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The last stop of year for the Intel Extreme Masters will be IEM Gyeonggi, taking place in the Goyang Sports Complex this December. The event will feature a stacked tournament with 16 Korean StarCraft II players competing for a US$35,000 prize pool as well as WCS points.
Qualifier details Players should be advised that this event is part of WCS Korea for 2017. WCS points awarded will go toward 2017 WCS Korea standings, and all qualifiers and the event itself will take place in Korea on the Korean servers.
WCS Korea events are open to players of any citizenship. However, to ensure all qualified players will be able to attend the event, only participants who already have previously obtained visas, or participants from countries and regions with visa-free entry to Korea will be eligible for these qualifiers.
Further details on WCS 2017 will be announced soon.
Three online qualifiers will take place on Korean servers in order to determine 12 players who will join the Gyeonggi tournament. The format of all of the qualifiers will be single elimination best of three, with four players advancing from each qualifier.
First qualifier:
Saturday, November 26th at 18:00 KST (1AM PDT, 10:00 CET)
Second qualifier:
Sunday, November 27th at 18:00 KST (1AM PDT, 10:00 CET)
Third qualifier:
Tuesday, November 29th at 18:00 KST (1AM PDT, 10:00 CET)
Map pool:
• Daybreak
• Vaani Research Station
• Echo
• Habitation Station
• Overgrowth
• Newkirk Precinct
• Whirlwind
Coverage:
English
http://www.twitch.tv/esl_sc2
http://www.twitch.tv/basetradetv
http://www.twitch.tv/x5_pig
http://www.twitch.tv/wardiii
German
http://www.twitch.tv/TaKeTV
http://www.twitch.tv/belairstarcraft
Polish
http://twitch.tv/esl_sc2_pl
Korean
http://twitch.tv/golden
Russian
http://www.twitch.tv/pomikpomik2000
http://www.twitch.tv/magikbaby
http://twitch.tv/n3rdstgamers
http://www.twitch.tv/noregret_
We are currently working with our partnered community streamers to maximize coverage and will release full details soon.
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Always love Korean qualifiers, should be good!
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Can't wait for the qualifiers even if it means waking up at the crack of dawn.
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Missed IEM with Koreans :D
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Elentos
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Oh look they changed the map pool 
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do you know if any foreigners (Scarlett, Neeb, Snute, Nerchio) are looking into participating in the qualifiers?
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On November 22 2016 19:54 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
do you know if any foreigners (Scarlett, Neeb, Snute, Nerchio) are looking into participating in the qualifiers?
I think no EU players will play on the KR server, but NA players and players living in KR could give it a shot I think.
So maybe Major, Kelazhur, Scarlett, Neeb. Not sure where Neeb is living now in NA, playing from the east coast sucks, but west coast should be fine.
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Well I guess this is better matching the ladder map pool?
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Elentos
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On November 22 2016 20:46 Musicus wrote:Show nested quote +On November 22 2016 19:54 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
do you know if any foreigners (Scarlett, Neeb, Snute, Nerchio) are looking into participating in the qualifiers? I think no EU players will play on the KR server
He says as Bly is one of the first people to sign up for all qualifiers.
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On November 22 2016 20:46 Musicus wrote:Show nested quote +On November 22 2016 19:54 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
do you know if any foreigners (Scarlett, Neeb, Snute, Nerchio) are looking into participating in the qualifiers? I think no EU players will play on the KR server, but NA players and players living in KR could give it a shot I think. So maybe Major, Kelazhur, Scarlett, Neeb. Not sure where Neeb is living now in NA, playing from the east coast sucks, but west coast should be fine.
Indeed i had in mind EU/NA players living in Korea atm.
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On November 22 2016 21:11 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On November 22 2016 20:46 Musicus wrote:On November 22 2016 19:54 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
do you know if any foreigners (Scarlett, Neeb, Snute, Nerchio) are looking into participating in the qualifiers? I think no EU players will play on the KR server He says as Bly is one of the first people to sign up for all qualifiers.
Bly is the best cross server player there is, I'm actually not surprised lol. Still funny.
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They updated the map pool good good no more Dasan Station to make me kill myself over
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We are currently arranging our broadcast partners as we speak, will update this thread soon. If you have any questions on the qualifier/tournament, please let me know and I will respond in here.
Thanks!
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Well, at least we know there:
a) will be a WCS next year,
b) will be a region-locked WCS next year.
That's something, I guess, given the fact that it's almost December and nothing specific has been announced yet.
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This is great, looking forwads JAGW people showing up, the lack of them (besides rogue in hsc) lately annoys me considering they are one of the last kespa teams.
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so who get's the final invite? ty or zest?
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Elentos
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On November 24 2016 01:12 ShAd_1337 wrote:
so who get's the final invite? ty or zest?
Well, Zest has more WCS points so it should be him. And he's not signed up for any qualifier.
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