2018 WCS Leipzig

[e][h]2018 WCS Leipzig

League Information

Series:

WCS

Organizer:

DreamHack

Game version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 4.1.4

Server:

Europe

Type:

Offline

Location:

Leipzig

Venue:

Leipzig Trade Fair

Format:

1v1
Three Group Stages
Single-elimination bracket

Prize pool:

$101,000 USD

Start Date:

2018-01-26

End Date:

2018-01-28

Liquipedia tier:

Premier

Links

Player breakdown

Number of players:

79

23

33

Maps

Abiogenesis • Acid Plant • Backwater • Blackpink • Catalyst • Eastwatch • Neon Violet Square

Chronology

2017 WCS Montreal

2018 WCS Austin

The 2018 WCS Leipzig is the first of four events of the 2018 WCS Circuit.
It takes place at DreamHack Leipzig 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]

Abiogenesis LE	Acid Plant LE	Backwater LE	Blackpink LE	Catalyst LE	Eastwatch LE	Neon Violet Square LE

Talents[edit]

English Broadcast
Remote Broadcast
Community Broadcast
Show All

Hosts
- Anna Prosser (Anna Prosser Robinson)
- Nathanias (Nathan Lawrence Fabrikant)

Observers
- MapuTV (Kevin Kremser)
- feardragon (Ravi Pareek)

Commentators
- Maynarde (Leigh Mandalov)
- RotterdaM (Kevin van der Kooi)
- ToD (Yoan Merlo)
- Wardi (Jonathon Ward)
- ZombieGrub (Jessica Chernega)

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)

Brazilian Commentators
- COSMOS (Lucas Faria)
- Caiobex (Caio Bexiga)
- Draft (Luiz Eduardo)

Other Language Commentators
- Alex007 (Oleksii Trushliakov)
- CranK (Choi Jae-won)
- Dysix (Juan Cortés Jimenez)
- Emil (Emil Wieczorek)
- HorussTv (Enrique Palomino)
- Indy (Igor Kaczmarek)
- Mobius (Riccardo Del Lungo)
- NarutO (Silvano Bovo)

Community Commentators (Day 1 only)s
- Ctone23 (Colton Sanford)
- Maralekos (Martin Kositz)
- Marth (Martin Schenk)
- PsinSin (Alexey Sadovsky)

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

Ence

2nd

$10,000

–

1,400

ShoWTimE

ArmaTeam

Arma

3rd–4th

$6,500

–

900

Neeb

SpeCial

place 5 to 32

5th–8th

$4,000

–

600

Elazer

TRUE

Nerchio

Snute

Team Liquid

TL

9th–16th

$2,750

–

300

Nice

Namshar

Bly

MaSa

SortOf

Lambo

17th–24th

$1,250

–

100

DnS

Cyan

Harstem

Cham

Yours

TLO

Zanster

25th–32nd

$1,250

–

100

TIME

Probe

kauP

XY

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
Neeb	Kelazhur	Elazer
Nice	MaSa	GogojOey
Probe	~~Seither~~¹	Nerchio
	SpeCial	Scarlett
	TIME	Serral
	uThermal	TRUE
	XY	Yours¹
Notable open sign-up players
Cyan	Arctur	Bly
DnS	BlueCheese	Cham
Gerald	DeMusliM	Guru
Harstem	HeRoMaRinE	HateMe
JackO	Kas	hinO
MaNa	Lillekanin	JonSnow
NightEnD	Optimus	Lambo
PtitDrogo	souL	Namshar
Rail	Ziggy	RiSky
ShoWTimE		Snute
SpaceMarine		SortOf
		Stephano
		TLO
		Zanster

¹ Seither forfeited his spot due to personal reasons and was replaced by Yours.^[1]

Results[edit]

Group Stage #1 — Group Stage #2

Group Stage 3[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
January 26, 2018 - 19:00 CET
1.	Serral	2-0	4-1
2.	Namshar	2-1	5-3
3.	Scarlett	1-2	3-5
4.	Stephano	0-2	1-4

Group A Matches

January 26, 2018 - 18:00UTC

January 26, 2018 - 18:50UTC

January 26, 2018 - 19:40UTC

Group B[edit]

