The Official Announcement

[miles]

Posted on TL Here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=207920

I'll post a copy of the flyer of which i just finished too, I would
encourage everyone to tell all of your friends now that its offical.
Also feel free to hand out flyers at your school/college/work.

here is the text format announcement on team liquid:

I would like to welcome all gamers to come to the first event hosted
by our group. Hopefully the first of many:

Twin Cites Open Starcraft 2 Tournament
12pm-12am (CST)
Saturday April 9th @ Lan World Gaming

2645 White Bear Ave N # 3
Saint Paul, MN 55109-1317
lanworldgaming.com
Google Map

*You will need to sign up by 12pm on location the day of the event.
Registration is 10$*

We will be having over 150$ in prizes with possible additional prizes
and a raffle at the end. (the more people that come the larger prize
pool we can get!)
Also we will be having free pizza too so it will be a great day for
starcraft, friends, food, and fun.

Routinetrafficstop, Siraz, and MikeyR will be casting and we will also
give a few up start casters a chance to call a few matches (after all
we will have 10+ hours of live casting)
We will be streaming the tournament live on SirazTV
We will be casting from the start (near noon) to the end of the day
(near midnight)

We encourage participants to bring their own computers, however we
will rent 2 computers on location for some players that had mentioned
they were flying in, or driving long distances can use them. We can
rent additional computers on location for the whole day for 20$ so if
you don't want to bring your computer you can rent one for the day
with 8 being the total available. You also can bring your own
peripherals too for the rented computers. PM me if you have any
questions.

The map pool will include some of the old some of the new and a few
GSL maps: Xel'Naga Caverns, Shakuras Plateau, Metalopolis, The
Shattered Temple, Backwater Gulch, Typhon Peaks, Terminous RE,
Crevasse, and Tal'Darim Altar.

The player has the choice to exclude 2 maps to from the pool for their
duration of the tournament.

Format will be group stage round robin for the first round (top two
players advance to winners bracket bottom two head to the consolation
bracket) This will ensure everyone gets to play at least 3 games in
the tournament.

From then on in the winners bracket its double elimination (if you
loose you drop to the losers bracket)
The consolation bracket single elimination.

Every round will be best of 3 until the grand final which will be best
of 5

There is plenty of seating on location we can accommodate many people
and we will be using the projector on site to display the featured
matches so if you have some down time you can gather round and check
out the cast!

Hope to see many of you there, or we hope that you tune in and check
out many of the great players in the Twin Cities area!
Thank you!

Routinetrafficstop

PM me with any questions you may have or if you would like a copy of
the official flyer to hand out at your college/school or place of
work.




Ok so there it is! I'm getting pumped don't forget to invite your
friends! See you Saturday!

RTS

[miles]

also if you guys came up with any prizes for the raffle let me know so
we can make an overlay to give credit where its due on the stream for
our sponsors :)

thanks!