The seventh season of the Intel Extreme Mastes will continue its tradition and kick-off at gamescom once again. Between 15th and 19th of August, Cologne will be the center of the eSports circuit when the world's best gamers fight for the first title of the season. Here is your chance to qualify from the North, Central, and South American region.
Four of the best players from the region will qualify for GamesCom. You must advance through 3 stages to do so. See how below.
Qualification Requirements: -Your must be living in a country that is apart of North, South or Central America. -You must provide your own travel cost to the event. NESL or IEM will not provide stipends for travel to the IEM Gamescom event! BUT each person attending the event is guaranteed $900.
Qualification Dates Stage 1: ]July 12th 8:00 pm EST - View Brackets Stage 2: July 17th 8:00 pm EST View Brackets Stage 3: July 18th 8:00 pm ESt View Brackets
Best of 1 in all rounds until the Round of 64 players is reached. At round of 64 and higher is a Best of 3. Once Round of 8 is reached the matches end, and the 8 players then move to Stage 2.
In a Best of 1, Best of 3 and Best of 5 a map veto (removal and pick) system is used. The high seeded player(seeds can be found at round 1 on the grid page) decides who starts. Players take it in turn removing maps until only one remains in a best of 1 or until only 3 maps remain in a best of 3. Then each player picks a map. Maps are played in order they are picked. The remaining map is played last.
Its because invites slots are first based off of country performance from last years's iem. Canada did not do so well last year, so they only one 1 invite slot.
On July 13 2012 03:46 pHaRSiDE wrote: Its because invites slots are first based off of country performance from last years's iem. Canada did not do so well last year, so they only one 1 invite slot.
I meant for signups T.T. (Imo canadian scene is stronger than US so I always wonder why they dont come out to play more ^^)
Agreed on the seeds although 75% seeds is a bit too many re: carmacs posts about qualifiers.
Damn, they really should've called the stream something else than NESL.tv (like Axeltoss or whatever). I almost didn't find the stream and I guess many others don't really know what NESL is and don't bother to click on it.
Really enjoying the casting and I like the format of the IEM qualifiers, I just hope that 4 real Americans qualify for Cologne and not Select, Golden and Violet...
On July 13 2012 10:04 Champloo wrote: Damn, they really should've called the stream something else than NESL.tv (like Axeltoss or whatever). I almost didn't find the stream and I guess many others don't really know what NESL is and don't bother to click on it.
Really enjoying the casting and I like the format of the IEM qualifiers, I just hope that 4 real Americans qualify for Cologne and not Select, Golden and Violet...
I wrote where the games are gonna be streamed in the original post o.O?
Yea I know, I was talking about the calendar. It would be easier to recognize it as the official stream with casting etc if it was called "ESL" or "Axeltoss".
On July 13 2012 03:58 desRow wrote: Dood this format is way too stupid only 8 slots to qualify for a qualifier seriously ...?
8 is a lot though o.O. Especially with how small our qualifiers is, I think its a nice way for some lesser known people to possibly qualify.
something like 16 to get thru and the 8 invited in the 2nd stage get a bye first round would have been better esp if ur making 2nd stage double elim i r disappointed.. MLG online qual is 64 man why is your 16?
On July 13 2012 03:58 desRow wrote: Dood this format is way too stupid only 8 slots to qualify for a qualifier seriously ...?
8 is a lot though o.O. Especially with how small our qualifiers is, I think its a nice way for some lesser known people to possibly qualify.
something like 16 to get thru and the 8 invited in the 2nd stage get a bye first round would have been better esp if ur making 2nd stage double elim i r disappointed.. MLG online qual is 64 man why is your 16?
MLG is U.S. based. I think you are greatly overestimating the amount of U.S. based players willing to pay to fly all the way to Europe. Keep in mind this qualifier only had 28 people.
Should IEM come to the United States our qualifiers will be much bigger.
On July 13 2012 03:58 desRow wrote: Dood this format is way too stupid only 8 slots to qualify for a qualifier seriously ...?
