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The Challenger League qualifiers for WCS America Season 2 are underway with sixteen spots up for grabs. The qualifiers for Oceania/South East Asia and China have already concluded to confirm Challenger League spots for four players.
Twelve Challenger League spots remain up for grabs: 8 from the American qualifier, 2 from the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau qualifier, and 3 from the Ladder Wildcard (open to all regions) qualifier.
The sixteen players from the Challenger League qualifiers will face off against the bottom sixteen players eliminated from the Season 1 Premier League in a series of best of fives. The winners will qualify for the Season 2 Premier League, while the losers will be forced to start over in the qualifiers.
WCS America Season 2 Challenger League Players
From Premier League*
 Has, HerO, desRow, Top, Minigun
 MajOr, Illusion, MaSa, TheStC, aLive, SeleCT
 NesTea, Scarlett, Sen, Jaedong
From Challenger Qualifiers
Jim, Courage, iaguz, KingKong
*ByuL forfeited his WCS America Challenger spot to switch to the Korean region for Season 2. He advanced from the Korean qualifier and will play in GSL Season 2 Code A. His spot will be filled from the Ladder Wildcard qualifier.
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Very happy to see Jim back in WCS America. His bad luck coming up against Bomber last time (though admittedly he didn't look that great in those games).
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Some really strong players dropped down from Premier this season, I bet all the upcoming Challengers will be keeping their fingers crossed to draw Masa or Minigun instead of Jaedong or aLive.
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I'm sorry but this post is not informative at all and gives no story about these qualifiers who worked hard to qualify for this tournament.
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I hope China gets its own WCS someday. There seem to be many good Chinese players. It's too bad there are so few spots for them.
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It would be nice if the schedule for the upcoming season would be released in its entirety before the season actually starts. It seems really difficult to know when the qualifiers/challenger league/premier league will be running until the week before. If Blizzard wants WCS to be a legitimate professional league I feel like a schedule would help out their case. I know dates change in the esports world, but having something to go by would be nice even if changes do end up being made.
I am a big fan of watching the challengers where the up-and-comers and diehards play for their chance to breakthrough. It would be nice to plan ahead and know when these are coming up. Might help more players plan to make time to play too.
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Challenger for S2 is so stacked already :O
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On March 31 2014 14:35 Salient wrote:
I hope China gets its own WCS someday. There seem to be many good Chinese players. It's too bad there are so few spots for them.
There are like 200 people who play SC2 in China. I doubt Blizzard wants to invest in that.
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iaguz hwaiting!
If he gets a zerg opponent I won't be surprised in the slightest to see him in premier league next season...
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Iaguz with the SICK TvZ, which is basically the key to winning in SEA so makes sense  . Poor Petraeus, so close and yet so far TT. Also kinda sad to see XY fail to make it through again but yay for more Chinese Zergs :D
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On March 31 2014 14:47 Garnet wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2014 14:35 Salient wrote:
I hope China gets its own WCS someday. There seem to be many good Chinese players. It's too bad there are so few spots for them.
There are like 200 people who play SC2 in China. I doubt Blizzard wants to invest in that.
actually there are more than 30K active accounts on chinses server this season
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Poor Petraeus, always so close but never there.
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do sea even play anything other than z haha, just look at their brackets its like a sea of z.
anyway nice to see another foreign terran shine through, probably make easier by having to prepare only 1 matchup. iaguz fighting!
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Jiiiiiim! Yes 
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lol there's a player named HeathLedger
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Great to see Jim back.
Courage is also a famous player in China, known as the King of Roaches. It is rumoured that if you chant his name while playing ZvZ, your Roaches get an automatic +2 attack boost  Remember Toodming who elminated Scarlett with that 360 degree surround? He was chanting Courage's name like a madman
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LOL
"海绵宝宝" (spongebob), homura, heathledger. like their nicks
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On March 31 2014 19:48 Probemicro wrote:
LOL
"海绵宝宝" (spongebob), homura, heathledger. like their nicks
This is the country that gave us the nicknames Xigua (Watermelon), Cloudy, Toodming (PotatoMing), iAsonu (self-admitted gibberish), and whose greatest talent is called Jim. Other than Courage and Top, Chinese nicknames are just as wonky as their meta.
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I really am surprised to see that courage advanced. I'll explain more when I cast this from replays in about 12 hours.
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IAGUZ yessssss!!!
Nice job!
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