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The IEM Katowice 2024 online qualifiers have concluded, finalizing the 24-player roster for the $500,000 event.
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Notable players who did not qualify:
- Classic
- Creator
- DongRaeGu
- NightMare
- Ryung
- Elazer
- Harstem
- Lambo
- Cham
- SpeCial
IEM Katowice: Qualifier results + full player list
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TL.net ESPORTS
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The IEM Katowice 2024 online qualifiers have concluded, finalizing the 24-player roster for the $500,000 event. Notable players who did not qualify:
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Telephone
United States145 Posts
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Sentikoret
20 Posts
Terran: SpeCial out, Kelazhur in. Protoss: Neeb, Creator, Classic out, Cyan, Firefly, Stats, SKillous, trigger in. Zerg: DRG, Lambo, Elazer out, Scarlett in. Terran field is stale (except LA Terran king succession), Zerg is dying, Protoss is boiling. | ||
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FataLe
New Zealand4526 Posts
I'm keeping my eye on Firefly this tournament. Especially after Oliveria's run. | ||
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Haighstrom
United Kingdom207 Posts
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GoloSC2
712 Posts
 Also a notable chinese presence and Classic missed 5 match points | ||
Waxangel
United States33559 Posts
On December 11 2023 19:36 Haighstrom wrote: How on earth did Stats make it over Creator and Classic! Congrats to him, hope to see him on top form again. Sad there's no Lambo. I'd say Stats was the most extreme case of bracket/match-up luck, as he drew a ton of PvP (his best match-up) + 1/4th dicerolled into sOs in his qualifier match (which was due to sOs' crazy upset over GuMiho). | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10366 Posts
In terms of regional household names, to me Elazer for EU and Harstem for AM (and maybe Special for LA too, but succeeded by Kelazhur) "should" have made it, but ofc there's simply not enough spots. It does suck though that for "AM" qualifiers, Harstem didn't make it since there's already so few AM players, but it's alright. It's really great that there's a notable Chinese presence, since China has always been a strong Esports region, in Starcraft history as well (since WCG days for BW). It's felt like China was quite weak for most of SC2 (but perhaps it's just because I don't follow it?). Anyway, really great to see that foreigners seem to really have caught up to KR, with each region being competitive and able to beat almost anyone else! This might just be due to the game getting more figured out, so maybe foreigners lagged behind in the past but now the gap is much smaller. Really tough qualifiers, if China really getting some good players then in the future I would hope that Asia server would get 1 more spot or so, else between KR and China there's just too many good players not making the cut. (Especially since Asia includes the rest of SEA and Australia as well... that makes "Asia" region really huge!). Then Creator or Classic could have made it. BUT I also get that you don't have to scale spots 100% to skill, it's always nice to even out the # of spots a bit between regions just to increase the diversity and give the other regions a slight benefit of the doubt. Here's hoping to an exciting Katowice! (It's also crazy that sOs was close to qualifying.) | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7087 Posts
The Chinese players Cyan and Firefly were simply better than Creator and Classic and did wel deserve their presence. Also I don't see to many in the list above that would lose a Bo10 to either Creator and Classic or Harstem / Elazer / Lambo / Special for that matter so I'm pretty happy with the list skillwise | ||
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Locutus_
Brazil65 Posts
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GTR
51547 Posts
edit: obviously if their name is controversial/offensive then that's fine but in this case... why? | ||
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GoloSC2
712 Posts
On December 12 2023 06:20 GTR wrote: players need to be banned from changing their id's after an established period of time - i had to find out who the hell "shin" was edit: obviously if their name is controversial/offensive then that's fine but in this case... why? its exactly two clicks from this page so... | ||
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argonautdice
Canada2719 Posts
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shadowyice
17 Posts
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derkopf
Germany83 Posts
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Poopi
France12909 Posts
On December 12 2023 18:45 derkopf wrote: What is that Dark-pattern thing "Notable players who did not qualify"? It's because instead of having to check yourself which player did not manage to qualify, you can directly see them. Kinda sad for Classic and Creator, thankfully for them Katowice isn't going to be the World Championship, but it's still a lot of potential money + prestige that they miss. Stats qualifying is crazy, his bracket was insane. I really hope that he practices diligently and gets back in a good shape for the event | ||
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Drahkn
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RogerChillingworth
Chad3111 Posts
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JJH777
United States4415 Posts
On December 13 2023 07:43 Drahkn wrote: Kind of absurd that classic and creator could not manage to qualify Creator had some pretty bad losses but aside from the EU qualifier (which he had likely had 300 ping for) Classic only lost to DRG and Shin. It's absurd that losing 3 series to DRG and Shin is enough to not qualify for Kato. He had terrible bracket luck and this was a poor format. Best player to miss a Katowice in many years. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7087 Posts
On December 14 2023 01:47 JJH777 wrote: Creator had some pretty bad losses but aside from the EU qualifier (which he had likely had 300 ping for) Classic only lost to DRG and Shin. It's absurd that losing 3 series to DRG and Shin is enough to not qualify for Kato. He had terrible bracket luck and this was a poor format. Best player to miss a Katowice in many years. Actually Creator lost to Jiehsi while Classic lost to Reynor and Spirit and then Skillous and came very close to quali in EU Then Classic lost to DRG and Shin Creator lost to Firefly and Gumiho Then Classic lost to DRG again Creator lost Trigger and Special While I can agree that Classic got really unlucky first almost going through in EU and then having hard brackets in KR and AM, Creator was just bad in the whole qualis | ||
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