We will once again be be hosting another massive Starcraft 2 tournament. We have the biggest SC2 tournaments in the UK and after hosting the IPL4 Qualifier at i44 we are sure to put on a show this coming spring!

With up to £3,000 up for grabs get your place in this awesome tournament! Click “Sign Up” above

 

Congratulations to dignitas.BlinG for winning the Starcraft II tournament here at insomnia45. BlinG was the favourite to win, having won 8-0 in all of his previous matches, as well as Fargo who had achieved the same score throughout the competition.

BlinG was already 2-0 up from winning the Upper Final and only needed to win another two games to win the tournament.

Fargo started off with a lot of marines and helions, and slowly but surely added siege tanks. There was the occasional banshee; however Fargo hadn’t upgraded any of his other buildings, leaving refineries to build later than they should have been.

BlinG had a lot of stalkers and amended his army by including a new sentries.

Fargo made an early push with his army and whilst this was built quickly, he did not expand whereas BlinG had two bases by this point. BlinG had the stronger army, and defeated Fargo’s army making the score 3-0.

In the second round, both players decided to do an expansion quickly, which was probably for the best as Fargo knew he had to win this one to have a chance of still winning the tournament. However, Fargo did not have enough resources, and his army was quickly halved by BlinG’s. Although Fargo did replenish some of his army, it wasn’t enough and BlinG won this round 4-0, resulting him in being the winner of the Starcraft II tournament!

BlinG takes home £1,275, Fargo £531.25 and Qurk who won £318.75. Well done to all teams to also took part.

The Starcraft II tournament signups are closed. In total there are 78 people who have signed up which means there is a prize pot of £2,125 up for grabs!

Please remember to fill out your Battle.net ID into Clanforge otherwise you will be removed from the tournament.

Its so close you can taste it! Insomnia45 is only 2 days away, and the buzz is in the air already. All over twitter the craziness has already begun! Use the hashtag #insomnia45 when chatting about the event, and spread the word!

For those of you that cannot make it this weekend, we feel your pain, but all is not lost! We will be streaming so much video content from the event you won’t know what to watch!

As usual we will be hosting a live stream all weekend long of the main stage. This is the premier channel where you will find all of the tournament grand finals, along side other awesome activities like the Friday Night party, the “Classy“ Pub Quiz and the Asus Overclocking Masters UK Grand Final.

Event Live Streams

• League of Legends will be our premier tournament stream this time around, with top casters Deman and Joe Miller bringing you all of the hottest action from the LAN tournament. Already with the online qualifiers we have “Western Wolves” and Winfakt.lol showing themselves to be contenders, this should be one to watch!
• Starcraft 2 will also be streaming all day Saturday and Sunday, and will see some of the best UK SC2 talent head to head in one of the biggest E-Sports in the world.
• Counter Strike Source will be viewable via SourceTV throughout the weekend, you will find the details on this site closer to the kick off. Then enjoy the grand final casted by Joe Miller and Gonzo on Sunday!
• Team Fortress 2 will have a video stream all weekend, hosted by VanillaTF2, hosts of last summer’s TF2 extravaganza!
• Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox) will be streamed live all weekend by our friends at the Warped Gaming League by Rel and Goochhyy, and if Mana recovers from his injury he might be able to get involved too!
• Fighting Games will be taking place all day Saturday and Sunday, and Unequalled Media are providing a full weekend of awesome fighting action, from Super Street Fighter IV AE to King of Fighters XIII you will not be disappointed!
• We have a fully featured Minecraft stream all weekend! Featuring Minecraft masters Wol and bacon, you can tune in and find out how all of our Minecraft competitions are going, like the spleef, parkour and “Hunger Games” and follow the progress of the Minecraft Creative Competition – where people build simply EPIC THINGS in one single weekend.
• Call of Duty 4 will have the grand final streamed live to the world, and will be brought to you via Deman and A_Spec, to bring you one of the longest running tournaments of the iSeries!
• We’ll also be streaming Fifa 12 this event, with the 1v1 stream taking place on Saturday, and then 2v2 on Sunday.
• We also have some Battlefield 3, with the grand final taking place in our finals arena and live streamed on our main channel! Dignitas’ very own Dogbert will be your host for this one.

There will be so much awesome action happening this weekend that even if you’re not attending insomnia45, you can watch all of the action right here when the stream goes live!

31 players entered the arena, 1 emerged victorious! Infused’s rising star JonnyRecco was the winner in a hard fought final, seeing him beat an I-Series regular, LemonyTang with a score of 3-0. For his victory, he has won a free BYOC ticket to Insomnia45 – with the added benefit of a supplied top end gaming PC to use for the weekend and play in our £2,000 tournament should he require it.

Here is the final 3 rounds as they stood:

We look forward to seeing JonnyRecco at Insomnia45, and everyone else that is entering our grand LAN tournament!

There is still time to sign up to our Starcraft 2 Online Qualifier tournament. Its free to enter, and you have the chance of winning a ticket to Insomnia45 for coming 1st! Not sure if you can make it? Just check the full schedule here:

Full Schedule:
Wednesday 18th April
18:00 BST / 19:00 CEST Round 1 – 128 Players
19:00 BST / 20:00 CEST Round 2 – 64 Players
20:00 BST / 21:00 CEST Round 3 – 32 Players
21:00 BST / 22:00 CEST Round 4 – 16 Players

Thursday 19th April
18:00 BST / 19:00 CEST Round 5 – 8 Players
19:00 BST / 20:00 CEST Round 6 – 4 Players
20:00 BST / 21:00 CEST Round 7 – 2 Players

Each round is a Best of 3 which means you need 2 map wins to proceed to the next round. Its a single elimination tournament so every game is incredibly important. The grand final to win the ticket will be played as a Best of 5.

A gentle reminder to everyone entering – input your Battle.net Name.code in the tournament sign up page or you might not be allowed to take part! Signups close at 17:30 BST 18:30 CEST, make sure you confirm your attendance on the BinaryBeast tournament page before then!

For all the information you might need check out the tournament pages.