[UPDATE] ArenaNet's first Guild Wars 2 *cash* LAN tournament!

#1 - July 12, 2013, 5:13 p.m.
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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-invitational-and-regional-qualifying-tournaments/

Hey everyone!

We’re so excited to announce our first ever Guild Wars 2 invitational and regional qualifying tournaments with MMORPG.com and Mist League.

We’ll have more details next week as well as open up registration, so form your teams now and be ready!

#2 - July 15, 2013, 2:59 p.m.
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Hey all,

After the announcement of our Guild Wars 2 Invitational and Regional Qualifying Tournaments went live last week, we saw a number of concerns from players about the restrictions we have in place. While we cannot change some of these restrictions, we have been working to expand allowable regions; we have determined that we can allow additional countries in Europe to compete in the Guild Wars 2 Invitational and Regional Qualifying Tournaments. This means that players in the following countries are now eligible to participate: European Union as well as Iceland, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, and Turkey.

At this time, we are not able to change the age restriction due to other limitations. We hope to expand eligibility for future tournaments.

Thanks for the support!

#3 - July 19, 2013, 4:58 p.m.
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Update:

We will not be able to open registration this week. We encountered some technical difficulties, and feel that it is now too late to open them as players in Europe will have likely gone to bed.

With that said, we will be posting on Monday with all of the information you have been waiting for, along with instructions on how to register.

Thanks, and sorry for any inconvenience!

#4 - July 22, 2013, 9:54 a.m.
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Registration pages and rules are now up: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-invitational-and-regional-qualifying-tournament-details/

#6 - July 22, 2013, 3 p.m.
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Not every match will be live streamed. We will have matches in separate arenas.

Mist League will be covering the Qualifiers, but my guess is that players will not be allowed to swap classes during the game (you should be ready for play when you enter a game).