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United Kingdom31935 Posts
WCS coming to France!
DreamHack Tours from May 14–16 will feature the third stop of the DreamHack ZOWIE Open, and will host the $150,000 USD StarCraft II WCS Circuit Spring Championship where the winner will earn a direct seed into the WCS Global Playoffs!
DreamHack will return for its second consecutive year to Tours, France in May, and this time StarCraft II will be bigger than ever, in what is sure to be a tournament attendees will be clamoring to watch—the WCS Circuit Spring Championship! A field of 32 of the Circuit’s best StarCraft II players will be competing live for a ticket to the WCS Global Playoffs, their share of the massive $150,000 prize pool, and a cut of the 11,000 WCS Circuit points up for grabs.
France has always been one of the most impressive nations when it comes to real-time strategy games, producing legendary players like Stephano and ToD. We recently saw PtitDrogo take the first WCS Circuit event of the year at DreamHack Open: Leipzig, earning $16,000 and 1,000 WCS Circuit points. At Tours we can expect to see rivals Lilbow, Dayshi, MarineLorD, and Firecake all looking to oust him from his position atop the WCS point rankings. Two players will come from a dedicated hosting nation French qualifier; the full breakdown can be seen below.
Slot distribution
Regional challenge
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
Eight for European Server Qualifiers
Six for North American Server Qualifiers
Host national qualifier
Two for French Qualifier
WCS standings
Eight players from the WCS Circuit Standings as of April 11th
In order to compete in the WCS Circuit Championship, players must be citizens or residents of one of the eligible regions listed above. Details for Regional Challengers and all additional qualifiers will be released soon.
Rest of the statement: http://open.dreamhack.se/news/344-wcs-spring-championship-to-take-place-at-tours.html
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Katowice25012 Posts
damn you so fast
Should be fun!
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Holy shit, this and DH Austin sees some serious money sliding into foreigner pockets soon!
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France1887 Posts
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Wow, really cool to see, but also crazy fast timing since DH Austin is the weekend before. Can't wait!
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Elentos
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The best part about Dreamhack is all the dubstep during the inevitable hours of downtime causing people in LR threads to go mad. So I'm all for it.
Also not really surprising.
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Gonna be a cool tournament, but I am once again disappointed tbh. I really hoped the WCS Champsionships would be standalone events :/.
Well I guess no standalone events this year. ESL really doesn't want to produce any more sc2 events that are not IEM it seems.
I'll just have to accept it.
Edit: I also have to wonder why there is nothing in april and suddenly we get two sc2 DHs in two weeks.
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Where are the korean qualifiers?
oh right! i forgot the racist rule.
Gonna be watching real pros playing GSL and PL, have fun with your tournament guys!
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Lol, in Tours?
Ain't nobody wanna see Tours!
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So theres no Open bracket 
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On March 15 2016 01:36 Lillekanin wrote:So theres no Open bracket
Exact same thing as kato so no.
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I'm pretty stoked to see the qualifiers. Do we know if Polt will get a seed in any way, or if it'll be open quals?
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On March 15 2016 01:47 IntoTheheart wrote:
I'm pretty stoked to see the qualifiers. Do we know if Polt will get a seed in any way, or if it'll be open quals?
Top 8 WCS points should get an invite
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Elentos
55594 Posts
On March 15 2016 01:47 IntoTheheart wrote:
I'm pretty stoked to see the qualifiers. Do we know if Polt will get a seed in any way, or if it'll be open quals?
I think he'll get a seed based on WCS points, I don't think he can get overtaken by enough players not to. Don't think he gets one based on being the current WCS champ though.
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And force them to advance at least one round before getting them more points?
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Elentos
55594 Posts
On March 15 2016 01:51 IntoTheheart wrote:
And force them to advance at least one round before getting them more points?
I think you don't get anything from the prize pool (incl. WCS points) unless you make Ro16 anyway. That's how it was in Katowice.
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Looking forward to this xD
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I wonder if the last WCS Championship will be in America then.
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EPT
