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Registration to both opens today, European qualifiers will run in October (40k main event), American ones in December (30k main event).
WESG 2017 European & American Qualifiers details
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Americas Europe Registration to both opens today, European qualifiers will run in October (40k main event), American ones in December (30k main event). | ||
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Kas
Ukraine20 Posts
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Thomasmarkle
United States85 Posts
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Kashim
Poland1209 Posts
On August 21 2017 23:35 Thomasmarkle wrote: Am I crazy or is there no Finland on the Europe page? Baltics + Scandinavia | ||
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aQuaSC
717 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
Other than that it's really cool to see WESG continuing with sc2. Edit: Oh at least Sweden counts as a seperate country, so it's between Snute and Serral. | ||
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
On August 21 2017 23:40 aQuaSC wrote: Well with this design patch coming... I think the qualifiers will be played on the live game and the event will be held post-patch? Yup. Exactly same as last year. KR qualifiers are gonna be a bloodbath | ||
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GoloSC2
711 Posts
WIN, LOSS AND ABNORMAL SITUATIONS 5.1. Player is declared as a winner after his/her opponent types “gg” or has all of his/her buildings destroyed; this one is interesting also problematic if a player starts the game by wishing their opponent a good game | ||
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Alex007
Ukraine211 Posts
Ukraine and Russia get tw spots each, all of Scandinavia gets one spot, lmao. We know that's rough for Snute, Serral and especially other players in the region, but a lot of factors have to be considered when splitting countries into regions and giving the spots. Unfortunately we had only three participants in Norwegian SC2 qualifier last year as well as only five Finnish players in Northern European one. Similarly, numbers were around the lowest in other titles. | ||
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aQuaSC
717 Posts
On August 21 2017 23:56 GoloSC2 wrote: this one is interesting also problematic if a player starts the game by wishing their opponent a good game I always thought these "gg" at the beginning of a game were to imitate Korean poor English skills, everyone knows what gg means, why type it in the beginning | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On August 22 2017 00:04 Alex007 wrote: We know that's rough for Snute, Serral and especially other players in the region, but a lot of factors have to be considered when splitting countries into regions and giving the spots. Unfortunately we had only three participants in Norwegian SC2 qualifier last year as well as only five Finnish players in Northern European one. Similarly, numbers were around the lowest in other titles. I can understand that amateurs won't sign up in a qualifier with only 1 spot, if Snute is playing in it. Everybody knows Snute will get the spot, only if there was a second spot would it make sense for weaker players to try. But now there is 1 spot for Snute and Serral combined which means even out of those two only one player will make it. If you want more signups for that region, you would now have to offer at least 3 spots. One for Serral, one for Snute and one for the amateurs to fight for. On the other hand, of course there will be more signups in Ukraine and Russia, since apart from Bly there are no real favourites for those spots and amateur players have a real shot and qualifying. So I don't think the number of signups of last year is a fair way to distribute spots, instead you could look at the number of players with WCS points per country or region. Just some feedback for next year maybe . | ||
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207aicila
1237 Posts
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Rescawen
Finland1028 Posts
On August 22 2017 00:04 Alex007 wrote: We know that's rough for Snute, Serral and especially other players in the region, but a lot of factors have to be considered when splitting countries into regions and giving the spots. Unfortunately we had only three participants in Norwegian SC2 qualifier last year as well as only five Finnish players in Northern European one. Similarly, numbers were around the lowest in other titles. maybe the reason behind this is lower level players do not want to go through the hassle of registration when they know that their chances versus snute/serral respectively are basically none. | ||
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Alex007
Ukraine211 Posts
