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WCS Winter Championship to be held at IEM Katowice

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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-18 14:03:15
December 18 2015 14:01 GMT
#1
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55561 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-18 14:12:04
December 18 2015 14:04 GMT
#2
The link from their tweet lead me to some LoL stream at first -.-

Also
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.
So basically the IEM SC2 WC got moved and downgraded from how it used to be.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
messioso
Profile Joined June 2011
Denmark635 Posts
December 18 2015 14:10 GMT
#3
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/499071-iem-s10-world-championship-is-not-sc2#18

Former ESL League Operations. I ran IEM/WCS for like 3 years or something. I did map vetos on a tablet. That guy.
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-18 14:23:39
December 18 2015 14:11 GMT
#4
Wow this kills my hopes of katowice being a global event and means the circuit championship is not even a standalone event. I wonder in which corner they will have sc fans next to hordes of cs and lol fans. This sucks : (. Will there even be any global events?

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.
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Boucot
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
France15997 Posts
December 18 2015 14:12 GMT
#5
I feel like more qualifiers spots and less ladder spots would have been better. But we'll see.
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AWalker9
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
United Kingdom7229 Posts
December 18 2015 14:12 GMT
#6
On December 18 2015 23:04 Elentos wrote:
The link from their tweet lead me to some LoL stream at first -.-

Also
Show nested quote +
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.
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
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
France7248 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-18 14:14:04
December 18 2015 14:13 GMT
#7
http://en.intelextrememasters.com/news/the-first-wcs-winter-championship-to-take-place-at-intel-extreme-masters-katowice/

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.
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SmykuToronto
Profile Joined October 2014
Poland269 Posts
December 18 2015 14:15 GMT
#8
They told me to chill. This ain't a thing I'd chill about Gz to Gfinity for becoming most stacked tourney series in SC2.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
December 18 2015 14:18 GMT
#9
Hmm okay.
Sapphire.lux
Profile Joined July 2010
Romania2620 Posts
December 18 2015 14:19 GMT
#10
So it's confirmed, Intel Extreme Masters Katowice with no Koreans. Expect DH to be the same.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55561 Posts
December 18 2015 14:21 GMT
#11
On December 18 2015 23:12 AWalker9 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 18 2015 23:04 Elentos wrote:
The link from their tweet lead me to some LoL stream at first -.-

Also
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.
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.

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
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Clonester
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany2808 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-18 14:36:30
December 18 2015 14:30 GMT
#12
Nice. Last year I had to switch between CS:GO and SC II, that was annoying, couldnt catch all cool games.

This year the decision is easy, I can watch all CS:GO games.
Bomber, Attacker, DD, SOMEBODY, NiKo, Nex, Spidii
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
December 18 2015 14:30 GMT
#13
feels like the air is out of the balloon
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
December 18 2015 14:31 GMT
#14
Meh. This just is disappointing overall, not gonna lie
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boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
December 18 2015 14:58 GMT
#15
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
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10101 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-18 15:02:55
December 18 2015 14:59 GMT
#16
me not like this

edit:

so we will have a 8 korean man tournament and after a big foreign tournament?
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Netherlands30548 Posts
December 18 2015 15:00 GMT
#17
Nice, Katowice always has great croud support and hype. I'm sure they will deliver this time as well!
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Clonester
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany2808 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-18 15:06:44
December 18 2015 15:05 GMT
#18
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
Bomber, Attacker, DD, SOMEBODY, NiKo, Nex, Spidii
Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
December 18 2015 15:12 GMT
#19
at the end of the day it's like a bit of a major like thing à la csgo
Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of shitposting, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".
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Matte3D
Profile Joined March 2012
Sweden26 Posts
December 18 2015 15:12 GMT
#20
Just so disappointed. Hoped for a better christmas present. :'(
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