I'm a Newbie SC2 Tournament

The Cyber Sports Network is proud to support the 'Newbies' in StarCraft II. Today we announce a new series of tournaments that are geared towards those players that struggle to get better. The "I'm A Newbie" Tournament is for players from Bronze to Gold. This series will happen either bi-weekly or monthly. CSN is also proud to pay out the top 8 places in the series. While other organizations also support the 'Newbies' of StarCraft II, no other organizations pays out like CSN does!

Only open to those players with an NA account! This does not mean player from other regions cannot play, only players must play the games on the NA server.

Please join the channel CSN in battle.net to find your opponents and to help resolve any issues you have.

While playing a match, all players must have their status set to BUSY.

Tournament Details:

Bronze to Gold ranking players only
Bo1 for Rounds 1 and 2
Bo3 for remaining rounds
Bo5 for Finals

Prizes:

$40 - 1st Place
$20 - 2nd Place
$10 - 3rd Place
$10 - 4th Place
$5 - 5th through 8th Place

Map Pool:

MLG Shakuras Plateau
TPW The Grid
MLG Tal'darim Altar
MLG Antiga Shipyard
GSL Metropolis
ESV Cloud Kingdom
MLG DualSight
GSL Daybreak

Format:

Single elimination 64 player bracket:

Bo1 for Rounds 1 and 2
Bo3 for remaining rounds
Bo5 for Finals

Players will be randomly seeded.

Registration Info:

Register an account on the Cyber Sports Network Website.
Add your Battle.net ID and ID # to youraccount profile (REQUIRED). Go to edit profile, then scroll down to the game id's section just above the avatar section and input your Battle.net id.
Sign up here.

ALL PLAYERS REPORT TO CHANNEL CSN IN BATTLE.NET!!!

Rules:

1. All entrants must check in within the hour before the tournament begins.
2. All competitors must have Battle.net Name and ID # in their profile when signing up.
3. If requested to wait for casters before starting the next round, you must hold off playing until the match can be cast. Games played without casters after being requested to wait must be replayed.
4. Entrants must be available for the tournament, up to 4-5 hours for each day of the tournament.
5. No observers other than official tournament admins and casters are allowed.
6. Each round of the tournament will have a starting map. Loser's pick out of the map pool for all subsequent games. Maps cannot be used more than once in a series.
7. Each round until semifinals are best of 1 format. Semifinals are best of 3 and finals are best of 5.
8. Wins must be reported to an admin immediately (through quakenet #cybersportsnet or csn channel on Bnet).
9. Players can be disqualified by admin decision if an opponent has to wait more than 30 minutes to play, assuming the player is not in a previous round. Contact an admin as soon as possible if extenuating circumstances occur.
10. Players must be set to "busy" status when in official tournament games.

Map Pool:

MLG Shakuras Plateau
TPW The Grid
MLG Tal'darim Altar
MLG Antiga Shipyard
GSL Metropolis
ESV Cloud Kingdom
MLG DualSight
GSL Daybreak

Round	Players	Match times	Format	Map
Round 1	64	Wed 4/11/12 7:30pm EDT - 7:50pm	bo1	MLG Antiga Shipyard
Round 2	32	Wed 4/11/12 8:00pm EDT - 8:20pm	bo1	TPW The Grid
Round 3	16	Wed 4/11/12 8:30pm EDT - 9:05pm	bo3	MLG Tal'darim Altar
Quarter finals	8	Wed 4/11/12 9:15pm EDT - 9:50pm	bo3	ESV Cloud Kingdom
Semi finals	4	Wed 4/11/12 10:00pm EDT - 10:35pm	bo3	GSL Metropolis
3rd place match	2	Wed 4/11/12 10:45pm EDT	bo5	GSL Daybreak
Finals	2	Wed 4/11/12 10:45pm EDT	bo5	GSL Daybreak

Registered Players
	• andrewt Wed 4/11/12 2:45pm EDT		• Basket Fri 4/6/12 5:29pm EDT
	• beeft Tue 4/10/12 6:35pm EDT		• BlackRabbit Mon 4/9/12 10:30am EDT
	• BrandO Wed 4/11/12 4:11pm EDT		• DarkOmen Wed 4/11/12 3:13pm EDT
	• daxis Tue 4/10/12 5:15pm EDT		• Fuse Tue 4/10/12 3:35am EDT
	• Ghosty12 Sun 4/8/12 1:47pm EDT		• IceColdWater Mon 4/9/12 7:49pm EDT
	• jabberwock Mon 4/9/12 3:07pm EDT		• KalvinMLG Tue 4/10/12 1:33am EDT
	• Kimark Tue 4/10/12 6:46am EDT		• kookielah Tue 4/10/12 7:46am EDT
	• llivillr Tue 4/10/12 7:53pm EDT		• Nibbles Fri 4/6/12 5:59pm EDT
	• nineviolet Mon 4/9/12 11:47pm EDT		• PKR_ Tue 4/10/12 11:12am EDT
	• Radixon3 Tue 4/10/12 6:57am EDT		• RauS Mon 4/9/12 9:43pm EDT
	• Revelation Wed 4/11/12 4:39am EDT		• rizek Wed 4/11/12 4:39pm EDT
	• Rocxer Mon 4/9/12 7:30pm EDT		• Ryocanadian Tue 4/10/12 3:22am EDT
	• sandman13579 Tue 4/10/12 7:10pm EDT		• Stephen Wed 4/11/12 1:07am EDT
	• Vanek Mon 4/9/12 7:46pm EDT		• vVv_Rapture Sun 4/8/12 3:17pm EDT
	• wasakaka Wed 4/11/12 3:11pm EDT		• WTBRaegO Wed 4/11/12 1:23pm EDT
	• Xx26Vanek26xX Wed 4/11/12 1:43pm EDT		• Zaraik Mon 4/9/12 7:38pm EDT