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

Union Hall
La Trobe University
Bundoora
VIC, 3083
latrobe.edu.au

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.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - 5v5 - PC
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - 1v1 - PC
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – 4v4 – Xbox One
Halo 2 Anniversary – 4v4 – Xbox One

Prizes

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [5v5] - $5000

$2,500
$1,500
$1,000

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm [1v1] - $2500*

$1,000
$650
$400
$250
$50
$50
$50
$50

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare [4v4] - $5000*

$2,750
$1,500
$750

Halo 2 Anniversary [4v4] - $1500*

$800
$450
$250

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

This is an invite only event based off preceding qualifiers. Teams will be placed into 2 groups of 4 based on results from the ACLMelb Online Qualifiers. The top 2 teams from each group will progress to a playoff bracket, which will be played out in full until a Winner is crowned.
Entry Fee: $200 per team (does not include online qualifier fee).
Equipment Requirements: Keyboard, Mouse, Mousepad, Headset and In-ears.

Entry Fee: For the 16 players who advance straight into the group stage a fee of $60 inc GST per player will occur. This must be paid online prior to the event.

For anybody who competes in the open bracket a fee of $30 inc GST per player will occur.*

For the 8 players who subsequently advance from the open bracket to group stage an addition fee of $30 must be paid at the time of advancement to match the group stage fee.
Any player who fails to prepay will incur a $10 surcharge on the day for a total of $40 inc GST per open bracket player.
Equipment Requirements: Keyboard, Mouse, Mousepad (headset optional).

*Any player who fails to prepay will incur a $10 surcharge on the day for a total of $40 inc GST per open bracket player.

Entry Fee: $220 inc GST per team. Payable ONLINE ONLY via the registration page.
Equipment Requirements: BYO. This includes, but is not limited to: an Xbox One (and all cords), Monitor, Controller, Headset, Game Disk, and anything else you require to play.

Entry Fee: $220 inc GST per team. Payable ONLINE ONLY via the registration page.
Equipment Requirements: BYO. This includes, but is not limited to: an Xbox One (and all cords), Monitor, Controller, Headset, Game Disk, and anything else you require to play.

Registration

Registration for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Qualifer 1 - Saturday July 25 - here
Registration for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Qualifer 2 - Saturday August 2 - here
Register for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm here
Register for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare here
Register for Halo 2 Anniversary here*

* The number of teams for Halo 2 Anniversary is capped at 8

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

Registrations are first come first served. The first teams to register and pay will be entered into the competition.

Dates & Schedule

Saturday, September 5th - 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Sunday, September 6th - 9:00AM to 6:00PM

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