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WCG USA has officially launched online qualifying featuring StarCraft 2 open to all U.S. citizens, set to take place throughout the months of August and September for qualification directly into the US National Finals. The online qualifiers will qualify winning teams and players to the US National Finals event set to take place later this year, with details regarding that event coming soon. The winners of the US National Finals will go on to represent Team USA at the 2012 WCG Grand Finals, to take place later this year in Kunshan City, China.
Online Qualification Schedule
The live finals of each of the StarCraft 2 online events will be broadcast live to the community!
With two chances to qualify, the top finishing player from each of the online tournaments will receive an auto-berth and travel stipend to the US National Finals event. Additionally, the remaining top-4 players from each event will receive invites to compete in the event for a total of 8 US National Finals qualifier spots per game.
Registration for the online events is officially open now and will be completely free for all participants who residen in the United States.
Be sure to get signed up now for free for your chance to represent Team USA in Kunshan City, China later this year!
Click here to register now for free at http://us.wcg.com!
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didn't they do this last year then......pull out and not have a regional? :S
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Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?!
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hopefully WCG doesn't completely fail this time.
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why is your first qualifier scheduled to take place during MLG, when every single notable American will be unable to play? please change that date 
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will we have to pay our way to the grand finals if we make it again? lol
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
On August 12 2012 07:59 Xeris wrote:why is your first qualifier scheduled to take place during MLG, when every single notable American will be unable to play? please change that date
Yeah AND it conflicts with a NASL qualifier!
Why do people schedule like that? 
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WCG is clearly NOT... iNcontroL
Demuslims sister YEahhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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On August 12 2012 07:59 KawaiiRice wrote:
will we have to pay our way to the grand finals if we make it again? lol
"bitch bitch bitch lol"
- 75% of your quotes
Passive aggressiveness complaining all over TL gets obnoxious to read.
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On August 12 2012 08:10 iNcontroL wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 07:59 Xeris wrote:why is your first qualifier scheduled to take place during MLG, when every single notable American will be unable to play? please change that date Yeah AND it conflicts with a NASL qualifier! Why do people schedule like that?
Difference being... WCG USA is literally a tournament only for US citizens, so directly conflicting with a tournament in which every single good American player goes to sounds like a bad idea, especially when they can just put both qualifiers in September.
NASL on the other hand, is starting in September, which means we have a very limited amount of time to run qualifiers, so unfortunately can't really change the schedule around. Plus, we are having four different qualifiers, so people who miss out on MLG still have 3 other chances. Furthermore, NASL is a world-wide tournament, so conflicting with a USA-LAN isn't as big of a deal, because there is still a wide variety of world class players that can sign up and compete in the NASL qualifier that are not attending MLG. Obviously, a WCG USA qualifier doesn't have that luxury because the entire player-base that would have a good shot at qualifying, if they played, will be attending MLG.
Thank you for the comparison though, Geoff.
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On August 12 2012 08:14 Apollo_Shards wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 07:59 KawaiiRice wrote:
will we have to pay our way to the grand finals if we make it again? lol "bitch bitch bitch lol" - 75% of your quotes Passive aggressiveness complaining all over TL gets obnoxious to read.
would be nice to know i dont have to pay 2k+ or whatever the number was to attend a tour I qualified for (not saying I would qualify for grand finals, but if I did)
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
eh? MLG is a mostly international tourney where a lot of NA players but also Korean/EU players attend. NASL is an international tourney where the same is true.. both cancelled out.
Americans missing out in playing 1 of 2 qualifiers for a league they have to pay to attend is bad.. but so is NASL going up against a very announced MLG with an online qualifier.
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On August 12 2012 08:17 iNcontroL wrote:
eh? MLG is a mostly international tourney where a lot of NA players but also Korean/EU players attend. NASL is an international tourney where the same is true.. both cancelled out.
Americans missing out in playing 1 of 2 qualifiers for a league they have to pay to attend is bad.. but so is NASL going up against a very announced MLG with an online qualifier.
Again difference is...
