[Dox]

Last time we saw a bunch of our guys take a swing at the Winter Arena Qualifiers. Some did well, some did not so well. Others got screwed over pretty severely. The site was broken, the brackets were bugged and the admins were less than ideally responsive. We can only assume that all of these issues have now been resolved, so cheer on our SEA reps as they'll be firing up in less than 30 minutes!

iM.MaFia
Nv.deth
Tt.PiG
Nv.Rossi
Nv.mOOnGLaDe

SCHEDULE
Thursday, 28th June: UB1, UB2, UB3, LB1, LB2
Friday, 29th June: UB4, UB5, LB3, LB4, LB5
Saturday, 30th June: LB6, LB7, LB8

I'll be updating this thread throughout the day with matches and results, although I'm pretty sure you can access the brackets via this link.

UB ROUND 1
Nv.mOOnGLaDe > Jeppeh
Tt.PiG > BYE
Nv.Rossi > BYE
iM.Mafia > GHST.xjet
Nv.deth > P3.Pulse


UB ROUND 2
Nv.mOOnGLaDe > Nv.Rossi
Tt.PiG > LgN.Karmy
iM.Mafia > GoSu.wbc
EG.iNcontroL > Nv.deth


UB ROUND 3
Tt.PiG > Nv.mOOnGLaDe
iM.Mafia > Hendralisk


UB ROUND 4
Tt.PiG > Area51.AnDa
iM.Mafia > aiR.siRobin


UB ROUND 5
nYq.Bonk > Tt.PiG
iM.Mafia vs Webz


LB ROUND 2
Nv.Rossi > WizzMaTiKk
Nv.deth > Gasaraki


LB ROUND 3
Nv.deth > cmalafis
Nv.Rossi > LgN.Karmy


LB ROUND 4
Nv.mOOnGLaDe > Gojira
Nv.Rossi > iP.Ajax
Nv.deth > bb.Shew


LB ROUND 5
Nv.mOOnGLaDe > LgN.avilo
Nv.deth > Future
d.KiLLeR > Nv.Rossi


LB ROUND 6
ecco > Nv.mOOnGLaDe
Nv.deth > EG.DeMusliM



LB ROUND 7
Nv.deth > Area51.AnDa


LB ROUND 8
EG.iNcontroL > Tt.PiG
Nv.deth > coL.Ryze



iM.MaFia has advanced to the next stage of the tournament!
Nv.deth has also advanced to the next stage of the tournament!




SUMMER ARENA INVITE-ONLY QUALIFIER (Stage 2)
UB ROUND 1
Binksi.LighT > iM.Mafia


LB ROUND 2
iM.Mafia > KawaiiRice.LighT


LB ROUND 3
iM.Mafia > d.SeleCT


LB ROUND 4
EG.HuK > iM.Mafia

Here's the entire qualifier format, since the "qualifier for a qualifier" thing seems to confuse people.

Open Bracket (This event)
* 128 Players
* Top 8 Advance to the Summer Arena Invite-Only Qualifier

Summer Arena Qualifier
* Europe (June 25-27) --- Top 9 Advance to MLG Summer Arena
* North America (June 30-July 1) --- Top 6 Advance to MLG Summer Arena
* Korea/Taiwan (July1-2) --- Top 9 Advance to MLG Summer Arena

MLG Summer Arena
* August 24th - August 26th in Raleigh, North Carolina
* Players who qualify for the Summer Arena via an Invite-Only Online Qualifier will receive a 4 night hotel stay.
* Australian participants will have at least a portion of their travel costs paid for.

Quick Comments

	Asrathiel:	Oh god I hope it's better than last time!
	cRSenSei:	Goodluck boys!!!
	breadfan:	Glade deserves some bullshit walkovers granted in his favour as compensation
	deL:	YEAH BOIIIIIIIII
	inFeZa:	ENJOY YOUR POSITIVE REP. OH WAIT LOL

[BAD.BiGbiRd]

Yeah SEA Protoss fighting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wait...........

Good luck guys, do work

[Asrathiel]

GLHF everyone!

No stream we can watch?

[breadfan]

I am so stoked for this, I'm just going to be spamming F5 on this page all day.

Want to buy replays please, will pay in sweet tender lovin'.

[Dox]

Event page says, "There is no stream for this tournament."

