Starcraft 2 Tournamnet - Galway

Columc

Hi everyone, I'm proud to announce this Starcraft 2 Live tournament in Galway during the weekend of 8th to the 9th of October.

A little background. I am 21 I use the nickname Vanyd and Toxick, and have been running various different tournaments throughout the years. I have organised fun tournaments with GalwayLAN, League games in various gaming cafes in Galway and last year I ran a LAN party in Galway under NUIG CompSoc.

You can find the Rules and Regulations here! - Here for google docs
You can find the Registration Form here!

Location
The location of the Gaming Cafè is:
Squareyes,
Kiltartan House,
Forster St.,
Galway
Tel. 00353 (0)91 500 688
Fax. 00353 (0)91 500 687


Registration Details
Registration Open: 23rd Of August
Registration Closed: 4th of October
Registration Fee: €20

For the €20 you will be entered into the Starcraft 2 tournament. This will entitle you to play only tournament games. Special rates have been applied for tournament players in Squareyes if you wish to play when you not in the tournament. This event will not be a BYOC event. You will need to play on the computers provided, but you are allowed to use your own mouse and headset. The keyboard in use will be Logitech G15 and Computer Specs can be found in the Rules and Regulations.

TournamentDetails
Dates: Friday the 8th and Saturday the 9th of October 2010
Times: Friday - Games Start at 19:00. Saturday - Games Start at 12:00
Tournament Type: Double Elimination
Matches: The First few Rounds will be a Best of 1 (Bo1) games. Quater-finals will be Best of 3 (Bo3). Semi-finals will be Best of 5 (Bo5) and the finals will be Best of 5 (Bo5)

Game Settings
Category = Melee
Mode = 1v1
Game Speed = Faster

Maps
Blistering Sands
Delta Quadrant
Desert Oasis
Kulas Ravine
Lost Temple
Metalopolis
Steppes of War
Scrap Station
Xel'Naga Caverns

Prizes
Depending on the candidate pool, there will be a minimum of the winner and 2nd place player being paid. If the candidate pool is larger, a paid prize will be offered to the 3rd and 4th place.

Administration fee and hosting fee will be included with the registration fee.

Registration

To register for this event you may:

• Email toxick@gmail.com with the registration form filled out. With subject name “Registration to Starcraft 2 tournament”. You must also agree to the Rules and Regulations by stating in the email “I <NAME> agree to the following rules and regulations to the Starcraft 2 Tournament”.
• You may also hand in the register form and a signed copy of the Rules and regulations to Squareyes on Forster Street, Galway(Forms are provided on the counter). If you register this way you have to prepay with the €20(form wont be supplied until Wednesday the 15th of August)

To prepay for the event you may:

• Transfer €20 over to toxick@gmail.com via PayPal. When filling out please supply your name, email address and your username. Please Send an email to toxick@gmail.com with subject name “Prepaid for Starcraft 2 tournament” and supply your name email address and date of transfer.
• If you cant prepay by paypal or are not in Galway city. You can also email toxick@gmail.com and we can work on another process.

You can find the Rules and Regulations here! - Here for google docs
You can find the Registration Form here!

Columc

Some More General Infromation!

You can find the Rules and Regulations here! - Here for google docs
You can find the Registration Form here!

Transport
BUS:
The new coach station is right on the doorstep, this station services all private coaches arriving into Galway City. Upon leaving the station exit right and follow the footpath for 10 meters, turn left and cross the road and squareyes is just on your left..
There are two private bus companies operating a direct coach service between Dublin Airport and Galway City. They are CityLink and GoBus. Cork and Shannon are also well served by Citylink.

Bus Eireann Station (estimated walking time of 1 minute). Upon leaving the station into Eyre Square, exit right and walk down approx 100 meters. It is on your right next to Park House Hotel and opposite Murthy Rabbits Bar and Off license. There is an hourly bus service running between Dublin Central Bus Station and Galway Bus station. Galway is well serviced
by buses all over the country; you can check timetables on www.buseireann.ie

RAIL:
There are approx 5 trains running daily between Dublin and Galway, this is the only direct train link from Galway city. While in Ireland, you check www.irishrail.ie.

AIR:
Galway Regional Airport is located 5 miles on the east side of Galway City, there is a taxi service available from outside the airport. Tel 091 755569 or check out www.galwayairport.com.

