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**sixcube** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 10:47 AM

Asia and Oceania Qualifier

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IEM Season VIII - World Championship Katowice -
- Europe & Africa Qualifier -
- America Qualifier -
- Official Intel Extreme Masters website -

With ten spots reserved for IEM winners and first runner-ups, the final sixteen are far from decided. A further two players will be invited, leaving four spots open to the StarCraft II community.

The best player from Asia and Oceania will qualify for the World Championship in Katowice. See below how to,

Restrictions

There is no nationality or residential restriction
You must be at least 16 years of age by March 13th 2014 (the date of the LAN event)
Hotel and flight cost are paid for in full by ESL.
The tournament will be played on the Korea/Taiwan Server

Qualifier
Schedule : February 06 2014 17:00 KST
Signup here : Signup
Confirmed Participants : Participants
Bracket : Bracket

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**Baldie** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 11:00 AM

Gotta cut through them Korean ranks!

**Eddie** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 12:43 PM

Sad we are bundled in with Korea again

But the harder the challenge the more glorious the triumph! Good luck guys

**Baldie** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 2:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eddie

Sad we are bundled in with Korea again

But the harder the challenge the more glorious the triumph! Good luck guys

Hard to justify having a SEA only qualifier for a $100,000 championship finals Eddie - let alone being invited to compete in a qualifier!

**Eddie** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 2:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baldie

Hard to justify having a SEA only qualifier for a $100,000 championship finals Eddie - let alone being invited to compete in a qualifier!

My bad. I was mistaking this for Cologne. Didn't realise final was so close!

**PiG** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 2:46 PM

Can't sign up it wants my KR bnet profile added to my ESL account. Bnet profiles are bugging and won't load. (not sure I'd know how to find the KR bnet profile I'll be playing on as bnet is a mess since global play confused all the accounts under my email.

Opened a support ticket on ESL, hoping that works.

Quick Comments

LordByrnsy:

try googling your bnet acct.. that works for me sometimes

eCKoa`ProzeR · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 3:33 PM

Aw man, I just turned 15 last month T-T sad.

**ToR.Arnor** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 5:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sixcube

The best player from Asia and Oceania will qualify for the World Championship in Katowice.

I read that as:

"SEA, Oceania, CN and TW, dont waste your time on us, we're not wasting it on you"

**Baldie** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 6:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ToR.Arnor

dont waste your time on us, we're not wasting it on you"

Why the hostility? I think it's amazing they are even holding qualifiers for the championship finals given the currently qualified players had to win or come second at a previous IEM let alone providing an opportunity for us. Sure it will be a meat grinder but what do you expect it's the championship finals. They don't owe us anything.

**ToR.Arnor** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 6:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baldie

Why the hostility? I think it's amazing they are even holding qualifiers for the championship finals given the currently qualified players had to win or come second at a previous IEM let alone providing an opportunity for us. Sure it will be a meat grinder but what do you expect it's the championship finals. They don't owe us anything.

Actually 4/6 of the IEM qualifiers this year have been a "meat grinder" (aka a waste of time), no hostility just the honest truth, the event already has 6/16 Koreans and very likely to be 8/16 after Cologne, itd be nice to see a "World Championship" actually be represented by well the world. I will say this is slightly better in that they are not wasting everyone outside of Korea this time by not have regional qualifiers that feed into "Asia" finals. Of course they dont owe me anything nor do I owe them anything.

**x5_dot** · Tue, 4th-Feb-2014, 7:28 PM

I think what IEM does is great. Paying flights and accommodation to players is a huge step up from what they used to do. And what we've received from them is perfectly fair given the size of our region. We got great opportunities for the local ones, just as IEMs closer to Europe etc provide more opportunities for their players. Not sure why you're so negative.... I remember a time no one bothered asking for IEM qualifiers because no one in this region could afford to go.

TtSYF.tRoy · Thu, 6th-Feb-2014, 4:53 PM

Apparently this is completely open meaning American and Europeans can also compete in this event.
Bit sad that there aren't any region specific qualifiers