WCS eu qualifiers

GosuIrish

just in case anyone wants to give this a go there will 4 qualifiers for eu and unlike the NA one it is free to give it a go

http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/wcs/news/218922/

Grimebox

Are the Korean invites obliged to take their invites? Could be a fast track to the finals but could also rule them out of future GSL's

Jong Hyun 'Mvp' Jung (LG-IM)
Seong Won 'MMA' Mun (Acer)
Ji Soo 'ForGG' Park (Millenium)

"By participating in the European WCS Premier Division, players are not allowed to participate in another region for all seasons of 2013."

Grimebox

2 players qualify from 512 in the open brackets. Variance is gonna bite someone in the ass

GosuIrish

Those Koreans have already made the choice to play Eu and cannot play any gsl/osl this year

also i think this is only the qualifier for premier aka code S eu version , there will be another set later on for challenger league which is same as code A and i think that will have 16 spots to fill

Anyone that actually wins these will defiently earn it lol

GosuIrish

Here the full list of already invited players http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/9447314/Season_1_Premier_League_Player_List-4_10_2013
and here is the list for invited or player who are going to try and qualify for NA you can see why there not happy:
LG-IM_NesTea
Azubu.viOLet
Quantic.TheStC
Quantic.HyuN
Quantic.Center
Liquid`TaeJa
Liquid`HerO
Liquid`Zenio
EG.JYP.RC
EG.aLive.RC
EG.Oz.RC
EG.Jaedong.RC
EG.Revival.RC
AX.Miya
AX.Ryung
AX.Heart
AX.Alicia
AX.CranK
ROOT.Sage
CMStorm_Polt

Grimebox

There is only 8 additional spots available in the open bracket. Some of them won't make the cut.

This is disastrous to be honest. I was hoping to see more foreigners duking it out and the finals being were the koreans dominate; but it looks like NA is going to be full of koreans and its going to badly dilute the GSL as the top worldwide competition

GosuIrish

8 spots for premier , alot will of them will end up making challenger tho , then some likes teaja and mc who already played code s got to wait till season and tru and make it , eu looks alot more exciting to me then NA alot of top eu players and a few top koreans mixed in too

murphzor

Where's unholygregor when you need him? He'd win the whole thing.

Grimebox

murphzor wrote: »

Where's unholygregor when you need him? He'd win the whole thing.

He's still waiting on that surgery to get his head out of his ass

GosuIrish

seems like esl screwed over alot of people with the 2nd one , moved time for checkin by 1 hour and made bracket half the size without telling anyone

SeantheMan

Grimebox wrote: »

There is only 8 additional spots available in the open bracket. Some of them won't make the cut.

This is disastrous to be honest. I was hoping to see more foreigners duking it out and the finals being were the koreans dominate; but it looks like NA is going to be full of koreans and its going to badly dilute the GSL as the top worldwide competition

The current GSL season contains players that are as good if not better than all the above players. Only a few of them would make Code S,

I've subscribed to this season of GSL.
The likes of Squirtle, Rain, DRG, MC, MKP and Creator couldn't even make it out of Ro32 - the rest of them are that good.

Innovation is amazing !

SeantheMan

Holy **** !!!!!

1 of the groups drawn for the Ro16 - never seen such a Group of Death ever

Flash
Innovation
Parting
Life

Free to watch here http://www.gomtv.net/2013wcs1/vod/72032

GosuIrish

lets see if life can shock me again

SeantheMan

May 2nd , mark it down ! Best group I've ever seen, I can't wait ! , and being commented on by my favourite casters (Tastosis)
Perfect day !

LQ is free if you watch it live ...it'll be on from about 9am(ish) I think, I've already subscribed though so can see the VODs later.

GosuIrish

Since GSL is now wcs blizz have made them offer free 720 on there site and twitch , will be 10.10am

SeantheMan

GosuIrish wrote: »

Since GSL is now wcs blizz have made them offer free 720 on there site and twitch , will be 10.10am

Yeah, it's only Live though isn't it ? You're fecked if you try to find VODs.
More often than not I was in school/work/bed whenever it was on so always had to watch VODs....and stay away from Reddit or Teamliquid where they post spoilers of everything

GosuIrish

Yes just live for HD gotta pay for vods and live 1080 ,

SeantheMan

So did anyone watch GSL Group today ?
Just finished with teh whole thing now, Amazing - and disappointing.
Disappointed with the outcome , but the games themselves were of the highest quality.

To be expected I suppose from the best group for SC2 in any tournament ever !

Grimebox

How do you watch them again? I missed WCS EU and would like to watch Nania v TLO

GSL was unreal earlier. Every game was top notch

SeantheMan

Grimebox wrote: »

How do you watch them again? I missed WCS EU and would like to watch Nania v TLO

GSL was unreal earlier. Every game was top notch

It's not up yet Grimebox,

But it will probably be at some stage tomorrow.
You should be able to find ALL the VOD's here

http://www.twitch.tv/wcs_europe/videos

Best way to find VODs for any specific tournament btw...is

1. E.g take the WCS Europe ,, go to teamliquid , find it under events
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments

2. Select the Tab you want, to Premier League in the WCS Europe, Scroll down to the groups or brackets
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2013_WCS_Season_1_Europe/Premier

3. At the top of each is an icon of a "tv" , which is a link to any VODs available

This is the same for GSL, MLG etc, they will link you to the vods, but it may be the case that you had to be a subscriber to view them

Shiminay

Watched NaNiwa/TLO last night, great result for TLO - he had NaNi tilted.

Gutted I didn't see the Korean "Group of Death" - was watching State of the Game last night (Kaelaris, Tod and QXC as guests) and the lads were all raving about Parting and Innovation.

As an aside, I'm enjoying Kaelaris and Tod as a casting pair for WCS Europe.

Grimebox

Thanks. I constantly use liquipedia but had no idea you could access VOD's through it

SeantheMan

Shiminay wrote: »

Gutted I didn't see the Korean "Group of Death" - was watching State of the Game last night (Kaelaris, Tod and QXC as guests) and the lads were all raving about Parting and Innovation.

If you really want to see it Shiminay, PM me.
I'll give you my GSL GomTV account to use for the weekend, you can watch the VODs in HQ

There's a good 3-4 hours watching involved

GosuIrish

I tried waking up for gsl but my body just said No , Really liking wcs eu so far too , it on at a time where there normally not much for sc2 going on glad there finally got a co-caster for Kaelaris liking the pairing so far really interested to see what they do for Ro16 on when all players will be at the studio to play