2015 WCS Season 1 Challenger League

[e][h]2015 WCS Season 1 Challenger League

League Information

Series:

World Championship Series

Organizer(s):

ESL
Blizzard Entertainment

Game Version:

Heart of the Swarm
Patch 2.1.8 – Patch 2.1.9

Type:

Online/Offline

Format:

1v1
Bo5 Matches

Prize Pool:

$64,000 USD

Start Date:

2015-01-14

End Date:

2015-01-25

Liquipedia Tier:

Major

Links

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

64

20

18

26

Maps

Catallena LE • Deadwing LE • Foxtrot Labs LE • King Sejong Station LE • Merry Go Round LE • Nimbus LE • Overgrowth LE

Chronology

 2014 WCS S3 America Challenger

2015 WCS S2 Challenger 

 2014 WCS S3 Europe Challenger

Format

• In each region, qualified players face each other in a single Bo5 match.
  • The winner advances to remier League.
  • The loser is eliminated and may requalify next season.

Prize Pool

Each of the 32 seeds into award at least $4,500 USD and 100 WCS Points after future participation. In addition, $64,000 and 1,600 WCS Points are divided among participants as follows:

Europe

Participants

Protoss (10)	Terran (9)	Zerg (9)
From European Qualifier (28)
Lilbow	HeRoMaRinE	Starbuck
PtitDrogo	ForGG	TargA
NaNiwa	Beastyqt	Snute
MaNa	Bunny	FireCake
Majestic	Kas	Nerchio
Welmu	MarineLorD	Ret
PsiOniC	uThermal	Bly
Harstem	Happy	Serral
BlinG	MorroW	TLO
ShoWTimE

Results

Day 1

Day 1
January 22, 2015 - 18:00 CET
Welmu	3	2	Beastyqt
King Sejong Station   Overgrowth   Merry Go Round   Catallena   Deadwing
January 22, 2015 - 19:45 CET
Happy	3	2	Majestic
Foxtrot Labs   Overgrowth   Deadwing   Catallena   Merry Go Round
January 22, 2015 - 21:25 CET
MaNa	3	2	HeRoMaRinE
Catallena   King Sejong Station   Merry Go Round   Overgrowth   Foxtrot Labs
January 22, 2015 - 22:50 CET
Harstem	0	3	Serral
Overgrowth   King Sejong Station   Deadwing     Catallena     Merry Go Round

Day 2

Day 2
January 23, 2015 - 18:00 CET
uThermal	3	1	Bly
Merry Go Round   King Sejong Station   Foxtrot Labs   Catallena     Deadwing
January 23, 2015 - 19:30 CET
ShoWTimE	3	1	Lilbow
Deadwing   King Sejong Station   Catallena   Overgrowth     Merry Go Round
January 23, 2015 - 21:00 CET
BlinG	2	3	MorroW
King Sejong Station   Deadwing   Catallena   Overgrowth   Nimbus
January 23, 2015 - 22:30 CET
TLO	3	1	Ret
Merry Go Round   Overgrowth   King Sejong Station   Deadwing     Catallena

Day 3

Day 3
January 24, 2015 - 15:00 CET
TargA	3	1	Kas
Catallena   Overgrowth   King Sejong Station   Foxtrot Labs     Merry Go Round
January 24, 2015 - 16:30 CET
Snute	3	0	PsiOniC
Overgrowth   King Sejong Station   Deadwing     Nimbus     Foxtrot Labs
January 24, 2015 - 17:15 CET
Starbuck	1	3	FireCake
Catallena   Merry Go Round   Deadwing   King Sejong Station     Nimbus
January 24, 2015 - 18:30 CET
ForGG	3	2	MarineLorD
Overgrowth   King Sejong Station   Merry Go Round   Foxtrot Labs   Nimbus
January 24, 2015 - 20:15 CET
Nerchio	1	3	NaNiwa
Overgrowth   Foxtrot Labs   King Sejong Station   Catallena     Nimbus
January 24, 2015 - 21:45 CET
Bunny	3	0	PtitDrogo
Overgrowth   Merry Go Round   Foxtrot Labs     Nimbus     King Sejong Station

Talents English Commentators Madals (Adam Simmons) PengWin (Stefan Mott)

View Games Streams WCS Europe TaKeTV O'GamingTV WCS Polish Stream WCS Italian Stream WCS Russian Stream EmpireTV Zerg

