MVP and mOOnGLaDe to play in first round. Photo by: SC2.com.cn, GosuGamers.net
Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski, Nick "Tasteless" Plott, Sean "Day[9]" Plott and JP "itsmeJP" McDaniel will be the hosts of the nearing Global Battle.net Invitational at BlizzCon 2011 this weekend.
High class competition and cutting edge strategies await as top tier players from all over the world have been invited based on their performance in previous tournaments.
The 16 players will attempt to go through a double elimination bracket to grab the first place prize of $50,000 USD. Second place will fly home with $25,000 USD and third place with $10,000.
The map pool will feature the newly introduced ladder map Abyssal Caverns. The 2011 Global Battle.net Invitational will be the first major tournament where players will duke it out on the Lunar tileset four-player map. The other maps in the pool include Xel'Naga Caverns, Shakuras Plateau, The Shattered Temple, Antiga Shipyard and Abyssal Caverns.
The tournament kicks off at 21:00 CET on Friday, October 21 with the grand final scheduled at 01:00 CET on Sunday, October 23.
Invited players
Kyeonghyun "SeleCT" Ryoo
Shawn "Sheth" Simon 
Jos "Ret" de Kroon
Johan "NaNiwa" Lucchesi 
Dmytro "DIMAGA" Filipchuk 
Pavel "Brat_OK" Kuznetcov 
Juan "Terran" Tena 
Felipe "KiLLeR" Zúñiga 
Jaeduk "NesTea" Lim Jonghyun "Mvp" Jung 
Yang "Sen" Chia Cheng Lui "Nifi" Yi-Ting 
Andrew "mOOnGLaDe" Pender 
Thomas "Jazbas" Cho 
Dai "Loner" Yi Huang "ToodMing" Huiming | Global Battle.net Invitational Round 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NesTea | vs. | Brat_OK | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loner | vs. | Sheth | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sen | vs. | JazBas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Terran | vs. | NaNiwa | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ret | vs. | ToodMing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| mOOnGLaDe | vs. | Mvp | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| DIMAGA | vs. | KiLLeR | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| SeleCT | vs. | Nifi | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Links
Battle.net - Source
Battle.net - Source
