2012 Battle.net World Championship

[e][h]2012 Battle.net World Championship

League Information

Series:

World Championship Series

Organizer(s):

Blizzard Entertainment

Sponsor(s):

Razer
ASUS ROG

Game Version:

Wings of Liberty
Patch 1.5.3

Type:

Offline

Location:

Shanghai

Venue:

Shanghai Expo Mart

Format:

1v1
Group Stage
Single-elimination Playoffs

Prize Pool:

$250,000 USD

Start Date:

2012-11-17

End Date:

2012-11-18

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

32

13

4

15

Maps

WCS Cloud Kingdom LE • WCS Daybreak LE • WCS Ohana LE • WCS Antiga Shipyard • WCS Entombed Valley • WCS Shakuras Plateau • WCS Tal'Darim Altar LE

Chronology

2013 WCS Global Finals

The 2012 Battle.net World Championship is a premier global event organized by Blizzard Entertainment, and which will feature some of the best players of the world. Slated to take place in Shanghai, China on November 17–18, 2012, the Battle.net World Championship will host this year’s StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena World Championship tournaments. It will be held instead of a 2012 BlizzCon Invitational.^[1] The World Championship will be the final event of a four-tier program, with tournaments at the continental, national, and sub-national level throughout 2012:

Tier 4: The World Championship, held in Asia at the end of the year.
Tier 3: Five continental championships (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania), each of them being a live offline event.
Tier 2: 28 national championships aiming to crown national champion for each country involved.
Tier 1: Grassroots national qualifiers, run in cooperation with existing eSports organizations.

Each tier feeds directly into the one above it, with 32 players competing in the World Championship. The whole program will be held exclusively on Wings of Liberty, regardless of possible Heart of the Swarm release.^[2]^[3]

Format[edit]

Group Stage: Dual Tournament Format.
- All matches are Bo3.
- Top two advance to playoffs.
Playoffs: Single-elimination bracket.
- All matches are Bo5.
- Finals are Bo7.

Map Pool[edit]

Cloud Kingdom	Daybreak	Ohana	Antiga Shipyard	Entombed Valley	Shakuras Plateau	Tal'Darim Altar

Talents[edit]

Observer
- Adebisi (Michael Van Driel)

English Commentators
- Apollo (Shaun Clark)
- Artosis (Dan Stemkoski)
- Axeltoss (Alex Rodriguez)
- Axslav (Nick Ranish)
- Day9 (Sean Plott)
- Kaelaris (James Carrol)
- Khaldor (Thomas Kilian)
- MrBitter (Ben Nichol)
- Rotterdam (Kevin van der Kooi)
- Tasteless (Nicolas Plott)
- Wolf (Wolf Schröder)

Prize Pool[edit]

A total prize pool of $250,000 will be divided among participants.^[4]

Place	$USD	Player	Team
1st	$100,000	PartinG	StarTale
2nd	$40,000	Creator	Prime
3rd	$16,000	Rain	SK Telecom T1
4th	$8,000	Sen	Gama Bears
5th-8th	$5,500	Suppy	Evil Geniuses
		HerO	Team Liquid
		KiLLeR	Team Dignitas
		VortiX	Karont3 e-Sports Club
9th-16th	$3,500	Scarlett	Team Acer
		LoWeLy	FXOpen e-Sports
		Curious	StarTale
		BabyKnight	FXOpen e-Sports
		IdrA	Evil Geniuses
		TitaN	RoX
		LucifroN	Karont3 e-Sports Club
		Illusion	Quantic Gaming
17th-24th	$2,500	Fenix	Incredible Miracle
		ViBE	ROOT Gaming
		Grubby	Team Grubby
		State	Quantic Gaming
		Stephano	Evil Geniuses
		herO	CJ Entus
		Insur	Infinity Seven
		Nerchio	Team Acer
25th-32nd	$2,000	Socke	Team ALTERNATE
		Comm	Wayi Spider
		HuK	Evil Geniuses
		MaFia	Team Immunity
		RorO	Samsung KHAN
		MajOr	ROOT Gaming
		Levin	CNB e-Sports Club
		mOOnGLaDe	Team Nv

Participants[edit]

Protoss (13)	Terran (4)	Zerg (15)
From the 2012 Battle.net Asian Championship (9)
Creator ¹		Comm ¹
HerO		Curious
herO		RorO
PartinG		Sen ¹
Rain
From the 2012 Battle.net European Championship (9)
BabyKnight	LucifroN	LoWeLy
Grubby		Nerchio
Socke ¹		Stephano ¹
TitaN ¹		VortiX
From the 2012 Battle.net North American Championship (9)
HuK	Illusion	IdrA
Insur	MajOr	~~Ostojiy~~ ²
State		Scarlett ¹
		Suppy ²
		ViBE ¹
From the 2012 Battle.net Oceanian Championship (2)
		MaFia
		mOOnGLaDe
From the 2012 Battle.net South American Championship (3)
Levin	Fenix	KiLLeR

