When: Saturday, September 17th (and maybe Sunday if it goes long) at 11 AM PDT / 2 p.m. EDT / 8 p.m. CEST - Check-in at 10:30 AM PDT Cost: $20 You must also be 18 years or older to participate. Prize: Free flight, free hotel, free food and minimum $1000 prize payout from being guaranteed a slot in our Championship Bracket.
You can watch the brackets update live as the tourney progresses, or follow http://www.twitter.com/IGNProScores to be kept up to date on wins and losses as they happen!
Keep in mind, players, this is your last chance to qualify and be seeded directly into the championship bracket in Atlantic City! This is a $100,000 prize pool event, where you can essentially double your money every single round. You'd just be silly to miss an opportunity like this. =)
On September 14 2011 16:39 Joshy.IGN wrote: I spy a couple of foreigners on the sign-ups now, but there are only three and a bit more days to sign up for the LAST CHANCE! =O
Well if it is like the last qualifier then most people will sign up the day before the qualifier, though you should know this.
I really wish people would take mroe advantage of this qualifier. I mean, it's free travel and guaranteed money if you win. You get as much as if you win Code A for winning this tournament, with a chance at more!
Only about 48 hours left to sign up! Please urge your favorite players around the world to enter this FINAL QUALIFIER for IGN Pro League 3 so that they can win a free trip and a minimum of $1,000 prize money in Atlantic City!
I wonder if the Korean players are just gonna sign up last minute or if most of them are focused on GSL again or something. Also lack of the IM team signing up for stuff makes me super sad.
Only about 24 hours to go now! I do spy some very worthy competition in the list but I am curious to find out where some of our usual competitors have run off to. =P
This is your laaaaast chaaaaaaaaance to qualify and win a free trip and automatic seeding into our championship bracket!
You can watch the brackets update live as the tourney progresses, or follow http://www.twitter.com/IGNProScores to be kept up to date on wins and losses as they happen!
whatever I'm too dumb to play in these I can't even read start times right. Plus I'm still playing in tl open. I'll skip again, hopefully I dont sleep through the actual event in Atlantic city.
On September 18 2011 03:12 LuckyFool wrote: whatever I'm too dumb to play in these I can't even read start times right. Plus I'm still playing in tl open. I'll skip again, hopefully I dont sleep through the actual event in Atlantic city.
On September 18 2011 03:12 LuckyFool wrote: whatever I'm too dumb to play in these I can't even read start times right. Plus I'm still playing in tl open. I'll skip again, hopefully I dont sleep through the actual event in Atlantic city.
You playing or spectating?
I am playing in the open on thurs/friday
really wanted to give one of these a crack too but I guess not meant to be... lol
On September 18 2011 03:12 LuckyFool wrote: whatever I'm too dumb to play in these I can't even read start times right. Plus I'm still playing in tl open. I'll skip again, hopefully I dont sleep through the actual event in Atlantic city.
On September 18 2011 03:14 Scribble wrote: Maybe we'll find out the 8th invite today as well! Damn, I'm so excited for this.
Has to be Nestea or it's going to be a huge disappointment due to the wait. I just can't see Nestea actually going to a foreign tournament though. I'm ready to be disappointed. = (
On September 18 2011 03:14 Scribble wrote: Maybe we'll find out the 8th invite today as well! Damn, I'm so excited for this.
Has to be Nestea or it's going to be a huge disappointment due to the wait. I just can't see Nestea actually going to a foreign tournament though. I'm ready to be disappointed. = (
I'd love to see him be the final invite, but I wouldn't be disappointed if it were someone else. You're right though, it seems unlikely.
On September 18 2011 03:14 Scribble wrote: Maybe we'll find out the 8th invite today as well! Damn, I'm so excited for this.
Has to be Nestea or it's going to be a huge disappointment due to the wait. I just can't see Nestea actually going to a foreign tournament though. I'm ready to be disappointed. = (
I'd love to see him be the final invite, but I wouldn't be disappointed if it were someone else. You're right though, it seems unlikely.
Well Nestea always turns down invites to foreign events so it is unlikely.
