ESL Major Series Season 5

[e][h]ESL Major Series V

League Information

Organizer:

ESL

Type:

Online

Location:

 Germany

Format:

1v1, group stage into
double-elimination bracket

Edition:

5th

Prize pool:

€ 750 EUR
(≃ $1,043 USD)

Start Date:

2009-11-09

End Date:

2010-02-01

Liquipedia Tier:

Major

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

16

5

4

7

Maps

Destination • Heartbreak Ridge • Colosseum • Medusa • Outsider • Byzantium

Overview

The ESL Major Series Season V was hosted during late 2009 and early 2010 by ESL TV. It had a prize pool of €750. The event was split into two phases: A group stage and a double-elimination tournament. Two players were seeded directly into the groupstage, these two players were last years finalists IdrA and Ret, the rest of the players had to qualify via 6 online tournaments. Each group winner automatically advanced into the second stage, while the players placed second and third had to undergo relegation matches.

Most games were streamed each Monday. The casters were Uli "FlyingDJ" Schulze and Christian "Stoned" Wopen in German and broad-casted with the help of the Octoshape Plug-In. However, the streaming service often caused problems for the audience, especially non-German viewers had problems to follow the streams.

Prizes

€750 were spread among the top placing players according to the following distribution:

Place	$USD	€  EUR	Player
1st	$626	€ 450	IdrA
2nd	$278	€ 200	Strelok
3rd	$139	€ 100	kogeT
4th	-	-	White-Ra

(Converted USD prizes are based on the currency rate on 2010-02-01: 1 EUR ≃ 1.3913 USD.)

Participants

Protoss (5)	Terran (4)	Zerg (7)
White-Ra	IdrA	Avi-Love
Arew	Strelok	Mondragon
Draco	Aero	Ace
Dreiven	Morrow	koget
MaNa		kolll
		ret
		XiaOzI

Group Stage

Group A

Group A
1.	koget			3-0	6-2
2.	Morrow			2-1	5-3
3.	kolll			1-2	4-4
4.	XiaOzI			0-3	0-6

Group A matches
koget	2	0	XiaOzI
kolll	0	2	Morrow
kolll	2	0	XiaOzI
koget	2	1	Morrow
kolll	1	2	koget

Group B

Group B
1.	Ace			3-0	6-0
2.	Idra			2-1	4-2
3.	White-Ra			1-2	2-5
4.	Aero			0-3	1-4

Group B matches
Ace	2	0	Idra
White-Ra	2	1	Aero
White-Ra	0	2	Ace
Idra	2	0	Aero
White-Ra	0	2	Idra
Ace	2	0	Aero

Group C

Group C
1.	Mondragon			3-0	6-0
2.	Strelok			2-1	4-3
3.	MaNa			1-2	3-5
4.	Arew			0-3	1-6

Group C matches
Mondragon	2	0	Strelok
Mana	2	1	Arew
Mondragon	2	0	Arew
Strelok	2	1	Mana
Mana	0	2	Mondragon
Strelok	2	0	Arew

Group D

Group D
1.	Draco			2-1	4-2
2.	ret			2-1	4-3
3.	Dreiven			1-2	3-4
4.	Avi-Love			1-2	2-4

Group D matches
Draco	2	0	Dreiven
ret	2	0	Avi-Love
ret	2	0	Dreiven
Draco	2	0	ret
Dreiven	1	2	ret
Avi-Love	1	1	Draco

Relegation matches

The runner-up of each division had to face the third placed player of the neighbour division in a best of three. Winner advanced, Loser was out.

White-Ra vs Morrow
January 4, 2010
White-Ra	2	0	Morrow
TBD   TBD

kolll vs Idra
January 4, 2010
kolll	2	1	Idra
TBD   TBD   TBD

Strelok vs Dreiven
January 4, 2010
Strelok	2	1	Dreiven
TBD   TBD   TBD

MaNa vs ret
January 4, 2010
MaNa	2	0	ret
TBD   TBD

Brackets

Quarterfinals

  koget

2

  MaNa

1

  Mondragon

0

  Idra

2

  Strelok

2

  Ace

1

  Draco

1

  White-Ra

2

Semifinals

  koget

0

  Idra

2

  Strelok

2

  White-Ra

1

Finals

  Idra

3

  Strelok

1

3rd Place Match

  White-Ra

1

  Koget

3

External Links

• broodwar.de Coverage