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Blizzard announced the 16 players for Blizzcon. 2 players will represent 8 regions:
(Races taken from Blizzard post)
China:  Dai “Loner” Yi,  Ye “Luffy” Hao
Europe: Benjamin “mTwDeMusliM” Baker, Dario “TLAF-Liquid`TLO” Wünsch
Korea:  Min-Soo “NEXGenius” Jung, Han-Eul “MakaPrime” Kwak
Latin America: Jian Carlo “Fenix” Morayra, Patricio “Capoch” del Olmo
North America: Christopher “HuK” Loranger, KyeongHyun “SeleCT” Ryoo
Russia: Dima “mTwDIMAGA” Filipchuk, Oleksiy “White-Ra” Krupnyk
Southeast Asia: Daryl “ice” Xiang, Thanapol “RedArchon” Kuachat
Taiwan: Chia-Cheng “SEN” Yang, Jen-Yu “SoftBall” Chan
Race Distribution
T: 7
P: 4
Z: 5
Tournament will be Friday and Saturday, starting at 1:30 PM PDT Friday in Hall B. Shoutcasters include Dustin Browder, Rob "Voice" Simpson, Day[9], Artosis, and Tasteless.
+ Show Spoiler [bracket] +
Special showmatch between BoxeR and Fruitdealer as well! Friday at 7:30 PM PDT @ RTS Stage.
Looks like free stream for the tournament this year. Edit: Blizzcon page says $39.95. Booo. Hope that's just the main stream and not the tournament streams.
Final Edit:
Source: Blizzard
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Braavos36401 Posts
TLO will be playing some Z at Blizzcon, confirmed.
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no idra 
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I'm curious, it says Artosis and Tasteless going? Isn't GSL going on the same day?
or that friday at the very least?
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On October 19 2010 11:25 `Aceku wrote:no idra
They based invite off ladder rankings i think.
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On October 19 2010 11:25 `Aceku wrote:no idra
But TLO is playing Zerg!
^_^
I practically had an orgasm, TLO playing Zerg in beta was why i started playing as Zerg in the first place.
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Doubt the tournament stream will be $40. Every other year they've had the tournament streams free, it's just all the discussions and such which are included with the $40.
I can just see Browder's commentary though.
"And those collossi move in, and deal some terrible, terrible damage!"
"Looks like those tank lines are going to do some terrible, terrible damage!"
"Oh lord, that was some terrible, terrible damage!"
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Predictions:
DeMuslim> Luffy
NEXGenius> Select
Fenix > Softball
ice> White-Ra
Huk> Redarchon
Loner> Capoch
Maka> Dimaga
Sen> TLO
Any liquidbet for this?
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I heard Maka is sick or something. I hope he gets better by time.
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On October 19 2010 11:26 Graham wrote:
Doubt the tournament stream will be $40. Every other year they've had the tournament streams free, it's just all the discussions and such which are included with the $40.
Nothing on their page inspires me to believe otherwise yet
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And then does TLO book it like the Flash back to Korea for the GSL? Godspeed, TLO!
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WTF is the point of inviting the most important player of e-sports and SC2 and not allow him (along with the winner of GSL) to participate in the tournament? Absolutely disgraceful how Blizzard has handled the selection process.
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At first I saw the brackets and though they were really stupid. Then I realized there's it's just a very skill saturated player pool.
Can't wait!
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The show match between Fruit Dealer and BoxeR, seems like one hell of a practice match for GSL 
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Hmm, wasn't Boxer supposed to be attending Blizzcon?
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On October 19 2010 11:31 setzer wrote:
WTF is the point of inviting the most important player of e-sports and SC2 and not allow him (along with the winner of GSL) to participate in the tournament? Absolutely disgraceful how Blizzard has handled the selection process.
They didn't participate (or weren't invited) to the Blizzcon qualification tourney in KR.
However, I think EU/NA/Russia are invite-only and hence we see TLO who doesn't really ladder in EU.
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Is this the first time the Plott brothers have casted together?
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On October 19 2010 11:32 netherDrake wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2010 11:31 setzer wrote:
WTF is the point of inviting the most important player of e-sports and SC2 and not allow him (along with the winner of GSL) to participate in the tournament? Absolutely disgraceful how Blizzard has handled the selection process. They didn't participate (or weren't invited) to the Blizzcon qualification tourney in KR. However, I think EU/NA/Russia are invite-only and hence we see TLO who doesn't really ladder in EU.
"Hey Boxer and Cool, we want you to come and help make our tournament popular in Korea ... but you can't actually get a chance to win $40K, that okay with you two?"
This is just a complete lack of common sense on Blizzard's part. I don't like that Idra, easily the best NA player, was snubbed for this event as well.
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