On September 18 2011 03:14 Scribble wrote: Maybe we'll find out the 8th invite today as well! Damn, I'm so excited for this.
Has to be Nestea or it's going to be a huge disappointment due to the wait. I just can't see Nestea actually going to a foreign tournament though. I'm ready to be disappointed. = (
I'd love to see him be the final invite, but I wouldn't be disappointed if it were someone else. You're right though, it seems unlikely.
The only other big names which I think would be worthy that haven't been in any qualifiers would be MC, MVP, or Nerchio.
I feel like it can't be a Terran so that kind of makes MVP unlikely.
MKP and July which are big names both tried to qualify so it can't be them. = /
On September 18 2011 03:14 Scribble wrote: Maybe we'll find out the 8th invite today as well! Damn, I'm so excited for this.
Has to be Nestea or it's going to be a huge disappointment due to the wait. I just can't see Nestea actually going to a foreign tournament though. I'm ready to be disappointed. = (
I'd love to see him be the final invite, but I wouldn't be disappointed if it were someone else. You're right though, it seems unlikely.
The only other big names which I think would be worthy that haven't been in any qualifiers would be MC, MVP, or Nerchio.
I feel like it can't be a Terran so that kind of makes MVP unlikely.
MKP and July which are big names both tried to qualify so it can't be them. = /
On September 18 2011 03:14 Scribble wrote: Maybe we'll find out the 8th invite today as well! Damn, I'm so excited for this.
Has to be Nestea or it's going to be a huge disappointment due to the wait. I just can't see Nestea actually going to a foreign tournament though. I'm ready to be disappointed. = (
I'd love to see him be the final invite, but I wouldn't be disappointed if it were someone else. You're right though, it seems unlikely.
The only other big names which I think would be worthy that haven't been in any qualifiers would be MC, MVP, or Nerchio.
I feel like it can't be a Terran so that kind of makes MVP unlikely.
MKP and July which are big names both tried to qualify so it can't be them. = /
Dunno... Nestea fighting?
Puma, Sen, or Dimaga. :D
Puma tried to qualify once. I could agree with Dimaga. Sen is borderline I guess. I'd say Fenix, Major, and Sen are on the same level.
I shoulda just kept a probe with my army when basetrading. I'll probably watch the rep later and see if it was close or not but regardless that was fun (:
I shoulda just kept a probe with my army when basetrading. I'll probably watch the rep later and see if it was close or not but regardless that was fun (:
Definitely looks like it was close. Good try though!
Check has been so consistent these four qualifiers. He has also been one of the first signups every time, right? If there was an invite for MVP of the qualifiers he deserves it for being such a baller.
On September 18 2011 06:20 Strelok wrote: Who's Bireu1?
He says he's an unknown korean.
This is so mysterious!
What race is he playing :O
Bracket says he's Terran, no idea if thats correct though. It's probably just forgg.
That would be so sick lol.
I don't trust the brackets since I presume it's just the race of the account being signed up with? As in, if someone is borrowing an account it might not necessarily reflect what they normally play?
On September 18 2011 06:34 Strelok wrote: He is protoss
On September 18 2011 07:03 Hot_Bid wrote: Is Bireu1 actually ForGG? Pretty sick if it is...
Wild speculation; they just said they were an unknown Korean which was pretty suspicious when they beat Puzzle =p
It was mainly looking for a gosu Terran that would be "unknown" in Sc2. Then Strelok confirmed he's actually Toss despite the bracket listing him as T, and since it's "known" that forGG is T in sc2 too it can't be him. Would have been nice though.
ChAnCe has 3 GM accts on NA (not that that means much) and won the Amateur bracket of Complexity 3D Tactic Pro-AM. He's a really good Zerg, just one of those many that people don't know about.
On September 18 2011 07:20 cablesc wrote: Vpchance is posting in this thread as whomp. He's owning face right now and a great example of why it's worth it to take a chance on qualifiers.
On September 18 2011 07:15 Dexington wrote: Who is Chance and why is he raping face?
