Solomid's Invitations will end soon. Currently Na'vi is Tied 1-1 with CLG.eu. The match will be postponed until tomorrow!

SoloMid is working with partners and sponsor to bring ESports to the next level. For this tournament, summoners will get 1 entry per follow, like, or thank you message to our sponsors on their facebook and twitter. Summoners will be entered in for a chance to win some major swag (Astros A30, Kingston SSD’s & Ram Kits, and Gunnar Optiks).

Below are the links so you can navigate the tournament.
Na'vi vs CLG.eu 1-1, Grand Final Postponed
Big Swag Contest
Brackets
Rules
Casters: Dan Dinh & Panky
Teams: AL.eu, CLG.eu, TSM, Sypher, aAa, MYM, Na’Vi, Teamless
Prize: 1500 Euro & Massively Cool Products, find out more on stream.


Also, Team SoloMid Announces a Brother Team

Epik Gaming has been a top team even before Season One and was a top contender during the Season One Championship last year. Despite a poor practice regime, their showing at tournaments have always surprised even the most optimistic analysts. In the recent months, Jon “Westrice” Nguyen and Dan Dinh left the team to pursue interests elsewhere, while Marcus “Dyrus” Hill left to join Team SoloMid's original team. With so many large gaps to fill, it seemed as though Epik were on the brink of disbanding.

Fortunately, several members stepped up and filled those shoes. Former v8 Gaming members Zaqueri “Aphromoo” Black and Johnny “Unstoppable” Tran and well-known top Elo player, Daryl “Wingsofdeathx” Hennegan have stepped up to fill the missing links.

With their new line-up and renewed vigor for competition, Epik has performed brilliantly ever since its rebirth. With the Season Two Championship looming around the bend, two SoloMid teams will be vying for their share of the prize pool.

However, it doesn't simply stop at the end of Season Two. Season Three will mean more competition and the arrival of an even larger living arrangement than the current SoloMid gaming house – one that will house ten of the best League of Legends players in the world.

"I'm excited for this opportunity to play under the TSM name. With our new line up, I believe that we have a lot of promise and hopefully we make the TSM brand even more awesome than it already is.” -Love Unstoppable

"tsm are the homies and now i'm under tsm so now we like a gang of super good videogamers and homies" -Salce

"I'm happy that our team is joining the TSM banner. We've always had a connection with them through competition and streaming so this move feels very natural. We are going to continue to aim to become the best and we would like to thank our fans for supporting us." -Nhat Nguyen

"I am going to be pissed off all the time because i'll be the only black guy." "Mommaphro always said, "sun you gunna be an athelete." Little did I know I was gonna be a videogamin' athelete under team solo mid." "Basketball, no dawg. Only dunking I do, is in league of legends, UNDER TEAM SOLO MID" -Aphromoo

Roster:
Mid Trevor “Salce” Salce
Top Daryl “Wingsofdeathx” Hennegan
Jungle Johnny “Unstoppable” Tran
AD Zaqueri “Aphromoo” Black
Support Nhat Nguyen

Today, Solomid.net will be announcing our first European Tournament. It will be the first of many tournaments that we will be hosting. From now until the end of the year, we want to commit over $100,000 in Tournament Prizes and Money. The first tournament for our circuit will be an 8 teams invite only tournament on May 12th and 13th. Moving forwards, we will be expecting to host a tournament every 2 weeks and expand that to the NA servers as well. We have a lot planned and are excited to give more details as the timing gets right.

Here are the Format, Rules, and Prizing for the first tournament. Check back here as we update you with more details like streams and brackets.
Tournament Brackets - I completely randomized the bracket because this is our first tournament. There will be no seeding.
Count Down

Prizing

• 1st - 1000 Euro
  
• 2nd- 400 Euro
  
• 3rd- 100 Euro
  

Logistics
Date & Time
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Weekend of May 12th & 13th

Playtime Time at 12 PM London Time (GMT +1) or 4AM PST

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Players Streaming will be allowed only for Upper bracket R8, R4, Lower bracket R8 & R4 (all matches except for upper bracket finals and lower bracket finals on wards).
Structure

• 8 Team Invited Tournament: CLG.eu, aAa, TSM, MYM, Na'Vi, Sypher, Western Wolves, and Absolute Legends
  
• B03, Double Elimination.
  
