User:Garlic/Rewind 2017

Overview

Invite

[e][h]Rewind

Tournament Information

Series:

Esports Arena

Organiser:

Esports Arena

Sponsor:

Marketplace.tf
Weedmaps

Broadcaster:

Esports Arena

Game mode:

6v6

Type:

LAN

Location:

Santa Ana

Venue:

Esports Arena

Prize pool:

$8,192 USD

Start date:

21 January 2017

End date:

22 January 2017

Links

Esports Arena Rewind LAN 2017, commonly referred to as Rewind, was the first Esports Arena Team Fortress 2 tournament. It was a 6v6 LAN event, held at the Esports Arena in Santa Ana, California, United States from 21 January 2017 to 22 January 2017.^[1] Rewind is extremely notable for being the first intercontinental LAN event outside of the Insomnia Gaming Festival, and the first intercontinental LAN in North America. It was held very close to the median date between Insomnia58 and the projected date for Insomnia61, creating a bi-annual period for global 6v6 Team Fortress tournaments. Two non-North American teams attended the event, Se7en from Europe and Jasmine Tea from Australia.^[2]

Rewind was split into two divisions, Invite and Open.^[1] Prominent community figures b4nny and samiface were heavily involved in the organisation of the event.^[2]

Se7en, having won the latest intercontental event Insomnia58 (as Crowns eSports Club) were eliminated by froyotech following a five map Grand Final. Jasmine Tea finished fourth, unable to break the infamous "curse" of Australian teams finishing fourth at intercontenental events.

Prize pool

The prize pool was initially contributed to by Esports Arena ($2,000) and Marketplace.tf ($5,000).^[1]^[3] This was further increased by crowdfunding, which raised $1,192 for the Invite division,^[4] bringing the total prize pool to $8,192.

Place	USD	Team
1st	$3,686	froyotech
2nd	$2,048	Se7en
3rd	$1,434	EVL Gaming
4th	$1,024	Jasmine Tea

Rosters

EVL Gaming

froyotech

Jasmine Tea

Meat Market¹

Se7en

Street Hoops eSports²

¹

CheesyMacgyver decides not to attend the event on 19 January. Meat Market replace him with

bl4nk.^[5]

²

duwatna is forced to pull out of the event on 19 January after contracting appendicitis. Street Hoops eSports pick up

Muma to replace him.^[6]

Results

Group stage

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Qualification
1	froyotech	5	0	23	4	19	Advance to upper bracket
2	Se7en	4	1	24	10	14
3	EVL Gaming	3	2	17	11	6
4	Jasmine Tea	2	3	13	15	−2
5	Street Hoops eSports	1	4	8	23	−15	Advance to lower bracket
6	Meat Market	0	5	5	23	−18	Advance to lower bracket