Hello everyone! This is the official thread for the one and only International Regional for our next LIVE event, IGN Pro League 5! The top two players of this Regional will earn free travel and hotel stay for the live event. They will also earn an automatic seed into Winners Round 3 at the event. Our North American, European, and Korean Regionals have already concluded. This International Regional is open to everyone and is the last chance for pros to win a free trip to IPL5. You will want to play your absolute best to secure this amazing prize!
Unfortunately, we are not yet able to announce the date or location of our live event. All we can tell you is that it is coming up soon and these qualifiers were scheduled in a way that ensures that we have time for travel preparations to be made. If for any reason, a player who qualifies in these online qualifiers cannot make the trip to our live event, their registration fee will be refunded and we will use the Regional results to determine who will receive the free travel, hotel, and tournament seed instead.
International Regional: Saturday, Jun 30 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) You can register any time before Friday, Jun 29 6:59am GMT (GMT+00:00). There is an entry fee of $10 (USD).
Players should be online and ready to play within 30 minutes of the event's start time. Please be aware that these qualifiers can and will take a lot of time. Forfeits and walkovers will be used if needed. Each round is best of 3, with start maps labeled on the bracket. Players may be asked to wait to begin a series so that their match can be broadcast.
Servers: All games will be played on the North American server.
Spectators Rule: No observers/spectators are allowed for these games. IGN Pro League admins and casters may make games for players to help things run smoother and either referee or cast the matches.
Map Pool IPLMap Sanshorn Mists AE IPLMap Atlantis Spaceship IPLMap Antiga Shipyard IPLMap Daybreak IPLMap Tal'Darim Altar LE IPLMap Cloud Kingdom IPLMap Metropolis IPLMap Ohana IPLMap Entombed Valley
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Casters These matches will be cast by our community casters: JoRoSaR, Adebisi, Jmorrow, and SchAmToo all day (and night)!
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We still have to keep everything organized via our North American-based admins and casters. Logistically speaking it makes more sense to keep everything based on one server, especially when the other "true" regionals have already been held on their respective servers.
Our Operations Manager Mirhi says that if players get admin permission to play their match on a different server, it will be allowed, but the default for cross-server of any kind and for broadcasted matches will be North America.
Sucks that its at such a bad time for Koreans but they should still place top 2 either way. I don't expect too many players that are currently in GSL wanting to mess up their sleep schedule for this though, looks like MC and TheStC are the first crazy people of the bunch. Guess it isn't horrible for them though since StC just had his RO48 Code A match and MC will be doing RO16 in 2 days and whether he advances or not his next match won't be for a while.
Hope more koreans know about it. This is way easier than the KR qualifier, unless a lot of KRs start signing up. Every KR who played in the KR qualifier should definitely sign up for this.
On June 28 2012 02:58 Canucklehead wrote: Hope more koreans know about it. This is way easier than the KR qualifier, unless a lot of KRs start signing up. Every KR who played in the KR qualifier should definitely sign up for this.
except it's at like, 2am kst, probably ending near sunrise, and on a laggy server too haha. but yeah, otherwise, shouldn't be so hard!
On June 28 2012 02:58 Canucklehead wrote: Hope more koreans know about it. This is way easier than the KR qualifier, unless a lot of KRs start signing up. Every KR who played in the KR qualifier should definitely sign up for this.
For every Regional and other qualifiers, we send e-mails directly to team managers in English and Korean! It's up to them to sign up though! =)
On June 30 2012 13:50 qxc wrote: why is the bracket posted before the tournament? I just registered. can I still be added?
Looks like the deadline was 3am EST Friday, so you missed it by almost a day I guess. I hope that their website didn't let you pay them even though registration was over.
Yeah, NASL open tournament had like ~40 sign ups with the same price to sign up, but there the top 4 got something. This is just too little bang for your buck, especially with that many Koreans.
On July 01 2012 01:59 Canucklehead wrote: Man too bad the brackets are lopsided. The top bracket is stacked and only 1 will make it out of it.
Holy fuck, yeah you're right. Both brackets are quite even though for what it's worth. Nerchio/Zenio round 2 should be good. Imagine Hyun vs Polt/Revival will be a good match as well. Polt's TvZ is definitely coming around, we'll see if he can make it through. Hyun vs Golden will also be pretty close, cast so many zvz's between those 2 in weekly cups lmfao, always very good matches.
TREME knocked out by revival. Please don't make me like you revival your terrible games has imprinted too much on me to ever like you regardless of improvement.
Amazing decision making by MC in that, just sacking the forge and gateway while making sure that bly couldn't get lings up the ramp. I don't even think he counted on saving the nexus, but it worked out somehow.
