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2012 MLG Winter Arena

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[e][h]2012 MLG Winter Arena
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Server:
North America
Type:
Offline
Location:
United States New York
Format:
1v1, Double-elimination
Prize pool:
$26,000 USD
Start Date:
2012-02-24
End Date:
2012-02-26
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Player breakdown
Number of players:
32
Protoss 13
Terran 10
Zerg 9
Maps
Chronology


The 2012 MLG Winter Arena was an 32-player tournament held from February 24 to 26 at the MLG headquarters in New York City. It marked MLG's first 2012 LAN event as well as the debut for the new MLG Pro Circuit system. The event had no live spectator audience was only about to be watched through online streaming video.[1] On February 13, it was announced that the Winter Arena would be completely pay-per-view, with no free stream option.[2] Tasteless, Artosis, djWHEAT, and Rob "Malarh" Simpson were confirmed as the event's main casters. Additionally, Tumba, itmeJP, Robin, and Adebisi were confirmed as side casters for the event.[3]

Format[edit]

  • Double-elimination bracket.
    • All matches are Bo3.
    • Extended Series rule: Rematches are Bo7 starting from the results of the previous meeting.

Talents[edit]

  • Side Stream Commentators:

Prize Pool[edit]

The $26,000 prize pool was spread amongst the players as shown below:

This is a legacy prize pool. For non award prize pools please use {{Template:SoloPrizePool}}, {{Template:TeamPrizePool}}, {{Template:DuoPrizePool}}, {{ArchonPrizePool}}, {{TrioPrizePool}}, {{QuadPrizePool}} or {{Template:AwardPrizePool}} instead.

The top 16 players were seeded into pool play and received an all-expenses paid trip to the 2012 Winter Championship in Columbus. The bottom 16 players were seeded into the open winners bracket round 5.

Participants[edit]

Protoss (13) Terran (10) Zerg (9)
Qualified through 2011 MLG Providence (8)
Sweden NaNiwa South Korea Mvp South Korea Leenock
Canada HuK South Korea DongRaeGu
South Korea MC Sweden HayprO
United States IdrA
Qualified through the European Qualifier (8)
Germany Socke Sweden SjoW Netherlands Ret
Russia Pomi Sweden merz South Korea viOLet
Netherlands Grubby Sweden ThorZaIN
Qualified through the Korean Qualifier (8)
South Korea Oz South Korea MarineKing South Korea NesTea
South Korea PartinG South Korea GanZi South Korea LosirA
South Korea San South Korea TheStC
Qualified through the North American Qualifier (8)
Canada DdoRo Canada Drewbie United States Sheth
Sweden SaSe United Kingdom DeMusliM*
United States Axslav Canada dde
United States Minigun

*Artist was able to qualify but canceled his participation, a consolation bracket was played where DeMusliM came out victorious.[4]

Results[edit]

