{"id":14502,"date":"2011-10-06T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"r8k-prize-pool-in-polarfluke-optoberfest-starcraft-ii-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/14502-r8k-prize-pool-in-polarfluke-optoberfest-starcraft-ii-event","title":{"rendered":"R8k prize pool in PolarFluke OPtoberfest StarCraft II event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polarfluke this week announced its October StarCraft II tournament, which will take place on 15 and 16 of October.<\/p>\n<p>Local distributor Megarom has once again put up a prize pool of R8,000 cash.<\/p>\n<p>The event sees SA&#8217;s finest StarCraft II players go head-to-head alongside international players for the hefty prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>The first round will kick off on Saturday 15 October, and will consist of swiss rounds.<\/p>\n<p>More information on this format will be made available soon.<\/p>\n<p>Players who make it through the first round will take part in round 2 the following day, which will be a single elimination round.<\/p>\n<p>Games will be streamed live <a href=\"http:\/\/polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=107&amp;Itemid=37\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and local commentators shadowthief and SiEGEstarcraft will be talking onlookers through the action.<\/p>\n<p>Entrance is free, and you can sign up <a href=\"http:\/\/polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=273 \" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tournament details <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When and Where: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Saturday 15th October &#8211; Swiss Round play starts at 14:00 SAST.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sunday 16th October &#8211; Single Elimination play starts at 14:00 SAST.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The tournament will run via the European Battle.net server.<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Available [<a href=\"http:\/\/polarfluke.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=141:rules&amp;catid=19:polarfluke-tournament-resources\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>] <br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please Note:&nbsp; Play on Saturday and Sunday starts at 14:00 SAST.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please Note:&nbsp; The map pool has been modified.<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes: R 8 000.00 (~$980)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Winner: R 2 800.00<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2nd: R 1 800.00<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3rd: R 1 100.00<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4th: R 700.00<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5th-8th: R 400.00<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18590-R8-000-prize-pool-in-PolarFluke-OPtoberfest-StarCraft-II-even\" target=\"_self\" title=\"R8k prize pool in PolarFluke OPtoberfest StarCraft II event\"><strong>R8k prize pool in PolarFluke OPtoberfest StarCraft II event<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megarom continues to support PolarFluke&#039;s monthly StarCraft II tournament with hefty cash prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}