TeamLiquid.net recently announced their first StarCraft 2 Invitiational tournament and have invited the best of Europe to compete. Amongst them are two of TeamLiquid's very own staff members Victor "Liquid`Nazgul" Goossens and Jonathan "Frozen Arbiter" Walsh.

The tournament is set to take place on March 27th at 4PM CET/11AM EST and boasts a prize pool of $500 USD. First place will earn himself $300, while second and third place will win $150 and $50 respectively. The $500 prize pool puts the invitational as the second highest prize pool given out by any single tournament thus far in the StarCraft 2 Beta. The only other tournament beating it by over double the amount is the 'Hello, Goodbye Tournament' which is organized by a TL.net member.

The format of the tournament has yet to be announced but previous invitiationals hosted by TeamLiquid have been organized via a group stage and a bracket stage. However the tournament has been advertised with no loser brackets and a single day of straight gaming. A group stage would no doubt prolong the tournament, but would make for a more exciting process.



TeamLiquid.net SC2 Invitational #1
PlayerRace
Benjamin "Demuslim" Baker
Stefan "MorroW" Andersson
Eugin "Strelok" Oparyshev
Pavel "Brat_OK" Kuznetsov
Zdravko "Insomnia (Omnisain)" Geogiev
Jonathan "FrozenArbiter" Walsh
Terran
Joseph "ret" de Kroon
Ian "Zion" Gryncewicz
Marius "HoRRoR" Overhageböck
Mattias "Naugrim" Ottosson
Hayder "HayprO" Hussein
Zerg
Victor "Liquid'Nazgul" Goossens
Oleksiy "White-Ra" Krupnyk
Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider
Lazar "Nightend" Silviu
Protoss
Dario "TheLittleOne" Wünsch
Random


Casting for the invitational will also be done by Sean "Day[9]" Plott who has been casting for a lot of StarCraft 2 matches since the beginning of the beta. A US server tournament is also in the plans for TeamLiquid.

Links
TeamLiquid.net - Source