2017 GSL vs. the World

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League Information

Series:

WCS

Organizer(s):

AfreecaTV
Blizzard Entertainment

Game Version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 3.16.0

Server:

South Korea

Type:

Offline

Location:

Seoul

Format:

1v1
Single-elimination Bracket

Prize Pool:

₩108,000,000 (≃ $96,000 USD)

Start Date:

2017-08-03

End Date:

2017-08-06

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

16

5

6

Maps

Abyssal Reef • Acolyte • Ascension to Aiur • Mech Depot • Newkirk Precinct TE • Odyssey • Whirlwind

Chronology

2018 GSL vs. the World

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:
- Lim "NesTea" Jae Duk for Team GSL Allstars.
- Ilyes "Stephano" Satouri for Team World Allstars.

Casters and Host[edit]

Host
- So Jung Lim

Commentators
- Artosis (Dan Stemkoski)
- RotterdaM (Kevin van der Kooi)
- Tasteless (Nicolas Plott)
- iNcontroL (Geoffrey John Vincent Robinson)

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	ZZZZZ
2nd	$13,400	₩15,000,000	TY	Splyce
3rd-4th	$6,700	₩7,500,000	Stats	Splyce
3rd-4th	$6,700	₩7,500,000	soO	ZZZZZ
5th-8th	$4,000	₩4,500,000	SpeCial	ZZZZZ
			ByuN	Team expert
			Neeb	Ting
			Dark	ZZZZZ
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]

GSL Allstars Invites (4)
Protoss (5)	Terran (5)	Zerg (6)
Stats	INnoVation	soO
	TY
GSL Allstars Vote Winners (3)
herO	ByuN	Dark
GSL Allstars Wildcard (1)
sOs
World Allstars Invites (4)
Neeb	SpeCial	Nerchio
		Serral
World Allstars Vote Winners (3)
ShoWTimE	Kelazhur	Scarlett
World Allstars China Representative (1)
		iAsonu

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)

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

Semifinals (Bo5)

Finals (Bo7)

Racial Distribution[edit]

Race
Region
Show All

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Round of 16

5	5	6

Quarterfinals

2	4	2

Semifinals

1	2	1

Finals

2

Champion

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Round of 16

1	2	2	2	9

Quarterfinals

1	1	6

Semifinals

4

Finals

2

Champion

1

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

VODs[edit]

Spoiler-free VODs on SC2Links.com
Spoiler-Free Official YouTube VODs at SC2Casts

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.

[GSL_vs_the_World_2017_streams_stats-1] Esports Charts (2017-22-08). "GSL vs the World 2017 detailed stats". esc.watch.

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2017 GSL vs. the World

Contents

Format[edit]

Casters and Host[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]