Group B
January 26, 2018 - 19:00 CET
1.	SortOf	2-0	4-2
2.	MaSa	2-1	5-3
3.	DnS	1-2	3-5
4.	TIME	0-2	2-4

Group B Matches

January 26, 2018 - 18:00UTC

January 26, 2018 - 18:50UTC

January 26, 2018 - 19:40UTC

Group C[edit]

Group C
January 26, 2018 - 19:00 CET
1.	Bly	2-0	4-0
2.	uThermal	2-1	4-3
3.	Cyan	1-2	3-5
4.	Probe	0-2	1-4

Group C Matches

January 26, 2018 - 18:00UTC

January 26, 2018 - 18:50UTC

January 26, 2018 - 19:40UTC

Group D[edit]

Group D
January 26, 2018 - 19:00 CET
1.	ShoWTimE	2-0	4-1
2.	Nice	2-1	5-3
3.	Harstem	1-2	2-4
4.	Kelazhur	0-2	2-4

Group D Matches

January 26, 2018 - 18:00UTC

January 26, 2018 - 18:50UTC

January 26, 2018 - 19:40UTC

Group E[edit]

Group E
January 26, 2018 - 19:00 CET
1.	HeRoMaRinE	2-0	4-1
2.	Nerchio	2-1	4-2
3.	Cham	1-2	3-5
4.	GogojOey	0-2	1-4

Group E Matches

January 26, 2018 - 18:00UTC

January 26, 2018 - 18:50UTC

January 26, 2018 - 19:40UTC

Group F[edit]

Group F
January 26, 2018 - 19:00 CET
1.	SpeCial	2-0	4-1
2.	Snute	2-1	5-3
3.	Yours	1-2	3-5
4.	kauP	0-2	1-4

Group F Matches

January 26, 2018 - 18:00UTC

January 26, 2018 - 18:50UTC

January 26, 2018 - 19:40UTC

Group G[edit]

Group G
January 26, 2018 - 19:00 CET
1.	Elazer	2-0	4-2
2.	TRUE	2-1	5-3
3.	TLO	1-2	4-4
4.	PtitDrogo	0-2	0-4

Group G Matches

January 26, 2018 - 18:00UTC

January 26, 2018 - 18:50UTC

January 26, 2018 - 19:40UTC

Group H[edit]

Group H
January 26, 2018 - 19:00 CET
1.	Lambo	2-0	4-2
2.	Neeb	2-1	5-4
3.	Zanster	1-2	4-5
4.	XY	0-2	2-4

Group H Matches

January 26, 2018 - 18:00UTC

January 26, 2018 - 18:50UTC

January 26, 2018 - 19:40UTC

Playoffs[edit]

Round of 16 (Bo5)

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

Semifinals (Bo5)

Grand Finals (Bo7)

Distribution[edit]

Race
Region
Country
Show All

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Group Stage 1

24	23	33

Group Stage 2

11	16	21

Group Stage 3

8	8	16

Playoffs

3	4	9

Quarterfinals

2	1	5

Semifinals

2	1	1

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Group Stage 1

45	17	5	3	6	2

Group Stage 2

20	13	4	3	6	2

Group Stage 3

14	4	3	3	6	2

Playoffs

7	4	2	1	2

Quarterfinals

2	3	1	1	1

Semifinals

1	1	1	1

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Group Stage 1

1	3			4				5					20																				4				3			1	4				8								1	3			1	2		2		1	3			2		2		1	1	1	3			1	2

Group Stage 2

2		3			3			5					3			2		2		6						1	2		1	2		1	2		2		2		1	1	1	3			1	2

Group Stage 3

1	3			3			5					2		2		1	1	1	2		2		1	1	1	3			1	2

Playoffs

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

Quarterfinals

1	1	2		1	1	1	1

Semifinals

1	1	1	1

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Map Statistics[edit]

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

VODs[edit]

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

Replays[edit]

Replay Pack (55Mb)

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

↑ Seither forfeits his spot

[1] Seither forfeits his spot

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Contents

2018 WCS Leipzig

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]

Playoffs[edit]

Distribution[edit]

Map Statistics[edit]

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

VODs[edit]

Replays[edit]

External Links[edit]

References[edit]