Tournament

Platy-pro Weekly #32

Finalized

GameStarcraft II

Entry FeeFree

Region—

Format—

DateSat, Aug 11, 2018 10:00PM UTC

About

The Platy-pro Weekly is open to all players who have earned less than $8,000 in tournament earnings, giving a chance for up and coming players to compete to the best of their ability against players of similar skill level! The format is bo3 double elimination with a bo1 ro64, and bo1 loser's bracket. Finals in bo5, with upper bracket winner gaining a 1 game advantage.

Rules

Open only to players who have made less than $8,000 USD in Starcraft 2 tournament earnings. Our source for this data will always be https://www.esportsearnings.com/games/151-starcraft-ii/top-players OR aligulac, as new information suggests that it's more accurate.
Join the NA group Platypro with this link: battlenet:://starcraft/group/1/392070 And/or stay in the group channel for the duration of the tournament (simply should be called "Platypro").
Check-in opens 2 hours before tournament start. MUST CHECK-IN TO PLAY.
Open globally, server priority is Americas unless both players agree otherwise. Both players are encouraged to find a middle ground server location. If NA + EU, default is US East. If NA + KR, default is US West.
You may play any race you choose for any round in the tournament as long as your opponent knows your race before going into vetoes. You may choose random as your race. If and only if both players agree to it, you may change your race mid-round (after vetoes).
Double elimination bracket.
Rounds of 64 and before are Best of 1.
Lower bracket is Best of 1 until the lower bracket finals which are best of 3.
Upper bracket is Best of 3 until the finals which are Best of 5 with the winner of the upper bracket gaining a 1 game advantage.
Veto Format: ABBA BAC or alternatively if both players agree, they may veto in another format.
In the finals, the winner of the upper bracket gets 1 veto, and the winner of the lower bracket gets 2 vetoes. The winner of the upper bracket has a 1 game advantage so there will only be 4 maps played total, chosen as ABAB.
Map Pool: Standard Ladder Map Pool
The official stream will be https://www.twitch.tv/charmquark_ and it will be casted by various people.
TL Thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-tournaments/529325-platy-pro-weekly#1
Liquipedia Page: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Platy-pro_Weekly
Feel free to join the Discord https://discord.gg/ZgQW5CH
ALL DONATIONS WELCOME: https://www.paypal.me/platypro
If your in game name is different from your name here, go to the settings tab in challonge and edit name in this fashion: "ChallongeName (Battle.net name)".
Walkover period is 15 minutes after brackets go live and 10 minutes after each additional round start in which a player can't find another player.
Seeding is done by aligulac points. If I can't find you on aligulac, likely you will be stuck with a low seed, unless I am otherwise informed. https://aligulac.com
Remember this tournament is simultaneously a ladder to bigger and better things, and a safe place against all the scary players, don't feel bad playing in it :).
Smurfing is absolutely not allowed, as this tournament needs to be transparent as it is (with its core rule restricting by career earnings).
Payments will go out via matcherino, please add yourself to the participants tab of the matcherino page if you make the top 8.
If you forfeit any games in the finals, you will forfeit half the second place prize. If you forfeit the entire finals, you will forfeit the entire second place prize.

PRIZE POOL:
1st - $20.00
2nd - $10.00
3rd/4th - $5.00
5th-8th - $2.50

These numbers might change based on donations/sponsors! I want to keep the percents the same week to week, so
first place gets 40%,
2nd - 20%,
3rd/4th - 10%, and
5th-8th gets 5% of the prize pool.

Now offering OSC points!

1st - 60 points
2nd - 30 points
3rd - 20 points
4th - 10 points
5th-8th - 5 points

Find Nistic aka Charmquark_ on battle.net to give paypal information.

If you would like to donate to the prize pool of this tournament or future tournaments, your support is welcome!

[email protected] is the paypal addresses you should send to! Be sure to add a message for what it is for, a directly paypal.me link is shown above in the description.

If you would like to cast, please message Nistic aka Charmquark_ and he will give you a caster's document.

If there are any controversial games, send your replays to [email protected].

Please wait to play if you're in the semi-finals as we would like to cast those games and the finals, though we realize this may not always be possible, and subject to change.