Welcome to the ninth Giantbomb EU community Starcraft II tournament!

This tournament is open to players of all skill levels and you're welcome to come spectate even if you're not participating.

Rules:

- The tournament will be played in a double elimination format. This means you'll have to lose twice in order to be eliminated.

- The semi-final and final matches will be played as a Best-of-3.

- If a player drops from a match, he may request a rematch, assuming the match was relatively even.

- No cheating or use of exploits is allowed.

- Spectating other people's matches is allowed, assuming you don't have to play a match yourself. But please be courteous enough to leave if a player experiences lag due to a large number of spectators.

Maps:

Map pool:

+ Map to play on will be determined by elimination. Each player will eliminate one map each until only one map remains to play on. (You can also just come to a consensus together on which map you want to play on)

+ In the Best-of-3's in the semi-final and final the loser gets to pick the map after the first game.

How to sign up:

Reply in this thread saying you'd like to enter. Official sign-ups will be at the start of the tournament in order to eliminate no-shows and to keep the number of Bye's to a minimum.

Posting your B.net ID and character code might also be a good idea. This'll allow me and the other participants to add you now, rather than the day of the tournament. This'll save some time and hassle.

You also need anEU Battle.net accountin order to participate.

I´m also making it a requirement this time for everyone to sign up using their own Challonge account. The advantage of this is that you´ll be able to report the outcome of your matches yourself, rather than waiting for me to update the brackets.

You can sign up for a free Challonge account here:

http://challonge.com/

When:

The tournament is going to start on Saturday May 25th, 19:30 Central European Summer Time. (CEST)

Sign-ups will be open until 19:30 CEST, so make sure you sign-up in time or you'll be unable to participate.

I'll post the sign-up page on the day of the tournament. Bracket will be posted after sign-ups are closed.

Participant list:

Giant Bomb ID - B.net ID + character code

Thule - Thule #725

Braytac -Braytac #691

Baldgye - Baldgye #628

Moleh - Mole #220

Elbon - Elbonbunny #474

Chronologist - Chronologist #984

Shibbxyz - Shibbxyz #936

Jappernaut - Jappernaut #984

ikwal - ikwal #774

Jixashauser - Jixashauser #402

angelkanarias - angel #466

GL HF HB!

Can't play.  :(
 
Going to sit in the pub beneath the homestory cup that day :P

sign me in
braytac# wil add the numbers later

damit... wish we had more north americans playing... I would get in on the tourny just for fun.

Good to see these still going strong! Hopefully I, or perhaps someone else, will get around to organizing another NA one in the near future.

@raiz265 said:

Can't play. :( Going to sit in the pub beneath the homestory cup that day :P

That's cool, hope to see you next time!@harris said:

Good to see these still going strong! Hopefully I, or perhaps someone else, will get around to organizing another NA one in the near future.

Yeah, that'd be cool. I wouldn't mind hosting a tournament on the US server, but I'm probably not gonna make a habit out of it.

I'm in! 
Just got into platinum as well!   

Chronologist #984  

With a grand total of 3 sign-ups so far(including myself), it's not really looking good. Maybe I miscalculated and many people are on vacation? Or maybe they just quit playing? Hopefully some more people will join in.

I'ma try and join in this time if it goes ahead!
 
 
...though I finish work @ 6pm Saterday GMT so I might be late :/

Mole#220 gonna show off my pandas!

At long last I'm free to play
ElbonBunny #474

ofc Ill be there :) 

will it be MLG Metalopolis?

@baldgye said:

will it be MLG Metalopolis?

If it's been updated and you can actually add more than 4 people to the game lobby then yes, otherwise it'll just be regular Metalopolis.

I'm in :) it'll give me an excuse to try out my justin.tv stream some more, even though the quality still kinda sucks.
Jappernaut #984

Sure, I'm in!

ikwal #774

God damn it! Going on vacation on the 24th. Hope you guys record this, I'd definitely be interested in watching the replays once the dust has settled.

Count me in for the next one, mind. Good luck, guys, and have fun.

ah i just wanted to ad my charakter code but i see thule already did that for me! thank you!:D 
now i'm off to practice this afternoon because i havent played in a decent game in 2 months.

Sign me up! Jixashauser 402! :D

@baldgye said:

will it be MLG Metalopolis?

If it's been updated and you can actually add more than 4 people to the game lobby then yes, otherwise it'll just be regular Metalopolis.

@angelkanarias said:

@Thule: i wanna play, my account is ''angel'' code 466 Dunno if you want this now but my challonge account is ''angelkanarias'' Also, what's CEST in GMT time?

CEST = GMT + 2 ( http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/)

Also, sign-ups are now open! Go here to sign up:

http://challonge.com/tournament/signup/28bch5xjja

Awesomatic #452

I'm in, might play some Terran this time to get some more TvX games in there instead of the usual Protoss and Zerg matchups we get in these tournaments so often.
 
FalconJab #143

Don't know if i'm going to be streaming tonight, because my internet is really tripping. It's be great if we could have a skype call with everyone in it again, so chatting in between games is a little easier. :)

I would love to watch the tourney streamed though I've no doubt the logistics of that would be painful.

doky#735

Sign me up! RuneHammer #408

I'm gonna get beat up real bad but I really enjoy the initiative!

@DIMEGIODoKy: @Jonasusan:

About 40 minutes left to sign up. Go here to sign up:

http://challonge.com/tournament/signup/28bch5xjja

haffy 498

Don't forget, join the 'giantbomb' chat channel om Battlenet around 19:30 CEST.

2nd round baller

Results!

Thanks for playing everyone. Next tournament in a month or so

gg

wel at least i got to play dooddath hunt! zo i am happy.
its off to bed now see you guys next month!

I'm so baller I dont need a number llololo