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WCG USA 2013 National Qualifiers Announced
It’s 2013 and WCG USA is back for another exciting year! The new site has officially launched with twelve free online qualifying events, open to all U.S. citizens. The online qualifiers will take place throughout July, August and September. Details about the WCG US National Finals will be announced in the near future. The winners of the US National Finals will go on to represent Team USA at the 2013 WCG Grand Finals, to take place later this year in Kunshan City, China.
A total of six games will be featured throughout the twelve qualifiers, with many offering multiple chances to qualify.
- StarCraft 2 (1v1) on PC
- World of Tanks (7v7) on PC
- FIFA '13 (1v1) on PC
- Cross Fire (5v5) on PC
- League of Legends (5v5) on PC
- Super Street Fighter IV (1v1) on XBOX
With two chances to qualify in each online event, the top finishing team / player from each of the online tournaments will receive an auto-berth and travel stipend to the US National Finals event. Additionally, the second place finisher from each event will receive an invite to compete in the event for a total of 4 US National Finals qualifier spots per game.
In support of the fighting game community here in the United States, WCG USA will be conducting the entire Super Street Fighter IV qualification process LIVE on site at the 2013 National Finals event. The winner of the tournament will be declared the official Super Street Fighter IV representative for Team USA, and will receive fully stipend travel to the WCG Global Festival in Kunshan City, China later this year. The location of the National Finals will be announced in the coming days. The event will be streamed live at http://www.twitch.tv/WCGusa
Registration for the online events will officially open on Monday, July 15th, and will be completely free for all participants who reside in the United States.
Online Qualification Schedule:
- Qualifier #1 (all games except SSF4): July 29th – August 11th
- Qualifier #2 (all games except SSF4): August 5th – August 18th
- Qualifier #3 (all games except SSF4): August 19th – September 8th
- Qualifier #4 (all games except SSF4): August 26th – September 8th
Be sure to get signed up now for free at http://us.wcg.com for your chance to represent Team USA in Kunshan City, China later this year!
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anyone know if lcs teams are eligible for wcg?
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On July 22 2013 00:58 GTR wrote:
anyone know if lcs teams are eligible for wcg?
I don't think they are.
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Warcraft 3?!!!
Fuck you WCG!
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Is USA the second country to announce the qualifiers (first being Canada)? I cant wait for Brazil qualifiers!
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On July 22 2013 04:30 ( bush wrote:
Is USA the second country to announce the qualifiers (first being Canada)? I cant wait for Brazil qualifiers!
Nop, it was already announced in France, the final of the qualifier will be in Meltdown btw. ^^
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On July 22 2013 02:48 Flowne wrote:
No Dota?
Time to bring up the riot pact with tournament organizers again.
Honorable mention: "WCG is not what it used to be"
WC3 last year was a delight though, got really bad nostalgia from that.
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What the fuck is Crossfire, and who cares?
Srsly, no 1.6?
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Can I cast this? I did casting for WCG China.
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On July 22 2013 04:48 Crownlol wrote:
What the fuck is Crossfire, and who cares?
Srsly, no 1.6?
Crossfire is basically a popular Asian FTP 1.6-esque shooter, if I'm not mistaken. It's been at the last few WCGs. I think OGN also has a Crossfire tourney they run from time to time..?
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On July 22 2013 05:02 MCXD wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 04:48 Crownlol wrote:
What the fuck is Crossfire, and who cares?
Srsly, no 1.6? Crossfire is basically a popular Asian FTP 1.6-esque shooter, if I'm not mistaken. It's been at the last few WCGs. I think OGN also has a Crossfire tourney they run from time to time..?
Yeah I googled. It looks awful, lol.
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On July 22 2013 05:02 MCXD wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 04:48 Crownlol wrote:
What the fuck is Crossfire, and who cares?
Srsly, no 1.6? Crossfire is basically a popular Asian FTP 1.6-esque shooter, if I'm not mistaken. It's been at the last few WCGs. I think OGN also has a Crossfire tourney they run from time to time..?
I believe the phrase "They pay for Crossfire to be in WCG" comes to mind.
