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On December 16 2017 03:41 Nerchio wrote:2 additional spots for NA hype meanwhile EU central has 1 spot
Well let's make it a 32 player tournament and double all the slots Really well handled by iem and a better solution than I expected.
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Yay for lizard people, well solved
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Ro16 will still have only 2 from NA. This is a good resolution.
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I appreciate them trying to accommodate everyone and being fair towards the players. Really good save by IEM, hopefully everything works out as planned moving forward.
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Nice save Apollo/Carmac/IEM. That's a really great solution.
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On December 16 2017 03:58 DieuCure wrote: 4 NA, 2 KR, lol
From what I understand the actual ro16 will end up being 2 NA 2 KR anyway
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Good solution thanks to Apollo I assume. Such a great guy. Missing him as a host. I wish we can have him back as a host for BlizzCon 2018.
Will see how this IEM turns out. Not a fan of country/region quota thing.
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On December 16 2017 03:55 ArtyK wrote: Was checking the bracket for EU west qualifier, then central... basically only one top EU will go to korea vs 4 NA players... doesn't sound right...
EU is heavily over-represented compared to normal competition. 5 EU + Stephano. The country manip is real (admittedly, it does give the S Europe and African qualifiers better players).
Only 2 NA players get to be part of the top 16, so the others don't get diluted as a result. But anyways, I think maybe only two qualifiers for EU would have been better with two spots each (find the 5th somehow), but that is the drawback of getting more qualifiers than any other region.
I personally think the only region that will end up being heavily over-represented is South America, but it's also pretty harsh to just go all of that continent gets one person.
All of china gets exactly one spot... you know, the biggest esports country in the world.
Top 20 WSC last year 5 NA, 9 EU, 1 SA, 1 Oceania, 2/3 China, and True.
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On December 16 2017 04:55 curufinwe_wins wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2017 03:55 ArtyK wrote: Was checking the bracket for EU west qualifier, then central... basically only one top EU will go to korea vs 4 NA players... doesn't sound right... EU is heavily over-represented compared to normal competition. 5 EU + Stephano. The country manip is real (admittedly, it does give the S Europe and African qualifiers better players). Only 2 NA players get to be part of the top 16, so the others don't get diluted as a result. But anyways, I think maybe only two qualifiers for EU would have been better with two spots each (find the 5th somehow), but that is the drawback of getting more qualifiers than any other region. All of china gets exactly one spot... you know, the biggest esports country in the world.
My problem is who gets to represent EU because of this, i mean, netherlands is central europe? Like i said only one top EU will be in korea. No offense to the others but 4 of our 5 best are in that central qualifier.
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On December 16 2017 04:39 Fango wrote:From what I understand the actual ro16 will end up being 2 NA 2 KR anyway Yeah they basically extended the NA qualifier and added an offline portion in PyeongChang
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On December 16 2017 04:59 ArtyK wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2017 04:55 curufinwe_wins wrote:On December 16 2017 03:55 ArtyK wrote: Was checking the bracket for EU west qualifier, then central... basically only one top EU will go to korea vs 4 NA players... doesn't sound right... EU is heavily over-represented compared to normal competition. 5 EU + Stephano. The country manip is real (admittedly, it does give the S Europe and African qualifiers better players). Only 2 NA players get to be part of the top 16, so the others don't get diluted as a result. But anyways, I think maybe only two qualifiers for EU would have been better with two spots each (find the 5th somehow), but that is the drawback of getting more qualifiers than any other region. All of china gets exactly one spot... you know, the biggest esports country in the world. My problem is who gets to represent EU because of this, i mean, netherlands is central europe? Like i said only one top EU will be in korea. No offense to the others but 4 of our 5 best are in that central qualifier. Yeah it should have been a combined EU qualifier, but it will be 2 top EU players. Serral and whoever wins Central.
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Or a global one !
But I'm happy that they thought about it
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On December 16 2017 04:59 ArtyK wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2017 04:55 curufinwe_wins wrote:On December 16 2017 03:55 ArtyK wrote: Was checking the bracket for EU west qualifier, then central... basically only one top EU will go to korea vs 4 NA players... doesn't sound right... EU is heavily over-represented compared to normal competition. 5 EU + Stephano. The country manip is real (admittedly, it does give the S Europe and African qualifiers better players). Only 2 NA players get to be part of the top 16, so the others don't get diluted as a result. But anyways, I think maybe only two qualifiers for EU would have been better with two spots each (find the 5th somehow), but that is the drawback of getting more qualifiers than any other region. All of china gets exactly one spot... you know, the biggest esports country in the world. My problem is who gets to represent EU because of this, i mean, netherlands is central europe? Like i said only one top EU will be in korea. No offense to the others but 4 of our 5 best are in that central qualifier.
Serral, Snute both are arguably in that top 5, both in Northern, with Serral advancing.
I'll admit that the Southern Qualifiers were particularly anemic, and the eastern was basically only Bly for any one of note. But the Western didn't look too bad either. Denver has been carving up online, even against top competition, and DNS has really been looking on point as well (not to mention ptitdrogo).
When it comes down to it... only 2 NA players will get to participate in the Ro16, which at best gives 2 of the top 5 there as well.
I'd rather have the top 4 from N+SA, but it is what it is.
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thanks dAppoloooooo
nice; major can stop complaining
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Beautiful resolution of an ugly mistake
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United States97245 Posts
that was the longest few hours of my life
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