[LordByrnsy]

EDIT:

Congratulations to iMMafia and NvmOOnGLaDe!
They passed the grueling tests of qualification to fight their way into IEM Guangzhou where they will get to represent SEA!
Good luck to the both of them!



Greetings my lovely sc2seaians!

I am pleased to announce that ESL SEA will be running qualifiers for IEM Guangzhou.

The qualifiers are split into three stages.

Stage One: Four open bracket qualifiers with the top two places of each bracket seeded into Stage 2

Stage Two: One double elimination bracket with 8 pro and semi pro players seeded straight in and 8 players from Stage 1. The top four players from this stage will then proceed to Stage 3.

Stage Three: One final double elimination style bracket with four of the top SEA players seeded and the remaining four brought up from Stage 2.

The official annoucnement of the tournament can be found here on the ESL site.

Stage one takes place between 8th - 11th of September with one bracket being held on each day. To sign up for the open brackets please make sure you have an ESL account and sign up for the tournament by following the links that can be found on the official announcement.

Stage two takes place on Friday the 14th of September

Stage three on Sunday the 16th of September and the TWO best players on the day will be awarded places to IEM Guangzhou!

+ [Map Pool] +

ESL Entombed Valley, ESL Metropolis, ESL Antiga Shipyard, ESL Cloud Kingdom, ESL Ohana, ESL Daybreak, ESL Tal'darim Altar

Hope to see as many of you there as possible
If you have any questions please feel free to post them in the thread below and I'll get to them as soon as I can.

-LordByrnsy
ESL SEA SC2 Admin

EDIT: to stop a conflict with IESF Aus Finals the date of Stage two will be changing to Friday the 14th


EDIT: Can players please meet up in channel ESL for the qualifiers thank you =)