ESL Open Cups

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[e][h]ESL Open Cups

Series Information

Organizer:

ESL

Location:

 World

Start Date:

2020-01-12

End Date:

2024-08-26

Game version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 4.11.3 – Patch 5.0.13

Server:

Europe / Americas / South Korea

Type:

Online

Format:

1v1
Single-elimination bracket

Cumulative Prize Pool:

≃ $321,500 USD

Liquipedia Tier:

Weekly (Minor)

Links

The ESL Open Cups allow all aspiring professionals and talented players to participate in weekly tournaments. These contribute 15 points towards the ESL Pro Tour ranking and $100 USD in prize money, each tournament, each region, each week.

On May 13, 2020 it was announced that the cups' prize would be increased to $400 USD until January 18th, 2021 and that they would be played on Mondays instead of Sundays.

On March 30, 2021 it was announced that due to scheduling confilcts with GSL the Asia cups would be played on Sundays again.

On May 21, 2021 it was announced that due to a Partnership with shopify the Prize Pool was increased to $800 USD

These tournaments are open for all players, there are no regional restrictions.

Format

• Single-elimination bracket.
  • All Matches are Bo3.
  • Finals are Bo5.

Talents

• Regular English Commentators:
  •  Artosis (Dan Stemkoski)
  •  BeoMulf (Philip Mulford)
  •  DaveTesta (David Testa)
  •  Nathanias (Nathan Lawrence Fabrikant)
  •  RotterdaM (Kevin van der Kooi)
  •  Steadfast (Dave Loose)
  •  Wardi (Jonathon Ward)
  •  ZombieGrub (Jessica Chernega)

• Regular French Commentators:
  •  Funka (Alexandre Verrier)
  •  Koka (Thibault Le Gall)
  •  TKL (Rémi Hibon)

• Regular Russian Commentators:
  •  DIMAGA (Dmytro Filipchuk)
  •  gL1de (Stanislav Staskevich)
  •  kaby (Vladislav Perchik)
  •  SubZero (Dmitriy Pikalov)

• Regular Korean Commentators:
  •  iNu (Park)
  •  Maddox (Kim Min-gyu)

• Regular Spanish Language Commentators:
  •  Enki (Alexander Luzarreta)
  •  HorussTv (Enrique Palomino)

• Regular Portuguese Language Commentators:
  •  COSMOS (Lucas Faria)
  •  Rockletz (Samuel Volpato)

• Regular Other Languages Commentators:
  •  derBovo (Silvano Bovo)
  •  Indy (Igor Kaczmarek)

Prize Pools

Cups #1 to #18

$100 and 15 EPT points:

Place	Prize (USD)	EPT Points
1st	$100	10
2nd	-	5

Cups #19 to #53 and #65 to #71

$400 and 15 EPT points:

Place	Prize (USD)	EPT Points
1st	$200	10
2nd	$100	5
3rd-4th	$50	0

Cups #54 to #64, #111 to #116, #153 to #168 and #206 to #208

$400:

Place	Prize (USD)
1st	$200
2nd	$100
3rd-4th	$50

Cups #72 to #74

$800 and 15 EPT points:

Place	Prize (USD)	EPT Points
1st	$250	10
2nd	$150	5
3rd-4th	$100	0
5th-8th	$50	0

Cups #75 to #105

$800 and 19 EPT points:

Place	Prize (USD)	EPT Points
1st	$250	10
2nd	$150	5
3rd-4th	$100	2
5th-8th	$50	0

Cups #106 to #110

$800:

Place	Prize (USD)
1st	$250
2nd	$150
3rd-4th	$100
5th-8th	$50

Cups #117 to #153, #169 to #205 and #209+

$400 and 19 EPT points:

