[Messiah]

Today, Solomid.net will be announcing our first European Tournament. It will be the first of many tournaments that we will be hosting. From now until the end of the year, we want to commit over $100,000 in Tournament Prizes and Money. The first tournament for our circuit will be an 8 teams invite only tournament on May 12th and 13th. Moving forwards, we will be expecting to host a tournament every 2 weeks and expand that to the NA servers as well. We have a lot planned and are excited to give more details as the timing gets right.

Here are the Format, Rules, and Prizing for the first tournament. Check back here as we update you with more details like streams and brackets.
Tournament Brackets - I completely randomized the bracket because this is our first tournament. There will be no seeding.
Count Down

Prizing

• 1st - 1000 Euro
  
• 2nd- 400 Euro
  
• 3rd- 100 Euro

Logistics
Date & Time

• Weekend of May 12th & 13th
  
• Playtime Time at 12 PM London Time (GMT +1) or 4AM PST

Players Streaming will be allowed only for Upper bracket R8, R4, Lower bracket R8 & R4 (all matches except for upper bracket finals and lower bracket finals on wards).
Structure

• 8 Team Invited Tournament: CLG.eu, aAa, TSM, MYM, Na'Vi, Sypher, Western Wolves, and Absolute Legends
  
• B03, Double Elimination.
  
• Day 1 - Teams plays R8, R4, R2, Lr8 Lr4. Will be casting R8, R4, R2. Minimum of 6 matches and maximum of 9 matches.
  
• Day 2 - Teams plays Lr2, and Championship Finals (minimum of 4 Matches and Maximum of 9)

Rules

• All Teams with have a minimum of 1 players from Each Team in a Skype Chat to arrange matches. There will also be 1 Tournament Administrator at all times.
  
• The first match is scheduled to start at 12PM GMT+1 or 4AM PST. Players need to be in the game lobby by 11:55am GMT+1 (5 minutes before match time.
  
• Players have 10 minutes grace period to start the first match before penalty is assessed (either loss of a match or reduction in prize money) (12:10 PM GMT+1).
  
• After the first match, all players are expected to be on standby in Skype and ready for the next match.
  
• Matches will Proceed continuously (back2back) with a 10 minutes grace time between matches.
  
• Tournament official reserves the right to delay the match more than 10 minutes if circumstances calls for it.
  
• The higher seeded team has choice of sides.
  
• There will be a mystery competition. If players want to participate, they need to submit replays of the game to replays@solomid.net and label it with the round and teams.

[Acehatecrew]

Fki'n awesome. Would like to see more MYM and CLG.EU and ABL, what more can I hope for in this tournament? even though I of course hope TSM wins on home ground!

[vHawkinz]

Looks fantastic, I've been eagerly anticipating an announcement recently after stalking Dan Dinh's stream.

Panky casting maybe, I see.

[NickV]

I hope you guys realize London is GMT. CET (Central European Time; Amsterdam, Paris, etc) is GMT+1.

Sounds great, I'll try and see if I can get a team for this.

[lopek the romantic]

You should host a tournament for unknown teams aswell, without any prize pool of course. ;D

[Chronic]

I think there are some pretty good EU teams that need a tourny to get on to the scene, this might be the one.

[SouK Ahra]

wow

[helmuth31]

hope for an TSM-aAa

[chauthepua]

haha M5 not invited

[Pingmeep]

chauthepua, on 04 May 2012 - 03:29 AM, said:

haha M5 not invited

Not for a lack of trying on SoloMid's part.

[Agriasas]

NickV, on 02 May 2012 - 12:50 AM, said:

I hope you guys realize London is GMT. CET (Central European Time; Amsterdam, Paris, etc) is GMT+1.

Sounds great, I'll try and see if I can get a team for this.

Actually, we're currently on BST (British Summer Time) which is GMT+1.

[VisuableBlast]

So, where i can register for this tournament, or i cant?!

[Pingmeep]

VisuableBlast, on 09 May 2012 - 11:46 AM, said:

So, where i can register for this tournament, or i cant?!

This first tournament is invite only. In the future things will open up.
There will likely be non pro events later as well if past years events are repeated.

[YeYo!]

When will be the brackets up?

[Damerflinn]

I know what time it starts, but what order will the games be played in? I'll get up at 4 if I have to, but it would be nice to know when each game starts so that I can just set an alarm for the TSM game.

[Pyronic]

YeYo!, on 11 May 2012 - 11:49 AM, said:

When will be the brackets up?

Brackets are right here: http://solomid.net/brackets.php

[Danfan]

Will there be reruns of all the matches or will there be recorded videos of the matches and be posted on the site?

nvm, already seeing the first few games being uploaded on the site, thank you !

[DizzyMane]

What is the comparison between Euros and Dollars?