On July 01 2012 02:48 Fusilero wrote: TREME knocked out by revival. Please don't make me like you revival your terrible games has imprinted too much on me to ever like you regardless of improvement.
Haha, that's what i feel too.
That game in particular against Ensnare still haunts me to this day.
On July 01 2012 03:11 Shellshock1122 wrote: There's a lot of TSL players in this qualifier
TSL seem to emphasise foreign tournament more than anyone else, there's almost always a TSL player in a notable foreign tournament and they're always signed up to qualifiers. Only MVP can match that but MVP get their costs covered by MYM because MYM has no one in SC2 to support except MVP.
On July 01 2012 02:48 Fusilero wrote: TREME knocked out by revival. Please don't make me like you revival your terrible games has imprinted too much on me to ever like you regardless of improvement.
Haha, that's what i feel too.
That game in particular against Ensnare still haunts me to this day.
Gom should release Ensare vs Revival on belshit beach just for pure educational purposes
On July 01 2012 03:11 Shellshock1122 wrote: There's a lot of TSL players in this qualifier
Guess coach lee figured he could keep his players if he send them to foreign tournements :p
Squirtle's opening just put him way too far behind, Taeja also kinda blind countered him a bit , but it was most likely metagaming, he's the first Terran to put his CC on the low ground, after that pick he kinda baited Squirtle into a 3 gate void allin.
What is this damn monopoly of one root of the bracket. We will se Koreans enough in main event they aren't going anywhere, give us some Korean on Foreing action! Or other stream at least. Can be muted and cost 1$ to cover cost of ingame operator.
On July 01 2012 03:47 Benjamin99 wrote: Go Mana take it all
IF Ragnarok takes out Nerchio, thats possible. Otherwise i think Nerchio will roll Mana and fall later on to a Korean.
Nerchio lost. Mana last foreign/polish hope.
I always fancy how Nerchio rages about balance or him "being bad" playing foreginers and not playing Koreans. I wonder if this is kindness, respect or stress related stiffnes.
Life is a ZvZ specialist. He is pretty good at ZvT but not consistent enough to win BoX against the best.
Well I havent been following the korean scene that closely, but I remember the GSTL preview of Zenex vs Liquid and they spoke pretty highly of him. But ye missed theSTC code A run, so this is prob not even an upset.
Insane lineup for this qualifier though. Hope to see at least 1 foreigner game though. :-)
On July 01 2012 04:52 CosmicSpiral wrote: Every time I think 2 rax is dead in TvP, Polt proves me wrong.
It is kind of dead. That was not a normal 2 rax, but a kind of weird gimmicky build focused on exploiting his opponent not expecting such an early Stim. If MaNa knew Polt had stim with that army, he'd have Forcefielded differently and not taken any real damage.
On July 01 2012 04:52 CosmicSpiral wrote: Every time I think 2 rax is dead in TvP, Polt proves me wrong.
It is kind of dead. That was not a normal 2 rax, but a kind of weird gimmicky build focused on exploiting his opponent not expecting such an early Stim. If MaNa knew Polt had stim with that army, he'd have Forcefielded differently and not taken any real damage.
On July 01 2012 04:52 CosmicSpiral wrote: Every time I think 2 rax is dead in TvP, Polt proves me wrong.
I do suppose the Polt 2 Rax is basically dead, because very few players beyond Polt and Heart actually use it. I think the main reason it was so effective was because MaNa didn't see it coming, and 2 Rax has the potential to always kill a FE'ing Protoss, which MaNa was doing.
On July 01 2012 04:52 CosmicSpiral wrote: Every time I think 2 rax is dead in TvP, Polt proves me wrong.
I do suppose the Polt 2 Rax is basically dead, because very few players beyond Polt and Heart actually use it. I think the main reason it was so effective was because MaNa didn't see it coming, and 2 Rax has the potential to always kill a FE'ing Protoss, which MaNa was doing.
He did see it coming, and reacted very well. Just didn't know Polt had a very early Stim. Splitting the army the way he did with his FFs works very well against stimless bio, but with stim, they just roll over Stalkers and Sentries with superior dps. It's a very clever build by Polt, especially on cross-positions EV, but it's a one shot kind of thing, will never work against an opponent who knows it could be coming.
Edit: And as I type this, Polt does it again. Guess we're gonna find out if it's actually viable now.
On July 01 2012 04:52 CosmicSpiral wrote: Every time I think 2 rax is dead in TvP, Polt proves me wrong.
I do suppose the Polt 2 Rax is basically dead, because very few players beyond Polt and Heart actually use it. I think the main reason it was so effective was because MaNa didn't see it coming, and 2 Rax has the potential to always kill a FE'ing Protoss, which MaNa was doing.
