On April 07 2012 02:48 th3rogue wrote:
All European countries without their own national qualification will be able to qualify through the "rest of Europe" qualifier that will be hosted by us (ESL)

As soon as we can announce further information, we will!

Champloo

Germany1850 Posts

April 19 2012 01:08 GMT

#282

LOL who decided how many slots each country gets? Netherlands get 1 slot while the UK get 3? And a lot more strange decisions.

How many of each continental finals will qualify for the world championship?

windsupernova

Mexico5280 Posts

April 19 2012 01:15 GMT

#283

On April 19 2012 10:08 Champloo wrote:
LOL who decided how many slots each country gets? Netherlands get 1 slot while the UK get 3? And a lot more strange decisions.

How many of each continental finals will qualify for the world championship?

I think they decide on number of active players for each country

feanor1

United States1899 Posts

April 20 2012 16:06 GMT

#284

MLG NA

We are extremely excited to announce that we are partnering with Blizzard to host two events as part of their StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS).

The StarCraft II World Championship Series USA Nationals will be held at the MLG Spring Championship – June 8-10 at the Anaheim Convention Center. 64 participants will be invited through a combination of qualifiers and the StarCraft II ladder to compete in a best-of-3 games, double elimination tournament for $15k in prizing. The top 16 finishers in the USA Nationals will receive an invitation to compete in the StarCraft II World Championship Series North America Finals.

The StarCraft II North America Finals will be held at the MLG Summer Championship – August 24-26, location to be announced. 32 players from the StarCraft II World Championship Series–Canada Nationals, USA Nationals, and Mexico Nationals–will compete in a Best-of-3 games, double elimination tournament for $30k in prizing. The top players from the StarCraft II North America Finals will receive invitations to compete in the Battle.net World Championship in Asia later this year.

Additional information will be released in the coming weeks. Spectator passes for the Spring Championship are available now. If you can’t make it out in person, then mark your calendar and catch the live stream. You can read more at http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/.

Tidus Mino

United Kingdom1108 Posts

April 20 2012 16:10 GMT

#285

On April 19 2012 10:15 windsupernova wrote:

Show nested quote +

I think they decide on number of active players for each country

Each qualifier is sponsored so I guess it's how many the sponsor decides to pay for, Brazil has 6, whereas Finland has 1

Uracil

Germany422 Posts

April 20 2012 16:17 GMT

#286

On April 21 2012 01:10 Tidus Mino wrote:

Show nested quote +

Each qualifier is sponsored so I guess it's how many the sponsor decides to pay for, Brazil has 6, whereas Finland has 1

no active player base.

What kind of criteria was used in deciding which countries would host national qualifiers?

We looked at the size of the active StarCraft II playing population. We adjusted the number of slots up slightly at the continental championship level when a country has a recognizable professional scene, but otherwise it’s just a measure of activity.

MartinN

Spain307 Posts

April 23 2012 11:02 GMT

#287

Spanish Qualifiers info:

http://www.esl.eu/es/sc2/news/190866/Starcraft-II-World-Championship-Series-Clasificatorios/

TumNarDok

Germany854 Posts

April 25 2012 21:31 GMT

#288

*ressurect due to new information.

Info
http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/news/191707/
Dates
http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/national2012/

The Combined European National is open to players with the following citizenship: Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Croatia, Ireland, Belarus, Slovakia, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia, Iceland, Estonia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Cyprus, Malta, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Georgia, Armenia, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Albania, Montenegro, San Marino, Vatican City, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Israel, South Africa, Faroe Islands

stichtom

Italy695 Posts

April 27 2012 16:53 GMT

#289

Italian finals topic: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=332763

zicoz

Norway212 Posts

June 08 2012 00:55 GMT

#290

At what time CET does the games start Friday? Am I right to say it's 22:30?

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

June 08 2012 01:02 GMT

#291

Hopefully the competition will be better than last years Blizzcon where questions of the legitimacy of the MVP/Nestea series were being whispered before it even ended.

zicoz

Norway212 Posts

June 08 2012 21:34 GMT

#292

Idra seems to have been the only EG member to win in round 1, the rest fell Down to the losers bracket.

Falconblade

United States1035 Posts

June 08 2012 21:38 GMT

#293

Is there a stream of the US WCS?

zicoz

Norway212 Posts

June 08 2012 22:10 GMT

#294

I was hoping they would stream for the start, but they won't for another 2 hours I think

BcYen

United States25 Posts

June 08 2012 22:12 GMT

#295

On June 09 2012 06:34 zicoz wrote:
Idra seems to have been the only EG member to win in round 1, the rest fell Down to the losers bracket.

Poor eifer.

mikkmagro

Malta1513 Posts

June 11 2012 23:00 GMT

#296

errrr..the French WCS look weird. Almost none of the top French players have made it to the Nationals:
Stephano, ToD, Adelscott, SarenS, neX, effecto....with only three qualifiers left. Will they receive an invite or something like the US Qualifiers?

Also DIMAGA did not try to qualify for WCS Ukraine