[edit] Introduction
Soon after the Beta of StarCraft II was released, ESL announced two weekly tournaments, ESL StarCraft II Beta Saturday Cup and ESL StarCraft II Beta Monday Cup. While the cups themselves were popular in the community the format without any prize money soon made competitive players move elsewhere. ESL then decided to reformat the cup into one where you get points depending on your finishing placement, they named it Go4SC2. The name is a reference to the old Go4WC3 cup, which pioneered the weekly, one-day 512/1024 player tournaments. The format is pretty straight forward: Two cups are played every week. Both yield points towards a monthly rating that allows the top players to compete for €500 at the monthly final.
ESLs weekly cups were introduced shortly after the Starcraft 2 Beta launch. The league ran continuously through 2010 except during the summer weeks the Beta was down.
[edit] "ESL StarCraft II Cups" becomes "Go4SC2"
In connection with the name change to GoSC2 and format revamp, Saturday Cups gained a prize pool of 100 €. Additionally ESL introduces a monthly final with 500 € for the winner. During the rest of the rest of the year only a few tweaks to the format has been made:
- May:Increased amount of points awarded in Wednesday Cups from 80 to 135 points total, due to an increase in players attending.[1]
- August: With the launch release, the Saturday Cups moved to Sundays.[2][3]
- August: The prize pool for Saturday Cups was upped to 200 € when GoSC2 gained sponsorship from SteelSeries.[4]
- August: Points awarded in Wednesday Cups increased from 135 to 240 points total, again due to increased number of participating players.[5]
- November: Premium Qualifiers were introduced, adding 8 more slots to the monthly finals. The diluted playoffs now consists of 16 players.[6]
Changes during 2011:
[edit] Current Rules
[edit] Prize Money
- Wednesday Cups: None.
- Sunday Cups: Winner gets 200 €
- Monthly Finals: Winner gets 500 €
[edit] Points distribution
| Place
|
Saturday Cups
|
Wednesday Cups*
|
| 1st
|
100pts
|
75pts
|
| 2nd
|
75pts
|
60pts
|
| 3rd
|
60pts
|
40pts
|
| 4th
|
40pts
|
25pts
|
| 5-8th
|
25pts
|
10 pts
|
| 9-16th
|
10pts
|
|
| Total
|
455pts
|
240pts
|
[edit] Format
- Unlimited participants in the Sunday and Wednesday tournaments.
- Sunday cup finals will be played on the following Monday, broadcasted live on ESL.eu
- Monthly €500 "Grand Final" with the 8 best ranked players.
- Grand final will usually take place on first Thursday of the following month.
[edit] External Links
ESL Go4SC2 page
[edit] References
- ↑ More points for Go4SC2 Wednesday Cups The previous point distribution was 45p, 25p and 10p.
- ↑ Go4SC2 #23 on Saturday!
- ↑ Go4SC2 #25 on Sunday! - Go to IEM gamescom!
- ↑ Go4SC2 Cup Series sponsored by SteelSeries
- ↑ Wednesday gets more points! The previous point distribution was 60p, 40, 25p and 10p.
- ↑ Go4SC2 - Premium Qualifier The previous point distribution was 60p, 40, 25p and 10p.
- ↑ February Map Pool featuring Pawn Re and Testbug
