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Electronic Sports World Cup hosts online qualification – Cooperation with the Electronic Sports League
Starcraft II players from all over Europe and America will be able to qualify for the ESWC Grand Finals in Paris via online qualification. There will be two cups, one for the US continent and one for Europe. The prices are:
Europe
* Place 1 and 2 will get a slot in the Grand Final and hotel accommodation.
* Place 3 until 8 will get a slot in the Grand Final.
US
* Place 1 and 2 will get a slot in the Grand Final and hotel accommodation.
* Place 3 and 4 will get a slot in the Grand Final.
The cup is open for all players that do not have national qualifiers in their country. The cup costs 10 euro/dollar per player and can be payed via Paypal. Payment information can be found here. The tournament is unlimited in amount of players and will be double elimination.
Dates
The cup takes place at:
- US: Saturday 24th Sept
- EU: Monday 26th & Tuesday 27th Sept
Brackets
- US
- EU
More information
- EU ESWC Online Qualification Portal
- US ESWC Online Qualification Portal
- ESWC Official Website
- #ESWC.SC2 on Quakenet
Current payed and signed up players EU+ Show Spoiler +
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- members
Goody, Socke, Orly, Spoon did pay as well last moment
New payments:
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Direct invites
The online qualifier does not influence the ongoing invite procedure to enter the tournament. The invite procedure is open to all players without qualification. Players will be picked based on achievements. Make your application here.
About ESWC Grand Final
ESWC Grand Final 2011 will take place during Paris Games Week from 21st to 24th October this year and will feature a total of $200,000 in cash prizes distributed accordingly between 7 tournaments.
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Other ESWC news
- Dota tournament morph into Dota 2 for the ESWC Grand Final
- Cancellation of the fees for ESWC open registration
- GSL announces the Korean players attending the Grand Final
History ESWC
The history of ESWC can be split up in two parts. The brand was owned previously by Games-Services. They organized international standalone e-sports tournaments from 2003 until 2008. ESWC was for a long period of time the biggest and most prestigious e-sports tournament in the world. ESWC was one of the few organizers being able to organize standalone e-sports tournaments attracting then thousands of visitors. Only the WCG had better numbers in certain country's(Korea, Germany, China). Most e-sports history has been written on these ESWC events. Unfortunately NVIDIA pulled the plug in 2007. The organizers did the 2008 event but failed to find new sponsorship. Due to this, Games-Services went bankrupt and was not able to pay out its 2008 price money.
In 2009 the brand ESWC got bought by Games-Solution. It organized its 2010 event at Disneyland Paris. Many teams were skeptical, afraid that the event would be fake, they also demanded the new organization to pay out the old price money. ESWC was not forced by law to pay out the price money of the previous company but did published a bank guarantee. All teams attended and all winners got their price money few weeks after the event.
Now its 2011 and Games-Solutions organizes ESWC at the Paris Games Week. The company Oxent will be involved organizing the event. Oxent is owned by one of the previous owners of ESWC.
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*Main stage ESWC 2011 - Click it for larger version*
FAQ
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Are Blizzcon and ESWC in the same weekend?
Blizzcon and ESWC 2011 Grand Finals will collide this year. Nothing that we can do about this situation. ESWC is taking place during the fair Paris Games week and that was set long before Blizzcon was announced. This means that players that qualified for battle.net finales at Blizzcon will not be able to attend ESWC.
Did ESWC never pay out their price money
The current owners of ESWC always paid out their price money a few weeks after the event. The previous owners that went bankrupt were unable to pay out its 2008 event. Read the history part to know more.
Why are there no notional qualifiers in my country?
National qualifiers are organized by local partners. Local e-sports companies in most of the cases. These companies have been struggling to survive and are simply unable to organize local qualifications. 5 years ago it was a different economy and so its hard to find partners that are able to do this. Partners pay travel and hotel costs of winners of their qualification.
The model that ESWC is using for qualification is not working as good as it used to be. That's why the application procedure and the online qualifications were put together in order to make sure teams and players are able to attend our event.
What about the boycott that is currently going on
The fee got removed and so there's no boycott.
Do you have to pay to play in the online qualifiers?
Yes you do, its 10 dollar/euro per person, Its done via paypal and visit the payment information on the portal for more information.
