The tournament is set to take place on March 27th at 4PM CET/11AM EST and boasts a prize pool of $500 USD. First place will earn himself $300, while second and third place will win $150 and $50 respectively. The $500 prize pool puts the invitational as the second highest prize pool given out by any single tournament thus far in the StarCraft 2 Beta. The only other tournament beating it by over double the amount is the 'Hello, Goodbye Tournament' which is organized by a TL.net member.
The format of the tournament has yet to be announced but previous invitiationals hosted by TeamLiquid have been organized via a group stage and a bracket stage. However the tournament has been advertised with no loser brackets and a single day of straight gaming. A group stage would no doubt prolong the tournament, but would make for a more exciting process.
TeamLiquid.net SC2 Invitational #1 | |
Player | Race |
Benjamin "Demuslim" Baker Stefan "MorroW" Andersson Eugin "Strelok" Oparyshev Pavel "Brat_OK" Kuznetsov Zdravko "Insomnia (Omnisain)" Geogiev Jonathan "FrozenArbiter" Walsh | Terran |
Joseph "ret" de Kroon Ian "Zion" Gryncewicz Marius "HoRRoR" Overhageböck Mattias "Naugrim" Ottosson Hayder "HayprO" Hussein | Zerg |
Victor "Liquid'Nazgul" Goossens Oleksiy "White-Ra" Krupnyk Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider Lazar "Nightend" Silviu | Protoss |
Dario "TheLittleOne" Wünsch | Random |
Casting for the invitational will also be done by Sean "Day[9]" Plott who has been casting for a lot of StarCraft 2 matches since the beginning of the beta. A US server tournament is also in the plans for TeamLiquid.
Links
TeamLiquid.net - Source