RARALAND 2024 - $10,000 World Series
It's the highlight and core of every RARALAND - Being Esports World Series!
It's the reason why players fought over four weeks in online qualifiers. It's the reason why they're traveling thousands of miles, whether it's our Asian friends from China and South Korea or the western hemisphere with players from Chile, Brazil, and the USA. Many roads lead to RARA, but only one path leads to glory!
System
6 Players via Online Qualifiers:
From our Eastern Open Qualifier, we welcome the first-ever Chinese RARALAND citizens Fortitude & Colorful! They're joined by the returning FoCuS & Sok, who were by our side in 2022 and 2023 already. In the West, we were able to invite Starbuck and Dise, who beat players like XlorD, Jens & HawK to get the golden tickets.
6 Players via Offline Open Bracket:
This Open Bracket will be BRUTAL! Not only are 30 out of 128 players at RARALAND above 2000 MMR, they also fight for only 6 remaining spots! Some of them seem booked already by Asian juggernauts LawLiet, Soin & LabyRinth, but can you be sure on LAN? The Western players around Leon, Jens, PaTo, RazerMoon & Kevin are coming well-prepared and ready to party!
All 6 players from the Open Bracket are seeded into the Winner's Bracket of the Double Elimination System, alongside the two winners of the Open Bracket. All players who made it through the Loser's Bracket of the Open Bracket will also have to start in the Loser's Bracket of the World Series. One misstep can cost you your tournament life in the only competitive Warcraft3 tournament that is played in front of a crowd. Scared, Potter?
Changes:
We heard you loud and clear after RARALAND 2023: No more BLABLALAND. You want more games and you want to see more of the tournament.
While we were plagued with technical difficulties last year, we come prepared. With more flexibility in the broadcast production, we gain access to FloTV and can jump into any game at any given time. Stalling 30 minutes for updates no more! You want to see the games, we want to see the games, let's watch the fn games!
Alongside the reduction to 12 players comes one big advantage: More coverage.
Our old Double Elimination System in 2023 was played across two groups, which sometimes led to 6 games at the same time. This year, we are able to reduce that to two games at max. And with the help of our dear friend Dondolare, we will try our very best to provide a B-Stream for these games! This also means that, given everything goes well, we can show 75% of the games on stage with you in attendance, up from just 44% in 2023.
We hope we can deliver.
We hope everything goes as planned.
We hope you'll like it!
RARARA
Stage 1 - Saturday:
12 Players distributed in a Double Elimination Bracket
Top 6 advance
12.00 CEST: Winnerbracket Quarterfinal - Games 1+2
13:30 CEST: Lowerbracket Round 1 - Games 1 + 2
15.00 CEST: Winnerbracket Quarterfinal - Games 3 + 4
16.30 CEST: Lowerbracket Round 1 - Games 3 + 4
18.00 CEST: Winnerbracket Semifinal #1
19.30 CEST: Lowerbracket Round 2 #1
21.00 CEST: Lowerbracket Round 2 #2
22:30 CEST: Winnerbracket Semifinal #2
Stage 2 - Sunday:
6 Players in a Single Elimination Bracket
Quarterfinal: Bo3 || Semifinal: Bo5 || Grand Final Bo7
12.00 CEST: Quarterfinal #1
13.00 CEST: Quarterfinal #2
15.00 CEST: Semifinal #1
16.30 CEST: Semifinal #2
19.00 CEST: Grand Final