America

Participants

Protoss (5)	Terran (5)	Zerg (6)
From American Qualifier (16)
Bails	qxc	Hydra
puCK	MaSa	viOLet
Astrea	Polt	Kane
State	Xenocider	Guitarcheese
HuK	Semper	Suppy
		Scarlett

Results

Day 1

Day 1
January 24, 2015 - 15:00 PST
qxc	0	3	Kane
Overgrowth   Foxtrot Labs   King Sejong Station     Merry Go Round     Nimbus
January 24, 2015 - 16:00 PST
puCK	3	1	Guitarcheese
King Sejong Station   Merry Go Round   Overgrowth   Catallena     Nimbus
January 24, 2015 - 17:20 PST
Polt	3	0	Semper
Deadwing   King Sejong Station   Catallena     Nimbus     Overgrowth
January 24, 2015 - 18:10 PST
Scarlett	2	3	Astrea
King Sejong Station   Foxtrot Labs   Deadwing   Nimbus   Overgrowth

Day 2

Day 2
January 25, 2015 - 15:00 PST
HuK	3	2	State
Catallena   King Sejong Station   Merry Go Round   Foxtrot Labs   Deadwing
January 25, 2015 - 16:50 PST
MaSa	1	3	Hydra
King Sejong Station   Catallena   Overgrowth   Merry Go Round     Foxtrot Labs
January 25, 2015 - 18:00 PST
viOLet	3	1	Xenocider
King Sejong Station   Merry Go Round   Overgrowth   Foxtrot Labs     Nimbus
January 25, 2015 - 19:15 PST
Suppy	3	0	Bails
Catallena   Overgrowth   King Sejong Station     Merry Go Round     Deadwing

Talents English Commentators Gretorp (Andre Hengchua) Nathanias (Nathan Lawrence Fabrikant)

View Games Streams WCS America O'GamingTV

China

Participants

Protoss (4)	Terran (1)	Zerg (3)
From Chinese Qualifier (8)
Clavie	XY	XiGua
MacSed		iAsonu
Jim		TooDming
Top

Results

Talents Chinese Commentators F91 (Sun Yifeng) Xiaose (Huang Xudong)

View Games Streams Esports Heaven NeoTV on Twitch

Latin America

Participants

Protoss (0)	Terran (2)	Zerg (2)
From Latin American Qualifier (4)
	MajOr	JimRising
	Kelazhur	CatZ

Results

Matches
January 18, 2015 - 17:00 CT
MajOr	3	0	JimRising
Foxtrot Labs   Nimbus   Merry Go Round
January 18, 2015 - 17:55 CT
CatZ	0	3	Kelazhur
Catallena   King Sejong Station   Merry Go Round

View Games

Streams

• WCS Spanish
• WCS Portuguese

Oceania & South East Asia

Participants

Protoss (0)	Terran (1)	Zerg (3)
From Oceania & South East Asian Qualifier (4)
	iaguz	PiG
		EnDerr
		KingKong

Results

Matches
January 17, 2015 - 11:00 AEDT
PiG	3	1	KingKong
King Sejong Station   Overgrowth   Merry Go Round   Deadwing
January 17, 2015 - 12:15 AEDT
iaguz	3	2	EnDerr
Overgrowth   King Sejong Station   Catallena   Deadwing   Merry Go Round

Talents Commentators Maynarde (Leigh Mandalov) Zepph (Helen Browitt)

View Games Streams ACLProSC2

Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macau

Participants

Protoss (1)	Terran (0)	Zerg (3)
From Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macau Qualifier (4)
Has		Sen
		Rex
		Ian

Results

Matches
January 23, 2015 - 19:00 TST
Ian	0	3	Sen
King Sejong Station   Overgrowth   Catallena
January 23, 2015 - 19:35 TST
Rex	1	3	Has
Overgrowth   Deadwing   Foxtrot Labs   Merry Go Round

Talents Taiwanese Commentators Hui (Yuan Jin Hui) Kaisui (開水) (Xie Siyu)

View Games Streams TeSL B Stream

Distribution

• Race
• Country
• Show All

	Protoss	Terran	Zerg
Challenger League	20 18 26
Premier League	10 9 13

Europe

	Eastern Europe	Northern Europe	Southern Europe	Western Europe	South Korea	Other
Challenger League	2 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 5 3 3 1
Premier League	1 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1

Other

	Americas	South Korea	Eastern Asia	SEA / Oceania	Other
Challenger League	1 5 2 1 8 4 8 4 2 1
Premier League	1 2 1 3 3 4 2 2