European union has 25 countries alone. Add norway,swiss,bulgaria,romanina,ukraine,belarus,albania,croatie,serbia,moldavia,macedonia,bosniaand maybe russia and turkey. Then theres still some independant states

{ToT}Strafe

Thailand7026 Posts

January 17 2005 18:01 GMT

#22

On January 17 2005 14:33 ret wrote:
I would really like to be invited it for this as well. But I probably won't since I didn't compete in wcg 2004 (??? nld orga was crap and everyone had to pay themselves) , regardless of my current skill.

(dont ever say nld orga was crap, because you should be happy you even got given the oppertunity to pay for yourself. This wasnt even the situation at first. Besides you really screwed dutch wcg orga over)

Liquid`Ret

Netherlands4520 Posts

January 17 2005 18:23 GMT

#23

if paying for urselves isn't crap to you, then i dunno, but yeah it was nice they given us that oppurtunity but from that point of view you can't expect for everyone to just pay for themselves to go. So you won't have all top players guaranteed.

Twisted

Netherlands13554 Posts

January 17 2005 18:40 GMT

#24

Uhm... the deal was that Benny trusted us four that we would all pay our own tickets. We all said in a shared MSN convo that we would be willing to pay if we'd qualify. Yes you said that too, so you kinda screwed them over.

That you decided after that convo that you would suddenly NOT pay for your own ticket, it's not their fault, it's yours ;O

but. say what you want, you can't say the organisation was crap. I'm really thankful for the Dutch orga that we were given the chance to participate. If it were any other organisation that wasn't as trustful as Benny, we wouldn't even have BW players at WCG.

Liquid`Ret

Netherlands4520 Posts

January 17 2005 18:51 GMT

#25

I already know that Twisted you think I suffer memory loss? um yeah like I said it was nice for them to do that for us, and I said that cuz I really believed in it but some stuff came up. :\ since tuig went they didn't really get screwed over anyway.

but I think if you have to pay yourself, that equals crap. And as an organisation you can't expect everyone to pay for themselves and go with it, so you don't have the guarantee all top players will participate if you use a pay yourself method. And they never had 100% guarantees, it was very 'unofficial' and not binding. I had good intentions to go and pay for myself but some stuff came up and that's life. That's my point.

It's about ECG now anyway, and surely I deserve to go much more than tuig.

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

January 17 2005 19:01 GMT

#26

--;;;;;

I think they should do it like in 2003, invite the people who qualified for THAT years MAIN event TT

Yizuo

Germany1537 Posts

January 17 2005 19:19 GMT

#27

Man, You drive about one hour to Hannover from my home, so I am confident I can make it there =D. Only spectating ob course >.<

Liquid`Nazgul

22427 Posts

January 17 2005 19:32 GMT

#28

On January 18 2005 04:01 FrozenArbiter wrote:
--;;;;;

I think they should do it like in 2003, invite the people who qualified for THAT years MAIN event TT

this one is in march

cYaN

Norway3322 Posts

January 17 2005 19:55 GMT

#29

hmm...just noticed, the oldest game besides sc is cs1.6 from 2000, which i guess will be replaced by cs2 soon. leaving bw as the oldest game (1997) and wc3 (2003) as the 2nd oldest. Kinda tells you a bit about the quality of the game and the community around the game no? :D

Ghardo

Germany1685 Posts

January 17 2005 20:54 GMT

#30

naaah, come on .. cs 1.6 is not THE big step forward from 1.0-1.5, the graphics and the gameplay are basically the same and it's not that much newer than bw.

DaZe

Sweden2111 Posts

January 17 2005 20:54 GMT

#31

will be fun, though they should invite top 3 of some countries who werent able to send 3 ppl... like sweden :D

wasted

Germany1789 Posts

January 17 2005 22:56 GMT

#32

do i get this right that ONLY germany's WCG qualificants are invited? and not the qualificants of the other european ocuntries? how are the missing spots filled in order to get 300 players participating? imho the whole thing is a bit unclear

tuig

Netherlands46 Posts

January 17 2005 23:04 GMT

#33

Netherlands did send all top players to san francisco. It was nice to see...

TreK

Sweden2089 Posts

January 17 2005 23:05 GMT

#34

But i think its hard for samsung to know which players deserve to go...im sure they are thinking the players who qualify for wcg should be the best players and the easiest way to go...hard for ppl who barely know how the community looks in europe to pick out others players than those who qualified for the only worthmentioning tournament of the year.
So yea everyone knows breakdown is better than methos but breakdown didnt wanna participate in the wcg and show he was better than methos and therefor he didnt get picked for this either.
Btw paid trip for everyone or just the germans to hanover? :D

Twisted

Netherlands13554 Posts

January 17 2005 23:36 GMT

#35

Everyone will get all expenses paid for, at least that's what I read on the site.

tomson

Poland641 Posts

January 18 2005 01:59 GMT

#36

Okay, but does everyone that qualified for San Francisco get an instant invite or is it only the top1 in each country ?

WickeD

Slovakia789 Posts

January 18 2005 02:49 GMT

#37

yeah, my thoughts exactly Tomson! Do i get to go ?? ^^

TreK

Sweden2089 Posts

January 18 2005 02:52 GMT

#38

= ) it would be cool if they had 1 tourney for atleast a couple of extra spots for those who couldnt qualify for wcg tho : )

Triton

Canada258 Posts

January 18 2005 03:31 GMT

#39

On January 18 2005 01:55 iD.Surv wrote:
give belgium (heart of europe a chance plz?) we raised some talented players over the years

I dont know what you are raising over there in Belgium.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=22757

edit: Bulgaria, Belgium, same crap.

TreK

Sweden2089 Posts

January 18 2005 03:36 GMT

#40

lol...he cant be serious