2018 WCS Austin

[e][h]2018 WCS Austin

League Information

Series:

WCS

Organizer(s):

DreamHack

Game Version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 4.3.2

Server:

Americas

Type:

Offline

Location:

Austin

Venue:

Austin Convention Center

Format:

1v1
Three Group Stages
Single-elimination bracket

Prize Pool:

$101,000 USD

Start Date:

2018-06-01

End Date:

2018-06-03

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

80

21

23

36

Maps

16-Bit • Acid Plant • Catalyst • Darkness Sanctuary • Dreamcatcher • Lost and Found • Redshift

Chronology

2018 WCS Leipzig

2018 WCS Valencia

The 2018 WCS Austin is the second of four events of the 2018 WCS Circuit.
It takes place at DreamHack Austin 2018 and is organized by DreamHack.

Format[edit]

First Group Stage

64 players in 16 groups of 4 players each, played in a dual tournament format
Matches are Bo3
Top 2 players of each group advance to the next stage

Second Group Stage

32 players in 8 groups of 4 players each, played in a dual tournament format
Matches are Bo3
Top 2 players of each group advance to the next stage

Third Group Stage

16 players from the Second Group Stage
16 players from Qualifiers
8 groups of 4 players each, played in a dual tournament format
Matches are Bo3
Top 2 players of each group advance to the playoffs

Playoffs

16 players in a single-elimination bracket
Round of 16 to Semifinals are played in Bo5
Finals are played in Bo7

Map Pool[edit]

16-Bit LE	Acid Plant LE	Catalyst LE	Darkness Sanctuary LE	Dreamcatcher LE	Lost and Found LE	Redshift LE

Talents[edit]

English Broadcast
Remote Broadcast
Community Broadcast
Show All

Hosts
- Nathanias (Nathan Lawrence Fabrikant)
- Smix (Sue Min Lee)

Observers
- Insano (Matthew Kearney)
- MapuTV (Kevin Kremser)

Commentators
- PiG (Jared Krensel)
- Rapid (Reid Melton)
- RotterdaM (Kevin van der Kooi)
- feardragon (Ravi Pareek)
- iNcontroL (Geoffrey John Vincent Robinson)

French Commentators
- Algost (Anton Bodin Marty)
- FunKa (Alexandre Verrier)
- Koka (Thibault Le Gall)
- Pomf (Alexandre Noci)
- TKL (Rémi Hibon)
- Thud (Hadrien Noci)
- YoGo (Pierre-Marie Humeau)

Taiwanese Commentators
- Chakey (Lin Guanji)
- Hui (Yuan Jin Hui)
- Nice (Huang Yu Shiang)
- TopRush (Wu Junyou)

Other Language Commentators
- Alex007 (Oleksii Trushliakov)
- CranK (Choi Jae-won)
- DIMAGA (Dmytro Filipchuk)
- Draft (Luiz Eduardo)
- Emil (Emil Wieczorek)
- NarutO (Silvano Bovo)
- VicentiN (Vítor Vicentin)
- Zedd (Michał Bogacz)

Community Commentators (Day 1 only)s
- AzureRush (Zhuan Baolong)
- Belair (Mario Maske)
- Marth (Martin Schenk)
- PsinSin (Alexey Sadovsky)
- Rex (Lei Hao Chen)
- Rifkin (Graham Rogers)

Prize Pool[edit]

$101,000 USD and 12,600 WCS Circuit Points are spread among the players as seen below:

Place	$USD	Seed	WCS Circuit Pts	Player	Team
1st	$20,000	WCS Global Finals	3,000	Serral	Ence eSports
2nd	$10,000	-	1,400	MaNa	Team Liquid
3rd-4th	$6,500	-	900	Lambo	Team QLASH
3rd-4th	$6,500	-	900	SpeCial	ZZZZZ
5th-8th	$4,000	-	600	HeRoMaRinE	mousesports
				Nerchio	Red Bull
				Snute	Team Liquid
				Elazer	Team QLASH
9th-16th	$2,750	-	300	Kelazhur	ROOT Gaming
				DnS	Cascade
				TRUE	PSISTORM Gaming
				Scarlett	Team expert
				Neeb	Ting
				Stephano	GamersOrigin
				TLO	Team Liquid
				Bly	Team expert
17th-24th	$1,250	-	100	Clem	Exeed Esports
				Nice	AfreecaTV Taiwan
				puCK	ROOT Gaming
				uThermal	Team Liquid
				Has	ZZZZZ
				MaSa	OSC Elite
				Seither	SYF GAMING
				ShoWTimE	ArmaTeam
25th-32nd	$1,250	-	100	Jieshi	Topsports Gaming
				NXZ	Legacy Esports
				Semper	Rise Esports
				ExpecT	ZZZZZ
				souL	OSC Elite
				PtitDrogo	ZZZZZ
				TIME	ZZZZZ
				Harstem	Asterion