NASL Season 3 finals: July 14-15 ... we took 1 week of vacation off after the finals, our gear didn't arrive until the next week, which brings us essentially to August. We have 4 qualifiers, and Season 4 starts early September. Not sure when else we're supposed to fit the qualifier in, unfortunately.
Again there's a very big difference here that I'm not sure you're seeing. Unless WCG USA Finals are in September, there should be no reason why they can't move their qualifier to another date - especially because WCG isn't paying for the players travel outside of 1st place.
For any player that joins NASL, we need them to sign contracts, get in HQ photos, get their security deposits, etc... so again we need some time. No real way around avoiding MLG, unfortunately.
You're also ignoring the fact that only 1 of our 4 qualifiers conflicts, whereas 1 of their 2 is. This is made even steeper by the fact that WCG USA is only for American citizens (almost ALL of which attend MLG). You can't argue that almost ALL top players in the world attend MLG. For example: half the Slayers team signed up for the first qualifier, and I can guarantee you that none of them will attend MLG. Sleep won't attend MLG, ToD won't attend MLG, Golden won't attend MLG, Inca won't attend MLG, neither will Daisy or Bischu. In fact most of the top 16 in this qualifier aren't attending MLG.
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dramadramadrama....
Look forward to watching.
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
ok!
Time constraints make it ok.. my point is scheduling on top of other events is bad in general. Maybe you do a qualifier on m-w of a week? Maybe you cram it into 1 day?
I get your reasons but in general scheduling on another event for an online qualifier is really bad. It hurts you and it hurts the scene overall.
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Uh oh. Conflicting schedules. Looking forward to watching it all!
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United States4796 Posts
On August 12 2012 07:49 giX wrote:
hopefully WCG doesn't completely fail this time.
Me too, I'm afraid.
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damn sucks that i wont be able to play in the qualifier cause mlg T_T
hopefully the second is enough, but shit scheduling regardless.
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On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?!
I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all?
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On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all?
China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway.
Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's.
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On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's.
host country always sees a significant boost in medals. look at the previous 5 olympics or so. US always on top. If only sc2 were like that 
and yes, lets hope that WCG isn't anything like it was last year. Part of me wishes they went to all mobile games so we didn't have to worry about their incompetence again.
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whys any of this matter... incontrols talking like he has a chance in either...
User was warned for this post
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Online qualifiers for WCG is bad, purely because of the prevalence of hacks and the useless-ness of Blizzard's anti-hacking system. Recall how a hacker was once invited to Blizzard's tournament?
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usa can be happy, german qualifiers was pretty hidden xD
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On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's.
Sweden win the games that counts
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Is there a qualifier for Canada?
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WCG? i thought they're dead 
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Hopefully WCG gets thing together this time
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On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?!
The US winning at the Olympics was not a surprise at all.
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On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's.
Actually we won 2008 too. USA is #1, best sports, best country, best FREEDOM!!!
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On August 12 2012 15:40 royal.cze wrote:
whys any of this matter... incontrols talking like he has a chance in either...
The worst thing about it is: Why didn't he mention the playhem? :S
I'm actually all for a conflictual schedule, that way we get to see more players.
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On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all?
Not really? Main competition for 12 and 3 for olympics used to be germany usa and soviet union. None always won. Now it is china and america. We usually always win basketball though.
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On August 12 2012 23:57 The Final Boss wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's. Actually we won 2008 too. USA is #1, best sports, best country, best FREEDOM!!!
Australia says hi.
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On August 12 2012 15:40 royal.cze wrote:
whys any of this matter... incontrols talking like he has a chance in either...
User was warned for this post
He is talking on behalf of the scene, and he is right. Even if he did talk about himself, that would be fine aswell, confidence is a good thing you know?
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Everyone has schedules, and i'm sure there are deadlines that WCG has to meet as well. WCG brings so many great memories, and hopefully this will be a good year
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you have to put qualifiers on weekends... some people that participate play as the game as a hobby and have real life to do during weekdays
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On August 12 2012 23:57 The Final Boss wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's. Actually we won 2008 too. USA is #1, best sports, best country, best FREEDOM!!!
Apparently you don't know how the system ranking works, but it's based on how many golds you win so no they didn't.
