[LordByrnsy]

EDIT:

Congratulations to iMMafia and NvmOOnGLaDe!
They passed the grueling tests of qualification to fight their way into IEM Guangzhou where they will get to represent SEA!
Good luck to the both of them!



Greetings my lovely sc2seaians!

I am pleased to announce that ESL SEA will be running qualifiers for IEM Guangzhou.

The qualifiers are split into three stages.

Stage One: Four open bracket qualifiers with the top two places of each bracket seeded into Stage 2

Stage Two: One double elimination bracket with 8 pro and semi pro players seeded straight in and 8 players from Stage 1. The top four players from this stage will then proceed to Stage 3.

Stage Three: One final double elimination style bracket with four of the top SEA players seeded and the remaining four brought up from Stage 2.

The official annoucnement of the tournament can be found here on the ESL site.

Stage one takes place between 8th - 11th of September with one bracket being held on each day. To sign up for the open brackets please make sure you have an ESL account and sign up for the tournament by following the links that can be found on the official announcement.

Stage two takes place on Friday the 14th of September

Stage three on Sunday the 16th of September and the TWO best players on the day will be awarded places to IEM Guangzhou!

+ [Map Pool] +

ESL Entombed Valley, ESL Metropolis, ESL Antiga Shipyard, ESL Cloud Kingdom, ESL Ohana, ESL Daybreak, ESL Tal'darim Altar

Hope to see as many of you there as possible
If you have any questions please feel free to post them in the thread below and I'll get to them as soon as I can.

-LordByrnsy
ESL SEA SC2 Admin

EDIT: to stop a conflict with IESF Aus Finals the date of Stage two will be changing to Friday the 14th


EDIT: Can players please meet up in channel ESL for the qualifiers thank you =)

[syfSoundwave]

I'll be playing in this just to get my name immortalized on Liquipedia. :P

EDIT: Really like the choice of seeded players. iaguz probably doesn't though...

[x5.Revenant]

YYJ is Aus/Korean, Ender is Philipines(instead of them being both SG) xD

[NvRossi]

fark i might not be able to make the 14th swap my seed with redarchons!

[Bash]

Why does Knight have his teams name written but no-one else does? Just curious.

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Dox:

haha everyone does this

[LordByrnsy]

i thought that was his name... So his name is just Knight then? o.O

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	Maynarde:	Yes his name is "KnighT" his team is "LighT"
	syfChadMann:	aka - Night light
	NOM:	It's ok, it gets mistaken allort :O

[Bash]

I thought he was on the team called LighT, i could be wrong though haha.

[x5_dot]

Originally Posted by LordByrnsy

and 4 players from Stage 1

Should be 8 players from Stage 1 going through, not 4

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LordByrnsy:

oh crap ur right

[AuXCoolpuff]

0o00o0o0 exciting

[inFeZa]

Awesome! Who will go to GZ This time around!?
GL to all n_n

[ProAnnn]

We can only join 1 Stage 1 qualifier right?

[syfSoundwave]

Originally Posted by eehanProAnnn

We can only join 1 Stage 1 qualifier right?

Last time we were able to play all of them.

[nirvAnA]

just saw it! I think seeding is near perfect except that it should be light/tgun instead of redarchon in stage 3!

looking forward to this tournament!

[Another]

very cool. i like the seeding, should make stage 1 exciting !

are there any country/region/citizen restrictions?

also is the only support given the $600?

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LordByrnsy:

Yes, as far as i am aware the only support is the $600

[Tileä]

I'm KnighT (from team LighT), but I'm pretty sure I'm going to be renaming to Tilea sometime before the next MLG (my new LighT uniform is already going to have Tilea on the back).

I'll be renaming partly because I don't really the name KnighT and partly because people don't seem to capitalise the T and KnightLighT doesn't look anywhere near as good as KnighTLighT.

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syfSoundwave:

T_T KnighTLighT was so clever though!

[iM MaFia]

This is awesome, but just to confirm... it's the top 2 Australian/SEA players that will qualify from Stage 3 get to go to GZ?

(Since last qualifier had like 4 chinese players)

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LordByrnsy:

yes top 2 from all of sea qualify

[AxSGRiM]

Wait, so can SEA people play too?

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LordByrnsy:

yeah its a SEA tournament

[NvRossi]

any possibility others would like the stage 2 qualifier to be moved to the thursday? i have tickets to a show that tonight and am in quite the predicament!
if its set in stone and or = more work i understand completely, but you do silly things when your desperate!

[Champi]

rock n roll!

[toasti0]

what channel is the tournament or do they contact us directly?

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LordByrnsy:

ESL