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CPL 9 Royale Announcement

By y2kid
Posted May 14, 2023, 9:42 p.m.

CPL 9 Royale

The CPL 9 Royale will be held in three phases. First, a seeding process. After that a round-robin tournament that will determine one of the finalists, followed by a 8-player tournament to determine the second finalist. Event closes with a grand-final between the two finalists.

Phases

Phase 1

  1. Top Pupil of each race gets a direct seed in phase 2.
  2. Three qualification tournaments are held for three of the remaining spots.
  3. The other three places are taken by buy-in players.

Everybody who participated in CPL9 as a pupil is allowed to join the qualification tournaments.

Anybody who donates $20 or more to the prize-pool is able to nominate any pupil, including themselves, as the buy-in spot for the tournament subject to the first 3 $20+ donations.

Phase 1 Tournament Details:

WB all matches bo3, finals bo5
LB all matches bo1, finals bo3

WB First map Polypoid, then loser picks
LB map is Eclipse

All participants agree that their games might be casted if requested by y2kid or any other official CPL caster.

Phase 2

Round-robin with 9 remaining players. Each pair plays a single game. Winner proceeds straight to Phase 4. Upon reaching donation goal X, a player would receive $2 per win for this phase of the tournament.

Phase 3

8-man tournament with randomly drawn opponents. Winner of this proceeds to Phase 4

Phase 4

Grand Finals. Bo7 on the CPL 9 map pool. If applicable the seventh game will use the same map as map #1.

Prize-pool breakdown

  • $72 for Phase 2 (if goal is met)
  • $50 for the winner of the Royale
  • $25 for the runner-up
  • $18 for third place (if goal is met)

Total: $75 + up to $100 community support

Donation Goals

Starting prize-pool pot with $75 (granted by CPL staff)
  1. $100. CPL9 Royale prize-pool donation goals are met. See prize-pool breakdown above.
  2. $160. Staff will attempt to coordinate a master-class led by a CPL Coach for each non-mirror matchup. Upon reaching this goal the CPL Staff agrees to pledge additional $75 more to cover the rest of the master class fees
  3. $280. CPL Staff will attempt to organize mirror master-classes too.
  4. $280+. All donation goals met. We love you guys, we will use any excess funds for league maintenance costs.
We will be using PayPal and Ko-fi to collect donations. We would prefer if you used our PayPal, as this 100% of your donation is received. We would also keep updating the public Ko-fi donation tracker with your PayPal contributions. Alternatively, if\you would like to use Ko-fi directly to donate you can do that as well.


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