¹ Qualified via direct seed by winning their respective national tournaments.
² Suppy replaces Ostojiy, who decided to focus on his studies instead.^[5]

Results[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Groups were drawn in the Battle.net World Championship Seeding Show event held on November 8, 2012. VOD

Group A[edit]

Group A
1.	PartinG	2-0	4-0
2.	Illusion	2-1	4-2
3.	Fenix	1-2	2-4
4.	Socke	0-2	0-4

Group A Matches
Illusion	2	0	Fenix
Ohana Antiga Shipyard

PartinG	2	0	Socke
Antiga Shipyard Cloud Kingdom

Illusion	0	2	PartinG
Daybreak Entombed Valley
Fenix	2	0	Socke
Tal'Darim Altar Cloud Kingdom

Illusion	2	0	Fenix
Entombed Valley Daybreak

Group B[edit]

Group B
1.	Suppy	2-0	4-1
2.	VortiX	2-1	5-2
3.	ViBE	1-2	2-5
4.	Comm	0-2	1-4

Group B Matches
VortiX	1	2	ViBE
Cloud Kingdom Daybreak Entombed Valley

Comm	1	2	Suppy
Cloud Kingdom Daybreak Ohana

ViBE	0	2	Suppy
Daybreak Antiga Shipyard

VortiX	2	0	Comm
Ohana Daybreak
ViBE	0	2	VortiX
Daybreak Entombed Valley

Group C[edit]

Group C
1.	Sen	2-0	4-1
2.	KiLLeR	2-1	4-3
3.	Grubby	1-2	4-5
4.	HuK	0-2	1-4

Group C Matches
Sen	2	0	KiLLeR
Ohana Daybreak
HuK	1	2	Grubby
Entombed Valley Daybreak Cloud Kingdom
Sen	2	1	Grubby
Entombed Valley Ohana Cloud Kingdom

KiLLeR	2	0	HuK
Daybreak Cloud Kingdom

Grubby	1	2	KiLLeR
Daybreak Entombed Valley Ohana

Group D[edit]

Group D
1.	BabyKnight	2-0	4-0
2.	Rain	2-1	4-2
3.	State	1-2	2-4
4.	MaFia	0-2	0-4

Group D Matches
State	0	2	BabyKnight
Daybreak Cloud Kingdom

MaFia	0	2	Rain
Daybreak Ohana

BabyKnight	2	0	Rain
Daybreak Cloud Kingdom

State	2	0	MaFia
Ohana Daybreak

Rain	2	0	State
Daybreak Ohana

Group E[edit]

Group E
1.	IdrA	2-0	4-0
2.	HerO	2-1	4-3
3.	Stephano	1-2	3-4
4.	RorO	0-2	0-4

Group E Matches
Stephano	2	0	HerO
Daybreak Cloud Kingdom

IdrA	2	0	RorO
Daybreak Ohana

Stephano	0	2	IdrA
Daybreak Antiga Shipyard

HerO	2	0	RorO
Daybreak Cloud Kingdom

Stephano	1	2	HerO
Cloud Kingdom Daybreak Antiga Shipyard

Group F[edit]

Group F
1.	TitaN	2-0	4-1
2.	Curious	2-1	5-4
3.	herO	1-2	3-5
4.	MajOr	0-2	2-4

Group F Matches
Curious	1	2	TitaN
Daybreak Ohana Shakuras Plateau

MajOr	1	2	herO
Ohana Shakuras Plateau Antiga Shipyard

TitaN	2	0	herO
Shakuras Plateau Ohana

Curious	2	1	MajOr
Daybreak TBD Antiga Shipyard
herO	1	2	Curious
Daybreak Entombed Valley Ohana

Group G[edit]

Group G
1.	LucifroN	2-0	4-1
2.	LoWeLy	2-1	4-3
3.	Insur	1-2	3-4
4.	Levin	0-2	1-4

Group G Matches
Insur	0	2	LoWeLy
Entombed Valley Daybreak

Levin	1	2	LucifroN
Entombed Valley Tal'Darim Altar Daybreak

LoWeLy	0	2	LucifroN
Cloud Kingdom Antiga Shipyard

Insur	2	0	Levin
Ohana Cloud Kingdom

LoWeLy	2	1	Insur
Daybreak Antiga Shipyard Ohana

Group H[edit]

