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Um... announcement has been out for a couple hours, but haven't yet seen a thread:
http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/blizzard-partners-with-mlg-for-the-world-championship-series
![[image loading]](http://wordpress.tools.majorleaguegaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/blizzardworlds_545.jpg) We are extremely excited to announce that we are partnering with Blizzard to host two events as part of their StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS). The StarCraft II World Championship Series USA Nationals will be held at the MLG Spring Championship – June 8-10 at the Anaheim Convention Center. 64 participants will be invited through a combination of qualifiers and the StarCraft II ladder to compete in a best-of-3 games, double elimination tournament for $15k in prizing. The top 16 finishers in the USA Nationals will receive an invitation to compete in the StarCraft II World Championship Series North America Finals. The StarCraft II North America Finals will be held at the MLG Summer Championship – August 24-26, location to be announced. 32 players from the StarCraft II World Championship Series–Canada Nationals, USA Nationals, and Mexico Nationals–will compete in a Best-of-3 games, double elimination tournament for $30k in prizing. The top players from the StarCraft II North America Finals will receive invitations to compete in the Battle.net World Championship in Asia later this year. Additional information will be released in the coming weeks. Spectator passes for the Spring Championship are available now. If you can’t make it out to Anaheim in person, then mark your calendar and catch the live stream. The basic broadcast will be free, but you can get full HD access to all streams by purchasing a Spring SCII Season Pass. Read more at http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/.
Please read MLG_Adam's posts below for a few clarifications! 
Should be a great event! I'm personally super pumped - as I'm in school and June is right around finals (  ) I'm glad I'll be able to play in two amazing events in one weekend to save travel costs and time  !
short-form info about the US Nationals:
64 total players, bo3 double elim bracket, no extended series
24 invites have gone out, based on placement in top tournaments (MLG, NASL, possibly others)
8 spots will be given out in the Playhem Dailies this week as qualification: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=328751
other spots TBD/TBA, not sure if there are more invites or more qualifiers or what combination of the two
there is a separate stream(s?) for the Nationals/Continentals (it won't be on MLG stream)
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United States994 Posts
You will be able to play in both.
Schedules will overlap but will be scheduled so players can still do both.
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from what i know you'll be able to play both
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On April 21 2012 02:44 MLG_Adam wrote:
You will be able to play in both.
Schedules will overlap but will be scheduled so players can still do both.
Are the National/Continent tournaments only Fri/Sat/Sun? Or will there be extra days/hours?
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United States994 Posts
On April 21 2012 02:45 Pokebunny wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2012 02:44 MLG_Adam wrote:
You will be able to play in both.
Schedules will overlap but will be scheduled so players can still do both. Are the National/Continent tournaments only Fri/Sat/Sun? Or will there be extra days/hours?
Only Friday/Saturday/Sunday.
There will be a Blizzard tournament...plus other Blizzard activity...specific stream for Nationals and Continentals.
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United States994 Posts
On April 21 2012 02:45 Krainer wrote:
Extended series?
Not for the Blizzard event.
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Thanks a lot Adam for clearing up some questions I had!
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lol MLG partnering with everyone, well it is just good for everybody
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On April 21 2012 02:47 MLG_Adam wrote:Not for the Blizzard event.
Woot!
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From what i have read, in this thread, you will be able to play both.
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United States994 Posts
Anaheim is going to be awesome of course with at least double the seats you saw in Columbus, double the main stage screens for those not near the stage (yes all 3 screens again), etc. to accomodate this event, but the August event for Continentals will have even more SC2 presence to celebrate the North American finals.
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OMG this is great! Can't wait for Anaheim and I am also pumped to find out what other "Blizzard Activities" the MLG guys have planned for us 
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This could be very interesting. If Blizzard starts getting partnered with tournament organizers and making things like the World Championship yearly and other smaller tournaments throughout the course of the year, this will be huge!
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United States994 Posts
Giving out codes on twitter soon for Spring Arena #1 PPV
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On April 21 2012 02:47 MLG_Adam wrote:Not for the Blizzard event.
You should learn from blizzard!
And every other sc2 tournament including your own spring arena
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Wait, reading again, it says the location for Summer Champ is TBA - I thought it was already established that it was Raleigh, as it was on their convention center site?
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Glad I already bought a spring season pass
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MLG doing it big. keep it up.
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MLG Adam hinted at HotS being at Anaheim in another interview. This is an even stronger indication IMO
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