SearchGosuGamers and SteelSeries present HoN World Cup with $40,000 prize
Posted by Patrik "Raistlin" Hellstrand 2 years ago
In celebration of the launch of Heroes of Newerth and the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup, SteelSeries and GosuGamers are proud to present the SteelSeries HoN World Cup.
As players of national football teams around the world prepare for the premier competition in their sport, you can prepare for and take part in the premier competition of our very own eSport. The SteelSeries HoN World Cup boasts a whopping $40,000 prize pool, and offers chances to win cold hard cash for top competitive players, casual gamers, replay enthusiasts, and soccer fanatics alike.
No World Cup would be complete without spectacular coverage and commentary. So, in addition to the exciting launch of our HoN section on GosuGamers, we can announce that the one and only Toby "TobiWanKenobi" Dawson will be partnering up with Honcast.com as a guest on the live shoutcasts of the tournament’s most anticipated matches!Each week Honcast will be taking votes from the GosuGamers community on the most popular match to shoutcast from a selection of that week’s most anticipated matches. Now without further ado, here are the details of the SteelSeries HoN World Cup.
HoN World Cup Format
Qualification
GosuGamers will be holding qualifiers for each of the 5 main regions:
- Southeast Asia Qualifier *
- Eastern European Qualifier
- Western Europe & Africa Qualifier
- North & South America Qualifier
- Asia, Oceania & Mixed Qualifier
* = Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines through Garena
Tournament registration will begin on May 19th and close on June 1st so don’t be late in registering!
Registration for the Southeast Asia Qualifier will be on a first-come, first-serve basis with a maximum of 128 teams composed of 5 members each. We will be receiving and distributing Closed Beta keys from Garena to those 128 teams so they can compete in the tournament once registration closes.
A select number of top teams from each qualifier tournament will be admitted to the Group Stage of 64. Each region’s number of qualification slots will depend on the proportion of registered teams that belong to that region and will be determined once registration ends, so help make sure that your region is well-represented to get the maximum amount of qualification slots!
Group stage
The 64 qualified teams will battle it out “World Cup-style” in 16 groups of 4 teams with a Bo1 format, and the top 2 teams of each group will advance to the next phase, the playoffs!
Playoffs
A bracket featuring the remaining 32 teams will give us the thrills, excitement and drama that only elimination playoffs can provide, and through the chaos we will crown the HoN World Cup Champions! The playoffs will be played in a double-elimination tournament bracket. Best of three (Bo3) for all rounds in the Winner Bracket, while the first two rounds of the Loser Bracket will be best of one (Bo1). All the rounds thereafter are best of tree (Bo3). The Grand Final is played best of five (Bo5) with the winning team starts up 1-0.
* = (Choice of Headset, Keyboard, Mouse and Mousepad)
5 SteelSeries Siberia v2 Headsets for each regional qualifiers winners will be handed out.
Some of you will realize that the total prizes outlined above fall just short of $40,000. Don’t worry, you will not be short-changed! In addition to the run-of-the-mill prizes awarded to the tournament’s standout performers, we will be awarding cash prizes to the winners of three fun side competitions!
SteelSeries Mousepad Design Contest
In addition to the upcoming announcement of their HoN-themed product line, SteelSeries will be offering GosuGamers members the chance to immortalize themselves on one of their custom HoN QCK mousepads. Registered members of the GosuGamers community will be able to submit their HoN concept artwork to SteelSeries and one lucky person’s fan art will be chosen! Full contest details will be announced soon on http://www.facebook.com/SteelSeries so become a fan and don’t miss out on this one time rare opportunity!
World Cup Pick'emWe know a lot of you are excited about the upcoming World Cup in South Africa, and there’s nothing more fun than supporting your nation or favorite team by picking it to win it all. Each participating team in the HoN World Cup will be asked to pick the nation that they think will win the 2010 FIFA World Cup this summer upon registration. The teams which correctly pick the World Cup Champions will automatically be entered into a random lottery in which one lucky team will win $1000!
2 additional community contests with prizes will be announced in the next few weeks, so stay tuned to GosuGamers.net for more information on upcoming events!
Tournament rules
A detailed list of the tournament rules and complete registration instructions will be announced in the next few days!
With 64 paying placements and ways for even the spectators and football hooligans to net some prizes, the SteelSeries HoN World Cup is certain to be a fun, memorable, and profitable celebration of the launch of Heroes of Newerth and this summer’s World Cup. So team up with your friends, prepare for the imminent Pandamonium, and follow the event on our new Heroes of Newerth section to find out which teams can bend it like Ophelia!
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| Sorry, but HoN has IceFrog in-game. You can see him in Jungle or Kongor (Roshan) zone Copyright or Tribute??? |
| yeh hes between the trees above kong |
| Icefrog gets a slight percent so he doesnt gives a fuck about ur drama dumbos. Oh hi stupids ! |
| for your information ;[ icefrog stole almost all item names from blizz games and some of hero names |
| #298 "he said he was okay with having a DotA clone" err, srry pete, but i'm pretty sure that's a permission.... "-hey sweet girl, can i rub your pussy? -okay" -> that's a permission... |
| But they asked if they could stare at the sweet girl's pussy and then just rubbed her pussy. :P |
| hunter_ is gone http://www.mymym.com/en/news/18570.ht ml |
| damn! |
Im very very excited!  |
| #279 Yeah, they were lies obviously. Mymym confirmed it too. |
| how do we registrate |
| exactly where can we registrate??? pls link or something :/ |
how do i register?   |
| i want to register >_< im waiting for for Link. |
| how do i register? |
schila Wrote: #48 Originally it aint Icefrogs map, originally dota is based on other aos maps, originally its blizzard who owns everything regarding wc3, this is a map cant really patent it. And then you really dont have a clue, you have NO fucking idea if icefrog didnt gave permission, if he was pissed he would probably say something. He havnt and S2 said that they got his permission, so unless you give me decent proof or a statement from IceFrog that he didnt give it, you can go stick all your conspiracy crap up a certain place. Pretty much everything you wrote is atleast factoidal. The principle of AoS (Aoen of Strifes) was first created in starcraft and Eul made a map in RoC out of it. He took the idea of creeps running different routes to destroy the enemy base and nothing else. He didn't copy any mapdesign or creepstrength. It`s like saying: All MMORPG´s are based on the first RPG which literally makes not sense... And yes Icefrog holds every right concerning DotA which was even stated from Blizzard itself (you should be able to find it in the blizzard forum). Icefrog himself said (in his Blog?) that he gave S2 the permission the create a game heavily based on DotA and saying that it is always good to have more than one game in a genre for the competition. But this doesn't cloak the fact that S2 tries to leech players from DotA´s own community with pure money ... pretty two-faced |
| yay, HON FTW!!! GL EVERYONE |
| Registration open for one Day already. At least 30 teams signed! What a huge success :) Why announce a huge tournament if u can barely fill the spots?... |
| Where do I register..? |
| @honsucks i pity you man. get a life. This tournament is legit and it will be awesome. Prices are great too. I will congratulate HoN in advance for this successful tourney. There are gaming gears prices right? I found this awesome gaming gear for playing HoN too. Check this out: http://www.razerzone.com/getimba-share-n-win/ucvfdj4 |
| i thought the dedline of registration is june 8th? T_T |
| when to the matches start? |
| why is US servers in west europe? |
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