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StarLadder StarSeries Season 9
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StarLadder StarSeries Season 9
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Type:
Offline
Location:
Kiev Dates:
Apr 17 - 20, 2014
Teams:
8
Format:
Online League Play,
Offline Playoffs
Offline Playoffs
Prize Pool:
$190,162 USD
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Overview[edit]
Format[edit]
- Group Stage
- Two groups of four teams in a best-of-one round robin.
- Top two teams advance to the upper bracket and the bottom two advance to the lower bracket.
- All matches are played in a Best of One series.
- Playoffs
- Double Elimination Bracket with four teams seeded into the upper and lower bracket respectively.
- First two round of lower bracket are played in Best of One format.
- All other matches except Grand Finals are played in Best of Three format.
- Grand Finals are played in a Best of Five Series.
Prize Pool[edit]
The sponsored prize pool was set at $80,000 but an additional $2.50 for each StarSeries 9 Bundle sold will be added to the prize pool.
The total prize pool was at ~$229,000 USD (~$149,000 added, excluding ~$40,000 for team travel costs), as of April 20th, 2014.[1]
The final prize pool split among the teams at the award ceremony was ~$189,000.[2]
| Place | $ USD | Percent | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
 1st
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$85,000 | 45% |  Team DK
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 2nd
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$38,000 | 20% |  Team Empire
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 3rd
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$26,000 | 14% |  Evil Geniuses
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 4th
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$15,000 | 8% |  Invictus Gaming
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| 5th-6th | $7,500 | 4% |  Alliance
|
 Natus Vincere
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| 7th-8th | $4,750 | 2.5% |  RoX.KIS
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 MVP Phoenix
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View Games[edit]
Official casters for the tournament are:
- StarLadder TV cast by Vitalii "v1lat" Volochai and Roman "CaspeRRR" Lepokhin.
Russian Stream cast by Viktor "GodHunt" Volkov and Rustam "Adekvat" Mavlutov.
BeyondTheSummitTV cast by BeyondTheSummit Studio.
Chinese Stream cast by "LGD.tv"
Brazilian Stream cast by "NoMad TV"
Participants[edit]
Results[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
Group A[edit]
| Round Robin | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Team DK
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3-0 | ||||
| 2. | Alliance
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2-1 | ||||
| 3. | Team Empire
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1-2 | ||||
| 4. | MVP Phoenix
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0-3 | ||||
| Group A Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| MVP.P | 0 | 1 | Empire |
| [A] | 0 | 1 | DK |
| DK | 1 | 0 | Empire |
| MVP.P | 0 | 1 | [A] |
| Empire | 0 | 1 | [A] |
| MVP.P | 0 | 1 | DK |
Playoffs[edit]
Winner's Round 1 (Bo3)
Upper Bracket Finals
Loser's Round 1 (Bo1)
Loser's Round 2 (Bo1)
Loser's Round 3 (Bo3)
Loser's Finals (Bo3)
Grand Finals
