This has been answered a billion times, but I'll answer it one final time so I can just link to this post.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=107745

In order to qualify for TSL 2, you had to participate in the custom ladder. You were allowed to play anyone (within a few rules) and the top X players would qualify.

Dimaga laddered on his main account as well as a second account. He then got a friend to play him on the second account, and purposefully lose, so he could get a few extra free points. Several people were caught cheating in this way by IP matching and were banned from all TSL events for 12 months as well as TSL 3.

SirDuke

United States239 Posts

February 23 2011 16:37 GMT

#30

am i the only one who noticed its a 2048 player tourny this time around instead of the usual 1024?

cYaN

Norway3322 Posts

February 23 2011 16:51 GMT

#31

expect a sick field of players who haven't qualified yet. Kinda wish the official tlnet casting would be more than just from semis on for this one. gl all (although more gl to kiwikaki^^)

fabulously

Norway724 Posts

February 23 2011 17:38 GMT

#32

On February 23 2011 13:10 SiguR wrote:
I'm hoping catz takes it by beating kiwikaki in the finals. That way, they both qualify! :D

That would be great, or even better drewbie winning the finals, with somehow both Kiwi and CatZ getting enough points to qualify

Either way gonna be exciting to watch, good luck all players

Trozz

Canada3454 Posts

February 23 2011 17:49 GMT

#33

This is our last chance.
I'll compete in this one too.
TeamLiquid fighting!

Ghad

Norway2551 Posts

February 23 2011 18:49 GMT

#34

On February 24 2011 01:51 cYaN wrote:
expect a sick field of players who haven't qualified yet. Kinda wish the official tlnet casting would be more than just from semis on for this one. gl all (although more gl to kiwikaki^^)

Yeah, wouldnt mind seeing some coverage from at least one level earlier than usual. The finals should be totally nervewracking this last time, so much at stake.

FlashIsHigh

United States474 Posts

February 23 2011 20:19 GMT

#35

I keep checking the list of preregistered players and no ones there yet

There has to be some signups this is make or break time, and all the other qualifiers started to fill up the day of. Hopefully they show us who is signing up soon

Defeat

United States476 Posts

February 23 2011 21:22 GMT

#36

Select and Kiwikaki for 1st and 2nd respectively :3

hifriend

China7935 Posts

February 23 2011 21:31 GMT

#37

Sjow really needs to take this down. :/

This qualifier is gonna be silly stacked lol. Look at all those players with barely enough or below the qualifier cutoff, so many good players are going to be fighting for those last couple of spots. This is going to be sick.

Uraeus

France1378 Posts

February 23 2011 21:50 GMT

#38

The previous TLOpens were already pretty stacked, but I guess this one will be unbelievable. So many GREAT players have not qualified yet!

On a side note, I really love this qualifying process. It rewards both one time huge performances and consistency throughout qualifiers.
And the pressure on the not yey qualified players keeps increasing, making every Open even more tense than the last.
GL TL!

Dac

Canada538 Posts

February 23 2011 22:54 GMT

#39

On February 24 2011 01:37 SirDuke wrote:
am i the only one who noticed its a 2048 player tourny this time around instead of the usual 1024?

I noticed. Crazy number... it makes sense since it is the last qualifier and also because the previous one was full or very close to full (1024, some haven't been)