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Im not from ESL but the first qualifier is already this Saturday and i see nothing in here.. so here it goes..
Link: http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/news/191707/Combined-European-National-Qualifiers/
Liquipedia: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2012_StarCraft_II_World_Championship_Series/Europe/Nationals/Combined_Europe
Combined European National & Qualifiers
What can you do if you want to compete in Blizzard’s StarCraft II World Championship Series, but your nationality means you can’t enter one of the main National events? Don’t worry, because there’ll also be the Combined European National for players from other countries! On June 23 and 24 a total of 16 players will meet at the new ESL TV Studio in Cologne to determine two more participants for the World Championship Series Europe Finals
How to qualify for the Combined European National
The Combined European National will gather 16 players who have qualified by finishing in the top four of four dedicated cups. We will hold these four cups, as well as a fifth to determine replacements, in May. The 16 qualifying players will have their trips and accommodation for the final event in Germany paid for.
16 Players at Combined European National
Top 4 of Qualifier #1 - May 5th, 2012 Link: http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/qualifier1/rankings/
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Top 4 of Qualifier #2 - May 9th, 2012 Link: http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/qualifier2/rankings/
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Top 4 of Qualifier #3 - May 12th, 2012 Link: http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/qualifier3/rankings/
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Top 4 of Qualifier #4 - May 16th, 2012 Link: http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/qualifier4/rankings/
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Update: http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/news/196599/
Enchanted, ScReaM and LionS will go instead of beastyqt, stuntr and leiny.
The Combined European National is open to players with the following citizenship: Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Croatia, Ireland, Belarus, Slovakia, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia, Iceland, Estonia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Cyprus, Malta, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Georgia, Armenia, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Albania, Montenegro, San Marino, Vatican City, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Israel, South Africa, Faroe Islands.
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"Vatican City"
Makes me smile to imagine a priest or a cardinal playing SC 2
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South Africa is in also :D
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israel south africa ... funny eu states georgia azerbaijan kazakhstan
at least south africa is only african state thats allowed to play ?
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at least everyone gets a chance i guess
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Hm... In the list of players are also some Germans and a French... how exactly did they join this tourney?
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esl being lazy i think they will remove them before torney starts or smthing instead of restricting it or maybe they restricted it now but they signed up before they fixed it
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Not want to steal it from Gizmo,
but according to the brackets these are the first 4 qualified for the finals in June in cologne:
Player:  NightEnD
Team:  Fnatic
Country: Romania
Player: PandaTank
Team : ?
Country: South Africa
Player:  sYz
Team: BLAST
Country: Portugal
Player: LoWeLy
Team: FXOpen
Country: Belarus
edit: dammit :-)..
well take it as a bump ^^
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pandatank the surprise, beating monchi.
gonna be interesting who is gonna take the other slots since nightend/lowely/syz/monchi basically were the only top players that signed up
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This is such a simple, yet amazing idea. LOVE IT <3 <3 <3
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Second qualifier starting soon, not sure if being broadcasted by anyone.
Notable signups (notable as in i recognize the name from various cups).
biGs, Breach, HyDRa, robih, Arew, Krr, DeathAngel, Fargo, Flash (probably a false one  ), monchi, Safa
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German Pros are casting the qualifier on Twitch, including HasuObs, Darkforce, Delphi and Rine
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On May 10 2012 01:03 Ashikaga wrote:German Pros are casting the qualifier on Twitch, including HasuObs, Darkforce, Delphi and Rine
thats the german qualifier not the combined no ?
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maybe we will get some portuguese "surprises" getting in
bigs qualified and all other games to decide are tied 1-1 omg!
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Final qualifier already started! BeastyQT, Monchi and DeathAngel have all signed up to play for a spot today.
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and its done GL to all the qualified players :p
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Wow, seems like Switzerland is tearing it up!
Who would have thought.
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Damn this is one stacked tourney.
biGs, Beastyqt, Fargo, Nightend, sYz, Lowely, Krr and monchi are all really high end Euro's.
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Update http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/news/196599/
+ Show Spoiler +In the past couple of days three players had to drop out of the Combined European Nationals. The most popular name to miss the event will be Beastyqt. Other cancellations came from Swiss player LeinY and stunterr from Hungary.
Two replacements are already lined up. Portugese players Megatronn and ScReaM were first in line and accepted the invitation. The third replacement is currently not confirmed. Stay tuned for updates.
*Update* Swiss player LionS will be the third replacement for the event. The current list of players reads as follows:
NightEnD
PandaTank
BLAST.sYz
FXO.LoWeLy
BLAST.Krr
Arew
biGs
Wulverate
QnkGiantt
Fargo
monchi
xOni
roxkisSafa.515
Megatronn
PWN.ScReaM
LionS
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On May 03 2012 21:19 Agathon wrote:"Vatican City" Makes me smile to imagine a priest or a cardinal playing SC 2
Or the pope beasting it up with 300apm. lol
GL HF for competitors!
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really excited about WCS quick question though. why do stephano, socke, levin, fenix, killer and comm get direct seeds to the world finals after winning their nationals wheras players who won their nationals in other countries do not get a direct seed? i.e. UK, sweden and poland have arguably better sc2 players than france. yet the french national winner got a direct seed instead of having to participate in the continental finals
one other thing, if stephano has a direct seed after winning the french nationals, why does he even attend the european continental tournament?
thanks very much
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> why do stephano, socke, and comm (and Vibe and a russian) get direct seeds to the world finals
Blizzard deems the countries as the biggest in the world in terms of Starcraft user numbers and sales
(and ofcourse Blizzard will know from number of users if anyone).
> levin, fenix, killer
They did win the South America Continental Final, so that is no direct seed - they are 3 of 32 participants on the World Finals in Shanghai.
> Y have arguably better sc2 players than Y
As said, based on player numbers not "better player" which is hard to measure
> why does Stephano even attend the european continental tournament
60.000 extra dollars prizemoney and Europe's Best to play against.
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