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2017 GSL vs. the World
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2017 GSL vs the World
League Information
Series:
Organizer(s):
Game Version:
Server:
South Korea
Type:
Offline
Location:
SeoulFormat:
1v1
Single-elimination Bracket
Single-elimination Bracket
Prize Pool:
₩108,000,000 (≃ $96,000 USD)
Start Date:
2017-08-03
End Date:
2017-08-06
Liquipedia Tier:
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:
16
5
5
6Maps
Chronology
GSL vs the World is the second WCS Global Event of the year 2017 held on August 3-6 in Seoul, South Korea.
The event features an individual tournament as well as a team tournament in which the 16 top players from the WCS Korea and WCS Circuit face each other.
Format[edit]
- Single Elimination Bracket:
- All matches are Bo5.
- Finals are Bo7.
- Captains for the two team are:
Casters and Host[edit]
- Host
- Commentators
Prize Pool[edit]
₩108,000,000 KRW (≈ $96,000 USD *) are spread among the players as seen below:
| Place | $USD | ₩ KRW | Player | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 1st | $35,700 | ₩40,000,000 | INnoVation |  |
 2nd | $13,400 | ₩15,000,000 | TY |  Splyce |
 3rd-4th | $6,700 | ₩7,500,000 | Stats | Splyce |
| soO | | |||
| 5th-8th | $4,000 | ₩4,500,000 |  SpeCial | |
| ByuN |  Team expert | |||
 Neeb |  Ting | |||
| Dark | | |||
| 9th-16th | $2,250 | ₩2,500,000 | herO |  ROOT Gaming |
 Kelazhur | ROOT Gaming | |||
 iAsonu |  Invictus Gaming | |||
 Serral |  Ence eSports | |||
| sOs |  Jin Air Green Wings | |||
 Scarlett | Team expert | |||
 Nerchio |  EURONICS Gaming | |||
 ShoWTimE |  ArmaTeam |
Participants[edit]
| Protoss (5)
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Terran (5)
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Zerg (6)
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| GSL Allstars Invites (4) | ||
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| Stats
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INnoVation
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soO
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| TY
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| GSL Allstars Vote Winners (3) | ||
| herO
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ByuN
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Dark
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| GSL Allstars Wildcard (1) | ||
| sOs
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| World Allstars Invites (4) | ||
| Neeb
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SpeCial
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Nerchio
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| Serral
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| World Allstars Vote Winners (3) | ||
| ShoWTimE
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Kelazhur
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Scarlett
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| World Allstars China Representative (1) | ||
| iAsonu
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Voting[edit]
A public voting was conducted to elect one champion of each race to both GSL and World teams. Links to the voting pages can be found at wcs.starcraft2.com. Team World received three players by popular vote while team GSL received four players with the fourth being the most voted second place from any of the race specific votes. The voting ended on July 19, 2017 - 10:00 PDT.
Results[edit]
Round of 16 (Bo5)
Stats3
Stats
herO
herO0
SpeCial3
SpeCial
Kelazhur Kelazhur0
INnoVation3
INnoVation
iAsonu iAsonu0
Serral2
Serral
ByuN ByuN3
Neeb3
Neeb
sOs sOs1
TY3
TY
Scarlett Scarlett0
Nerchio1
Dark3
soO3
soO
ShoWTimE ShoWTimE2
Quarterfinals (Bo5)
Stats3
Stats
SpeCial SpeCial2
INnoVation3
INnoVation
ByuN ByuN1
Neeb2
Neeb
TY TY3
Dark1
Dark
soO soO3
Semifinals (Bo5)
Stats0
Stats
INnoVation INnoVation3
TY3
TY
soO soO1
Finals (Bo7)
INnoVation4
INnoVation
TYAugust 6, 2017 - 18:45 KST
TY0
Racial Distribution[edit]
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| Western Europe | Eastern Europe | North America | Latin America | Asia | Oceania | ||||||
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View Games[edit]
Streams[edit]
VODs[edit]
Viewers Stats[edit]
Data about number of viewers[1]:
- The tournament's Overall peak was 261 795 viewers
- The tournament's peak Without Chinese viewers was 23 507 viewers
- English streams peak was 18 178 viewers
- Russian streams peak was 2 076 viewers
- Chinese streams peak was 239 228 viewers
- Twitch.tv peak was 20 952 viewers
External Links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Esports Charts (2017-22-08). "GSL vs the World 2017 detailed stats". esc.watch.