HSC Qualifiers

hjpalpha

Germany303 Posts

November 22 2022 08:27 GMT

HSC Qualifiers are to take place this weekend.

CN: Friday, Nov 25 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link
TW/HK: Friday, Nov 25 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link
NA: Saturday, Nov 26 12:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link
LatAm: Friday, Nov 25 11:05pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link
KR : Saturday, Nov 26 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link
EU : Saturday, Nov 26 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link
KR : Sunday, Nov 27 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link
EU : Sunday, Nov 27 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link
OCE/RoA: Monday, Nov 28 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) - SignUp-Link

Qualified players earn travel support and a spot in the Group Stage.

Qualifiers will be played as single-elimination into double-elimination brackets.
For EU, KR and NA (i.e. the regions with >1 qualifier slot) the double-elimination starts with the Ro16. For the other regions (with 1 qualifier slot) it starts with the Ro8.

After the qualifiers 14 additional players (6 from KR rankings, 6 from EU rankings and 2 from NA rankings) will get invited based on EPT points. Those players will sadly have to pay for their travel themselves.

TaKeTV

Germany1042 Posts

November 22 2022 12:15 GMT

Hello everyone.

My load currently is high and I am a bit stressed since we are so late due to various reason I do not want to further execute here. In the end we'll try to make the best of it. We changed the system so the qualifiers are for paid travel + hotel. That was the same as before - but we will have them first and after those we will fill the rest of the slots with the highest ranked EPT players by the connected region.

I increased NA slots to 4 as well since I believe the NA scene is right and currently deserves more than 2 slots.
Please (help me) spread the word about qualifier dates / time and t hat invites happen after. Ill obviously also shoot messages to the players I invited before the systemchange.

I will create all the challonge brackets today so the signups are ready today LATEST.

Thanks for any help and understanding the bit of a rush.

- NarutO

TaKeTV

Germany1042 Posts

November 22 2022 18:51 GMT

TWHK: https://challonge.com/HSC22TWHK
CN: https://challonge.com/HSC22CN
NA: https://challonge.com/HSC22NA
LA: https://challonge.com/HSC22LatAm
KR1: https://challonge.com/HSC22KR
EU1: https://challonge.com/HSC22EU1
KR2: https://challonge.com/HSC22KR2
EU2: https://challonge.com/HSC22EU2
OCE: https://challonge.com/HSC22OCE

jimminy_kriket

Canada5413 Posts

November 23 2022 21:17 GMT

Can't wait! HSC is the funnest tournament to watch for me.

Crank

Korea (South)6 Posts

November 24 2022 03:29 GMT

HSC!

WightyCity

Canada884 Posts

November 25 2022 12:20 GMT

Awesome! Thanks for all your work

JJH777

United States3914 Posts

November 26 2022 19:16 GMT

I hope that first KR qualifier isn't indicative of who plans to participate... So many of the top KR players were missing and even a lot of the mid or low tier ones who you'd think would be looking for a chance to get paid travel didn't participate. I thought this HSC being during SC2's longest offseason ever would motivate more KR players to attend.

tigera6

1781 Posts

November 27 2022 02:56 GMT

I dont think Maru and herO are playing in this HSC, and according to some source Dark cant leave KR due to pending military service but I personally believes that Dark just doesnt want to go (Cure is older than Dark but he can still play). With Bunny also not playing in the qualifier, and he has no team to cover for his travel expense, he might not be playing neither. That leaves us with "tier 2" player, which are still very good, but I think that means Serral or Clem should take this HSC handedly.

dysenterymd

745 Posts

November 27 2022 17:25 GMT

Nightmare qualified, beating Gumiho twice across the two days. Hopefully this means DH Atlanta wasn't a fluke and he can consistently play at decent level.

TaKeTV

Germany1042 Posts

November 27 2022 20:29 GMT

#10

On November 28 2022 02:25 dysenterymd wrote:
Nightmare qualified, beating Gumiho twice across the two days. Hopefully this means DH Atlanta wasn't a fluke and he can consistently play at decent level.

Not trying to take away from NightMare but at least todays series were the weakest GuMiHo games ever x.x
Was suprised to see that

-narutO

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