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Korea StarCraft League Season 2
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KSL Season 2
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
KStar Group
Server:
South Korea
Patch:
Type:
Offline
Format:
Ro16 Dual Tournament Group stage
Ro8 and on Single-Elimination
Prize Pool:
₩80,000,000 KRW
(≃ $71,014 USD)
(≃ $71,014 USD)
Start Date:
2018-10-18
End Date:
2018-12-15
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Participants
Number of Players:
16
4
6
6
Maps
Chronology
Overview[edit]
The Korea StarCraft League Season 2 (KSL Season 2), was an offline tournament, organized by Blizzard.
The tournament featured open online qualifiers leading into offline ones. 12 best players from the offline qualifiers participated in the main tournament along with top 4 of 2018 Korea StarCraft League Season 1.
Round of 16 play began on October 18, 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.
Tournament Information[edit]
Participants[edit]
Protoss (4) | Terran (6) | Zerg (6) |
From 2018 Korea StarCraft League Season 1 (3) | ||
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Rain | Last | Jaedong 1 |
— | — | Soulkey |
From the Qualifiers (13) | ||
Jaehoon | JyJ | Action |
Mini | Light | Killer |
Movie | Leta | Larva |
— | Mind | Modesty |
— | Sharp | Where |
1 Jaedong forfeits his seed from the previous season for undisclosed reasons. His spot is thus given to the qualifiers.
Prize Pool[edit]
Prize pool of total ₩80,000,000 are distributed as follows:
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
October 18, 2018 - 19:00 KST
October 18, 2018 - 20:40 KST
November 8, 2018 - 19:00 KST
November 8, 2018 - 20:20 KST
November 22, 2018 - 19:00 KST
Group B[edit]
Detailed Results
October 19, 2018 - 19:00 KST
October 19, 2018 - 20:50 KST
November 9, 2018 - 19:00 KST
November 9, 2018 - 20:10 KST
November 22, 2018 - 20:30 KST
Group C[edit]
Detailed Results
October 25, 2018 - 19:00 KST
October 25, 2018 - 21:30 KST
November 15, 2018 - 19:00 KST
November 15, 2018 - 20:55 KST
November 23, 2018 - 19:00 KST
Group D[edit]
Detailed Results
October 26, 2018 - 19:00 KST
October 26, 2018 - 20:30 KST
November 16, 2018 - 20:50 KST
November 16, 2018 - 19:00 KST
November 23, 2018 - 20:45 KST
Elimination Bracket[edit]
Quarterfinals (Bo5)
Semifinals (Bo7)
Finals (Bo7)
3
4
3
4
Racial Distribution[edit]
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Round of 16 |
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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 | % | |||||||||
Aztec | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60.0% | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33.3% | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Benzene | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60.0% | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 3 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% | 1 | - | 1 |
Circuit Breakers | 19 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 44.4% | 3 | 2 | 1 | 66.7% | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33.3% | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Eddy | 14 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50.0% | 3 | 2 | 1 | 66.7% | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33.3% | - | - | 2 |
Fighting Spirit | 15 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50.0% | 2 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40.0% | 1 | 3 | - |
Heartbreak Ridge | 27 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 72.7% | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40.0% | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80.0% | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Roadkill | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33.3% | 3 | 2 | 1 | 66.7% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | - | 2 | 1 |
Total Sum (Σ) | 112 | 43 | 24 | 19 | 55.8% | 22 | 11 | 11 | 50.0% | 23 | 12 | 11 | 52.2% | 5 | 10 | 9 |
Media[edit]
Streams[edit]
VODs[edit]
- Spoiler-Free Official YouTube VODs at SC2Casts.com
- Spoiler-free VODs on SC2Links.com
- Watch Spoiler-free at SpoilerFreeVods.com
- Official Blizzard StarCraft Esports Youtube Playlist