EPTEsports World Cup 2024 - Last Chance Qualifier (July 4-7)…
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Philippe
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WombaT
Northern Ireland22955 Posts
On June 27 2024 07:02 Waxangel wrote: It's a peculiar choice since the Katowice qualifiers weren't region locked. I guess there's some "world cup" theming for EWC, but is there actually some higher-up at ESL/EWC who's gonna look at SC2 and say "hey why don't we have more players from Latin America" or something like that? Why not just try and get the best players in? Yeah I don’t really get that aspect of it. Especially as it somewhat overlaps with Katowice’s way of doing things in recent times. I quite liked when there were two WCs with pretty distinct identities, now you’ve got 2 where they’re kinda blurred a bit, indeed it’s almost as if Kato is a feeder tourney for this. Also very much reflected in the casting where we seemingly needed reminded about EWC seeds as much as who was advancing in such a prestige tournament. Blizzcon was more about Johnny Foreigner getting a shot at Korea’s best, with something of a trade off in gating out the field a little, and latterly the culmination of a whole circuit season. Where Kato was the crème de la crème mostly, hot players with direct qualifiers and an open bracket. Then WESG did a sorta semi-WCG thing for a bit, which actually coulda been great with a few tweaks/the passage of time where foreigners had a few more heavy hitters | ||
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Balnazza
Germany978 Posts
On June 27 2024 15:51 WombaT wrote: Yeah I don’t really get that aspect of it. Especially as it somewhat overlaps with Katowice’s way of doing things in recent times. I quite liked when there were two WCs with pretty distinct identities, now you’ve got 2 where they’re kinda blurred a bit, indeed it’s almost as if Kato is a feeder tourney for this. Also very much reflected in the casting where we seemingly needed reminded about EWC seeds as much as who was advancing in such a prestige tournament. Blizzcon was more about Johnny Foreigner getting a shot at Korea’s best, with something of a trade off in gating out the field a little, and latterly the culmination of a whole circuit season. Where Kato was the crème de la crème mostly, hot players with direct qualifiers and an open bracket. Then WESG did a sorta semi-WCG thing for a bit, which actually coulda been great with a few tweaks/the passage of time where foreigners had a few more heavy hitters I mean...technically Katowice was also always a "feeder tournament" towards BlizzCon. That is one of the reasons why I, being in the minority there I know, count the "End-of-the-year"-World Championship as something higher than Katowice. But back in the day it might have different vibes, because Katowice basically always "opened" the circuit for the year, now it was kinda in the middle of it...and usually there were roughly nine months between Katowice and BlizzCon, so it would have always seemed a bit far away to talk about BlizzCon already. But between Kato and EWC there are only ~five months, so it feels much closer I guess? And in the end, Kato and EWC still have very different flairs. Katowice is basically the "King of the Weekenders", in terms of being "easy" to get into. This year for example, atleast that was the plan, only eight of the 24 slots would have come through invites, the rest was qualifier-based. Eventually we even get 19 qualification-slots from 24. And they were Open Qualifiers, too. Sure, on different servers, but you could try as often as you wanted to get into Katowice. EWC on the other hand will finish of a year and a half long circuit, so of course it tries to put emphasize on that. Lots of invites awarded throughout the circuit (good thing btw that Serral qualified again for EWC...it felt somewhat awkward that he would have gotten an inivte for a tournament he won over a year before the tournament), regional EPT points giving out some more slots, regionally locked qualifiers...and I will assume that if more than 16 players sign up for the qualifier, the ones with more points will get into it. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany6603 Posts
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RogerRa36787026
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On June 18 2024 04:43 jimminy_kriket wrote: MaxPax still hasn't pulled out. It would be awfully rude of him to pull out this late. I think we might see him play. black hoodie, scream or hacker mask and he's good to go | ||
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tigera6
3167 Posts
Asia: Cyan (Lancer) AM: Trigger KR: Rogue - Creator - Shin EU: Showtime - Skillous - Elazer | ||
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JJH777
United States4372 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17572 Posts
https://www.twitch.tv/wardiii  Esports World Cup/2024/Qualifier/KR | ||
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MJG
United Kingdom792 Posts
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Charoisaur
Germany15824 Posts
40 minute bloodbath | ||
Waxangel
United States32926 Posts
On July 04 2024 20:11 Charoisaur wrote: Bunny vs Creator game 1, game of the year 40 minute bloodbath I guess it was thrilling in a way, but Creator being possibly the worst basetrader of all time takes out a lot of the tension for me | ||
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Argonauta
Spain4900 Posts
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Argonauta
Spain4900 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany6603 Posts
The Shield holds! | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland22955 Posts
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MJG
United Kingdom792 Posts
On July 04 2024 22:34 WombaT wrote: Is that it for the Korean non-qualified or can they try other regions? The qualifiers are region locked. | ||
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Devangel
Russian Federation61 Posts
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Topin
Peru10031 Posts
edit: oh i just saw a post with the info | ||
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2426 Posts
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tigera6
3167 Posts
The closed qualifier will be a bit interesting, but I think Ragnarok and Showtime will make it through. Bunny might just destroy everyone and make it as well. | ||
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