Tokyo Game Show Qualifers 2012

Is registration free? Who can play in this?
There is no registration fee, entrance is completely free. The qualifiers are open to anyone who lives in or is a citizen of the respective countries. If I had it my way transient citizens like Strafe / TargA would be allowed to play in this. I have to double check with what the organizer wants though before I confirm it.

Isn't this a SEA tournament? Why is Australia / NZ playing in it?
Australia and New Zealand were originally not part of this tournament as they wanted it to be just SEA. I fought for them to be included because of the Starcraft 2 player strength, popularity and increased exposure the sponsors will be getting. The CS tournament will not feature the ANZ region. *Air ticket is sponsored up to $1,000 USD. As mentioned above, Australia/NZ was originally not in the tournament organizer's plan and they had budgeted it accordingly up to $1,000 for the other nations.

Why Do Vietnam/India have their own qualifiers but not New Zealand / Philippines?
As a result of the above there were not enough slots and some of the original countries so there had to have joint qualifiers i.e Singapore/Indonesia, Thailand/Malaysia made sense cause of their geographical proximity and player strength. I seeded Taiwan and Australia as the top 2 nations so they have 1 qualifier each to themselves and New Zealand/Philippines were the last 2 nations with no physical event. Also had to keep in mind the organizers wished to have live physical events in India / Vietnam / Thailand / Singapore to tie up with other gaming events.

Why Do Vietnam/India have their own qualifiers but not New Zealand / Philippines?
Sign up link will be out Monday or by Tuesday latest. We are still unsure where the brackets will be hosted as there might be some limitations with the current system.

All qualifiers will be held online, and those with physical events will result in "showmatch" between the top 2 players to decide who gets the ticket. As all qualifiers will be online, identity verification might be requested if suspicious activity is suspected.

Australia Qualifier Dates:
Qualifier #1: Thursday, 28th June 8pm AEST
Qualifier #2: Friday, 29th June 8pm AEST
Finals @ GESC: Saturday 7th July (After GESC concludes)
Admin: Arnor@Cityhunter

The Australian qualifiers will be streamed by team immunity and players can sign up for only ONE qualifier. It isn't held over the weekend as ACL qualifiers have been scheduled already then. The sole winner of each of these two qualifiers will battle it out at the GESC LAN finals the following week in Melbourne. Should the player NOT be already qualified for GESC/ACL during that weekend, Team Immunity has offered to pay for the flight expenses to Melbourne. nirvAnA and BakaInu will be responsible for overseeing the overall tournament qualifiers and any inquires can be directed to them.

Thailand / Malaysia Qualifier Dates:
Qualifier: Sunday, 1st July
Admin: jump

Vietnam Qualifier Dates:
Online Qualifier: Late July
Finals @ TGX Vietnam: 11th - 12th August
Admin: TBD

Singapore / Indonesia Qualifier Dates:
Online Qualifier: Late August
Finals @ TGX Singapore: 7th to 9th September
Admin: Frogmite

India Qualifier Dates:
Online Qualifier: Late August
Admin: TBD

Philippines / New Zealand Qualifier Dates:
Online Qualifier: Late August
Admin: Zendex