All Challengers have been determined and the race to the WCS Global Finals will be opened next week on Tuesday, January 21st. Saturday and Sunday saw the final two qualifiers, where fourteen new players emerged to get their spot in the 2014 WCS. - One of which was the winner of the first ever major StarCraft II tournament back in 2010 (IEM Cologne at gamescom): MorroW, who never before qualified for WCS.



Qualifiers are underway and Season 1 of the 2014 World Championship Series Europe is ready to fire its starting shots and start the race to the WCS Global Finals. We'd like to present the schedule for the upcoming months of WCS Europe, including all Challenger matches as well as Premier League's Round of 32.



2014 WCS Season 1 Europe - Challenger Participants Qualified players for 2014 Challenger Season 1 Eugin "Strelok" Oparyshev

Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider

Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen

Samuli "elfi" Sihvonen

Piotr "sLh" Michalski

Alex "ABomB" Thomas

Jens "Snute" Aasgaard

Nikolai "stakimaN" Nedeltchev

Pavel "Revolver" Belov

Jung "jjakji" Ji Hoon

Andreas "KrasS" Ullrich

Aleksandr "Bly" Svusuyk

Anton "Zanster" Dahlström

Alexander "Mekar" Jonsson

Artem "VERDI" Avramenko

Stefan "MorroW" Andersson

Marcin "DieStar" Wieczorek

Dennis "StrinterN" Christensen

Rickard "SortOf" Bergman

Viktor "Miniraser" Malmberg

Kevin "Harstem" de Koning

Jon "BabyKnight" Andersen

David "Lilbow" Moschetto

Gabriel "HeRoMaRinE" Segat

Dan "hOpe" Gustafsson

Julian "Lambo" Brosig



2013 WCS Season 3 Europe: Challenger League 1st-24th Johan "NaNiwa" Lucchesi

Yoan "ToD" Merlo

Mark "Adonminus" Ioshpa

Patrick "Bunny" Brix

Park "ForGG" Ji Soo

Matic "Starbuck" Dejak

Andrey "LiveZerg" Guldyashov

Artem "sLivko" Garavtsov

Vesa "Welmu" Hovinen

Silviu "NightEnD" Lazar

Samayan "BlinG" Kay

Dmitry "Happy" Kostin

Antoine "Dayshi" Stievenar

Svyatoslav "HappyZerg" Vlasyuk

Sébastien "FireCake" Lebbe

Tobias "ShoWTimE" Siebe

Kang "San" Cho Won

Lee "Daisy" Jong Hyuk

Mihaylo "Kas" Hayda

Marc "uThermal" Schlappi

Łukasz "Tefel" Czarnecki

Dario "TLO" Wünsch





Originally, only twelve new players were to be determined last weekend. Due to the



2014 WCS Season 1 Europe - Premier League Participants Jang "MC" Min Chul

Jeong "Genius" Min Soo

Son "StarDust" Seok Hee

Mun "MMA" Seong Won

Juan "VortiX" Moreno Durán

Artur "Nerchio" Bloch

Kristoffer "TargA" Marthinsen

Jung "Mvp" Jong Hyun









Later this week, we are going to draw and announce the Challenger match-ups, which will take place on January 21st, 22nd, 23rd as well as February 4th, 5th and 6th. To learn more about WCS 2014 and all its changes, visit Sunday's final Wildcard Qualifier was the only chance for new Korean players to make their way into WCS Europe, as the previous qualifiers were exclusively for citizens of the European region, Middle East and Africa. However, the Korean hopefuls had their dreams of qualifying shattered as they went up against a strong European crowd. Even reigning IEM World Champion, YoDa, and runner-up, First, were unable to make it.Qualifiers are underway and Season 1 of the 2014 World Championship Series Europe is ready to fire its starting shots and start the race to the WCS Global Finals. We'd like to present the schedule for the upcoming months of WCS Europe, including all Challenger matches as well as Premier League's Round of 32.Originally, only twelve new players were to be determined last weekend. Due to the retirement of duckdeok from StarCraft II, as well as Lucifron quitting WCS, two more spots became available. Having gathered the most WCS points in WCS Europe 2013, MVP takes duckdeok's place and advances to the Premier League. MVP's and Lucifron's Challenger spots have been filled with the seventh and eighth place finishers of yesterday's Wildcard Qualifier Later this week, we are going to draw and announce the Challenger match-ups, which will take place on January 21st, 22nd, 23rd as well as February 4th, 5th and 6th. To learn more about WCS 2014 and all its changes, visit starcraft2.com/wcs otacon , Monday, 13/01/14 14:11