dogsi, can i suggest that you start qualifiers in late march- end april. (24 participants can be done over 8 qualifiers; 2 per week.) as well as why not hold the tournament in mid-may? i think July there may be WCG(if it is included etc) which may clash with the players schedules!
I thought WCG was august? I'll have to check on that...
I'm doing it in July basically because I wanted to coincide with the anniversary of SC2.
Also, my wife agrees to me kicking out $300 a month for this "pointless hobby" of mine. So that works out to be about $1,500 by July :-P
Why wait until late March? Less time between qualifiers and the actual tournament?
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