DICEVIP.com are proud to announce the official details of the DICE National Cup in August this year. This National event will act as the replacement for AINC, and all qualified teams from AINC will retain their invites.

The date has been officially been pushed back to: August 1st & 2nd.

This date was proposed as a date that we deemed suitable to allow space between all existing 1.6 competitions, but ultimately was decided and agreed upon by the community. We individually asked every single qualified team, aswell as a few likely prospects to place well in the remaining qualifiers, if they would prefer the original date, or for it to be pushed back to August 1st & 2nd, and the response was very strong in favour of the later date. We felt it was best to push it back, but we left it up to the players to decide, and this was ultimately the communities decision.

More about the DICE National Cup:

• The event is now a sole 1.6 event, seperate to the CSS Nationals.
  
• The format of the Dice National Cup will be group stages (4 groups of 4) on Saturday, followed by BO3 single elimination of the top 2 teams of each group (8 teams) on Sunday.
• As part of National finals, teams may be required to play certain games in the RMIT TV Studio. Matches filmed will be available on B1GLEAGUE.com and DICEVIP.com.
  
• All teams attending the national event will be required to pay a an entry fee of $20 per player ($100 per team).
  
• The prizes (if any) for this event is still yet to be determined, more details on this will be announced shortly when we have more information.
  
• The remaining Queensland and Melbourne qualifies will be announced shortly, with the Adelaide qualifier already happening on the 7th June.

More information regarding the existing AINC registration money:

• Many ex-Ai organisers have been given us support to try and ammend the current situation.
• At this point in time, we do not have control over the existing AINC funds, but we are working with Ai to get their approval to seize the existing Sydney and Queensland qualifier registration funds.
• The registration fees from the first Melbourne qualifier have already been used by Ai, but we are hopeful that atleast some of this money may be able to be returned to us.
• Exact details regarding the existing funds is being discussed in Ai's final meeting this thursday and will be relayed to us then, but it is expected that we will have full control over all remaining Registration Fees from Sydney and Queensland qualifiers - which will obviously be used to book Autoberths for the winning teams, and any remaining money to go back into the prize pool.
  

Confirmed structure for DICE National Cup:

Melbourne: 4
Sydney: 4
Queensland: 4
Perth: 2
Adelaide: 1
New Zealand: 1

The structure could potentially change depending on whether teams accept invites or not.

To view all teams that have already qualified for the DICE National Cup, please go to page 2: