The ESL just announced that SteelSeries will be sponsor of their Go4SC2 tournament series. The Go4SC2 tournament series started with the beta of StarCraft 2 and features two cups per week and a final cup every month. This Sunday the
SteelSeries Go4SC2 Cup #27 will take place and the winner earn
200€ and important points for the monthly ranking. The top eight players of each month get invited to a monthly in which the winner gets
500€.
In the first Sunday Cup of the cooperation SteelSeries is also going to raffle three hardware bundles between all checked in participants. Each bundles contains the following SteelSeries products: SteelSeries Xai Laser Mouse, a SteelSeries Siberia v2 Headset, a SteelSeries StarCraft II Limited Edition Zboard and a SteelSeries SteelSeries QcK Limited Edition (StarCraft II Tychus Findlay) mousepad.
Wednesday Cup:
Starttime: Every Wednesday 17:00 BST
Check-In: 16:40 BST
Participants: up to 512
Matchsystem: Single Elimination - Best of 1 until Quarter Final, Best of Three in QF, Semi-Final, Best of Five in Final
Prizes:
60 Points
40 Points
25 Points
4. 10 Points
Sunday Cup
Starttime: Every Sunday 14:00 BST
Check-In: 12:40 BST
Participants: up to 1024
Matchsystem: Single Elimination - Best of 1 until Quarter Final, Best of Three in QF, Semi-Final, Best of Five in Final
Prizes:
100 Points + 200€
75 Points
60 Points
4. 40 Points
5-8. 25 Points
9-16. 10 Points
Monthly Final
Date: Last Thursday of the Month or first thursday of the next Month
Players: Top 8 players of monthly SteelSeries Go4SC2 Point Ranking
System: Single Elimination Bracket - best of three until Final, Final is best of five
Prizes:
500€
General SteelSeries Go4SC2 Links:
SteelSeries Go4SC2 - Replay Archive - All-Time Ranking
The last Wednesday Cup had over 800 participants and 512 players checked in with six minutes, the aim is to beat that number for Sunday and make the first 1024 player StarCraft 2 cup.
Links: Announcement,
SteelSeries Go4SC2,
Sign up for SS Go4SC2 #27
duh O_O