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Katowice25012 Posts
From the MLG website.
WCS America Premier League Qualifying Tournament
Registration opens Friday, April 12 at 5pm ET
The WCS America Qualifying tournament on April 20 and 21 will feature 512 players competing online in a double elimination bracket and will be FREE to enter.
Registration:
- Players worldwide can register beginning Friday, April 12 at 5pm ET online.
- Registration will close on Friday, April 19 at 5pm ET.
Prizing:
- Top eight players earn a spot in the WCS America Season 1 Premier League.
- A second qualifying tournament will be held to determine the 16 spots in WCS America
- Season 1 Challenger League. Details will be released soon.
Additional Details:
- Check-in will take place on Saturday, April 20 from 10am – 12:50pm ET.
- MLG will reserve 64 spots in the bracket for invited players.
- If any users purchased credits for this competition, they can receive a refund by emailing support@majorleaguegaming.com
WCS America Open Qualifier for Challenger League
Registration opens Thursday, April 25 at 5pm ET
The WCS America Open Qualifier for Challenger League will feature 512 players competing online in a single elimination bracket and will be FREE to enter.
Registration: only Masters and Grandmasters players may register
- Registration opens Thursday, April 25 at 5pm ET online.
- Registration will close on Friday, April 26 at 5pm ET.
- In order to be included in the bracket, all registered players must check-in between 10:00 AM and 12:30 PM on Saturday, April 27.
Prizing:
- Top eight players will advance to play in the Invite-Only Challenger League Qualifier on May 4.
Note: A select group of players will automatically be granted entry into the Open Qualifier including players beaten by competitors who were disqualified in the first WCS America qualifier, and select Chinese players who were not able to compete in the first qualifier.
WCS America Premier League
The format of the WCS America Premier League is very similar to the Code S format popularized by GSL, with two Group Stages followed by an Eight-Player, Single Elimination Bracket called the Regional Finals.
The Premier league will include 32 players – 24 invited players and eight players advancing from the WCS America Qualifying Tournament. Players will be divided amongst eight groups with four players in each group.
- Group Stage 1: Players will compete online.
- Group Stage 2: Players will compete LIVE, in-person from the MLG Studio in New York City. See schedule below.
The 24 invited players include:
- Killer
- Scarlett
- Idra
- Suppy
- Fenix
- Vibe
- Huk
- Illusion
- Major
- State
- Goswser
- HelloKitty
- Minigun
- TheOgnis
- Capoch
- Maker
- Ryung
- Hero
- Violet
- Polt
- Moonglade
- Sen
- Nestea
- Snute
WCS America Premier League Regional Finals:
Players will compete LIVE, in-person the weekend of June 1. The top five finishers will advance to the WCS Season 1 Finals. Additional details will be provided soon.
WCS America Challenger League:
The format of the WCS America Challenger League is very similar to the Code A format popularized by GSL, with a Single Elimination Bracket followed by a Group Stage. The Challenger League provides Players with the opportunity to qualify for the WCS Season 2 Premier League.
The Challenger League will include 40 players – 16 from the Qualifying Tournament and 24 Players who drop out of the Premier League. All Matches will take place online and be best of 3 games.
WCS America Season 1 Broadcast Schedule:
All broadcasts begin at 8pm ET at www.majorleaguegaming.com and http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/wcs_america and will be cast by Axslav, Axeltoss and special guests.
The complete broadcast schedule is available at www.majorleaguegaming.com/schedule.
Broadcast Schedule:
- Saturday, April 20 – Sunday, April 21: Qualifying Tournament (early rounds)
- Monday, April 22 – Thursday, April 25: Qualifying Tournament (four matches each night)
- Monday, April 29 – Thursday, May 2: Premier League, Group Stage 1 (one group each night)
- Monday, May 6 – Thursday, May 9: Premier League, Group Stage 1 (one group each night)
- Monday, May 13 – Thursday, May 16: Challenger League Bracket
- Monday, May 20 – Thursday, May 23: Premier League, Group Stage 2 (Four Players LIVE in the MLG Studio each night)
- Monday, May 27 – Thursday, May 30: Challenger League Bracket
- Weekend of June 1 – Premier League Regional Finals (details TBD)
- Monday, June 10 – Thursday, June 13: Challenger League Group Stage
- Monday, June 17 – Thursday, June 20: Challenger League Group Stage
Relevant tweet from Slasher
MLG has released details on the WCS NA Challenger Qualifier. The Chinese players who did not get in before will be granted entry.
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So... nothing changed about the amount of entrants?
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I still dislike having only 1 qualifier with top 8 advancing (b/c some players will have way easier brackets then others).
Especially since it's single elimination.
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good move very good move  my problem is still the 512 player line. I mean it's nice to have only masters and gm participation plus the chinese, but according to sc2 ranks, there are 11.330 masters player on na, and there are only 512 spots and it should be an "open qualifier". I mean its clear that not all 11,330 want to participate or have a shot on qualifying but i would like seeing mlg extend this bracket on at least 1024. would be awesome. but otherwise it's a very nice move. Good job!
