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2012 MLG Summer Arena

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[e][h]2012 MLG Summer Arena
League Information
Organizer(s):
Major League Gaming
Server:
North America
Type:
Offline
Location:
United States New York
Format:
1v1
Double-elimination Brackets
Grand Finals
Prize Pool:
$26,400 USD
Start Date:
2012-07-20
End Date:
2012-07-22
Liquipedia Tier:
Premier
Links
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:
32
9
11
12
Maps
Chronology


The 2012 MLG Summer Arena is a 32-player tournament held on July 20 to July 22 in New York City. It is the Arena event in the 2012 MLG Summer Season. The top eight finishers from 2012 MLG Spring Championship will join the winners of each invite-only online regional qualifier to compete for an $26,400 prize pool, seeding for pool play, and all-expenses paid trips to the 2012 MLG Summer Championship in Raleigh.

Format[edit]

  • Two double-elimination brackets.
    • All matches are Bo3.
    • Extended Series rule: Rematches are Bo7 starting from the results of the previous meeting.
  • Bo7 Grand Finals between the two bracket winners.

Map Pool[edit]

Antiga ShipyardCloud KingdomDaybreakEntombed ValleyMetropolisShakuras PlateauTal'Darim Altar

Talents[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

$26,400 spread as indicated below.

The top 16 players will be seeded into pool play and will receive an all-expenses paid trip to the 2012 Summer Championship in Raleigh. The bottom 16 players will get seeded into the open winners bracket round 5.

Participants[edit]

Protoss (9) Terran (11) Zerg (12)
Qualified through 2012 MLG Spring Championship (8)
South Korea Alicia
South Korea PuMa
France Stephano
Sweden SaSe
South Korea GanZi
South Korea Oz
South Korea aLive
Netherlands Grubby **
Qualified through the Korean Qualifier (9)
South Korea HerO
South Korea TaeJa
South Korea LosirA
South Korea First
South Korea Ryung
South Korea Revival
South Korea TOP
South Korea Rain
South Korea Dream
Qualified through the North American Qualifier (6)
United States Illusion
South Korea Golden
United States qxc 		South Korea viOLet
United States Sheth
United States Sasquatch
Qualified through the European Qualifier (9)
South Korea ReaL
Germany GoOdy *
Sweden SortOf
South Korea Daisy
Norway Snute
Finland Welmu
Germany roof
Sweden Cytoplasm
Poland Tefel **
* Nerchio is not able to attend and will be replaced by GoOdy.[2]
** Leenock is not able to attend, and his seed from the Spring Championship will be taken by Grubby, who already qualified through the European Qualifier. Tefel will be the replacement for the European Qualifier position vacated by Grubby.[3]

Results[edit]

Bracket 1 (Top)[edit]

Round of 16
 South Korea Alicia
2
Alicia 
 Sasquatch
July 20, 2012
 USA Sasquatch
1
 South Korea Ryung
2
Ryung 
 Sheth
July 20, 2012
 USA Sheth
0
 South Korea HerO
2
HerO 
 Cytoplasm
July 20, 2012
 Sweden Cytoplasm
1
 Poland Tefel
0
Tefel 
 Grubby
July 20, 2012
 Netherlands Grubby
2
 South Korea Oz
2
Oz 
 roof
July 20, 2012
 Germany roof
0
 South Korea Rain
1
Rain 
 viOLet
July 20, 2012
 South Korea viOLet
2
 USA Illusion
1
Illusion 
 Revival
July 20, 2012
 South Korea Revival
2
 USA qxc
0
qxc 
 Stephano
July 20, 2012
 France Stephano
2
Quarterfinals
 South Korea Alicia
2
Alicia 
 Ryung
July 20, 2012
 South Korea Ryung
0
 South Korea HerO
2
HerO 
 Grubby
July 20, 2012
 Netherlands Grubby
1
 South Korea Oz
2
Oz 
 viOLet
July 20, 2012
 South Korea viOLet
1
 South Korea Revival
1
Revival 
 Stephano
July 20, 2012
 France Stephano
2
Semifinals
 South Korea Alicia
2
Alicia 
 HerO
July 21, 2012
 South Korea HerO
1
 South Korea Oz
2
Oz 
 Stephano
July 21, 2012
 France Stephano
1
Winners' Finals
 South Korea Alicia
2
Alicia 
 Oz
July 21, 2012
 South Korea Oz
1
Losers' Round 1
 South Korea Rain
2
Rain 
 roof
July 21, 2012
 Germany roof
1
 USA qxc
0
qxc 
 Illusion
July 21, 2012
 USA Illusion
2
 USA Sheth
1
Sheth 
 Sasquatch
July 21, 2012
 USA Sasquatch
2
 Poland Tefel
1
Tefel 
 Cytoplasm
July 21, 2012
 Sweden Cytoplasm
2
Losers' Round 2
 Netherlands Grubby
0
Grubby 
 Rain
July 21, 2012
 South Korea Rain
2
 South Korea Ryung
2
Ryung 
 Illusion
July 21, 2012
 USA Illusion
0
 South Korea Revival
2
Revival 
 Sasquatch
July 21, 2012
 USA Sasquatch
0
 South Korea viOLet
2
viOLet 
 Cytoplasm
July 21, 2012
 Sweden Cytoplasm
0
Losers' Round 3
 South Korea Rain
0
Rain 
 Ryung
July 21, 2012
 South Korea Ryung
2
 South Korea Revival
0
Revival 
 viOLet
July 21, 2012
 South Korea viOLet
2
Losers' Round 4
 France Stephano
2
Stephano 
 Ryung
July 21, 2012
 South Korea Ryung
1
 South Korea HerO
2
HerO 
 viOLet
July 21, 2012
 South Korea viOLet
0
Losers' Semifinals
 France Stephano
2
Stephano 
 HerO
July 21, 2012
 South Korea HerO
1
Losers' Finals
 South Korea Oz
4
Oz 
 Stephano
July 22, 2012
 France Stephano
1
Bracket Finals
 South Korea Alicia
4
Alicia 
 Oz
July 22, 2012
 South Korea Oz
3

