The Australian Cyber League is proud to announce its third live event to be held in Melbourne at the start of September!

Recently, ACL announced preliminary details for the third and final event of its 2015 season, to be held in Melbourne on September 5-6. After a year without an event in Victoria it is our pleasure to bring the ACL circuit back to Melbourne to the same venue, La Trobe University. We are pleased to announce we will be continuing the support of Counter Strike: Global Offensive due to its success at ACL Sydney along with the regular ACL titles; Call of Duty, StarCraft II and Halo. We know how much the community has been pleading for an ACL event in Melbourne so with all the hype you don’t want to miss this one!

Venue

MAP

For 2015, ACL has made some important changes to our live event structure, keeping us in line with the top eSports organisations from around the world. One of these changes is to implement a 15+ policy, which will be broken down further in THIS article.

MA15+ Policy

Titles

The Australian Cyber League is proud to announce it will bringing live competitions for the following titles at ACL Melbourne.

Prizes

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [5v5] - $5000
  1. $2,500
  2. $1,500
  3. $1,000
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm [1v1] - $2500*
  1. $1,000
  2. $650
  3. $400
  4. $250
  5. $50
  6. $50
  7. $50
  8. $50
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare [4v4] - $5000*
  1. $2,750
  2. $1,500
  3. $750
Halo 2 Anniversary [4v4] - $1500*
  1. $800
  2. $450
  3. $250

*Prizes based on 48+ players for SC2, 24+ teams for CoD and 8 teams for Halo.

Registration

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Qualified Teams Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Paid Teams Halo 2 Anniversary Paid Teams

Dates & Schedule

Times are to be confirmed.

Spectating

Anyone over the age of 15 is welcome to come and enjoy all of the action, spectating is FREE across the whole event!

Preceding Online Tournaments

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

There will be two preceding Online Qualifiers which will determine invited teams for ACL Melbourne. Teams must compete in either or both of these qualifiers to be eligible to compete at ACL Melbourne . The top 4 placing teams from each online qualifier will be invited.

ACL Melbourne Online Qualifier 1
Register
Date: Saturday, 25th July
Format: BO1 Double Elimination Bracket
Talent: Talent: Streamed live from the ACL Studio AND community stream from TeamDownTV
Main Stream
Secondary Stream

ACL Melbourne Online Qualifier 2
Register
Date: Sunday, 2nd August
Format: BO1 Double Elimination Bracket
Talent: Talent: Streamed live from the ACL Studio AND community stream from TeamDownTV
Main Stream
Secondary Stream

Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm

There will be two preceding Online Rounds which will act as seeding for ACL Melbourne. Results from the two proceeding Online Rounds for ACL Sydney will not be counted towards ACL Melbourne seeding. Players are not required to play in these Online Rounds but the 16 highest points earners from both Online Rounds will automatically qualify for ACL Melbourne’s group stage.

ACL Melbourne Online Round #1
Register
Date: Sunday, 26th July
Format: Double Elimination / Best of 3
Talent: Casted by Zepph and Maru with Insano observing
Stream

ACL Melbourne Online Round #2
Register
Date: Saturday, 8th August
Format: Double Elimination / Best of 3
Talent: Casted by Zepph and Maru with Insano observing
Stream

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Further announcements coming soon.

Halo

Further announcements coming soon.

Transportation

Car: All car parking spaces on the Melbourne campus require a valid car parking permit. See here for more information.
Public Transport: There are multiple modes of public transport available to and from the University campus. See here for more information There are multiple modes of public transport available to and from the University campus. See here for more information here.

We hope to see you all at ACL Melbourne September 5th and 6th!