Accomindation*
Snoozle Hostels is just approx 100 meters away from Squareeyes. It is a brand new hostel just over a year old. And rooms can go as cheap as €10. http://www.snoozleshostelgalway.ie/

Gaming
Squareyes are the host of the tournament. They will offer up computers to use for the tournament itself. However if you want to play games when you are not currently in a tournament game, you will need to pay for time. They will offer special rates to tournament players at €3 an hour or a €20 all day rates. Squareyes have top end computer specs, with all new games installed on them with a easy to use game menu and a brand new save cloud so you can never lose your saved games.

Food
You can purchase food at squareyes with a wide range of variouse different snacks, including bars, drinks and packets of crisps. They also offer milkshakes, hotdogs and pizzas. Squareyes will offer some free food on the night.

There is also a wide range of other places in the surrounding area including Subway, Centra, Supermacs. You can also get bar food in Murthy Rabbits Bar across the road or go into the 4 star Park House Hotel for lunch next door.

You can find the Rules and Regulations here! - Here for google docs
You can find the Registration Form here!

Google Map of the Location can be found here!

http://maps.google.ie/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=105502468239977169772.00048e3eec43af9081591&gl=ie&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=53.274959,-9.046211&spn=0.002387,0.005112&t=h&z=18



*[/B]If wanting to purchase accomidation for the night, please emil toxick@gmail.com with subject Starcraft2 Accomidation. I will put a list of people together and contact the hostel to try and get a discounted price.

Columc

Registration emails already coming in. If it continues might need to put a cap on the entry list. Sign up now to secure a place

koHd

Good stuff man. Hope it goes well for you.

death1234567

I'd enter only I'd just get my ass handed to me.

BluE-WinG

How many entries have you received so far? Is there a list so we can see who signed up?

RoyalMarine

BluE-WinG wrote: »

How many entries have you received so far? Is there a list so we can see who signed up?

as this tournament is not organised through boards.ie, i think a list of members would not be suited to here as im quite sure the majority of members who have entered are not registered to boards, and would not like their name / battle.net id posted without their consent.

Columc

Like RMC, said, some people may have a problem with me posting users who have signed up. I can tell you that at this moment of time 10 people have paid, and are eager to play, with another 15 on top of that registering and I am still awaiting to get the money transferred to me from those 15. I will be limiting the tournament to 32 players.

And it will be a first come first server with players that pay first.

Columc

Tournamnet is still going ahead just incase anyone is doubting. There is a guarantee that firstplace will get €100. one month left, still a lot of time to practice your game.

Blood-Martyr

Only a week left now

Bump!

TheDoc

Sounds like an interesting weekend to me, unfortunately got dropped with news that I have to attend something on Saturday otherwise was seriously considering making the trip.

Columc

Hey,

Ya on this Friday, cant wait to see other SC2 players around Ireland. Had a good few interested people so far and good amount of people who have emailed me to register so hopefully on the day there will be a good numbers there. The prize pool will be good as well(not as much as ESL :P) But these competitive gaming, its not all about winning....

Hopefully this will all be a bit of banter and we can enjoy the night out in Galway as well.

Hope to see you all on friday

B00MSTICK

I'll prob pop in, I haven't logged into Battlenet since the 18th of August though so I won't be attending the actual event (too humiliating) but I'll certainly spectate for a while.

Who from here is going?

TheDoc

Will spectators be allowed?

Columc

Tournament starting tomorrow. Cant wait to see the turn out for this and the standard of play. After this tournament hopefully I'll be organizing more live tournaments throughout the next few months.

From the emails I have been getting a lot of people have generated a lot of interest in this, I know from doing various other tournaments and LAN parties you cannot depend on people being interested. A lot of times a good amount of no shows occur. Only time will tell to see how much people will attend.

TheDoc, we will not be allowing spectating for the matches, however all game will be replayed and I will upload for people the view.


Hopefully I'll be seeing some of you at the event.

Colum

Shiminay

I hope it goes well for you Colum, first of many I hope!

BlastedGlute

why the fook am I only reading about this now sickener, i wanted to go in and at least spectate some players in action. Im new to the game but getting as deep into it as I can. Any feedback on how this went

Sabre0001

Hope it went well!

Da Bounca

How did the event go?

Are there results and demos available?