Road to MLG Columbus 2016 overview *

11-12-2015 23:38

With MLG releasing most of the important information on the entire qualifying process for the next major, here's an overview of the road to MLG Columbus 2016.

We have already seen bits of the information released by individual parties who will be organizing the Minor Championships, which will play a big part in the qualifying process for MLG Columbus 2016.

There will be four Minor Championships, one for each of Europe, CIS, Asia and the Americas, all of which will be available only to players and teams that didn't take part in the last major, DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca.

While Minors for the Americas, CIS and Europe will only hand out a single spot at the LAN qualifier, the Asian Minor at IEM Taipei will actually have two spots up for grabs.

Cloud9 have already secured a place at the LAN qualifier

MLG have also released information on the remainder of the spots for the 16-team LAN qualifier, as there are three left (with eight going to previous Challengers and five for Minors teams), which will be decided via Last Chance Qualifiers.

There will be one Last Chance Qualifier for the Americas and one for CIS and Europe combined, with one spot going to the former and two to the latter.

Both Last Chance Qualifiers will feature 2nd-4th placed teams from the respective regions' Minor Championships. Teams that weren't eligible to play in the Minors due to the rules will also get a chance to take part, and are to submit their rosters to [email protected] by January 11 (for Americas) or January 18 (for Europe/CIS).

These teams have already secured a place at the LAN qualifier, taking place in the MLG Arena in Columbus, Ohio on February 26-28, by placing in the bottom eight at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca:

Cloud9	CLG	FlipSid3	mousesports
dignitas	Liquid	Titan	Vexed

To clarify, the remaining eight spots will be distributed as follows:

Americas Minor winner	Asia Minor winner
Asia Minor runner-up	Null element CIS Minor winner
Europe Minor winner	Americas Last Chance winner
CIS/EU Last Chance winner	CIS/EU Last Chance runner-up

And of course, the eight teams who will come out on top of the LAN qualifier will join eight Legends at the major, that are:

EnVyUs	Null element Na`Vi	G2	NiP
?	Luminosity	fnatic	Virtus.pro

Here's a timeline of the whole qualifying process, except for parts of the Asian and CIS qualifiers, as we're waiting for more information on those:

Minor Qualifiers
Dec 17-18	CIS Open Qualifier #1
Dec 19-20	CIS Open Qualifier #2
Dec 19-20	North America Open Qualifier
Dec 19-20	South America Open Qualifier
Dec 21-27	CIS Closed Qualifier
January 4-6 Jan 4-6	Europe Open Qualifier #1
Jan 5-7	Europe Open Qualifier #2
Jan 6-8	Europe Open Qualifier #3
Jan 7-9	Europe Open Qualifier #4

Minor Championships
Jan 15-17	Americas Minor Championship
Jan 22-24	CIS Minor Championship
Jan 29-31	Europe Minor Championship
Jan 29-Feb 2	Asia Minor Championship at IEM Taipei

Last Chance Qualifiers
Jan 23-24	Americas Last Chance Qualifier
Feb 2-7	CIS/Europe Last Chance Qualifier

Feb 26-28	Major LAN Qualifier
March 29-April 3	MLG Columbus 2016 Major

For even more details on the process, such as tournament formats for each of the stages, head over to MLG's announcement.

yeah boi

2015-12-11 23:38

Looking good!

No C9, CLG and Liquid in Columbus 4Head

2015-12-11 23:39

2 replies

not sure if youre dumb or stupid... c9,clg,TL are already qualified for Major Lan Qualifier.. They are now all waiting for the minor champions to play in the Major Lan Qualifier.

2015-12-12 04:41

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Correct

2015-12-12 09:06

That is a big fucking qualifiers

2015-12-11 23:40

its the same as the last 2 lan qualifiers

2015-12-11 23:41

2015-12-11 23:43

G2 better be there

they already got an invite

2015-12-11 23:49

g2 are legends not challengers

2015-12-11 23:51

wait, 2 spot for the whole America?

2015-12-11 23:54

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well they already have 3 teams on the main qualifier(CLG, c9, Liquid) and 1 on the major (LG). So I guess more two teams is enought, we all know that there arent many other teams that can compete on the qualifier level. I would say: GA, other 2 or 3 NA teams, some other teams from Brazil, and the top team from Argentina. Other than that the rest is pure shit.

2015-12-12 00:01

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weren't GA in EU?

2015-12-12 01:46

Keyd was on EU, GA is NA (they live near LG)

2015-12-12 01:53

Conquest will probably win one of those to get into the qualifier

2015-12-12 04:36

RIP Pimp, Davcost, Boltz, Steel, and any other free Cluj Challenger/Legend players. They're not allowed to play in the Minors which means their teams will have limited chance to qualify for the Major Qualifier.

"Teams that weren't eligible to play in the Minors due to the rules will also get a chance to take part, and are to submit their rosters to [email protected]" I guess is not all over.

2015-12-12 00:02

So now Immunity can't qualify at all as they have been to a major before so can't join the minors and they have no last chance qauli! GG VALVE YOU FUCKING RETARDS

2015-12-11 23:56

Can you not read..? It was from the last major, immunity weren't at the last major.

2015-12-12 00:06

sorry i speek bad london am lithuanian potato farmer who move to bongistan pls no h8

2015-12-12 00:08

gl c9

So they are basically saying that there will be an open qualifier for a qualifier,winner of which will qualify to a major qualifier,so after all of that there will be 8 teams qualified for a major through the qualifiers. mind=blown.

that is the price we pay for not having an official league. the level of the game may fall a little, but in other hand we can see more games during the year.

2015-12-12 00:00