biggest upset for me is tassadar who beat so many extrem good players and also beat puzzle pvp.
also alicia was kinda unexopected (2-0 vs puzzle ... damn i remember when he lost vs tod on mlg TWICE)

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

April 02 2012 07:51 GMT

#103

Like the worst outcome the qualifiers could have had. T.T So boring...

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

April 02 2012 07:52 GMT

#104

On April 02 2012 16:35 Xeris wrote:
so there is

MLG Invite #2 : NA
MLG Invite #2 : EU
MLG Invite #2 : KR

How many players will each tournament have?

The invite qualifiers include:
MLG winter arena participants
Ranks 9-80 of MLG Winter Champs
Top 8 from each server in the Open Qualifiers (this)
Bottom 4 of Arena 1

So we actually already know a large amount of people who are going to be in the Invite-only qualifiers. I'll probably wait until after the Liquipedia April Fool's is over to compile those ranked 9-80 lol cos right now it's all AM/KR and no EU players.

jmbthirteen

United States10734 Posts

April 02 2012 07:55 GMT

#105

On April 02 2012 16:35 Xeris wrote:
so there is

MLG Invite #2 : NA
MLG Invite #2 : EU
MLG Invite #2 : KR

How many players will each tournament have?

It can't be an equal number for all three since how its set up. Cause we have the 8 from each of the qualifiers and then the players who finished 9-80 at MLG, which is naturally have more NA players than anything. Also the players who were in the Winter Arena that didn't go to the Winter Championship will be in the qualifiers (so MVP, Nestea, Leenock, San and Losira).

So by looking at the 8 players who qualified today, the guys from winter arena and the winter championship guys, the KR region is going to be absolutely stacked.

MMA, Choya, Ryung, Alicia, Maru, Tassadar, Dream, Shine, MC, JYP, Puma, Alive, Polt, MVP, Nestea, Leenock, Oz, Crazymoving, Golden, Rain, Killer, Inori, Artist, Symbol, Sleep, San, and Losira.

That is 27 players.

There may be some more, but thats almost, if not all of the KR invite only line up. Oh and the bottom 4 from Arena 1, which ever Koreans end up there will be in this tournament. And with Naniwa and Huk being in Korea, if they are in the bottom 4 I can see them playing in the KR qualifier cause they hate playing with lag. So the bottom 4 of MKP, DRG, Heart, Huk, Ganzi, Parting, Naniwa and Violet (who probably won't play in the KR region) will be in there as well.

KR could have between 28 and 31 players in their qualifier.

EDIT: I decided to go into the other 2 regions.

72 spots of the invite only qualifiers come from the 9-80 spots at the Winter Championships. 14 of the spots were taken by Koreans listed above which leaves 58 spots. Looking through liquipedia, I believe 11 spots were taken by Europeans. I'm going off the notable players list as I think all Europeans who came over were notable (sorry if they aren't). This would leave 47 NA players.

These numbers may all change as players may play in different regions depending on where they are. For example, Ret has been living in the US so he may be in the NA qualifier and Haypro who was staying in Korea (will he be going back? not sure) may chose to do the KR ones due to lag and such. These are all just rough estimates here. And its late so I could be completely wrong anyways

Europe has 3 players who were in the arena but not the championship (Pomi, Merz, and Sjow). So take those 3, the 11 from the championship, and the 8 from the TBD qualifier and we get 22 players.

Which leaves us with the NA region. we have 47 from the Winter championship and the 8 from the TBD qualifier. All NA players at the winter arena attended the winter championship. That would make 55 players from NA.

So in all we have:

KR: 28-31
EU: 22
NA: 55

These should be pretty close to the actual number, but like I said, due to EU players living in KR/NA and so on, its hard to say how it will all play out.

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

April 02 2012 08:03 GMT

#106

Players qualified for Invitational Qualifer:

Ranks 9-80 of MLG Winter Arena:
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Winter Arena:
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MVP

San

Top 8 KR Open:
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Tassadar
DREAM
(Z)

8 from NA OPEN

8 from EU OPEN

4 from ARENA 1

Slangen

Sweden1166 Posts

April 02 2012 08:26 GMT

#107

On March 30 2012 15:47 Alstroemeria wrote:

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Whaaaaaa.. Huge upset

Imo thebest is not bad at all. Just got labeled bad after tastosis made his terrible banshee control into an ongoing joke.

vthree

Hong Kong8039 Posts

April 02 2012 10:02 GMT

#108

Yeah, the final list for the invitations will have to wait till arena 1 is done and also for player signups. Players could play in other regions depending on their physical location at the time. There was some concern the Koreans would all sign up on NA because it would be 'easier' but we didn't really see that last time (it is likely going to be looked down upon if you are progamer in Korea and try on purpose to qualify on NA/EU).