We do an interview with him at the start of our podcast here: http://esportscanada.net/?p=211 He's a BC-based player who's training really hard, and it's showing!
throw MKP an invite plzzzzzzzz make me happy! seriously you guys can't be blind to the huge fan base his got, which even donated money for him to fly to MLG Orlando! PLZPZLPZLPZLZ
On September 18 2011 08:42 adiga wrote: throw MKP an invite plzzzzzzzz make me happy! seriously you guys can't be blind to the huge fan base his got, which even donated money for him to fly to MLG Orlando! PLZPZLPZLPZLZ
On September 18 2011 08:42 adiga wrote: throw MKP an invite plzzzzzzzz make me happy! seriously you guys can't be blind to the huge fan base his got, which even donated money for him to fly to MLG Orlando! PLZPZLPZLPZLZ
You should send chance in my opinion. Get some strong NA players coming in. His run was super super impressive.
These qualifiers have been very interesting to follow. They have been filled with a ton of mid level and lower top end korean players and I'm surprised how well foreigners have done overall with both stephano and strelok qualifying and a number of others doing very well also.
On September 18 2011 07:15 Dexington wrote: Who is Chance and why is he raping face?
We do an interview with him at the start of our podcast here: http://esportscanada.net/?p=211 He's a BC-based player who's training really hard, and it's showing!
Awesome run by Chance, 2-0ing a bunch of gosus and narrowly being edged out by Strelok. I don't know a lot about this guy, but hope to see more in the future! Congrats to Strelok for qualifying, good to see a foreigner actually have a go and get rewarded for it.
Not to rain on the parade and be a Debbie-downer but Strelok had a really easy path. The only decent opponent he faced was an unknown in Chance who had to work his way uphill. The whole line-up wasn't quite as stacked as last time too. TheSTC also had a relaitvely easy run, only facing about 2 strong opponents. I think I'm starting to see a flaw in these randomly seeded open tournaments.
But grats to Strelok anyway. A (still) very under appreciated player.
On September 19 2011 08:07 Ownos wrote: Not to rain on the parade and be a Debbie-downer but Strelok had a really easy path. The only decent opponent he faced was an unknown in Chance who had to work his way uphill. The whole line-up wasn't quite as stacked as last time too. TheSTC also had a relaitvely easy run, only facing about 2 strong opponents. I think I'm starting to see a flaw in these randomly seeded open tournaments.
But grats to Strelok anyway. A (still) very under appreciated player.
Well, they've said they seed based upon ladder ranking, which is largely random, and if GM on NA = GM on Korea, obviously there's a bit of a problem, but there's not much they can do about it.
I think a problem with the bracket system though, is that the extra rounds (because there is over 32 people) are all on the top half of the bracket, whereas they should be distributed more evenly.
On September 19 2011 08:07 Ownos wrote: Not to rain on the parade and be a Debbie-downer but Strelok had a really easy path. The only decent opponent he faced was an unknown in Chance who had to work his way uphill. The whole line-up wasn't quite as stacked as last time too. TheSTC also had a relaitvely easy run, only facing about 2 strong opponents. I think I'm starting to see a flaw in these randomly seeded open tournaments.
But grats to Strelok anyway. A (still) very under appreciated player.
How do you know it was an easy path? Just because you didn't recognize the names means nothing. Looks to me like he took out 2 Chinese pros and a good VPChance along the way. Strifeco some might consider good also.
On September 19 2011 08:07 Ownos wrote: Not to rain on the parade and be a Debbie-downer but Strelok had a really easy path. The only decent opponent he faced was an unknown in Chance who had to work his way uphill. The whole line-up wasn't quite as stacked as last time too. TheSTC also had a relaitvely easy run, only facing about 2 strong opponents. I think I'm starting to see a flaw in these randomly seeded open tournaments.
But grats to Strelok anyway. A (still) very under appreciated player.
How do you know it was an easy path? Just because you didn't recognize the names means nothing. Looks to me like he took out 2 Chinese pros and a good VPChance along the way. Strifeco some might consider good also.
MacSed is definitely one of the best chinese players and took out koreans on the way.
We're sifting through the hundreds of replays from this qualifier right now to build an amazing broadcast schedule for this week! Stay tuned for a new thread to discuss this week's casts and see who we'll be showcasing!
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