ASUS ROG StarCraft II Tournament

In 2011 February ASSEMBLY Winter StarCraft II -tournament was hands down the best tournament played in Europe at the time. This success have now given us the possibility to organize an even better tournament with tripled prize pool!

Thanks to ASUS we’ll see an ultimate StarCraft II tournament in the ASSEMBLY Summer

The event starts in a week and it's time to release the groups. The groups are described below. Notice that some players had to cancel their participation to the tournament due to various reasons. These players are M.Tarson, TLAF-Liquid`Ret, White-Ra and MyM.SaSe. They have been now replaced by other players who applied for the tournament. The replacing players are dignitasBischu, FL|Protosser, aAa.biGs and Ai.Seiplo.

The rules have also been released. The map pool, among other details, is described there.

UPDATE: ESC.GoOdy can't make it to the tournament. His place in Group B is given to Fuzer.

Streams broadcasting the tournament:

•  SETT TV #1 (TotalBiscuit and Apollo)
• SETT TV #2 (Tonttu, Zyrk, shAsur)
• GameCreds.com (ZeratoR)
• Millenium TV
• Khaldor
• GoogGame.ru

Details about the tournament:
Date: 4th - 5th August 2011
Place: Hartwall Areena, Helsinki, Finland
Game: StarCraft II®: Wings of Liberty™ by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Player limit: 32
Tournament type: NON BYOC, Groups + Single-elimination
Tournament Fee: 50 Euros (~70 USD - Includes the entry fee.)
Prize Pool: 15 000 Euros (~20 000 USD)
Coverage: ASUS ROG Starcraft II tournament at ASSEMBLY Summer 2011 will be brought to you byTotalBiscuit and Apollo! There will be also foreign language coverage such as SETT TV in Finnish. 

Tournament rules:: click here

Prizes:
1. 8000 €
2. 4000 €
3. 2000 €
4. 1000 €

NOTE: Players in Groups H and F have been switched due to a schedule change.

  satrts at 12:00

• mTwDIMAGA
• imba.FXOpen.LoWeLy
• SETT.fi Seinis
• dignitasBischu

Group B -- starts at 12:00

• mouz.MorroW
• Ai.Seiplo
• dignitas.merz
• Fuzer

Group C -- starts at 12:00

• Fnatic.MSI Sen
• CyberNation.SarenS
• VirusNaama
• FL|Protosser

Group D -- starts at 16:30

• Empire.Happy
• TLAF-Liquid`TLO
• M.Adelscott
• dignitas.SjoW

Group E -- starts at 16:30

• eXelon-Welmu
• Grubby
• Empire.Kas
• M.LaLuSh

Group F -- starts at 16:30

•  FL|Satiini
•  M.Stephano
•  RoX.KIS.BratOK
•  aAa.biGs

Group G-- starts at 21:00

• TLAF-Liquid`HuK
• aTn.DarKFoRcE
• mouz.MaNa
• Inf.Jimpo

 Group H -- starts at 21:00

•  SK.NaDa
•  TLAF-Liquid`HayprO
•  VirusElfi
•  Fnatic.MSI NightEnD

Bracket match pairing for palyoffs (A1 = winner of group A. B2 = 2. place of group B.)

• A1 vs D2 and D1 vs A2
• B1 vs E2 and E1 vs B2
• C1 vs F2 and F1 vs C2
• G1 vs H2 and H1 vs G2

Finally, to remind you all of the company who makes this tournament possible, ROG - Republic of Gamers is a gaming sub brand of ASUS that is comprised of cutting edge hardware tailored for serious gamers. The product groups include; Motherboards, Graphics Cards, LCD Monitors, Gaming Peripherals, Desktops and Notebooks. The ASUS ROG Tournament will be solely powered by ROG hardware.

Legal information
“StarCraft®: Wings of Liberty™ is the copyrighted product of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. © 2010 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved.”