The 2009 World Cyber Game (WCG) online and offline qualifiers have now begun for multiple countries around the world, now its South Korea’s turn.

People will have a total of 3 chances to qualify for the national finals, the first two qualifiers will be online ladders scheduled as followed:

1. June 5th to June 9th (13 people advance to the offline stage)
2. June 12th to June 16th (13 people advance to the offline stage)

The third qualifier will be team battle (5vs5 single elimination), scheduled for June 18th to June 22nd, in which 1 team (5 people), advance to the offline stage.

How this works is, a team/clan will get 5 people, you send out 1 person and have them 1vs1 until they lose, and the first team to 3 wins will win. Whichever team wins the team battle qualifier, will advance to the national finals and be split up once they get there.
A small problem many people might see is that 1 or 2 people can play in all of the team battles while there can be a couple people who get a "free ride" to the finals.

"But there’s still 1 spot left", that is correct. The 27th spot from the online qualifiers will be given to the person with the most points from the first and second tournaments combined. This increases the player activity in both events. So just because you got 14th place in the first ladder and barely missed qualifying, you should play in the second event and you might gain your spot that way.

The first ladder registration end on June 3rd, while the second ladder registration ends on June 10th. The team battle registration ends on June 13th.

Starcraft players who are listed under the official Korean eSports Association (KeSPA) list as a pro gamer, cannot participate in the online portion of WCG Korea, they instead have to compete at the offline event.

The top 4 players from the offline event will advance to the National Final, where they will compete against 24 pro gamers in a chance to make it to Chengu, China, and be one of the 3 people to represent South Korea in the 2009 World Cyber Games (WCG) grand final.

The top 24 pro gamers are decided as so: Luxury and Stork get free spots due to their result last year, and the other 22 spots will be given to the top 22 players in the KeSPA ranking for July.