Bracket 2 (Bottom)[edit]

Round of 16
 South Korea PuMa
0
PuMa 
 Welmu
July 20, 2012
 Finland Welmu
2
 South Korea Dream
1
Dream 
 TaeJa
July 20, 2012
 South Korea TaeJa
2
 Sweden SortOf
2
SortOf 
 First
July 20, 2012
 South Korea First
0
 Norway Snute
0
Snute 
 GanZi
July 20, 2012
 South Korea GanZi
2
 South Korea aLive
2
aLive 
 Daisy
July 20, 2012
 South Korea Daisy
0
 South Korea TOP
2
TOP 
 Golden
July 20, 2012
 South Korea Golden
1
 South Korea ReaL
0
ReaL 
 LosirA
July 20, 2012
 South Korea LosirA
2
 Germany GoOdy
1
GoOdy 
 SaSe
July 20, 2012
 Sweden SaSe
2
Quarterfinals
 Finland Welmu
0
Welmu 
 TaeJa
July 20, 2012
 South Korea TaeJa
2
 Sweden SortOf
0
SortOf 
 GanZi
July 20, 2012
 South Korea GanZi
2
 South Korea aLive
2
aLive 
 TOP
July 20, 2012
 South Korea TOP
0
 South Korea LosirA
2
LosirA 
 SaSe
July 20, 2012
 Sweden SaSe
0
Semifinals
 South Korea TaeJa
2
TaeJa 
 GanZi
July 21, 2012
 South Korea GanZi
0
 South Korea aLive
0
aLive 
 LosirA
July 21, 2012
 South Korea LosirA
2
Winners' Finals
 South Korea TaeJa
2
TaeJa 
 LosirA
July 21, 2012
 South Korea LosirA
1
Losers' Round 1
 South Korea Golden
0
Golden 
 Daisy
July 21, 2012
 South Korea Daisy
2
 Germany GoOdy
2
GoOdy 
 ReaL
July 21, 2012
 South Korea ReaL
0
 South Korea Dream
0
Dream 
 PuMa
July 21, 2012
 South Korea PuMa
2
 Norway Snute
1
Snute 
 First
July 21, 2012
 South Korea First
2
Losers' Round 2
 Sweden SortOf
1
SortOf 
 Daisy
July 21, 2012
 South Korea Daisy
2
 Finland Welmu
0
Welmu 
 GoOdy
July 21, 2012
 Germany GoOdy
2
 Sweden SaSe
0
SaSe 
 PuMa
July 21, 2012
 South Korea PuMa
2
 South Korea TOP
0
TOP 
 First
July 21, 2012
 South Korea First
2
Losers' Round 3
 South Korea Daisy
2
Daisy 
 GoOdy
July 21, 2012
 Germany GoOdy
1
 South Korea PuMa
0
PuMa 
 First
July 21, 2012
 South Korea First
2
Losers' Round 4
 South Korea aLive
4
aLive 
 Daisy
July 21, 2012
 South Korea Daisy
0
 South Korea GanZi
0
GanZi 
 First
July 21, 2012
 South Korea First
2
Losers' Semifinals
 South Korea aLive
1
aLive 
 First
July 21, 2012
 South Korea First
2
Losers' Finals
 South Korea LosirA
0
LosirA 
 First
July 22, 2012
 South Korea First
2
Bracket Finals
 South Korea TaeJa
2
TaeJa 
 First
July 22, 2012
 South Korea First
0
Extended Series rule:
 Players who have met before play a best-of-seven series starting with the results from previous meeting.

Finals[edit]

Grand Finals
 South Korea Alicia
2
Alicia 
 TaeJa
July 22, 2012
 South Korea TaeJa
4

Racial Distribution[edit]

  Protoss TerranZerg
Top 32
91112
Top 16
574
Top 8
422
Top 4
31
Grand Finals
11
Winner
1

View Games[edit]

Additional Coverage[edit]

TL.net[edit]

Live Coverage[edit]

Live Report[edit]

Write-Ups[edit]

Gallery[edit]

v • d • e
 
Photos and Interviews
Interviews
TL.net
Hot_Bid
Photos
TL.net
R1CH

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Summer StarCraft II Arena: Casters and Broadcast Details". MajorLeagueGaming.com, 20 July 2012.
  2. ↑ MLG's post on twitter
  3. ↑ MLG's post on Team Liquid
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