On the other hand, of course there will be more signups in Ukraine and Russia, since apart from Bly there are no real favourites for those spots and amateur players have a real shot and qualifying. Do you really think that lack of amateur players in Scandinavian region is explained by the fact that Snute and whoever else in Finland was a clear favorite last year while there were no clear favorites in Ukraine or Russia? Sorry, I'm not really sure about that reasoning. It's OK if you're unfamiliar with Ukrainian/Russian scene but every experienced amateur player from these countires is pretty much aware of the best 3-4 players who are really able to advance. So I don't think the number of signups of last year is a fair way to distribute spots, instead you could look at the number of players with WCS points per country or region. The number of signups wasn't the only factor, just the one which could be described briefly. WCS and WESG are not connected in any ways. maybe the reason behind this is lower level players do not want to go through the hassle of registration when they know that their chances versus snute/serral respectively are basically none. We know that the registration process is not very simple, but we cannot do anything with that. Sending the scan of the passport is still required due to the nature of the tournament. I'm sorry about that. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On August 22 2017 01:09 Alex007 wrote: The number of signups wasn't the only factor, just the one which could be described briefly. WCS and WESG are not connected in any ways. I know that WCS and WESG are not connected, I was just trying to say that stronger regions should get more spots than weaker regions. As a good way to determine stronger regions I suggested WCS points, but you can also use Aligulac or something else. | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
On August 22 2017 00:33 207aicila wrote: Will there be a similarly crazy prize pool this time around as well? ...only for the Main Qualifiers prize pools are 30k and 40k so... | ||
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207aicila
1237 Posts
On August 22 2017 02:01 CynicalDeath wrote: ...only for the Main Qualifiers prize pools are 30k and 40k so... Ez 12k for Stephano in the Middle East & Africa qualifier again? :D | ||
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bulya
Israel386 Posts
It means that Snute and Serral will be competing for a single spot, while 2 Russian guys who are worse then Snute and Serral (and many other EU players in the scene) will be there! | ||
Mizenhauer
United States1886 Posts
On August 22 2017 02:37 bulya wrote: w00t, the Scandinavian region has only 1 spot while Russia and Ukraine have 2 spots each. It means that Snute and Serral will be competing for a single spot, while 2 Russian guys who are worse then Snute and Serral (and many other EU players in the scene) will be there! If things go as they did last year, only two Koreans will qualify while 10-20 Koreans who would have been the 3rd best player in the tournament don't get to go. This is an overarching problem when trying to divide qualifiers this way. | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
On August 22 2017 02:10 207aicila wrote: Ez 12k for Stephano in the Middle East & Africa qualifier again? :D ...no info yet about Middle East & Africa qualifier (even if Turkey is now included in one of the European local qualifiers) but I think the real matter here is if Stephano will be able to stay awake during the breaks in the Finals... | ||
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Rescawen
Finland1028 Posts
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NonY
8748 Posts
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207aicila
1237 Posts
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Zzzapper
1796 Posts
On September 02 2017 02:50 Rescawen wrote: considering denmark https://en.wesg.com/en/sc2/tournaments/700/members has 0 sign ups so far, can we consider merging denmark with finland/norway? Yeah, Finland and Norway both have better players than Denmark right now, I don't get why they're merged and we have our own qualifier. | ||
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Aeromi
France14460 Posts
On September 02 2017 04:42 Zzzapper wrote: Yeah, Finland and Norway both have better players than Denmark right now, I don't get why they're merged and we have our own qualifier. Because Denmark has great CS:GO/Dota2/HS players. It is not only a SC2 tournament. | ||
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Zzzapper
1796 Posts
On September 02 2017 04:44 Aeromi wrote: Because Denmark has great CS:GO/Dota2/HS players. It is not only a SC2 tournament. Are the qualifiers and number of spots the same for every game? That seems a bit silly | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
On September 02 2017 04:47 Zzzapper wrote: Are the qualifiers and number of spots the same for every game? That seems a bit silly ...numbers of spots slightly differ from game to game but "regional division" is the same... | ||
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Clevername02
15 Posts
