OGN Overwatch APEX Season 4
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Overwatch APEX Season 4
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
HOT6
Type:
Offline
Format:
Group Stage
Round Robin
Playoffs
Single Elimination
Round Robin
Playoffs
Single Elimination
Prize Pool:
₩200,000,000 KRW
(≃ $177,387 USD)
(≃ $177,387 USD)
Start Date:
2017-08-11
End Date:
2017-10-21
Teams:
16
Game:
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Chronology
About
[edit]Western Teams and Super Week
[edit]The OGN production team announced on July 7th, 2017, that no more Western teams would be invited for APEX Season 4 onwards. Therefore, no Super Week was held, and all teams from APEX Season 3 and the top 5 teams from Challengers Season 4 were promoted directly to APEX Season 4.[1]
Format
[edit]- Group Stage #1: Round Robin
- All matches are Bo5.
- 3 points awarded for a victory.
- 0 points awarded for a defeat.
- If teams are tied on points, it will be broken by their map score, followed by head-to-head results and additional tiebreaker matches.
- Top 2 teams of each group advance to Group Stage #2 (GSL format).
- Last placed teams of each group are relegated to the promotion tournament.
- Group Stage #2: GSL format
- All matches are Bo5.
- Top 2 teams of each group advance to playoffs.
- Playoffs: Single-elimination
- All matches are Bo7
Map Pool
[edit]- Best of 5:
- 1st Set: Control map.
- 2nd Set: Assault/Escort map.
- 3rd Set: Assault map.
- 4th Set: Escort map.
- 5th Set: Assault/Escort map (excluding map chosen in 2nd set).
- Best of 7:
- 1st Set: Control map.
- 2nd Set: Assault/Escort map.
- 3rd Set: Assault map.
- 4th Set: Escort map.
- 5th Set: Assault map (excluding map chosen in 3rd set).
- 6th Set: Escort map (excluding map chosen in 4th set).
- 7th Set: Assault/Escort map (excluding map chosen in 2nd set).
- In the case of a draw, a sudden death Bo1 round will be played on a Control map.
Broadcasting Talent
[edit]Korean Broadcast
[edit]- Commentators:
Jeon Yong-jun (Jeon Yong-june)
Jung So-rim
TheMarine (Kim Jung-min)
YongBongTang (Hwang Kyu-hyung)
English Broadcast
[edit]- Commentators:
Achilios (Seth King)
Atlus (Max Anderson)
PapaSmithy (Chris Smith)
proxywolf (Wolf Schröder)
Prize Pool
[edit]₩200,000,000 KRW (≃ $177,386.51 USD) are spread among the participants as seen below:
(Converted $ USD prizes are based on the exchange rate on Oct 21, 2017: ₩1 KRW ≃ $0.00089 USD)
| Base prize money | ||
|---|---|---|
| Place | Prize | |
| 1st | ₩ 100,000,000 | |
| 2nd | ₩ 40,000,000 | |
| 3rd | ₩ 12,000,000 | |
| 4th | ₩ 8,000,000 | |
| 5th - 8th | ₩ 5,000,000 | |
| 9th - 16th | ₩ 2,000,000 | |
| Group Stage winnings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Team | Victories | Winnings |
| C9 KD | 5 | ₩ 4,000,000 |
| RX Foxes | 4 | ₩ 3,600,000 |
| LW Red | 4 | ₩ 3,600,000 |
| GC Busan | 4 | ₩ 3,600,000 |
| RunAway | 4 | ₩ 3,400,000 |
| Lunatic-Hai | 3 | ₩ 3,000,000 |
| X6-Gaming | 3 | ₩ 2,800,000 |
| CONBOX | 2 | ₩ 2,200,000 |
| Group Stage winnings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Team | Victories | Winnings |
| MVP Space | 2 | ₩ 1,800,000 |
| KD U. | 1 | ₩ 1,200,000 |
| Afreeca Freecs | 1 | ₩ 1,200,000 |
| Meta Bellum | 1 | ₩ 1,200,000 |
| Meta Athena | 0 | ₩ 600,000 |
| Flash Lux | 0 | ₩ 600,000 |
| Orcas | 0 | ₩ 600,000 |
| LW B. | DQ | ₩ 0 |
- In addition to the base prize money, teams will also receive ₩800,000 KRW ($720 USD) for each Bo5 win and ₩200,000 KRW ($180 USD) for each loss.
