Russian qual. for WCA WCC of CS:GO *

20-9-2016 10:14

WCA has revealed a ~$112,000 tournament called "WCA World Contest Championship of CS:GO", a "nation versus nation" event that will feature Russian, Chinese and UK teams and take place in Bejing, China. The qualification cycle will kick-off today with a 128-team Russian open qualifier.

*The organizer updated the name from "WCA Russia vs China vs UK".

The Russian qualifier will be handled by WCA themselves and starts today with a 128-team open qualifier that will be held on FACEIT. The two best teams from the qualifier will join the eight invited Russian teams to play the group stage from September 21-29.

It is important to note that only teams that consist of exclusively Russian citizens may compete in today's open qualifier, but the rule does not apply to the invited teams.

The group stage will consist of two groups of five teams playing best-of-one matches in a round-robin format. After all matches have been played, the two best teams from each group will proceed to the playoffs.

Teams invited to the closed part of the Russian qualifier are as follows:

5FRAGS	Preparation	Enso	Comanche
Quantum Bellator	PuddiPuddi	Shadows	ex-NoKsuKao

The final part of the qualifier is a single-elimination bracket that will have best-of-three semi-finals and a best-of-five grand final match, with the winner of the qualifier receiving a slot at the WCA World Contest Championship of CS:GO LAN that will take place in Beijing, China, on October 12-18.

ub1que's Preparation was invited to the group stage of the qualifier

How the teams from the other two regions: UK and China, will be decided is something that is left up to the organizational partners within the countries - with Gfinity being confirmed for the UK.

WCA World Contest Championship for CS:GO LAN finals are expected to feature a total of nine teams and a "nation vs nation" system with prize money rewarded for each win.

The prize pool for the finals, that includes travel expenses, is ¥750,000 (~$112,000) and will be distributed as follows:

Nations prize pool: ¥300,000 (~$45,000)
Teams prize pool: ¥450,000 (~$67,000)

The organizer announced that they will be revealing more details about the LAN finals soon.

Preperation is a clear Favourite Also 1st time getting 1st

2016-09-20 10:15

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Please refrain from hunting for first comment and focus instead on reading the news. Irrelevant and off-topic comments will be deleted. This behaviour is not welcome and will be severely moderated.

2016-09-20 12:34

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but jonathan I didnt hunt for first ;(, I edited it afterwards expressing how it was simply the first time. pls no bannerino :(

2016-09-20 12:47

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The notification is merely meant to be posted as close as possible to #1 for everyone to see, including #1 if it applies. Unfortunately, your edited comment does not help in order to address the problem as other may still try to achieve the same. Please, remember it the next time. Thank you.

2016-09-20 12:49

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"The notification is merely meant to be posted as close as possible to #1 for everyone to see, including #1 if it applies." Isn't that hunting for the first comment then? While I see your point of wanting it to be visible, my guess is that is why most people hunt for first comment, so their point can be visible. Also I doubt you actually read the article before posting this and this certainly has nothing to do with the article. Seems slightly hypocritical.

2016-09-20 14:44

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No, it's not. It's warning for all those who are interested in the #1 comment, and since it's what many are for this is the place to put the warning. Where else would it be? At the end?

2016-09-20 18:43

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Yeah but a lot of people also hunt for the #1 comment just so they can have their opinion seen. If they want this discussion to be about the article, then they should just delete the comments without warning or have a header in the top or in the text box (like with the comments must be in English thing). Spamming the comments section with that stuff just diverges the conversation even more. We could be talking about some no name Russian teams, but instead we are talking about this. Seems very counter-intuitive.

2016-09-20 19:47

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We could, but amount of trolls and idiots on this site is astounding. Comments would have to be moderated by legions of mods, which isn't going to happen. :(

2016-09-20 20:01

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It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to look through to see all the troll posts on an article. You would probably have to look through an article once a day for prolly a week (cause after a week practically no one comments on them). There are usually ~8 articles a day, so that would be 560 minutes of looking through. If you got 10 people then that is about 1 hour per person, which isn't terrible. I would leave the forums alone cause that is just absolutely cancerous and would take forever yeah. Just focus on keeping the news comments good.

