{"id":25946,"date":"2011-06-02T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=25946"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:29:33","slug":"nvidia-announces-starcraft-ii-tournament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/nvidia-announces-starcraft-ii-tournament-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA ANNOUNCES STARCRAFT II TOURNAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><strong>NVIDIA ANNOUNCES STARCRAFT II TOURNAMENT, TO BE CAST BY HUSKY AND DAY9<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>GeForce StarCraft II Pro\/Am Tournament to Offer over $22K in Cash and Hardware in 6 Week Competition<\/em><\/h4>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>SANTA CLARA, Calif.\u2014June 2, 2011<\/strong>\u2014Calling all Nerd Ballers! Registration is now open for the first ever GeForce\u00ae <em>StarCraft II<\/em> Pro\/Am online tourney!\u00a0 With more than $22K in cash and prizes up for grabs, now is the time to mosey on over to GeForce.com and secure your  spot playing one of the world\u2019s most popular PC games and possibly earn  the title of grand champion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are two levels of participation: Pro and Amateur:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Pro Open: The top <em>StarCraft II<\/em> players in the world will be competing in the pro line-up with no limit to the number of players.<\/li>\n<li>Amateur  Open: Amateur registration is open and free to all ages of 16 and over  with no limit to the number of total entries per Protoss, Terran, or  Zerg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>All tournaments are 1  versus 1 (1v1) head-to-head battles. There will be at least 5 weeks of  guaranteed group play, with the top players from each group moving on to  the double-elimination championship brackets.<\/div>\n<p>In addition, <em>StarCraft II<\/em> community favorites, Husky and Day 9 will be shoutcasting the battles  in real time with live broadcasts streamed on Geforce.com and the Game  Station YouTube channel. World-class tournament features including match setting, anti-cheat controls, leader  boards and more are being provided by tournament management veterans,  Cevo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cevo.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.cevo.com\/', 'www.cevo.com']);\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.cevo.com<\/span><\/span><\/a>). ASUS is the official hardware sponsor offering GeForce GTX 500-series of GPU products to the top 20 pro and amateur winners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cGeForce.com  provides a one-stop shop for all the tournament media including our  casting videos, guest commentaries and multiple blogs,\u201d said Mike  \u201cHusky\u201d Lamond, the popular <em>StarCraft II<\/em> shoutcaster on The Game Station. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait for the tournament to begin!\u201d<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>To obtain the official GeForce <em>StarCraft II<\/em> Pro\/Am rules and regulations, or to register for the tournament, please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geforce.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.geforce.com\/', 'www.geforce.com']);\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.geforce.com<\/span><\/span><\/a> and follow the links. The tournament is a free North American-hosted  event but international players can register and compete where allowed  by law. See the official rules for more information.<\/p>\n<p>We also love contests at ABT and we have just completed our Galaxy\/Cyberlink-sponsored Facebook <em>Spring into Summer Contest<\/em> with ABT forum member <strong>tviceman<\/strong> winning a Galaxy GTX 560 Ti as grand prize.\u00a0 We also gave away a Galaxy GTX 550 to <strong>moshpit<\/strong> and also runner up prizes that included a couple of Galaxy T-shirts and Galaxy key chains.\u00a0 ABT forum members\u00a0<strong> CorCentral<\/strong>, <strong>Azena<\/strong> and <strong>HappyMedium<\/strong> each won great Cyberlink prizes of PowerDirector 9 or PowerDVD 11.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned, we are going to announce a brand new ABT contest beginning on June 12!<\/p>\n<p>Senior Editor<\/p>\n<p>Mark Poppin<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Become a Fan on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AlienBabelTech\/123268467142\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AlienBabelTech\/123268467142', 'Facebook']);\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join our Distributed Computing teams<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Folding@Home &#8211; Team AlienBabelTech &#8211; 164304<\/li>\n<li>SETI@Home &#8211; Team AlienBabelTech &#8211; 138705<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/reg\/viewRegister.do?teamID=3P39R3SRV1\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/reg\/viewRegister.do?teamID=3P39R3SRV1', 'World Community Grid &#8211; Team AlienBabelTech']);\" target=\"_blank\">World Community Grid &#8211; Team AlienBabelTech<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA ANNOUNCES STARCRAFT II TOURNAMENT, TO BE CAST BY HUSKY AND DAY9 GeForce StarCraft II Pro\/Am Tournament to Offer over $22K in Cash and Hardware in 6 Week Competition SANTA CLARA, Calif.\u2014June 2, 2011\u2014Calling&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2533,5],"tags":[908,4701,4702,121,4700,1645],"class_list":["post-25946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abt-news","category-gaming","tag-asus","tag-geforce-com","tag-gtx-500-prizes","tag-nvidia","tag-star-craft-ii","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}