• Day 1 - Teams plays R8, R4, R2, Lr8 Lr4. Will be casting R8, R4, R2. Minimum of 6 matches and maximum of 9 matches.
  
• Day 2 - Teams plays Lr2, and Championship Finals (minimum of 4 Matches and Maximum of 9)
  

Rules
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All Teams with have a minimum of 1 players from Each Team in a Skype Chat to arrange matches. There will also be 1 Tournament Administrator at all times.

The first match is scheduled to start at 12PM GMT+1 or 4AM PST. Players need to be in the game lobby by 11:55am GMT+1 (5 minutes before match time.

Players have 10 minutes grace period to start the first match before penalty is assessed (either loss of a match or reduction in prize money) (12:10 PM GMT+1).

After the first match, all players are expected to be on standby in Skype and ready for the next match.

Matches will Proceed continuously (back2back) with a 10 minutes grace time between matches.

Tournament official reserves the right to delay the match more than 10 minutes if circumstances calls for it.

The higher seeded team has choice of sides.

There will be a mystery competition. If players want to participate, they need to submit replays of the game to replays@solomid.net and label it with the round and teams.

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The end of Season II is drawing near and everyone is preparing for the grand finale. To thank our fans for joining us in our victories and defeats thus far, SoloMid has prepared a contest to show our gratitude.

For the grand finale, SoloMid will fly one lucky winner to the Season II finals. The winner will be randomly chosen from those that have made a purchase in our store. If you have not made a purchase yet, you have until Riot announces the date of the tournament to enter in this contest. Simply head over to http://store.solomid.net/ to purchase anything to be entered into the draw. If you have already purchased something, you are already entered into the contest.

Thank you all again for your support.



* Must be 18 or older to participate.
* The only things being paid for are the flight and the hotel. Other amenities such as food will not be provided.
* The contest is a random drawing.
* A staff member will contact the winner once Riot announces the date of the tournament.

UPDATE 04/12/12:
Thank you to everyone who ordered the shirts. Unfortunately, you guys ordered way more than we expected and we cannot handle more orders. We do not want TSM to break their wrists signing shirts. We do not have the exact amount of orders for signed shirts, but it is very, very high and we believe that TSM would spend weeks to sign all the shirts that would have been ordered if we leave them available in the store. I want to apologize to all the fans that were not able to order one yet, but please understand that we are unable to sign more than what has been ordered. We will definitely make autographed shirts available again in the future so follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SoloMidDotNet to know when that happens.









Our newest releases bring baylife to a whole new level. The 'Fk. It Baylife' and 'Baylife' signature editions are signed by all TSM members and come with a little to surprise to thank our fans for their support. Each shirt is $30.00 and will take 4-6 weeks to arrive after our 2 week offer ends.

Visit the store at http://store.solomid.net/ . We ship to all countries that have delivery services.

Please note the shirts are signed by Regi + Dyrus + Oddone + Chaox + Xpecial unless specified otherwise. We cannot guarantee Jonas or Rainman signatures. The players will only sign with their name and will not put a custom message.

Solomid has fully launched our Dota2 portal at http://www.dotahut.com/. We already have many pro guides and are working on getting even more done. I hope these guides will help you improve at Dota2. Feel free to leave us feedback in this thread.



Note: almost all of the current users from the forum have been transfered over to DotaHut so you will not need to create a new account and your post count has been transfered as well.

http://www.solomid.net/forums/index.php?/topic/20866-solomid-fan-appreciation-giveaway/

3/21 - UPDATE m333llow won a free shirt! keep on entering and show us some real baylife!

