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ALTERNATE replaces iG in Hanover
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 The Chinese team iG had their visa application rejected and will not be able to travel to the World Championship. The replacement will be Team Alternate.
The German team placed 13th in the Intel Extreme Masters Season 2011/12 ranking, one rank short of qualifying for Hanover. Now the current German ESL Pro Series champion will have their chance against the best teams in the world from the 6-10th of March in Hanover. Explanation why ALTERNATE is a head of Against All AuthorityThe reason why ALTERNATE has been ranked above the French team Against All Authority and subsequently was first in line to replace iG is based on the tie-breaker rules that apply in such a case:If two or more teams have the same amount of points, there is a ranking for the different Global Challenge events that comes into play. This ranking is based on all the points that all the teams at a certain event collected throughout the season. For this case it means that the teams who participated in the Global Challenge Cologne collected 680 throughout this Intel Extreme Masters season while the teams who where present at the event in Kiev collected only 550. Therefore ALTERNATE is a head of Against All Authority in the ranking despite both teams having 15 points. ALTERNATE will take iG's spot in Group A where prominent names such as CLG, fnatic or World Elite are awaiting them. Group A   CLG  fnatic  World Elite Team Dignitas  Millenium  ALTERNATE
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Don`t they both have 15 points?
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6672512
So knowing that on this day both teams have the same number of points, if you needed to decide without a match between the two which team deserved the most to go face the other best teams in the world, I can't understand how you would not take aAa.
But all of these arguments shouldn't even have to come up as it is common sense that the fairest decision would be to organize a match between Alternate and aAa... I think everyone would agree to that.
MadWard
A match between the 2 teams sounds fair to me.
This is really a shame if ALTERNATE goes to Hannover instead of aAa whereas both team has 15 points.
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Myiou
And i know nobody of you was there as their decided to send alternate and not aAa. They would have their reasons for it.
KenchFTB
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I am sure everyone understands, but isn't comment section made for showing your opinion on the subject?)
Myiou
True. I think its okay to send Alternate. They are a strong Team. For this guys who forgett it they kicked Fnatic 2.times out of the Kiev quali.
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And aAa , they are not the best eu at the moment ? REALLY STRANGE
This IEm gonna be useless ,too much bad team !!
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Spasik
AAA would have been the better choice
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aAa ≠ Millenium
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Threndano
I hope you can reconsider your decision.
3974269
How can you discard one of the better team instead AT, a random team.
Explain your choice ?
ESL a serious esport website ? let me smile.
Threndano
Still, a bo3 between the two teams seems like a better idea.
6672512
The best way to distinguish two individual teams is of course a match between the two.
What I really don't get is that it's in the favor of ESL that aAa goes to the IEM since everyone would really love to see a great team like aAa vs CLG.na, TSM etc
KenchFTB
And as Jackie says, I'm not interested in watching Alternate play at all, I'll just skip those games.
So please Esl, reconsider, because Rules are good, but some are meant to be bent sometimes, and this is one of those times.
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Purezinho
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IMHO I would prefer to see AAA at Hannover because they are without a doubt one of the best european teams atm.
BUT
ESL had setup rules for the qualifikation wich were explained in to ot.
When there is a draw and the rules say that Alternate then will be the one to favour, then it shall be so.
If AAA has earned points as Milenium, then it is their fault not to get these points. Although the same is for CLG.eu which without a doubt deserve a spot but even are not qualified due to their license problems.
eugheu
Threndano
Well the point system is random anyway. Because CLG.na failed to qualify for the tournament in kiev the score is lower than Cologne. However this is not factored into the whole math. It is bullshit.
AT got invited to Cologne won one game and that was it. aAa actually qualified for Kiev.
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ALLEZ VOUS FAIRE ENCULER bande de germanich de merde !
aAa deserves far more this invitation .
Continue to lick each other germans !
Bande de consanguins
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Just skip ALTERNATE matches during this event..
eugheu
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Alternate will get stomp in every game..
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edited by Cavachier 29/02/12
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Also Alternate despite beeing a good team, has no chance at winning anyways and is by far worse than AAA!
i am sad and so is every esport fan ...
At least let them play it out! u can still do it ESL, just reconsider your decision and everyone is happy!
2224291
Maybe we should put this to RIOT, at least to consider working with an other esport organisation than ESL in season 3.
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2224291
it has been clearly stated multiple time that this rule you talk about is biased and not fair at all.
This deserve a match for qualification, or the winner of hannovre will not really be the #1 world.
6672512
To me, your rule is flawed is many ways. As I said in my previous posts, it separates individual teams using general criterias which do not make sense. Both Alternate at Cologne, and aAa at Kiev didn't make it out of the group stages. If both teams had won or went to the finals, using the tournament difficulty as a criteria would make sense in a way. But here, you're judging that Alternate was at a LAN of higher level than aAa, by comparing the 8 teams that were there, despite the fact that they only played against 3 of the other 7 teams !
I could go on and on about how I find this rule particularly odd... I'll just add that this rule does not take into account many factors that I find a lot more relevant than those you are using: this rule doesn't take into account all the points aAa won but lost to Millenium, doesn't take into account the fact that Alternate didn't actually qualify for Cologne but was invited, doesn't take into account the time the points were won and the teams' actual states: Alternate won their points in 2011 and have been pretty absent from the scene since while aAa won their points just a few weeks ago at Kiev and have been winning most of their matches against other top teams.
So to put it simply: knowing that your goal is (probably) to get all the best possible teams to come to Hannover, why would you implement a rule that doesn't necessarily insure you that those great teams will be the one selected ?
Sorry for the long post.