GC Guangzhou qualifiers announced

26-7-2011 20:58

European and North American qualifiers for the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge Guangzhou have been announced.

The Chinese Global Challenge was announced earlier today with a $40,000 prize purse and will take place October 1-5 in Guangzhou, located in the southern part of the country, about 120km northwest of Hong Kong.

For the European teams, there will be a total of two qualifiers, where top four from each of these qualifiers will advance to the final qualifier. The final qualifier will have three slots for the Global Challenge Guangzhou, though teams have to handle travel and accommodation on their own. Signups will decide if it will be BO1 or BO3 format, it will be single elimination regardless of how many signups. You can find information about the qualifiers below:

	Start time	Date
Qualifier #1	13:00	July 31	Sign up
Qualifier #2	13:00	August 7	Sign up
Final qualifier	TBA	August 14

For more detailed information regarding sign up, maps and more, simply go here.

North American teams will have one qualifier, where one slot for the Global Challenge Guangzhou will be up for grabs and the winning team will have to handle travel and accommodation on their own. The qualifier will be played in a double elimination bracket with preset maps. To sign up, click here and for more info go here. The qualifier will have the following schedule:

	Date	Time	Map
Round 1	August 2	03:00	de_dust2
Round 2	August 4	03:00	de_forge
Round 3	August 6	03:00	de_train
Round 4	August 8	03:00	de_nuke
Round 5	August 10	03:00	de_tuscan
Round 6	August 11	03:00	de_train
Round 7	August 14	02:00	de_nuke
Finals	August 14	03:00	de_inferno

Global Challenge Guangzhou will have a total of eight participating teams, four of them will be Chinese and will be found via online qualifiers in the country, which have already started.

Be sure to visit HLTV.org for the latest news regarding the qualifiers for the Global Challenge Guangzhou, as well as general information about the sixth season of IEM.

gogo Na`Vi

2011-07-26 20:59

4 replies

GO NA`VI

2011-07-26 22:09

CHINA = 中国 Na'Vi win!:D

2011-07-26 23:02

Na'Vi comeback!

2011-07-27 08:15

-.-' that's too annoying..

2011-07-27 16:41

2011-07-26 21:00

2 replies

SK, kisses

2011-07-27 04:12

GO SK!!!!!!

2011-07-27 15:49

hope to see good matches

ofc we will see good matches

2011-07-26 21:02

no doubt

2011-07-27 02:34

go sk!

1 reply

+1 GO GO GO!!!

Can't see who is in. Is it only show's to me??

2011-07-26 21:04

FACEPALM TO YOU :D its up to you (us) to sing up to qualifier

2011-07-27 02:35

Then lets mix our teams only and parteipate. WE ALL > all pro teams (Na'Vi, FX, fnatic)

2011-07-27 08:05

And you frogot to say, that we should have premium account...

gogo navi gogo

2011-07-26 21:08

i want to see the teams

2011-07-26 21:10

YEAH

SK gogogo

Go Sk

2011-07-26 21:12

With RobbaN and face on vacation for the next two weeks, I'm not sure we will see SK attend :/

2011-07-26 21:16

8 replies

Since when?

2011-07-26 21:17

Since today.

2011-07-26 21:18

maybe they'll play with some standins or so.. :P

5 replies

It's possible.

2011-07-26 21:24

Indeed. But if it is single elimination and we'll see all the good teams attend it won't necessarily be easy to make top4 in one of the qualifiers if they have to play with 2 standins. It depends a lot on the bracket also how easy or hard it'll be for them. Though I wouldn't be at all surprised to see forest, delpan and get_right destroy some proper teams just playing "randomly" with 2 standins. I'd imagine it isn't fun to play against them either as you're kind of "supposed to" win as they have 2 standins but then you face that kind of players who may do something unorthodox and shoot like crazy when playing as a mix..

2011-07-26 21:25

playing online isn't that much about tactics like at LAN

2011-07-27 00:24

+Snajdan, SpawN / fisker O_O

2011-07-27 00:12

complicated for them to play with standins since delpan and get_right seem to like trashtalking fellow swedish teams.

2011-07-27 15:13

go mTw:DDD

2011-07-26 21:34

2011-07-27 02:36

GO GO GO NA'VI

2011-07-26 21:27

so we can signup for our self aswell or only topteams ?

2011-07-26 21:36

I understood that anyone could signup. Although they do say that "please don't signup if you don't have the means to come to the finals" or something like that, there will surely be enough pro teams to give enough teams who actually can get there (and they will probably take the top4 spots anyway) so I'd see it as a positive to have people signing up with their own teams. I'm not sure though what esl's policy really is.

2011-07-26 21:45

aah ty

2011-07-26 21:51

**SK shud bring in SpawN and walle 2 fillin since they in thier hall of fame list wud b sick az imo

2011-07-26 21:47

nice writing style

2011-07-26 22:03

haha :D

2011-07-27 23:52

GO Na`Vi!

2011-07-26 21:49

B2h wins

FX?