The next theme for the Solomid Fan Appreciation Giveaway is [u]BAYLIFE[/u].

Last time we asked you to show us What Bros Do. This week, we know that sometimes things just don't go your way, school sucks or you've got trouble at work, or maybe things just aren't going your way. What do YOU do to BAYLIFE? Take pictures or upload video to Youtube and show everyone on Solomid just how you BAYLIFE!

Drawings will be held on on March 21st and March 28th

All of the rules in the original thread still apply, and keep in mind, if you entered into any of the previous giveaways but have not yet won, you've still got a chance of being selected in any future drawing. You can also enter again for this theme and get your chance to win doubled. And as this became an issue in the last thread, I'll repeat it here. Entries MUST be your own creation, and taken/created/captured expressly for this giveaway. Linking a music video on youtube, or an image macro from a tumblr account will not get you entered.

If we find an entry that is exceptional we will give a shirt to that person independently of that week's giveaway!


Any and all entries into the fan appreciation giveaway become property of Solomid to display and use for promotional purposes. Solomid staff reserve the right to determine what does or does not constitute a legitimate entry. Obscene or disturbing entries may result in the entry being deleted and/or the user being banned. Entries in which state or federal laws are being broken are prohibited, use common sense. One entry per theme per user, you can submit more than one but you will only be entered once. Winners will have their name removed from the pool for the entry they won, entries from other themes will remain in the draw. Entering for different themes will get your name put into the pool more than once and increase your odds of winning. Winners will be notified by private message on solomid,net forums. Youtube shirt giveaway winners will be contacted via their Youtube accounts. Attempts to copy another entry that we've rewarded for being exceptional will not rewarded in the same way.

Team SoloMid is one of the oldest North American team in League of Legend's competitive scene and has kept a consistent roster for nearly a year now. During this time, every member of TSM have become great friends and formed a bond that persists even outside of the game.

Only a few months ago, Team SoloMid formed the first League of Legends gaming house in North America as a brilliant step towards refining their play. However, with this large step, problems arose in regards to the path necessary for TSM to become the best team. Such problems have caused strife out of the game and its effects have crippled teamwork and ultimately is detrimental to our performance as a team. With this, TheRainMan has decided to step off the main team and former Epik Gamer's Dyrus will be in his stead. This decision was made in full acceptance of all members and RainMan will continue to stream for SoloMid and stay in the gaming house.

Team SoloMid has become more than just a team for its members and though people come and go, they still remain friends. While RainMommy will no longer play with the team, his loud outbreaks will continue to be heard during scrims and he will continue to be a friend of each member.

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Marcus 'Dyrus' Hill : I didn't want it to end up like this but this is a chance I can't pass by. I will be leaving Epik gamer to join Team Solomid in their journey on the path of baylife.

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Christian 'TheRainMan' Kahmann: I didn't feel that I clicked well with the team and I did not want to hold the team down. In the end, we are all still friends and we will remain that way.

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Shan 'Chaox' Huang: Rainman didn't mesh well with the team, we were too asian for him.

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Alex 'Xpecial' Chu: TheRainMan is an excellent player and a great friend, but the differences in philosophy between him and the rest of the team has led up to this point.
Even if we are no longer teammates, I wish him the best of luck in both LoL and in life.


Dyrus' situation made him the ideal candidate and I wholeheartedly welcome him on the team. I wish for everyone's continued support for Dyrus and TSM.

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Brian 'TheOddOne' Wyllie: we are really sad to see him go, we wish him luck in the future. However we're really excited to have dyrus on the team as we feel he'll be a worthy replacement.

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Andy 'Reginald' Dinh: Baylife

New Line-up:

Andy 'Reginald' Dinh
Shan 'Chaox' Huang
Brian 'TheOddOne' Wyllie
Alex 'Xpecial' Chu
Marcus 'Dyrus' Hill