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IEM Katowice online qualifiers conclude

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
February 09 2014 22:02 GMT
#1
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http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEM_Season_VIII_-_World_Championship


All of the online qualifiers for the IEM World Championship in Katowice have concluded, confirming 12/16 of the players at the $100,000 event. The following three players qualified through the Asian, American, and European qualifiers played online:

America: (T)jjakji
Asia: (Z)Rogue
Europe: (P)StarDust

The list of qualified players is as follows:

Qualified from IEM Season 8 events: (P)Oz, (Z)Revival, (P)NaNiwa, (Z)Life, (P)herO[jOin], (P)San, (P)MC
Invited: (P)sOs, (T)TaeJa
Online qualifier winners: (Z)Rogue, (P)StarDust, (T)jjakji

Four spots still remain in the tournament. Two will go to the finalists of the upcoming IEM Cologne event, and the final two spots will go to the winners of the live, open bracket at Katowice.

The IEM World Championship will take place on March 14-16.
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mouz.Wake
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Sweden136 Posts
February 09 2014 22:04 GMT
#2
mYimasters, ggwp StarDust and jjakji, excited to see how NaNiwa performs.
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fjjotizz
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden153 Posts
February 09 2014 22:06 GMT
#3
All players qualifying through the American, Asian AND European are Korean? Suprise!

Anyways - Seems like its going to be a really sick tournament. Hope TaeJa and jjakji can bring something to the table here..
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Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
February 09 2014 22:14 GMT
#4
mYi is really starting to establish itself as a top tier team.
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walkeraki3
Profile Joined March 2012
Slovenia22 Posts
February 09 2014 22:21 GMT
#5
It is sad nowdays when you check brackets and see nothing else but korean flag.. Sad era for SC2..
go hard or go home
Firestorm
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Canada341 Posts
February 09 2014 22:22 GMT
#6
On February 10 2014 07:21 walkeraki3 wrote:
It is sad nowdays when you check brackets and see nothing else but korean flag.. Sad era for SC2..


So it's the Koreans fault that the foreigners can not beat them consistently?
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MasterOfPuppets
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Romania6942 Posts
February 09 2014 22:24 GMT
#7
On February 10 2014 07:06 fjjotizz wrote:
All players qualifying through the American, Asian AND European are Korean? Suprise!


I think the bigger surprise to most people would be the fact that one of each race qualified. The players themselves shouldn't be that much of a surprise though, considering how good they are. ;p
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Azelja
Profile Joined May 2011
Japan762 Posts
February 09 2014 22:25 GMT
#8
I am stupid. For some reason I thought StarDust was Duckdeok and was super excited to see that he didn't actually retire... Now I am super sad again T_T
Ammanas
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Slovakia2166 Posts
February 09 2014 22:25 GMT
#9
On February 10 2014 07:21 walkeraki3 wrote:
It is sad nowdays when you check brackets and see nothing else but korean flag.. Sad era for SC2..

Quite the opposite actually, the games are better now. Koreans are more interesting than foreigners anyway.
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EJK
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
United States1302 Posts
February 09 2014 22:27 GMT
#10
haha 3 koreans not suprised
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Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
February 09 2014 22:31 GMT
#11
On February 10 2014 07:25 Azelja wrote:
I am stupid. For some reason I thought StarDust was Duckdeok and was super excited to see that he didn't actually retire... Now I am super sad again T_T


we should all be glad that stardust is stardust
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AnonymousSC2
Profile Joined January 2014
United States189 Posts
February 09 2014 22:34 GMT
#12
Every tournament is 70% toss, 20% zerg, 10% terran. Getting old.
Scoobers
Profile Joined May 2013
48 Posts
February 09 2014 22:34 GMT
#13
I hope Jaedong and Innovation will make it in from Cologne because I'll puke if even more protoss goes to Katowice but since I got the ticket for that event and we all know how it looks nowadays it safe to say that another 2P will make it.
They could have invited Maru or Soulkey instead of sOs but oh well...
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
February 09 2014 22:35 GMT
#14
This tournament is going to be super super sick, hopefully we see strong showings from non-protoss at Cologne so we can watch less PvP
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Swisslink
Profile Joined March 2011
2954 Posts
February 09 2014 22:36 GMT
#15
On February 10 2014 07:21 walkeraki3 wrote:
It is sad nowdays when you check brackets and see nothing else but korean flag.. Sad era for SC2..


It's a World Championship. The best players are supposed to play there - and Koreans are the best players. Simple.
suicideyear
Profile Joined December 2012
Ivory Coast3016 Posts
February 09 2014 22:39 GMT
#16
how big is the open bracket?
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Scoobers
Profile Joined May 2013
48 Posts
February 09 2014 22:46 GMT
#17
On February 10 2014 07:36 Swisslink wrote:
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On February 10 2014 07:21 walkeraki3 wrote:
It is sad nowdays when you check brackets and see nothing else but korean flag.. Sad era for SC2..


It's a World Championship. The best players are supposed to play there - and Koreans are the best players. Simple.


I beg to differ that necesairly "the best" and I'm sure that Stephano begs to differ even more than I do.

Btw those 2 other spots are just from the typical open bracket we used to have at IEM tournements last year? Meaning you can sign up for the spot in it and play at the event? It's kinda confusing since it's called "Open Bracket Qualifier".
FMCLN
Profile Joined December 2012
11 Posts
February 09 2014 22:47 GMT
#18
Looking forward to all the Z action!
DaftFunk
Profile Joined June 2013
194 Posts
February 09 2014 22:49 GMT
#19
Iem korea is going to be sick. And I mean it. Thk god the foreigner disability players are minimal. Would of been a bore fest of lottery games.
IncubusSC
Profile Joined December 2013
Canada57 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-09 22:59:35
February 09 2014 22:50 GMT
#20
The Protoss race is a $100,000 richer.

They should use that money to bribe Davhed Keem into more poor development and balance decisions.

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