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On July 22 2013 05:40 Taf the Ghost wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 05:02 MCXD wrote:On July 22 2013 04:48 Crownlol wrote:
What the fuck is Crossfire, and who cares?
Srsly, no 1.6? Crossfire is basically a popular Asian FTP 1.6-esque shooter, if I'm not mistaken. It's been at the last few WCGs. I think OGN also has a Crossfire tourney they run from time to time..? I believe the phrase "They pay for Crossfire to be in WCG" comes to mind.
*Ugh*
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Interesting pick of games for the WCG, not sure if it is what i would have chosen, but we will see how good it is. I hope it is awesome.
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No Warcraft III? So sad, this is the end of an era 
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On July 22 2013 07:24 HsDLTitich wrote:No Warcraft III? So sad, this is the end of an era
How about boycotting WCG?
I mean it has nothing to offer. It's SC2 tournament is shit and it's game selection is ''lacking''
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On July 22 2013 10:47 thezanursic wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 07:24 HsDLTitich wrote:No Warcraft III? So sad, this is the end of an era How about boycotting WCG? I mean it has nothing to offer. It's SC2 tournament is shit and it's game selection is ''lacking''
This post actually made me laugh, like they give a shit if you "boycott" them, lol. The audience is Korea and China, look at the games and the sponsors.
lol
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On July 22 2013 05:01 Enders116 wrote:
Can I cast this? I did casting for WCG China.
Good place to ask this
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On July 22 2013 16:06 Gofarman wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 10:47 thezanursic wrote:On July 22 2013 07:24 HsDLTitich wrote:No Warcraft III? So sad, this is the end of an era How about boycotting WCG? I mean it has nothing to offer. It's SC2 tournament is shit and it's game selection is ''lacking'' This post actually made me laugh, like they give a shit if you "boycott" them, lol. The audience is Korea and China, look at the games and the sponsors. lol
Yeah well a lot of China watched WC3 so hopefully that hurts their audience. Even though it's got LoL. I really have no idea how much of a pull that has in China, but it's still not worth going. WCG has been a terribly run tournament since... it's inception. That was okay at the time since there wasn't as much going on, but right now we have plenty of well organized and run tournaments. Hopefully the LOL guys realize that this is not worth attending.
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Hopefully, but it might have been change because if you go to the game portal WC3 isn't there.
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Do the national winners have to pay their own way again? I recall that keeping a lot of people from participating last year.
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On July 22 2013 21:43 esReveR wrote:
Do the national winners have to pay their own way again? I recall that keeping a lot of people from participating last year.
From the USWCG site:
The winners of the WCG 2013 Online Qualifiers will receive stipened travel to the US National Finals, where they will have the opportunity to compete for the chance to represent Team USA at the WCG Global Festival. Members of Team USA will receive compensation packages for travel to Kunshan City, China, where they will compete against competitive gamers from across the world as representatives of Team USA.
Last year, the 2012 WCG Global Festival prize pool totaled $258,000.00 USD. The prize pool for the 2013 WCG Global Festival has not yet been announced. Details will be posted when information becomes available.
I assume compensation packages are not full coverage, but some limited financial aid. Attendance of US National FInals fully covered though.Maybe their official sponsors (samsung, riot, wargaming, smilegate, the latter three being the companies behind the bought in titles LoL, WoT and CrossFire ) pay for their players, but more than that, I do not think WCG has the money to fly that many people to china.
It is gonna be interesting, how they tailor tha prize (assuming it is gonna be 250kish again) over the 11 games at the Global Festival. I have the feeling that the bought in titles gonna take the cake. With the arrival of WCG (and LCS) the relevance for the (globally) most popular games at WCG is pretty damn low.
WCG is like the equivalent of less reputated Olympic Games of E-Sport, where partaking and representing your country is put above athletic competition. Sadly no olympic spirit involved but money.
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On July 22 2013 16:20 Bonkarooni wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 05:01 Enders116 wrote:
Can I cast this? I did casting for WCG China. Good place to ask this
LOLOLOOOL i literally lol'd
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Online Qualification Schedule:- Qualifier #1 (all games except SSF4): July 29th – August 11th
- Qualifier #2 (all games except SSF4): August 5th – August 18th
- Qualifier #3 (all games except SSF4): August 19th – September 8th
- Qualifier #4 (all games except SSF4): August 26th – September 8th
Are there really 4 Starcraft Qualifiers?
