Intel Extreme Masters Quake Live Qualifiers

Since QuakeCon 2009 this past August competitive play for Quake Live players has been lacking until now.Yesterday ESL America officially announced the Intel Extreme Master Quake Live Qualifiers. From the looks of things their will be 4 qualification cups available to sign up for and the top two of of the four qualification cups will be joined by eight invited players to fight for a slot in the finals. Read below for the full press release.

We are looking for eight more participants who will fight in the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship. The top two of our four qualification cups will be joined by eight invited players to fight for a slot in the finals. Prize money awaits everyone who reaches the American Championship.

System
For a detailed look on the tournament system you should check out tournament website. That means the top two of each qualifier cupwill advance to the American Championship main round. The number one of each group will be directly qualified for the American Championship Finals, while the second and third placed players will face each other to advance to the Finals.

Whether or not the QuakeLive season will be played entirely online or with LAN finals will be known in the coming weeks, but we can already release a part of the prize money information.

The Qualification Cups
Three of the four qualifier cups will be played on one day completely, but the second qualifier cup will be played on two days. Each cup will have 32 slots, but can be increased to 64 slots, for each round of the cup there is an one hour timelimit and players have to be at the official irc channel #esl.quakelive (Gamesurge) during the tournament. If a player fails to show up until 15 minutes after the start of a round he gets disqualified.

Prize Money

For each win during the American Championship group stage the winner receives $75 and all players that qualify for the Finals receive a bonus of $100*. So during main round we will give out a total of $2,600 in prize money.

Finals: $8,000

Total Prize Money: $10,600

*Bonus is only paid when the participant takes part in the Final event.

Rules
To take part in our qualifiers you need an ESL account (No Account? - Register Now!) and must be at least 16 years old. You also have to enter your Quake Live Gameaccount to your ESL profile (enter now).

Match Rules
Gametype: Duel
Timelimit: 10 minutes per Map
Matchsetting: Best of Three
Mapchoice: The higher seeded player tosses a map from the map list first, afterwards the other player tosses one map. From the three remaining maps the higher seeded player chooses first which map to play, then the other player selects the second map. The remaining map will be played as third map, if a decider is needed.
Maplist: qzdm6 (Campgrounds), qzdm13 (Lost World), qztourney7 (Furious Heights), qztourney9 (House of Decay), ztntourney1 (Blood Run)
Servers: Servers will be provided by ESL and the password will be announced on the day of the cup on the tournament rule site.

note: This rules only apply for the qualifiers and might change for the American Championship main round.

Source: ESL America

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