Place	Prize (USD)	EPT Points
1st	$200	10
2nd	$100	5
3rd-4th	$50	2

Results

America

Europe

South Korea

Overall Medals

Medals won per Player

Participant			Total
Clem	100	53	153
MaxPax	93	62	155
HeRoMaRinE	58	34	92
Dark	51	36	87
ByuN	50	47	97
herO	50	23	73
Solar	47	39	86
Zest	44	22	66
Cure	33	31	64
Reynor	21	19	40
ShoWTimE	18	22	40
PartinG	13	15	28
Stats	13	4	17
GuMiho	12	19	31
Creator	9	12	21
SKillous	8	13	21
Classic	7	16	23
Neeb	7	7	14
SpeCial	6	13	19
Zoun	6	10	16
RagnaroK	6	3	9
Astrea	5	19	24
Armani	5	8	13
Trap	5	8	13
Scarlett	5	7	12
DongRaeGu	5	5	10
TIME	4	12	16
souL	4	12	16
Lambo	3	15	18
NightMare	3	9	12
uThermal	3	5	8
Bly	2	8	10
Rogue	2	5	7
Dream	2	3	5
Future	2	1	3
Gerald	1	7	8
MaNa	1	7	8
soO	1	7	8
Krystianer	1	6	7
Harstem	1	5	6
PtitDrogo	1	5	6
trigger	1	5	6
Elazer	1	4	5
GunGFuBanDa	1	3	4
Cham	1	2	3
Coffee	1	2	3
Denver	1	2	3
Has	1	2	3
Nice	1	2	3
Patience	1	1	2
PiLiPiLi	1	1	2
TRUE	1	1	2
AqueroN	1	0	1
Bunny	1	0	1
HerO	1	0	1
KeeN	1	0	1
Nicoract	1	0	1
Serral	1	0	1
sOs	1	0	1
Wayne	0	5	5
Firefly	0	4	4
Nina	0	4	4
goblin	0	3	3
Namshar	0	3	3
BattleB	0	2	2
Hellraiser	0	2	2
Hurricane	0	2	2
Jieshi	0	2	2
Cyan	0	2	2
MarineLorD	0	2	2
ShaDoWn	0	2	2
Bomber	0	1	1
DisK	0	1	1
DnS	0	1	1
Erik	0	1	1
Kelazhur	0	1	1
Nanami	0	1	1
PattyMac	0	1	1
Percival	0	1	1
Prince	0	1	1
Rail	0	1	1
Rodzyn	0	1	1
Spatz	0	1	1
TLO	0	1	1
ViViD	0	1	1

Medals won per Race

Race			Total
Protoss	296	318	614
Terran	280	241	521
Zerg	150	165	315
Random	0	2	2

Medals won per Country

Country			Total
South Korea	370	330	700
France	102	65	167
Denmark	93	62	155
Germany	80	78	158
Italy	21	19	40
United States	15	33	48
Poland	8	37	45
Non-representing	8	16	24
Mexico	7	15	22
Canada	6	13	19
China	5	23	28
Netherlands	4	10	14
Ukraine	2	10	12
Taiwan	2	4	6
Russia	1	3	4
Finland	1	0	1
Spain	1	0	1
Croatia	0	3	3
Sweden	0	3	3
Brazil	0	2	2

Medals won per Team

Note: Medals won per Team shows the team that a player was
on when the medal was won, not their current team.

Trivia

• The only players to have won two ESL Open Cups on the same (playing) day are:
  •   MaxPax, eleven times (three of them also consecutive): EU - AM #111, EU - AM #138, EU - AM #150, EU - AM #187, EU - AM #212, EU - AM #213, EU - AM #214, EU - AM #217, EU - AM #226, EU - AM #228 and EU - AM #242.
  •   Zest, eight times: KR - AM #47, KR - AM #53, KR - AM #74, KR - AM #83, KR - AM #88, KR - AM #103, KR - AM #106 and KR - AM #108.
  •   herO, five times (two of them also consecutive): KR - AM #123, KR - AM #163, KR - AM #164, KR - AM #196 and KR - AM #216.
  •   Clem, four times: EU - AM #184, EU - AM #200, EU - AM #205 and EU - AM #235.
  •   Cure, four times (three of them also consecutive): KR - AM #77, KR - AM #78, KR - AM #79 and KR - AM #81.
  •   Dark, four times: KR - AM #98, KR - AM #171, KR - AM #189 and KR - AM #224.
  •   ByuN, three times: KR - AM #93, KR - AM #144 and KR - AM #146.
  •   Solar, twice: KR - AM #39 and KR - AM #42.
  •   HeRoMaRinE, once: EU - AM #160.
• With his wins in KR and AM #39,   Solar is the first player to have won two ESL Open Cups on the same (playing) day.
• With his wins in EU and AM #111,   MaxPax is the first Foreigner player to have won two ESL Open Cups on the same (playing) day.
• With his victory in EU Cup #80,   Cure is the first player to have won (at least) one cup in each of the three regions: this win also marks the first EU cup won by a South Korean player.   MaxPax became the second player to achieve this feat in July 2023 by winning KR Cup #186.
• With his victory in EU Cup #5,   Neeb is the first (and only) American player to have won an EU cup.
• With her victory in KR Cup #11,   Scarlett is the first Foreigner player to have won one KR cup.   TIME was the second, about 9 months later, by winning KR Cup #101 and then KR Cup #152 (which makes him the only Foreigner player to have won more than one EPT Cup in KR) while   MaxPax was the third one by winning KR Cup #186.
• With his 3rd-4th place in AM Cup #123 (then repeated in EU Cup #129),   Reynor is the only player to have earned EPT Points while fully offracing (as Protoss).
  • He repeated the feat a few weeks later, this time in the EU Cups and also improving the placement (and points earned), ending up in 2nd place in the EU Cup #127 (as Protoss).
• With his 2nd place in EU Cup #166 and EU Cup #167,   Reynor is the only player to have finished in money placement while fully playing Random.
• The European Series was often referred to as the Big Gabe Weekly by casters, viewers and in tl.net reviews due to HeRoMaRinE winning half of the cups and reaching the Finals in some more cups as well in the 2020/21 Season. In the following season, due to Clem rising to dominance in Europe, HeRoMaRinE himself started calling it the Clem Weekly Cup.
• The "most consecutive first place" streak is 7 and it was achieved firstly by   Dark who won the KR Cups from #166 to #172 and aftwerwards by   MaxPax who won the AM Cups from #225 to #231.
• The "most times first place" is 100 and it is owned by   Clem followed by   MaxPax at 93 and   HeRoMaRinE at 58.
• The "Most Dominant Player" are:
  • Europe:   HeRoMaRinE with 6 consecutive wins, tied with   Clem;
  • Americas:   MaxPax with 7 consecutive wins;
  • Asia:   Dark with 7 consecutive wins.
• The "King of the Region" are:
  • Europe:   Clem with 75 wins;
  • Americas:   MaxPax with 44 wins;
  • Asia:   herO and   Dark with 37 wins.

