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ESL TV 16 player Invite cup + premium keys
ESL TV are hosting a 16 player Invite cup with a cast of players who are well known Blizzard title stars, including Insomnia. SK Gaming is giving away some one month ESL TV premium keys.
By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Mar 16, 2010 22:32
ESL TV are hosting a 16 player Invite cup with a cast of players who are well known Blizzard title stars, including Insomnia. SK Gaming is giving away some one month ESL TV premium keys.ESL TV will be hosting a StarCraft 2 Invite cup this Friday, the 19th of March, which will be featuring 16 players. All 16 are within the top 30 of the beta ladder and are famous from a variety of other Blizzard games. Two of those players, HasuObs and Xlord, will play live from the ESL TV studio. Those players are EPS Germany champions two and three times respectively.
Also on the list are: ex-SK WC3 player Insomnia, ex-SK WoW player Orly, UK WC3 player DeMusliM, Romanian WC3 player Nightend, Dutch StarCraft player Ret who returned from South Korea recently and top Ukranian StarCraft players White-Ra and DIMAGA.
The tournament will be streamed live and the schedule for the games will be found via this page. The brackets can also be viewed.
Players invited:
Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider
Daniel "Xlord" Spenst
Silviu "Nightend" Lazar
Carl Stefan "MorroW" Andersson
Krupnyk "White-Ra" Oleksiy
Marius "Horror" Overhageböck
Ben "DeMusliM" Baker
Hayder "Haypro" Hussein
Patrick "Infernal" Möller
Mattias "Naugrim" Ottosson
Dmitriy "DIMAGA" Filipchuk
Dreivenievgen "Strelok" Kostyantinovich
Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev
Olivier "Orly" Bellemans
Victor "Nazgul" Goossens
Jos "Ret" De Kroon
Viewers, from any country, can also win some t-shirts, a StarCraft 2 poster, ESL TV premium two week keys and potentially more throughout the show via comments and emails for questions brought up during the tournament. Premium keys give users access to a high quality stream and SK Gaming have a handful of keys which will be given away to users of the website. Read the end of this post to find out how to win one.
There will also be a raffle to held live in the show to give away five StarCraft 2 beta keys. A question will be asked and the answer must be sent to gewinn@esl.eu along with the viewer's full name and battle.net account.
Source: ESL
Also on the list are: ex-SK WC3 player Insomnia, ex-SK WoW player Orly, UK WC3 player DeMusliM, Romanian WC3 player Nightend, Dutch StarCraft player Ret who returned from South Korea recently and top Ukranian StarCraft players White-Ra and DIMAGA.
The tournament will be streamed live and the schedule for the games will be found via this page. The brackets can also be viewed.
Players invited:
Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider Daniel "Xlord" Spenst Silviu "Nightend" Lazar Carl Stefan "MorroW" Andersson Krupnyk "White-Ra" Oleksiy Marius "Horror" Overhageböck Ben "DeMusliM" Baker Hayder "Haypro" Hussein Patrick "Infernal" Möller Mattias "Naugrim" Ottosson Dmitriy "DIMAGA" Filipchuk Dreivenievgen "Strelok" Kostyantinovich Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev Olivier "Orly" Bellemans Victor "Nazgul" Goossens Jos "Ret" De KroonDate: Friday 19th March
Start: 5pm CET (expected to last until 10pm)
Format: Single Elimination
Final format: Best of five
Prize money: 200 Euros for the winner (plus ESL t-shirts)
Maps:
- Blistering Sands
- Desert Oasis
- Scrap Station
- Steppes of War
- Kulas Ravine
- Lost Temple
- Metalopolis
Both players remove two maps with the top player in the bracket going first. Of the three remaining maps both players pick one map, with the top player again picking first.
Start: 5pm CET (expected to last until 10pm)
Format: Single Elimination
Final format: Best of five
Prize money: 200 Euros for the winner (plus ESL t-shirts)
Maps:
- Blistering Sands
- Desert Oasis
- Scrap Station
- Steppes of War
- Kulas Ravine
- Lost Temple
- Metalopolis
Both players remove two maps with the top player in the bracket going first. Of the three remaining maps both players pick one map, with the top player again picking first.
Viewers, from any country, can also win some t-shirts, a StarCraft 2 poster, ESL TV premium two week keys and potentially more throughout the show via comments and emails for questions brought up during the tournament. Premium keys give users access to a high quality stream and SK Gaming have a handful of keys which will be given away to users of the website. Read the end of this post to find out how to win one.
There will also be a raffle to held live in the show to give away five StarCraft 2 beta keys. A question will be asked and the answer must be sent to gewinn@esl.eu along with the viewer's full name and battle.net account.
To win an ESL TV premium key, good for one month of viewing, simply leave a comment below saying you want a key and winners will be contacted via their SK account inbox on Thursday.
Source: ESL
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i would also like a key :D
Seriously.
I want a key.
I played like 90 games (not that much compared with all the other freaks ;) and for me SC2 feels really like the new esport title. If I see all those coverage for a beta version, unbelieveable!!
Dont miss the start at 5pm tomorrow!