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

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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
Canada18041 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
Canada1208 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.

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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Netherlands30548 Posts
December 16 2017 01:07 GMT
#48
Apollo saves esports once again
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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.
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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
Bulgaria2717 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
Spain4967 Posts
December 16 2017 07:32 GMT
#57
Hats off to apollo
Rogue | Maru | Scarlett | Trap
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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!
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