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Seoul, South Korea – International E-Sports Group Inc is proud to announce a new StarCraft tournament for North American players called StarCraft SuperStars. This new tournament series will have 16 players battle for $1,000 in cash prizes as well as for one lucky winner, an all-expense paid trip to Seoul to play with the professional StarCraft team, eSTRO.
The first tournament will take place on Sunday October 14th and already has all 16 players confirmed. There are two ways to get you into one of the StarCraft SuperStars event; receive an invitation from one of the StarCraft SuperStars admins or qualify through one of the open qualifiers that will be hosted prior to future S3 events. To be eligible to play in StarCraft SuperStars, you need to be a resident of a North American country.
The lucky winner will be chosen from a pool of the top5 finishers during the inaugural StarCraft SuperStars event by eSTRO’s expert coaching staff. Each of these five players will submit all of their match replays until one is decided the lucky winner. Once chosen, the winner will be flown to Seoul and live amongst the professional StarCraft players of eSTRO.
Prizes:
1st place: $500 cash
2nd place: $300 cash
3rd place: $150 cash
4th place: $50 cash
Total cash prize: $1,000
Current map list for StarCraft SuperStars:
• Tau Cross
• Python
• Peaks of Baekdu
About International E-Sports Group International E-Sports Group is a company based in Seoul, South Korea. International E-Sports Group is the tournament operator and license holder for the Electronic Sports World Cup as well as KODE5 in Korea. In addition to operating events in Korea, IEG is also the owner of the professional gaming team, eSTRO.
For more information regarding StarCraft SuperStars or IEG, please contact Stuart Brooks (stuart@iegroup.co.kr)
The players and first round matches
Artosis vs. LzGamer
TheMachine vs. Nony
Skew vs. Idra
G5 vs. iNcontroL
Xiaozi vs. Response
Dino vs. Schism
Iefnaij vs. Nesh
Slog4 vs. Crayon
http://www.binarybeast.com/?ID=xBW071014A
This event will start at 6pm PST on Sunday the 14th.
On Hamachi server, channel IEG (unless problems occur)
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anyone awake to move this to the front page?
everyone is asleep on msn.
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Wow, sounds pretty awesome. By the way, how long will the winner stay in Korea?
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United States7488 Posts
Wow, this does sound pretty awesome. Thanks for the info PR.
I could see how they would decide on the top four, but any idea how they decide who is going to be in fifth/ Will there be a losers bracket to decide?
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wow that seems like a pretty dope offer
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Valhalla18444 Posts
where did the last $50 go
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United States4991 Posts
On October 12 2007 18:00 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
where did the last $50 go
Into my pocket.
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They were donated to "progamers without borders" always helping noobs aroudn the world to improve their game. :D
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Vatican City State1872 Posts
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On October 12 2007 18:00 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
where did the last $50 go
great, there goes my profit.
prizes updated.
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Sweden33719 Posts
I\'ve been looking into evidence to support a case that sweden is really the 52nd state of the US.
Not much success so far.
Seriously tho, this is really cool but I can\'t help but feel they are 5 years late with this.
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would be funny if assem won the election ^_^;
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
Really great for the american scene, not so much elsewhere; should be good however!
Also, as already asked how long will the player stay with estro?
FA has a point; it does feel like this is 5years too late
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This is cool, if testie goes he gets some company!
But how far from eachother are the CJ and Estro club houses...
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wow this is assem i mean awesome  , on that note i hope assem doesnt get it -.-''
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51424 Posts
Nice! Iefniaj fighting! Young progamer gogo.
But why don't they do this for europe as well? 
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51424 Posts
On October 12 2007 18:13 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Seriously tho, this is really cool but I can\'t help but feel they are 5 years late with this.
I'm not sure if you were still following the scene, but eSTRO only just recently picked up the Dream Team. As many might know, Hexatron and eNature IMO struggled pretty much to keep the team up (thus not being able to do awesome tournaments like this).
So it isn't too late.
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I think he meant that with StarCraft II coming out around the corner and with BW on its declining years, it would've been better if something like this was offered 5 years ago so that the trainees would have enough time amongst the pros to actually accomplish something at the height of the game.
