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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 +Since there are many new payments. I'm unable to update it correctly. Check this page: - membersGoody, Socke, Orly, Spoon did pay as well last moment New payments: ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/ch.png) biGs ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/de.png) HasuObs ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/ua.png) Jaedong.jr ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/es.png) MoMaN ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/il.png) NOM.ESET Syo ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/se.png) Thorzain ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/ro.png) Ai.DeathAngel AiHonor ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/lt.png) Arew ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/at.png) Avire cbRRRR DarK.FoRcE Delphi dignitas.merz ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/fi.png) elfittaja eSr.aGGy eSr.HeNili eSr.Lemon eSr.Sinok eSr.Zanubis Fash1sT fishlips Fuzer ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/by.png) imba.FXOpen.LoWeLy JakeeY.eXe NOM.ESET Amit NOM.ESET eman ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/uk.png) RazerBlader ryan ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/ru.png) sLivko ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/be.png) spoon syo ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/dk.png) The_13abyKnight Virus.Bly VirusWhite Welmu
Current payed and signed up players US+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/us.png) Attero ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/flags2/ca.png) Axslav colminigun DeMusliM Destiny EGiNcontroL IdrA LzGaMeR Machine Mass Payson qxc Ryze StrifeCro Trimaster
* There are currently hundreds of signups but not everybody payed
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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.
![[image loading]](http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5341/phpk0jomwpm.jpg) *Main stage ESWC 2011 - Click it for larger version*
FAQ
+ Show Spoiler +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.
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lol Incontrol is the only american to sign up. no one wants to touch this.
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Guess it was a matter of time before you bought an advertising slot given the previous issues that are no more for the record
Definitely will be participating!
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On September 23 2011 02:54 sermokala wrote:
lol Incontrol is the only american to sign up. no one wants to touch this.
Idra and some other EG players signed up as well but didn't pay yet. I'm not worried for these guys, but maybe there are some others willing to try.
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Hmm only Incontrol @ US? Try get 3 more people to participate at least 
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uhm... only incontrol for the US? xD
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i'm pretty sure the list will get filled for US 
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Will the flight be paid for the people finishing top 2 of the qualifiers?
If not, how many people are attending the grand finals?
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The links for the US cup/portals aren't working...
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Whoa lots of Israeli's! Good luck!
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It looks like you adressed most of the concerns, good luck to the players who will try to qualify, should be a nice event but with MKP NADA and MC it's going to be tough.
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This is huge!!!!
Thank god latiamerican players will be able to get acomodation via online qualifiers :D
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edit: it's unclear. If we pay, can we be in the open qualifiers? I know a few people paid, but they aren't showing up.
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maybe iNcontroL will finally get his chance to come to Europe now?? Good Luck.
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Nope, QXC just signed up haha~
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On September 23 2011 16:27 Torte de Lini wrote:
edit: it's unclear. If we pay, can we be in the open qualifiers? I know a few people paid, but they aren't showing up.
i'm updating it once a day.
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New payments:
biGs
HasuObs
Jaedong.jr
MoMaN
NOM.ESET Syo
Thorzain
Attero
Axslav
DeMusliM
EGiNcontroL
IdrA
StrifeCro
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"You or your team are already waiting to be accepted by an admin. As soon as your request has been processed you will be notified via email."
Is there a selection process or something? I know someone who paid awhile ago.
edit: nvm, he's in :x
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Moman is French and Spanish but currently lives in France and plays for a French team, so his flag should be changed.
on topic: ESWC last year wasnt great. And the French national qualifiers were all extremely messy and poorly organised. Also last year, a SC2 event was already organised at the Paris Games Week and it wasn't well organised either (and the network wasnt working properly).
I really hope things will be fixed this time but somehow I don't feel like it ll be the case
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On September 24 2011 04:01 WGT-Baal wrote:
Moman is French and Spanish but currently lives in France and plays for a French team, so his flag should be changed.
on topic: ESWC last year wasnt great. And the French national qualifiers were all extremely messy and poorly organised. Also last year, a SC2 event was already organised at the Paris Games Week and it wasn't well organised either (and the network wasnt working properly).
