Our partners around the globe are beginning to announce their qualifiers for Season 1 of WCS 2014. If your New Year’s resolution is to become an eSports superstar, these qualifiers are your first step toward StarCraft II greatness. In the World Championship Series 2014, it’s possible to go from unknown to Premier League Champion in one season.
Here are all of the dates for all upcoming qualifiers, as well as registration links as they become available:
[NOTE: Please click through to the b.net page for clickable registration links]
Regional WCS Qualifiers If you’d like to establish residency for a WCS qualifier based on a visa or other temporary residency document, please contact Blizzard eSports at esportsteam@blizzard.com
You must meet the masters requirement to participate in a regional qualifier. You must be Master League on the server the qualifier is played on.
Ladder Wildcard Players with 200 wins on the region’s host ladder (“Americas” server for WCS America and “Europe” server for WCS Europe) in this or the past season will be eligible to compete in Ladder Wildcard Qualifiers for all remaining spots without meeting any residency or citizenship requirements.
Region Exclusivity and Transfer Players may only participate in one region — GSL, WCS America, or WCS Europe — per season. Once a player participates in any regional qualifier, they become ineligible to play in other WCS regions until the start of the next season.
Qualifier Map Pools Each WCS qualifier organizer will determine the map pool used for their qualifier. For WCS 2014 Season 1, all maps will be selected from the StarCraft II 2013 Season 6 ladder map pool and/or the 2014 Season 1 Ladder map pool. Please review the link provided for each qualifier when it becomes available for map pool details.
All Challenger and Premier matches in WCS 2014 Season 1 will use the StarCraft II 2014 Season 1 ladder map pool.
On December 19 2013 09:01 NASL.tv wrote: Update on WCS America Qualifiers: We will be hosting 3 qualifiers for the WCS America Qualifier for US/Canada/Latin America. The top 4 people from each qualifier will earn a spot in WCS America 2014 Season 1 Challenger League.
In addition to this, there will also be a separate Wildcard Ladder Qualifier.
More detailed information about the WCS America qualifiers will be posted soon!
On December 18 2013 14:40 DiMano wrote: 36 slots for Korea!!!!!! It means that we will have 50 players in Code A now it is 10 more players in gsl compare to old format
I like the new streamlined Code A format, with 12 double-elimination 4-player groups instead of the slightly arcane 3-round tournament followed by U&D Matches format. Anyone know if GSL will start broadcasting all of Code A again? I was really disappointed last season when they decided to only broadcast a few selected matches from Code A Rounds 1 and 2. Somehow I am not optimistic on seeing all of Code A since the consistent movement in Korea is less broadcasted SC2, not more, but since now there is more time in the schedule for these matches maybe it can happen, even if it's not Tasteosis or Wolfdor doing it.
On December 18 2013 15:15 -Kyo- wrote: Still NASL.... Hopefully they get some better admins and such... But regardless, this is some good information coming out ahead of time :D
I haven't seen any info on the ladder wildcard thing though? Any elaborations?
On December 18 2013 14:40 DiMano wrote: 36 slots for Korea!!!!!! It means that we will have 50 players in Code A now it is 10 more players in gsl compare to old format
I like the new streamlined Code A format, with 12 double-elimination 4-player groups instead of the slightly arcane 3-round tournament followed by U&D Matches format. Anyone know if GSL will start broadcasting all of Code A again? I was really disappointed last season when they decided to only broadcast a few selected matches from Code A Rounds 1 and 2. Somehow I am not optimistic on seeing all of Code A since the consistent movement in Korea is less broadcasted SC2, not more, but since now there is more time in the schedule for these matches maybe it can happen, even if it's not Tasteosis or Wolfdor doing it.
I mean we have now 46 players in gsl + 36 new = 82 - 32 code s = 50 which is why I said 50 so it seems that 2 players who are now in gsl will forfeit their slots (my numbers include zero and aria forfeits) 1 one of them seems to be jjakji but who is the second forfeit? There is only one player left who is not on a korean team it is Acer.INnoVation
On December 18 2013 14:40 DiMano wrote: 36 slots for Korea!!!!!! It means that we will have 50 players in Code A now it is 10 more players in gsl compare to old format
I like the new streamlined Code A format, with 12 double-elimination 4-player groups instead of the slightly arcane 3-round tournament followed by U&D Matches format. Anyone know if GSL will start broadcasting all of Code A again? I was really disappointed last season when they decided to only broadcast a few selected matches from Code A Rounds 1 and 2. Somehow I am not optimistic on seeing all of Code A since the consistent movement in Korea is less broadcasted SC2, not more, but since now there is more time in the schedule for these matches maybe it can happen, even if it's not Tasteosis or Wolfdor doing it.
Challenger league is not a group stage, its a single BO5.
On December 18 2013 14:40 DiMano wrote: 36 slots for Korea!!!!!! It means that we will have 50 players in Code A now it is 10 more players in gsl compare to old format
I like the new streamlined Code A format, with 12 double-elimination 4-player groups instead of the slightly arcane 3-round tournament followed by U&D Matches format. Anyone know if GSL will start broadcasting all of Code A again? I was really disappointed last season when they decided to only broadcast a few selected matches from Code A Rounds 1 and 2. Somehow I am not optimistic on seeing all of Code A since the consistent movement in Korea is less broadcasted SC2, not more, but since now there is more time in the schedule for these matches maybe it can happen, even if it's not Tasteosis or Wolfdor doing it.
Challenger league is not a group stage, its a single BO5.
On December 18 2013 14:40 DiMano wrote: 36 slots for Korea!!!!!! It means that we will have 50 players in Code A now it is 10 more players in gsl compare to old format
I like the new streamlined Code A format, with 12 double-elimination 4-player groups instead of the slightly arcane 3-round tournament followed by U&D Matches format. Anyone know if GSL will start broadcasting all of Code A again? I was really disappointed last season when they decided to only broadcast a few selected matches from Code A Rounds 1 and 2. Somehow I am not optimistic on seeing all of Code A since the consistent movement in Korea is less broadcasted SC2, not more, but since now there is more time in the schedule for these matches maybe it can happen, even if it's not Tasteosis or Wolfdor doing it.
Challenger league is not a group stage, its a single BO5.
He said about code a where it is a group stage
Oh, my bad, either way seems kinda unlikely much of that gets broadcast, but hopefully D:
EPT
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(my numbers include zero and aria forfeits)