Notable Participants[edit]

This list contains the most notable players. For a full participants list go to: Player List

Qualified players (16)
Protoss	Terran	Zerg
Has	ExpecT	~~BreakingGG~~ ¹
Jieshi ¹	HeRoMaRinE	NXZ
Neeb	Kelazhur	Scarlett
PtitDrogo	MaSa	Serral
puCK	Seither
	SpeCial
	TIME
	uThermal
Notable open sign-up players
Cyan	Clem	Bioice
DnS	Cuddlebear	Bly
Harstem	Epic	Cham
MaNa	Future	Crimson
Nice	Optimus	Elazer
PiLiPiLi	Semper	JonSnow
Probe	souL	Lambo
Raze	Ziggy	Namshar
ShoWTimE		Nerchio
		PandaBearMe
		Rex
		Silky
		Snute
		SortOf
		Stephano
		TLO
		TRUE
		Zanster

¹ BreakingGG could not secure a visa and was replaced by Jieshi. ^[1]

Results[edit]

Group Stage #1 — Group Stage #2

Group Stage 3[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
1.	Serral	2-0	4-0
2.	TLO	2-1	4-3
3.	Clem	1-2	2-4
4.	Jieshi	0-2	1-4

Group A Matches
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
Serral	2	0	TLO
Jieshi	0	2	Clem
June 1, 2018 - 19:50 CDT
Clem	0	2	Serral
Lost and Found Catalyst
Jieshi	1	2	TLO
Catalyst Acid Plant Lost and Found
June 1, 2018 - 20:40 CDT
Clem	0	2	TLO

Group B[edit]

Group B
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
1.	Neeb	2-0	4-2
2.	Nerchio	2-1	5-3
3.	Nice	1-2	4-4
4.	NXZ	0-2	0-4

Group B Matches
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
Neeb	2	1	Nice
NXZ	0	2	Nerchio
June 1, 2018 - 19:50 CDT
Nerchio	1	2	Neeb
NXZ	0	2	Nice
June 1, 2018 - 20:40 CDT
Nerchio	2	1	Nice

Group C[edit]

Group C
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
1.	Elazer	2-0	4-0
2.	SpeCial	2-1	4-2
3.	puCK	1-2	2-5
4.	Semper	0-2	1-4

Group C Matches
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
SpeCial	2	0	Semper
Elazer	2	0	puCK
June 1, 2018 - 19:50 CDT
SpeCial	0	2	Elazer
Semper	1	2	puCK
June 1, 2018 - 20:40 CDT
SpeCial	2	0	puCK

Group D[edit]

Group D
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
1.	TRUE	2-0	4-1
2.	MaNa	2-1	5-4
3.	uThermal	1-2	4-4
4.	ExpecT	0-2	0-4

Group D Matches
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
ExpecT	0	2	TRUE
MaNa	2	1	uThermal
Redshift Acid Plant 16-Bit
June 1, 2018 - 19:50 CDT
TRUE	2	1	MaNa
ExpecT	0	2	uThermal
June 1, 2018 - 20:40 CDT
MaNa	2	1	uThermal

Group E[edit]

Group E
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
1.	Stephano	2-0	4-1
2.	HeRoMaRinE	2-1	5-4
3.	Has	1-2	3-5
4.	souL	0-2	2-4

Group E Matches
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
HeRoMaRinE	1	2	Stephano
Has	2	1	souL
Dreamcatcher Acid Plant Lost and Found
June 1, 2018 - 19:50 CDT
Stephano	2	0	Has
HeRoMaRinE	2	1	souL
June 1, 2018 - 20:40 CDT
Has	1	2	HeRoMaRinE

Group F[edit]

Group F
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
1.	DnS	2-0	4-1
2.	Lambo	2-1	5-2
3.	MaSa	1-2	2-5
4.	PtitDrogo	0-2	1-4

Group F Matches
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
DnS	2	1	PtitDrogo
Dreamcatcher Darkness Sanctuary Lost and Found
Lambo	1	2	MaSa
June 1, 2018 - 19:50 CDT
DnS	2	0	MaSa
PtitDrogo	0	2	Lambo
June 1, 2018 - 20:40 CDT
MaSa	0	2	Lambo

Group G[edit]

Group G
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
1.	Bly	2-0	4-2
2.	Snute	2-1	4-2
3.	Seither	1-2	3-4
4.	TIME	0-2	1-4

Group G Matches
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
Snute	0	2	Seither
Bly	2	1	TIME
June 1, 2018 - 19:50 CDT
Bly	2	1	Seither
TIME	0	2	Snute
June 1, 2018 - 20:40 CDT
Seither	0	2	Snute

