Welcome to the second iteration of the QSL (Quebec Starcraft League)! The tournament will be held from Saturday, Feb 23 6:00pm EST (GMT-05:00) to Saturday, Feb 23 10:30pm EST (GMT-05:00).
Signing up- three conditions apply to signing up for the event:
- You must be able to show up in person to the event, at the meltdown montreal bar half an hour before the start of the tournament.
- The bar requires you to purchase at least one drink in order to use any game stations, including the computers.
- Be aged 18 or older (it's a bar).
You are encouraged to mark "going" on the Facebook event page https://goo.gl/4NrjAv . This will help us with organizing the tournament, but it doesn't represent any official registration of any kind. Each player will have 15 minutes to set up their in-game settings, between 5h30 and 6h00 pm. (there will be 10 computers available). In the mean time, the bracket will be determined.
Player limit: If there are more than 16 participants, the 16 highest ranked players on the 1v1 NA ou EU ladder will be prioritized for the tournament.
Prize pool: The prize pool should be 500$ (awaiting confirmation). A free drink will be gifted by the bar to a random player that made the top 8. The prize pool will be distributed as follows: 50% to the winner, 25% to the runner-up, then the rest will be shared between 3rd and 4th place.
Commentator: The tounament will be streamed and commentated by twitch streamer Gosu_PvP (), come spam his chat!
Trophee: A trophee will be awarded to the winner of the tournament (as seen in the facebook event banner)
Format: it’s traditionally always been a single evening event. Seeing as how all Starcraft II events were hosted at a Meltdown bar, people had to head home eventually, as with any night of drinking. As such, the format is a Bo1 for the first round of games and the first round of the loser’s bracket match. Every other round (except the finals) is Bo3 double-elimination bracket up until the semi-finals. The grand-finals will be a Bo5, where the finalist from the winner bracket starts the series off with a 1-0 lead. The number of games per series might be adjusted depending on how quickly the games proceed, but players will be involved in the decision-making process if that was to happen.
Map selection: Round 1 and 2 of the tournaments (the Bo1's) will be a pre-determined map. The semi-finals and finals will have the choice of vetos and then loser's pick.
Meal: pizza will be ordered around 6:30. 5$ is normally asked for two slices, but is offered to anyone who traveled more than 50 km to get to the event.
Lodging: anybody traveling over 50 km can ask for free lodging. Members of the local community have accepted to lodge travelers if need be. Contact al_savardo@hotmail.com if you’re interested in that.