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On August 14 2012 00:22 StarStruck wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2012 23:57 The Final Boss wrote:On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's. Actually we won 2008 too. USA is #1, best sports, best country, best FREEDOM!!! Apparently you don't know how the system ranking works, but it's based on how many golds you win so no they didn't.
Yeah, China won by most golds but USA won by medal count overall.
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On August 14 2012 01:16 StreetWise wrote:Show nested quote +On August 14 2012 00:22 StarStruck wrote:On August 12 2012 23:57 The Final Boss wrote:On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's. Actually we won 2008 too. USA is #1, best sports, best country, best FREEDOM!!! Apparently you don't know how the system ranking works, but it's based on how many golds you win so no they didn't. Yeah, China won by most golds but USA won by medal count overall.
... What did I just say? Under the Olympic Committee's system your rank is based on Golds first and foremost. That doesn't change what I said man. lol
We can talk about semantics all day about overall, but it doesn't change the fact that under their system they go by the amount of gold medals you get. It's just how they do things. More weight on Gold.
To make it look better, The Canadian Broadcasters were only going based off total medal count as well and always showing the Canadians as 12th when in reality they were really 32th by the Olympic Committe standards.
There's a lot of things I don't agree with when it comes to how the Olympics are ran. We're really picking at straws here.
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On August 14 2012 01:32 StarStruck wrote:Show nested quote +On August 14 2012 01:16 StreetWise wrote:On August 14 2012 00:22 StarStruck wrote:On August 12 2012 23:57 The Final Boss wrote:On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's. Actually we won 2008 too. USA is #1, best sports, best country, best FREEDOM!!! Apparently you don't know how the system ranking works, but it's based on how many golds you win so no they didn't. Yeah, China won by most golds but USA won by medal count overall. ... What did I just say? Under the Olympic Committee's system your rank is based on Golds first and foremost. That doesn't change what I said man. lol We can talk about semantics all day about overall, but it doesn't change the fact that under their system they go by the amount of gold medals you get. It's just how they do things. More weight on Gold. To make it look better, The Canadian Broadcasters were only going based off total medal count as well and always showing the Canadians as 12th when in reality they were really 32th by the Olympic Committe standards. There's a lot of things I don't agree with when it comes to how the Olympics are ran. We're really picking at straws here.
Hate to burst everyones bubbles here, but I'd say Grenada is the best country when it comes to the Olympics 2012.. You can verify this statement here: http://www.medalspercapita.com/
I believe China would need about 2000 medals (compared to the 88 they got) to get back to #1. Good news for US though as per capita you beat China by a wide margin counting only gold or grand total of medals.
Just saying.
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On August 14 2012 02:37 torso wrote:Show nested quote +On August 14 2012 01:32 StarStruck wrote:On August 14 2012 01:16 StreetWise wrote:On August 14 2012 00:22 StarStruck wrote:On August 12 2012 23:57 The Final Boss wrote:On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's. Actually we won 2008 too. USA is #1, best sports, best country, best FREEDOM!!! Apparently you don't know how the system ranking works, but it's based on how many golds you win so no they didn't. Yeah, China won by most golds but USA won by medal count overall. ... What did I just say? Under the Olympic Committee's system your rank is based on Golds first and foremost. That doesn't change what I said man. lol We can talk about semantics all day about overall, but it doesn't change the fact that under their system they go by the amount of gold medals you get. It's just how they do things. More weight on Gold. To make it look better, The Canadian Broadcasters were only going based off total medal count as well and always showing the Canadians as 12th when in reality they were really 32th by the Olympic Committe standards. There's a lot of things I don't agree with when it comes to how the Olympics are ran. We're really picking at straws here. Hate to burst everyones bubbles here, but I'd say Grenada is the best country when it comes to the Olympics 2012.. You can verify this statement here: http://www.medalspercapita.com/I believe China would need about 2000 medals (compared to the 88 they got) to get back to #1. Good news for US though as per capita you beat China by a wide margin counting only gold or grand total of medals. Just saying.