I know it's frustrating getting so many comments about this but it really feels super unfair to the players and from a spectator's point of view it sort of poisons the event. A lot more people will watch this event if the community's favorite players are able to participate. | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
 DeMusliMfrom the GB & Iceland Qualifier, beating RiSky 3-0  World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/UKnext: tomorrow evening (EU) the Danish Qualifier | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Lillekaninfrom the Denmark Qualifier, beating Aggression 3-1 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Denmarknext: sunday morning the Benelux Qualifier | ||
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DieuCure
France3713 Posts
If it can make me wait until Blizzcon  | ||
digmouse
China6329 Posts
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
On October 07 2017 05:00 digmouse wrote: Which org is running EU and AM qualifiers by the way? ...if I'm not mistaken it should be run by themselves, except for Benelux (DSCL), Russia (Starladder) and Iberia... | ||
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VanCaspel
Netherlands250 Posts
Blammo Entertainment / Firstlook Festival is running the qualifier, and it will be played TODAY at Firstlook Festival in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Check out the bracket here, more info is here. Come visit the event and meet your favorite Dutch memelords! | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
edit: btw, this should have started more than 2 hrs ago...  | ||
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Alex007
Ukraine211 Posts
On October 07 2017 06:34 CynicalDeath wrote: ...if I'm not mistaken it should be run by themselves, except for Benelux (DSCL), Russia (Starladder) and Iberia... EU and AM online qualifiers (except the three mentioned as they have their own LAN events) and LAN finals are held by StarLadder Russian qualifiers were held by UCC | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
uThermalfrom the Benelux Qualifier, beating Harstem 3-0 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Beneluxnext: tomorrow evening the South-Eastern Europe Qualifier | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
 sLivko and  Railfrom the Russia Qualifier (played on October 2) World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Russiathe two players will battle it out for seeding in a LAN tournament in St.Petersburg on October 22 (#russiathings) | ||
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Alex007
Ukraine211 Posts
On October 09 2017 23:56 CynicalDeath wrote: in the meantime, the fourth and fifth qualified player for the EU Main Qualifier are sLivko and Railfrom the Russia Qualifier (played on October 2) World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Russiathe two players will battle it out for seeding in a LAN tournament in St.Petersburg on October 22 (#russiathings) They actually have some prize pool ($200) for SC2 qualifier winners as well as for winners in other titles so this is basically the battle for money, not for seeding. Also, LAN will be held in Moscow. Thank you so much for updating the thread! | ||
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vult
United States9400 Posts
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Starbuckfrom the South-East Europe Qualifier, beating Ptak the Koreans Slaughterer 3-1 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/SEEnext: tomorrow evening the Central Europe Qualifier ps. thanks Alex for the info, I updated the LP page. pps. go Reynor! | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Reynorrrrrrrr   from the Central Europe Qualifier, beating BlueCheese 3-1 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Central Europenext: tomorrow evening the Eastern Europe Qualifier | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
NightEnDfrom the Eastern Europe Qualifier, beating ArchangeL 3-0 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/EEnext: tomorrow evening the Sweden Qualifier | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
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Majick
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Namsharfrom the Sweden Qualifier, beating SortOf 3-0 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Swedennext: sunday evening the Baltics & Scandinavia Qualifier | ||
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Azhrak
Finland1196 Posts
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D-light
Finland7364 Posts
On October 15 2017 23:52 Azhrak wrote: Today Serral vs Snute in the WESG qualifiers. Might be the strongest match-up in the first phase of this whole tournament. Shame only one will go to EU finals, from where top12 goes to WESG finals and both surely would be top12 in Europe. :/ Yeah it's quite a shame that there's not too many overall participants for this, but then the top-2 are top-5 outside of Korea. Some tweaks to get both there would've been neat. | ||
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11cc
Finland561 Posts
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D-light
Finland7364 Posts