*shrug*

Quick Comments

	Asrathiel:	Ah well :(
	ToR.Arnor:	Mafia, Glade and PiG to stream ^_^

[inFeZa]

lets hope the admins don't go full retard like last time...

Quick Comments

breadfan:

NEVER go full retard.

[NOM]

I get to see a stream .
Only deth's matches though.

[x5_dot]

Go SEA!!

[mGGDrGooSe]

Are they all smurfs? Besides beastyqt and incontrol, Killer, i dont recognise anyone

Quick Comments

	Asrathiel:	...says everyone else about our people too :P
	Dox:	Ryze, Attero, Future, wbc, Gojira, Jim, and quite a few other players worth noting

[Another]

is this the invite only qualifier thingy? or is it open to everyone or is it a pay to enter?

Quick Comments

mGGDrGooSe:

It says its open, but might be a bit late by now?

[breadfan]

It looks like it's open, but that might just be the website. That would explain why there are so many unknowns. Based on that list, I foresee all 5 of the SEA guys in the top 10.

[iMSystem]

Want me to fire up the stream and follow the SEA guys?

Got nothing else to do

Quick Comments

x5_dot:

:D

[Dox]

Rules say it's not allowed. :[

(Rules are shared via e-mail)

8. Only Tournament Officials may connect to a Game as an observer. Inviting someone other than a Tournament Official to observe a Match may result in a Forfeit of the Game.

MLG invited 2 players from our team, with me purchasing 1 additional slot for Rossi via the MLG store.

Quick Comments

iMSystem:

Aw, I could'nt find the rules saying no :(

[mGGDrGooSe]

See, if tgun were playing, at least he would still stream his own games regardless of the 'rules' :P

[Dox]

I'm pretty sure players are allowed to stream their own games, at their own risk. The issue is just with having non-admins in games.

[iMSystem]

Well in that case, I will be collecting all the replays from today and do a stream of all the games tomorrow!

Good luck today guys! ^_^

[Asrathiel]

Originally Posted by mGGDrGooSe

See, if tgun were playing, at least he would still stream his own games regardless of the 'rules' :P

Pretty sure they can stream themselves. Just no other obs in there for streaming or any other purposes.

[iM MaFia]

i get random lag when i stream, so i try not to as much just for ladder and some minor tourneys

Quick Comments

AsylumofSouls:

had much fun watching your stream last time :( Good luck Mafia :D

[mGGDrGooSe]

rossi v glade round 2 with the winner playing pig... MF'ers

Brackets look like double elim though at least

[inFeZa]

Originally Posted by mGGDrGooSe

rossi v glade round 2 with the winner playing pig... MF'ers

Brackets look like double elim though at least

SEA is the Unluckiest place on Earth.....

[JoFritzMD]

Any updates? I can't see their website because i'm at work and I only have IE to use as a browser and MLG website doesn't support IE.

[Dox]

Originally Posted by JoFritzMD

Any updates? I can't see their website because i'm at work and I only have IE to use as a browser and MLG website doesn't support IE.

Checked the OP? :P

[PiG]

karmy tried to prism allin my main with ff on my ramp on the advice of his teammate who took a few games off me the other week. He didn't even get out of the prism before i was under it with roachling and he just ggd and said he had to go so I got easy win yay

Quick Comments

	iMSystem:	+1
	breadfan:	woooooooooop gogo PiG hwaiting
	Asrathiel:	Woowoo :D
	x5_dot:	go babe!
	deL:	taste of your own medicine! :p
	mGGDaedalus:	you weren't winning, he just had to be somewhere :p

[NOM]

deth is on his first match to a dude that doesn't know how to add players into game.

Quick Comments

	breadfan:	Gamesmanship - prob some korean smurf. Best he be wary
	x5_dot:	lol!

[nirvAnA]

Brackets don't seem that stacked, I think SEA players have a good opportunity to go far today!

The "top" players would be beastyqt, Killer, Ryze, Future, wbc ? Imo most of the SEA players are favorites versus them.

Quick Comments

aLtNinja:

beastyqt on another level to those players tbh

[Dox]

Especially since half of them are killing eachother before the 4th round!!!

[breadfan]

Any info on qualifiers? Like, how deep do they have to go to win a spot in the arena?

