2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russia Nationals

[e][h]2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russia Nationals

League Information

Series:

World Championship Series

Organizer(s):

Electronic Sports League
Blizzard Entertainment

Game Version:

Wings of Liberty
Patch 1.4.4

Server:

Europe

Type:

Offline

Location:

Kiev

Venue:

Kiev Cybersport Arena

Format:

1v1
Double-elimination bracket

Prize Pool:

$15,000 USD

Start Date:

2012-07-21

End Date:

2012-07-22

Liquipedia Tier:

Minor

Links

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

16

6

4

6

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

The 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Russia Nationals is a StarCraft II tournament hosted by Blizzard for 16 players from Russia. It is held in Kiev, Ukraine from July 21 to 22, 2012. The event features a $10,000 prize pool, and 3 seeds to the 2012 WCS Europe Finals.

Format

• Double-elimination
• All rounds best-of-three.
• In the Grand Finals, the player coming from the Lower Bracket has to win two best-of-three series.

Map Pool

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

Prize Pool

$15,000, and three paid trips to the 2012 WCS Europe Finals is spread among the players as seen below. The player finishing first will qualify directly for the 2012 Battle.net World Championship.

Place	$USD	Seed	Player	Team
1st	$6,000	Paid Trip	TitaN	RoX
2nd	$3,000	Paid Trip	Happy	Team Empire
3rd	$1,500	Paid Trip	sLivko	RoX
4th	$900	-	Aristeo	Team Empire
5th-6th	$450	-	Roll	Virtus.pro
			Neytpoh	Virtus.pro
7th-8th	$450	-	Turuk	Virtus.pro
			Pomi	RoX
9th-12th	$250	-	Noname	3D!Clan
			Siw	Virtus.pro
			LiveZerg	RoX
			Abver	RoX
13th-16th	$250	-	Revolver	Virtus.pro
			Strange	RoX
			Creed	RoX
			ho8ot	Team Empire

Qualifiers

Click [show] on the right for a detailed list of qualifiers and their winners
League	Date	Qualified Player #1	Qualified Player #2
ESL Qualifier #1	2012-04-22	Happy	ho8ot
ESL Qualifier #2	2012-04-29	Neytpoh	Noname
ESL Qualifier #3	2012-05-06	TitaN	Turuk
ESL Qualifier #4	2012-05-13	Abver	Pomi
ESL Qualifier #5	2012-05-20	sLivko	LiveZerg
ESL Qualifier #6	2012-05-27	Aristeo	Revolver
ESL Qualifier #7	2012-06-03	Siw	Creed
ESL Qualifier #8	2012-06-10	Roll	Strange

Participants

Protoss (6)	Terran (4)	Zerg (6)
Neytpoh	Happy	ho8ot
TitaN	Noname	Abver
Pomi	Turuk	sLivko
Siw	Creed	LiveZerg
Roll		Aristeo
Strange		Revolver

Results

Round of 16

  Happy

2

  Strange

0

  Turuk

2

  Aristeo

1

  Roll

2

  Pomi

0

  Neytpoh

2

  Revolver

1

  Siw

1

  Abver

2

  ho8ot

0

  sLivko

2

  LiveZerg

2

  Noname

0

  TitaN

2

  Creed

0

Quarterfinals

  Happy

2

  Turuk

0

  Roll

2

  Neytpoh

1

  Abver

0

  sLivko

2

  LiveZerg

1

  TitaN

2

Semifinals

  Happy

2

  Roll

0

  sLivko

0

  TitaN

2

Winners' Finals

  Happy

2

  TitaN

1

Losers' Round 1

  ho8ot

0

  Siw

2

  Creed

0

  Noname

2

  Aristeo

2

  Strange

1

  Revolver

1

  Pomi

2

Losers' Round 2

  Neytpoh

2

  Siw

0

  Turuk

2

  Noname

0

  LiveZerg

0

  Aristeo

2

  Abver

0

  Pomi

2

Losers' Round 3

  Neytpoh

2

  Turuk

0

  Aristeo

2

  Pomi

1

Losers' Round 4

  sLivko

2

  Neytpoh

0

  Roll

0

  Aristeo

2

Losers' Semifinals

  sLivko

2

  Aristeo

0

Losers' Finals

  TitaN

2

  sLivko

0

Grand Finals

  Happy

1

0

  TitaN

2

2

Racial Distribution

	Protoss	Terran	Zerg
Round of 16	6 4 6
Round of 12	5 3 4
Round of 8	4 2 2
Round of 6	3 1 2
Round of 4	1 1 2
Round of 3	1 1 1
Grand Finals	1 1
Winner	1

External links

• Official Website
• Official Bracket with Replays