On October 16 2017 02:14 11cc wrote: No stream? https://www.twitch.tv/wesg_sc2 | ||
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Azhrak
Finland1196 Posts
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Serralfrom the Baltics & Scandinavia Qualifier, beating Snute 3-1 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Balticsnext: tomorrow evening the Southeast CIS Qualifier and the first day (of 2) of the Poland Qualifier | ||
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Nerchio
Poland2633 Posts
On October 16 2017 04:35 CynicalDeath wrote: the tenth qualified player for the EU Main Qualifier is Serralfrom the Baltics & Scandinavia Qualifier, beating Snute 3-1 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Balticsnext: tomorrow evening the Southeast CIS Qualifier and the first day (of 2) of the Poland Qualifier Was it streamed anywhere? | ||
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Alex007
Ukraine211 Posts
All qualifiers are streamed on wesg_sc2 channel and it's always listed on TL in the "live events" bar. | ||
Liquid`Snute
Norway839 Posts
On October 15 2017 23:52 Azhrak wrote: Today Serral vs Snute in the WESG qualifiers. Might be the strongest match-up in the first phase of this whole tournament. Shame only one will go to EU finals, from where top12 goes to WESG finals and both surely would be top12 in Europe. :/ Retirement fuel | ||
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
Move to the middle east quick and go through one of their qualifiers For real though Scandinavia only getting 1 spot is a fucking travesty and I feel bad for you | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Zerghamdifrom the South-East CIS & Turkey Qualifier, beating yeg 3-0 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/South-East CISnext: tomorrow evening the deciding day of Poland Qualifier and the first day (of 2) of the Germany Qualifier | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Nerchio Elazerfrom the Poland Qualifier, both beating souL, 3-0 for Nerchio in WB and 3-1 for Elazer in LB World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Polandnext: tomorrow evening the deciding day of Germany Qualifier and the first day (of 2) of the France & Monaco Qualifier | ||
hexhaven
Finland936 Posts
On October 16 2017 07:38 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Move to the middle east quick and go through one of their qualifiers For real though Scandinavia only getting 1 spot is a fucking travesty and I feel bad for you I could've easily seen 3 spots for Baltics + Nordics, but I guess this system is trying to balance the spots around the size of the scene in the different regions. Finland's SC2 scene is all but dead nowadays, don't know if Norway is doing any better. | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
ShoWTimE Lambofrom the Germany Qualifier, with ShoWTimE beating Lambo 3-2 in WB and Lambo 3-1ing TLO in LB World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Germanynext: tomorrow evening the deciding day of France & Monaco Qualifier and the first day (of 2) of the Ukrainian Qualifier | ||
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fronkschnonk
Germany622 Posts
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
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Kafka777
361 Posts
btw Stephano playing in the France qualifier... does anyone know if he can participate also in the (not announced yet) Tunisian-North Africa one if he fails to qualify here? If you choose one nationality for competition - there is no sport that would allow you to choose another in the same set of qualifiers. So, I don't know the specific rules of this competition, but they seem to follow strict rules of other sports and it seems impossible that he would be allowed to participate in other qualifiers. | ||
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Mun_Su
France2063 Posts
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xongnox
540 Posts
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Stephano Clemfrom the France & Monaco Qualifier, with Stephano beating Clem 3-2 in WB and Clem 3-1ing PtitDrogo in LB World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/France & Monaconext: tomorrow evening the deciding day of Ukrainian Qualifier | ||
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Mun_Su
France2063 Posts
On October 20 2017 07:00 xongnox wrote: Still far away to SpeCial's level imo, but indeed it's very pleasant to see him perform that well =) Totally agree with you. He has his playstyle (maybe too agressive but that's fun to watch), he is very young, his family support him 100%, so maybe 2018 will be his year, School may hold him back tho... | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
On October 20 2017 17:47 Mun_Su wrote: Totally agree with you. He has his playstyle (maybe too agressive but that's fun to watch), he is very young, his family support him 100%, so maybe 2018 will be his year, School may hold him back tho... Clem new EU terran hope Reynor new EU zerg hope who will be the young EU protoss to join them? | ||
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HsDLTitich
