2015 WCS Season 3 Premier League

[e][h]2015 WCS Season 3 Premier League

League Information

Series:

WCS

Organizers:

ESL
Blizzard Entertainment

Game version:

Heart of the Swarm
Patch 2.1.10 – Patch 2.1.12

Type:

Offline

Location:

Cologne

Burbank

Katowice

Kraków

Venue:

[ESL America Studio
ESL Cologne Studio
ESL Katowice Studio
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zajezdnia_%C5%9Bw._Wawrzy%C5%84ca Stara Zajezdnia]

Format:

1v1
2 Group Stages
Single-elimination Playoffs

Prize pool:

$217,000 USD

Start Date:

2015-08-13

End Date:

2015-09-13

Liquipedia tier:

Premier

Links

Player breakdown

Number of players:

32

10

9

13

Maps

Bridgehead LE • Cactus Valley LE • Coda LE • Dash and Terminal LE • Iron Fortress LE • Moonlight Madness LE • Terraform LE

Chronology

2015 WCS S2 Premier

2016 WCS Winter

Format[edit]

Group Stage #1 (Round of 32): Dual Tournament Format.
- All matches are Bo3.
- Groups A–D are played at the ESL America Studio in Burbank, California, USA.
- Groups E–H are played at the ESL Cologne Studio in Cologne, Germany.
Group Stage #2 (Round of 16): Dual Tournament Format.
- All matches are Bo3.
- Played at the ESL Katowice Studio in Katowice, Poland.
Playoffs: Single-elimination bracket.
- Quarterfinals are Bo5.
- Semifinals are Bo5.
- Finals are Bo7.
- Played at the Stara Zajezdnia in Kraków, Poland.

Talents[edit]

Hosts
- Apollo (Shaun Clark)
- Chobra (William Cho)

English Commentator ^[1]s
- Apollo (Shaun Clark)
- Artosis (Dan Stemkoski)
- BlinG (Samayan Kay)
- HuK (Chris Loranger)
- Kaelaris (James Carrol)
- Nathanias (Nathan Lawrence Fabrikant)
- PiG (Jared Krensel)
- RotterdaM (Kevin van der Kooi)
- Tasteless (Nicolas Plott)
- ToD (Yoan Merlo)
- iNcontroL (Geoffrey John Vincent Robinson)

Observer
- Funka (Alexandre Verrier)

Other Language Commentator
- Sefirofe (Renan Luz Mesquita)

Prize Pool[edit]

$217,000 USD and 12,250 WCS Points are divided among participants.

Hitman forfeited his place in WCS Season 3 Finals due to personal reasons and was replaced by Elazer.^[2] As stated in the 2015 WCS Player Handbook (15.0.B), after a 48 hours notice prior to the scheduled match, the player's placement and all applicable prize money and WCS points are swapped with the replacement player.

Participants[edit]

2015 WCS Season 2 Champion (1)
Protoss (10)	Terran (9)	Zerg (13)
		Hydra
2015 WCS Season 3 Challenger (31)
Jim	Shana	XiGua
Has	Kelazhur	iAsonu
Neeb	MajOr	Petraeus
Hitman	iaguz	Sen
MaNa	MaSa	Jaedong
ShoWTimE	Polt	Kane
Lilbow	MarineLorD	viOLet
GunGFuBanDa	HeRoMaRinE	Snute
Harstem	ForGG	Starbuck
elfi	~~uThermal~~^[3]^[4]	TLO
		Elazer
		Zanster

Results[edit]

Group Stage #1 (Ro32)[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
August 13, 2015 - 12:00 PDT
1.	Polt	2-0	4-1
2.	Petraeus	2-1	5-4
3.	Harstem	1-2	3-4
4.	MajOr	0-2	1-4

Group A Matches

Group B[edit]

Group B
August 14, 2015 - 12:00 PDT
1.	Hydra	2-0	4-0
2.	elfi	2-1	4-3
3.	Kelazhur	1-2	2-4
4.	Starbuck	0-2	1-4

Group B Matches

Group C[edit]

Group C
August 15, 2015 - 12:00 PDT
1.	Jaedong	2-0	4-1
2.	Sen	2-1	5-4
3.	ShoWTimE	1-2	4-5
4.	HeRoMaRinE	0-2	1-4

Group C Matches

Group D[edit]

Group D
August 16, 2015 - 12:00 PDT
1.	MarineLorD	2-0	4-1
2.	iaguz	2-1	5-4
3.	Has	1-2	4-5
4.	MaSa	0-2	1-4

Group D Matches

Group E[edit]

Group E
August 25, 2015 - 18:00 CEST
1.	GunGFuBanDa	2-0	4-0
2.	Lilbow	2-1	4-3
3.	Neeb	1-2	3-4
4.	Shana	0-2	0-4

Group E Matches

Group F[edit]

Group F
August 26, 2015 - 18:00 CEST
1.	ForGG	2-0	4-1
2.	Zanster	2-1	4-2
3.	iAsonu	1-2	3-5
4.	Kane	0-2	1-4

Group F Matches

Group G[edit]

Group G
August 27, 2015 - 18:00 CEST
1.	Snute	2-0	4-0
2.	Hitman^[2]	2-1	5-2
3.	Elazer	1-2	2-5
4.	Jim	0-2	0-4

Group G Matches

Group H[edit]

Group H
August 28, 2015 - 18:00 CEST
1.	MaNa	2-0	4-2
2.	viOLet	2-1	4-3
3.	TLO	1-2	3-4
4.	XiGua	0-2	2-4

Group H Matches