Group H[edit]

Group H
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
1.	Scarlett	2-0	4-0
2.	Kelazhur	2-1	4-2
3.	ShoWTimE	1-2	2-4
4.	Harstem	0-2	0-4

Group H Matches
June 1, 2018 - 19:00 CDT
Kelazhur	2	0	ShoWTimE
16-Bit Lost and Found
Harstem	0	2	Scarlett
Acid Plant Darkness Sanctuary

June 1, 2018 - 19:50 CDT
Kelazhur	0	2	Scarlett
Acid Plant Lost and Found

ShoWTimE	2	0	Harstem
Lost and Found Acid Plant
June 1, 2018 - 20:40 CDT
Kelazhur	2	0	ShoWTimE
16-Bit Catalyst

Bracket[edit]

Round of 16 (Bo5)

Serral

3

Kelazhur

0

DnS

0

HeRoMaRinE

3

TRUE

1

Lambo

3

Scarlett

0

Nerchio

3

Neeb

0

MaNa

3

Stephano

1

Snute

3

Elazer

3

TLO

0

Bly

0

SpeCial

3

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

Serral

3

HeRoMaRinE

0

Lambo

3

Nerchio

0

MaNa

3

Snute

0

Elazer

0

SpeCial

3

Semifinals (Bo5)

Serral

3

Lambo

1

MaNa

3

SpeCial

1

Grand Finals (Bo7)

Serral

4

MaNa

2

Distribution[edit]

Race
Region
Country
Show All

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Group Stage 1

21	23	36

Group Stage 2

9	5	18

Group Stage 3

10	11	11

Playoffs

3	3	10

Quarterfinals

1	2	5

Semifinals

1	1	2

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Group Stage 1

16	7	41	3	9	4

Group Stage 2

14	6	14	3	8	3

Group Stage 3

11	6	5	2	6	2

Playoffs

6	5	2	2	1

Quarterfinals

3	4	1

Semifinals

1	2	1

Finals

2

Champion

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Group Stage 1

1	3			4				4				3			1	5					1	1	35																																			6						2		1	4				1	3			1	3			1

Group Stage 2

1	3			4				4				2		4				1	1	10										4				2		1	4				3			1	3

Group Stage 3

1	4				4				2		4				1	1	2		3			1	1	3			2		1	2

Playoffs

1	2		3			3			1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Quarterfinals

1	2		3			1	1

Semifinals

1	1	1	1

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Map Statistics[edit]

		vs.				vs.				vs.				Mirrors
Map	#	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%
16-Bit LE	12	3	1	2	33.3%	2	0	2	0.0%	5	2	3	40.0%	-	2	-
Acid Plant LE	21	2	1	1	50.0%	4	3	1	75.0%	8	4	4	50.0%	-	6	1
Catalyst LE	19	7	3	4	42.9%	6	3	3	50.0%	4	0	4	0.0%	-	2	-
Darkness Sanctuary LE	9	1	0	1	0.0%	3	2	1	66.7%	1	0	1	0.0%	-	3	1
Dreamcatcher LE	21	3	3	0	100.0%	4	1	3	25.0%	6	1	5	16.7%	-	6	2
Lost and Found LE	19	5	2	3	40.0%	5	4	1	80.0%	3	3	0	100.0%	-	4	2
Redshift LE	4	1	1	0	100.0%	1	1	0	100.0%	1	1	0	100.0%	-	1	-
Unknown	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
Total Sum (Σ)	106	22	11	11	50.0%	25	14	11	56.0%	28	11	17	39.3%	-	25	6

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

Community Streams on Day 1[edit]

VODs[edit]

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

Replays[edit]

Replay Pack (50.6Mb)^[2]

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

[1] Jieshi to replace BreakingGG

[2] Replay Pack: 2018 WCS Austin

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[2]

2018 WCS Austin

Contents

Format[edit]

Map Pool[edit]

Talents[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Notable Participants[edit]

Results[edit]

Group Stage 3[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Group E[edit]

Group F[edit]

Group G[edit]

Group H[edit]

Bracket[edit]

Distribution[edit]

Map Statistics[edit]

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

Community Streams on Day 1[edit]

VODs[edit]

Replays[edit]

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

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Contents

2018 WCS Austin

Contents

Format[edit]

Map Pool[edit]

Talents[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Notable Participants[edit]

Results[edit]

Group Stage 3[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Group E[edit]

Group F[edit]

Group G[edit]

Group H[edit]

Bracket[edit]

Distribution[edit]

Map Statistics[edit]

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

Community Streams on Day 1[edit]

VODs[edit]

Replays[edit]

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

About

Contact Us

Affiliated Sites

Follow Us