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Hey guys,
Today I'll be casting Stage 1 of the IEM EU Qualifiers. This topic will change a lot later on and their will be an official Topic for the entire Qualifier, but since the man who's supposed to do that ain't here this is more like an emergency Topic 
Here you can find the Brackets for day 1 : http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/masters/stage_1/rankings/
Couple of the players who we will see in action today ( we got 64 players and the top 16 will advance to the next round are ; BeastyQT , Welmu, Fishlips, Slivko, Cytoplasm and many many more. Hopefully Stephano will make it home from berlin in Time  .
The entire Qualification process can be viewed over here : http://www.esl-world.net/masters/#/masters/season6/kiev/news/175922/
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 . In total we will have 16 players there and 21000 $ usd worth of Prizemoney. Ofcourse the National champion of Ukraine will be there as well who is no other then the Destroyer of Worlds ; Empire.KaS.
Once again I apologize for this messy & Unorganized topic, we will sort things out later, hope this works for now and I'll hope for some awesome games today.
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Mouz.Dreiven ? wtf? Did i miss sth ?
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Hm... weird, type.phoenix and type.real seem to be at take's place, and they don't seem to be in the qualifier bracket.
however he (take) claims that he will do the esl qualifier instead of the usual go4sc2 cup.
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On November 13 2011 22:06 JustPassingBy wrote:
Hm... weird, type.phoenix and type.real seem to be at take's place, and they don't seem to be in the qualifier bracket.
however he (take) claims that he will do the esl qualifier instead of the usual go4sc2 cup.
They're at Takes place every sunday no matter if they participate in the tourney that take casts. As far as i know they're both temporary banned from ESL due to too many penality points.
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Next time you should have a rule that mandates the lazy ass national divisions of ESL to announce qualifiers at least 10 days prior to them taking place.
A 2 or 3 day warning is not enough. Especially if the national division sites are basically dead for the rest of the year.
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Stephano lost his game ?? ...
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On November 13 2011 22:40 SkullZ9 wrote:
Stephano lost his game ?? ...
Why not? He isnt invincible...
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Sounds like he didn't get home on time or something?
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Possible, since it was a default win for his opponent.
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I cant play aswell t.t (fathers day)
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cup of earl grey tea and the kiev qualifier =) nom nom
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How come that both ESL-TV streams (Studio 2 and TaKeTV) don't show up on TL?
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On November 13 2011 22:50 kaetor wrote:
Sounds like he didn't get home on time or something?
Exactly that
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On November 13 2011 21:49 RotterdaM wrote:Hopefully Stephano will make it home from berlin in Time .
And when you click on game result on esl, it says defwin so I guess Stephano went back home too late
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Stephano won't be playing the tournament.
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Hm Goody got a defloss too 
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That means they don't have a chance to qualify for IEM Kiev anymore.
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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...
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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
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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...
There are players who qualified directly into stage 2 and 3
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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.
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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?
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On November 13 2011 23:39 Shawngood wrote:Show nested quote +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.
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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Is the prizemoney for Kiev already secured, stashed, under key and lock? Or how long will it take the ESL to pay out prizemoney?
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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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