8 is a lot though o.O. Especially with how small our qualifiers is, I think its a nice way for some lesser known people to possibly qualify.
something like 16 to get thru and the 8 invited in the 2nd stage get a bye first round would have been better esp if ur making 2nd stage double elim i r disappointed.. MLG online qual is 64 man why is your 16?
MLG is U.S. based. I think you are greatly overestimating the amount of U.S. based players willing to pay to fly all the way to Europe. Keep in mind this qualifier only had 28 people.
Should IEM come to the United States our qualifiers will be much bigger.
Every player who qualifies (and attends obviously) gets a guaranteed prize money of 600$. I read in Carmac's blog, that they increased the guaranteed money for ppl who have to travel from another continent. So I it should be about 900$ for NA and Asian players. So the flights should not be that much of a problem.
And I think the region in which the event takes place gets more spots at the final event, so at IEM New York, you will have more slots for NA players. Not so sure about how that is changing the qualification process.
On July 13 2012 03:58 desRow wrote: Dood this format is way too stupid only 8 slots to qualify for a qualifier seriously ...?
8 is a lot though o.O. Especially with how small our qualifiers is, I think its a nice way for some lesser known people to possibly qualify.
something like 16 to get thru and the 8 invited in the 2nd stage get a bye first round would have been better esp if ur making 2nd stage double elim i r disappointed.. MLG online qual is 64 man why is your 16?
MLG is U.S. based. I think you are greatly overestimating the amount of U.S. based players willing to pay to fly all the way to Europe. Keep in mind this qualifier only had 28 people.
Should IEM come to the United States our qualifiers will be much bigger.
Every player who qualifies (and attends obviously) gets a guaranteed prize money of 600$. I read in Carmac's blog, that they increased the guaranteed money for ppl who have to travel from another continent. So I it should be about 900$ for NA and Asian players. So the flights should not be that much of a problem.
And I think the region in which the event takes place gets more spots at the final event, so at IEM New York, you will have more slots for NA players. Not so sure about how that is changing the qualification process.
The players receive that money about six months to a year after they've actually paid for the flights and played in the event (and of course emailed Carmac 10-20 times and perhaps made a Reddit thread).
They aren't just turning up, playing, getting the money and their team/player is immediately in profit again.
On July 13 2012 03:58 desRow wrote: Dood this format is way too stupid only 8 slots to qualify for a qualifier seriously ...?
8 is a lot though o.O. Especially with how small our qualifiers is, I think its a nice way for some lesser known people to possibly qualify.
something like 16 to get thru and the 8 invited in the 2nd stage get a bye first round would have been better esp if ur making 2nd stage double elim i r disappointed.. MLG online qual is 64 man why is your 16?
MLG is U.S. based. I think you are greatly overestimating the amount of U.S. based players willing to pay to fly all the way to Europe. Keep in mind this qualifier only had 28 people.
Should IEM come to the United States our qualifiers will be much bigger.
Every player who qualifies (and attends obviously) gets a guaranteed prize money of 600$. I read in Carmac's blog, that they increased the guaranteed money for ppl who have to travel from another continent. So I it should be about 900$ for NA and Asian players. So the flights should not be that much of a problem.
And I think the region in which the event takes place gets more spots at the final event, so at IEM New York, you will have more slots for NA players. Not so sure about how that is changing the qualification process.
It is that much of a problem still because you are forgetting, players have to come up with all the travel money FIRST. We do not give them the $900 before going to the event. They get it after attending the event. Not many players have over $1000 laying around that they can spend to go to Germany. Other teams may not find it worth it either as the $900 given is actual prize money instead of travel. So what we are left with is only players trying to qualify that are on pretty high profitable/stable teams which in all actuality is not that many. That is ultimately why qualifiers do not need to be bigger for IEM events that are NOT in America. Regardless, the money increased to $900 is a nice help to everyone who can attend. So I'm definitely happy about that.
On July 13 2012 03:58 desRow wrote: Dood this format is way too stupid only 8 slots to qualify for a qualifier seriously ...?
8 is a lot though o.O. Especially with how small our qualifiers is, I think its a nice way for some lesser known people to possibly qualify.
something like 16 to get thru and the 8 invited in the 2nd stage get a bye first round would have been better esp if ur making 2nd stage double elim i r disappointed.. MLG online qual is 64 man why is your 16?
