 IGNProLeague April 24 2012 04:10. Posts 1147 | Profile # |
With the recent success of IPL4, we are excited to look to IPL5 and the excitement in store for our third live event. This time around, North America and Europe will have their own qualifier tournaments, and we’ll be adding Asia into the mix as well. Garena, through a partnership with IPL, will be running various online qualifiers through their own outlets and the winners will compete at IPL5.
Over the coming months, the IGN Pro League will be holding 8 regional online qualifiers (4 in North America and 4 in Europe) to decide which teams will earn the honor of playing at IPL5. The winning team from each qualifier will receive an invite, while the rest of the teams are welcome to register again for the following qualifiers in hopes of earning a spot.
Online Qualifier Tournament Format
- 4 qualifiers within each region
- Separate EU and NA tournaments
- 32 Team Bracket
- Best of 3 Matches
- Single Elimination
- $1000 Prize
Seeding Match
Once a team has won each of the 4 qualifiers, a round robin tournament will commence to determine seeding. The top seed coming out of this tournament will have their flight and hotel accommodations paid for, courtesy of the IPL.
Signups for Qualifier 1, NA and EU!
Dates: Opens Monday, April 23, Ends Friday, May 4th
Cost to Enter: $25 Per Team
http://esports.ign.com/lol/ipl5_regional_qualifier_signup
Tournament Schedule
Matches will begin Tuesday, May 8th.
Broadcasts of live qualifier matches will happen Tuesday-Friday
11:00am PDT / 20:00 CEST – EU Tournament Matches
5:00pm PDT / 04:00 CEST – NA Tournament Matches
IPL5 will take place at an undetermined date in the United States, and will have an open qualifier component as well as a championship bracket component. It will have a six figure prize pool!
16 Teams for Championship Bracket
4 North America
4 Europe
4 Asia
Team SoloMid (Winner of IPL4)
3 from Live Event Qualifier
For IPL5, we will be having an open, live qualifier. An undetermined amount of teams (depends on space availability) will be able to buy team passes to participate at the event and possibly earn a spot in the championship bracket and a chance at the huge Grand Prize!
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| Goshawk. United Kingdom. April 24 2012 04:19. Posts 3362 | Profile Blog # |
| Hooray for seperate qualifiers! Great to see, IPL5 should be a truely global event this time. |
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| Vindexus Canada. April 24 2012 04:29. Posts 49 | Profile # |
| Really excited to see EU and NA teams at IPL5. |
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| obsKura Germany. April 24 2012 04:41. Posts 1035 | Profile # |
| yaaaaaay! so stoked for this, already looking great. |
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| Redox Germany. April 24 2012 04:44. Posts 6132 | Profile # |
4 qualifiers within each region
Separate EU and NA tournaments
Friggin perfect. That is exactly what I wanted.
So happy to see how competetive LoL is developing. Things get better and better.
Also, 6 figure prize pool. Wow.
I just hope all teams that qualify can afford the trip to the main event.Last edit: 2012-04-24 04:46:15 |
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| Xacez Sweden. April 24 2012 04:45. Posts 2402 | Profile # |
| Those three from the Live Event Qualifier, would that be an Open Bracket? |
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| IceSin Canada. April 24 2012 04:46. Posts 42 | Profile # |
When it says Asia, which areas of Asia are you talking about?
Hopefully not just in the areas where the Garena servers are.
I really want the Korean/Chinese teams to be able to come |
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| nojitosunrise April 24 2012 05:44. Posts 2344 | Profile # |
| in before locodoco at IPL5 |
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| Soloside United States. April 24 2012 05:45. Posts 701 | Profile # |
| inb4 put against fnatic round 1 again. |
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| locodoco Korea (South). April 24 2012 05:53. Posts 850 | Profile # |
| zzz i hope korea's able to participate :D |
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| freakeh United Kingdom. April 24 2012 06:01. Posts 261 | Profile # |
| If it is at the cosmopolitan again TSM can't go lol :3! |
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| EpicPleasure United States. April 24 2012 06:02. Posts 94 | Profile # |
| If a non-sponsored team manages to win per say, they have to pay their own flight arrangements, yes? |
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| freakeh United Kingdom. April 24 2012 06:02. Posts 261 | Profile # |
On April 24 2012 05:53 locodoco wrote:
zzz i hope korea's able to participate :D
4 Asia, so I think you will  |
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| emucxg Finland. April 24 2012 06:48. Posts 3616 | Profile Blog # |
do no invite Chinese team, 90% of them have visa issues anyways due they dont have stable incomes... (no offense to them, but it sucks when they get the spot and cant come)...
I wish to see more Korean and Taiwanese teams.
Taiwanese Teams are really really good btw. |
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| Soloside United States. April 24 2012 06:57. Posts 701 | Profile # |
On April 24 2012 06:48 emucxg wrote:
do no invite Chinese team, 90% of them have visa issues anyways due they dont have stable incomes... (no offense to them, but it sucks when they get the spot and cant come)...
I wish to see more Korean and Taiwanese teams.
Taiwanese Teams are really really good btw.
it's not due to their instable income, they make quite a lot of money compared to the average person in china. It's more of a visa problem because the chinese government is slow as fuck when approving visas. |
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| emperorchampion Canada. April 24 2012 07:00. Posts 4138 | Profile Blog # |
| Sick, looking forward to a good tourney! |
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| emucxg Finland. April 24 2012 07:07. Posts 3616 | Profile Blog # |
On April 24 2012 06:57 Soloside wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 06:48 emucxg wrote:
do no invite Chinese team, 90% of them have visa issues anyways due they dont have stable incomes... (no offense to them, but it sucks when they get the spot and cant come)...
I wish to see more Korean and Taiwanese teams.
Taiwanese Teams are really really good btw.
it's not due to their instable income, they make quite a lot of money compared to the average person in china. It's more of a visa problem because the chinese government is slow as fuck when approving visas.
wat, chinese government never approve visas, the foreign embassies do.
foreign embassies doesnt like chinese because half of them have immigrant intent (fake marriage, illegal immigrant, spying, illegal employment)...Last edit: 2012-04-24 07:07:36 |
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| Soloside United States. April 24 2012 07:37. Posts 701 | Profile # |
On April 24 2012 07:07 emucxg wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 06:57 Soloside wrote:
On April 24 2012 06:48 emucxg wrote:
do no invite Chinese team, 90% of them have visa issues anyways due they dont have stable incomes... (no offense to them, but it sucks when they get the spot and cant come)...
I wish to see more Korean and Taiwanese teams.
Taiwanese Teams are really really good btw.
it's not due to their instable income, they make quite a lot of money compared to the average person in china. It's more of a visa problem because the chinese government is slow as fuck when approving visas.
wat, chinese government never approve visas, the foreign embassies do. foreign embassies doesnt like chinese because half of them have immigrant intent (fake marriage, illegal immigrant, spying, illegal employment)...
Chinese government has the final say in whether or not teams like Ehome or iG(CCM) or whatever can go. They just need to send/push their applications before hand. Once they get the visa approved for the US, which is generally (12 months) they're free to come and go. |
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| DanielZKlein United States. April 24 2012 08:06. Posts 573 | Profile # |
| This is so cool! I am excited |
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