StarCraft II: THOR Open 2012 tournament announced

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By Tobias 'noxilicious' .

Sep 27, 2012 23:56

Today fragbite.se, a well known homepage for Counter Strike news mostly, has announced a major tournament in seven games. In a course of two months qualifiers and finals will be played.

With several huge eSports titles like CS:GO, Dota 2, League of Legends, Battlefield 3, Starcraft II and some more, the hosts of the THOR Open promise quite a lot of action for two months. Players from all around the world will fight for price pool of 600.000 SEK (~ $ 80.000) in total. Starcraft II will have a prize pool of 150 000 SEK (~ $ 21.700).

There will be eight qualifiers, with six online and two offline, in which only the winner of each qualifier will advance. The top eight players will be playing the grand finals on December 8-9.

Tournament and qualification schedule

October 7th: Qualification #1 - Online
October 14th: Qualification #2 - Online
October 21st: Qualification #3 - Online
October 28th: Qualification #4 - Online

November 1st - 4th: Qualification #5 - Offline in Kista, during GameX
November 18th: Qualification #6 - Online
November 22nd - 25th: Qualification #7 - Offline in Jönköping, during DreamHack Winter

December 2nd: Qualification #8 - Online
December 8th - 9th: grand finals

If you want to take part in the THOR Open 2012 you might want to talk with one of the admins:

Contact info: Starcraft II
Admins: (#Fragbite.sc2 On Quakenet)
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Source: Fragbite.se