IPL6 Regionals, Satellites and Qualifier Information

Hello everyone!

We would first like to thank the community for it's tremendous support for IPL during and after IPL5!

There will be 3 events at IPL6, which is being held at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, March 28th - March 31st:

• Main Event - Wings of Liberty
• IPTL 2013 Season 1 Finals
• Heart of the Swarm Invitational

IPL6 Wings of Liberty:

Wings of Liberty will be the main event for IPL6. The Wings of Liberty tournament is a 40 person tournament with both invite and open spots.

For each Regional, the winner of the tournament will receive an invite and free travel and hotel for the event. The runner up for each regional will receive a spot in the event, but no travel.

For Satellite events, the winner receives a spot in the event, but no travel. For the International Satellite, the top 3 players all qualify for the event, but do not win travel.

You may only sign up for a Regional or Satellite if you live in that region OR hold citizenship in that region OR will be travelling from that region for IPL6. You may sign up for both a Regional and Satellite and as many as you are eligible for. You must pick ONE region to play in, and may not play in Regionals / Satellites from multiple regions.

Signups close for each qualifier 24 hours before the event begins.

Here are the dates for the Regionals and Satellites. Signups are hyperlinks and live now!

Regionals:

• American Regional - Wednesday January 16 - 12pm Pacific
• European Regional - Wednesday January 16 - 6am Pacific
• Korean Regional - Wednesday January 16 - 9pm Pacific
• Amateur Regional - Saturday January 19 - 12pm Pacific
• International Regional #1 - Wednesday January 23 - 9am Pacific
• International Regional #2 - Wednesday January 30 - 9am Pacific

Satellites:

• American Satellite - Wednesday February 6 - 12pm Pacific
• European Satellite - Wednesday February 6 - 6am Pacific
• Korean Satellite - Wednesday February 6 - 9pm Pacific
• International Satellite (Top 3) - Wednesday February 13 - 9am Pacific

There are also some invited players to IPL6 that include the following:

Invites:

• Leenock (IPL5 Champion)
• viOLet (IPL5 Runner up)
• Polt (IPL5 3rd place)
• 12 Players from IPTL Finals Teams

To clarify, six players from each IPTL finals team will receive paid trips to IPL6 to compete in addition to playing the finals at the event.

For those doing math, this does not add up to 40 players and in fact is only 33 of the slots.

Additional invites and qualifiers are still TBD and will be announced in the coming months.

IPTL Finals: The finals of IPTL 2013 Season 1 will be played at IPL6 featuring the top 2 teams, still to be determined. Both teams will have six players flown out to the event, but are free to bring any additional players to the event with their own budget, or if they qualify to IPL6 through additional means.

IPL6 Heart of the Swarm: IPL will be holding an 8 person Heart of the Swarm Invitational at IPL6.

There will be both a qualification process and invite process for this tournament. Both are TBA.

Information Still To Be Determined:

• Several player slots for Wings of Liberty
• Qualification / Invite process for Heart of the Swarm
• Broadcasting for qualifiers
• Map pool
• Prize pool

For the information that hasn't been determined yet, we would like to hear from you, the community. What do you want to see for the qualifiers and main events of IPL6? What do you want to see from IPL for the rest of 2013 in Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm?

Let us know in the comments, or by tweeting @IGNProleague or emailing me at ffields@ign.com. We always could use more feedback.

Source : ign[dot]com