I really hope things will be fixed this time but somehow I don't feel like it ll be the case
Lol yeah, last year was a joke. The venue was completely in the dark, almost no lights on. Besides, nobody knew of the schedule, even the ESWC staff. I went there to watch some warcraft 3 games but almost nothing was broadcasted on the main stage so I could not see anything, except for a RO game. Also, for the WC3 finals, they forgot to pick Moon and Lyn at their hotel, so it was delayed by more than 2 hours, lol. Well, I hope the next one will be better
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eg machine is from uk? lol
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
what channel should we be in?
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On September 25 2011 07:30 iNcontroL wrote:
what channel should we be in?
Quake.net : #eswc.sc2
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*Click it for larger version*
This is how the stage looks this year, there will be 2 mini stages as well.
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Is this a newer tournament? The casters seem to bit.... unexperienced? I don't want to be rude, and maybe I'm spoiled by stuff like MLG and GSL, but they seem to be fairly new to casting SC2? Fun games, and I'll keep watching, but what's with the casters?
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On September 25 2011 10:32 sensenmann wrote:
Is this a newer tournament? The casters seem to bit.... unexperienced? I don't want to be rude, and maybe I'm spoiled by stuff like MLG and GSL, but they seem to be fairly new to casting SC2? Fun games, and I'll keep watching, but what's with the casters?
ESWC is not new, but new to Starcraft II. This qualification was open for all casters to cast and ItsGosu decided to cast it. Apart of that i'm new to these casters as well
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Cool, I'm still enjoying it, and like I said, I think I'm just spoiled, but there are little things they say that make me think they are new to casting.
Thnx for the fun games
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Wow 66k prize pool and so few people signed up? What am I missing out on?
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Ok I'm not sure if the casters are just delirious or insane or whats going on...
They're saying qxc and idra automatically are top 2, where axslav and the winner of trimaster/minigun will be 3rd and 4th place.
If the bracket plays out and Axslav beats the other guy, then in theory he should face the loser of qxc/idra for 2nd place. There are still like, hotel spots on the line and what not, you can't say that the two guys in winners bracket now are auto top 2 just like that. They should just have the games played out and not cast it, but the tournament doesn't end here. Top 4 is decided here but the order isn't decided on who gets top 2 and 3rd/4th.
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Demuslim forfeiting to a team mate, reason: "Demuslim has discovered he cannot attend the event, and therefore needs to forfeit."
I think I saw this one before with Haypro ... (IEM qualifier)
Kind of unfair for those who get eliminated by these players.
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ThorZain does this smart, I assume he also requested an invite, but he doesn't take the risk not getting an invite, despite having a huge chance being one of those invitees, and also tries to qualify due to qualifer This is what I call being professional :D
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On September 25 2011 18:08 cyclone25 wrote:
Demuslim forfeiting to a team mate, reason: "Demuslim has discovered he cannot attend the event, and therefore needs to forfeit."
I think I saw this one before with Haypro ... ( qualifier)
Kind of unfair for those who get eliminated by these players.
The ones getting eliminated were his own teammate EGiNcontrol & a guy named mass, who was in my honest opinion not really a really concurrent of the top contenders. So no-one really benefits from this, can't imagine it was upset from EG to let DeMusliM eliminate his teammate.....
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On September 25 2011 16:22 Zlasher wrote:
Ok I'm not sure if the casters are just delirious or insane or whats going on...
They're saying qxc and idra automatically are top 2, where axslav and the winner of trimaster/minigun will be 3rd and 4th place.
