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Please note that all registered players will be receiving an email and personal message on GameBattles with this information, as well as some additional information. Please make sure you check your email/personal messages on GameBattles for important information.
If you have registered for the WCS America Season 1 Qualifying Tournament, you will need to check-in prior to the start of the tournament in order to be seeded into the bracket. Failure to check-in will result in your exclusion from the Bracket, and you will not be added in after the check-in closes.
Check-in will take place Saturday, April 20th starting at 10:00 AM EDT and ending at 12:50 PM EDT. Check-in order will not influence who does, and who does not get into the bracket. The players that make the bracket will be the first 512 people based on their Registration, who have Checked-In. The bracket will not expand past 512 players. So for example, if the first 512 people that registered all check in, but their were 700 people that registered/checked in, the players 513-700 will not be seeded into the bracket.
Procedure to Check-in:
- Go to the Tournament Info page to see the "Check In" tab. You can also get to the Check In tab directly by going HERE.
![[image loading]](http://media.gamebattles.com/sandbox2/0/Info-Check-in.png)
- Select the "CHECK IN" button
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- Once Checked In, the box will go from a blue to a green, and the text will read "CHECKED IN." If you see this, you have checked in successfully. If you have done this, but it does not show you as Checked In, please contact our Live Support.
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- Once Checked In, please go to ONE of the 6 chat rooms below on HotS:
- WCS NA Qualifier 1 Room A
- WCS NA Qualifier 1 Room B
- WCS NA Qualifier 1 Room C
- WCS NA Qualifier 1 Room D
- WCS NA Qualifier 1 Room E
- WCS NA Qualifier 1 Room F
- Once Check In closes at 12:50 PM EDT, it will take roughly 25 minutes in order to seed the bracket. Once the bracket is seeded, please view the bracket to see if you have been seeded into the qualifier.
- Once the bracket has been created, please begin your Winners Round 1 match as soon as the Tournament Officials instruct you to do so. Please be ready by 1 PM EDT to start the WR1 Match.
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I registered but haven't received any of this information.
How can I confirm my registration was accepted?
P.S. Your website is very hard to navigate. I already spent a long time trying to figure out how to sign up as it kept asking for weird details like my team, and I had to go into an obscure area to add my bnet account to my profile before I could sign up.
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On April 19 2013 22:15 PiGStarcraft wrote:
I registered but haven't received any of this information.
How can I confirm my registration was accepted?
P.S. Your website is very hard to navigate. I already spent a long time trying to figure out how to sign up as it kept asking for weird details like my team, and I had to go into an obscure area to add my bnet account to my profile before I could sign up.
If you go to "My Profile" (Upper left hover over your MLG Username), you'll be able to see your WCS Qualifier team if you registered.
I will be sending the registered players emails/PMs soon.
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On April 19 2013 22:17 MLG Deimos wrote:Show nested quote +On April 19 2013 22:15 PiGStarcraft wrote:
I registered but haven't received any of this information.
How can I confirm my registration was accepted?
P.S. Your website is very hard to navigate. I already spent a long time trying to figure out how to sign up as it kept asking for weird details like my team, and I had to go into an obscure area to add my bnet account to my profile before I could sign up.
If you go to "My Profile" (Upper left hover over your MLG Username), you'll be able to see your WCS Qualifier team if you registered. I will be sending the registered players emails/PMs soon.
Ok it says i am leader of my team for WCS qualifier, phew. Thanks Deimos, I appreciate the quick response.
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If the bracket are full in just 10mins. What will happen? i think this will be bad if too many gold players are fill in the bracket and real progamers are out because they just check in late.
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On April 19 2013 22:29 jalen wrote:
If the bracket are full in just 10mins. What will happen? i think this will be bad if too many gold players are fill in the bracket and real progamers are out because they just check in late.
The bracket size is 512 players. The people that will get into the bracket is based on the first 512 to register that check in, not off of the first 512 that check-in. So everybody can check-in, but then the 512 players that registered first and checked in will be the ones that are seeded.
So check-in will be open the full 2 hours 50 minutes, and the bracket will be seeded after.
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Does 'WCS America Qualifier 1" indicate that there is more than 1 qualifier? I thought there were 2 qualifiers of 256 players (http://i.imgur.com/rJ9Hpwe.png)? Is there now only 1 qualifier of 512 players, or 2 qualifiers of 512 players?
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On April 20 2013 01:53 comabreaded wrote:Does 'WCS America Qualifier 1" indicate that there is more than 1 qualifier? I thought there were 2 qualifiers of 256 players ( http://i.imgur.com/rJ9Hpwe.png)? Is there now only 1 qualifier of 512 players, or 2 qualifiers of 512 players?
There will be a 2nd invite only qualifier next weekend to decide the 16 players entering the challenger league.
9th-40th from the Qualifying Tournament 1, will get an invite the 2nd qualifier.
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On April 20 2013 02:01 MLG Deimos wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 01:53 comabreaded wrote:Does 'WCS America Qualifier 1" indicate that there is more than 1 qualifier? I thought there were 2 qualifiers of 256 players ( http://i.imgur.com/rJ9Hpwe.png)? Is there now only 1 qualifier of 512 players, or 2 qualifiers of 512 players? There will be a 2nd invite only qualifier next weekend to decide the 16 players entering the challenger league. 9th-40th from the Qualifying Tournament 1, will get an invite the 2nd qualifier.
Well, i'm glad I was one of the first to find the page and get registered.
Although I'm not too thrilled with the idea that if you didn't get into this qualifier you can't qualify for WCS at all. We have more than 1.1k people signed up, so even if more than 50% do not show (I'm guessing about 25-30% are no-shows) then people still won't be able to get in.
