ASUS ROG announces the next eight invited players and the map pool for the ASUS ROG Winter 2014 StarCraft II tournament taking place in January 31 -- February 1 in Helsinki, Finland.
Before the online qualifiers for ASUS ROG Winter 2014 start on Sunday December 29 and Monday December 30 we would like to release a new set of players who have been invited to join the main tournament on January 31st in Helsinki. With the new eight invites, 16 out of the 24 invitees have been revealed. The online qualifiers will soon add another eight players to the roster while the last eight invites are to be announced later.
The tournament map pool for ASUS ROG Winter 2014 is the WCS 2014 Season 1 map pool which we will also see in the Battle.net ladder starting on the January 3rd.
Alterzim Stronghold TE
Daedalus Point
Frost LE
Habitation Station LE
Heavy Rain LE
Polar Night LE
Yeonsu LE
Rough schedule
Below is a rough schedule for the event. While it is not final yet, it gives a good estimate for those planning on watching the tournament especially if you have something special like a BarCraft in mind.
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Sick invites so far. Taeja, Naniwa, Jaedong, Mmmmmmm. I hope we get some more Korean Terrans like Innovation, MVP, Bomber or Polt!
Also we need Scarlett...and we need them to somehow rig the brackets so Naniwa and Scarlett are in the same group and have to play each other. Also, as I said earlier, hopefully Bomber gets to come so he can be in that group too lol.
Cool invites! I thought Kas retired, was it a joke? Anyways cool to see him play. Looks like there will be a lot of koreans JD, ForGG, HerO, Solar and 4(?) others already. Good that Serral is getting more exposure in scene, he has been playing really well in recet tournaments in Finland and also he played really well against Supernova and took map off from JD if I remember correctly.
Solar, Jaedong, ForGG and HerO? Yesss! Awesome to see a player from Samsung too. Hope they will all actually come and not cancel their participation like Jaedong did last time. I really want to see Solar and JD. TT
On December 29 2013 08:40 DJHelium wrote: Didn't get an answer in last thread so trying again in this one!
How are the invites determined? What happens if a player declines, will you take a player from qualifiers or another invite?
I believe the players are invited to write a "resume" of their recent tournament victories or something like that. For example, I know in the past iG.Jim received an invite, but due to the fact that players have to use personal finances to get to the final event, Jim was unable to attend.
On December 29 2013 08:07 Darrkhan wrote: Cool invites! I thought Kas retired, was it a joke? Anyways cool to see him play. Looks like there will be a lot of koreans JD, ForGG, HerO, Solar and 4(?) others already. Good that Serral is getting more exposure in scene, he has been playing really well in recet tournaments in Finland and also he played really well against Supernova and took map off from JD if I remember correctly.
If you belive kas twitter, he has retired at least 10 times.
On December 29 2013 08:07 Darrkhan wrote: Cool invites! I thought Kas retired, was it a joke? Anyways cool to see him play. Looks like there will be a lot of koreans JD, ForGG, HerO, Solar and 4(?) others already. Good that Serral is getting more exposure in scene, he has been playing really well in recet tournaments in Finland and also he played really well against Supernova and took map off from JD if I remember correctly.
If you belive kas twitter, he has retired at least 10 times.
Nice invites so far but still missing Welmu... ;(
Would love to see the young guns there as well: Heromarine, Starbuck and Zanster!
On December 29 2013 08:40 DJHelium wrote: Didn't get an answer in last thread so trying again in this one!
How are the invites determined? What happens if a player declines, will you take a player from qualifiers or another invite?
I believe the players are invited to write a "resume" of their recent tournament victories or something like that. For example, I know in the past iG.Jim received an invite, but due to the fact that players have to use personal finances to get to the final event, Jim was unable to attend.
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