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 Announcing the ESL StarCraft 2 Country Championship 2012! 
 Open to countries around the world, the ESL StarCraft 2 admin team is organising a Country Championship in early 2012 pitting national teams against each other in both 1on1 and 2on2 to crown the best StarCraft 2 national team!
 
 
 
 Current status: Grand final replaycasted "live" at Tuesday, Nov 20 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
 - http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/y0su (ESL TV Icicle dropped out due to sickness)
 - http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/TaKeTV (German)
 - http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/ZeddSC (Polish)
 
 
 
 See the ESL news for full details.
 
 Playoffs
 - Quarter Finals onwards
 - Round 1 Rankings
 - Round 1 Matches
 
 Group Stage
 - Group Stage Rankings
 - Group Stage Fixtures (grey = unscheduled) (warning: spoilers!)
 
 Structure, format, schedule
 Match format: 4x1on1 Best of 3 (four different players), 1x2on2 Best of 3 (any two players), 1 point per submatch
 
 Structure:Group Stage (48 teams, top 2 per group qualify), Playoffs (16 teams, single elimination)
 
 Schedule: Group Stage (February & March), Playoffs (April)
 
 Announcements
 2011-12-05: Original announcement
 2011-12-16: Looking for more countries!
 2012-01-06: 42 countries will compete!
 2012-01-16: Call for streaming!
 2012-01-18: Structure + Seeds Draft - Feedback wanted!
 2012-01-25: Country Championship Portal
 2012-01-26: Structure + Seeds update
 2012-01-30: Structure Update + Groups Draft
 2012-02-10: Group Stage live
 2012-04-02: Playoffs live!
 2012-04-12: First matches of the Playoff
 2012-05-05: The final eight national teams
 2012-05-20: Semi Finals
 2012-07-17: Final
 
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				thats gonna be fun
 now all we need is rotterdam and bitter to cast this so it doesnt happen without anyone noticing
 
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				Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!
 
   
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				On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  
 how rude !
   
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				On December 23 2011 00:59 RoachCoach wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  how rude !   Harstem + Rotti + Grubby...How cool would that be? :D
 
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				Will be really nice! I hope Sweden and Korea signs up!
			
		
		
	 
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				On December 23 2011 01:01 Tarotis wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2011 00:59 RoachCoach wrote:On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  how rude !   Harstem + Rotti + Grubby...How cool would that be? :D What about Ret?
 
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				On December 23 2011 00:59 RoachCoach wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  how rude !   Sry, I'm german. I had to do this!
   
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				On December 23 2011 01:01 Tarotis wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2011 00:59 RoachCoach wrote:On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  how rude !   Harstem + Rotti + Grubby...How cool would that be? :D 
 There is a guy, who is part of a team, that hosts the website, you are visiting right now. Maybe you should consider him as well.
 
 @Topic: The idea seems good, does someone know about the prize-pool?
 
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				On December 23 2011 01:03 Xoronius wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2011 01:01 Tarotis wrote:On December 23 2011 00:59 RoachCoach wrote:On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  how rude !   Harstem + Rotti + Grubby...How cool would that be? :D There is a guy, who is part of a team, that hosts the website, you are visiting right now. Maybe you should consider him as well. @Topic: The idea seems good, does someone know about the prize-pool? We have none at the moment
  Though maybe something will come up in future, for now it's for bragging rights! 
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				On December 23 2011 01:03 Xoronius wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2011 01:01 Tarotis wrote:On December 23 2011 00:59 RoachCoach wrote:On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  how rude !   Harstem + Rotti + Grubby...How cool would that be? :D There is a guy, who is part of a team, that hosts the website, you are visiting right now. Maybe you should consider him as well. Oh yeah, who doesn't want to see a crazy blink build by Nazgul in an ace match vs. USA/IdrA!
   
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				No Korea ?   
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				On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  They have Grubby also ! :D
 
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				On December 23 2011 01:05 KiNGxXx wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2011 01:03 Xoronius wrote:On December 23 2011 01:01 Tarotis wrote:On December 23 2011 00:59 RoachCoach wrote:On December 23 2011 00:54 KiNGxXx wrote:Rotterdam has to play for the Netherlands! He's their only player!  how rude !   Harstem + Rotti + Grubby...How cool would that be? :D There is a guy, who is part of a team, that hosts the website, you are visiting right now. Maybe you should consider him as well. Oh yeah, who doesn't want to see a crazy blink build by Nazgul in an ace match vs. USA/IdrA!   Oh sorry, Ret was too obvious so I forgot him ;( But he libes in the USA so you cant blame me I think..:D
 
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				United Arab Emirates hwaiting!!!!!
			
		
	 
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				Korea, Sweden, China, who else do we miss?
			
		
		
	 
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				On December 23 2011 01:25 swordboy wrote:Korea, Sweden, China, who else do we miss?
 Peru (CatZ, Fenix, ?), Australia (mOOnGLaDe, tgun, ?)
 
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				iaguz > tgun
 and tbh i dont even tink tgun would make the top4 of australia xD
 
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				On December 23 2011 01:25 swordboy wrote:Korea, Sweden, China, who else do we miss?
 The other scandinavian countries:
 Finnland (elfi, Naama, Satiini)
 Norway (TargA, Snute)
 Denmark (Babyknight, Ciara,)
 
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				Yup, several noticeable countries still missing, please help spread the word that we need people from those countries to apply to take care of their national teams!
			
		
		
	 
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