He did see it coming, and reacted very well. Just didn't know Polt had a very early Stim. Splitting the army the way he did with his FFs works very well against stimless bio, but with stim, they just roll over Stalkers and Sentries with superior dps. It's a very clever build by Polt, especially on cross-positions EV, but it's a one shot kind of thing, will never work against an opponent who knows it could be coming.
Yeah, I think that is the reason why most Terrans basically stopped using 2 Rax, because it is almost one of those situational builds that work on the Protoss making a mistake.
On July 01 2012 05:05 Badfatpanda wrote: Ouch MaNa, those ffs were so bad Shame, his PvT is so much better than this. At least TheStC and TaeJa will be a good series!
Mana is not in a bad position as it may seem. Mana did pull all of his probe before he lost his nexus while Polt lost a lot of SCV and mining time.
On July 01 2012 05:07 Starstuff wrote: Really bad by Mana. I can't understand why he didn't hold the ramp with ffs. Theres be no way Polt would be able to go trough.
I was thinking that too lmao. He was planning on using guardian shield rather then ffs.
Nah, that was just bad. Instead of delaying that push at the ramp, he let it come up and get a superior position at his natural before engaging. And this time he knew what was coming, so it was simply poor judgement.
On July 01 2012 05:12 Dexington wrote: Remember when IPL said they would try to foster foreign talent? HA!
Snute and Xigua will save the foreigners
It is not a matter of 'saving' foreigners, it is the matter of not developing non-Korean talent. But to that you need local leagues and the way things are going we are never going to see that in the US, whereas in say Germany and Sweden there are several, which is why those countries are really strong right now.
On July 01 2012 05:12 Dexington wrote: Remember when IPL said they would try to foster foreign talent? HA!
Snute and Xigua will save the foreigners
It is not a matter of 'saving' foreigners, it is the matter of not developing non-Korean talent. But to that you need local leagues and the way things are going we are never going to see that in the US, whereas in say Germany and Sweden there are several, which is why those countries are really strong right now.
Exactly. IPL started as only North American, then I guess they said "Hey, if we get Europeans, we'll make more money" and then "Hey, if we get Koreans, we'll make even MORE money!"
Then, finally, "Hey, if we get only Koreans, we'll make the MOST money!".
On July 01 2012 05:12 Dexington wrote: Remember when IPL said they would try to foster foreign talent? HA!
Snute and Xigua will save the foreigners
It is not a matter of 'saving' foreigners, it is the matter of not developing non-Korean talent. But to that you need local leagues and the way things are going we are never going to see that in the US, whereas in say Germany and Sweden there are several, which is why those countries are really strong right now.
Exactly. IPL started as only North American, then I guess they said "Hey, if we get Europeans, we'll make more money" and then "Hey, if we get Koreans, we'll make even MORE money!"
Then, finally, "Hey, if we get only Koreans, we'll make the MOST money!".
And if it continues the same way, the American scene will be dead, and the only ones competing with Koreans will be the ones living there along with a couple of Europeans.
lol how on earth do you not siege your tanks at your main base when you know the only way your opponent can catch up is attempt a base race? Some basic mistakes a lot of pros seem to make...
Who are the announcers for the replay on twitch, anyone know?
I know what's on right now is a replay, but one of the casters just spoiled the entire game. He literally said "We already know Taeja wins since this is a replay".
Am I wrong to be very disappointed in this? I hadn't seen it before and now there is less point to actually watch for me. Here is the chat reaction when the announcer dropped the ball:
On July 01 2012 05:45 Psilo wrote: Who are the announcers for the replay on twitch, anyone know?
I know what's on right now is a replay, but one of the casters just spoiled the entire game. He literally said "We already know Taeja wins since this is a replay".
Am I wrong to be very disappointed in this? I hadn't seen it before and now there is less point to actually watch for me. Here is the chat reaction when the announcer dropped the ball:
Hi, I'm sorry for that. About 5 minutes prior we had already said the results as we had finished the last live match, and this game was already played. The brackets had already stated the results, and we had said them on stream as well. We decided to do the replay of Taeja vs STC in a last minute effort to give more games to viewers (and because, come on, it's Taeja vs STC!). So, because I already said the result I didn't think of saying it again, and I apologize for stream viewers who came in right after that time, but in time to see the beginning of that game.
My deepest apologies, but I hope hearing the circumstances makes my mistake a little more understandable.
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, but it was most likely metagaming, he's the first Terran to put his CC on the low ground, after that pick he kinda baited Squirtle into a 3 gate void allin.
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