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Source: http://intelextrememasters.com/news/starcraftR-ii-features-at-intelR-extreme-masters-return-to-south-korea/
StarCraft II features at Intel® Extreme Masters return to South Korea
StarCraft II will be featured at IEM Gyeonggi and will be the first official event of WCS Korea 2017.
The last stop of year for the Intel Extreme Masters will be IEM Gyeonggi, taking place in the Goyang Sports Complex this December. The event will feature a stacked tournament with 16 Korean StarCraft II players competing for a US$35,000 prize pool as well as WCS points.
FORMAT & RULES
IEM Gyeonggi will be a four day tournament for StarCraft II, with the group stages taking place between December 14-18 with the last two days of matches happening in the stadium.
ELIGIBILITY
Players should be advised that this event is part of WCS Korea for 2017. WCS points awarded will go toward 2017 WCS Korea standings, and all qualifiers and the event itself will take place in Korea on the Korean servers.
WCS Korea events are open to players of any citizenship. However, to ensure all qualified players will be able to attend the event, only participants who already have previously obtained visas, or participants from countries and regions with visa-free entry to Korea will be eligible for these qualifiers.
Full details on WCS 2017 will be announced soon.
PRIZE POOL
The prize pool will be a total of US$35,000 and will be broken down as follows:
1st place: US$15,000
2nd place: US$6,000
3rd/4th place: US$2,500
5th-8th place: US$1,500
9th-12th place: US$500
13th-16th place: US$250
INVITATIONS
Four players from WCS Korea will receive direct invitations based on their Global Finals results at BlizzCon. The remaining 12 will be determined via online qualifiers on the Korean servers.
QUALIFIERS
Format
Three online qualifiers will take place on Korean servers in order to determine 12 players who will join the Gyeonggi tournament. The format of all of the qualifiers will be single elimination best of three, with four players advancing from each qualifier.
First qualifier: Saturday, November 26th at 18:00 KST (1AM PDT, 10:00 CET)
Second qualifier: Sunday, November 27th at 18:00 KST (1AM PDT, 10:00 CET)
Third qualifier: Tuesday, November 29th at 18:00 KST (1AM PDT, 10:00 CET)
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The sixteen players will be split into four groups of four. The group stage will be double elimination best of three matches. Top two players from each group (eight in total) will advance to the playoffs which will be a single elimination best of five bracket with the grand final being a best of seven.
The seeding for group stages will be based on results from this year's WCS Global Finals as well as each player's respective WCS ranking.
MAP POOL
• Apotheosis • Dasan Station • Frost • Frozen Temple • Galactic Process • King Sejong Station • New Gettysburg
COVERAGE
As always we will be working closely with our partners to bring you the best possible coverage of all the action. More details following soon.
GOOD LUCK!
We wish all of the qualifier and main tournament participants the best of luck and cannot wait to see some world-class StarCraft II played in South Korea. For all updates regarding the event, including ticket information, qualifier updates and more, be sure to follow IEM on Twitter and Facebook.
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So there is going to be a WCS Korea? I guess the invites are Dark, Byun, Stats, and Zest.
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On November 19 2016 13:53 FrkFrJss wrote:
So there is going to be a WCS Korea? I guess the invites are Dark, Byun, Stats, and Zest.
It could be TY rather than Zest. They both got Ro8.
The fact that they are using the old map pool is lame.
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I'm all for getting the party started right away but players who are good 11 months before Blizzcon may not be good at Blizzcon.
I kinda wish they held off on giving out points until February or March. You can still have the tournament in December but it's difficult to know if the winner is going to stay at their level for nearly an entire year. Especially since the professional scene will remain volatile due to the new patch and unchanged nature of Starcraft 2.
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On November 19 2016 14:13 Probe1 wrote:
I'm all for getting the party started right away but players who are good 11 months before Blizzcon may not be good at Blizzcon.
I kinda wish they held off on giving out points until February or March. You can still have the tournament in December but it's difficult to know if the winner is going to stay at their level for nearly an entire year. Especially since the professional scene will remain volatile due to the new patch and unchanged nature of Starcraft 2.
Maximizing the skill of the players at Blizzcon is hardly the goal of WCS or any sort of circuit event for that matter. If it was you'd just pick the best players of the last few months, or hold a bunch of qualifiers.
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Noooooo they should use the Daybreak mappool.
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On November 19 2016 14:13 Probe1 wrote:
I'm all for getting the party started right away but players who are good 11 months before Blizzcon may not be good at Blizzcon.
I kinda wish they held off on giving out points until February or March. You can still have the tournament in December but it's difficult to know if the winner is going to stay at their level for nearly an entire year. Especially since the professional scene will remain volatile due to the new patch and unchanged nature of Starcraft 2.