The website only has Starcraft for Qualifier #2 and #4, unless I am mistaken.
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On July 23 2013 04:46 ROOTCaliber wrote:Show nested quote +Online Qualification Schedule:- Qualifier #1 (all games except SSF4): July 29th – August 11th
- Qualifier #2 (all games except SSF4): August 5th – August 18th
- Qualifier #3 (all games except SSF4): August 19th – September 8th
- Qualifier #4 (all games except SSF4): August 26th – September 8th
Are there really 4 Starcraft Qualifiers? The website only has Starcraft for Qualifier #2 and #4, unless I am mistaken.
well from the looks of the official site there are only 2. some clarification would be nice
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On July 23 2013 05:23 KiF1rE wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2013 04:46 ROOTCaliber wrote:Online Qualification Schedule:- Qualifier #1 (all games except SSF4): July 29th – August 11th
- Qualifier #2 (all games except SSF4): August 5th – August 18th
- Qualifier #3 (all games except SSF4): August 19th – September 8th
- Qualifier #4 (all games except SSF4): August 26th – September 8th
Are there really 4 Starcraft Qualifiers? The website only has Starcraft for Qualifier #2 and #4, unless I am mistaken. well from the looks of the official site there are only 2. some clarification would be nice
It looks like each game has 2 qualifiers a few weeks apart, so rather than 2 enormous qualifiers covering 5 games, they split it up into 4 qualifiers with 2-3 games each.
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Not trying to be overly pessimistic, but this is going to be another shitstorm waiting to happen.
I'm sure some money issue will pop up 'again'. At least this time they have more tactful post about the event, with no mention in the OP about receiving funding to the Grand Finals, even for the winner of the nationals. At least that is what stood out the most to me, given that I'm not blind but nobody else has mentioned or noticed this yet.
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lets hope they have a required replays for starcraft... because last time we had people who just said they won without even playing a game.
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I'm pretty sure no one cares about WCG any more.
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I'd never been a big fan of WCG, they get a couple of good players to the finals, but it can't be compared to the player pool of the others big SC2 Tournaments. I hope this year will be different.
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I really wish stuff would not be all online nowadays offline tournaments are only for pros now no average people any more.
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On July 22 2013 16:20 Bonkarooni wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2013 05:01 Enders116 wrote:
Can I cast this? I did casting for WCG China. Good place to ask this
lol.
Also, I'm definitely playing in these USA qualifiers 
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crossfire is 1 million times more popular in the asian countrys then 1.6 which is even dead in eu xD
i want CS GO
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no 1.6, no GO, no WC3, no DOTA
wtf WCG???!
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I remember when I was excited as hell for WCG whenever it was time for it. Now there seems to be less games? Didn't past WCGs feature a lot more games? I still remember hardcore rooting for USA players in BW and going crazy when Froz beat Boxer twice.
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Does anyone actually know more about what's going on with this? Xeno just tweeted that he's cleared for WCG next week, but according to the WCG website (http://us.wcg.com/?page=viewnews&id=7248), only Puck, Huk, Suppy and Goswser are qualified. Did someone give up their spot perhaps?
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On October 04 2013 06:25 bludragen88 wrote:
Does anyone actually know more about what's going on with this? Xeno just tweeted that he's cleared for WCG next week, but according to the WCG website (http://us.wcg.com/?page=viewnews&id=7248), only Puck, Huk, Suppy and Goswser are qualified. Did someone give up their spot perhaps?
huk and goswser gave up their spots, so its me puck and xeno
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Why would they do that? Not enough prize money/not worth the effort or a conflict with another event? You don't have to answer if it's not public info, I was just curious why these decisions get made (like would it be different for Huk if Xeno wasn't next in line to get the spot).
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Congrats to Xenocider for winning WCG USA, have fun in China at world finals!
Too bad only 1 goes on, Puck and Suppy definitely deserve some love too.
I do agree with the sentiment Kane tweeted about these finals though, but c'est la vie.
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