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Despite there's already another thread about this competition, we are creating this in order to give players full feedback and support. Consider this one as the official thread.
Torneo ESL Starcraft 2 (In English, ESL Starcraft 2 Tourney) is a new Starcraft 2 competition located in Spain, developed by ESL Spain with Campus Party as strategical partner (one of the biggest lanparties in the world and main digital entertainment encounter) that will have 9350€ in prizes (aprox 13370$).
In 2011 first edition of this Tourney will take place at Campus Party event in Valencia, one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, specially in Summer. This event will be held in Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias, a cute location in this city (check pictures), near the sea and the city center, with tons of malls and bars where you can enjoy not only of good Starcraft 2 matches.
Final stage: 16 players, at Campus Party (offline).
Prize Pool:
+ Show Spoiler +Prizes
1st: 4000€
2nd: 2000€
3rd: 1000€
4th: 750€
5th: 500€
6th: 500€
7th: 300€
8th: 300€
Liquipedia entry:
Liquipedia entry TES
International qualifyer website
Tournament website (in spanish)
Players confirmed for International Qualifier
Currently qualified players: Vortix (Spain), Majok(Spain)
FINAL STAGE
Rankings http://www.esl.eu/es/sc2/tes/copa_final/rankings/
Live coverage & streaming: http://www.esl.eu/es/sc2/tes/
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We will give you support (when possible) through this thread, or just open a ticket via ESL support system..
Final stage will be broadcasted (still no details about this).
Qualifiers not sure if they will be broadcasted.
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Hm what is the reason to limit the number of participants to three non-spanish players? Considering that Spain hasn`t really superstar players (even thiough Vortix and Lucifron have potential but both are not really active) there is a huge risk that this tourney will fall under the radar like the UGC in Italy.
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On May 16 2011 02:01 Irrational_Animal wrote:
Hm what is the reason to limit the number of participants to three non-spanish players? Considering that Spain hasn`t really superstar players (even thiough Vortix and Lucifron have potential but both are not really active) there is a huge risk that this tourney will fall under the radar like the UGC in Italy.
I would totally agree with you if this would be 'another' SC2 tournament. But this is made to improve SC2 scene in Spain, and make it grow. Thats why wei give more slots to only spanish qualifiers. Despite we want to improve spanish SC2 community, we also wanna show them there are countries with a very high level, and thats why we open an international qualifier, so some good players from the outside come here and make them hard being in the top, so this will be a challenge for them. Hope this explanation, despite it won't make you happy, will make you understand 
AFAIK Lucifron and Vortix (and many others) are gonna train hard for this event
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Ugh, had it been anywhere in the north I would make the effort to attend.
But being in Valencia and with a limit of 3 non spanish players there is really no reason to spend that many hours in a bus.
Are tehre plans for any casting/streaming both in english and spanish?
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On May 16 2011 08:19 Usagi wrote:Are tehre plans for any casting/streaming both in english and spanish?
Yes, spanish casters are planned 
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On May 16 2011 08:48 pR0gR4m3R wrote:Show nested quote +On May 16 2011 08:19 Usagi wrote:Are tehre plans for any casting/streaming both in english and spanish? Yes, spanish casters are planned
and english too yes  ?
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On May 16 2011 19:25 SmoKim wrote:Show nested quote +On May 16 2011 08:48 pR0gR4m3R wrote:On May 16 2011 08:19 Usagi wrote:Are tehre plans for any casting/streaming both in english and spanish? Yes, spanish casters are planned and english too yes ?
Be sure we're gonna work on that :D
Btw i've just added a link with every players already signed up, some good players (QxC, Delphi...) have already signed up despite big launch in ESL sites will be done by today.
Thank you guys!
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HasuObs and NaDa also signed up to the qualifier!
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Kas is gonna play it too, and Strelock, and Goody, and xLorD, and Delphi, and...
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another great player just signed up, Thorzain!!
I remind you have till next Sunday to sign up
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It seems like many qualifier matches are being played tomorrow, some big names too. great stuff.
How did you guys decide on seeding? Some Go4SC2 alltime ranking?
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You need to get a good english casters, this event will be sick
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On June 06 2011 21:36 Noam wrote:
It seems like many qualifier matches are being played tomorrow, some big names too. great stuff.
How did you guys decide on seeding? Some Go4SC2 alltime ranking?
Looking at these seeds I'm especially curious about how Thorzain got first seed. He is place 174 in the all time Go4Sc2 Cup ranking, was "only" 3rd in the EPS Nordic he played and didn't attend IEM. So apparently his TSL performance influenced his seed?!
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Wow, that venue looks crazy. Some really interesting architecture and I like how the water goes right up the island buildings. This event should be sick.
Thorzain fighting~!
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