Most EPT Points earned in a Season from Open Cups

2020/21

Players

• South Korea:   Solar (225) -   Zest (145) -   PartinG (140).
• Europe:   HeRoMaRinE (275) -   Clem (190) -   ShoWTimE (105).
• North America:   Neeb and   Scarlett (55) -   Astrea (30).
• Latin America:   SpeCial (40) -   Cham (20) -   Kelazhur (5).
• China:   TIME (15).
• TW/HK:   Nice (15).
• Oceania: No Players earned points from the Open Cups.

Regions

• South Korea: 1,225 (26p).
• Europe: 995 (24p).
• North America: 195 (8p).
• Latin America: 65 (3p).
• China: 15 (1p).
• TW/HK: 15 (1p).
• Oceania: 0 (0p).

2021/22

Players

• South Korea:   Zest (286) -   Cure (208) -   Solar (134).
• Europe:   HeRoMaRinE (193) -   Clem (186) -   MaxPax (140).
• North America:   Astrea (48) -   Scarlett (10) -   TriGGeR (9).
• Latin America:   SpeCial (62) -   Cham (4).
• China:   TIME (23) -   Cyan (2).
• TW/HK:   Has (25) -   Nice (18).
• Oceania:   MeomaikA (2).

Regions

• South Korea: 1,244 (24p).
• Europe: 836 (25p).
• North America: 67 (3p).
• Latin America: 66 (2p).
• China: 25 (2p).
• TW/HK: 43 (2p).
• Oceania: 2 (1p).

2022/23

Players

• South Korea:   ByuN (326) -   herO (165) -   Solar (134).
• Europe:   MaxPax (271) -   Clem (156) -   HeRoMaRinE (148).
• North America:   Neeb (46) -   trigger (23) -   Astrea (19).
• Latin America:   SpeCial (41) -   Kelazhur (6) -   Cham (4).
• China:   TIME (26) -   Firefly (13) -   Cyan (7).
• TW/HK:   Nice (10).
• Oceania: No Players earned points from the Open Cups.

Regions

• South Korea: 1,188 (24p).
• Europe: 828 (23p).
• North America: 117 (8p).
• Latin America: 51 (3p).
• China: 52 (4p).
• TW/HK: 10 (1p).
• Oceania: 0 (0p).

2023/24

Players

• South Korea:   Dark (347) -   ByuN (315) -   herO (297).
• Europe:   MaxPax (622) -   Clem (531) -   Spirit (73).
• Americas:   Astrea (46) -   trigger (25) -   Kelazhur (16).
• Asia:   Oliveira (35) -   Firefly (21) -   Coffee (9).

Regions

• South Korea: 1,776 (22p).
• Europe: 1,591 (20p).
• Americas: 91 (8p).
• Asia: 77 (6p).

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