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With the recent success of IPL4, we are excited to look to IPL5 and the excitement in store for our third live event. This time around, North America and Europe will have their own qualifier tournaments, and we’ll be adding Asia into the mix as well. Garena, through a partnership with IPL, will be running various online qualifiers through their own outlets and the winners will compete at IPL5.
Over the coming months, the IGN Pro League will be holding 8 regional online qualifiers (4 in North America and 4 in Europe) to decide which teams will earn the honor of playing at IPL5. The winning team from each qualifier will receive an invite, while the rest of the teams are welcome to register again for the following qualifiers in hopes of earning a spot.
Online Qualifier Tournament Format
- 4 qualifiers within each region
- Separate EU and NA tournaments
- 32 Team Bracket
- Best of 3 Matches
- Single Elimination
- $1000 Prize
Seeding Match
Once a team has won each of the 4 qualifiers, a round robin tournament will commence to determine seeding. The top seed coming out of this tournament will have their flight and hotel accommodations paid for, courtesy of the IPL.
Signups for Qualifier 1, NA and EU!
Dates: Opens Monday, April 23, Ends Friday, May 4th
Cost to Enter: $25 Per Team
http://esports.ign.com/lol/ipl5_regional_qualifier_signup
Tournament Schedule
Matches will begin Tuesday, May 8th.
Broadcasts of live qualifier matches will happen Tuesday-Friday
11:00am PDT / 20:00 CEST – EU Tournament Matches
5:00pm PDT / 04:00 CEST – NA Tournament Matches
IPL5 will take place at an undetermined date in the United States, and will have an open qualifier component as well as a championship bracket component. It will have a six figure prize pool!
16 Teams for Championship Bracket
4 North America
4 Europe
4 Asia
Team SoloMid (Winner of IPL4)
3 from Live Event Qualifier
For IPL5, we will be having an open, live qualifier. An undetermined amount of teams (depends on space availability) will be able to buy team passes to participate at the event and possibly earn a spot in the championship bracket and a chance at the huge Grand Prize!
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Hooray for seperate qualifiers! Great to see, IPL5 should be a truely global event this time.
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Really excited to see EU and NA teams at IPL5.
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yaaaaaay! so stoked for this, already looking great.
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4 qualifiers within each region
Separate EU and NA tournaments
Friggin perfect. That is exactly what I wanted.
So happy to see how competetive LoL is developing. Things get better and better.
Also, 6 figure prize pool. Wow.
I just hope all teams that qualify can afford the trip to the main event.
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Those three from the Live Event Qualifier, would that be an Open Bracket?
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When it says Asia, which areas of Asia are you talking about?
Hopefully not just in the areas where the Garena servers are.
I really want the Korean/Chinese teams to be able to come
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in before locodoco at IPL5
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inb4 put against fnatic round 1 again.
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zzz i hope korea's able to participate :D
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If it is at the cosmopolitan again TSM can't go lol :3!
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If a non-sponsored team manages to win per say, they have to pay their own flight arrangements, yes?
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On April 24 2012 05:53 locodoco wrote:
zzz i hope korea's able to participate :D
4 Asia, so I think you will 
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do no invite Chinese team, 90% of them have visa issues anyways due they dont have stable incomes... (no offense to them, but it sucks when they get the spot and cant come)...
I wish to see more Korean and Taiwanese teams.
Taiwanese Teams are really really good btw.
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On April 24 2012 06:48 emucxg wrote:
do no invite Chinese team, 90% of them have visa issues anyways due they dont have stable incomes... (no offense to them, but it sucks when they get the spot and cant come)...
I wish to see more Korean and Taiwanese teams.
Taiwanese Teams are really really good btw.
it's not due to their instable income, they make quite a lot of money compared to the average person in china. It's more of a visa problem because the chinese government is slow as fuck when approving visas.
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Sick, looking forward to a good tourney!
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On April 24 2012 06:57 Soloside wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 06:48 emucxg wrote:
do no invite Chinese team, 90% of them have visa issues anyways due they dont have stable incomes... (no offense to them, but it sucks when they get the spot and cant come)...
I wish to see more Korean and Taiwanese teams.
Taiwanese Teams are really really good btw. it's not due to their instable income, they make quite a lot of money compared to the average person in china. It's more of a visa problem because the chinese government is slow as fuck when approving visas.
wat, chinese government never approve visas, the foreign embassies do.
foreign embassies doesnt like chinese because half of them have immigrant intent (fake marriage, illegal immigrant, spying, illegal employment)...