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What is up with this?
Prize: Top eight players will advance to play in the Invite-Only Challenger League Qualifier on May 4.
If I'm understanding this correctly, this is a qualifier so you could play along with the invites 9th-40th from the Premier League qualifier(that was incredibly flawed) to then play through another qualifier? MLG and their love of invites never gets old.
This should be straight up, at the very least, be a qualifier for 16 spots into Challenger. Or do two qualifiers for eight spots each. Or four qualifiers for four spots each. Challenger League doesn't even start till May 13th, that is plenty of time. You should want the best of the best that are left for Challenger. Not players who finished 20th-40th in an extremely flawed tournament.
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And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn
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On April 25 2013 06:57 Prplppleatr wrote:
And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn
why are people still complaining about the dreamhack clash. which players that are participating in dreamhack want to qualify for wcs na challenger division? i don't get it. i don't see anyone. so how does it matter?
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Good move by MLG. Excited to play ^^
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On April 25 2013 07:00 Undead1993 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 25 2013 06:57 Prplppleatr wrote:
And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn why are people still complaining about the dreamhack clash. which players that are participating in dreamhack want to qualify for wcs na challenger division? i don't get it. i don't see anyone. so how does it matter?
It's funny...hence the lol..i'm laughing at that part...i didn't say it was a big deal or that it mattered, i laughed at it
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On April 25 2013 06:57 Prplppleatr wrote:
And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn
Didn't Blizzard say you can't broadcast a non-wcs event while a WCS event is live?
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France7248 Posts
On April 25 2013 07:00 Undead1993 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 25 2013 06:57 Prplppleatr wrote:
And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn why are people still complaining about the dreamhack clash. which players that are participating in dreamhack want to qualify for wcs na challenger division? i don't get it. i don't see anyone. so how does it matter?
some Koreans... Hyun, Center, Jaedong, etc..
and I thought they needed 16 players for the Challenger division, not 8?
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On April 25 2013 07:00 Undead1993 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 25 2013 06:57 Prplppleatr wrote:
And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn why are people still complaining about the dreamhack clash. which players that are participating in dreamhack want to qualify for wcs na challenger division? i don't get it. i don't see anyone. so how does it matter?
because MLG said they will change the date.
and this:
There are a handful of players who are going to be playing in both tournaments, including HyuN, Jaedong, JYP, Center, and Zenio.
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On April 25 2013 07:03 alvadr wrote:Show nested quote +On April 25 2013 06:57 Prplppleatr wrote:
And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn Didn't Blizzard say you can't broadcast a non-wcs event while a WCS event is live?
They don't say this will be streamed
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So let me make sure I have it right. In order to make it up to the Chinese players who got royally screwed over, as well as the players who lost to players who they shouldn't have played at all, they have given all of those players...
Invites for the Qualifier, for ANOTHER qualifier for a WEAKER league, with smaller prize pool and WCS points.
No. At the very MINIMUM they should be invited to the actual Challenger Qualifier, not this qualifier of a qualifier. I'm of the opinion some of those Chinese players should be seeded directly in Challenger league itself.
But this... This is not good enough MLG IMO.
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There are 16 spots, this is for 8. What's the deal?
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On April 25 2013 07:04 Prplppleatr wrote:Show nested quote +On April 25 2013 07:03 alvadr wrote:On April 25 2013 06:57 Prplppleatr wrote:
And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn Didn't Blizzard say you can't broadcast a non-wcs event while a WCS event is live? They don't say this will be streamed
i think this issue is solved with dreamhack being an official WCS tier 1 side event.
and the NA qualifier should be streamed live.
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On April 25 2013 07:06 fuzzylogic44 wrote:
There are 16 spots, this is for 8. What's the deal?
The winners of the open tournament don't go to Challenger. They go to another invite-only qualifier which also contains 9th-40th (might be wrong on spots) from the Premier qualifier. Top 16 from that get into Challenger.
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On April 25 2013 07:04 fleeze wrote:Show nested quote +On April 25 2013 07:00 Undead1993 wrote:On April 25 2013 06:57 Prplppleatr wrote:
And now the qualifier still clashes with DH, lol
Although, it is a start to showing some change...hopefully they continue to learn why are people still complaining about the dreamhack clash. which players that are participating in dreamhack want to qualify for wcs na challenger division? i don't get it. i don't see anyone. so how does it matter? because MLG said they will change the date. and this: Show nested quote +
There are a handful of players who are going to be playing in both tournaments, including HyuN, Jaedong, JYP, Center, and Zenio.
They changed the date of the qualifier to May 4th. This is a different qualifier.
Jaedong, JYP, Center, and Zenio all have invites to that closed qualifier on May 4th. [ed: Zenio might have missed, not gonna try to count out the bracket to figure that one out]
HyuN is the only question mark at this point.
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