SCVRush
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| Overview | Showmatches |
| SCVRush [edit]
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| League Information | |
| Organizer: | SCVRush |
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| Game Version: | Wings of Liberty Patch 1.3.6 |
| Server: | Europe / North America |
| Event Type: | Weekly Online |
| Format: | 1v1, Single-elimination |
| Start Date: | 2011-08-13 |
| Links: | Website |
Contents |
[edit] About
SCV Rush is a social community site which:
- organizes tournaments and showmatches,
- has custom user profiles,
- contributes with analytical and news content,
- offers a way to find practice partners
- lists coaches.
Weekly tournaments for various skill levels are hosted on EU and NA servers with smaller prize pools. More notable "Masters Brawls" took place between April 3rd and May 1st 2012 with $15 for 1st and $5 for 2nd place. From May 15th 2012 on the Prize pool had been increased to $100 and the tournament took off every two weeks.[1]. The last Master Brawl occurred on June 26th, 2012.
On April 25, 2012 a $500 showmatch between 
Ret and 
White-Ra was ran.[2][3] More high stake showmatches were launched and called The Friday Faceoff.
[edit] Tournament Overview
Currently the following tournaments are hosted regularly:
| Day | League restrictions | Starting Time | Server | Prizes |
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| Monday |   |
7pm CET | EU |  1h Master coaching
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| Monday |  |
8pm Eastern | NA | 1h Master coaching
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| Wednesday |  |
7pm CET | EU | 1h Master coaching
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| Thursday |   |
7pm CET | EU | €5
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| Thursday | |
8pm Eastern | NA | 1h Master Coaching
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- Master Brawls are currently not scheduled.
- An overview of tournaments for the upcoming week is updated each Friday on the SCV Rush Upcoming Events page.
[edit] Format
- Single elimination.
- Quarter Finals onward BO3, all previous rounds BO1
- 128 Players max for all Tournaments.
- Signing up is free but limited by leagues for particular tournaments.
[edit] Map Pool
The current map pool is:
- WCS Antiga Shipyard
- WCS Cloud Kingdom
- WCS Daybreak LE
- WCS Entombed Valley
- ESL Metropolis
- WCS Ohana LE
- GSL Whirlwind
[edit] Organization
| ID | Name | Position | |
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Vogin | Ondrej Dyrka | Lead Staff |
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JackTancey | Jack Tancey | Lead Staff |
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darthdeus | Jakub Arnold | Lead Staff |
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DexTheDrone | Lead Staff | |
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Wham | Oliver Whitwam | Head EU admin |
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Wolfboy | Nasan Eakin | Head NA admin |
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Bair | Alexander Chick | Head NA Caster |
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BelleNOiR
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Patrik Bauman | Head EU Caster |
A complete list of the current staff can be found at SCVRush.com > Staff.
[edit] View Games
- The tournaments are streamed at scvrush1 on Twitch.tv.
- Raw VODs of all streamed games can be found on the Twitch.tv archives.
[edit] Current caster roster
| ID | Name | |
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JackTancey | Jack Tancey |
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Bair | Dan Chick |
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Celebreth | Chris Das Neves |
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DonHoratio | Kyle Elliott |
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OptiKStorm | |
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Roxas | Travis Duncan |
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Tookie | Keith Ravid |
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Sole | Spencer Irwin |
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BelleNOiR
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Patrik Bauman |
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GejmaBobs | Alexander Bassetti |
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Bear | Bjørn Laursen |
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Yahweh | Dan Kirichenko |
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VocalTerrorist | Jesse Raen |
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Apoth | Thomas Gerrish |
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Passed Masters Brawls
| Date | # of Players | |
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| EU Masters Brawl #1 | 2012-04-03 | |
StarNaN |
JunG |
Battle Report |
| EU Masters Brawl #2 | 2012-04-10 | |
  Yoigen |
Shibbxyz |
TL Invite Thread |
| EU Masters Brawl #3 | 2012-04-17 | |
 etidrood |
iMtEkNa |
TL Invite Thread |
| EU Masters Brawl #4 | 2012-04-24 | |
 Noname |
lumpas |
TL Invite Thread |
| EU Masters Brawl #5 | 2012-05-01 | |
Ballbreaker |
AG‡Absédé | TL Invite Post |
| EU Masters Brawl #6 | 2012-05-15 | |
Tournament canceled due to server issues[4] | ||
| EU Masters Brawl #6 Take 2 | 2012-05-29 | |
Kas |
Utopi |
200 USD Prizepool as of 125 USD/50 USD/25 USD because last one was canceled. |
| EU Masters Brawl #7 | 2012-06-26 | |
 ReaL |
viPro |
TL Post, Bracket |
[edit] Trivia
- SCVRush's first streamed tournament was an NA BSG on 2011/8/24 with 13 participants.[5]
- The project originally launched in late February 2011 as a simple blog with just two people. Current staff is around 40 with spots still open and people from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Serbia, United States, Canada, England and more.
- Other features than tournaments are the custom chat page, content section, practice buddy search engine [6]or custom user profiles.
- The largest event was the White-Ra vs Ret showmatch on April 25th 2012 - 120,000 views total, 6,600 concurrent viewers at most.