Not for nothing, but doesn't this mean that the US has to win like 800+ medals to match? I mean, are there even that many medals given out at the Olympics? I don't know if measuring "per capita" is really the way to go, as opposed to just taking the absolute number. I think the fairest way would probably to do a percentage of events entered compared to medals: i.e.: if you can medal in 50% of your events, regardless of the absolute number, that's probably better than countries that just entered events for the sake of entering events (I think the IOC encourages countries to enter as many as possible, because the spirit of the Olympics is "fair competition" rather than winning.)
In any case, back on topic, with all of these conflicts, maybe my platinum zerg has a chance to win. Oh, to dream! TO DREAM!
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Just a warning for anyone trying to qualify for this... The last WCG USA was a complete failure. I qualified for it and the scheduling and overall management of the tournament was awful. After, the 8 people who qualified got notified that they had to pay for their own trip/hotel/food to Korea and pay an entrance fee of $1500 to even get into the tournament.
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On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?!
What? You were surprised that the US dominated the Olympics? Which rock do you hide under? lol.
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does the fact that this is during MLG mean that it will make it easier for players like me to qualify?
kekeke
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On August 14 2012 08:14 Gatored wrote:
Just a warning for anyone trying to qualify for this... The last WCG USA was a complete failure. I qualified for it and the scheduling and overall management of the tournament was awful. After, the 8 people who qualified got notified that they had to pay for their own trip/hotel/food to Korea and pay an entrance fee of $1500 to even get into the tournament.
this. i might play the second qualifier since they decided the 1st qualifier during wcs north american finals and mlg raleigh was a good idea. (lol?) but I fully expect them to fuck up and screw everyone over.
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On August 14 2012 02:37 torso wrote:Show nested quote +On August 14 2012 01:32 StarStruck wrote:On August 14 2012 01:16 StreetWise wrote:On August 14 2012 00:22 StarStruck wrote:On August 12 2012 23:57 The Final Boss wrote:On August 12 2012 15:11 Mufaa wrote:On August 12 2012 13:33 TommyP wrote:On August 12 2012 07:26 Kamwah wrote:
Maybe the US will surprise us like the Olympics and win?! I dont really follow the olympics so I could be wrong, but doesnt the US basically win them all? China win 08 pretty easily. Medal counts are stupid anyway. Hopefully this turns out better than the joke that was last year's. Actually we won 2008 too. USA is #1, best sports, best country, best FREEDOM!!! Apparently you don't know how the system ranking works, but it's based on how many golds you win so no they didn't. Yeah, China won by most golds but USA won by medal count overall. ... What did I just say? Under the Olympic Committee's system your rank is based on Golds first and foremost. That doesn't change what I said man. lol We can talk about semantics all day about overall, but it doesn't change the fact that under their system they go by the amount of gold medals you get. It's just how they do things. More weight on Gold. To make it look better, The Canadian Broadcasters were only going based off total medal count as well and always showing the Canadians as 12th when in reality they were really 32th by the Olympic Committe standards. There's a lot of things I don't agree with when it comes to how the Olympics are ran. We're really picking at straws here. Hate to burst everyones bubbles here, but I'd say Grenada is the best country when it comes to the Olympics 2012.. You can verify this statement here: http://www.medalspercapita.com/I believe China would need about 2000 medals (compared to the 88 they got) to get back to #1. Good news for US though as per capita you beat China by a wide margin counting only gold or grand total of medals. Just saying.
Cute. :3
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On August 14 2012 08:14 Gatored wrote:
Just a warning for anyone trying to qualify for this... The last WCG USA was a complete failure. I qualified for it and the scheduling and overall management of the tournament was awful. After, the 8 people who qualified got notified that they had to pay for their own trip/hotel/food to Korea and pay an entrance fee of $1500 to even get into the tournament.
$1500 entrance fee? If this is true I won't bother playing the qualifiers.
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Why is this in the sponsored threads? Wcg has shit on our community for a number of years now.
bad tourney. Don't get your hopes up.
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On August 12 2012 17:56 Perpetuus wrote:
Is there a qualifier for Canada?
prolly not, but if there is then theres like 3 of them, all in quebec.
