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I think people are missing a couple of points by MLG, and this qualifier in general.
First off, they are only doing a qualifier because they don't have enough time to do a proper open bracket, in the future they will change it up.(MLG employee said this earlier in the thread.) Hopefully in the future they do a full open bracket qualifier, and if we bitch about it enough we may get what we want!
Second off, its not like they said, hey lets invite 139 of the top people. They went through everyone they could think of and invited them and it happened to end up at 139. Could they have invited more? Probably. Should they have? Maybe. You can argue that someone like Delphi should have had the choice to come, but don't try to say that certain people didn't deserve the invite, if anything it should have just been a ton of more people.
And third, this isn't the invited list for the finals. This is a qualifier for a chance of a expenses paid for trip and pool play opportunity. If any of these players don't deserve that chance, they will be smashed. If one of the "not ok" players makes it into top 8, than obviously they deserved the chance. Again, complain that MLG may have missed certain players, don't complain that they invited players. A bigger qualifier is ALWAYS better if your not limited by time.
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On January 29 2012 03:52 OmiDeLta wrote:
Eh? Great list but I'm missing a lot of big names. Stephano? Hero? Dimaga? SeleCT? DongRaeGu? Mana? (Where has Mana even disappeared to; I haven't seen any of him since IPL 3!) Where are you guys...and no Destiny? o.o If Incontrol's there I'd expect Destiny to be there too...
Oh well. Here's hoping at least Kiwikaki and Inori get through for NA. That's all I need to make me happy~
Reread the OP...
DRG is already qualified for winter classic.
Everyone else you mentioned (besides destiny) will be at Assembly ASUS ROG.
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On January 28 2012 07:16 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
WhiteRa choosing Korean because why the fuck not he's a total baller.
These lists are like wow.
Just another reason to have mad respect for WhiteRa =D
MLGs really are going to be the highest level tournament in the world soon, if it weren't for assembly I bet basically the top 50 players in the world would be represented by these qualifiers.
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On January 28 2012 08:23 TheDougler wrote:
And don't give me that "He's American" crap, we called dibs on HuK from day one of beta! :p
I know if you Canadians had it your way, you'd wipe the fact from the face of the earth that HuK is also American. It must be unfortunate for you that even if you call "dibs", he's still American. And considering Canada is in North AMERICA, he's still American that way as well. You can't win. Give up. 
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TL y u no read OP ?
...all playerX missing, on "wrong" qualifier, why top EU players choose guaranteed tounament slot over a qualifier, whiteRa so baller,
so annoying
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we need more breakout players in the NA scene 
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On January 29 2012 05:04 Sherlocks Mind wrote:Show nested quote +On January 28 2012 08:23 TheDougler wrote:
And don't give me that "He's American" crap, we called dibs on HuK from day one of beta! :p
I know if you Canadians had it your way, you'd wipe the fact from the face of the earth that HuK is also American. It must be unfortunate for you that even if you call "dibs", he's still American. And considering Canada is in North AMERICA, he's still American that way as well. You can't win. Give up.
People need to get over this he has said multiple times he considers himself Canadian. On interview he even talks that way he says so himself he represents Canada, besides Huks father is Canadian his mother is American therefore by birth he is Canadian since he comes from his fathers side he said so himself. Besides men are 10x women.
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This has got to be thee scariest lineup ever in the history of lineups. \(^0^)/
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I've updated my list of missing people.
 Tassadar
 Taeja
Binski
 Seal
Sage
Gatored
Sen
CoCa - Banned from competition?
Fenix
CreatorPrime
Delphi - Confirmed not invited
Perfect - Confirmed not invited
Destiny -Assembly?
PuMa - Assembly?
JYP - Assembly?
elfi - Assembly?
Snute - Assembly?
DIMAGA - Assembly?
Stephano - Assembly?
DarKFoRcE - Assembly?
Nerchio - Assembly?
sYz - Assembly?
Kas - Assembly!
MaNa - Assembly!
BlinG - Assembly!
SeleCT - Assembly!
elfi - Assembly!
ToD - Assembly! Both?
NightEnD - Assembly! Both?
HerO - Assembly!
Seiplo - Assembly!
Strelok - Assembly!
Jinro - Assembly!
Polt - Assembly!
Satiini - Assembly!
Stephano - Assembly!
Moon - Assembly!
TLO - Assembly!
Every code B korean
I have a feeling a lot of these weren't invited which would be pretty bad after JP said that everyone who was 'worth inviting' was invited. You can't have invitation only qualifiers for pool play if you don't know about all the players. We are going to have lesser players competing for pool play seeding while better players only have the open bracket. This is the exact same problem as last season, just in different form.
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omg just look at that Korean qualifier
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On January 29 2012 05:58 TheHansBecker wrote:
It's funny how this thread has turned into people searching for some sort of controversy/drama, such as "I have a feeling MLG forgot X player!!! oh noes!!" I'm sure MLG did all their diligent work, and the people who are not attending and who should be, have other engagements so they declined the invitation.
We already have confirmation that delphi and perfect weren't even invited. I'm not searching for a controversy. I am trying to draw criticism to the invite-only qualifiers because I don't think it should be used in the future.
Yes, but these are qualifiers for pool play. If we assume the structure is anything like last year, pool play is a big advantage. We can have less skilled players competing for a pool play advantage because they were invited based off of old results while better players have to struggle through the open bracket. It hurts the quality of the competition. This is the exact same problem everyone had with pool play last year.
I am not worried about the results of this set up. If it works out beautifully or it is a complete disaster, my criticism will be the same.
Assuming they are more open in the future (which I think sundance mentioned on reddit), then everything is good. I just want to give the concern a voice so we can be sure to catch it if it happens again.
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Do we know if the qualifiers will be casted/broadcasted and if so by who?
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Lot of good Canadian players on NA  and White-ra... in dat Korean Qualifiers!?
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