1st Stage:Team format 16 players will be drawn into 4 groups as 4 teams. Teams fight in a single elimination bracket, 3/4 place match will be played.
2nd stage: individual The results in 1st stage will make effects: advance numbers. from 1st to 4th will get 3, 2.5, 1.5, 1 players into Ro8.
Each team will have a single elimination bracket.(Top3, 2, 1, 1 advance into ro8) *The last spot will be determined by a extra match between 2nd place team's 3rd player and 3rd place team's 2nd player.
Prize Pool
1st 40k RMB 2nd 20k 3rd 10k 4th 5k 5~8th 2k
It's weird that they dont hold qualifiers for foreign invites, instead use invites.
More importantly wtf are those invites, dreamertt, dream, lure and slam aren't exactly going to pull in a horde of viewers. It's like they wanted MVP, bling, finale and sen but settled for them.
On December 09 2012 22:45 Fusilero wrote: More importantly wtf are those invites, dreamertt, dream, lure and slam aren't exactly going to pull in a horde of viewers. It's like they wanted MVP, bling, finale and sen but settled for them.
There is an argument in China recently about inviting Koreans, majority of fans want to put restriction on inviting top Koreans, they usually only invite mediocre Koreans to give Chinese players a decent chance.
On December 09 2012 22:45 Fusilero wrote: More importantly wtf are those invites, dreamertt, dream, lure and slam aren't exactly going to pull in a horde of viewers. It's like they wanted MVP, bling, finale and sen but settled for them.
It adds international flavour without overwhelming the home heroes
On December 09 2012 22:45 Fusilero wrote: More importantly wtf are those invites, dreamertt, dream, lure and slam aren't exactly going to pull in a horde of viewers. It's like they wanted MVP, bling, finale and sen but settled for them.
Dream is a Chinese kid studying in UK man, that explains his invite. The other 3 invites can be justified by the organisers not wanting to hand out free cash to better foreign/ Korean players
On December 09 2012 22:45 Fusilero wrote: More importantly wtf are those invites, dreamertt, dream, lure and slam aren't exactly going to pull in a horde of viewers. It's like they wanted MVP, bling, finale and sen but settled for them.
It adds international flavour without overwhelming the home heroes
Also, I am not sure if a lot of the top players are really wanting to go to something like this. It is an offline event which means you will have to stay in China for 4 weeks for a chance at winning $6,400 USD (1st), $3,200 (2nd) and $1,600 (3rd)
On December 09 2012 22:45 Fusilero wrote: More importantly wtf are those invites, dreamertt, dream, lure and slam aren't exactly going to pull in a horde of viewers. It's like they wanted MVP, bling, finale and sen but settled for them.
Dream is a Chinese kid studying in UK man, that explains his invite. The other 3 invites can be justified by the organisers not wanting to hand out free cash to better foreign/ Korean players
Guess me being chinese doesnt really mean anything x.x...
On December 09 2012 23:19 shid0x wrote: Who ? Who ? And who ? I only know Loner and dream.
How did you find out about those? I bet you watched tournaments.
Same way the rest of these chinese guys will be known, but sadly the chinese scene is so isolated that people hardly know about the players.
I know about half of these players by name, but thats about it, I know Comm won WCS China and XiGua got 2nd at WCG 2011, then MacSed useally eats koreans in china.
On December 09 2012 23:19 shid0x wrote: Who ? Who ? And who ? I only know Loner and dream.
How did you find out about those? I bet you watched tournaments.
Same way the rest of these chinese guys will be known, but sadly the chinese scene is so isolated that people hardly know about the players.
I know about half of these players by name, but thats about it, I know Comm won WCS China and XiGua got 2nd at WCG 2011, then MacSed useally eats koreans in china.
MacSed is pretty beast. I've casted him for the ASL, but in terms of protoss, I gotta say Xiluosi is the strongest mainland contender I've seen in PvP.
On December 09 2012 22:45 Fusilero wrote: More importantly wtf are those invites, dreamertt, dream, lure and slam aren't exactly going to pull in a horde of viewers. It's like they wanted MVP, bling, finale and sen but settled for them.
Dream is a Chinese kid studying in UK man, that explains his invite. The other 3 invites can be justified by the organisers not wanting to hand out free cash to better foreign/ Korean players
And LoveCD is the little brother of Sky, a pro across many different games, not just Starcraft.
On December 09 2012 23:19 shid0x wrote: Who ? Who ? And who ? I only know Loner and dream.
You probably shouldn't be posting under this topic if those are the only two Chinese players you know, unless ofc you're just wanting to say "Looks cool, wish for the best!"
Lure is no. 1 rank on kr ladder last i checked lol also digitas dream cant make it due to visa, should be a good tourament. Also how can ppl not know F91 o.0
Hi guys. I just wanted to say that I am proud to apply both my education and talent pool to the Chinese sc2 scene, and I'm proud to be casting this tournament.
Other thoughts: I really want to get an interview in with iG.MacSed
EPT
dreamertt, Dignitas_Dream, MVP_
Lure, Gamania_Slam. 
Toodming, 