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Sweden33719 Posts
On October 12 2007 18:54 GTR-2-Go wrote:Show nested quote +On October 12 2007 18:13 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Seriously tho, this is really cool but I can\'t help but feel they are 5 years late with this. I'm not sure if you were still following the scene, but eSTRO only just recently picked up the Dream Team. As many might know, Hexatron and eNature IMO struggled pretty much to keep the team up (thus not being able to do awesome tournaments like this). So it isn't too late.
estro has been estro for like a year havent they? Anyway, I mean more in general - there would have been more interest 5 years ago I think.
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Really nice idea.
I hope Iefnaij wins it, who knows maybe he'll get invited to join eSTRO !
GL Iefnaij !
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Artosis vs. LzGamer t>z
TheMachine vs. Nony z<p
Skew vs. Idra t>p could be finals T_T
G5 vs. iNcontroL (after inc performance in wcg ,going for g5 python + peaks p>z)
Xiaozi vs. Assem ( assem if he manage to find strong z to practice oo)
Dino vs. Schism ( hoping for schism he is talented terr, but p>t )
Iefnaij vs. Nesh (iefnaij 99%)
Slog4 vs Evade (prolly slog4)
artosis vs nony (going for artosis cuz he improved lately and nony worst mu is pvt :o)
skew vs g5 ( hoping for skew but g5 is stronger on python and tau )
assem vs dino ( people say that dino's best mu is pvt but hope assem crush him )
iefnaij vs slog4 ( iefnaij 99% )
artosis vs g5 (g5 2-1 on tau and peaks)
assem vs iefnaij ( assem 2-1 python + peaks)
g5 vs assem if bo3 ? can go either way i think tau for g5 and peaks for assem, python will decide winner
gl to all,have fun in korea whoever go, make some noise for foreigners
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gl to all... but if this means korea has started to pick up players from outside korea?? =)
maybe more of these events will occur?
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Gogogo Non-Korean pro gamer to Korean league
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
wow tahts crazy!!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE CONTESTANTS!! :O
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wow! Awesome!. Hope more non-korean have chances to play korean leagues!!.
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O M G, i wish all my teammates good luck !!
brian (stop ums please), eric, dan, greg and alex (sup the dino too)
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OH MY GOD
This is going to be so awesome :D
Too bad it's eStro and not T1 or KTF
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who there woudl go? thats my main interest... would any of them go and spend time in korea for progaming? however on the plus side, one gets invited and testie goes too, foreigners wouldnt be so lonely then, can hang out outside of practise?
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WHOA WHAT, THATS AWESOME.
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outside of practice.. hmm whats that?
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
daniel i know you are probably going to read this, even though you probably don't value my opinion:
all the players in this line up have absolutely no talent except assem unless you're being forced to do this by estro... taking them is a terribly bad idea
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
and a lot of them, while they have drive and dedication, are actually big ego headed fuck heads who like to whine and make excuses even after playing hte game for 7 years...lol
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
oh wait xaozi might be good
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Testie isn't competing? Or is he already going to CJ?
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
btw why is this only for north americans???
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On October 12 2007 23:00 Rekrul wrote:
and a lot of them, while they have drive and dedication, are actually big ego headed fuck heads who like to whine and make excuses even after playing hte game for 7 years...lol
I actually agree....
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Live2Win
United States6657 Posts
On October 12 2007 23:08 Rekrul wrote:
btw why is this only for north americans???
that's a good question.
Limiting this to North Americans only seriously puts a dent in the skill level of the tournament.
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HOLY CRAP GO SCHISM JF!!
Man if I ever SchiSm on TV playing Starcraft, I'll be so proud. I believe in you BEN!
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Iefnaij or Xaozi will win imo, probably Iefnaij.
and yeah, to bad this is only for North America ;_;
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I'm rooting for iNControl
what a nice guy
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North America is probably the best place for e-sport after China and Korea, business wise.
I hope for.. to hell, I know no one -.- Most talented and humble should win a trip
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so were all these players invited or did some of them have to play in a prelim tour? is there a news on tl.net about these prelim tourneys?
