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29th January 2008, 08:20

No ESWC qualification in several countries?

Every year ESWC has an ESWC-qualification for the Grand Finals in Paris, and in 2007 the ESWC-organiziation had 35 local partners, but this year they have changed that.

They have changed from 35 local partners down to 24 nations, and that means, that countries like Korea, Denmark, USA, Finland, Norway and Brazil maybe not will be having an ESWC-qualification.

The reason those countries are not a local partner of ESWC anymore is because it costs about 20.000 $ to be a partner, and that's a pretty huge fee, that some of the countries can't afford to pay.

Update: ESWC has just confirmed that discussions are still getting underway, and the aforementioned countries are just those that carry the prospect of not having a national qualifier.


Source: ESWC via rakaka

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(11 months ago)  #1 Konna
Konna
woh, no Korea w_w. Expected from Finland, again.
(11 months ago)  #2 An1mA
An1mA
lol no korea > wtf ?
Against All Odds~~
(11 months ago)  #3 myMYM|frequency-
frequency-
wtf? o_O
<ROMANIAMAFIA> and i want to masturabate to Visarka's voice
(11 months ago)  #4 EnriqueC
EnriqueC
Surprising :(
(11 months ago)  #5 Arceus
Arceus
hahah no Korea
ESWC < Chinese tours

Jesus Always Walks With Us
(11 months ago)  #6 Elderane
 
does it means that these countries are gonna receive invites? lol wanna see how they will invite wc3 korean players, only fair way is a quali.
And for CS, if these countries dont get an invite, then big failure for eswc, because no mibr, NoA(mtw), roccat, estro, etc, makes the tour a lot less interesting, mainly because there will be only one representative from sweden (SK or fnatic), and one from germany (aTTax or mouz), it would make a most likely 4 or 5 considerable teams only, mym, sweden, germany, eml, and maybe vp

anyway, i was waiting for good dota games on all quallies tt
(11 months ago)  #7 ESWC-Sylvain
 
Please check your sources before announcing such things.
We are, as always, open to any interview or to answer to precise questions.

1 / we intend to sign partnerships with all countries mentioned, or more if possible. There is no a priori limit. Discussions are in progress with about 20 additional countries. The final list of the national qualifiers will be known in the next months, probably in May.

2 / the ESWC license is negotiated country by country regarding the local market, the potential sponsors, and the size of the company holding the qualifier... The difficulties of some partners come by the fact that we ask to cover the trips to USA for the winners of the national qualifiers. For your information, in many cases, the costs of the flights are more expensive than the ESWC license. So we work on solutions.

3/ South Korea IS in the list of countries with national preliminaries: http://www.eswc.com/nsp2008
Last edited by ESWC-Sylvain at 29.01.2008, 10:21
(11 months ago)  #14 Phil
Phil
I think Enrique misunderstood the sourced article at Rakaka. It has been addressed now. To his excuse I didn't see SK either when I was browsing the site yesterday.
I'm forever blowing bubbles!
(11 months ago)  #8 ESWC-Sylvain
 
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(11 months ago)  #9 OrDaThrsty
 
owned ^^
(11 months ago)  #10 Frozenik
Frozenik
USA can't afford this fee, when Poland can? :D
Last edited by Frozenik at 29.01.2008, 10:55
(11 months ago)  #11 LegendS
LegendS
How can't they afford to get teams and players to go in ... their own country ? =s
(11 months ago)  #12 Pclloh
Pclloh
this news sounded me like a flame...

how eswc guy sad... check the sources next time guy... or post @mr.x acc

;/

Um idiota inglês , é bem menos idiota que nós.
(11 months ago)  #13 S_cast0R
_cast0R
#7 explained everything
My only state is a State of Trance.
(11 months ago)  #15 j0k3r
j0k3r
Who posts a news without checking the information with main sources?

...

involved with e-sports/gaming since 1996
(11 months ago)  #16 Vello
Vello
wtf .. wat about singapore ? the birth of dota ..
tw.gg-game.com // EsM-Vello.eXtreMe
(11 months ago)  #26 Metro-
Metro-
rofl?????
(11 months ago)  #17 Malystryx
Malystryx
ouch, thats a good spanking.
Lawrence "SK.Malystryx" Phillips ~ SK Gaming
(11 months ago)  #18 trauma69
 
very sad news! jokin? no korea :(
(11 months ago)  #19 blaze89
blaze89
goooooooooooooooing for denmark
http://www.mymTw.com - Head of Content
(11 months ago)  #20 izabeL
 
USA is better have qualifiers for ESWC.. if they don't teams will have to fly to France to qualifiy and then fly againt the venue in San Francisco, how amazing.
(11 months ago)  #21 Flex-
Flex-
Last year the were tryung to decide between Estonia and Finland on a wc3 spot for 3 mounths, the partisipaiting country changed 20 times, and at the end neither could go - was pritty shitty ( they should expand not clouse up )
Sup?
(11 months ago)  #22 ESWC-Sylvain
 
For #18 #20 and #21

We intend to sign partnerships with all countries mentioned, or more if possible. There is no a priori limit. Discussions are in progress with about 20 additional countries. The final list of the national qualifiers will be known in the next months, probably in May.

South Korea is already in the list of countries with national preliminaries: http://www.eswc.com/nsp2008.
(11 months ago)  #23 myMYM|bMh
bMh
I couldn't belive that countries like Korea and USA don't have money for ESWC quali...
(11 months ago)  #24 Dknight
Dknight
Does no one proofread anything at MYM?

"maybe not will be having an ESWC-qualification." The wording is just awkward and awful.
(11 months ago)  #25 oX
 
The Netherlands aren't partners either atm, really shitty news. Was stunned by Korea not being a partner.
Hope they make something good out of it, there can't be a big tournament without Korea.
(11 months ago)  #27 LINKAGE
LINKAGE
There are ongoing negotiations, i've never seen all national qualifiers being scheduled by January -_-'

How is this a rumor? lol..

www.fraglider.pt
(11 months ago)  #28 Fabozi
 
#22 you can tell whatever but like you see some people just don't read anything

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