But that sort of applies to stuff in January-February too, ya? Someone who wins the first GSL of the year isn't necessarily going to be the best when Blizzcon comes around. And I think the Korean scene needs everything it can get right now...
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On November 19 2016 16:41 Blargh wrote:Show nested quote +On November 19 2016 14:13 Probe1 wrote:
I'm all for getting the party started right away but players who are good 11 months before Blizzcon may not be good at Blizzcon.
I kinda wish they held off on giving out points until February or March. You can still have the tournament in December but it's difficult to know if the winner is going to stay at their level for nearly an entire year. Especially since the professional scene will remain volatile due to the new patch and unchanged nature of Starcraft 2. But that sort of applies to stuff in January-February too, ya? Someone who wins the first GSL of the year isn't necessarily going to be the best when Blizzcon comes around. And I think the Korean scene needs everything it can get right now...
There is a real world issue of there not being enough time to schedule all the tournaments, give players enough revenue to continue playing, give player opportunity to compete..
But I dunno man. I'm seeing this and thinking "Will the winner be the best player of 2017 before 2017 even starts?". I'm thinking that it's going to reflect who from 2016 adapted the fastest to the new patch.
On November 19 2016 15:10 ZigguratOfUr wrote:Show nested quote +On November 19 2016 14:13 Probe1 wrote:
I'm all for getting the party started right away but players who are good 11 months before Blizzcon may not be good at Blizzcon.
I kinda wish they held off on giving out points until February or March. You can still have the tournament in December but it's difficult to know if the winner is going to stay at their level for nearly an entire year. Especially since the professional scene will remain volatile due to the new patch and unchanged nature of Starcraft 2. Maximizing the skill of the players at Blizzcon is hardly the goal of WCS or any sort of circuit event for that matter. If it was you'd just pick the best players of the last few months, or hold a bunch of qualifiers.
I don't know what to say to that. It's a tournament to help decide who the most deserving players through skill.
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I wonder if they have changed the requirements for WCS events. We haven't yet seen a WCS event with a prize pool of $35,000. Interesting to see the plans for WCS 2017.
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I think it is great that there are more events for Koreans
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Hm, not sure about the map pool. Maybe it will change?
If they are using the new patch they should not use the old maps.
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The qualifiers are next weekend? That's pretty awesome.
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seeker...u will come to korea? in IEM
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That is good news, I think. December is STACKED with events.
But it seems to indicate further segregation in WCS? We shall have to see. :/
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On November 19 2016 18:21 lechatnoir wrote:
That is good news, I think. December is STACKED with events.
But it seems to indicate further segregation in WCS? We shall have to see. :/
Doesn't imply anything we didn't already have this year.
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I wonder how they will decide who the 4th invited player is since TY and Zest both made ro8. Maybe wcs standings?
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On November 19 2016 18:25 Lil_nooblet wrote:
I wonder how they will decide who the 4th invited player is since TY and Zest both made ro8. Maybe wcs standings?
That's what I think they'll use. Zest is higher than TY in the WCS standings, so if they go by that, then he'll be invited.
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cant wait too see wcs 2017 seems kthey dont want split wcs to fade away
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On November 19 2016 14:13 Probe1 wrote:
I'm all for getting the party started right away but players who are good 11 months before Blizzcon may not be good at Blizzcon.
I kinda wish they held off on giving out points until February or March. You can still have the tournament in December but it's difficult to know if the winner is going to stay at their level for nearly an entire year. Especially since the professional scene will remain volatile due to the new patch and unchanged nature of Starcraft 2.
On the other hand it's a good signal to the players: you can dedicate to SC2, here take that tournament as a proof. Also it encourages hard training in a more longterm oriented way. If you have the chance to make it to blizzcon, you're more likely to be motivated to keep your level up.
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Grouuuuups! Maybe IEM regained their minds?
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On November 19 2016 18:23 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On November 19 2016 18:21 lechatnoir wrote:
That is good news, I think. December is STACKED with events.
But it seems to indicate further segregation in WCS? We shall have to see. :/ Doesn't imply anything we didn't already have this year.
I know, I know... just kinda hopeful for change, I guess.
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i hope blizz open IEM, DH, and other events to every region.
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It seems a little weird that a tournament a month from now will be on the old map pool.
Anyway should be a fun event and I hope more complete WCS information comes out soon.
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On November 19 2016 22:58 Ansibled wrote:
It seems a little weird that a tournament a month from now will be on the old map pool.
Anyway should be a fun event and I hope more complete WCS information comes out soon.
better than dreampool =.=
I hope we get tournament organizers to use community maps again at some point tho
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so that implies there will still be separate WCS ? I don't think the scene is healthy enough to sustain them, or with fewer tournaments with no residency / citizenship restrictions.
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Too fucking late Blizzard.
You already killed the Korean scene.
Why couldn't you do this during the 2016 year?
