• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 22:29
CET 04:29
KST 12:29
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12Intel X Team Liquid Seoul event: Showmatches and Meet the Pros10
Community News
[BSL21] Ro.16 Group Stage (C->B->A->D)1Weekly Cups (Nov 17-23): Solar, MaxPax, Clem win1RSL Season 3: RO16 results & RO8 bracket13Weekly Cups (Nov 10-16): Reynor, Solar lead Zerg surge2[TLMC] Fall/Winter 2025 Ladder Map Rotation14
StarCraft 2
General
Weekly Cups (Nov 17-23): Solar, MaxPax, Clem win SC: Evo Complete - Ranked Ladder OPEN ALPHA Weekly Cups (Nov 10-16): Reynor, Solar lead Zerg surge RSL Season 3: RO16 results & RO8 bracket RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview
Tourneys
RSL Revival: Season 3 $5,000+ WardiTV 2025 Championship StarCraft Evolution League (SC Evo Biweekly) Constellation Cup - Main Event - Stellar Fest 2025 RSL Offline Finals Dates + Ticket Sales!
Strategy
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 501 Price of Progress Mutation # 500 Fright night Mutation # 499 Chilling Adaptation Mutation # 498 Wheel of Misfortune|Cradle of Death
Brood War
General
Data analysis on 70 million replays 2v2 maps which are SC2 style with teams together? [BSL21] Ro.16 Group Stage (C->B->A->D) soO on: FanTaSy's Potential Return to StarCraft What happened to TvZ on Retro?
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] RO16 Tie Breaker - Group B - Sun 21:00 CET [BSL21] RO16 Tie Breaker - Group A - Sat 21:00 CET Small VOD Thread 2.0
Strategy
Game Theory for Starcraft Current Meta How to stay on top of macro? PvZ map balance
Other Games
General Games
Should offensive tower rushing be viable in RTS games? Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Clair Obscur - Expedition 33 Path of Exile
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas
Community
General
YouTube Thread Artificial Intelligence Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread US Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club The herO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
[Manga] One Piece Movie Discussion! Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion NBA General Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023 TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
The Health Impact of Joining…
TrAiDoS
Dyadica Evangelium — Chapt…
Hildegard
Saturation point
Uldridge
DnB/metal remix FFO Mick Go…
ImbaTosS
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1306 users

Update from IEM on the PC NA Qualifier situation - Page 3

Forum Index > SC2 General
68 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
Hushfield
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Belgium80 Posts
December 15 2017 21:17 GMT
#41
This is a great way to fix this. They acknowledged their mistake and essentially found a way to keep everybody happy. Well played!
Diabolique
Profile Joined June 2015
Czech Republic5118 Posts
December 15 2017 21:32 GMT
#42
Big surprise, well done IEM!
sOs | Rogue | Maru | Trap | Scarlett | Snute | MC
Diabolique
Profile Joined June 2015
Czech Republic5118 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-12-15 21:57:09
December 15 2017 21:42 GMT
#43
Mistake double post
sOs | Rogue | Maru | Trap | Scarlett | Snute | MC
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17035 Posts
December 15 2017 21:46 GMT
#44
i think Apollo the diplomat and ambassador has surpassed Apollo the C&C champion.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
FrkFrJss
Profile Joined April 2015
Canada1205 Posts
December 15 2017 22:40 GMT
#45
On December 16 2017 06:10 Shellshock wrote:
that was the longest few hours of my life


It felt more like two days than two hours.
"Keep Moving Forward" - Walt Disney
kinsky
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany368 Posts
December 15 2017 22:42 GMT
#46
nice! mad props to apollo and his crew!
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
December 16 2017 00:03 GMT
#47
The situation is slightly different, but I hope something happens for puCK too.

Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Netherlands30548 Posts
December 16 2017 01:07 GMT
#48
Apollo saves esports once again
Neosteel Enthusiast
blunderfulguy
Profile Blog Joined April 2016
United States1415 Posts
December 16 2017 01:14 GMT
#49
On December 16 2017 09:03 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
The situation is slightly different, but I hope something happens for puCK too.

https://twitter.com/ROOT_puCK/status/941820894204141568

Unfortunate but it makes sense, though he might be one of the invited players for the "I Got DQ'd From IEM" tournament to make up for it. (fingers crossed)

Otherwise, a pretty good solution. Now, is everyone going to start talking to each other and working together for planning big events going forward, or are things going back to being a mess, I wonder.
Blunder Man doing everything thing a blunder can.
Kafka777
Profile Joined December 2015
361 Posts
December 16 2017 01:46 GMT
#50
So in fact you give a special bonus to players that were DQ? If whatever you are doing is right you have to put them through full qualifiers - if not what? You cannot give them special rights.
Icarus2
Profile Joined March 2017
China109 Posts
December 16 2017 01:50 GMT
#51
So how did they solve the schedule conflicts between IEM PC and WESG NA & SA Qual. ?
ggrrg
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Bulgaria2716 Posts
December 16 2017 01:53 GMT
#52
In my opinion, this is the best resolution possible. Honestly, I had significantly lower expectations.
curufinwe_wins
Profile Joined August 2017
68 Posts
December 16 2017 01:54 GMT
#53
On December 16 2017 10:46 Kafka777 wrote:
So in fact you give a special bonus to players that were DQ? If whatever you are doing is right you have to put them through full qualifiers - if not what? You cannot give them special rights.


The issue is IEM straight up messed up, and yet they already held the qualifiers. You can't penalize the people who got through the weaker qualifier directly, they did exactly what they were supposed to,but you also have to deal with it.

Thus this option, where basically no one loses. Eventually only two players will still represent NA in the ro16, iem gets two more series, and no one loses money (minus IEM ofc heh)
ShambhalaWar
Profile Joined August 2013
United States930 Posts
December 16 2017 04:07 GMT
#54
Sweet! Nice job.
Mahanaim
Profile Joined December 2012
Korea (South)1002 Posts
December 16 2017 04:25 GMT
#55
Hats off to both parties. Very well handled.
Celebrating Starcraft since... a long time ago.
Jacenoob
Profile Joined August 2014
299 Posts
December 16 2017 05:15 GMT
#56
Thiss is such a positive surprise. Usually these things never get resolved, big props to IEM and Apollo, thanks so much. It would not have been the same tournament without Need, Scarlett and Special.
Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4958 Posts
December 16 2017 07:32 GMT
#57
Hats off to apollo
Rogue | Maru | Scarlett | Trap
TL+ Member
Gurbak
Profile Joined January 2017
France622 Posts
December 16 2017 08:15 GMT
#58
ESL is the best esport company even if they mess up things sometines like everyone
hfsrj
Profile Joined October 2012
Germany166 Posts
December 16 2017 09:37 GMT
#59
The distribution of player sucks.

But after the rather bad handling of the situation, IEM to finally respond in a positive way, at least.
SlimeBagly
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
356 Posts
December 16 2017 09:44 GMT
#60
solid solution.
mutalisks are awesome!
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
OSC
23:00
OSC Elite Rising Star #17
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Nathanias 140
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 15920
Calm 2440
Nal_rA 1435
Artosis 610
ggaemo 47
Noble 45
Icarus 0
Dota 2
monkeys_forever185
NeuroSwarm110
LuMiX0
League of Legends
JimRising 722
Trikslyr46
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox1255
C9.Mang0458
Other Games
summit1g9340
WinterStarcraft404
Maynarde147
missharvey41
RuFF_SC231
fpsfer 2
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick1152
Dota 2
PGL Dota 2 - Main Stream338
Other Games
BasetradeTV130
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• davetesta78
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• RayReign 12
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• masondota22031
League of Legends
• Doublelift4400
• Rush202
Upcoming Events
Wardi Open
8h 31m
PiGosaur Cup
21h 31m
Replay Cast
1d 5h
Wardi Open
1d 8h
OSC
1d 9h
Tenacious Turtle Tussle
1d 20h
The PondCast
2 days
Replay Cast
2 days
OSC
3 days
LAN Event
3 days
[ Show More ]
Replay Cast
3 days
Replay Cast
4 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
Replay Cast
5 days
Wardi Open
6 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

SOOP Univ League 2025
RSL Revival: Season 3
Eternal Conflict S1

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 4
YSL S2
BSL Season 21
CSCL: Masked Kings S3
SLON Tour Season 2
META Madness #9
SL Budapest Major 2025
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2

Upcoming

BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
HSC XXVIII
RSL Offline Finals
WardiTV 2025
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026: Closed Qualifier
eXTREMESLAND 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.