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2018 IEM PyeongChang qualifiers and details - Page 2

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Duckman
Profile Joined August 2009
United States158 Posts
November 29 2017 19:35 GMT
#21
Qualifiers will likely be closer than the main event, though it is always exciting when there's a possibility for a non-Korean to win a tournament!
JackONeill
Profile Joined September 2013
861 Posts
November 29 2017 19:52 GMT
#22
Initially read "IEM Pyongyang"
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8252 Posts
November 29 2017 20:02 GMT
#23
5 for Europe but only 2 for Korea is pretty ridiculous in my opinion. Don't understand the need to separate into 5 different regions of Europe.

Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America?
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
392 Posts
November 29 2017 20:11 GMT
#24
On November 30 2017 05:02 geokilla wrote:

Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America?


Kelagod?
MrWayne
Profile Joined December 2016
219 Posts
November 29 2017 20:17 GMT
#25
On November 30 2017 05:02 geokilla wrote:
5 for Europe but only 2 for Korea is pretty ridiculous in my opinion. Don't understand the need to separate into 5 different regions of Europe.

Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America?


If Mexico is counted as SA country, as in WCS, Cham, SpeCial and Kelazhur to name just three.

DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-29 20:19:09
November 29 2017 20:18 GMT
#26
Next month = WESG , IEM and GSL (?) qualifiers ...

On November 30 2017 05:17 MrWayne wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 30 2017 05:02 geokilla wrote:
5 for Europe but only 2 for Korea is pretty ridiculous in my opinion. Don't understand the need to separate into 5 different regions of Europe.

Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America?


If Mexico is counted as SA country, as in WCS, Cham, SpeCial and Kelazhur to name just three.



No, Mexico with NA.
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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8990 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-29 20:43:39
November 29 2017 20:22 GMT
#27
On November 30 2017 05:02 geokilla wrote:
5 for Europe but only 2 for Korea is pretty ridiculous in my opinion. Don't understand the need to separate into 5 different regions of Europe.

Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America?


Kelazur and Erik are the most high profile, but you have BLord, Catz, Killer, Smile, and probably some others. Erik is actually pretty good as far as I remember him from Nation wars but he is always in a direct competition with Kelagod for one spot to qualify, or with the Mexicans for 2 or 3 spots, so we don't see him often.

Edit: HalfBreed, ByRada, Jarppi and Eggz also seems pretty good according to their Copa and Chalenger results, but they always lose to one of top guys, Kelazhur, Cham, or Major.SA with Mexico is probably stronger then NA (at least at the top).

We need Topin to give more inside information about the SA scene


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Nerchio
Profile Joined October 2009
Poland2633 Posts
November 29 2017 20:36 GMT
#28
I am tired of events being announced 2 weeks in advance
Progamer"I am the best" - Nerchio , 2017.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-29 20:43:08
November 29 2017 20:42 GMT
#29
On November 30 2017 05:36 Nerchio wrote:
I am tired of events being announced 2 weeks in advance


Only one week for some regions. :/

Combined with the winter holidays, there will probably be at least a few players unable to participate.
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
November 29 2017 20:48 GMT
#30
This distribution man lmao
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Jeremy Reimer
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada1183 Posts
November 29 2017 22:11 GMT
#31
On November 30 2017 04:52 JackONeill wrote:
Initially read "IEM Pyongyang"


That would be quite the tournament!
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." -- Carl Sagan
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
November 29 2017 22:14 GMT
#32
On November 30 2017 07:11 Jeremy Reimer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 30 2017 04:52 JackONeill wrote:
Initially read "IEM Pyongyang"


That would be quite the tournament!


It would be one way to enforce region-lock.
CosmoK
Profile Joined July 2011
339 Posts
November 29 2017 22:23 GMT
#33
The central european qualifier will be stacked. Poland, Germany and the Netherlands all have players that could take the top spot.
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
November 29 2017 23:01 GMT
#34
Another tournament with only 2 koreans is annoying. Couldn't really have expected anything different from this event though. Guess it's gonna be another "real tournament is in the qualifiers" type of thing.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
November 29 2017 23:45 GMT
#35
2 slots to NA when there are only 3 quality players from the region? (Neeb, SpeCial, and Cham)
2 slots to SA when there is only 1 quality player from the region? (Kelazhur)
5 for Europe?

South Korea should have at least 4 slots.
IArako
Profile Joined June 2015
Germany195 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-29 23:56:57
November 29 2017 23:50 GMT
#36
On November 30 2017 01:06 DieuCure wrote:
IMO : 2 spots for South America and 5 Europe = waste


All of those players will be better than NA/Asia east+west/oceania players except Neeb so why are exactly these waste?
That makes no sense.

Ofc Korea should have more based on playerstrength but im fine with the regional system
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Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
November 30 2017 00:00 GMT
#37
On November 30 2017 08:50 IArako wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 30 2017 01:06 DieuCure wrote:
IMO : 2 spots for South America and 5 Europe = waste


All of those players will be better than NA/Asia east+west/oceania players except Neeb so why are exactly these waste?
That makes no sense.

Ofc Korea should have more

SpeCial is an NA player. He's probably a top 4 non-Korean player, so there definitely aren't 2 SA and 5 Europeans better than him.
LDaVinci
Profile Joined May 2014
France130 Posts
November 30 2017 00:08 GMT
#38
African slot for Stephano ! Yeah !! We might have two french players
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breaker1328
Profile Joined March 2016
Canada300 Posts
November 30 2017 00:11 GMT
#39
I don't see what the fuss is about when it comes to a lack of Korean players at an Olympic style event. It's like saying that it's unfair that Canada can only send one hockey team to the Olympics even though Canada could probably ice at least 3 Olympic level teams.

S.Korea gets one player for their region and likely the second player is for being the "host country." Five players from Europe also makes sense given their population density and the number of countries these players need to represent. I'm fine with the player distribution. Whichever Korean ends up going to this thing is probably going to win it anyway and if you really need to get your Korean SC2 fix then just watch their qualifiers and skip the main tournament.
breaker1328
Profile Joined March 2016
Canada300 Posts
November 30 2017 00:22 GMT
#40
On November 30 2017 08:45 Boggyb wrote:
2 slots to NA when there are only 3 quality players from the region? (Neeb, SpeCial, and Cham)
2 slots to SA when there is only 1 quality player from the region? (Kelazhur)
5 for Europe?

South Korea should have at least 4 slots.


NA: Neeb, SpeCial, Cham, Scarlett, and possibly MaSa have a chance to win qualifying spots. Probably not the best set of players but definitely enough to justify 2 spots.

EU: I don't want to list all of them but look at the Ro16 from the WESG qualifiers. There's enough quality there to justify 5 spots.

SA: I agree with you. Aside from Kelazhur I don't know anyone else good enough to deserve that second spot.

Not to mention the fact that the Africa slot is going to go to a European anyway so....
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