Today Blizzard and LocalStrike have announced the StarCraft II: Copa America 2014, with a $15,000 USD prize pool.
This year though, citizens of North and South America will be able to participate (in 2013, Canada and the US were excluded for some reason).
Originally, the Copa America was created to be sort of a place holder for a WCS South America, but it looks that this year the focus has changed for it to be a continental tournament to help the local scene.
Think of this as a WCS America, without Koreans to help grow the local scene.
Think you've got what it takes to battle to the top of the Americas? If you're a citizen of any country in North or South America and in Grand Master, Master or Diamond League, you are eligible to compete in the open 128 player qualifier for Season 1 starting on May 22. If you're interested in participating, check out the rules and format of the tournament and sign up now!
And here is the scedule:
Unfortunately, although citizens of Canada and the US can participate, there will only be streams in Spanish and Portuguese, no English right now, but if i remember correctly, around mid season of the copa america 2013 there was an english stream, so it could be added later if there is enough demand i guess.
This is great! I really like that there's a tournament with a big price pool where only NA/SA citizens are allowed. Don't get me wrong I really respect the Koreans for their hard work and their success is completely deserved, as well as I can totally understand that if all the Koreans would just stay in KR, there would not be nearly as much prize money for the freakin' amount of skill collected in this little area.
Still the first year of WCS with the separate qualifiers for every country was my favorite SC2 tournament by now.
Really looking forward to this, even if I am from EU.
EPT
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