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:'( i wanna play in this it would be fun!
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I'm waiting for european version ;>
GL ToT)PuMbA( !
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Go Tyler  .
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is awesome32274 Posts
On October 12 2007 18:13 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Seriously tho, this is really cool but I can\'t help but feel they are 5 years late with this.
I think you mean late for people who dropped the game. The BW scene is stronger than ever. If the skill difference between koreans non-koreans got bigger its not because non-koreans got worse but because koreans got a lot better (and more of them).
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
i cant play on hamachi..
GL to all THis should be fun.
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Iefnaji will take it, but I want NonY to win
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Stegosaur
Netherlands1231 Posts
This sounds pretty awesome.
To me it shows, Korea is actually aware of the interest in SC progaming and tries to expand the scene to other places besides the homeland =) Who knows, if this catches up (yeah right) it might even be a good boost for Starcraft 2 when it arrives.
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On October 13 2007 01:13 GoSuPlAyEr wrote:
:'( i wanna play in this it would be fun!
i'll take your spot!!
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On October 12 2007 22:57 Rekrul wrote:
daniel i know you are probably going to read this, even though you probably don't value my opinion:
all the players in this line up have absolutely no talent except assem unless you're being forced to do this by estro... taking them is a terribly bad idea
the OP sort of hints to there being more than one tournament held though it doesn't really elaborate on it.
unfortunately i have to agree with rek and others that limiting the player pool to the U.S severely drops the skill level overall, especially with the first prize being a ticket to train with estro (presumably with the hopes of producing the next giyom/elky) you'd expect that the player pool would be made as broad as possible
on the flip side, this is a really nice initiative which makes me love estro even more than i already do
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I dont like this, it seems suspicious, why so suddenly estro would want a foreigner.. i mean, there are good foreigners, but im pretty sure you can as easily find a korean amateur with the exact same skills or maybe better.
This all seem like a publicity stunt to me at the cost of a foreigner dream, to the winner of this: be careful, because they probably will just use you to get publicity and youll end up like Tossgirl or any other girl in any programing team, forgotten.
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Awesome, the scene is getting bigger and bigger n.n
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On October 13 2007 02:48 skindzer wrote:
I dont like this, it seems suspicious, why so suddenly estro would want a foreigner.. i mean, there are good foreigners, but im pretty sure you can as easily find a korean amateur with the exact same skills or maybe better.
This all seem like a publicity stunt to me at the cost of a foreigner dream, to the winner of this: be careful, because they probably will just use you to get publicity and youll end up like Tossgirl or any other girl in any programing team, forgotten.
amen. $500 cash prize from eSTRO...thats pocket change, sounds like a joke to me.
got my money on G5 to take it all
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the main attraction to this tour is the prize money i dont think anyone except assem would consider playing for estro (maybe xiaozi but he goes to school still i think)
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if only i didnt blow vs terran
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I want either G5 or NonY to win. But most likely that either Assem will win.
Wish Day[9] was invited though.
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3 Lions
United States3705 Posts
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On October 13 2007 03:29 mayap wrote:
the main attraction to this tour is the prize money i dont think anyone except assem would consider playing for estro (maybe xiaozi but he goes to school still i think)
Meh, in the overall scheme of things, skipping one year of school to experience a once in a lifetime opportunity sounds totally worth it. How many other people can say they've been progamers? Plus, that's one more interesting story for your grandchildren.
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Wow this is cool. :D I wouldn't mind $500. Now I just gotta get some skills. My bets are on Idra.
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8748 Posts
i haven't loaded starcraft since wcg usa and i definitely won't be playing this sorry to PR who I think organized this. didn't mean to screw you over
and rekrul you can't judge talent when nobody has a good place to practice. though i agree it's likely that whoever goes to korea will accomplish nothing, it's not fair to say nobody has talent. if a talented player from your era started playing the game in 2005, i highly highly doubt he'd be able to set himself apart.
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this reminds me of WDT.. kind of..
But GL too all players, especially lefnaij (if thats how you spell it...)
