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On Sunday May 20th at 18.00BST, UK gamers will have their fifth opportunity to qualify for the StarCraft II World Championship Series United Kingdom Nationals, held in London on June 30th and July 1st, where $10,000 prizemoney is on offer! Sign up to take part in the qualifier on the Blizzard StarCraft II World Championship Series UK microsite.

There is no limit to the number of players who can participate in the qualifier, and you are able to watch the matches taking place on both ESL UK TV which will be casted by Robert "Pughy" Pugh. The top 2 players from this qualifier will advance to the StarCraft II World Championship Series United Kingdom Nationals.

For more info, including the complete slot distribution, see the ESL announcement.

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Congratulations to Matthew "Shibbyxyz" Hunt for taking down his first ESL UK Open event, defeating Lasse "Deranging" Shemieding, a previous two time winner of the event, with a 3-1 scoreline in the final.

Final Standings:

	Matthew "Shibbyxyz" Hunt
	Lasse "Deranging" Schmieding
3rd-4th	Rotcod
3rd-4th	Jamie "stolensheep" Pearcey

The complete brackets can be found here.

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The Blizzard World Championship UK Qualifier #4 sees the first female player qualify for the finals. Moomin qualified in second place, behind Liam "Ourk" Streames, who was always expected to be one of the players to make the finals.

Final Standings:

	Liam "Ourk" Streames
	Moomin
3rd-4th	Colour
3rd-4th	Dean "Stone" Lafferty

A tournament recap can be found on the ESL website here.

Qualifier 5 takes place on Sunday May 20th at 6.00pm. For more details and to sign up click here.

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One of the most supportive mothers in all of eSports is of course Karen Kay, who can often be seen on twitter closely following all of her son's tournament performances very closely. Team Dignitas have conducted an interview with her, an extract from which can be found below:

How has BlinG’s Starcraft journey been for you as both a parent, and fan?

It has been fantastic for me as a parent, seeing his gaming career grow into a proper job! A dream job in fact! He knows he is in a brilliant position - and as a parent it fills me with pride and joy to see my son doing something that he loves, and get paid for it too. At first I did not really understand how anyone could make money from playing games online!

I was very suspicious the first time he told me he was playing in a tourney with a £10 prize! I was like "so who is putting up this ten pounds? and are you sure they are who they say they are" I was just being protective! but when he won, and then started playing more and more, that's when my real interest in the game really began.

You can read the interview in full on the Team Dignitas website here.

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After defeating DeMusliM on his way to winning the third qualifier for the StarCraft II World Championship Series UK Nationals last weekend, ESL UK spoke to Andrew "rANDY" Whittle about his performance.

You managed to beat DeMusliM in the final of the 3rd qualifier for the StarCraft II World Championship Series - was that something that you were expecting? How did it feel to beat the pre-tournament favourite?

When I was matched against DeMuslim in the finals I was already glad to have qualified and I did not expect to win against him. Entering the fourth game 2-1 down I was expecting him to maybe change things up as he needed only 1 game to close out the series and I had gone nexus first in all 3 of the first games. I went gateway first and upon scouting his base found only a supply depot so I knew he was allining me so I was right. I managed to hold it off and tie it up at 2-2. Entering the final game I expected him to resort back to his usual TvP build, 1 rax expo with a rather late scout, so I abused this by going 2 proxy gates and didnt show anything until I had 3 zealots. When they arrived at his base he only had 1 marine so that game was an autowin. It felt great to beat Demuslim, but if I am to meet him at the National Finals I think he will be more cautious of what I am doing so I will need to improve my standard play to beat him.

The complete interview can be found on the ESL UK website here.

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On Sunday May 13th at 18.00BST, UK gamers will have their third opportunity to qualify for the StarCraft II World Championship Series United Kingdom Nationals, held in London on June 30th and July 1st, where $10,000 prizemoney is on offer! Sign up to take part in the qualifier on the Blizzard StarCraft II World Championship Series UK microsite.

There is no limit to the number of players who can participate in the qualifier, and you are able to watch the matches taking place on both ESL UK TV with JoRoSaR. The winning player of this qualifier will receive seed #7 for the StarCraft II World Championship Series United Kingdom Nationals, with the second placed player receiving seed #8.

For more info, including the complete slot distribution, see the ESL announcement.