Group H
1.	Creator	2-0	4-1
2.	Scarlett	2-1	4-3
3.	Nerchio	1-2	3-4
4.	mOOnGLaDe	0-2	1-4

Group H Matches
mOOnGLaDe	1	2	Scarlett
Ohana Daybreak Cloud Kingdom

Nerchio	1	2	Creator
Daybreak Ohana Antiga Shipyard
Scarlett	0	2	Creator
Ohana Entombed Valley

mOOnGLaDe	0	2	Nerchio
Daybreak Cloud Kingdom

Scarlett	2	0	Nerchio
Daybreak Cloud Kingdom

Playoffs[edit]

Round of 16 (Bo5)

PartinG

3

Scarlett

0

Suppy

3

LoWeLy

1

Sen

3

Curious

0

BabyKnight

1

HerO

3

IdrA

1

Rain

3

TitaN

0

KiLLeR

3

LucifroN

2

VortiX

3

Creator

3

Illusion

0

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

PartinG

3

Suppy

2

Sen

3

HerO

2

Rain

3

KiLLeR

0

VortiX

2

Creator

3

Semifinals (Bo5)

PartinG

3

Sen

0

Rain

2

Creator

3

Finals (Bo7)

PartinG

4

Creator

2

3rd Place Match

Sen

0

Rain

3

Distribution[edit]

Race
Region
Country
Show All

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Round of 32

13	4	15

Round of 16

6	2	8

Quarterfinals

4	4

Semifinals

3	1

Finals

2

Winner

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Round of 32

6	3	8	4	9	2

Round of 16

3	2	4	1	6

Quarterfinals

1	1	1	5

Semifinals

4

Finals

2

Champion

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Round of 32

2		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	6						2		1	1	1	1	1	1	7							2

Round of 16

2		1	1	1	3			1	1	1	5

Quarterfinals

1	1	1	1	4

Semifinals

1	3

Finals

2

Champion

1

View Games[edit]

VODs & Replays[edit]

Official website (replays and VODs no longer available)
Spoiler Free VODs Day 1
Spoiler Free VODs Day 2

The links above display the correct Twitch channels, but the video ID has changed. One way around is to manually search for the videos in Twitch (try "Battle.net World Championship"). Another way around it is to browse the Streams listed below.

Streams[edit]

StarCraft II (Stream 1): In Twitch, search for sc2. Then proceed to the StarCraft II channel (direct link to https://twitch.tv/sc2 doesn't work)
StarCraft II - Stream 2
StarCraft II - Stream 3
StarCraft II - Stream 4

Additional Coverage[edit]

Gallery[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

↑ Blizzard Entertainment (2012-01-25). "2012 Battle.net World Championship Event". Battle.net.
↑ TeamLiquid ESPORTS (2012-01-26). "First Glimpse: 2012 Battle.Net World Championship". TL.net.
↑ Blizzard Entertainment (2012-04-04). "The StarCraft II World Championship Series". Battle.net.
↑ Blizzard Entertainment (2012-09-14). "Who Will Be At BWC". Battle.net.
↑ ostojiy (2012-10-09). "On ostojiy's dropping out of WCS". Reddit.com.

[1] Blizzard Entertainment (2012-01-25). "2012 Battle.net World Championship Event". Battle.net.

[2] TeamLiquid ESPORTS (2012-01-26). "First Glimpse: 2012 Battle.Net World Championship". TL.net.

[20120404announcement-3] Blizzard Entertainment (2012-04-04). "The StarCraft II World Championship Series". Battle.net.

[4] Blizzard Entertainment (2012-09-14). "Who Will Be At BWC". Battle.net.

[5] stojiy (2012-10-09). "On ostojiy's dropping out of WCS". Reddit.com.

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2012 Battle.net World Championship

Contents

Format[edit]

Map Pool[edit]

Talents[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Participants[edit]

Results[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Group E[edit]

Group F[edit]

Group G[edit]

Group H[edit]

Playoffs[edit]

Distribution[edit]

View Games[edit]

VODs & Replays[edit]

Streams[edit]

Additional Coverage[edit]

Gallery[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

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Contents

2012 Battle.net World Championship

Contents

Format[edit]

Map Pool[edit]

Talents[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Participants[edit]

Results[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Group E[edit]

Group F[edit]

Group G[edit]

Group H[edit]

Playoffs[edit]

Distribution[edit]

View Games[edit]

VODs & Replays[edit]

Streams[edit]

Additional Coverage[edit]

Gallery[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

About

Contact Us

Affiliated Sites

Follow Us