Hello everyone! This is the official thread for the one and only International Regional for our next LIVE event, IGN Pro League 5! The top two players of this Regional will earn free travel and hotel stay for the live event. They will also earn an automatic seed into Winners Round 3 at the event. Our North American, European, and Korean Regionals have already concluded. This International Regional is open to everyone and is the last chance for pros to win a free trip to IPL5. You will want to play your absolute best to secure this amazing prize!

Unfortunately, we are not yet able to announce the date or location of our live event. All we can tell you is that it is coming up soon and these qualifiers were scheduled in a way that ensures that we have time for travel preparations to be made. If for any reason, a player who qualifies in these online qualifiers cannot make the trip to our live event, their registration fee will be refunded and we will use the Regional results to determine who will receive the free travel, hotel, and tournament seed instead.

Bracket Link: http://challonge.com/ipl5int

IPL5 Regional and Satellite Information

IPL Stream Link: http://www.twitch.tv/ignproleague

IPL 720p Subscription Link: https://secure.justin.tv/ignproleague/subscribe/138/signup

When

International Regional: Saturday, Jun 30 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) You can register any time before Friday, Jun 29 6:59am GMT (GMT+00:00). There is an entry fee of $10 (USD).

The link for the International Regional on June 30th is http://form.jotformpro.com/form/21357641206953 ! Please only register with your North American account.

The Format!

Players should be online and ready to play within 30 minutes of the event's start time. Please be aware that these qualifiers can and will take a lot of time. Forfeits and walkovers will be used if needed. Each round is best of 3, with start maps labeled on the bracket. Players may be asked to wait to begin a series so that their match can be broadcast.

Servers: All games will be played on the North American server.

Spectators Rule: No observers/spectators are allowed for these games. IGN Pro League admins and casters may make games for players to help things run smoother and either referee or cast the matches.

Bracket Link: http://challonge.com/ipl5int

Players already receiving a free trip and WR3 at IPL5 are:

FnaticRC.aLive (IPL4 Winner)
x6.Sleep (North American Regional Winner)
GL.Snute (European Regional Winner)
MarineKing.Prime (Korean Regional Winner)
iG.Xigua (Chinese Regional Winner)

Notable Players Already Signed Up: + Show Spoiler +

Quantic.TheStC
SK.MC
Acer.Bly
Acer.Nerchio
Acer.ParanOid
mouz.biGs
mouz.MaNa
Golden.LighT
Eclypsia.Welmu
TSL.HyuN
TSL.Polt
TSL.Inori
TSL.Symbol
TSL.RevivaL
TSL.RagnaroK
TSL.Value

Map Pool
IPLMap Sanshorn Mists AE
IPLMap Atlantis Spaceship
IPLMap Antiga Shipyard
IPLMap Daybreak
IPLMap Tal'Darim Altar LE
IPLMap Cloud Kingdom
IPLMap Metropolis
IPLMap Ohana
IPLMap Entombed Valley

*All of our maps can be found easily by searching "IPLMap" when creating a game on NA (uploaded by VTMirhi), Europe, and Korea. Please use the IPLMap versions for every game to ensure consistency.

Casters
These matches will be cast by our community casters: JoRoSaR, Adebisi, Jmorrow, and SchAmToo all day (and night)!

Stay up to date with IPL5 Regionals and Satellites, IPL TV, IPL Fight Club, and IPL Team Arena Challenge by checking
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WigglingSquid

5194 Posts

June 26 2012 20:32 GMT

Mh, not so nice to force games to be played on NA even if both players are from the same non-NA region.

IGNProLeague

1184 Posts

June 26 2012 20:54 GMT

We still have to keep everything organized via our North American-based admins and casters. Logistically speaking it makes more sense to keep everything based on one server, especially when the other "true" regionals have already been held on their respective servers.

Our Operations Manager Mirhi says that if players get admin permission to play their match on a different server, it will be allowed, but the default for cross-server of any kind and for broadcasted matches will be North America.

Popkiller

3415 Posts

June 26 2012 22:35 GMT

looks like Alive already won IPL5. Show's over, guys.

Hall0wed

United States8486 Posts

June 26 2012 22:42 GMT

Sucks that its at such a bad time for Koreans but they should still place top 2 either way. I don't expect too many players that are currently in GSL wanting to mess up their sleep schedule for this though, looks like MC and TheStC are the first crazy people of the bunch. Guess it isn't horrible for them though since StC just had his RO48 Code A match and MC will be doing RO16 in 2 days and whether he advances or not his next match won't be for a while.

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

June 27 2012 01:38 GMT

ick bad time and server for koreans, but i hope some big names qualify :D

Megiddosc

United States966 Posts

June 27 2012 01:48 GMT

On June 27 2012 05:32 WigglingSquid wrote:
Mh, not so nice to force games to be played on NA even if both players are from the same non-NA region.

I hope you said the same thing about the TSL4 qualifiers that were on earlier. KawaiiRice and Catz went up against eachother on the EU server.

IGNProLeague

1184 Posts

June 27 2012 17:16 GMT

Updated with 7 more TSL sign-ups!

Canucklehead

Canada5074 Posts

June 27 2012 17:58 GMT

Hope more koreans know about it. This is way easier than the KR qualifier, unless a lot of KRs start signing up. Every KR who played in the KR qualifier should definitely sign up for this.

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

June 27 2012 21:56 GMT

#10

On June 28 2012 02:58 Canucklehead wrote:
Hope more koreans know about it. This is way easier than the KR qualifier, unless a lot of KRs start signing up. Every KR who played in the KR qualifier should definitely sign up for this.

except it's at like, 2am kst, probably ending near sunrise, and on a laggy server too haha. but yeah, otherwise, shouldn't be so hard!

IGNProLeague

1184 Posts

June 27 2012 21:58 GMT

#11

For every Regional and other qualifiers, we send e-mails directly to team managers in English and Korean! It's up to them to sign up though! =)

IGNProLeague

1184 Posts

June 29 2012 23:20 GMT

#12

Bracket is up: http://challonge.com/ipl5int These players each have a 1 in 13 chance of scooping up a free ride and seed at IPL5!

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

June 30 2012 01:50 GMT

#13

wow so few... haha hoping for gg~

Hall0wed

United States8486 Posts

June 30 2012 01:57 GMT

#14

Oh nice, Squirtle signed up. Hopefully he gets to go through Symbol and MC on his way to winning this qualifier.

qxc

United States550 Posts

June 30 2012 04:50 GMT

#15

why is the bracket posted before the tournament? I just registered. can I still be added?

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

June 30 2012 05:24 GMT

#16

Wow, that's...small.

Hall0wed

United States8486 Posts

June 30 2012 10:01 GMT

#17

On June 30 2012 13:50 qxc wrote:
why is the bracket posted before the tournament? I just registered. can I still be added?

Looks like the deadline was 3am EST Friday, so you missed it by almost a day I guess. I hope that their website didn't let you pay them even though registration was over.