Plan B 'Nationals' Need to know information
Written By Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill
26 June, 2009 04:59 PM
As the Plan B event is now only a week away the crucial information for players and spectators is slowly being released. Here is some information that I pried out of Michael 'vex' Affleck.
There will be a total of 20 teams with players from all around the country flying in to compete in this community event. Eight of these teams already qualified earlier this year for the Anything Interactive(AI) event that subsequently fell through. These 8 teams were offered invites and thus are receiving the high seeds for the group stages.
Group Stages will be played on Saturday the 4th of July. Four groups of five teams will play over the day on the four core maps(train, dust2, inferno and nuke). The top two teams from each group will qualify for second day of competition at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology(RMIT) Broadcasting Studio. The eight finalist teams will be playing a best of three single elimination bracket on Sunday the 5th of July while playing under lights and cameras of the B1GLeague eSports Media team.
These are the eight invited and confirmed teams from the AI qualifiers:
Team Immunity
SublimePCGear
iCHOR
Tension
Qlimax
Remedi
Trainwreck
Synergy
The above teams will be required to pay a $50 fee and the 'wildcard' teams are required to pay $150. This money will be going towards the prize pool for the event as it is a community 'Nationals'.
General Information
Seedings and group draws will be released next week as well as the map rotation. Ventrilo client and server will be available at MidCity and should be available at the RMIT Broadcasting Studio.
MC Internet - Melbourne Australia
Corner of Russell Street and Little Lonsdale Street
Level 1, 276 Russell Street
Melbourne CBD
(03) 9654 6880
MidCity PC Specs
Samsung T220 monitors
Intel Duo Core E7400
9800 GT
4gig ram
Eating food from outside venues will not be permitted.
The prizes are yet to be officially confirmed.
If you are a competitor or a spectator please make sure you bring your manners and patience!
Competitors
You will need to bring your gaming peripherals - mouse, mousepad, keyboard and headphones. Use of USB's or any storage devices for configs, drivers, etc will not be allowed. The CEVO config will be permitted and that can be downloaded from the CEVO website on game day. Players can use either the LAN centre's steam accounts or your own.
Spectators
For people wishing to spectate at MidCity for the Group Stages there will be a $5 fee. This will also go towards the prize pool. If you are not able to come down and spectator the matches live, you will be able to sit in the comfort of your own home and watch the games on SourceTV, view all the action on mIRC scorebots or see the coverage updates on your favourite forum, GotGames!
The finals will be streamed live across the internet from the RMIT Broadcasting Studios. You will be able to catch all the ingame action with commentating and live footage. There will be limited spectating space inside the Studio.
The Breakdown
- $150 entry for wild card teams
- $50 entry for invited teams
- Group Stages 4th of July MidCity LAN centre
- Finals 5th of July RMIT Broadcasting Studio
- $5 Spectator fee
- SourceTV's/Scorebots/Live stream available
- Core 4 Maps - train nuke dust2 inferno
Questions that you have about timetables, etc will be released over the next week by vex. Stay tuned for updates!
"The B in Plan B stands for Beer"
people are flying all over Australia to play in this event, then you tell them they may as well go home 2 watch finals... that is fucking disgusting!
together we
Rise
together we
Rise
together we
Rise
TAH FOR INFO SPOOYAY!
Why are people paying for flights to travel to melbourne when they could save like $200-$300 and practically do the same thing at home.
Fuck that. I know you want the community to grow but honestly the community will grow via support for the community. How the fuck are you going to go ahead and hold a nationals finals where you actually EXCLUDE the community who have PAID to fly to watch a computer game.
Good writeup spunj.
1.I don't think there should be a spectator fee, i think its a bit harsh to expect people pay to spectate inside a lan cafe, it would be different if the entire comp was run in the studio, but its just not practical. This whole finals spectating thing is an issue. Something needs to be changed.
2.Why cant players use their own configs if they log onto their own steam account? No USB sticks? Fair enough no drivers but no own configs? That's just stupid.
Other than that, cheers for the info spunj.
Use the charity dinner on Thursday night as a fun raiser rather than the $5 spec fee. I'm sure this will be a more practical and suitable method of fund raising.
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