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Korea StarCraft League Season 1
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KSL Season 1
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Server:
South Korea
Type:
Offline
Format:
Ro16 Dual Tournament Group stage
Ro8 and on Single-Elimination
Prize Pool:
₩80,000,000 KRW
(≃ $71,146 USD)
(≃ $71,146 USD)
Start Date:
2018-07-19
End Date:
2018-09-08
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Participants
Number of Players:
16
8
5
3
Maps
Chronology
Overview[edit]
The Korea StarCraft League Season 1 (KSL Season 1), was an offline tournament, organized by Blizzard in celebration of the 20th anniversary of StarCraft.
The tournament featured open online qualifiers [1] with top 256 players advancing to the offline stage. 16 best players from the offline qualifiers participated in the main tournament.
Round of 16 play began on Thursday July 19, 2018. Matches were broadcast every week on Thursday and Friday, 19:00 KST. English coverage was provided by Artosis and Tasteless with Korean commentary done by KCM, Zeus, and trOt. [2][3][4]
Tournament Information[edit]
Participants[edit]
Protoss (8) | Terran (5) | Zerg (3) |
BeSt | Last | Jaedong |
Horang2 | Light | Shine |
Mini | Mind | SoulKey |
Movie | Sea | |
Rain | Sharp | |
Shuttle | ||
Snow | ||
Stork |
Prize Pool[edit]
Prize pool of total ₩80,000,000 will be distributed as follows:[2]
Format[edit]
- Round of 16 group stage
- Dual tournament format: best-of-five
- Top two players in each group advance
- Elimination Stage
- Eight player single-elimination bracket
- Quarterfinals: best-of-five
- Semifinals and Final: best-of-seven
Maps[edit]
Casters[edit]
- English Casters:
Results[edit]
Round of 16 Group Stage[edit]
Group A[edit]
Detailed Results
July 19, 2018 - 19:00 KST
July 19, 2018 - 20:30 KST
August 2, 2018 - 19:00 KST
August 2, 2018 - 20:45 KST
August 16, 2018 - 19:00 KST
Group B[edit]
Detailed Results
July 20, 2018 - 19:00 KST
July 20, 2018 - 20:30 KST
August 3, 2018 - 19:00 KST
August 3, 2018 - 20:40 KST
August 16, 2018 - 20:30 KST
Group C[edit]
Detailed Results
July 26, 2018 - 19:00 KST
July 26, 2018 - 20:30 KST
August 9, 2018 - 19:00 KST
August 9, 2018 - 20:30 KST
August 17, 2018 - 19:00 KST
Group D[edit]
Detailed Results
July 27, 2018 - 19:00 KST
July 27, 2018 - 21:25 KST
August 10, 2018 - 19:00 KST
August 10, 2018 - 20:30 KST
August 17, 2018 - 20:30 KST
Elimination Bracket[edit]
Quarterfinals (Bo5)
Semifinals (Bo7)
Finals (Bo7)
2
4
2
4
August 31, 2018 - 19:00 KST
Racial Distribution[edit]
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Quarterfinals |
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Semifinals |
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Finals |
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Winner |
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Map Statistics[edit]
vs. | vs. | vs. | Mirrors | |||||||||||||
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Map | # | Σ | % | Σ | % | Σ | % | |||||||||
Blue Storm | 15 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80.0% | 3 | 2 | 1 | 66.7% | 4 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% | 3 | - | - |
Circuit Breakers | 18 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 66.7% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50.0% | 4 | 2 | - |
Fighting Spirit | 17 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80.0% | 4 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50.0% | 2 | 2 | - |
Fortress | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 2 | 1 | - |
Gladiator | 20 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40.0% | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25.0% | 4 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% | 5 | 2 | - |
Polaris Rhapsody | 14 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40.0% | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75.0% | 5 | - | - |
Roadkill | 19 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60.0% | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100.0% | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40.0% | 3 | 1 | - |
Total Sum (Σ) | 112 | 32 | 19 | 13 | 59.4% | 20 | 14 | 6 | 70.0% | 28 | 17 | 11 | 60.7% | 24 | 8 | - |
Media[edit]
Streams[edit]
VODs[edit]
- Twitch.tv
- Spoiler-free korean/english VODs on TL.net
- Spoiler-free VODs on SC2Links.com
- Spoiler-Free Official YouTube VODs at SC2Casts.com
- Watch Spoiler-free at SpoilerFreeVods.com
- Official Blizzard StarCraft Esports Youtube Playlist