GosuGamers and Razer have teamed up to bring you the SMM 2010 Razer Giveaway Event. We are encouraging all of our members to get into the spirit of SMM and try their luck at predicting the SMM playoffs. The top prognosticators of GosuGamers will have a chance to win some seriously awesome Razer gear!
Some of you have been kicking around this place for months -- years -- and have nothing to show for it, save for a vitamin D deficiency. Well, we feel for you guys; that's why we sent our senior editor MrBlue over to Razer HQ to trade in his Samurai honor for a bunch free swag -- free swag we plan to pass onto you, our loyal readers.
The giveaway event will commence on the second day of SMM and take the form of an eight-match predictions bracket event. Participants will predict which teams move through the winners bracket of the SMM playoffs, beginning with the quarter finals, and ending at the grand finals. Correct predictions will score you points, incorrect predictions will score you nothing, and by the end of the tournament, the six submissions with the most points will win some great prizes.
The idea of this giveaway event is to make SMM even more exciting than it already is, and to show everyone why it's great to be a registered member of GosuGamers DotA. Read on if you love free stuff as much as you love DotA, and pay very close attention to the rules.
***For those who read the submission prizes before December 1st, 17:00CET, please note that there has been a change to the submission rules. Please read on, and the changes will be denoted with an asterisk(***).
Prizes
Nine pieces of gaming gear have been provided courtesy of Razer; three of which are shiny new pieces of luxury gaming hardware, while six are high-end mouse surfaces.
1x Abyssus Mirror mouse
1x BlackWidow Ultimate
1x Orca headset
3x Speed goliathus
3x Control goliathus
Each mousepad will be uniquely signed by the players of one of the top six teams in the tournament. The six winners of the giveaway event will get to pick the mousepad featuring their favourite team.
1st place: First choice of one piece of hardware + mousepad
2nd place: Second choice of one piece of hardware + mousepad
3rd place: Third choice of one piece of hardware + mousepad
4th-6th place: Respective choices of mousepads
How to participate
4th December 2010 (Day 2)
Local TimeCETEvent
10000300Gamers and Guest Registration
10300330Group stages begin for day 2
13450645Group stages end for day 2
15300830Round of 16 playoffs
16300930Winner Bracket top 8 / Loser Bracket top 8A
18001100Winner Bracket top 4 / Loser Bracket top 8B
19151215Loser Bracket top 4A
22001500Closing
Timeframe:
Half-way through the second day of SMM, the top 16 teams will be put into a playoff bracket (approximately 15:30 local time and 8:30 CET).
Shortly after the placements are determined, an official bracket will be published on GosuGamers.net that will contain the team codes and slot codes required for the submission form.
***An announcement will be immediately made in the news section of GosuGamers DotA, and users will post their predictions in the comments section of that announcement.
Submissions will be taken from the point of announcement onward, up to the very last minute before the quarter-final round of the playoffs begins (approximately 16:30 local time and 9:30 CET).
Participants will be required to post their submissions in the comments section of the announcement news and nowhere else. These comments will be required to conform to a precise format which will be dictated below.
Submissions:
Although the submission window opens once the round of 16 is announced, giveaway event participants will only be required to predict the results of the winners bracket matches from the round of 8 and onward. It is recommended that participants wait until the matches from the round of 16 are concluded (approximately 16:30 local time and 9:30 CET), and the 8 quarter finalists are determined, before they submit their predictions.
Submissions will be required to conform to a strict template as to allow for more efficient scoring after the event concludes. In their submissions, participants will be asked to use team codes (numbers from 1-16) in place of team names, and in a particular order which corresponds to the orientation of the tournament bracket.
Empty sample bracket:
(click to maximize)
This should be the state of the coverage bracket when participants begin writing down their predictions.
Similar to the sample bracket, the GosuGamers coverage bracket for SMM 2010 will provide the team codes for all teams involved as a number following the team name. The highlighted slots labelled I-IX represent the slots participants will be required to fill in.
Submissions will thus need to follow this template:
Sample form template
Username: (GG.net username)
Quarter-finals: (I), (II), (III), (IV)
Semi-finals: (V), (VI)
WB finals: (VII)
LB finals: (VIII)
Winner: (IX)
To give an example of a completed form, we refer to a filled-out sample bracket:
(click to maximize)
If the image above is what you predict to be the end result of the tournament, your submission will need to appear as such:
Sample form full
Username: heikki
Quarter-finals: 4, 8, 9, 14
Semi-finals: 4, 14
WB finals: 4
LB finals: 9
Winner: 9
Scoring:
Participants will accumulate points based on each correct prediction. Each correct prediction in the quarter finals (I, II, III, IV) will result in +2 points. Each correct prediction in the semi-finals (V, VI) will result in +3 points. Correctly predicting the WB finalist (VII) will result in +5 points. Correctly predicting the LB finalist (VIII) will result in +13 points. Correctly predicting the winner of the tournament (IX) will result in +21 points.
In the case of a draw, advantage will be given to the submission that arrived at the submission inbox at an earlier time.
***Important rules
1) Only one submission is allowed for each GosuGamers account. If the same account posts multiple predictions, all of their comments (including the original) will be ignored.
2) Each submission must follow the format precisely or risk being discarded.
3) Any editing will result in disqualification. Make sure you get it right the first time.
4) Any spamming in the comments section of the submission window news will result in harsh consequences.
5) At our discretion we will discard a submission (or set of submissions) if we suspect foul play.
Overview
--Event will take place on day 2 of SMM, December 4th, 2010.
--Starting from the quarter finals, participants predict the results of the winners brackets. Participants also predict the winner of the losers bracket and the winner of the grand finals.
--The submission window opens after the round of 16 is announced, though participants are advised to wait until the round of 8 teams are determined before sending in predictions.
***An announcement news will be appear once the submission window opens. Participants must post their predictions in the comments section of that announcement news.
--The submission window closes right before the beginning of the first quarter finals match. Any comments received after the window closes will be ignored.
--The six participants with the highest amount of points at the end of the tournament receive prizes. Ties are broken using timestamps.
Stay tuned to GosuGamers for future announcements involving SMM and the SMM giveaway contest.
Any questions regarding the specifics of the contest should be written down in a comment under this article and we will make sure it is answered in a swift and timely fashion. Important questions will be highlighted in this article.
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