The International 3 Qualifiers Detailed

Apr 27 the first news from Valve about The International 2013 has finally arrived, with some details of the main event which will be hosted from August 7th - 11th, once again to be held at aBenaroya Hall in Seattle. The qualifiers will be as last year split into 2 regions, the West being hosted by The GD Studio and the East being hosted by Beyond the Summit. Livestreams and full coverage for this great event will be provided by gameguyz.

 

While there are many missing details such as the structure of the qualifiers, and the times of the matches the dates for the tournament have been released:

Western Qualifier: May 13th - 19th, 2013
Eastern Qualifier: May 20th - 26th, 2013

 

Recently iG becomes the first team invited to the tournament. We also now know that there will be a total of three slots available for qualifier teams, with both regions receiving one qualifier slot straight up, while the runners up of both regions will play for the third wildcard slot at the event, akin to how Mousesports and World Elite played for the final spot at the tournament last year, after MUFC had to back out due to complications during their travel to the event. This also means that there will be a total of 13 teams which will receive straight invites to the event.

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