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China6329 Posts
Format
16 player dual tournament.
Best of 5 single elimination playoffs, with best of 7 finals.
All 16 slots will be determined through server qualifiers: 7 from KR, 6 from EU, 2 from NA and 1 from CN.
Prize pool
1st: $7,668/¥50,000, plus 250 EPT points
2nd: $4,601/¥30,000, plus 180 EPT points
3rd: $3,067/¥20,000, plus 125 EPT points
4th: $1,534/¥10,000, plus 125 EPT points
5th-8th: $920/¥6,000, plus 75 EPT points
9th-12th: $460/¥3,000, plus 50 EPT points
13th-16th: $153/¥1,000, plus 25 EPT points
Total: ¥ 150,000/$23,003
Schedule
Qualifiers: November 4-8
Group Stage: November 22 - 25, November 29 - December 2
Playoffs: December 6-9
Server qualifiers
EU#1: Thursday, Nov 04 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00), top 2 advance. Sign-up
KR#1: Friday, Nov 05 8:00am GMT (GMT+00:00), top 4 advance. Sign-up
CN: Saturday, Nov 06 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00), winner advances. Sign-up
KR#2: Sunday, Nov 07 8:00am GMT (GMT+00:00), double elimination, top 3 advance. Sign-up
AM: Monday, Nov 08 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00), top 2 advance. Sign-up
EU#2: Monday, Nov 08 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00), top 4 advance. Sign-up
Broadcast
 WardiTV
 IntoTheiNu
Useful Links
Liquipedia:  Netease Esports X Tournaments/2021/2
Official website: https://next.163.com/match/nextsc2_2021winter
Discord: https://discord.gg/PGYDYbDn
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On October 31 2021 15:53 digmouse wrote:
Holy hell this is the best starcraft logo i´ve seen. Damn! Could have been the offical WCS/EPT logo
Looking forward to another great NEXT tournament 
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Community casters are allowed for qualifiers ?
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China6329 Posts
On October 31 2021 19:01 Legendk wrote:
Community casters are allowed for qualifiers ?
Yes, join the event discord and contact their admin.
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On October 31 2021 20:36 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On October 31 2021 19:01 Legendk wrote:
Community casters are allowed for qualifiers ? Yes, join the event discord and contact their admin.
Great already done :D
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There are so many tournaments that are coming up! King of Battles, NeXT, TSL, WTL, and then we also have the Season Finals! I wonder if the players are feeling a bit burned out...
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Thanks to a dubious bracketing in the KR Qualifer#1, we have Maru, Trap and Rogue on the same bracket, but Solar got the qualifying spot, so he wont have to play in CN server later. Also, Cure beat out Dark and Byun to qualify as well.
Meanwhile, Zest and Classic qualify through a much easier bracket, mostly though Bunny, Dream and Zoun.
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EU qualifier #2 are played with zero KR players because they are still in the middle of ST3 qualifier, which is just sad seeing how tournaments are not better coordinated to allow players more leeway to get their chance.
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Just crazy, imagine a eu qualifier with only eu in the bracket
Just checked, we have time and nice aswell
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On November 08 2021 20:16 tigera6 wrote:
EU qualifier #2 are played with zero KR players because they are still in the middle of ST3 qualifier, which is just sad seeing how tournaments are not better coordinated to allow players more leeway to get their chance.
Yeah, this means that Maru won't be in NeXT... which is insane to me after the bracket that he had to go through...
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On November 08 2021 21:05 buzz_bender wrote:Show nested quote +On November 08 2021 20:16 tigera6 wrote:
EU qualifier #2 are played with zero KR players because they are still in the middle of ST3 qualifier, which is just sad seeing how tournaments are not better coordinated to allow players more leeway to get their chance. Yeah, this means that Maru won't be in NeXT... which is insane to me after the bracket that he had to go through...
Not just Maru, also Trap and Byun as well. Imagine the defending champ, Trap cant protect his title because of the qualifier schedule conflict (and losing the KR qualifier).
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On November 08 2021 21:11 tigera6 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 08 2021 21:05 buzz_bender wrote:On November 08 2021 20:16 tigera6 wrote:
EU qualifier #2 are played with zero KR players because they are still in the middle of ST3 qualifier, which is just sad seeing how tournaments are not better coordinated to allow players more leeway to get their chance. Yeah, this means that Maru won't be in NeXT... which is insane to me after the bracket that he had to go through... Not just Maru, also Trap and Byun as well. Imagine the defending champ, Trap cant protect his title because of the qualifier schedule conflict (and losing the KR qualifier).
Yeah, I just realized that too. And the NeXT qualifiers had much more brutal bracket than these GSL ST qualifiers. For example, Maru only had to beat Ragnarok in the GSL ST qualifier, but he had a gauntlet of KR elite players, just for him to lose at the end to Dark and his Nydus into main base with lurkers...
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Here to +1 those lamenting the ridiculous qualifying process. I totally get that organizing tourneys is not easy and there will inevitably be scheduling conflicts, but those KR qualifiers were BRUTAL. Honestly I don't think it's crazy to say that they involved as tough or tougher competition than the main event given the non-Serral/Reynor/Clem players that made it in. It's particularly sad to see Maru 2-0 Gumiho, Rogue, Dark, and Byun and not qualify. Five matches against Blizzcon champs--including double matches against both Rogue and Dark--is kind of insane for a qualifier process. Trap had a better draw, but still very sad to not see him make it.
I'm grateful to the NeXT team for all their work and support for the SC2 scene, but I hope in the future they'll revamp the qualification process. When you look at the quantity and quality of participants across the different server qualifiers, the outcome isn't particularly surprising. Just sad to see what should be a premier-level event not include premier-level talent. I fear that this might be a 2/3-0 fest until the semis, though I really hope I'm wrong.
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Maru was like 10-15 minutes late for the check-in and couldnt join because the seeding and bracket was done. In general, I think NeXT was a bit too "generous" with the EU slot, up to 6 comparing to KR 7, and we end up having 2 non-EU guys getting out anyway (Time and Special who ironically lost their spots in CN and AM qualifiers to KR).
And there clearly has been issues with GSL vs the rest of tournament in term of scheduling, like how DH Global Grand Final is on the morning of the GSL day, or this time where the qualifier of 2 tournaments overlapping. I find fault in both sides, and players are one get robbed because of that.
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Somehow next managed to make their tournament 100x less exciting than kob2 and tsl8 thanks to very bad qualifier schedules and weired seeding
RIP
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The group is out, and we have THE group of Death right off the bat.
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On November 18 2021 20:27 tigera6 wrote:
The group is out, and we have THE group of Death right off the bat.
Weired seeding keeps on giving weired groups.
They have 1 insanely hard group and 3 pretty doable ones, that are way weaker than any Kob2 group, wich is a mayor tournament
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On October 31 2021 20:36 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On October 31 2021 19:01 Legendk wrote:
Community casters are allowed for qualifiers ? Yes, join the event discord and contact their admin.
Hi digmouse, I noticed that the group matches have started already (based on liquidpedia.net) but no one seem to stream the matches. Wardii focused on WTL, and I don't think he will be able simultaneously broadcast two different matches at the same time. Where can I watch the matches?
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Thanks. Wow, Classic's PvZ looked decent now killing top tier Zerg players in BO2 or BO3 matches.
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EPT![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/UIdATbI.png)
