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Series Information

Liquipedia tier:

Weekly (Minor)

Organizer:

ESL

Location:

 World

Start Date:

2020-01-12

Game version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 4.11.3 – Patch 5.0.8

Server:

Europe / Americas / South Korea

Type:

Online

Format:

1v1
Single-elimination bracket

Total prize money:

≃ $154,250 USD

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.

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

$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+

$800:

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

Results

America

Europe

South Korea

Overall Medals

Medals won per Player

• Gold
• Silver
• Show All

x40	HeRoMaRinE - Zest
x31	Clem
x28	Solar
x22	Cure
x15	ShoWTimE
x13	PartinG - Stats
x12	Reynor
x11	Dark
x8	ByuN
x7	MaxPax
	Armani - Creator - Trap
	DongRaeGu - herO - Neeb - Scarlett - SpeCial - Zoun
	Astrea - RagnaroK - uThermal
	Bly - Dream - Lambo
	AqueroN - Bunny - Cham - Denver - Elazer - Future - Gerald - GunGFuBanDa - Harstem - Has - HerO - MaNa - Nice - Patience - PiLiPiLi - PtitDrogo - Rogue - SKillous - sOs - Serral - soO - souL - TIME - TRUE

x23	Clem
x19	Zest
x17	HeRoMaRinE - Solar
x15	PartinG
x14	MaxPax
x13	ShoWTimE
x12	Cure
x10	Astrea - SpeCial - Zoun
x8	Bly - Trap
x7	Armani - Reynor
	Scarlett
	MaNa - PtitDrogo - souL - TIME
	ByuN - Harstem - herO - Lambo - Neeb - NightMare - Nina - Rogue - Stats - uThermal
	Dark - DongRaeGu - Dream - Elazer - GunGFuBanDa - Namshar
	Cham - Creator - Denver - Gerald - goblin - Has - Hurricane - MarineLorD - Nice - SKillous - soO
	Bomber - DnS - Erik - Future - GuMiho - Hellraiser - Kelazhur - Krystianer - Patience - Percival - PiLiPiLi - Prince - RagnaroK - Rail - Vanya - Rodzyn - ShaDoWn - Spatz - TLO - TRUE - TriGGeR - ViViD

Medals won per Race

Race			Total
Protoss	125	152	277
Terran	115	90	205
Zerg	78	76	154

Medals won per Country

Country			Total
South Korea	174	131	305
Germany	58	39	97
France	33	34	67
Italy	12	7	19
United States	9	20	29
Denmark	7	14	21
Mexico	5	12	17
Poland	4	17	21
Netherlands	4	8	12
Canada	4	7	11
Ukraine	2	9	11
Taiwan	2	4	6
China	1	5	6
Russia	1	4	5
Finland	1	0	1
Spain	1	0	1
Sweden	0	3	3
Brazil	0	2	2
Croatia	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:
  •   Zest, six times: KR #47 - AM #47, KR #53 - AM #53, KR #74 - AM #74, KR #83 - AM #83, KR #88 - AM #88 and KR #103 - AM #103.
  •   Cure, four times (three of them also consecutive): KR #77 - AM #77, KR #78 - AM #78, KR #79 - AM #79 and KR #81 - AM #81;
  •   Solar, twice: KR #39 - AM #39 and KR #42 - AM #42;
  •   ByuN, once: KR #93 - AM #93.
  •   Dark, once: KR #98 - AM #98.
• With his victory in EU Cup #80,   Cure is the first (and only) 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.
• With her victory in KR Cup #11,   Scarlett is the first foreign player to have won one KR cup.   TIME was the second, about 9 months later, by winning KR Cup #101.
• 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 6 and it was firstly achieved by   HeRoMaRinE who won the EU Cups from #31 to #36; it was tied by   Clem who won the EU Cups from #64 to #69.
• The "most times first place" is 40 and it is owned by   HeRoMaRinE who won all of these cups on the EU region. This record was tied by   Zest in January 2022: he won 19 Asia cups and 21 America cups making him the most successful player in both Regions.

External Links

• Website
• Rules
• Thread on TL.net
• Recap Weekly Threads on TL.net: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7-#8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #29, #30, #31, #32, #33, #34, #35, #36, #37, #38, #39, #40, #41, #42, #43, #44, #45, #46. #47, #48, #49. #50, #51, #52. #53.
  #65, #66, #67.