Quick Comments

Asrathiel:

Was just wondering that too

[Dox]

Originally Posted by breadfan

Any info on qualifiers? Like, how deep do they have to go to win a spot in the arena?

Top 6 advance to the next round. (Qualifier of a qualifier)

Quick Comments

breadfan:

ty

[NOM]

@breadfan
Nah totes not, he almost won the game after the 8-9min mark until his pc blue-screened.

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by NOM

@breadfan
Nah totes not, he almost won the game after the 8-9min mark until his pc blue-screened.

Oucchhhh... What's the deal with that? Replay the game I hope!

[JoFritzMD]

Originally Posted by Dox

Checked the OP? :P

I refreshed a few times and saw nothing in the OP, so I posted and then had to move to a new computer and the OP had a bunch of results posted. Perfect timing.

I'm not sure whether I'll get in trouble if I try to download and install another browser so I can keep an eye on this while at work. So tempted though.

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

do it!!!!!!!

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by JoFritzMD

I refreshed a few times and saw nothing in the OP, so I posted and then had to move to a new computer and the OP had a bunch of results posted. Perfect timing.

I'm not sure whether I'll get in trouble if I try to download and install another browser so I can keep an eye on this while at work. So tempted though.

There's nothing to see. They aren't updating brackets or anything. Dox's post is the best source of infomation about this tournament on the entire internet.

[JoFritzMD]

Originally Posted by breadfan

There's nothing to see. They aren't updating brackets or anything. Dox's post is the best source of infomation about this tournament on the entire internet.

Too late, already downloaded firefox and am eagerly refreshing despite knowing nothing is going to happen

[NOM]

deth won 1st round. Realised he played against a bronzie that I remember defeating. XD

Quick Comments

	Asrathiel:	O_o seriously?
	Dox:	rawr
	breadfan:	pass on grats to Deth plz!

[syfChadMann]

sucks that Rossi and GLaDe have to team kill round 2..

[PiG]

I won against glade 2-0. Bracket continues tomorrow. I will most likely have to play Beastyqt. If anyone has any information from the last 10 days (no more) on his tvz playstyle please PM me!

Quick Comments

	TCPLemminks:	He all-killed FXO.CiS a few days ago
	Dingobloo:	Also played against Stephano and Morrow in NASL the last 2 weeks GL!
	ToR.Arnor:	GLGL <3
	syfChadMann:	I think Cam hit him on NA ladder.. ?
	TAEdgE:	he 15 CC's
	nirvAnA:	he is part beast, part qty!

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by PiG

I won against glade 2-0. Bracket continues tomorrow. I will most likely have to play Beastyqt. If anyone has any information from the last 10 days (no more) on his tvz playstyle please PM me!

It's always a shame when this clash goes uncasted.

[mOOnGLaDe]

bed time for me

Quick Comments

	Asrathiel:	Have some hugs ♥
	ToR.Arnor:	BL mate :( smash up dat LB !
	nirvAnA:	yup smash up that LB!

[x5_Potter]

What is it with US tourneys and matching up SEA players as much as possible v_v That Fenner vs Fourby first round TSL match last night was retarded lol

[MrSandman]

Edit: nvm didn't check the full op

[Zealo]

why no Tgun? :S

goodluck all the SEA guys

[Dox]

Day 1 finished, all results updated in the OP.

[Maynarde]

Whoah good results so far, Mafia and PiG kicking ass along with deth and Rossi. As much as I love the band Gojira and their latest album I have a feeling they will go down to Glade.

Shame about the brackets, but good to see a good number of dudes still in it after Day 1.

[breadfan]

Awesome showing by SEA reps - everyone still alive in the tournament after three rounds, and the only losses at the hands of other SEA reps and EG.iNcontrol, who is apparently some sort of MLG mainstay or something

Anyway, good luck lads, I'm confident that everyone will go deeper!

[PiG]

woah who the hell is area51Anda. He 2-1 beastyQT and 2-0 the guy that beat Dkiller

I thought Area51 was like a C-grade NA team?

Ah well ZvT here I come

Quick Comments

Dox:

press Q and win :D

[Dox]

Updated with the first matches of today. Everyone is on a roll!

[HexRaioh]

3 thing,
A) Is the bracket working for anyone else? I see the bracket but not the result, like the bracket is still only showing the first round?
B) What are the rounds do you qualify?
C) Congratulation Mafia! SEA Reping!

