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by zyZ-, Level 27
Last updated at May 30, 2008, 10:04 pm
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Congratulations!

 

We cordially invite your team to participate in the North American Regional Finals for the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament. Your team has been selected based on its performance in the First Qualification Round of the tournament.

 

In order to finalize and confirm your participation, please send an email to xxxxxx@blizzard.com with “2008 Arena Tournament Regional Finals” in the subject line and including as much of the following information as possible:


 

Also, all teams who qualify get free entry into the 2nd qualifying round

 

We will be granting your accounts access to the second qualifier so you can participate in skirmish matches to practice. Please remember to not participate in any rated or ranked games during the second qualification round as this may subject your team to disqualification from the tournament.

     
17 comments
hoodrych
hoodrych May 30, 2008 at 10:23 pm
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As we have teams that have tied for the final spot in the first qualification round of the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament, we will be hosting a special playoff to determine the team that will advance to the North American Regional. We will be setting up a special realm for the teams participating in the playoff, which will be played online on Friday, June 6 at 6pm PDT. If this time does not work for you, please let us know as soon as possible.

Awesome. No offense to hafu,glickz,rhaegyn or duelists but if blizzard went by their rules states here:
"Qualification Rounds and Regional Qualifier Tournaments  The First Qualification Round of the Tournament. The First Qualification Round of the Tournament shall last for approximately six weeks, and will commence on March 31, 2008 at approximately 10:00 AM Pacific Time (5:00 PM GMT) (subject to 'Server Maintenance' to be performed by Sponsor), and end on May 20, 2008 at 2:00 AM Pacific Time ( 9:00 AM GMT)."

Then it should have been Fraps,Frag Dom, gc and his dad, we dont even s key irl. Period. Theres not even a discussion that those were the teams, in that order, by 2:00am and everyone knows that.
- Around 2:30am Dynamo logged on, started playing games and tanked a bit down to 2140.
- Duelists all log on, plays 1 game vs hafu, wins, and reaches 2nd (after 2 am, though)
- Hafu continues playing throughout the night, I went to bed at 4:30 am and they were 2125. Before servers shut off they reached our final rating (217:8) and now we're tied and have to do this mini series ****. Warrior/Druid mace stun rng mirrors + lock dots.

Again, I know Dynamo didn't do this in purpose but just more ridiculous bull**** added on to the already enormous amount of ridiculous bull**** that the TR had, it's really frustrating knowing that any random 2100+ team could have played random 5 pt games till 5am and qualified.
glick
glick May 30, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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to be fair there was only one team queueing the rest of the night (rng banana phone) and they were like 9 points once they stopped. the next team we got was 0 or it wouldve been 2179! there were only like 5 2100 teams so yea any one of them probably could've done it.
BEASTWOOD
BEASTWOOD May 31, 2008 at 3:40 am
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That's pretty ******* stupid, I hope you completely dominate dynamo, assuming they're terrible enough to show up when they know they shouldn't be in.
rakka
rakka May 30, 2008 at 10:30 pm
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So S Key got screwed unless they make it 2nd round?
Limewire
Limewire May 30, 2008 at 10:34 pm
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Pretty much. That pisses me off though, because I went to bed thinking that Blizzard was going to just use the 2 am results. But unfortunately I was wrong.
hoodrych
hoodrych May 30, 2008 at 10:39 pm
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Yup. I e-mailed them. In typical Blizzard fashion I expect an automated response along the lines of Bull****, We took the ratings from the final armory update! Bull****, not realizing the armory didn't update for a ******* week, heh.

I suggest you cleavers do the same, only 4 teams were invited so it's not like they'll be bombarded with e-mails, perhaps you'll even get a real response, probably not though.
Limewire
Limewire May 30, 2008 at 10:52 pm
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Yeah, I'll try to email them. Even though 99.9% I won't get an actual response
TrollWarrior
TrollWarrior May 31, 2008 at 12:48 am
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I hope you win hoodrych you're my hero.
Fershie
Fershie May 31, 2008 at 1:05 am
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I expected them to take the results from Sunday night's armory, like they did with their first tournament.  This is an outrage, and I expect a fix to be put in place immediately.  The teams should be: Fraps, Dynamo, S Key, and MoB Gaming!  THX AND GG! lulu
rakka
rakka May 31, 2008 at 1:02 am
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Pretty gay, you guys trying for second qualifier, Limewire?
Limewire
Limewire May 31, 2008 at 2:15 am
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Mmmmm, we're not sure. We might, although our druid might quit.
razed
razed May 30, 2008 at 10:45 pm
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raddy
raddy May 30, 2008 at 11:11 pm
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If you were any sexier, you'd be dead.
Snk
Snk May 30, 2008 at 11:15 pm
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Altho I agree its really gay they dont stick to their announcements (as if this "tournament" didnt allready seem like a joke). If it was me I'd prolly stay up all night keeping myself in the top4 because Blizz did the exact same thing for CGS 2v2 and Blizzcon 5v5 =/

GL duders

/Sunk
Yiska
Yiska May 31, 2008 at 12:06 am
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OKAY WAIT. Who managed to qualify? (sry I'm a bit slow and not even from the US, enlight me plz)
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