2018 IEM PyeongChang qualifiers and details - Page 2
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Duckman
United States158 Posts
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JackONeill
861 Posts
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geokilla
Canada8162 Posts
Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America? | ||
lechatnoir
361 Posts
On November 30 2017 05:02 geokilla wrote: Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America? Kelagod? | ||
MrWayne
219 Posts
On November 30 2017 05:02 geokilla wrote: 5 for Europe but only 2 for Korea is pretty ridiculous in my opinion. Don't understand the need to separate into 5 different regions of Europe. Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America? If Mexico is counted as SA country, as in WCS, Cham, SpeCial and Kelazhur to name just three. | ||
DieuCure
France3713 Posts
On November 30 2017 05:17 MrWayne wrote: If Mexico is counted as SA country, as in WCS, Cham, SpeCial and Kelazhur to name just three. No, Mexico with NA. | ||
Nakajin
Canada8759 Posts
On November 30 2017 05:02 geokilla wrote: 5 for Europe but only 2 for Korea is pretty ridiculous in my opinion. Don't understand the need to separate into 5 different regions of Europe. Also two for South America? Who is a pro from South America? Kelazur and Erik are the most high profile, but you have BLord, Catz, Killer, Smile, and probably some others. Erik is actually pretty good as far as I remember him from Nation wars but he is always in a direct competition with Kelagod for one spot to qualify, or with the Mexicans for 2 or 3 spots, so we don't see him often. Edit: HalfBreed, ByRada, Jarppi and Eggz also seems pretty good according to their Copa and Chalenger results, but they always lose to one of top guys, Kelazhur, Cham, or Major.SA with Mexico is probably stronger then NA (at least at the top). We need Topin to give more inside information about the SA scene | ||
Nerchio
Poland2633 Posts
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On November 30 2017 05:36 Nerchio wrote: I am tired of events being announced 2 weeks in advance Only one week for some regions. :/ Combined with the winter holidays, there will probably be at least a few players unable to participate. | ||
SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
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Jeremy Reimer
Canada968 Posts
On November 30 2017 04:52 JackONeill wrote: Initially read "IEM Pyongyang" That would be quite the tournament! | ||
ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On November 30 2017 07:11 Jeremy Reimer wrote: That would be quite the tournament! It would be one way to enforce region-lock. | ||
CosmoK
339 Posts
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Fango
United Kingdom8797 Posts
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Boggyb
2855 Posts
2 slots to SA when there is only 1 quality player from the region? (Kelazhur) 5 for Europe? South Korea should have at least 4 slots. | ||
IArako
Germany194 Posts
On November 30 2017 01:06 DieuCure wrote: IMO : 2 spots for South America and 5 Europe = waste All of those players will be better than NA/Asia east+west/oceania players except Neeb so why are exactly these waste? That makes no sense. Ofc Korea should have more based on playerstrength but im fine with the regional system | ||
Boggyb
2855 Posts
On November 30 2017 08:50 IArako wrote: All of those players will be better than NA/Asia east+west/oceania players except Neeb so why are exactly these waste? That makes no sense. Ofc Korea should have more SpeCial is an NA player. He's probably a top 4 non-Korean player, so there definitely aren't 2 SA and 5 Europeans better than him. | ||
LDaVinci
France130 Posts
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breaker1328
Canada294 Posts
S.Korea gets one player for their region and likely the second player is for being the "host country." Five players from Europe also makes sense given their population density and the number of countries these players need to represent. I'm fine with the player distribution. Whichever Korean ends up going to this thing is probably going to win it anyway and if you really need to get your Korean SC2 fix then just watch their qualifiers and skip the main tournament. | ||
breaker1328
Canada294 Posts
On November 30 2017 08:45 Boggyb wrote: 2 slots to NA when there are only 3 quality players from the region? (Neeb, SpeCial, and Cham) 2 slots to SA when there is only 1 quality player from the region? (Kelazhur) 5 for Europe? South Korea should have at least 4 slots. NA: Neeb, SpeCial, Cham, Scarlett, and possibly MaSa have a chance to win qualifying spots. Probably not the best set of players but definitely enough to justify 2 spots. EU: I don't want to list all of them but look at the Ro16 from the WESG qualifiers. There's enough quality there to justify 5 spots. SA: I agree with you. Aside from Kelazhur I don't know anyone else good enough to deserve that second spot. Not to mention the fact that the Africa slot is going to go to a European anyway so.... | ||
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