Mistpedia Invitational Announcement

#1 - Jan. 18, 2014, 7:58 p.m.
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I’m happy to announce the Mistpedia Invitational

This will be a tournament that stretches over 5 weeks, running from Feb 1st to March 2nd, all matches will be held on a Saturday for NA and Sunday for EU usually starting at 17:00 PDT and 17:00 CET for the first match (the time of day may change week by week).
All games will be streamed on the main Mistpedia Channel follow if you want to be notified when it goes live.


Hosts and Casters

Blu

Sireph


Open Bracket

This tournament will feature an Open Bracket, a maximum of 16 teams can sign up to fight for one of two places in the tournament.

Signups for the Open Bracket open today and will run for a week or until the maximum number of teams is reached

To sign up for entry into the open bracket and an opportunity to get into one of the Wildcard slots go here


Group Stages

Each week will feature 8 matches, each match being a best of two.

Full bracket information can be found on the Mistpedia page

During the group stages each team will face the others in its group once during the 3 weeks, making for a total of 48 games over the course of the 3 weeks with 24 matches being played.


Playoffs

The plays offs are Double Elimination brackets with the top 4 teams from the Group Stages going through. It will consist of 3 rounds with the first 2 being Bo3 and the Grand Finals being Bo5 with the team that progressed through higher bracket having a 1 game advantage


Additional information can be found on the Format and Rules

You can also find Mistpedia on Facebook, and Twitter, all VoDs from the stream will be uploaded to YouTube for your viewing pleasure.


I would like to thank Arena Net for helping provide the prize pool for the tournament.


Thanks For Reading

If you have any questions feel free to ask below

Shadow

#5 - Jan. 20, 2014, 10:03 a.m.
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Thanks for the heads-up, Shadow. I was a really big fan of the TPI format from last year.