[Midnite]

ACL Gears of War 3 Online Round 1 Announced

Here at ACL we are proud to announce something very special - Gears 3 has been added officially to our 2012 Pro Circuit !! This means that ACL staff will be dedicated to running both online competitions and live events for the Gears community. This support will see GOW 3 players side by side with the biggest competitive titles in the world at ACL events, sharing time on the main stage and a full quality production live stream. At the moment the first Gears National Live Event will take place in Sydney in April.

To celebrate, our Gears of War 3 Admin Midnite has organised the first Gears Online Round of 2012! February will play host to an awesome free to play tournament with some sweet prizes including $400 cash. Midnite has been fortunate enough to secure some special guest commentators to cast some of the matches over the weekend. @VeroProDiGY, a MLG Gears Coach and @Falloutt, a former Gears 1/2 Pro Player, will join us for the tournament.

So thanks to the Gears fans for a tedious wait, but it is with great pleasure we announce this today. We look forward to supporting you in 2012!! - ACL CEO: Vanz

Who – ACL & GN
What – Online Round 1
When – February 10th, 11th & 12th

Friday 10th February: Pool Play (for all teams)
Saturday 11th February: Pool Play Continuation + Double Elimination Bracket (for the top 16 teams from Pool Play)
Sunday 12th February: Double Elimination Bracket (for the top 16 teams from Pool Play)

Times
Friday 7pm AEDT
Saturday 12pm AEDT
Sunday 12pm AEDT


What’re we playing for?
We’ve been working hard to secure some sweet prizes for the Gears Online Round. So far we’ve got Character DLC codes, a couple of games and most importantly $400.

Structure

Pool Play – Best of 3 Series
Each Pool will have (tba – usually between 4-5) teams. This is dependent on numbers and could change.
Each series MUST plan ALL 3 games.
There is only one rotation of Pool Play. This means you will only play teams inside your pool before this stage of the competition ends. Upon completion of Pool Play you will either be knocked out or progress to the next stage. The reason you are playing all 3 games in a series is to better determine win/loss ratios. Your team may be required to play a tiebreaker game to determine the next stage.

Teams will go head to head on Friday the 10th and finishing on Saturday the 11th of February in a Round Robin tournament to ultimately determine their seed for the Double Elimination bracket finals to be held on both Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12 of February.

Double Elimination – Best of 5 Series
Each team does NOT need to play all 5 games if a result occurs earlier. Lose one series to enter the Losers Bracket. Lose another series and you will enter Placement Rounds. Placement rounds will determine the Overall Points for your placing.

Double Elimination will occur after pool play has completed and after all the tiebreakers have been played. The top few teams from each pool will be placed in the DE bracket to fight it out to for the top spot and the prizes that go alongside it.
Double Elimination gameplay will commence straight after the last pool play matches have been
played on Saturday the 10th and will run through to Sunday the 11th of February.
Registration & Confirmation
To register, click here. Once registered, you will be placed into a Pool. A week prior to the event the Confirmation button will be enabled. Once enabled, all teams need to confirm their attendance. This is to ensure we can make things run as smoothly as possible. The confirmation button will appear on the registration form here.

You must fill out ALL boxes and specify who is captain and remember it you ever need to change your registration details you can go back to the form and change the details - your previous information will be there for you to change!

Dates & Times
~All time listed are in AEDT~

Sunday February 5th – Cut off date for Registration (11:59PM).
Friday February 10th – Pool Play commences at 7PM sharp.
Saturday February 11th – Finish off the final rounds of Pool Play then start the Double Elimination Bracket commencing at 12pm sharp.
Sunday February 12th – Double Elimination Bracket commences at 12pm sharp (earlier depending on how many games were played the night before).

Rules & Gametypes
All rules and gametypes can be found here.
- Please note that these may be updated between now and the tournament so check back often!

Registered Teams
A full list of all registered teams can be found here.

Substitution Threads
Post all subs here.

Prediction & Discussion Thread
Make all prediction and discuss the tournament here.

Live Stream
Gears 3 is a great spectator game so we’re going to live stream Online Round 1. Be sure to tune into the weekends entertainment and follow us on http://www.twitch.tv/aclpro to be notified when we’re live! Supporting us help the community grow which benefits everyone. So if you’re stuck with nothing to do, why not drop in and check out the stream!


LANDING PAGE

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[Nephix]

Champion. I hope to compete in this

[Cripsy]

Sounds bloody awesome!

[Slazy]

sounds awesome, great job ACL, hopefully GoW can take off with all the support from CG players and make it as big as CoD/Halo!

[Titan]

I suck at Gears

[Slazy]

Should add it to the "2012 Events" page, under the menu button Pro Circuit.
http://www.aclpro.co...uit/2012-events

[Ecliptics]

Good stuff.

[d turbo1]

any players want to join my team just message me if u are interested if you just want to have fun

[rytoke]

holy moley, just came online to check ACL for the first time in ages....looks like I'll be competing in this if a I can find a serious team this late notice, if anyone needs 1 top player PM me

[Midnite]

Fantastic work on the signups everyone! Really good numbers so far. Lets make a push this last week and see if we can get to 32 teams total!

[Vero ProDiGY]

I'm excited to be on board guys and gals

[Midnite]

Just a note, Gridlock has been removed from the map cycle for the tournament.

EDIT:

I've just updated the rules on ACL to account for any complications relating to streaming

'Matches will be streamed at the discretion of the ACL Admin Team. Should a team/player dispute the decision they will have the option to forfeit the match, use their teams substitute for the streamed match or play the match as is.'

If anyone has any concerns or comments regarding this addition to the ruleset please message me and we can discuss it.

[Midnite]

All teams, please confirm your attendance by going to the link above. Its crucial that you do this before MIDNIGHT of Wednesday or you will miss out! Please spread the word also, I'd hate it if teams miss out because they don't know they need to confirm.

[Hayabusa]

I will be sending out messages tonight to people to confirm.

BBR are just waiting to solidify our team.

[Twitch]

are any map packs required to play? if not i can sub in for anybody. I used to play On the GOW 3 execution ladder so pm if you need a sub

[Dark Lord NZ]

if anyone needs a 4th, im keen, i used to play when it first came out and was fairly decent. (well was against pugs)

So hit me up if you're keen (The D Lord)

[Midnite]

The only map pack required is the free 'booster pack'. Outside of that all the other maps are on the disc.

[Midnite]

If you aren't playing in this tournament I would highly recommend tuning in to the live stream. We've secured an additional commentator for your entertainment. Join VeryProdigy and Falloutt we have Gandhi joining in on the fun.

Its going to be a great event to be involved with whether you are playing or spectating.

[PuLseYYY]

Soz but i made a mistake with my rego , my team name is not MF Pulse its MF halo Thanx

[Midnite]

I can't change it here but I'll change it everywhere else.