Following the kick-off of the WCS EU last week, it is time for challengers to rise up ready to face the players that fall down from the Premier League. Through four qualifiers, 16 players will qualify for the Challenger League, where they will be first joined by the 16 players that drop down from the Premier League, in the Challenger League Round of 32.

From the 4th to 12th of May four online qualifiers will be held with up to 1024 participants each. Every day the top 4 will qualify for the Challenger League of WCS Europe's first season. The brackets of all qualifiers will be seeded based on a dedicated WCS ranking followed by the all-time Go4SC2 ranking. All matches will be played in best of three format.

Cups are open for everyone that is currently Master or Grandmaster. Non-EU Masters/Grandmasters need to mail at wcs(at)esl.eu with links to their ESL and Battle.net profiles. It's mandatory to have your StarCraft II Character Code and your StarCraft II Web-ID entered in your ESL profile. See esl.eu/eu/sc2/gameaccounts for detailed instructions.

QUALIFIERS

Qualifier #1
(Saturday, May 04 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
Bracket
Qualified Players: (P)

Harstem,

Noname,

Bischu &

uzer

Qualifier #2
(Sunday, May 05 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
Bracket
Qualified Players: (P)

BlinG,

MC,

finale &

TAiLS

Qualifier #3
(Saturday, May 11 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
Bracket
Qualified Players: (P)

Welmu,

Beastyqt,

DarkHydra, (Z)

Tefel

Qualifier #4
(Sunday, May 12 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00))
Bracket
Qualified Players: (P)

Jogginghose, (Z)

FireCake,

elfi,

ToD

CHALLENGER LEAGUE PLAYERS

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Relegated to Challenger

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Bly

Ret

Siw

Kas

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Qualified for Challenger

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Jogginghose
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FireCake

elfi

ToD

GizmoPT

Portugal3040 Posts

May 02 2013 14:08 GMT

awesome hope a Portuguese will go through

bbm

United Kingdom1320 Posts

May 02 2013 14:10 GMT

Needs some UK representation up in this badly

Sated

England4983 Posts

May 02 2013 14:11 GMT

--- Nuked ---

SinCitta

Germany2127 Posts

May 02 2013 14:12 GMT

AxiR, the peoples' champion has signed up as well!

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

May 02 2013 14:36 GMT

These qualifiers are always so exciting! Can't wait

Wintex

Norway16836 Posts

May 02 2013 14:38 GMT

Good luck to all the pros!

PixelNite

France1008 Posts

May 02 2013 15:37 GMT

Oh yeah it is that time again ! Go duckdeok

freerolll

Belgium1056 Posts

May 02 2013 15:54 GMT

Are there plans on casting this? There is still alot of talent on the EU ladder so the games should be good

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

May 02 2013 20:44 GMT

#10

looks fun! hope the chinese can qualify

PixelNite

France1008 Posts

May 02 2013 20:58 GMT

#11

On May 03 2013 00:54 freerolll wrote:
Are there plans on casting this? There is still alot of talent on the EU ladder so the games should be good

Apparently GamesocialTV will cast this, Nathanias is their caster for it btw :

Tidus Mino

United Kingdom1108 Posts

May 02 2013 21:08 GMT

#12

On May 03 2013 05:58 PixelNite wrote:

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Apparently GamesocialTV will cast this, Nathanias is their caster for it btw : https://twitter.com/GameSocialTV/status/330058769235062785.

on WCS_Europe2 which makes me think that Kalaeris will cast on WCS_Europe

Ammoth

Sweden391 Posts

May 02 2013 21:27 GMT

#13

More swedes! We need more swedes in the WCS! Gogo!

mikkmagro

Malta1513 Posts

May 02 2013 21:47 GMT

#14

I don't want to unnecessarily ruin anything for anyone, but there's a Chinese player registered by the name of orAnge, and well, there was a Chinese Terran in the American qualifiers (at least the Challenger qualifiers) with that same capitalised 'A' playing. Hopefully an admin sees this and clears it up.