Hello everyone!

We would first like to thank the community for it's tremendous support for IPL during and after IPL5!

There will be 3 events at IPL6, which is being held at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, March 28th - March 31st:

Main Event - Wings of Liberty
IPTL 2013 Season 1 Finals
Heart of the Swarm Invitational

IPL6 Wings of Liberty:

Wings of Liberty will be the main event for IPL6. The Wings of Liberty tournament is a 40 person tournament with both invite and open spots.

For each Regional, the winner of the tournament will receive an invite and free travel and hotel for the event. The runner up for each regional will receive a spot in the event, but no travel. Regional winners will receive a seed into Winners Round 3 of the event.

For Satellite events, the winner receives a spot in the event, but no travel. For the International Satellite, the top 3 players all qualify for the event, but do not win travel.

You may only sign up for a Regional or Satellite if you live in that region OR hold citizenship in that region OR will be travelling from that region for IPL6. You may sign up for both a Regional and Satellite and as many as you are eligible for. You must pick ONE region to play in, and may not play in Regionals / Satellites from multiple regions.

Signups close for each qualifier 24 hours before the event begins.

Here are the dates for the Regionals and Satellites. Signups are hyperlinks and live now!

Regionals:
American Regional - Wednesday January 16 - 12pm Pacific - BRACKET
European Regional - Wednesday January 16 - 6am Pacific - BRACKET
Korean Regional - Wednesday January 16 - 9pm Pacific - BRACKET
Amateur Regional - Saturday January 19 - 12pm -Pacific - BRACKET
International Regional #1 - Wednesday January 23 - 9am Pacific - BRACKET
International Regional #2 - Wednesday January 30 - 9am Pacific - BRACKET

Satellites:
American Satellite - Wednesday February 6 - 12pm Pacific - BRACKET
European Satellite - Wednesday February 6 - 6am Pacific - BRACKET
Korean Satellite - Wednesday February 6 - 9pm Pacific - BRACKET
International Satellite (Top 3) - Wednesday February 13 - 9am Pacific - BRACKET

There are also some invited players to IPL6 that include the following:

Invites:

Leenock (IPL5 Champion)
viOLet (IPL5 Runner up)
Polt (IPL5 3rd place)
12 Players from IPTL Finals Teams

To clarify, six players from each IPTL finals team will receive paid trips to IPL6 to compete in addition to playing the finals at the event.

For those doing math, this does not add up to 40 players and in fact is only 33 of the slots.

Additional invites and qualifiers are still TBD and will be announced in the coming months.

IPTL Finals:
The finals of IPTL 2013 Season 1 will be played at IPL6 featuring the top 2 teams, still to be determined.

Both teams will have six players flown out to the event, but are free to bring any additional players to the event with their own budget, or if they qualify to IPL6 through additional means.

IPL6 Heart of the Swarm:
IPL will be holding an 8 person Heart of the Swarm Invitational at IPL6.

There will be both a qualification process and invite process for this tournament. Both are TBA.

Information Still To Be Determined:
Several player slots for Wings of Liberty
Qualification / Invite process for Heart of the Swarm
Broadcasting for qualifiers
Map pool for IPL 6 (Qualifier already pool already set)
Prize pool

For the information that hasn't been determined yet, we would like to hear from you, the community.

What do you want to see for the qualifiers and main events of IPL6?

What do you want to see from IPL for the rest of 2013 in Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm?

Let us know in the comments, or by tweeting @IGNProleague or emailing me at ffields@ign.com. We always could use more feedback.

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

January 08 2013 23:53 GMT

Cool, can't believe we're already at IPL 6. I remember being so hyped when IPL 3 was announced

FrostedMiniWheats

United States30730 Posts

January 08 2013 23:56 GMT

Can't wait, these are always great. Super excited the IPTL finals are there too, those really need a live event and the last one in San Francisco.... well...yeah ^^

thetotalcow

Sweden6 Posts

January 08 2013 23:58 GMT

so this is after MLGs first HOTS tournament, interesting to see where the players will go

Laryleprakon

New Zealand9496 Posts

January 08 2013 23:58 GMT

Really interesting decision to have a WOL tournament with HOTS already out and most likely after MLG has run a HOTS tournament.

I'm sure IPL6 will be awesome.

Linwelin

Ireland7554 Posts

January 08 2013 23:59 GMT

Interesting that it will be WoL

bittman

Australia8759 Posts

January 09 2013 00:04 GMT

On January 09 2013 08:59 Linwelin wrote:
Interesting that it will be WoL

Interestingly, it might be the last big WoL tournament. That in itself holds some prestige.

Are there other big tournaments happening after this?

bertu

Brazil871 Posts

January 09 2013 00:11 GMT

Does the "american" region include south america? If not, what it is in the "international" region? What are the eligibility rules for the "amateur" regional?

Thanks in advance!

Laryleprakon

New Zealand9496 Posts

January 09 2013 00:14 GMT

I feel this is going to be close to 30 Koreans in the main event ^_^

xuanzue

Colombia1747 Posts

January 09 2013 00:19 GMT

#10

no gom production this time?

IGNProLeague

1184 Posts

January 09 2013 00:19 GMT

#11

On January 09 2013 09:11 bertu wrote:
Does the "american" region include south america? If not, what it is in the "international" region? What are the eligibility rules for the "amateur" regional?

Thanks in advance!

America does include both North and South America. International is all players.

Amateur is defined as a player who has earned less than $1000 in live events.

.kv

United States2332 Posts

January 09 2013 00:20 GMT

#12

is Identifier my Character code?

SunTurtle

156 Posts

January 09 2013 00:21 GMT

#13

On January 09 2013 08:53 Bagration wrote:
Cool, can't believe we're already at IPL 6. I remember being so hyped when IPL 3 was announced

I remember being hyped when IPL was announced :o

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

January 09 2013 00:23 GMT

#14

Wow, I'm surprised you guys are doing WoL. This changes things for a lot of players ( most players not in GSL, or the next two IEM's ) who are playing HOTS full time now.

catplanetcatplanet

3830 Posts

January 09 2013 00:25 GMT

#15

ST_TREME to take the amateur regional!

Larkin

United Kingdom7161 Posts

January 09 2013 00:30 GMT

#16

Awesome. My favourite thing about IPL events has been that they reward a HUGE amount of their players with prize money. Seeing the top 32 or whatever getting at least something is really good to see, and in my opinion where eSports should be heading - otherwise, even if you are really good, you will still lose out to the top Koreans for the money spots and you're essentially working at a loss.

I'd like to see the IPTL taken a bit more seriously with a bit more money involved. But I love the devotion IPL shows to the community and the players and I'm very much looking forward to who will win the qualifiers.

Wrathsc2

United States2025 Posts

January 09 2013 00:37 GMT

#17

cant wait xd

ArchangelJada

Canada910 Posts

January 09 2013 00:38 GMT

#18

IPL5 was best tournament ive seen, expect as much awesomeness for IPL6!!

PhoenixVoid

Canada32743 Posts

January 09 2013 00:39 GMT

#19

I like how IPL is returning to their original format of 40 players rather than 72. Seeing 72 players just overloaded the event, but 40 is going to be more balanced and time efficient. This should provide incentive to see the best of the best in the tournament, because there will only be 40 players of the highest caliber rather than an extra 32 players who might dilute the quality of play. I love having the IPTL finals as well, and the HotS beta should be nice. This will likely be the finale of WoL and a closing to the years of WoL played. IPL rarely disappoints, so I know this will be good.