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On November 20 2016 00:35 Lunareste wrote:
Too fucking late Blizzard.
You already killed the Korean scene.
Why couldn't you do this during the 2016 year?
Well iem is not blizzard, so you can't blame them only IEM
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too many koreans. put up more force fields. kappa.
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It actually is too late to save WCS Korea. Also, the total prize pool is 35 000 USD. Wasnt that the money for GSL first place only? you cant support the korean scene with such little, its just stupid. They really should have thought two times before killing the korean scene.
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On November 19 2016 17:16 Probe1 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 19 2016 16:41 Blargh wrote:On November 19 2016 14:13 Probe1 wrote:
I'm all for getting the party started right away but players who are good 11 months before Blizzcon may not be good at Blizzcon.
I kinda wish they held off on giving out points until February or March. You can still have the tournament in December but it's difficult to know if the winner is going to stay at their level for nearly an entire year. Especially since the professional scene will remain volatile due to the new patch and unchanged nature of Starcraft 2. But that sort of applies to stuff in January-February too, ya? Someone who wins the first GSL of the year isn't necessarily going to be the best when Blizzcon comes around. And I think the Korean scene needs everything it can get right now... There is a real world issue of there not being enough time to schedule all the tournaments, give players enough revenue to continue playing, give player opportunity to compete.. But I dunno man. I'm seeing this and thinking "Will the winner be the best player of 2017 before 2017 even starts?". I'm thinking that it's going to reflect who from 2016 adapted the fastest to the new patch. Show nested quote +On November 19 2016 15:10 ZigguratOfUr wrote:On November 19 2016 14:13 Probe1 wrote:
I'm all for getting the party started right away but players who are good 11 months before Blizzcon may not be good at Blizzcon.
I kinda wish they held off on giving out points until February or March. You can still have the tournament in December but it's difficult to know if the winner is going to stay at their level for nearly an entire year. Especially since the professional scene will remain volatile due to the new patch and unchanged nature of Starcraft 2. Maximizing the skill of the players at Blizzcon is hardly the goal of WCS or any sort of circuit event for that matter. If it was you'd just pick the best players of the last few months, or hold a bunch of qualifiers. I don't know what to say to that. It's a tournament to help decide who the most deserving players through skill.
Deserving players displaying skill over the past year of play. Not at the time of Blizzcon. It's to tie all the storylines of the year together, and give some continuity to the SCII scene.
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well, at least we know there is going to be wcs 2017...
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Why don't we save the IEM/Blizzard/Apollo are killing SC2 posts for the actual WCS announcement instead of deciding that IEM being a WCS Korea event means everything is dead?
It really makes no sense to me.
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didnt know apollo killed SC2 T_T what a bad decission by him to ban all koreans OH WAIT he doesnt have anything to say in blizz WCS decissions im pretty sure he appreciates the hate for no reason 
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Byun will probably forfeit this tournament, since it overlaps with WCA and it has a much higher prize pool with a lower skill level. Then again, there's no guarantee he will get paid from WCA, so who knows 
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Cool!!! What a surprise, another BIG tournament in 2016!!! Gonna be good!!! But why didn't IEM announce this earlier???
And to all the people complaining: STFU and GTFO, even without the F. I mean, come on, the map pool is because it's gonna be on the new patch, obviously. So the players can really get to show the changes in it, which are not based on maps. Second: Some troll complained about small prize pool: Dude SC2 is now a mid-tier game in terms of viewership. It was bloated and now it's shrunk. Of course it can't pay the rent of all the players!
Rooting for Byun and Maru of course. And $0$, and Ryung. And Parting :D
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this was announced early this year w/o the details
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2AM central europe :/ rip, sleep
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...and it has basically no sense... 20 matches the first day, 4 the second and then 1-1-1... wtf? :/
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On December 06 2016 01:11 CynicalDeath wrote:...and it has basically no sense... 20 matches the first day, 4 the second and then 1-1-1... wtf? :/
Well the last 3 days are in a different venue and shared with LoL/OW.
It would have been nice to do the group stage over 2 games and then Ro8, Ro4, Finals but SC2 only gets 2 hours on the first 2 days and 3 hours on the last.
I can't wait for the whole thing to get delayed.
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On December 06 2016 01:12 Ansibled wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2016 01:11 CynicalDeath wrote:...and it has basically no sense... 20 matches the first day, 4 the second and then 1-1-1... wtf? :/ Well the last 3 days are in a different venue and shared with LoL/OW. It would have been nice to do the group stage over 2 games and then Ro8, Ro4, Finals but SC2 only gets 2 hours on the first 2 days and 3 hours on the last. I can't wait for the whole thing to get delayed.
...2h delay for a 25 mins zvz semifinal, I can already see that...
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The rest of WCS better be open to all this time!
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what a great way to test patch 3.8!
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