If the bracket plays out and Axslav beats the other guy, then in theory he should face the loser of qxc/idra for 2nd place. There are still like, hotel spots on the line and what not, you can't say that the two guys in winners bracket now are auto top 2 just like that. They should just have the games played out and not cast it, but the tournament doesn't end here. Top 4 is decided here but the order isn't decided on who gets top 2 and 3rd/4th.
I'm gonna guess it is because qxc/idra are in the winners bracket therefore they get the top 2 spots.
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All the online ESWC qualifications have the same prize:
1st & second place
- A slot in the ESWC Grand Finals 2011
- Paid hotel during the event
- Paid tournament fee
3rd & fourth place (in case of Starcraft 2, top8 will get the following)
- A slot in the ESWC Grand Finals 2011
- Paid tournament fee
http://www.esl.eu/eu/eswc/prices/
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On September 27 2011 00:24 keksen wrote:Show nested quote +All the online ESWC qualifications have the same prize:
1st & second place
- A slot in the ESWC Grand Finals 2011
- Paid hotel during the event
- Paid tournament fee
3rd & fourth place (in case of Starcraft 2, top8 will get the following)
- A slot in the ESWC Grand Finals 2011
- Paid tournament fee http://www.esl.eu/eu/eswc/prices/
Ok, so the OP is incorrect ^^
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On September 27 2011 00:58 cyclone25 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2011 00:24 keksen wrote:All the online ESWC qualifications have the same prize:
1st & second place
- A slot in the ESWC Grand Finals 2011
- Paid hotel during the event
- Paid tournament fee
3rd & fourth place (in case of Starcraft 2, top8 will get the following)
- A slot in the ESWC Grand Finals 2011
- Paid tournament fee http://www.esl.eu/eu/eswc/prices/ Ok, so the OP is incorrect ^^
fixed :D
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On September 27 2011 01:44 quakerix wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2011 00:58 cyclone25 wrote:On September 27 2011 00:24 keksen wrote:All the online ESWC qualifications have the same prize:
1st & second place
- A slot in the ESWC Grand Finals 2011
- Paid hotel during the event
- Paid tournament fee
3rd & fourth place (in case of Starcraft 2, top8 will get the following)
- A slot in the ESWC Grand Finals 2011
- Paid tournament fee http://www.esl.eu/eu/eswc/prices/ Ok, so the OP is incorrect ^^ fixed :D
It still says: * Place 3 until 8 will get a slot in the Grand Final.
That's what u need to fix ^^
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so... no one is going to cast the matches ? òÓ
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oh nice players in this why no cast ?
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since it's ESL i was hoping for Bitterdam to cast this... 
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lol babyknight > socke, probably made thorzains tour towards qualification a shitload easier
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I don't get why so many of the top players didn't sign up... only Kas & Bfly....no White-Ra, Strelok or Dimaga for Ukraine, I miss tons of top Swedish players, I miss TLO and so on :<
Can't imagine this isn't prestigious enough.
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indeed, I'm kind of shocked that the hosts are still doing such a newbie mistake. also the coverage of this qualifier is really sub par even to regular cups
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On September 27 2011 04:39 rapture wrote:indeed, I'm kind of shocked that the hosts are still doing such a newbie mistake. also the coverage of this qualifier is really sub par even to regular cups
I think its similar in MLG (even worse because they have extended series ...).
But it shouldn't be done that way.
But I'm happy they at least have double elimination. There have been quite a few upsets. Socke, Hasuobs and Darkforce fighting in the looser bracket!
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On September 27 2011 04:14 michielbrands wrote:
I don't get why so many of the top players didn't sign up... only Kas & Bfly....no White-Ra, Strelok or Dimaga for Ukraine, I miss tons of top Swedish players, I miss TLO and so on :<
Can't imagine this isn't prestigious enough.
lol
Thorzain, hasu, darkforce, socke etc . There are many top players partcipitating
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Who is Seala ? One game away from qualifying -_-
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On September 27 2011 04:47 AA.spoon wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2011 04:14 michielbrands wrote:
I don't get why so many of the top players didn't sign up... only Kas & Bfly....no White-Ra, Strelok or Dimaga for Ukraine, I miss tons of top Swedish players, I miss TLO and so on :<
Can't imagine this isn't prestigious enough. lol Thorzain, hasu, darkforce, socke etc . There are many top players partcipitating
that's not the point, the point is that there are many top players NOT participating, sure there are some, but as michiel stated, lot's of Ukrainians and Swedes missing out it seems
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Top4 winner bracket should be guaranteed top8, no?
