time:

The check-in time will be from 9:30am until 10:30am PST, the tournament will then start at 11:30am PST.



To check-in for the tournament and talk to tournament admins, you will need to join the US starcraft 2 server chat channel called "learnwithdestiny". I'm going to be in that chat channel anytime I'm home from now until the tournament as well in case anybody wants to talk to me about anything tournament related.



Tournament format:

The tournament is going to be single elimination best of 1 until round 5, where all sets will be best of 3.



In the best of 3 sets, each player will be allowed to veto 2 maps from the pool that they don't want to play on, they will do this before the start of the first game. This leaves a remaining 3 possible maps to be played in the set.



To choose the first game from a best of 3, each player will strike one map from the remaining maps, this will leave one map to be played as the first game.



In games 2 and 3, the loser of the previous game will choose the next map to be played. Each map may only be played once in the set unless both players agree to play again on a map that has already been used.



Bracket Link: http://challonge.com/lwds1



Tournament Admins and VIPs:

All tournament admins and VIPs must be granted access to observe any tournament game on request. If you have a good reason for really not wanting to be live casted, you can let one of the casters know, but this is the only exception. All best of 3 games will however be required to accept casters.



-Pandepic (DreadCapnPan)

-Sunman

-Hate

-Rakura

-nGenBenji

-KiwiExiLe



Map pool:

Scrap Station

Xel'Naga Caverns

Backwater Gultch

MLG Metalopolis

Shakuras Plateau

Tal'darim Altar LE

The Shattered Temple



Answered questions:

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On March 30 2011 15:27 Pandepic wrote:

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On March 30 2011 15:24 Open_ wrote:

Chocobo.464



ELO S 1 : 960



If I were to get promoted to Masters after this post, do I get DQ ?



If you know you're very close to masters and will be there before the end of the sign up stage I would recommend not joining the tournament, but I wont DQ anybody unless it's obvious to me that they are either smurfing to join the tournament or they go quickly into masters before I make the brackets with a really high win rate (obviously much better than diamond league).



The purpose of this tournament is to help people who want to bridge the gap into master league, so don't sign up if you don't need help with this and you can get there now anyway. I will host another tournament after this one for master league players involving free coaching if this one goes well. If you know you're very close to masters and will be there before the end of the sign up stage I would recommend not joining the tournament, but I wont DQ anybody unless it's obvious to me that they are either smurfing to join the tournament or they go quickly into masters before I make the brackets with a really high win rate (obviously much better than diamond league).The purpose of this tournament is to help people who want to bridge the gap into master league, so don't sign up if you don't need help with this and you can get there now anyway. I will host another tournament after this one for master league players involving free coaching if this one goes well.



On March 31 2011 05:01 Pandepic wrote:

So I've spoken to Destiny and he says that he can coach the tournament winner regardless of their race, just for anybody who was wanting to confirm that.



On March 30 2011 15:16 Pandepic wrote:

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On March 30 2011 15:10 Jotoco wrote:

On March 30 2011 14:42 iNcontroL wrote:

awesome tourney dude! GL to the players <3



I don't think you qualify, Geof. Even though I *know* you're dying to have lessons with Destiny.



I can't too, because I play on LA servers.... can't I have a guest account just for the tournament? I don't think you qualify, Geof. Even though I *know* you're dying to have lessons with Destiny.I can't too, because I play on LA servers.... can't I have a guest account just for the tournament?



Sorry, this tournament is only for diamond league players on the NA server, but if this goes well I will definitely think about doing the same thing for other servers =) Sorry, this tournament is only for diamond league players on the NA server, but if this goes well I will definitely think about doing the same thing for other servers =)







The check-in time will be from 9:30am until 10:30am PST, the tournament will then start at 11:30am PST.I'm going to be in that chat channel anytime I'm home from now until the tournament as well in case anybody wants to talk to me about anything tournament related.The tournament is going to be single elimination best of 1 until round 5, where all sets will be best of 3.In the best of 3 sets, each player will be allowed to veto 2 maps from the pool that they don't want to play on, they will do this before the start of the first game. This leaves a remaining 3 possible maps to be played in the set.To choose the first game from a best of 3, each player will strike one map from the remaining maps, this will leave one map to be played as the first game.In games 2 and 3, the loser of the previous game will choose the next map to be played. Each map may only be played once in the set unless both players agree to play again on a map that has already been used.All tournament admins and VIPs must be granted access to observe any tournament game on request. If you have a good reason for really not wanting to be live casted, you can let one of the casters know, but this is the only exception. All best of 3 games will however be required to accept casters.-Pandepic (DreadCapnPan)-Sunman-Hate-Rakura-nGenBenji-KiwiExiLeScrap StationXel'Naga CavernsBackwater GultchMLG MetalopolisShakuras PlateauTal'darim Altar LEThe Shattered Temple On March 30 2011 16:32 Pandepic wrote:

There have been some people registering on the Challonge website without posting their ladder rating from season 1 in this thread, those people will be removed from the tournament list when it starts to max out to make room for players that follow the sign up process fully, so make sure you all post in the thread with your details as well as signing up on the website.



On March 30 2011 19:38 Pandepic wrote:

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On March 30 2011 19:36 FragtaLe wrote:

Fragtale.326

2800



Again all of you guys that are posting details here but not signing up on the website, you need to follow the Challonge.com link in the first post to add yourself to the player list, or you wont be included in the brackets. Again all of you guys that are posting details here but not signing up on the website, you need to follow the Challonge.com link in the first post to add yourself to the player list, or you wont be included in the brackets.