Grandmasters 2019 Season 1 - Americas

• Americas
• EMEA
• Asia-Pacific

• Overview
• Group Stage

[e][h]Grandmasters 2019 Season 1 - Americas

League Information

Series:

Grandmasters

Organizer:

Blizzard Entertainment

Server:

Americas

Type:

Online

Format:

Group Stage:
Double Round Robin
Playoffs:
Single Elimination

Start Date:

2019-05-17

End Date:

2019-07-14

Number of Players:

16

Liquipedia Tier:

Tier 1

Links

Chronology

Americas 2019 S2  

Grandmasters 2019 is the new Premier League of Blizzard.

Information

Format

• Standard Mode
• Specialist
• Group Stage:
  • Two Groups of 8 players
  • Double Round Robin
  • All matches Bo3
  • The top three from division group advance to the Playoffs
    • 1st advance to the Semifinals
    • 2nd-3rd advance to the Quarterfinals
• Playoffs:
  • Single Elimination
  • All matches are a Bo3 except the final is a Bo5

Broadcast Talent

• Commentators:
  •  Azumo (TJ Sanders)
  •  Falcone (Daniel Falcone)
  •  Frodan (Dan Chou)
  •  languagehacker (Mihai Dragalin)
  •  Sottle (Simon Welch)
  •  ThatsAdmirable (Nathan Zamora)

Prize Pool

61,000 USD are spread among the players as seen below:

Place	$ USD	Seed	Player	Team
1st	$5,500	Global Finals 2019	PNC	Team Genji
2nd	$5,500	-	Purple	Tempo Storm
3rd	$7,000	-	Fr0zen	Team Liquid
4th	$5,500	-	Eddie	Lazarus Esports
5th	$5,500	-	Dog	Team Liquid
6th	$5,000	-	Monsanto	Team Genji
7th-8th	$3,500	-	StrifeCro	Sentinels
			Rase	Team Genji
9th	$3,000	-	Nalguidan	Team Genji
10th	$2,000	-	Amnesiac	Tempo Storm
11th-12th	$3,000	-	muzzy	Radiance
			justsaiyan	Radiance
13th-14th	$2,500	-	bloodyface	Lazarus Esports
			ETC	Fade 2 Karma
15th	$2,000	-	Firebat	Omnislash
16th	$1,500	-	Zalae	Omnislash

Playoffs prize money
Place	Prize
A11st	$2,000
A22nd	$1,500
A33 - 4th	$1,000
A55 - 6th	$500

Group Stage winnings
Player	Matches		Winnings
	W	L
Fr0zen	12	2	$6,000
Dog	10	4	$5,000
Monsanto	10	4	$4,500
Eddie	9	5	$4,500
Purple	8	6	$4,000
PNC	7	7	$3,500
Rase	7	7	$3,500
StrifeCro	7	7	$3,500
justsaiyan	6	8	$3,000
muzzy	6	8	$3,000
Nalguidan	6	8	$3,000
Amnesiac	6	8	$2,000
bloodyface	5	9	$2,500
ETC	5	9	$2,500
Firebat	4	10	$2,000
Zalae	4	10	$1,500

• In addition to the Playoff prize money, the winning player will receive $500 USD for each Match win during the Group Stage.
• Penality:
  • Week 5 Day 3:
    •  Amnesiac was in violation of rule "7.6 Failure to check in on time" due to not showing up for their scheduled match. The penalty for this infraction is a Season 1 prize deduction of $1,000 USD and a match loss.
  • Week 6 Deck submission:
    •  Monsanto was in violation of rule "7.2 Failure to Submit Deck List" due to submitting decks in the incorrect order. The penalty for this infraction is a Season 1 prize deduction of $500 USD.
  • Week 7 Deck submission:
    •  Zalae was in violation of rule "7.2 Failure to Submit Deck List" due to submitting their decks late. The penalty for this infraction is a Season 1 prize deduction of $500 USD.

Participants

Division A

Fr0zen Top Prize-Money Earner

StrifeCro Top Prize-Money Earner

bloodyface Top Points Earner

Firebat Top Prize-Money Earner

PNC Top Points Earner

Eddie 1 Top Points Earner

Amnesiac Top Points Earner

Muzzy Top Points Earner

¹ seohyun628 has changed ID to Eddie

Division B

Rase Top Points Earner

ETC Top Points Earner

Monsanto Top Points Earner

justsaiyan Top Points Earner

Dog Top Prize-Money Earner

Zalae Legends Spot

Purple Top Prize-Money Earner

Nalguidan Legends Spot

Results

Group Stage

Division A

Division A
1.	Fr0zen			12-2	26-12
2.	Eddie			9-5	21-14
3.	PNC			7-7	17-19
4.	StrifeCro			7-7	17-15
5.	Amnesiac			6-8	15-21
6.	muzzy			6-8	18-17
7.	bloodyface			5-9	15-21
8.	Firebat			4-10	12-21

Division B

Division B
1.	Dog			10-4	21-12
2.	Monsanto			10-4	21-15
3.	Purple			8-6	19-16
4.	Rase			7-7	19-16
5.	Nalguidan			6-8	18-19
6.	justsaiyan			6-8	13-17
7.	ETC			5-9	13-22
8.	Zalae			4-10	13-20

For more detailed results click here.

Playoffs

Group A

Initial Match

  Monsanto

0

Monsanto

PNC

July 12, 2019 - 21:00 CEST

Rogue

Mage

Rogue

Mage

  PNC

2

Winners Match

  PNC

0

PNC

Fr0zen

July 12, 2019 - 22:00 CEST

Mage

Rogue

Mage

Rogue

  Fr0zen

2

Decider Match

  PNC

2

PNC

Monsanto

July 12, 2019 - 23:00 CEST

Mage

Rogue

Mage

Rogue

  Monsanto

0

Qualified

  Fr0zen

  PNC

Group B

Initial Match

  Eddie

2

Eddie

Purple

July 13, 2019 - 21:00 CEST

Paladin

Warrior

Paladin

Warrior

  Purple

0

Winners Match

  Eddie

2

Eddie

Dog

July 13, 2019 - 22:00 CEST

Paladin

Rogue

Paladin

Rogue

  Dog

0

Decider Match

  Dog

0

Dog

Purple

July 13, 2019 - 21:00 CEST3

Rogue

Warrior

Rogue

Warrior

  Purple

2

Qualified

  Eddie

  Purple

Grand Finals

Semifinals

  Fr0zen

0

Fr0zen

Purple

July 14, 2019 - 21:00 CEST

Rogue

Warrior

Rogue

Warrior

  Purple

2

  Eddie

0

Eddie

PNC

July 14, 2019 - 22:00 CEST

Paladin

Mage

Paladin

Mage

  PNC

2

Finals

  Purple

0

Purple

PNC

July 14, 2019 - 23:00 CEST

Warrior

Mage

Warrior

Mage

Warrior

Mage

  PNC

3

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