[Dox]

Today is finished, the final rounds will be played out tomorrow morning between deth, GLaDe and PiG.

To answer the above post:
A) Only participants who are logged in can see the bracket
B) The 5th round of the Upper Bracket and 8th round of the Lower Bracket

[SLCN.Kez]

sea fighting!!! gratz mafia

[TCPLemminks]

Send Mafia to MLG!!! Gotten insanely good.
Also everyone else is on a roll , though bad luck to Rossi

[NOM]

Congrats Mafia

[TAriiChard]

**** yeah mafia!!

[inFeZa]

Grats Mafia! So which Qualifier does he go into? NA or KR?

[Dox]

Originally Posted by SQL.inFeZa

Grats Mafia! So which Qualifier does he go into? NA or KR?

This is an NA qualifier...

[inFeZa]

Originally Posted by Dox

This is an NA qualifier...

oh it just says open bracket in the OP

[deL]

Nice work Timhe!

Kinda odd that demuslim is in the brackets now, I thought we agreed yesterday that he didn't make it in time? o.O sorcery afoot?

[HexRaioh]

Thanks Dox! You the man!
Why does it say Glades already out? I thought those rounds were being played tomorrow?

[Dox]

Originally Posted by HexRaioh

Thanks Dox! You the man!
Why does it say Glades already out? I thought those rounds were being played tomorrow?

His opponent hosted up the game and they played today anyway, unaware of the schedule. He lost.

[HexRaioh]

They should have to regame or something!

[NvRossi]

Originally Posted by HexRaioh

They should have to regame or something!

lol he lost fairly, they mentioned many times that you can play prior to the schedule if your both online.

[mGGDaedalus]

Mafia why you such a bouse

[NDG.Stitch]

Oh damn deth vs DeMuSliM! GOGOGOGO DETH YOU CAN DO THIS FOR SEA!

[TCPKerO]

OMG If deth gets through 2 Aussies qualifying FTW D. Would be so amazing to see them on stream.

Quick Comments

ToR.Arnor:

PiG is still in it! need to win 1 more set

[PiG]

Just to clarify bonq is a turd who decided to take a win when I disconnected. I had ridiculous lag anyway so doubtful I could have won. But still a bitch move on his part.

Will be playing the next few rounds from cityhunter where the connection is more stable. All the rain has screwed my home connection

Quick Comments

	ToRSpartaz:	<3
	Asrathiel:	Ahh that sucks :(
	mGGDaedalus:	that sucks man :(

[Flaunt]

badluck pig . was rooting for you! STX told me you're a scary Zerg to play against haha

Quick Comments

PiG:

haha we would go prettty even in games before this imba patch :)

[PiG]

I forfeited vs Incontrol.

I woke up to fine internet. My last practice game before I could play him I started getting 500ms again. Spent over an hour on the phone to net company (still on to them trying to sort this shit out). Fixing my home net is most important so I can train for ACL and GESC next weekend. My performance in the tokyo qualifiers last night shows that playing from an internet cafe surrounded by screaming idiots and security alarms going off is not an ideal place to play tournaments/practice seriously. Shame the private rooms have such big monitors at cityhunter I guess I'll take the bigger screen next time over screaming morons. Hmmm maybe this should be a blog about why Australian internet is fkn retarded but I've already written one of those in the past.

Gl to the guys left in this!

Quick Comments

Pox:

:(

[Dox]

bl man, our internet has always stunted the success of Australian gamers.

On the bright side, deth has also qualified alongside Mafia!

[TAriiChard]

GO TA!! =) oh and iM and Nv!

Quick Comments

	syfChadMann:	TA! TA! TA!
	inFeZa:	TA BM

[ETL.ViTaL]

SEA fighting!

[ToRSpookToR]

wow nice work guys glad you beat demuslim deth he whines a bit...

[syfSoundwave]

deth is underrated even among SEA IMO.

[ROOT`iaguz]

fine work gentlemen, not bad at all.

[AxSGRiM]

deth... why are u so ******* good.

[xGKingdelete]

congrats guys!

and wow @pig, that really sucks

[NOM]

So proud of my deth, I was cooking him some epic lunch while he was playing against Ryze. Loved hearing his excitement when he won both matches through the lounge-room.