Quite suprising to see (besides Thorzain and Bischu) Pomi and ALF.
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On September 27 2011 06:25 00Visor wrote:
Top4 winner bracket should be guaranteed top8, no?
Quite suprising to see (besides Thorzain and Bischu) Pomi and ALF.
Top8
yes the results are quite surprising. Quite fun to see these lesser known players win.
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Looking forward to some good games tonight!
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did bischu beat thorzain? or walk-over?^^
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On September 28 2011 04:34 Presidenten wrote:
did bischu beat thorzain? or walk-over?^^
He beat him 2-1. I was a bit absent minded while the games were playing, so I'm not even sure how it went down...
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so top 8 is this ?
Socke
elfittaja
rox.pomi
blast.syz
rox.kis.livezerg
thorzain
bishu
alf
right ?
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On September 28 2011 04:45 Musclecore wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2011 04:34 Presidenten wrote:
did bischu beat thorzain? or walk-over?^^ He beat him 2-1. I was a bit absent minded while the games were playing, so I'm not even sure how it went down...
+ Show Spoiler +I can't remember exactly but game 1 tzain won, game 2 Bishu went nexus first into really fast Colossus (like 1 or 2 gate robo)
game 3 Bishu was expecting 111 and went 3 gate robo. Tzain went 2 rax marauder into expo. Bishu pushed with a large force with sentries stalkers and immortal got a warprism with sentries and added 2 more gates (1 robo 5 gate on one base), it got spotted and Tzain put troops on the top. Bishu drops his sentries and just does a straight up push. Forcefields the ramp and kills half the Thorzains army. 10 minutes later Bishu finishes it
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On September 28 2011 05:02 GizmoPT wrote:
so top 8 is this ?
Socke
elfittaja
rox.pomi
blast.syz
rox.kis.livezerg
thorzain
bishu
alf
right ?
yeah... but no more stream now?
winners of elfi vs pomi and thorzain vs syz will be qualified along with bischu and alf then?
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On September 28 2011 06:55 Presidenten wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2011 05:02 GizmoPT wrote:
so top 8 is this ?
Socke
elfittaja
rox.pomi
blast.syz
rox.kis.livezerg
thorzain
bishu
alf
right ? yeah... but no more stream now? winners of elfi vs pomi and thorzain vs syz will be qualified along with bischu and alf then?
we are trying to get the final matches 2morrow. But there are some schedule issues.
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On September 28 2011 06:55 Presidenten wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2011 05:02 GizmoPT wrote:
so top 8 is this ?
Socke
elfittaja
rox.pomi
blast.syz
rox.kis.livezerg
thorzain
bishu
alf
right ? yeah... but no more stream now? winners of elfi vs pomi and thorzain vs syz will be qualified along with bischu and alf then?
well if top 8 qualify in EU all those i said are already qualified o.o
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On September 28 2011 18:59 GizmoPT wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2011 06:55 Presidenten wrote:On September 28 2011 05:02 GizmoPT wrote:
so top 8 is this ?
Socke
elfittaja
rox.pomi
blast.syz
rox.kis.livezerg
thorzain
bishu
alf
right ? yeah... but no more stream now? winners of elfi vs pomi and thorzain vs syz will be qualified along with bischu and alf then? well if top 8 qualify in EU all those i said are already qualified o.o
Yes, but top2 get hotel accommodation.
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Is there a definitive list of qualified players somewhere? (including national qualifiers)
Can't wait to be there!
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