MLG is U.S. based. I think you are greatly overestimating the amount of U.S. based players willing to pay to fly all the way to Europe. Keep in mind this qualifier only had 28 people.
Should IEM come to the United States our qualifiers will be much bigger.
Every player who qualifies (and attends obviously) gets a guaranteed prize money of 600$. I read in Carmac's blog, that they increased the guaranteed money for ppl who have to travel from another continent. So I it should be about 900$ for NA and Asian players. So the flights should not be that much of a problem.
And I think the region in which the event takes place gets more spots at the final event, so at IEM New York, you will have more slots for NA players. Not so sure about how that is changing the qualification process.
It is that much of a problem still because you are forgetting, players have to come up with all the travel money FIRST. We do not give them the $900 before going to the event. They get it after attending the event. Not many players have over $1000 laying around that they can spend to go to Germany. Other teams may not find it worth it either as the $900 given is actual prize money instead of travel. So what we are left with is only players trying to qualify that are on pretty high profitable/stable teams which in all actuality is not that many. That is ultimately why qualifiers do not need to be bigger for IEM events that are NOT in America. Regardless, the money increased to $900 is a nice help to everyone who can attend. So I'm definitely happy about that.
youre not answering my concern why only 8 qualification spot into 2 more qualifiers man..
Oh wow this is going be fun xD IdrA DeMusliM Golden ViOlet Going be hard work for poor DeMu xD but i think him and IdrA could take this! GOGO come to Cologne!!
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On July 18 2012 16:33 Lukeeze[zR] wrote: I call it first : no terran in cologne !
Well a korean terran will probably qualify, there are 8 korean who will battle for 2 spot and atleast 4 of those 8 are terran (4t and 1p so far). But yes pretty sure there wont be an NA terran and it would be hard for a EU terran to qualify.
Same conclusion as last 2 months, non-korean terrans have a really hard time.
So Suppy beat Minigun 2-1 in the grand final, but there was no 2nd series played? That's weird as it is a DE bracket and Suppy came from the loser bracket
Idrage just isn't as interesting when the guy doesn't win anything substantial. Beta-Idrage was awesome because Idra was the guy to beat, and as Masq once said, you "would be honored to receive Idra rage".
It's still amusing, but I wish Idra was better so the rage would have more symbolic meaning :p
To the idiots saying IdrA should be punished/dq'd for his comment, go watch elfi v nerchio. It annoys me how retarded and inconsistent this community can be.
Just rewatched the vods Minigun vs Idra and I must say Minigun looked very solid. Idra looked completely helpless vs a wellplaying and solid protoss. Minigun was dominating Idra not by using cheesy/sneaky play but by mindgames/solid macro/micro and good early game pressure to stop the drone production
People say Idra is in a slump I dont know really for me it seems Idra didnt evolve with the zerg race at all. Micro/positioning, battle control and strategy/gamesence is much more important now then it was in the past and its something Idra is really lacking and he really needs to work on those aspects of the game.
But Minigun really impressed me Im looking forward to IEM to see how fare he can go
On July 19 2012 13:00 SafeAsCheese wrote: I don't understand why idra doesn't just max out on 25 brood lords and 15 infestors like EVER OTHER FUCKING ZERG IN THE PLANET.
Zerglings and roaches and everything else just makes his army get smacked
so only one player from NA qualified and 1 from eu 1 from kr 1 from SA? that's pretty disappointing for the NA scene sad to see that they play such a minor minor role internationally even in their own qualifiers
On July 20 2012 05:00 sVnteen wrote: so only one player from NA qualified and 1 from eu 1 from kr 1 from SA? that's pretty disappointing for the NA scene sad to see that they play such a minor minor role internationally even in their own qualifiers
I think the invite system helped with that a little. Killer, Demu and Violet didn't have to fight there way to the third stage. While they probably could have, there is a chance they wouldn't have. After all, Major lost in stage 1.
I believe the rest of the IEM's have completely open brackets to qualify (at least I think it was that way last year, definitely for the Europeans), so that will give more NA hope.
