ESL Asia will be organising the Intel Extreme Masters South-East Asia SC2 Asia Qualifiers, where the winner of the qualifier will stand a chance to fight against the best in Asia to qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship! Preliminaries: 22nd January 2011 Semi-finals and Grand Finals: 23rd January 2011 To sign up: Players are to access the ESL-Asia website HERE (http://www.esl-asia.net/sea) to register for the South-East Asia Regional Qualifiers until Friday 21st January 23:59 (Beijing Time). A help guide Spoiler is available on this page to help you create an ESL account in no time (http://www.esl-asia.net/sea/gettingstarted). Most necessary information can be found in this link click here More information about the ESL Intel Extreme Masters can be found here PRIZE: The winner of this tournament will be qualified for the ESL Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 Asia Grand Final. This Grand Final will be a match between our SEA champion against the champion from China&Taiwan qualification. The overall will be send to the ESL Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 World Finals in Germany during the Cebit in Hannover. He will have 1000$ of travel expenses covered and will be hosted during the tournament. The prize breakdown of the world finals is not yet public but will feature more than $20000 Coverage for this event: will be done by kellyMILKIES on her stream at justin.tv/kellymilkies The rules and regulations for the South-East Asia Regional Qualifiers are as followed: Spoiler 1. Is considered as SEA player, any player that can access the SEA Battle.net server without living in China, Taiwan or South Korea (they have their own qualifiers). Any European that makes an account and fake their logins for this event will be rejected. 2.The South-East Asia Regional Qualifiers will be taking place on the Blizzard Entertainment SEA Starcraft 2 servers (Players are expected to be ready with an account for the Regional South-East Asia Qualifiers). The qualification format are as followed : Best of 1 until the Quarter Finals, then best of 3 to decide the Champion from the top 8. All the BO1 matches will be played on Saturday. Sunday will feature the BO3 matches. The ESL map pool will include : Spoiler 1st Round Xel Naga Caverns 2nd Round Jungle Basin 3rd Round Metalopolis 4th Round Scrap Station 5th Round Steppes of War 6th Round Shakuras Plateau 7th Round Delta Quadrant Quarter Final (see rules) (see rules) Semi Final (see rules) (see rules) Final (see rules) (see rules) read the link below http://www.esl-asia.net/sea/sc2/1on1/iem5sc2quali/leagueinfo/ For the BO1 games, the map to be used will be announced on the ESL website as soon as the Qualifiers are ready to begin. From the Quarter Finals onwards, each player will be allowed to ban 2 maps each from the selection above, and the un-banned maps will be used for the BO3 rounds. In the event of a disconnection during a game : Spoiler the game has to become rehosted under the following conditions : • First 4 minutes of the match, if there was no opponent contact. • If a player drops after the 4 minutes, the remaining can decide to restart the game or you have to upload the replay and a admin will decide to rehost or not. In a re-hosted game each player has to chose the same race as he/she picked in the disconnected game. (in the event that a player has chosen random, the player can decide to continue using random) If both players do not agree to a rematch, both players are to upload their replays before the disconnection took place to the ESL, in which the ESL admins will decide to award the victory accordingly. In case of any questions, problems; you can contact the admin team by using the Chat function on the SEA Page, the ESL-Asia SEA Forum HERE or the Support Ticket system (http://www.esl-asia.net/sea/sc2/support). The chat and the support system do not require you to be registered or login into ESL to use them. ESL Committee have the final say to the terms and conditions as stated within this IEM V South-East Asia Starcraft 2 Regional Qualifiers. For those who might be curious if your timezone is different for your region when comparing to Beijing Time, this is a guide as followed : Spoiler Beijing Time : GMT + 8 Australia Timing : - Queensland, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart : GMT + 10 - Darwin, Adelaide : GMT + 9.30 - Perth : GMT + 8 New Zealand Timing : GMT + 12 Singapopre: GMT+8 Malaysia Timing : GMT + 8 Thailand Timing : GMT + 7 Brunei Timing : GMT + 8 Indonesia Timing : - Sumatra, Java, West & Central Kalimantan : GMT + 7 - Bali, Nusa Tenggara, South & East Kalimantan, Sulawesi : GMT + 8 - Irian Jaya, Maluku : GMT + 9 Vietnam Timing : GMT + 7 Philippines Timing : GMT + 8 Please feel free to drop your inquiries below in your posts so that we can get back to you as soon as possible.