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On August 14 2012 22:57 JeffVader wrote:Show nested quote +On August 14 2012 08:14 Gatored wrote:
Just a warning for anyone trying to qualify for this... The last WCG USA was a complete failure. I qualified for it and the scheduling and overall management of the tournament was awful. After, the 8 people who qualified got notified that they had to pay for their own trip/hotel/food to Korea and pay an entrance fee of $1500 to even get into the tournament. $1500 entrance fee? If this is true I won't bother playing the qualifiers.
Here is the email I got last year after I had qualified:
"Hey guys,
We just tried calling you regarding the WCG USA Grand Final tournament. I just want to clear up some details which I don't think I made clear in my previous emails. As you know you will be required to pay for your own flight, lodging, food, expenses etc, but on-top of that WCG is also requiring that the USA Representative pay a mandatory $1,500 player fee just to enter the tournament. In this past this was covered by WCG USA, but since such drastic budget cuts were made, it is simply no longer possible for that to be waived. This trip is basically going to put you out something like $4,000 when all the necessary expenses are added up.
I completely understand if you cannot justify paying this much and if you wish to bow out, please let me know ASAP. We have been given a deadline of Sunday night to have a winner in this tournament, so even if you are still able to pay that amount, you need to be available to play back-to-back matches sometime in the next few days. Also, you absolutely must have your passport in your possession and be ready to go as far as that's concerned.
Please either give xxx a call back at xxx-xxx-xxxx or reply to all in this email with your decision.
Thanks,
- xxx"
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On August 15 2012 05:17 Gatored wrote:Show nested quote +On August 14 2012 22:57 JeffVader wrote:On August 14 2012 08:14 Gatored wrote:
Just a warning for anyone trying to qualify for this... The last WCG USA was a complete failure. I qualified for it and the scheduling and overall management of the tournament was awful. After, the 8 people who qualified got notified that they had to pay for their own trip/hotel/food to Korea and pay an entrance fee of $1500 to even get into the tournament. $1500 entrance fee? If this is true I won't bother playing the qualifiers. Here is the email I got last year after I had qualified: "Hey guys, We just tried calling you regarding the WCG USA Grand Final tournament. I just want to clear up some details which I don't think I made clear in my previous emails. As you know you will be required to pay for your own flight, lodging, food, expenses etc, but on-top of that WCG is also requiring that the USA Representative pay a mandatory $1,500 player fee just to enter the tournament. In this past this was covered by WCG USA, but since such drastic budget cuts were made, it is simply no longer possible for that to be waived. This trip is basically going to put you out something like $4,000 when all the necessary expenses are added up. I completely understand if you cannot justify paying this much and if you wish to bow out, please let me know ASAP. We have been given a deadline of Sunday night to have a winner in this tournament, so even if you are still able to pay that amount, you need to be available to play back-to-back matches sometime in the next few days. Also, you absolutely must have your passport in your possession and be ready to go as far as that's concerned. Please either give xxx a call back at xxx-xxx-xxxx or reply to all in this email with your decision. Thanks, - xxx"
Did you actually win a qualifier, or did you qualify to go? I'm pretty sure these have two different results
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On August 15 2012 06:18 SPYTE wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2012 05:17 Gatored wrote:On August 14 2012 22:57 JeffVader wrote:On August 14 2012 08:14 Gatored wrote:
Just a warning for anyone trying to qualify for this... The last WCG USA was a complete failure. I qualified for it and the scheduling and overall management of the tournament was awful. After, the 8 people who qualified got notified that they had to pay for their own trip/hotel/food to Korea and pay an entrance fee of $1500 to even get into the tournament. $1500 entrance fee? If this is true I won't bother playing the qualifiers. Here is the email I got last year after I had qualified: "Hey guys, We just tried calling you regarding the WCG USA Grand Final tournament. I just want to clear up some details which I don't think I made clear in my previous emails. As you know you will be required to pay for your own flight, lodging, food, expenses etc, but on-top of that WCG is also requiring that the USA Representative pay a mandatory $1,500 player fee just to enter the tournament. In this past this was covered by WCG USA, but since such drastic budget cuts were made, it is simply no longer possible for that to be waived. This trip is basically going to put you out something like $4,000 when all the necessary expenses are added up. I completely understand if you cannot justify paying this much and if you wish to bow out, please let me know ASAP. We have been given a deadline of Sunday night to have a winner in this tournament, so even if you are still able to pay that amount, you need to be available to play back-to-back matches sometime in the next few days. Also, you absolutely must have your passport in your possession and be ready to go as far as that's concerned. Please either give xxx a call back at xxx-xxx-xxxx or reply to all in this email with your decision. Thanks, - xxx" Did you actually win a qualifier, or did you qualify to go? I'm pretty sure these have two different results
Both. I won a qualifier and then advanced far enough to earn a spot in the grand finals, hence why I received that email.
