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Sources: Battle.net Korea / ThisIsGame.com / PlayXP (in order of posting)
Guess who are going to BlizzCon . . .
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Incredible Miracle's NesTea and Mvp have been announced as the Korean invites to the Global Battle.net Invitational to be held at BlizzCon 2011.
As previously announced, the Korean invites were to be the top 2 players in GSL rankings as of September 10, 2011 (i.e. the cutoff is GSL August); with NesTea and Mvp both advancing to the Round of 16, MC being eliminated and MarineKing being in Code A, even if Optimus were to win GSL August he would be unable to overhaul Mvp in GSL rankings.
This seems to be independent of the Korean Battle.net Invitational tournament scheduled for August 27 (see here: no details as of writing though, only a big "Coming soon" button), which in light of this announcement has no bearing on BlizzCon invites. UPDATE 2011/08/21: The BlizzCon tournaments page has now been updated to omit StarCraft II from the games list for the Korean Battle.net Invitational, i.e. there is no Korean Battle.net Invitational tournament for StarCraft II.
On August 17 2011 17:08 RaiKageRyu wrote:
The Korean Battle.Net invitational is probably just for WoW. It's listed as one day after all. Then again since I haven't heard anything about russian server qualifiers, there are two spots where I don't know will come from. Small possibility that Blizz is Korean bias and opens another two spots for Koreans to compete for.
RaiKageRyu gets it right!
tl;dr: NesTea and Mvp are going to BlizzCon 2011. Nobody else from the Korean region is invited (this includes Genius, the defending champion *sniff*). The Korean Battle.net Invitational has nothing do with BlizzCon invites. There is no Korean Battle.net Invitational tournament for StarCraft II. Enjoy, and discuss.
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Yeeeee. This is gonna be good
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IM 1st and 2nd at the event?
Seems likely :D
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Well, at least Blizz didn't mess up the Korean invites. =)
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Will Genious be at least given a chance to defend his title? And I 100% agree with these invites 
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What if they both end up at the GSL finals IN Blizzcon.
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Really curious who's going to take third at blizzcon!
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nestea get that bonjwa for me
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NesTea vs MVP finals at Blizzon.
You heard it here first folks!
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Nestea taking his pic like "You done? This is the third time I've held this pose"
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this tourney is gonna be scary ;/
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Might as well just give the BlizzCon AND GSL trophy to whoever wins in the MVP VS Nestea game next week.
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Nestea Vs Mvp finals at Blizzcon.
Nestea V Mvp Gsl finals in Blizzcon.
100% happening.
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IM smashfest incoming :x
GO NESTEA
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MVP and Nestea? Hahaha good luck everybody else, at least enjoy the California sun.
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On August 17 2011 14:32 Yamulo wrote:Will Genius be at least given a chance to defend his title? And I 100% agree with these invites
Judging by the way this is going, I'd say no. )-: Oh well...
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The two best players in the world...sounds good!
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I actually didn't like how they did the Korean invites. They make the best players from each region play each other in a very short, very volatile double elim tourney, where the best player of the region isn't necessarily going to grab the invite.
Yet for the Koreans, which is an INCREDIBLY deep talent pool, they just go ahead and pluck the top two players from the rankings of a very different tourney than the blizzard invitationals.
Its not necessarily about NesTea and MVP being very good players, but put them up against each other in several best of threes against 6 other of the best Korean players, you could end up with a different invite combination than NesTea/MVP (hell, mvp/nestea could very well have eliminated one another).
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On August 17 2011 14:35 ch33psh33p wrote:
Nestea Vs Mvp finals at Blizzcon.
Nestea V Mvp Gsl finals in Blizzcon.
100% happening.
i feel like nestea would easily win both.
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EPT
