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Update from IEM on the PC NA Qualifier situation

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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-12-15 18:05:42
December 15 2017 18:01 GMT
#1
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Apollo, representing ESL and IEM, has finally posted their decision on how to handle the NA Qualifier fiasco.

Hey all, sorry for the delay on resolving this situation. We wanted to talk with all parties involved and ensure we were making the right decision. All stakeholders in this have been informed and are happy to proceed with our choice to resolve. As most of you know on December 12th we ran a qualifier for NA participants, at that time our main event in PyeongChang had a date collision with WESG with both happening through the dates of January 1-8th. WESG was a scheduled offline event in California between 1-4th and IEM PyeongChang was a scheduled offline event in PyeongChang, KR, between 4-7th meaning players who wanted to compete in both, couldn't.

We had players who were affected by the clash of dates and at the time we decided to ask these players which to choose between events and if WESG was the event they wanted to compete in we removed them from our IEM NA qualifier. Understandably this situation is very unfair to the players we decided to take time to resolve this.

After our original qualifier concluded on December 12th, we took discussions with WESG in attempt to resolve this and we were shared news to enable us with options to solve this. The end result is that this is resolved, there will be a follow on the how exactly early next week. Players who are affected by the situation are now able to compete in both events as originally intended.

Moving forward our solution is now to change IEM PyeongChang to become an 18player tournament. The players who qualified on December 12th retain their spot to complete in PyeongChang while we will also replay the NA qualifier on December 16th for the remaining players who were originally disqualified. The 4 NA representatives will compete against each other at IEM PyeongChang in a round prior to the Ro16 where two players will move forward to compete against the rest of the world.

Each of the 4 players will be awarded travel and accommodation to PyeongChang and we will also extend the prize pool from 1-16 to 1-18.


Thanks!

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Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-12-15 18:10:18
December 15 2017 18:09 GMT
#2
Well done. Love the extra round before the ro16.

Hopefully ESL learns to reach out to other tournament organisers, that announced their events months earlier, to avoid conflicts like that in the future.

Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Corwinus
Profile Joined October 2015
Croatia96 Posts
December 15 2017 18:09 GMT
#3
that is... a pretty awesome resolution to this, tbh
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24417 Posts
December 15 2017 18:12 GMT
#4
Extremely well handled.
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
curufinwe_wins
Profile Joined August 2017
68 Posts
December 15 2017 18:23 GMT
#5
That's.... actually a pretty good solution tbh.... not really penalizing those who fairly filled in the weaker bracket, not really penalizing those in other qualifiers who might suffer from a larger representation pool, and still giving the best players the chance to compete.
zealotstim
Profile Joined February 2015
United States455 Posts
December 15 2017 18:24 GMT
#6
very nice
Thomasmarkle
Profile Joined June 2011
United States85 Posts
December 15 2017 18:28 GMT
#7
Hats off to you guys, well handled and resolved!
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
December 15 2017 18:30 GMT
#8
I'm surprised this was actually an option considering all the extra costs involved.

Now how do we get an admin to mess up the KR qualifiers to get extra Koreans at IEM PyeongChang...
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15958 Posts
December 15 2017 18:31 GMT
#9
Apollo is doing god's work. Single-handily saving SC2.
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Serimek
Profile Joined August 2011
France2274 Posts
December 15 2017 18:32 GMT
#10
Gentlemen's handling of the situation.
SC2 is the best game to watch and was the best to play before I grew old and slow...
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15958 Posts
December 15 2017 18:32 GMT
#11
On December 16 2017 03:30 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
I'm surprised this was actually an option considering all the extra costs involved.

Now how do we get an admin to mess up the KR qualifiers to get extra Koreans at IEM PyeongChang...

Haha that poor admin probably got some troubles for forcing ESL to spend more money
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6329 Posts
December 15 2017 18:39 GMT
#12
And yeah this is a very elegant solution.
TranslatorIf you want to ask anything about Chinese esports, send me a PM or follow me @nerddigmouse.
Nerchio
Profile Joined October 2009
Poland2633 Posts
December 15 2017 18:41 GMT
#13
2 additional spots for NA hype meanwhile EU central has 1 spot
Progamer"I am the best" - Nerchio , 2017.
KR_4EVR
Profile Joined July 2017
316 Posts
December 15 2017 18:46 GMT
#14
Wow.....you post so fast when you just finished playing Showtime 5 minutes ago. I guess pros have high APM in real life too.
Et tu Brute ?
KR_4EVR
Profile Joined July 2017
316 Posts
December 15 2017 18:48 GMT
#15
Thank you to the person/people who worked as the peacemaker. Someday, in some unexpected way, I hope you see a reward.
Et tu Brute ?
Harstem
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands263 Posts
December 15 2017 18:49 GMT
#16
The only solution that made sense. Good on ESL for fixing it like this, looking forward to watching this tournament.
Progamer
Jimmon
Profile Joined May 2011
United States112 Posts
December 15 2017 18:53 GMT
#17
NAICEEEE.
I love LOveRH
Jimmon
Profile Joined May 2011
United States112 Posts
December 15 2017 18:54 GMT
#18
Now bring back Khaydrian Amulet.
I love LOveRH
ArtyK
Profile Joined June 2011
France3143 Posts
December 15 2017 18:55 GMT
#19
Was checking the bracket for EU west qualifier, then central... basically only one top EU will go to korea vs 4 NA players... doesn't sound right...
Sup dood ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ KiWiKaKi | SLush | uThermal | PtitDrogo | SortOf | Clem ~ "I told my mom she should vote for me in Nation Wars, she said 'I dunno, I kinda want Finland to win'" – Luolis ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_NScWV9h8k#t=1h01m
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DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
December 15 2017 18:58 GMT
#20
4 NA, 2 KR, lol
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