Other Awards
[edit]Participants
[edit]| 5th - 6th | |
| 5th - 6th | |
| APEX Season 3 | |
| 5th - 6th | |
| 5th - 6th | |
| APEX Season 3 | |
- 1 AF.Blue rename to Afreeca Freecs after they drop their sister team. [2]
- 2 LW Blue drop out of the tournament, forfeit all their remaining games. [3]
- 3 KongDoo Panthera is signed by Cloud9 on September 21st. They will play as Cloud9 KongDoo. [4]
- 4 Nc Foxes rebrand to RX Foxes on October 9th, but they will play as Nc Foxes until the end of the season. [5]
Results
[edit]Group Stage #1
[edit][edit]
Group A matches
August 14, 2017 - 19:00 KST
August 18, 2017 - 20:30 KST
2
3
August 18, 2017 - 20:30 KST
2:3(Bo3)
August 23, 2017 - 19:00 KST
August 29, 2017 - 19:00 KST
September 5, 2017 - 20:30 KST
September 12, 2017 - 19:00 KST
[edit]
Group B
Group B matches
August 11, 2017 - 19:00 KST
August 16, 2017 - 20:30 KST
August 21, 2017 - 20:30 KST
August 25, 2017 - 20:30 KST
September 1, 2017 - 19:00 KST
September 8, 2017 - 19:00 KST
| Legend |
|---|
| Stage 2 High Seed |
| Stage 2 Low Seed |
| Invited to Season 5 |
| Relegation |
[edit]
Group C matches
August 11, 2017 - 20:30 KST
August 16, 2017 - 19:00 KST
August 21, 2017 - 19:00 KST
August 25, 2017 - 19:00 KST
September 1, 2017 - 20:30 KST
September 8, 2017 - 20:30 KST
3
1
September 8, 2017 - 20:30 KST
3:1(Bo3)
[edit]
Group D matches
August 14, 2017 - 20:30 KST
August 18, 2017 - 19:00 KST
August 23, 2017 - 20:30 KST
W
FF
August 23, 2017 - 20:30 KST
W:FF(Bo3)
LW Blue forfeited match.
August 29, 2017 - 20:30 KST
September 5, 2017 - 19:00 KST
September 12, 2017 - 19:00 KST
Group Stage #2
[edit][edit]
Group A matches
September 15, 2017 - 19:00 KST
September 19, 2017 - 19:00 KST
2
3
September 19, 2017 - 19:00 KST
2:3(Bo3)
September 22, 2017 - 19:00 KST
September 26, 2017 - 19:00 KST
September 29, 2017 - 19:00 KST
[edit]
Group B matches
September 15, 2017 - 21:00 KST
2
3
September 19, 2017 - 21:00 KST
September 22, 2017 - 21:00 KST
3
2
September 22, 2017 - 21:00 KST
3:2(Bo3)
September 26, 2017 - 21:00 KST
October 6, 2017 - 19:00 KST
| Legend |
|---|
| Proceed to Playoffs |
| Invited to Season 5 |
Playoffs
[edit]Semifinals (Bo7)
Finals (Bo7)
4
3
October 21, 2017 - 18:00 KST
4:3(Bo3)
Third Place Match
Third Place Match
3rd Place
3rd
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[edit]Streams
[edit]Additional Content
[edit]Articles
[edit]Interviews
[edit]External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ No foreign teams in APEX Season 4, Super Week cancelled
- ↑ AF.Blue rename to just AF
- ↑ LW Blue forfeit
- ↑ Cloud9 (2017-09-20). "Cloud9 Signs KongDoo Panthera". cloud9.gg.
- ↑ RX Foxes (2017-10-09). "(New Sponsorship) Nc Foxes changes its brand to RX Foxes". twitter.com.

