Finally we’re at the SC2 world championships, a 5 day long tournament, with a $1mil prize pool; $400,000 for first place!
(I suggest you sort the comments here by New)
Main Twitch Stream | Youtube Streams | Twitch Stream B
Liquipedia results | TL discussion thread
(Liquipedia says they start at 5am CDT, but Youtube is saying 4:15am, so there may be a long intro segment/ceremony)
18 Players
Serral, Clem, Oliveira, Cure, Dark, Maru, HeRoMaRinE, Reynor, ByuN, GuMiho, Astrea, Coffee, Classic, Spirit, Solar, herO, ShoWTimE, and SHIN.
(ShoWTimE and SHIN both got in through the last chance qualifier, so they will start in the Knockout Bracket played on August 17th.)
Format
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Main Stage (played August 14th to 16th)
- 16 players split into Group A and B
- Double-elimination brackets, and losing again in the Lower Bracket means you go to the first round of the Knockout Bracket.
- All matches are Bo5.
- The winner of each group advances to the Final Four.
- The 2nd place of Group A faces the 2nd place of Group B
- Winner advances to the Final Four.
- Loser drops down to the Quarterfinals of the Knockout Bracket
- 16 players split into Group A and B
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Knockout Bracket (August 17th)
- 16 Players
- 6 players who lost in Group A Lower Bracket
- 6 players who lost in Group B Lower Bracket
- The player who lost the 2nd places match
- ShoWTimE and SHIN, who won the qualifier back in July
- Single-elimination bracket.
- All matches are Bo3.
- Finals are Bo5.
- The winner advances to the Final Four.
- 16 Players
(ShoWTimE and SHIN are starting in the Round of 16 of this bracket, but we don’t yet know who will be top of the bracket or who will be at the bottom side)
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Final Four (August 18th)
- The winner of Group A, the winner of Group B, the winner of the 2nd places match from the Main Stage, and the winner of the Knockout Bracket.
- Single-elimination bracket.
- Semifinals (first matches) are Bo7.
- Grand Finals are Bo9.
Oh lord I somehow thought this is next week, it’s here already!!
Day 3 starting in 12 hours
Twitch Stream | Youtube Stream
Liquipedia screenshots:
(spoilers of Day 1 and 2, but no spoilers about Day 3)
Schedule screenshotted from Liquipedia
Note that the final day starts 2 hours later than the previous days did, 12 hours and 40 minutes from this comment
Day 2 starting in 6 hours, this time it’s gonna be 2 streams
Twitch Stream A | Twitch Stream B
Youtube Stream A | Youtube Stream B
Today we get the upper bracket semifinal and final of each group, as well as the lower bracket round 1 and quarterfinal.
Liquipedia screenshots:
(spoilers of Day 1, but no spoilers about Day 2)
Day 4 starting in 9 hours
Day 4 is the full Knockout Bracket, on 2 streams.
Twitch Stream A | Twitch Stream B
Youtube Stream A | Youtube Steam B
Liquipedia screenshots:
(spoilers of Day 1/2/3, but no spoilers about Day 4)
Final Day, starting in 7 hours!
Twitch Stream | Youtube Stream
Liquipedia screenshots:
(spoilers of previous days, but no spoilers about the final day)
Byun vs Oliveira is pretty chaotic lol
Maru vs Spirit starting now! I’m hoping this is Maru’s year finally
Day 1 (August 14th) matches, starting in 12 hours
All the first round matches of Group A and Group B
I guess the order on this was wrong, but it’s a screenshot from Liquipedia lol