2016 WCS Circuit: Spring Circuit Championship

[e][h]2016 WCS Circuit: Spring Circuit Championship

League Information

Series:

World Championship Series

Organizer(s):

Blizzard
DreamHack

Game Version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 3.2.2

Server:

Europe

Type:

Offline

Location:

Tours

Venue:

Vinci Congress Center

Format:

1v1
Single-elimination bracket

Prize Pool:

$150,000 USD

Start Date:

2016-05-14

End Date:

2016-05-16

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

32

11

7

14

Maps

Dusk Towers • Frozen Temple • Invader • Korhal Carnage Knockout • Prion Terraces • Ruins of Endion • Ulrena

Chronology

2016 WCS Winter

2016 WCS Summer

The 2016 WCS Spring Circuit Championship will take place in Tours, France, during DreamHack Open: Tours weekend.

The Spring Championship is the second of three Circuit Championships to take place during the 2016 World Championship Series Circuit, followed by the Summer Championship.

Format[edit]

Qualifiers[edit]

8 players from Regional Challengers:
- 2 slots for Europe, Africa and the Middle East
- 2 slots for North America (USA and Canada)
- 1 slot for Latin America
- 1 slot for China
- 1 slot for Oceania, Southeast Asia and Japan
- 1 slot for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau
14 players from Server Qualifiers:
- 8 slots for EU Server Qualifier
- 6 slots for NA Server Qualifier
2 players from National Qualifier
8 invites from 2016 WCS Standings as of April 11

Main Event[edit]

32 players in a single-elimination bracket
Round 32 to Semifinals are Bo5
Finals are Bo7

Talents[edit]

English Broadcast
Remote Broadcast
Show All

Hosts
- Apollo (Shaun Clark)
- Smix (Sue Min Lee)

Observers
- FunKa (Alexandre Verrier)
- Koka (Thibault Le Gall)

Commentators
- Artosis (Dan Stemkoski)
- Maynarde (Leigh Mandalov)
- Nathanias (Nathan Lawrence Fabrikant)
- RotterdaM (Kevin van der Kooi)
- Tasteless (Nicolas Plott)
- ToD (Yoan Merlo)
- iNcontroL (Geoffrey John Vincent Robinson)

French Commentator
- TBD

Russian Commentators
- Alex007 (Oleksii Trushliakov)
- Strelok (Ievgen Oparyshev)
- Unix (Aleksandr Solyakov)
- kabyraGe (Vladislav Perchik)

Other Language Commentators
- Emil (Emil Wieczorek)
- NarutO (Silvano Bovo)
- VicentiN (Vítor Vicentin)
- Zedd (Michał Bogacz)

Prize Pool[edit]

The winner is awarded a WCS Global Playoffs seed. 150,000 USD and 11,000 WCS Circuit Points are spread among the players as seen below:

Place	$USD	Seed	WCS Circuit Pts	Player	Team
1st	$35,000	WCS Global Playoffs	3,000	ShoWTimE	Millenium
2nd	$15,000	-	1,400	Nerchio	EURONICS Gaming
3rd-4th	$10,000	-	900	Polt	Team EnVyUs
3rd-4th	$10,000	-	900	MaSa	Team eLevate
5th-8th	$6,000	-	600	Elazer	True eSport
				Neeb	Ting
				viOLet	Team EnVyUs
				Cham	Ørdo Equitum
9th-16th	$4,000	-	300	uThermal	AT Gaming
				Has	yoe Flash Wolves
				Scarlett	ZZZZZ
				Hydra	ROOT Gaming
				Guru	True eSport
				iaguz	Nuovo Gaming
				Bunny	Team Liquid
				Jim	Invictus Gaming
17th-32nd	$1,500	-	-	Strange	Cascade
				iAsonu	Invictus Gaming
				Happy	ZZZZZ
				XY	Invictus Gaming
				VortiX	Team Liquid
				FireCake	EURONICS Gaming
				Lilbow	Millenium
				Bails	Flipsid3 Tactics
				Snute	Team Liquid
				SortOf	ZZZZZ
				HuK	Evil Geniuses
				JimRising	ROOT Gaming
				PtitDrogo	mYinsanity
				puCK	ZZZZZ
				Bly	ZZZZZ
				Harstem	Invasion eSport

Participants[edit]

Regional Challengers (8)
Protoss (11)	Terran (7)	Zerg (14)
ShoWTimE	XY	Nerchio
Neeb	iaguz	Cham
puCK
Has
EU Server Qualifiers (8)
Strange	uThermal	VortiX
	Bunny	Bly
	~~Clem~~¹	Guru
	Happy¹	SortOf
NA Server Qualifiers (6)
Bails	MaSa	Scarlett
Jim		JimRising
		iAsonu
France National Qualifiers (2)
Lilbow	~~MarineLorD~~²	FireCake
2016 WCS Standings Invites (8)
PtitDrogo	Polt	Snute
Harstem		Hydra
HuK		viOLet
		Elazer

¹ Initially, Clem won the qualifying spot. Due to age restrictions, though, Clem was retroactively disqualified and Miniraser and Happy played a deciding Bo3 for the qualifying spot, which Happy won 2-0.

² MarineLorD was disqualified after an investigation into win-trading. The spot was awarded to FireCake, the next highest placing player in the France National Qualifiers.^[1]

Results[edit]

Round of 32 (Bo5)

Round of 16 (Bo5)

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

Semifinals (Bo5)

Finals (Bo7)

Distribution[edit]

Race
Region
Country
Show All

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Round of 32

11	7	14

Round of 16

4	5	7

Quarterfinals

2	2	4

Semifinals

1	2	1

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Round of 32

10	6	6	2	7	1

Round of 16

3	3	3	1	5	1

Quarterfinals

1	2	2	1	2

Semifinals

1	1	1	1

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Round of 32

1	1	1	3			1	2		1	3			2		1	3			3			2		1	3			3			1

Round of 16

1	1	1	3			1	2		1	1	1	3			1

Quarterfinals

1	2		1	1	1	2

Semifinals

1	1	1	1

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

VODs[edit]

Spoiler-Free Official YouTube VODs @ SC2Casts
Unofficial VODs in Portuguese (Brazil)

Replays[edit]

Replay pack (15.7 MB)

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

↑ Blizzard Esports (April 15, 2016). wcs.battle.net. http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en/articles/2016-wcs-challenger-spring-ruling.

[1] Blizzard Esports (April 15, 2016). wcs.battle.net. http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en/articles/2016-wcs-challenger-spring-ruling.

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