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The Electronic Sports League recently announced the first major of the year will take place March 12-15, 2015 alongside the Intel® ESL Expo in Katowice, Poland. The road to Katowice however is not an easy one, as there is a plethora of qualifiers to get through to be able to have a shot at the $250,000 at the end of the road. For the first time ever, the qualifiers will have a two step process (online and later offline) ensuring that the best and fairest eight teams advance to the main tournament!
Online Portion (January 26th - February 3rd)+ Show Spoiler +Monday, Jan 26 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) European qualifier #1 Wednesday, Jan 28 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Polish pre-qualifier #1 Thursday, Jan 29 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) CIS qualifier Saturday, Jan 31 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Polish pre-qualifier #2 Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Polish qualifier final Tuesday, Feb 03 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) European qualifier #2 Wednesday, Feb 04 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) North American qualifier Offline Portion (February 14th-15th)+ Show Spoiler +
Qualified for Katowice offline qualifier+ Show Spoiler + Copenhagen Wolves mousesports Piter INSHOCK TeaM WinneR FlipSid3 Tactics Counter Logic Gaming Invited to Katowice offline qualifier TeamLiquid ex-Epsilon Titan Dobry & Gaming dignitas Cloud9 Vox Eminor Invited to ESL One Katowice 2015 NiP Virtus.pro Natus Vincere EnVyUs PENTA Team SoloMid fnatic HellRaisers
TBD
European qualifier #1
Polish pre-qualifier #1
+ Show Spoiler + INSHOCK, Brooklyn Superhero, MISZCZOWIE GRY, TBA advance to Polish qualifier final
CIS qualifier
Polish pre-qualifier #2
+ Show Spoiler + Black Ravens Major, WeMakeNoise, ePLAY, ONLINERSS advance to Polish qualifier final
Polish qualifier final
European qualifier #2
+ Show Spoiler + TeaM WinneR and FlipSid3 Tactics advance to offline qualifier (either LGB eSports or 3DMAX will join)
North American qualifier
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Very dirty form for now, but this has to go up! Images will be added in as we go
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Today's matches:
Exgaming vs. Moscow Five @ Thursday, Jan 29 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)and ACES vs. EYESports @ Thursday, Jan 29 5:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
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The Polish qualifier final starts today - the top 8 teams are left from two previous qualifiers.
Today's matches: INSHOCK vs. WeMakeNoise @ Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) ePLAY vs. TBA @ Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Black Ravens Major vs. MISZCZOWIE GRY @ Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) ONLINERSS vs. Brooklyn Superhero @ Monday, Feb 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)ANDboth semi-finals shortly after!
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The NA qualifier is next! Only 26 teams so should be done by today!
The tournament starts at 8 PM EST! Our boys from Team Liquid are participating!
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
I believe daps' flight got cancelled. I wonder if he can still play.
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Matches are actually tomorrow same time - so in 24 hours precisely!
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rofl i got excited there
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Today's matches:Polish qualifier final (winner advances to offline qualifier in Katowice) INSHOCK vs. TBD @ Tuesday, Feb 03 7:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)European qualifier #2 (top 3 teams advance to offline qualifier in Katowice)Matches start @ Tuesday, Feb 03 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)Notable participants: 3DMAX dAT Team AGENT CPH Wolves LGB eSports K1ck Infused North American qualifier (winner advances to offline qualifier in Katowice)Matches start @ Wednesday, Feb 04 1:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Notable participants: Team Liquid eLevate Mythic Area51 TORQUED Streams:Look to the right on the events side bar - will be updated.
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Canada4481 Posts
interesting, no c9 for NA qualifiers?
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On February 03 2015 20:30 Nagisama wrote: interesting, no c9 for NA qualifiers? No, it's a quite notable absence. Maybe they already know that they're invited straight to the offline qualifiers in Katowice as there are still a few unannounced spots.
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Canada4481 Posts
Also no CLG, unless they're getting invited too. Poor TL, gotta go through the terror qualifiers.
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51146 Posts
What's with Cobble and Overpass still being used instead of the new maps like Season and (the remade) Train?
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
On February 03 2015 22:31 GTR wrote: What's with Cobble and Overpass still being used instead of the new maps like Season and (the remade) Train?
long story short: because Valve says so.
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Northern Ireland22201 Posts
I think Valve have the final say in what maps to use because they sponsor it? At least that's the explanation I hear the most for why cobble is ever played
edit: thats what I get for not refreshing the page
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Hype! Can't wait to watch here in 46minutes, I got all my Superbowl leftover for snackin'.
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On February 03 2015 23:24 amazingxkcd wrote:Show nested quote +On February 03 2015 22:31 GTR wrote: What's with Cobble and Overpass still being used instead of the new maps like Season and (the remade) Train? long story short: because Valve says so.
Duuuuumb.
Why not at least have the awesome new Train replace the universally-hated Cobble?
"If you get used to it, you'll like it" is a super theory from Valve.
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
On February 04 2015 02:18 Crownlol wrote:Show nested quote +On February 03 2015 23:24 amazingxkcd wrote:On February 03 2015 22:31 GTR wrote: What's with Cobble and Overpass still being used instead of the new maps like Season and (the remade) Train? long story short: because Valve says so. Duuuuumb. Why not at least have the awesome new Train replace the universally-hated Cobble? "If you get used to it, you'll like it" is a super theory from Valve.
because if that happened, then all the other problems with CS:GO would also get fixed and then half life 3 would be released so that's a nono
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Erm, this stream gonna start or...
*Edit*
Is it subscriber-only or something?
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Can't find a stream. Apparently there are like 400 teams or something... I think they're just playing their matches and that's that?
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