2016-09-20 20:13

I'm with you mate :(

2016-09-20 13:03

why though? its a funny thing on hltv. nobody takes the comments here seriously anyway. bad decision from you guys imo.

2016-09-20 17:44

But why? It's harmless and boosts the reply count on the news pages often providing an additional interest to check out what's going on. Most low tier news would be empty without this initial spam, and sometimes the spam ignites healthy discussions (happened to me quite a few times). Don't take away everything that makes HLTV > Reddit :(

2016-09-20 18:08

ez 4 puddipuddi

2016-09-20 10:14

good money :)

ez me

2016-09-20 10:16

Ez for UK noKappa

2016-09-20 10:19

China cs best cs

2016-09-20 10:22

I have never heard of PuddiPuddi or 5Frags :D Also Preparation is clear favourite

2016-09-20 10:25

eZ for PuddiPuddi

2016-09-20 10:32

When NoKsuKao became ex?

spaz and chopper left NoKsuKao

2016-09-20 10:37

U.K. Ez

2016-09-20 10:52

Cup only for RUSSIA,but many teams in close quali have UA players????

2016-09-20 10:54

Typo under the picture : preparation not preperation

2016-09-20 11:03

gl jmqa

2016-09-20 11:04

why invited teams, which played Ukrainian, Belarusian, Finn? and skill can only register 5 Russian

2016-09-20 11:29

UK vs China vs Ruskis Intresting rivalry

2016-09-20 11:32

¥300,000 = $67,000 ¥450,000 = $45,000 Math checks out

2016-09-20 11:42

LOL. HLTV besterest

2016-09-20 12:02

NA MATHS

2016-09-20 13:19

ez puddi puddi

2016-09-20 11:57

Lmao sounds interesting

2016-09-20 11:59

ez commanche

2016-09-20 12:00

These nigg*S sending threats, I dont give a FCK! When my daddy left me, he didnt give a fck! SKR SKR

2016-09-20 12:09

Ckp ckp ckp ckp ckp

2016-09-20 12:31

CKP CKP

Such a joke tournament

2016-09-20 12:21

this was the one that UK replaced the Danish spot? Damnnn

2016-09-20 12:25

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2016-09-20 12:36

thanks gfinity

2016-09-20 13:02

>implying denmark would beat the UK LUL danish cs in 2nd half of 2016 LUL

2016-09-20 17:46

u srs m8

2016-09-21 17:03

yep, danish cs is worse than NA rn

2016-09-23 00:30

fucking retard, cry more +Dd u couldnt even beat Baltic top teams shitface #gojuliano #cryonredditmore

2016-09-20 17:47

Silky. Time for the UK to shine.

2016-09-20 12:26

Nicerino ;)

2016-09-20 12:35

ez for z1

2016-09-20 13:15

ez for 5fags

2016-09-20 13:24

Denmark had the spot before instead of UK. Im Danish and ofc coloured, but UK?? Really? I could understand if they chosed Sweden, France og US, but UK?! :D

2016-09-20 14:18

coz danish top teams-better then RU,so DN>RU,but UK=RU

2016-09-20 14:29

Name at least one good UK player.

2016-09-20 14:34

Lauren "Pansy" Scott

2016-09-20 14:40

Or maybe its some political bullshit :D. Russia and China hate US, but EU countries like US, now UK isn't a part of EU anymore, then they take them instead :D

2016-09-20 14:56

"Russia and China hate US" i keked

2016-09-20 15:02

It's like politics for dumb ppl LUL

2016-09-20 15:42

srsly? :D wtf u talkin about

2016-09-20 16:33

... The UK hasn't even left the EU yet so not sure how that has anything to do with politics, also the UK has closer ties with America than the majority of European nations

2016-09-20 16:38