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On October 13 2007 04:48 NonY[rC] wrote:i haven't loaded starcraft since wcg usa and i definitely won't be playing this sorry to PR who I think organized this. didn't mean to screw you over and rekrul you can't judge talent when nobody has a good place to practice. though i agree it's likely that whoever goes to korea will accomplish nothing, it's not fair to say nobody has talent. if a talented player from your era started playing the game in 2005, i highly highly doubt he'd be able to set himself apart.
dude NeO)ReSpOnSe will gladly substitute for you:-D !!
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This is Schism,
I'm actually almost 100% inactive right now and I regret that my spot is wasted cause I won't be able to come to this. If I had been asked in advance I would've given the spot to someone else because I have no time to practice given my midterms coming up. Not to mention that my friend's birthday is saturday night.
I guess that if any eSTRO representative/PR/whoever organises this reads this: give my spot to someone else! Maybe Oldy? Bandit? I really don't play anymore. GL to all the others though!
And oh yes, big props for this event. This is great for all the players =) Peace
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On October 13 2007 05:46 Pseudo_Utopia wrote:
This is Schism,
I'm actually almost 100% inactive right now and I regret that my spot is wasted cause I won't be able to come to this. If I had been asked in advance I would've given the spot to someone else because I have no time to practice given my midterms coming up. Not to mention that my friend's birthday is saturday night.
I guess that if any eSTRO representative/PR/whoever organises this reads this: give my spot to someone else! Maybe Oldy? Bandit? I really don't play anymore. GL to all the others though!
And oh yes, big props for this event. This is great for all the players =) Peace
thanks for conveniently forgetting my name
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sucks people have to drop out
maybe it woulda been good to schedule it with more than 2 days notice.
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Artosis
United States2140 Posts
On October 12 2007 22:57 Rekrul wrote:
daniel i know you are probably going to read this, even though you probably don't value my opinion:
all the players in this line up have absolutely no talent except assem unless you're being forced to do this by estro... taking them is a terribly bad idea
how do you think assem got his "talent"? through PRACTICE. you got a free shot at progaming because of who your friends were. we now have a tournament where some of us who really want it can earn it and you are trying to sabotage this. you dont actually know everything, sorry.
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I hope Dino will win this
gl all
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jianfag will take this easily
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Oh my God this is funny.
On gg.net you will read, in the main news:
"Out of the Top 5 in the tournament, taking place on Sunday 14th of October 03:00 CET, one will be chosen by the eSTRO expert coaching staff."
However here you read 6 PM PST on sunday. When is it? sunday at 3 CET or 18 PST? Cause if it's the latter then I can play in this!
Not that I'll get too excited, apparently dino's a beast
Anyways I guess I'll show up on sunday at 9 PM eastern to see if it's happening. Fuck midterms har har.
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Canada9720 Posts
kind of a weak players list, but, i hope whoever wins enjoys their time in korea
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GOGO BENJAMIN!!! OWN THAT HACKER!
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8748 Posts
actually i guess i'll play. wouldn't hurt to try ;o
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On October 13 2007 10:37 Pseudo_Utopia wrote:Oh my God this is funny. On gg.net you will read, in the main news: "Out of the Top 5 in the tournament, taking place on Sunday 14th of October 03:00 CET, one will be chosen by the eSTRO expert coaching staff." However here you read 6 PM PST on sunday. When is it? sunday at 3 CET or 18 PST? Cause if it's the latter then I can play in this! Not that I'll get too excited, apparently dino's a beast Anyways I guess I'll show up on sunday at 9 PM eastern to see if it's happening. Fuck midterms har har.
Mazor is from Europe, so he probably got the time mixed up.
I'll have him update it, but as far as the tourney goes, I will make my own thread and update it with everything so just follow that.
6pm PST on Sunday is the start time.
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
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good luck Nony
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i think they should of invited Bandit(Mitch) to this event.
Best of luck to JF, Jake, Greg, Dae, Jon, & Ben.
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Who is JF? Which one of the players on the list is him? Just wondering becuz i heard that name a couple times before.
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JF is iefnaij aka Jian fei.
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Idra fuking dominated this thing
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