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On August 15 2012 11:08 Gatored wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2012 06:18 SPYTE wrote:On August 15 2012 05:17 Gatored wrote:On August 14 2012 22:57 JeffVader wrote:On August 14 2012 08:14 Gatored wrote:
Just a warning for anyone trying to qualify for this... The last WCG USA was a complete failure. I qualified for it and the scheduling and overall management of the tournament was awful. After, the 8 people who qualified got notified that they had to pay for their own trip/hotel/food to Korea and pay an entrance fee of $1500 to even get into the tournament. $1500 entrance fee? If this is true I won't bother playing the qualifiers. Here is the email I got last year after I had qualified: "Hey guys, We just tried calling you regarding the WCG USA Grand Final tournament. I just want to clear up some details which I don't think I made clear in my previous emails. As you know you will be required to pay for your own flight, lodging, food, expenses etc, but on-top of that WCG is also requiring that the USA Representative pay a mandatory $1,500 player fee just to enter the tournament. In this past this was covered by WCG USA, but since such drastic budget cuts were made, it is simply no longer possible for that to be waived. This trip is basically going to put you out something like $4,000 when all the necessary expenses are added up. I completely understand if you cannot justify paying this much and if you wish to bow out, please let me know ASAP. We have been given a deadline of Sunday night to have a winner in this tournament, so even if you are still able to pay that amount, you need to be available to play back-to-back matches sometime in the next few days. Also, you absolutely must have your passport in your possession and be ready to go as far as that's concerned. Please either give xxx a call back at xxx-xxx-xxxx or reply to all in this email with your decision. Thanks, - xxx" Did you actually win a qualifier, or did you qualify to go? I'm pretty sure these have two different results Both. I won a qualifier and then advanced far enough to earn a spot in the grand finals, hence why I received that email.
Sorry I wrote that incorrectly, what I was trying to point out is the fact that I think they can only pay for the trip of the person who wins the US qualifer. After that, it comes to funding and I imagine they only had enough funding to let the first place player go to Korea (which I believe is why Idra was the only american who went).
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Conflicting schedules XD I'll be watching NASL...
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Can someone from WCG please clarify:
- 1st place of each qualifier earns a paid trip to the WCG USA finals
- 1st place of WCG USA Finals earns a paid trip to WCG Grand Finals
- 2nd - 4th of each qualifier earns a spot at WCG USA finals (not-paid)
Will USA send any other players to the WCG Grand Final (I.E. 2nd place has a spot, but not paid?)
Also, is there a date and/or location chosen for WCG USA Final and WCG Grand Final?
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1st place of each qualifier earns an invite to the US Finals and a travel stipend
1st place of WCG USA Finals earns travel and lodging to WCG Grand Finals in China
2nd - 4th of each qualifier earns an invite to the US Finals (not paid )
As far as sending any other players to the WCG Grand Final, that is probably not an option seeing as WCG makes each country pay for every player they send to the finals.
US Finals are still in the process of being secured, but it will probably be at the beginning half of October.
WCG Grand Finals are in Kunshan City, China - all that info is on the main WCG website.
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On August 16 2012 03:32 Laurent wrote:
1st place of each qualifier earns an invite to the US Finals and a travel stipend
1st place of WCG USA Finals earns travel and lodging to WCG Grand Finals in China
2nd - 4th of each qualifier earns an invite to the US Finals (not paid )
As far as sending any other players to the WCG Grand Final, that is probably not an option seeing as WCG makes each country pay for every player they send to the finals.