Italy830 Posts
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
On October 20 2017 18:58 HsDLTitich wrote: Reynor still can't play WCS next year tho  | ||
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207aicila
1237 Posts
On October 20 2017 18:58 HsDLTitich wrote: Reynor still can't play WCS next year tho Damn that's crazy... hasn't he been a promising potential up-and-comer since he was like 12? Don't quite recall what year he got onto the radar but yeah. | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Bly Minatofrom the Ukraine Qualifier, both beating Kas, 3-2 for Bly in WB and 3-0 for Minato in LB World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Ukrainenext: on November 9-10-11 the Iberia Qualifier, which will award the last available spot | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Asia-Pacific Registration opens today (except for TW/HK/MO which is already in progress), and qualifiers will run in November/December (no official detailed-dates released atm) for the 40k Main Qualifier event. ps. can a mod change the title of this thread to WESG 2017 Qualifiers details so to gather all qualifiers' stuff here? thanks | ||
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digmouse
China6329 Posts
On October 19 2017 05:58 CynicalDeath wrote: btw Stephano playing in the France qualifier... does anyone know if he can participate also in the (not announced yet) Tunisian-North Africa one if he fails to qualify here? I think it is safe to assume there won't be an African one. | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
On November 09 2017 16:28 digmouse wrote: I think it is safe to assume there won't be an African one. it's still listed on official site tho... http://events.wesg.com/match/11/sn/en_list?sn_id=174&snName=Africa | ||
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
On November 09 2017 16:14 CynicalDeath wrote: ...waiting for the last European qualified player this Saturday (November 11) here are the details for APAC local qualifiers to the Asia-Pacific Main Qualifier. Asia-Pacific Registration opens today (except for TW/HK/MO which is already in progress), and qualifiers will run in November/December (no official detailed-dates released atm) for the 40k Main Qualifier event. ps. can a mod change the title of this thread to WESG 2017 Qualifiers details so to gather all qualifiers' stuff here? thanks Wait so there are three south korean seeds this year? I didn't notice that before | ||
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JonSnow
United States67 Posts
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
On November 10 2017 05:23 JonSnow wrote: Will the map pool for the USA qualifier be old or new maps? ...since the games being played in December, I think they will be played on new maps... | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
Majestic from the Iberia Qualifier, beating SouLeer 3-2 World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS/Iberia | ||
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JonSnow
United States67 Posts
On November 10 2017 07:42 CynicalDeath wrote: ...since the games being played in December, I think they will be played on new maps... Was just wondering since the website (https://en.wesg.com/en/sc2/tournaments/720/rules) states old maps. Not sure if they just didn't know map pool was changing. | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
...the European Qualifier will run from November 23 to November 26 in Barcelona, Spain, for a prize pool of $40,000 ($18k for first place, $9k for second place) and 12 spots for the Global Finals which will be played in March 2018. ...following last year's standard, the tournament format will be 4 groups of 5 players each, played in Round-Robin format (Nov 23, Groups A and B - Nov 24, Groups C and D with 2 official streams to cover all the matches), with players coming in first places advancing directly to the Ro8 while players finishing up in second and third places battling it out for the four remaining Ro8 spots; on Nov 25, Ro12 and Ro8 will be played while on the final day only Semifinals and Finals (including 3rd place match) will take place. ...you can find the event's details on the LP page here: World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Europe %26 CIS | ||
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CynicalDeath
Italy3435 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
https://en.wesg.com/en/sc2/news/talent-list-for-wesg-scii-americas-finals-revealed So this is happening online apparently. That's a bit disappointing. | ||
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FrkFrJss
Canada1205 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On January 31 2018 15:21 FrkFrJss wrote: This was announced over a month ago...but anyhow, it also makes a lot of sense. This way, the people playing in both WESG and IEM don't have massive jetlag from flying from Leipzig to America and then from America to Pyeongchang. Not sure how I missed that, sorry | ||
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