[syfMiley]

Originally Posted by NOM

So proud of my deth, I was cooking him some epic lunch while he was playing against Ryze. Loved hearing his excitement when he won both matches through the lounge-room.

Good lunch and good games, what more could you ask for.
Too bad Ryze can play 100x better than deth. (according to him)

[ROOT`iaguz]

I'll also bet Ryze shits roses and pisses fine wine too.

[inFeZa]

Grats to those who qualified! Big step for SEA, Hope at least one of you can make it in

[Dox]

The next round for deth/Mafia resumed at 2:30AM today, but I was asleep and unable to track the games. According to deth, he waited until 6:30AM and still hadn't played a game, so he went to bed.

EDIT: Looks like he's been walked over now, and is in the lower bracket where DDE is waiting to play him.

[iM MaFia]

net has been extremely laggy since i started playing unreal...

went 1-2 to binsk
then 2-1 kawai

first game vs dSeleCT i take a pretty big lead and my net d/c's i log back on and its a forfeit game 1


EDIT: SeleCT changed his mind and wants to replay game 1, guess thats the fair thing to do

[inFeZa]

Originally Posted by iM Mafia

net has been extremely laggy since i started playing unreal...

went 1-2 to binsk
then 2-1 kawai

first game vs dSeleCT i take a pretty big lead and my net d/c's i log back on and its a forfeit game 1


EDIT: SeleCT changed his mind and wants to replay game 1, guess thats the fair thing to do

That's very nice of select. 좋아요

[Dox]

What a great guy! Good luck man! Freakin' Aussie internet.

Quick Comments

inFeZa:

Bush internets

[NOM]

-___- Bloody MLG. I don't like getting woken up at 6:30 and finding out the tournament hasn't even started?
It would of been much better if they did it the same time as the other qualifier.

edit: i could poke him with a stick and wake him up but he didn't have any motivation to play his games.

[dippa]

Originally Posted by NOM

edit: i could poke him with a stick and wake him up but he didn't have any motivation to play his games.

sounds like a plan

[iM MaFia]

im getting really lucky..just 2-1'd select and still lagging T____________T

3 out of my 4 losses have been to 11/11 so far

I have HuK next T________T

[Peleus]

It's official, if I ever face mafia in a tourny again I'm switching to Terran and 11/11ing

[Dox]

glglglgl mafia!

[DUCKVILLELOL]

GLGL you can do it Mafia!

[Dox]

Originally Posted by DUCKVILLELOL

GLGL you can do it Mafia!

He's already out lol

[Sephyre]

Pretty decent showing though

[DUCKVILLELOL]

Great stuff Mafia!

[Fairyking]

Looking forward to watching Deth!

[Dox]

Originally Posted by Roage

Looking forward to watching Deth!

He waited 4 hours, still couldn't get a game, went to sleep, got walked over a few hours later.

Quick Comments

Asrathiel:

*sigh* And the opponent he waited four hours for didn't get walked over why? :(

[|Erasmus|]

Originally Posted by Dox

He waited 4 hours, still couldn't get a game, went to sleep, got walked over a few hours later.

MLG Admins strike again!

[ikki]

Originally Posted by Dox

He waited 4 hours, still couldn't get a game, went to sleep, got walked over a few hours later.

BL Deth, why dont MLG have a 15 minute rule?

[EXCL]

Originally Posted by Dox

He waited 4 hours, still couldn't get a game, went to sleep, got walked over a few hours later.

wow how pathetic...

[ETL.ViTaL]

that really sucks

[PiG]

MLG are developing quite the reputation in these sort of tournaments. A few of my NA buddies didn't even bother playing cos they knew it wouldn't be worth the trouble of waiting around for hours on end.

[TAEaeron]

so does Deth still have games to play? From what I can read he got shafted big time.

Quick Comments

Dox:

nope, walked over

[mOOnGLaDe]

yeah these tournaments are retarded

[Sent1nel]

WOW!

Seriously who were the administrators for this event? It's time to order some heads on a pike!

[Asrathiel]

Originally Posted by Sent1nel

Seriously who were the administrators for this event? It's time to order some heads on a pike!

Indeed.

Did anyone ever get a response from MLG last time, apart from Sundance saying on twitter that he'd 'look into it'?

Quick Comments

iMSystem:

I seriously doubt it :(

[Dox]

Nooooooooooope

Quick Comments

Asrathiel:

Fuckers