Fnatic, mTw, NaVi If SK plays with their full lineup, then, they will take the spot of fnatic.

go allstars!

2011-07-26 22:14

de_forge now in action, well see

2011-07-26 22:22

gl SK

2011-07-26 22:40

SK!!!!!!!!!

2011-07-26 22:54

I want to see mTw there

mouz please

2011-07-26 23:12

nice, no South America

2011-07-26 23:13

A 5 men trip to China would be a lil' bit expensive, dun ya think?

2011-07-27 00:32

a team trip from North America to China is not cheap too

2011-07-27 00:54

3 replies

I'm talking about South America, so you did. Why do you even come with North America stuff? Is not like we share the same reality (at least comparing SA teams with, lets say, UMX or EG)

2011-07-27 01:12

FG > EG > UMX

2011-07-27 22:28

Stay out of this. You don't even know what I'm talking about. Might the word "reality" help? And btw this new FG sucks big time paiN, pA, GH are better.

2011-07-27 23:14

Na'Vi must be gutted after the loss against ESC, so I guess they're gonna pracc as fuck.

2011-07-26 23:32

ONLY north america and europe qualifiers ? O.o

2011-07-26 23:35

im dont understant this too

2011-07-26 23:51

gogo enigmatic!!

2011-07-26 23:53

I guess we will see Na`Vi, fnatic, mTw, ESC from Europe, and EG from N.America.

2011-07-27 00:13

2011-07-27 00:15

There is only 3 slots for EU.

2011-07-27 00:22

i am not really good in grammar but shouldn't it be there ARE only 3 slots for eu?

2011-07-27 00:25

Is it only one spot for NA, right?

2011-07-27 00:33

mTw since they've not been in GameGun, and ESC since they've been very impressive l8tly and FX same reason as mTw :)

2011-07-27 01:37

Why the fuck they announced it 4 days before it starts?? Makes no sense!

2011-07-27 00:31

3am time omfg cant watch it

2011-07-27 00:40

1-2 am in Faroe Island :D

2011-07-27 01:35

mb navi mb sk

2011-07-27 02:14

Signups will decide if it will be BO1 or BO3 format, it will be single elimination regardless of how many signups， isn't it contradicted

2011-07-27 02:55

No, it isn't. Single elimination refers to the whole structure of the tournament. So there won't be upper and lower bracket, as in recent GameGune tournament. Each team will only have 1 chance, if the team loses a match, the team is out of the tournament. The format refers to how many maps will be played in one match.

2011-07-27 03:15

o thx, i got it, sry for my poor comprehension

2011-07-27 05:15

go go go fnatic!!!!

2011-07-27 03:04

I wonder if teams will be forced to show that they can pay for the trip before playing in the qualifiers. Else it could be a pretty lame tournament...

2011-07-27 03:48

no big deal SK will take it again...

2011-07-27 06:43

Qualifier #1 13:00 July 31 Sign up matches start at 13CET??? that's fucked up :(

2011-07-27 08:01

How many slots are there?

2011-07-27 08:19

8 slots in total. 4 chinese teams 3 european teams 1 north american team

2011-07-27 08:47

Well.. I believe that's is good for them to encourage the national teams (China) but will not join the teams everyone want to see in a tournament.. If they want to join 4 Chinese teams, they should run a competition at least with 12 squads. And the teams distribution around the globe would be something like this: 4 Chinese (default) 4 European 2 American 2 Invitation (they could be European, Asians, African, Oceania teams)

2011-07-27 08:56

trace11-.- GO !

2011-07-27 09:04

GO SK :)

2011-07-27 09:19

go go go!

2011-07-27 09:26

Go GO Go SK..

2011-07-27 09:55

good luck gentlemen!

2011-07-27 10:26

noobs dont sign up so we will see bo3...

2011-07-27 10:59

Go navi ! !! ! !

2011-07-27 11:08

de_mirage > de_forge.

2011-07-27 12:17

2011-07-27 12:36

nononono

2011-07-27 15:25

What a retarded system this season...so bad...

2011-07-27 12:20

retarded season cause everybody(little team) can participate ? you're so dumb.

2011-07-27 21:54

7 replies

Yea right, with 0 percent chances of qualifying. Especially those who don't have money...and nobody has money... p.s. watch your language young boy

2011-07-28 00:15

6 replies

why are you so mad at new IEM's rules ? i'm sorry for you and your "Mr.IdontCareAbout" but some teams need help like that to grow up and improve his game, and maybe, have a chance to qualifie to IEM.

2011-07-28 03:23

I'm not mad, I just think it's bad. That's not the same. I'm extremely calm... Maybe if you read all text better, you'll understand why, since you obviously didn't, especially the part "for smaller teams". Cheers.

2011-07-28 16:26

"Teams are responsible for their own travel and accommodation. Please do not sign up unless you are sure you can attend the event! Only teams from Europe are eligible to play in this qualifier." that's why you're disapointed ? you don't have the dream to travel arround the world to play cs. i have this one. sorry we don't speak about the same thing.

2011-07-28 17:46