[ESL AU]

The Intel Extreme Masters Singapore event is fast approaching, and we’d like to share the details on how to qualify for South East Asia / Australia.

1 Player from SEA/AU is eligible to attend the IEM Singapore event directly, two more will qualify for the SEA/China final. Sea residents that are currently living outside of the SEA region cannot participate, they must participate in the qualifiers for the region that they are currently in. People living in Singapore will be able to compete, despite the original notice.

You must be 16 years of age or older by the end of IEM Singapore (25/11/2012) to participate.

Here is how we will determine who the SEA/AU players will be:
• Stage 1: Open bracket
Dates: 13th, 14th, 16th and 18th of October.
The top 8 players from the open bracket will go through to the second stage

• Stage 2: Qualification only
Dates: 20th and 21st of October.
8 automatically seeded players will be invited, and compete against the 8 qualifiers.
The top 4 from this stage will go through.

• Stage 3: Final
Date: 27th of October
4 automatically seeded players will be invited, and compete against the 4 qualifiers.
The winner goes straight to IEM SG, and the 2nd and 3rd place runner up’s go to the
SEA China final.

The Player Seeds:

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Stage 2 Seeds;
1. NvRossi
2. iMLight
3. iMTgun
4. NvJazBaz
5. frayPetraeus
6. frayNinja
7. MFIaguz
8. Mski Enderr
9. IrisCrimson
10. FlashDrakE
11. cRKingKong
12. FlashKyzer

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Stage 3 Seeds:
1. NvmOOnGLaDe
2. iMMafia
3. TtPiG
4. NeoRedArchon

Stage 1 – SC2 IEM SG Qualifiers

Location: Battle.net SEA
Prize: 2 players from each Qualifier will progress to Stage 2.
Qualifier 1:

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Date: 13th October 2012
Time: 11am AEDT / 8am SGT
Signup Link; http://www.nationalesl.com/au/sc2/ma...ems1q1/signup/
Qualified: IrisCrimson and FlashDrakE

Qualifier 2:

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Date: 14th October 2012
Time: 3pm AEDT / 12pm SGT
Signup Link: http://www.nationalesl.com/au/sc2/ma...ems1q2/signup/
Qualified: cRKingKong and FlashKyzer

Qualifier 3:

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Date: 16th October, 2012
Time: 8pm AEDT / 5pm SGT
Signup Link: http://www.nationalesl.com/au/sc2/ma...ems1q3/signup/

Qualifier 4:

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Date: 18th October, 2012
Time: 8pm AEDT / 5pm SGT
Signup Link: http://www.nationalesl.com/au/sc2/ma...ems1q4/signup/

**YOU MUST CHECK IN ON CUP DAY**
Check-in Starts: One hour before the cup start time.
Check-in Ends: 10 minutes before the cup start time. Late entries have no guarantee of acceptance.
Check in here:

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Qualifier 1: http://www.nationalesl.com/au/sc2/ma...ms1q1/checkin/
Qualifier 2: http://www.nationalesl.com/au/sc2/ma...ms1q2/checkin/
Qualifier 3: http://www.nationalesl.com/au/sc2/ma...ms1q3/checkin/
Qualifier 4: http://www.nationalesl.com/au/sc2/ma...ms1q4/checkin/

Where to be: Be in the ESLAU channel in Battle.net.

Map Pool:

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ESL Antiga Shipyard
ESL Cloud Kingdom
ESL Daybreak
ESL Entombed Valley
ESL Ohana
ESL Metropolis
GSL_Whirlwind

Casting:

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Most of stage 1 and all of stage 3 will be Cast by Maynarde and Zepph.

Maynarde is a very experienced caster from Adelaide, Australia and a stalwart of the SEA SC2 community. He has cast all the ACL events, some SEACL and the WCS.
Zepph is similarly a very experienced caster, from Sydney Australia and is an extremely active member of the community. She has cast LAN events such as GESC, ACL and EB Expo, and numerous online tournies.

We're extremely pleased to have this pair casting the majority of our event.

And announcing the caster for the second First Stage Qualifier! FlashFlamga! As Singapore's major team's main caster, we thought it appropriate to ask him to cast the IEM SG quals for us. His enthusiasm is exactly what we're looking for. Everyone tune in to the ESL.tv channel to watch his cast for the Second and Fourth first stage qualifiers.

Everything will be casting over the ESL channel:
www.esl.tv/channel/esl-australia
www.twitch.tv/ESL_Australia

Stage two, and certain parts of stage one are still available for casters. We've taken all the people volunteering into account and will announce further casters soon.

Spectator Event Information for IEM SG:

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Venue/Ticketing: The venue is free, there is no ticketing or entrance fee required at all to attend IEM SG.
Casting: The casters will be the ESL TV casters, eg Joe Miller, James Kaelaris.
Seating: There will be seating at the venue, unconfirmed on numbers just now, will update further.

Thread will be updated after the qualifiers are finished, with the times of Stage 2 and Stage 3 for viewing, and with the seeds of the players that qualified. Players will be notified of their qualification on the nights of the Qualifiers, and advised of the times of their cups personally, via email as well as in-game chat. Feel free to ask any questions regarding the qualification process, which has changed dramatically.