Feedback from previous cups

We have taken in a lot of feedback from the last two cups and we hope that you will see many improvements in this week's cup!

StarCraft II Beta Cup #3

Begin: Sat, 13/03/10 13:00 GMT

Meeting place: #esl.sc2.cup on Quakenet IRC

Structure: 64 player, Single Elimination

Match format:
Round 1, 2 & 3: Best of 1
Best of 1 map. The map in each round is fixed.

Quarter Finals, Semi Finals
Best of 3 maps. The first map is fixed, the loser picks the next map. The same map cannot be played twice in a match.

Final
Best of 5 maps. The first map is fixed, the loser picks the next map. The same map cannot be played twice in a match.

Map pool: Blistering Sands, Desert Oasis, Scrap Station, Steppes of War, Kulas Ravine, Lost Temple, Metalopolis

Replays: Replays must be uploaded to the match page (not zipped) immediately after the match

Coverage: It is forbidden to stream matches in any way (video or audio cast, livestream, ustream, etc)

Disconnects
If there is a disconnect in the first 4 minutes of the game and there has been no contact between players, then the game will be restarted.

If the problem occurs frequently then an admin should be contacted.

If a game is restarted players must choose the same races.

How to sign up

First you must register on the ESL.

Important! If you have ever registered before and you have forgotten your details, do not make a new account, write a support ticket.

Register your StarCraft II Battle.net (EU) gameaccount.

Edit your profile and enter a contact method (IRC, ICQ, MSN, Skype, XFire) - make sure to show it publicly!

Then you can

Sign up!

To confirm your place in the cup you must check-in 20 minutes before the cup starts! Read below!

Until 13:40 CET	Sign-up	From now until twenty minutes before the cup starts, up to 100 players can sign up in advance.
13:40 CET to 13:55 CET	Check-in	To confirm their place in the cup, everyone must check-in between 20 and 5 minutes before the start of the cup.
13:55 CET to 14:00 CET	Late sign-up	If there are any places still available, anyone can sign up in the last five minutes to fill them up.
14:00 CET	Start of cup	The cup starts! Make sure you are in the IRC channel and in-game so that you can find your opponent, and they can find you. Check your open matches to find your match.

Check-in!

Ladder

While waiting for the cup why not join the Beta 1on1 Ladder?

If you are knocked out of the cup you can then straight away look for more matches using the ESL Instant Challenger!

Casting

ESL-Radio will do a live casting of the last and most exciting rounds of our SC2 Beta Saturday Cup #2 via Livestream! So you can see the most exciting matches and listen to our nice commentators!



Thanks to the the ESL Radio Staff

Win ESL TV Premium keys!

To give everyone something to play for we will raffle five 1 week ESL TV Premium keys for watching ESL TV in high quality - perfect for watching the StarCraft II action coming up every week!

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