WCS Winter Championship to be held at IEM Katowice
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lichter
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Elentos
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Also StarCraft II at Intel Extreme Masters Taipei So basically the IEM SC2 WC got moved and downgraded from how it used to be.Before the Katowice tournament, a $25,000 8 player invitational will take place at Intel Extreme Masters Taipei at Taipei Game Show where top Korean performers of the 10th Intel Extreme Masters season will compete along other legendary players. | ||
messioso
Denmark635 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23570 Posts
The Koreans that dreamt of playing in katowice and thought they qualified must be sad now. Edit: seriously I can't believe this, this is the first time i'm actually ashamed of starcraft. This is no world championship. | ||
Boucot
France15997 Posts
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AWalker9
United Kingdom7229 Posts
On December 18 2015 23:04 Elentos wrote: The link from their tweet lead me to some LoL stream at first -.- Also So basically the IEM WC got moved and downgraded. That's pretty crap, I assume it's only going to be Koreans taking part if not it'd be pretty sad. | ||
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Yhamm
France7248 Posts
Intel Extreme Masters Katowice will see 32 StarCraft II players battle it out for US$150,000 in the WCS Winter Championship. Intel Extreme Masters returns to Katowice, Poland in early March next year for the annual World Championship. The Spodek arena will once again see thousands of fans witness top-notch CS:GO and League of Legends played by some of the world's best teams. In addition to this, we are thrilled to announce that joining the game lineup will be StarCraft II in the form of the first ever WCS Winter Championship! Intel Extreme Masters Katowice will be the first WCS Circuit Championship, during which a total of 32 players will battle it out for a share of the US$150,00 prize pool. The winner will receive a WCS Global Playoffs seed at BlizzCon and 10,000 WCS points, which will dictate seeding and global rank. Slot distribution The slots for the WCS Winter Championship will be distributed as follows: Regional challenger (8 slots) Two for Europe, Africa and the Middle East Two for North America (USA and Canada) One for Latin America One for China One for Oceania, Southeast Asia and Japan One for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau Server qualifiers (14 slots) Eight for Europe Six for America National qualifiers Citizens from hosting nation eligible WCS standings invites (8 slots) 2015 WCS standings will be used for Winter Championship In order to compete in the WCS Circuit Championship, players must be citizens or residents of one of the eligible regions listed above. Format The format of the WCS Winter Championship will be a single elimination bracket with best-of-five matchups except for the grand final, which will be a best of seven. StarCraft II at Intel Extreme Masters Taipei Before the Katowice tournament, a $25,000 8 player invitational will take place at Intel Extreme Masters Taipei at Taipei Game Show where top Korean performers of the 10th Intel Extreme Masters season will compete along other legendary players. You can read more about the event over here. | ||
SmykuToronto
Poland269 Posts
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
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Sapphire.lux
Romania2620 Posts
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Elentos
55456 Posts
On December 18 2015 23:12 AWalker9 wrote: That's pretty crap, I assume it's only going to be Koreans taking part if not it'd be pretty sad. Well it mentions "top Korean performers". The actual top 8 from season 10 coming would make for a pretty stacked bracket. Of 8 players. Although one of the actual top 8 retires before IEM ![]() | ||
Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
This year the decision is easy, I can watch all CS:GO games. | ||
boxerfred
Germany8360 Posts
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The_Red_Viper
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boxerfred
Germany8360 Posts
StarCraft II at Intel Extreme Masters Taipei Before the Katowice tournament, a $25,000 8 player invitational will take place at Intel Extreme Masters Taipei at Taipei Game Show where top Korean performers of the 10th Intel Extreme Masters season will compete along other legendary players. You can read more about the event over here. Well we got this. | ||
Topin
Peru10038 Posts
![]() edit: so we will have a 8 korean man tournament and after a big foreign tournament? | ||
FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30545 Posts
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Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
On December 18 2015 23:59 Topin wrote: me not like this ![]() edit: so we will have a 8 korean man tournament and after a big foreign tournament? The new IEM Finals will be played at IEM Taipeh, from 29th Jen to 2nd Feb. 8 invited players, 25k$ Prizepool | ||
Makro
France16890 Posts
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Matte3D
Sweden26 Posts
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