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ThaZenith
Canada3116 Posts
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S.O.L.I.D.
United States792 Posts
On May 04 2011 10:31 Hellspawnl wrote: I will explain how come MaNa isn't qualified to DreamHack Summer 2011. It's a DreamHack tradition that the reigning champion is invited to the next tournament, we do that for all the games and have done that for a long time. The rest of the players Socke, Bischu, MC and White-Ra qualified through DreamHack Sapphire AMD Championship which is DreamHack 2011 StarCraft II in the first to events. So for every competition there has been a slot to DreamHack Summer 2011 for the winner and the runner up. I hope that makes some sense. It just doesn't make sense to me that someone who got second in the coin toss tournament would be qualified when the person who got second in the last BIG Dreamhack tournament would not be qualified. | ||
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L3g3nd_
New Zealand10461 Posts
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
On May 04 2011 11:23 S.O.L.I.D. wrote: It just doesn't make sense to me that someone who got second in the coin toss tournament would be qualified when the person who got second in the last BIG Dreamhack tournament would not be qualified. 1st place and runner up == invited, except mana is runner up of DHW 2010 and not invited? Your post still doesn't make sense. Also seems strange that none of this was publicized, etc ... | ||
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borny
China481 Posts
On May 04 2011 12:19 Xeris wrote: 1st place and runner up == invited, except mana is runner up of DHW 2010 and not invited? Your post still doesn't make sense. Also seems strange that none of this was publicized, etc ... Maybe it is because DHW 2010 is not a part of Dreamhack's 2011 run. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
On May 04 2011 13:41 borny wrote: Maybe it is because DHW 2010 is not a part of Dreamhack's 2011 run. Ya, I kinda inferred that, but it still isn't incredibly clear. I dunno ~~ | ||
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Dexington
Canada7276 Posts
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arew
Lithuania1861 Posts
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syllogism
Finland5948 Posts
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
Dreamhack is quite organized, getting out all of this information this early. I really like what dreamhack is doing with their SC2 events  | ||
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merz
Sweden2760 Posts
On May 04 2011 15:31 syllogism wrote: Did Bischu seriously get an invite purely based on him being invited straight into finals of a previous, unserious, tournament? Not that it particularly matters as you could just invite him at a later stage, though it's questionable if he deserves a spot over some other top players. Having said that, as a Swedish tournament you are of course entitled to invite some local favorites. I'd imagine it's kinda part of the apology towards Bischu for coinflipping him out @DHW 2010. | ||
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kefif
Poland264 Posts
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
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johnnywup
United States3858 Posts
On May 04 2011 16:08 Xeris wrote: I can't wait, every dreamhack has been super amazing, its actually been my dream to go to a dreamhack tournament (although I don't think I can make it out this summer T_T!) There's always winter! and you seriously do too much for the community that it's insane. if you ever get a chance, go and do it man. keep up the good work. and dreamhack has, IMO, been the best starcraft 2 tournament to date, all-around. Production, casting, everything. So smooth, such a great tournament. So stoked. | ||
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Jiddra
Sweden2685 Posts
On May 04 2011 13:58 Xeris wrote: Ya, I kinda inferred that, but it still isn't incredibly clear. I dunno ~~ I guess you need to know some history to understand the answer. The DH tradition = the winner gets invite When DHW10 was played the AMD championship didn't exist. When the AMD championship was made for 2011 a invite for the runner-up was added in the "prize pool" in some of the tournaments. Pretty simple really, non drama. | ||
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Gigaudas
Sweden1213 Posts
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S.O.L.I.D.
United States792 Posts
On May 04 2011 16:58 Jiddra wrote: I guess you need to know some history to understand the answer. The DH tradition = the winner gets invite When DHW10 was played the AMD championship didn't exist. When the AMD championship was made for 2011 a invite for the runner-up was added in the "prize pool" in some of the tournaments. Pretty simple really, non drama. It's not drama, it's just stupid. Bischu was put into the finals of the coinflip tournament before the tournament started, and now he gets an invite to DH summer. MaNa played his ass off and got second in DH 2010, and he is not qualified. I don't care if it's tradition or whatever, it's just not fair to MaNa. | ||
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Maffe
Sweden133 Posts
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Hellspawnl
Sweden103 Posts
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Jiddra
Sweden2685 Posts
On May 04 2011 20:54 S.O.L.I.D. wrote: It's not drama, it's just stupid. Bischu was put into the finals of the coinflip tournament before the tournament started, and now he gets an invite to DH summer. MaNa played his ass off and got second in DH 2010, and he is not qualified. I don't care if it's tradition or whatever, it's just not fair to MaNa. You are however missing the major point, the runner up invite didn't exist when DHW10 was played, it was created in the prizepools of the AMD championships. Kind of hard to plan for things that is not created yet. The DHW10 was played with the standard rules, that they always have used regarding prizepool invites, the change came later. You must have a shift somewhere when changing the construction of a prizepool from one invite to two. | ||
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