Edit: just checked, was mistaken. It was only completely open for the NA IEM, which was New York. Every other one had a final qualifier bracket with 4 invites.
On July 20 2012 05:00 sVnteen wrote: so only one player from NA qualified and 1 from eu 1 from kr 1 from SA? that's pretty disappointing for the NA scene sad to see that they play such a minor minor role internationally even in their own qualifiers
I think the invite system helped with that a little. Killer, Demu and Violet didn't have to fight there way to the third stage. While they probably could have, there is a chance they wouldn't have. After all, Major lost in stage 1.
I believe the rest of the IEM's have completely open brackets to qualify (at least I think it was that way last year, definitely for the Europeans), so that will give more NA hope.
Edit: just checked, was mistaken. It was only completely open for the NA IEM, which was New York. Every other one had a final qualifier bracket with 4 invites.
I'm fairly certain it will work the same as @ NY here, so open for local players.
On July 20 2012 05:00 sVnteen wrote: so only one player from NA qualified and 1 from eu 1 from kr 1 from SA? that's pretty disappointing for the NA scene sad to see that they play such a minor minor role internationally even in their own qualifiers
I think the invite system helped with that a little. Killer, Demu and Violet didn't have to fight there way to the third stage. While they probably could have, there is a chance they wouldn't have. After all, Major lost in stage 1.
I believe the rest of the IEM's have completely open brackets to qualify (at least I think it was that way last year, definitely for the Europeans), so that will give more NA hope.
Edit: just checked, was mistaken. It was only completely open for the NA IEM, which was New York. Every other one had a final qualifier bracket with 4 invites.
You should also consider that the ranking analyse players that played others IEM, KiLLeR qualified through the hardway once and after that he has been usually on top 4/top 8, and he usually have quite good results at the IEM's so I think that every invited player deserve their spot.
Oh and btw, KiLLeR is playing beastly (beated the whole WCS Qualifiers and South america finals by 2-0), beated fenix 2-0 & 2-0, Idra 3-1 so I'm CRAZY to see KiLLeR vs Major (Terran,CuteAngel,etc) and Maker... and only after those games I'll see if he's actually playing better and can become the best in latinamerica, to compete against the best in the Americas.
At the very least, it's a funny competition for the fans :D. I do hope he get the 1st place at cologne and then get top4 at the WCS Asia Finals, but if he doesn't get top 3 @ cologne my perspectives will change. And DAMN that's what i love about esports :D.
On July 20 2012 05:00 sVnteen wrote: so only one player from NA qualified and 1 from eu 1 from kr 1 from SA? that's pretty disappointing for the NA scene sad to see that they play such a minor minor role internationally even in their own qualifiers
I think the invite system helped with that a little. Killer, Demu and Violet didn't have to fight there way to the third stage. While they probably could have, there is a chance they wouldn't have. After all, Major lost in stage 1.
I believe the rest of the IEM's have completely open brackets to qualify (at least I think it was that way last year, definitely for the Europeans), so that will give more NA hope.
Edit: just checked, was mistaken. It was only completely open for the NA IEM, which was New York. Every other one had a final qualifier bracket with 4 invites.
You should also consider that the ranking analyse players that played others IEM, KiLLeR qualified through the hardway once and after that he has been usually on top 4/top 8, and he usually have quite good results at the IEM's so I think that every invited player deserve their spot.
Oh and btw, KiLLeR is playing beastly (beated the whole WCS Qualifiers and South america finals by 2-0), beated fenix 2-0 & 2-0, Idra 3-1 so I'm CRAZY to see KiLLeR vs Major (Terran,CuteAngel,etc) and Maker... and only after those games I'll see if he's actually playing better and can become the best in latinamerica, to compete against the best in the Americas.
At the very least, it's a funny competition for the fans :D. I do hope he get the 1st place at cologne and then get top4 at the WCS Asia Finals, but if he doesn't get top 3 @ cologne my perspectives will change. And DAMN that's what i love about esports :D.
Killer's always been the best SA player. I believe he got 3rd at IEM NY in addition to what you said. I wasn't necessarily complaining about the invite format, just saying a completely open qualifier would probably produce more NA players than this format.
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