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On April 24 2012 07:07 emucxg wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 06:57 Soloside wrote:On April 24 2012 06:48 emucxg wrote:
do no invite Chinese team, 90% of them have visa issues anyways due they dont have stable incomes... (no offense to them, but it sucks when they get the spot and cant come)...
I wish to see more Korean and Taiwanese teams.
Taiwanese Teams are really really good btw. it's not due to their instable income, they make quite a lot of money compared to the average person in china. It's more of a visa problem because the chinese government is slow as fuck when approving visas. wat, chinese government never approve visas, the foreign embassies do. foreign embassies doesnt like chinese because half of them have immigrant intent (fake marriage, illegal immigrant, spying, illegal employment)...
Chinese government has the final say in whether or not teams like Ehome or iG(CCM) or whatever can go. They just need to send/push their applications before hand. Once they get the visa approved for the US, which is generally (12 months) they're free to come and go.
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This is so cool! I am excited
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Zenon you are always excited :D not that it's a bad thing.
Any idea who casts these?
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On April 24 2012 08:06 DanielZKlein wrote:This is so cool! I am excited
Are u going to cast?
Last time really really missed you
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On April 24 2012 06:01 freakeh wrote:
If it is at the cosmopolitan again TSM can't go lol :3!
I think some other people got banned too HSGG and Polbelter?. Though it's not a big deal is it? The hotel they stayed at was the cosmopolitan but was that where the actual games were played? If so that is a problem, but probably could be fixed although a hassle. If the games did not take place at the cosmopolitan then banned players can just stay at a different hotel even if IPL books cosmo again.
And good luck Loco. It's cool that each region gets seperate qualifiers and should make the winner of IPL5 more legitimate as TSM won an essentially NA tournament.
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Something I've always wondered is why IPL, such a prestigious tournament, hosts these 1-shot qualifiers instead of a league-like event that would be more marketable and produce more exciting content and just more content in general and provide better and clearer seeds for the players.
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On April 24 2012 14:17 Deezl wrote:
Something I've always wondered is why IPL, such a prestigious tournament, hosts these 1-shot qualifiers instead of a league-like event that would be more marketable and produce more exciting content and just more content in general and provide better and clearer seeds for the players.
They do what they know how to do. Running a league takes much more time and might not be the sort of investment they are looking for, especially since there are other leagues.
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I don't usually cast NA events. We do have Riv and Phreak, and we now also have Jatt. I would love to cast ALL the events, but there's plenty in Europe already. This weekend I'm casting the EPS (in German, though, it being a German league)
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On April 24 2012 12:22 BlackMagister wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 06:01 freakeh wrote:
If it is at the cosmopolitan again TSM can't go lol :3! I think some other people got banned too HSGG and Polbelter?. Though it's not a big deal is it? The hotel they stayed at was the cosmopolitan but was that where the actual games were played? If so that is a problem, but probably could be fixed although a hassle. If the games did not take place at the cosmopolitan then banned players can just stay at a different hotel even if IPL books cosmo again. And good luck Loco. It's cool that each region gets seperate qualifiers and should make the winner of IPL5 more legitimate as TSM won an essentially NA tournament.
I keep hearing people talk about this but I haven't read any details.
What got them kicked out / banned?
At any rate, hopefully this will be the best IPL yet.
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There was some boozing going around in HSGG's room (some underage), so they got banned from the hotel at least, Chaox talked about it in his vlog after IPL.
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IPL4 was the first event since IEM New York I've been able to sit back and just watch, it was great overall and it looks like IPL5 will be even better. Looking forward to watching the qualies starting after I45.
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On April 24 2012 20:51 NonFactor wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 12:22 BlackMagister wrote:On April 24 2012 06:01 freakeh wrote:
If it is at the cosmopolitan again TSM can't go lol :3! I think some other people got banned too HSGG and Polbelter?. Though it's not a big deal is it? The hotel they stayed at was the cosmopolitan but was that where the actual games were played? If so that is a problem, but probably could be fixed although a hassle. If the games did not take place at the cosmopolitan then banned players can just stay at a different hotel even if IPL books cosmo again. And good luck Loco. It's cool that each region gets seperate qualifiers and should make the winner of IPL5 more legitimate as TSM won an essentially NA tournament. I keep hearing people talk about this but I haven't read any details. What got them kicked out / banned? At any rate, hopefully this will be the best IPL yet.
IPL 4 was played in one of their Ball rooms, and they are perma banned from the hotel for under age drinking + tresspassing. Next event if it is at the cosmopolitan means most of TSM won't be able to play where every other player is etc. Quite funny how the previous winners are/were banned from the place where they will be playing XD!
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