ESET UK HOTS £10,000 Invitational Qualifier #2

On February 14 2013 01:22 StarVe wrote:
Prrrooootoooossss!

Still, ForGG is the favourite, I guess. Maybe Crank and someone else will make it, in any case, the tournament will be full of Protoss.

On February 14 2013 04:56 Xoronius wrote:
Can you really use resume from replay in an online tourney? I mean everyone could watch it at home.

On February 14 2013 04:56 Xoronius wrote:
Can you really use resume from replay in an online tourney? I mean everyone could watch it at home.

On February 14 2013 05:31 TotalBiscuit wrote:


Run a broadcast delay, no problem.

On February 14 2013 11:43 -PughyDude wrote:
Theres already 7 players qualified (5 P, 1 T, 1 Z) and you hold a 16 man invite with 7 P, 6 T and just 3 Z? (I think Hwangsin is zerg tho). With mainly T's getting through this round I hope we get two zergs in the next qualifier xD

On February 14 2013 20:14 messioso wrote:


Incredibly, we tried to balance it properly. But there were just not many Zerg, the previous qualifier had 7, however we wanted to try and get as many different players as possible. As it turns out, we used 31 players to fill 32 slots over the two qualifiers, the only one we let play twice is HappyZerg, and that is because of his unfortunate experience with his visa at the last event, that we wanted to give him as much chance to use it as possible.

Without specifically reserving X amount of slots for each race that I might not fill, there isn't much I can do. If I had reserved 5 slots for each race, Hyun/Tefel/Zazu only made it clear they wanted to attend under 2 days before the tournament was due to begin. By this point the qualifier had been filled and I had confirmed players attendance, and that was already 4 days later than I had planned to due to the rescheduling of the Open Qualifier #1 the week before.

The previous invitational we had a complete lack of Terran wanting to play, this time we had double that which was great, however the only race that seems to have lots of players consistently is Protoss. When that is the case, there isn't much we can do unless we only confirm everyone's place right before we start. I don't like to work this way as it means there could be many people preparing for a tournament they won't even take part in if they don't "make the cut".

On another note, updated the thread to show the semi finals schedule.

On February 15 2013 00:40 JustPassingBy wrote:
I hope HeroMarine can make it through, if yes, then it should be his first bigger international event, right?
And all that before he turns 16.

Also rooting for BratOk, the players from Ukraine gets screwed with so much because of visa issues, just got to root for them whenever you see one in the endstages of the qualifier.

Now the question is whether Crank of ForGG... I think my heart goes with ForGG, even though because I like Crank more, simply because I believe that Tb will send Crank to one or more international events anyways. For ForGG, on the other hand, this is one of the rare chances to visit one.

On February 15 2013 01:19 Tidus Mino wrote:


BratOK is from Russia*

On February 15 2013 06:31 Boucot wrote:
ForGG is ridiculously good on HotS. I'm really frustrated about the fact he wasn't invited to play MLG showdown and players who didn't practice (and didn't participate at MLG events before neither) were. I'm convinced he would have been able to get at least a top 4 in Dallas.

On February 15 2013 06:36 shid0x wrote:
ForGG slaps so hard.
I bet him being top 3 at the main tournament !

On February 15 2013 07:53 betaman wrote:


Shame there wasnt an CranK vs ForGG final, it would have been very interesting. I know they were both already qualified but the winner could have a bit more money towards their travel or something.