IEM Kiev EU Stage 1 Qualifier - Page 2

Shawngood

Germany473 Posts

November 13 2011 14:39 GMT

#21

On November 13 2011 23:36 BearDK wrote:
this whole tournament has been rather messy. there has been quite a lack of general info when it comes to times and dates. I did not know when I had to play my game, so I got walked over first round of this. so sad QQ

I don't understand that to be honest. You received a detailed email with dates, times and a link to the bracket on Friday. The date for today's cup was announced weeks ago.

On November 13 2011 23:31 JamSam wrote:
So whoever is in bracket stage 1 are the only people who have a chance of going to Kiev? Europe's gonna be seriously lacking pretty much all of its best players in Kiev if thats the case...

Look here: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season6/kiev/news/175922/

Today's qualifier is the "low-tier" one. On December 1st it will be the "mid-tier" one and on December 18th the top of the "high-tier"-qualifier will qualify for Kiev. I'm pretty sure we will have a very competitve European lineup in Kiev. Even though I'm extremely sad about the high caliber players dropping out today (Stephano, GoOdy, Osho, DarK.FoRcE...). Scheduling qualifiers like these are a nightmare right now with big events happening every weekend and players constantly travelling all over the world.

OminouS

Sweden1343 Posts

November 13 2011 14:44 GMT

#22

On November 13 2011 21:49 RotterdaM wrote:
So today 16 players advance to Stage 2, next week we will host Stage 2 and obv afterwards Stage 3, in the end only 7 of all these awesome players will make it to the IEM Global Challenge in Kiev which will be hosted from 19 to the 22nd of January

The link you posted states that Stage 2 is december 1st, you said next week. Which one of them is it?

BearDK

Denmark101 Posts

November 13 2011 15:34 GMT

#23

On November 13 2011 23:39 Shawngood wrote:

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I don't understand that to be honest. You received a detailed email with dates, times and a link to the bracket on Friday. The date for today's cup was announced weeks ago.

So you're saying that the fact that there has been so many no-shows and thus default wins/losses for this tourney is coincidential?

Shawngood

Germany473 Posts

November 13 2011 15:46 GMT

#24

I'm saying that all players were informed about date, time, IRC channel, mappool and tournament mode.

I know why some of the high profile players did not show up (see my first post) and I also know why some of the other players didn't play ("no time", "won't win anyways", you name it). What I don't understand is why you missed the start of the tournament... I agree that there were quite a lot of problems with the national qualifiers (and thus the transition to this international cup) - see the post of LaLush.

Is it that you didn't find your match on the ESL website? Or did you not check your emails for three days? I'm just curious why you blame the organization of the cup when you miss the start.

pusmoh

Germany75 Posts

November 13 2011 16:07 GMT

#25

I don't really understand, what's the advantage of giving each country a different number of slots for the 3 stages, as opposed to just letting everyone who wants to play sign up?

BearDK

Denmark101 Posts

November 13 2011 18:31 GMT

#26

On November 14 2011 00:46 Shawngood wrote:
I'm saying that all players were informed about date, time, IRC channel, mappool and tournament mode.

I know why some of the high profile players did not show up (see my first post) and I also know why some of the other players didn't play ("no time", "won't win anyways", you name it). What I don't understand is why you missed the start of the tournament... I agree that there were quite a lot of problems with the national qualifiers (and thus the transition to this international cup) - see the post of LaLush.

Is it that you didn't find your match on the ESL website? Or did you not check your emails for three days? I'm just curious why you blame the organization of the cup when you miss the start.

I dont want to blame the organization for my missing the start. Just want to clarify that, no blaming or trash talking here. The tournament as a whole has just been very difficult to figure out compared to other ones, so you can take it as an attempt of constructive criticism, but regarding the emails, I have not received anything about when this tournament would occur. Actually, the only emails I have received from ESL for the last month have been about the national qualifiers regarding my signup and the specific match details for that specific event.
Obviously I could/should have checked the ESL website for when the tournament was to be played, but the fact that I have to do that to find out when my match is played, just makes it harder for participants.

mAgixWTF

Germany103 Posts

November 13 2011 18:37 GMT

#27

Is the prizemoney for Kiev already secured, stashed, under key and lock? Or how long will it take the ESL to pay out prizemoney?

mki

Poland882 Posts

November 13 2011 18:46 GMT

#28

On November 14 2011 03:37 mAgixWTF wrote:
Is the prizemoney for Kiev already secured, stashed, under key and lock? Or how long will it take the ESL to pay out prizemoney?

Up to 3 months - this is public knowledge.

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