This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead.
Upper Bracket Round 1
Upper Bracket Round 1
UB Round 1
UBR1
Upper Bracket Round 2
Upper Bracket Round 2
UB Round 2
UBR2
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
UB Quarterfinals
UBQF
Upper Bracket Semifinals
Upper Bracket Semifinals
UB Semifinals
UBSF
Upper Bracket Final
Upper Bracket Final
UB Final
UBF
Grand Final
Grand Final
Final
GF
South KoreaLeenock
2
Canadadde
1
SwedenThorZaIN
2
United StatesSheth
0
South KoreaLeenock
2
SwedenThorZaIN
1
South KoreaNesTea
1
United KingdomDeMusliM
2
South KoreaOz
2
United StatesIdrA
1
United KingdomDeMusliM
1
South KoreaOz
2
South KoreaLeenock
0
South KoreaOz
2
CanadaHuK
2
United StatesMinigun
1
GermanySocke
2
CanadaDdoRo
0
CanadaHuK
2
GermanySocke
0
NetherlandsRet
2
SwedenSaSe
1
South KoreaSan
0
South KoreaMvp
2
NetherlandsRet
2
South KoreaMvp
1
CanadaHuK
2
NetherlandsRet
1
South KoreaOz
0
CanadaHuK
2
South KoreaDongRaeGu
2
South KoreaGanZi
1
RussiaPomi
1
South KoreaPartinG
2
South KoreaDongRaeGu
1
South KoreaPartinG
2
CanadaDrewbie
0
South KoreaTheStC
2
Swedenmerz
0
South KoreaMC
2
South KoreaTheStC
0
South KoreaMC
2
South KoreaPartinG
2
South KoreaMC
1
SwedenHayprO
0
SwedenSjoW
2
United StatesAxslav
1
South KoreaviOLet
2
SwedenSjoW
0
South KoreaviOLet
2
South KoreaLosirA
1
South KoreaMarineKing
2
NetherlandsGrubby
1
SwedenNaNiwa
2
South KoreaMarineKing
2
SwedenNaNiwa
0
South KoreaviOLet
0
South KoreaMarineKing
2
South KoreaPartinG
0
South KoreaMarineKing
2
CanadaHuK
0
South KoreaMarineKing
2
Lower Bracket Round 1
Lower Bracket Round 1
LB Round 1
LBR1
Lower Bracket Round 2
Lower Bracket Round 2
LB Round 2
LBR2
Lower Bracket Round 3
Lower Bracket Round 3
LB Round 3
LBR3
Lower Bracket Round 4
Lower Bracket Round 4
LB Round 4
LBR4
Lower Bracket Round 5
Lower Bracket Round 5
LB Round 5
LBR5
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
LB Quarterfinals
LBQF
Lower Bracket Semifinal
Lower Bracket Semifinal
LB Semifinal
LBSF
Lower Bracket Final
Lower Bracket Final
LB Final
LBF
Canadadde
1
United StatesSheth
2
SwedenNaNiwa
2
United StatesSheth
1
South KoreaNesTea
2
United StatesIdrA
0
SwedenSjoW
1
South KoreaNesTea
2
SwedenNaNiwa
2
South KoreaNesTea
1
South KoreaLeenock
1
SwedenNaNiwa
2
United StatesMinigun
1
CanadaDdoRo
2
South KoreaTheStC
2
CanadaDdoRo
0
SwedenSaSe
2
South KoreaSan
1
South KoreaDongRaeGu
2
SwedenSaSe
0
South KoreaTheStC
0
South KoreaDongRaeGu
2
NetherlandsRet
0
South KoreaDongRaeGu
2
SwedenNaNiwa
0
South KoreaDongRaeGu
2
South KoreaPartinG
3
South KoreaDongRaeGu
4
South KoreaGanZi
2
RussiaPomi
0
South KoreaMvp
0
South KoreaGanZi
2
CanadaDrewbie
0
Swedenmerz
2
GermanySocke
2
Swedenmerz
0
South KoreaGanZi
2
GermanySocke
1
South KoreaMC
0
South KoreaGanZi
2
SwedenHayprO
2
United StatesAxslav
1
United KingdomDeMusliM
2
SwedenHayprO
0
South KoreaLosirA
0
NetherlandsGrubby
2
SwedenThorZaIN
1
NetherlandsGrubby
2
United KingdomDeMusliM
2
NetherlandsGrubby
1
South KoreaviOLet
2
United KingdomDeMusliM
0
South KoreaGanZi
0
South KoreaviOLet
2
South KoreaOz
2
South KoreaviOLet
0
South KoreaDongRaeGu
2
South KoreaOz
1
CanadaHuK
0
South KoreaDongRaeGu
2
South KoreaMarineKing
1
3
South KoreaDongRaeGu
2
0
Extended Series rule:
 Best-of-seven series start off 2-0 or 2-1 based on results from previous meeting. In the Grand Final, an extended series occurs when the finalist coming from the losers' bracket wins the first best of three.
Coming from the Winners Bracket, MarineKing only had to win a best of 3 to take first place. If not, the series would extend into a best of 7. DongRaeGu won the first series 2-1, but MarineKing came back to take the overall best of 7 series with a 4-2 score.

Consolation Bracket[edit]

February 26, 2012

This is a legacy bracket! Please use the new bracket instead.
Quarterfinals
Quarterfinals
Quarters
QF
Semifinals
Semifinals
Semis
SF
Grand Final
Grand Final
Final
GF
SwedenHayprO
2
SwedenThorZaIN
0
Swedenmerz
W
South KoreaMvp
0
SwedenHayprO
2
Swedenmerz
0
SwedenSaSe
W
CanadaDdoRo
0
United StatesSheth
W
SwedenSjoW
0
SwedenSaSe
W
United StatesSheth
0
SwedenHayprO
2
SwedenSaSe
1

This bracket was used to determine the 17 and 18th placed finishers. In the event one of the top 16 does not attend MLG Columbus the next highest finisher will be seeded directly in to pool play. [5][6]

Racial Distribution[edit]

ProtossTerranZerg
Ro32
13109
Ro24
987
Ro16
745
Ro12
534
Ro8
422
Ro6
312
Ro4
211
Ro3
111
Finals
11
Winner
1

View Games[edit]

Additional Coverage[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "First Details about the MLG 2012 Pro Circuit" MajorLeagueGaming.com, 19 January 2012. Thread on TL.net
  2. ↑ "Winter Arena Pay-Per-View" MajorLeagueGaming.com, 13 February 2012. Thread on TL.net
  3. ↑ "Tasteless, Artosis, DJ Wheat and JP McDaniel to Cast MLG Winter Arena" MajorLeagueGaming.com, 14 February 2012. Thread on TL.net
  4. ↑ "Surprise! A New Addition to the Arena Player List" MajorLeagueGaming.com, 17 February 2012
  5. ↑ "MLG Office Bracket" Article on Business Insider Article on Business Insider
  6. ↑ 2012-02-26 | Liquid`HayprO MLG Winter Arena Day 3 Interview by [[HotBid|HotBid]] of TL.net at MLG Pro Circuit 2012 – Winter Arena
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