US Finals are still in the process of being secured, but it will probably be at the beginning half of October.
WCG Grand Finals are in Kunshan City, China - all that info is on the main WCG website.
How much is the travel stipend? And thanks for the quick response! Also, is there any way to change the dates of the first qualifier so it doesn't conflict with MLG / WCS NA?
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We cant adjust the dates of the qualifiers because of the scheduling before the planned US Finals event. But matches can be rescheduled as long as both opponents agree. We are also willing to work with players to extend their match times. This will need to be on a case by case basis, because not everyone whos playing in the NASL qualifier might be in the WCG qualifier as well.
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The travel stipend is still being sorted out - but normally it would cover flight and we would arrange hotel. But it is a set amount, so if you dont book your ticket in advance, it might not cover it.
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On August 16 2012 03:32 Laurent wrote:
1st place of each qualifier earns an invite to the US Finals and a travel stipend
1st place of WCG USA Finals earns travel and lodging to WCG Grand Finals in China
2nd - 4th of each qualifier earns an invite to the US Finals (not paid )
As far as sending any other players to the WCG Grand Final, that is probably not an option seeing as WCG makes each country pay for every player they send to the finals.
US Finals are still in the process of being secured, but it will probably be at the beginning half of October.
WCG Grand Finals are in Kunshan City, China - all that info is on the main WCG website.
makes perfect sense to me
so wait is there going to be a US Finals LAN event this year? Maybe one back on the East Coast since we missed it last year
Then that guy Mike can come..............
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I'm wondering, are a lot of semi-pros/low level pros going to enter for this?
What I mean is, that NASL qualifiers and MLG are going to be taking place around this time.
HOWEVER, MLG is going to be stacked the tee with Koreans everywhere. Genuinely, most of us Americans don't have a chance whatsoever, besides the highest tier of us. NASL will follow the same idea of lots of Koreans and strong pro-gamers.
Mostly, you'll go to MLG and NASL qualifiers as a learning experience, because it's a long shot to consider yourself the guy that will breakout during MLG/NASL.
However, lower level teams should definitely prefer this tournament to MLG or NASL because the competition is the least prestigious and thus less of the better players would be there. In fact, it will probably be stacked with a bunch of master league players.
So I mean... Most players that aren't being forced to go to MLG by sponsors would totally prefer this tournament, wouldn't they?
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Lmao, so much fail with tournaments overlapping, dont get why they cant do a weeknight tournament or over a couple weeknights insted of them trying to make players play 2-3 tournaments in 1 weekend.
WCG has been a complete joke since they made the players pay for their travel. Wont be watching any of it anymore since there is a million better sc2 tournaments out there nowdays
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Why is registration closed?
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i think there are some up and coming us players that will do well
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how do the rounds work. Are they all best of 1 or what?
also why are some of the people in the brackets highlighted with a tealish color.
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On August 20 2012 15:15 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
how do the rounds work. Are they all best of 1 or what?
also why are some of the people in the brackets highlighted with a tealish color.
Bo3, people who are seeded highly get to skip first round.
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Gunna try qualifying after no practice and 2 days of switching races from Z to P. Wooo.... this shall be fun lol.
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Wait I don't get it, what happened at MLG if not this...?
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On August 27 2012 10:01 furerkip wrote:
Wait I don't get it, what happened at MLG if not this...? WCS =/= WCG
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When will our matches be up for the USA qualifier #2?
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yeah waiting for matches to be set up and its the day its supposed to start and i havent heard anything
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I see my match, but does anyone know when we are suppose to play them by? Do we have an hour? a couple hours? a day? I can't find any info on this. >.<
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how do you see your match? i dont currently have any matches or challenges, but it says im registered for the event
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so how much is the stipend and where is the USA Final? I was told that the stipend would cover the travel to the event if booked in advance, but it's already halfway through september and we don't know the location.
any help would be great
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On September 15 2012 11:06 Xeris wrote:
so how much is the stipend and where is the USA Final? I was told that the stipend would cover the travel to the event if booked in advance, but it's already halfway through september and we don't know the location.
any help would be great
Does anyone know?
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