As you know, I've always tried to give constructive criticism and I must say that having invite-only for the Challenger league (lower league) seems like a bad idea. I hope you will reconsider this (and do another open bracket, with those people seeded into later rounds or something) if there are a lot of people who are turned away tomorrow because they didn't register in time. However, if we still don't get a full 512, then I don't think it's that bad.
As a side note, are you planning on doing a LR thread? I can get one up, and link to this thread for check-in process, if not. Just so that people have a place to talk about the tournament, upsets, favorites, etc.. Also, just wondering, I know that the registrants get in after the reserves, so who might those reserves be? 
Thanks for the post Deimos.
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An invite-only qualifier for the league that's supposed to be for new talent and up and coming players? The sound of that is terrible, you better invite everyone in GM and high masters, not only some pros off a list.
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On April 20 2013 02:24 StarVe wrote:
An invite-only qualifier for the league that's supposed to be for new talent and up and coming players? The sound of that is terrible, you better invite everyone in GM and high masters, not only some pros off a list.
it just seems counterintuitive
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So are we going to run into the issue where some progamers and semi-pro/top players aren't able to play in the qualifiers because they registered too late (i.e. past the first 512 people)?
I registered as around #250'ish, but I'm just a Diamond Protoss. I'm not doing this because I think I have a legitimate chance to qualify, but it would be an interesting experience for me. But I don't want to be part of a problem where someone like QXC (just as an example; although his name in particular I think I saw around the #300 mark) doesn't even get a chance to be in the qualifiers. I remember seeing at least one or two other notable names past the #512 mark. And I'm sure there are tons like me who registered early but are less than Masters league (I didn't recognize many names at all for the first 300 players, and I was checking who was registering).
Response from MLG, please?
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On April 20 2013 03:42 Jacmert wrote:
I'm just a Diamond Protoss. I'm not doing this because I think I have a legitimate chance to qualify, but it would be an interesting experience for me.
This is why they needed to keep the sign-up fee.
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On April 20 2013 03:56 sitromit wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 03:42 Jacmert wrote:
I'm just a Diamond Protoss. I'm not doing this because I think I have a legitimate chance to qualify, but it would be an interesting experience for me. This is why they needed to keep the sign-up fee.
You just need to make a requirement that you need to be at least a mid/high master player with a certain number of points in order to sign up, nothing more. Fees can also discourage players who are good enough to beat pros.
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On April 20 2013 03:56 sitromit wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 03:42 Jacmert wrote:
I'm just a Diamond Protoss. I'm not doing this because I think I have a legitimate chance to qualify, but it would be an interesting experience for me. This is why they needed to keep the sign-up fee.
Not necessarily. Code A qualifiers are free (maybe I'm wrong on this?) but they have a tiered order for who gets priority. Something like ESF > KeSPA > Foreign teams > KR ladder GM > everyone else.
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On April 20 2013 03:42 Jacmert wrote:
So are we going to run into the issue where some progamers and semi-pro/top players aren't able to play in the qualifiers because they registered too late (i.e. past the first 512 people)?
I registered as around #250'ish, but I'm just a Diamond Protoss. I'm not doing this because I think I have a legitimate chance to qualify, but it would be an interesting experience for me. But I don't want to be part of a problem where someone like QXC (just as an example; although his name in particular I think I saw around the #300 mark) doesn't even get a chance to be in the qualifiers. I remember seeing at least one or two other notable names past the #512 mark. And I'm sure there are tons like me who registered early but are less than Masters league (I didn't recognize many names at all for the first 300 players, and I was checking who was registering).
Response from MLG, please?
The 512 spots go to the first 512 registered and checked in.
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I really don't understand why they (wce eu and na) just don't accept anyone, freely, during the signup-up period and when the check-in is closed just keep the 512 player with the highest ladder rank. It solve the issue of an hypothetical bronze player who sign-up for fun and take the place of a pro who check-in late, ensure that the level of play is good and also provide some incentive to actually play on the region you want to attend. It just seems so obvious to me, what am I missing ?
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On April 20 2013 04:05 MLG Deimos wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2013 03:42 Jacmert wrote:
So are we going to run into the issue where some progamers and semi-pro/top players aren't able to play in the qualifiers because they registered too late (i.e. past the first 512 people)?
I registered as around #250'ish, but I'm just a Diamond Protoss. I'm not doing this because I think I have a legitimate chance to qualify, but it would be an interesting experience for me. But I don't want to be part of a problem where someone like QXC (just as an example; although his name in particular I think I saw around the #300 mark) doesn't even get a chance to be in the qualifiers. I remember seeing at least one or two other notable names past the #512 mark. And I'm sure there are tons like me who registered early but are less than Masters league (I didn't recognize many names at all for the first 300 players, and I was checking who was registering).
Response from MLG, please? The 512 spots go to the first 512 registered and checked in.
That is kind of ill-thought, like others are mentioning, I would have hoped there would be given priority to players who are pro-gamers/GM-master league. If 512 players check in before some of those players do, that would be unfortunate. With a sign-in cost that probably wouldn't have happened, and while I prefer that the qualifiers do not cost anything, it would still be logical to see some kind of priority system implemented.
Perhaps this is something that could be considered for future qualifiers.
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Is there any way to see the order of registration? I see 1,174 "teams" signed up on gamebattles, but the order of the teams in the list keeps changing every time I change pages, so I'm guessing the order there doesn't mean anything.
It would be nice to be able to check who registered in the first 512, and thus sure of getting a spot if they check in, and who is outside of that zone and needs to hope that there are no-shows ahead of them...
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