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ESL Open Cups

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[e][h]ESL Open Cups
Series Information
Organizer:
Location:
World World
Start Date:
2020-01-12
Server:
Europe / Americas / South Korea
Type:
Online
Format:
1v1
Single-elimination bracket
Total prize money:
≃ $267,600 USD
Liquipedia Tier:
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The ESL Open Cups allow all aspiring professionals and talented players to participate in weekly tournaments. These contribute 15 points [1] 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.[2]

On March 30, 2021 it was announced that due to scheduling confilcts with GSL the Asia cups would be played on Sundays again.[3]

On May 21, 2021 it was announced that due to a Partnership with shopify the Prize Pool was increased to $800 USD[4]

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

Format[edit]

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

Talents[edit]

  • Regular French Commentators:
    • France Funka (Alexandre Verrier)
    • France Koka (Thibault Le Gall)
    • France TKL (Rémi Hibon)
  • Regular Russian Commentators:
    • Ukraine DIMAGA (Dmytro Filipchuk)
    • Russia gL1de (Stanislav Staskevich)
    • Russia kaby (Vladislav Perchik)
    • Russia SubZero (Dmitriy Pikalov)
  • Regular Korean Commentators:
  • Regular Spanish Language Commentators:
    • Mexico Enki (Alexander Luzarreta)
    • Mexico HorussTv (Enrique Palomino)
  • Regular Portuguese Language Commentators:
  • Regular Other Languages Commentators:

Prize Pools[edit]

Cups #1 to #18[edit]

$100 and 15 EPT points:

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

Cups #19 to #53 and #65 to #71[edit]

$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 and #153 to #168[edit]

$400:

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

Cups #72 to #74[edit]

$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[edit]

$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[edit]

$800:

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

Cups #117 to #153 and #169+[edit]

$400 and 19 EPT points:

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

Results[edit]

Overall Medals[edit]

Medals won per Player[edit]

  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Show All
x68Terran Clem
x58Terran HeRoMaRinE
x54Protoss MaxPax
x44Protoss Zest
x42Zerg Solar
x41Terran ByuN
x37Zerg Dark
x35Protoss herO
x30Terran Cure
x17Protoss ShoWTimE
x16Zerg Reynor
x13Protoss PartinG • Protoss Stats
x8Protoss Creator • Terran GuMiho
x7Protoss Neeb
Protoss Zoun
Zerg Armani • Protoss SKillous • Zerg Scarlett • Terran SpeCial • Protoss Trap
Protoss Astrea • Protoss Classic • Zerg DongRaeGu • Terran souL
Zerg Lambo • Terran TIME • Zerg RagnaroK • Terran uThermal
Zerg Bly • Terran Dream • Terran Future
Terran AqueroN • Terran Bunny • Zerg Cham • Zerg Denver • Zerg Elazer • Protoss Gerald • Protoss GunGFuBanDa • Protoss Harstem • Protoss Has • Protoss HerO • Terran KeeN • Protoss MaNa • Protoss Nice • Protoss NightMare • Protoss Patience • Protoss PiLiPiLi • Protoss PtitDrogo • Zerg RagnaroK • Zerg Rogue • Protoss sOs • Zerg Serral • Zerg soO • Zerg TRUE • Protoss trigger
x41Protoss MaxPax
x37Terran Clem
x32Terran HeRoMaRinE • Zerg Solar
x30Terran ByuN
x26Terran Cure
x24Zerg Dark
x22Protoss Zest
x21Protoss ShoWTimE
x17Protoss herO
x16Protoss Astrea
x15Protoss PartinG
x13Protoss Classic • Terran SpeCial
x12Zerg Reynor
x11Zerg Lambo • Protoss SKillous
x10Terran GuMiho • Terran TIME • Protoss Zoun
x8Zerg Armani • Zerg Bly • Terran souL • Protoss Trap
x7Protoss Creator • Protoss MaNa • Protoss Neeb • Protoss NightMare • Zerg Scarlett
Protoss Gerald • Zerg soO
Protoss Harstem • Protoss PtitDrogo • Protoss trigger • Terran uThermal
Zerg DongRaeGu • Zerg Elazer • Protoss Nina • Zerg Rogue • Protoss Stats
Terran Dream • Protoss goblin • Protoss GunGFuBanDa • Zerg Namshar • Zerg Wayne
Zerg Cham • Protoss Cyan • Zerg Denver • Protoss Firefly • Protoss Has • Protoss Hellraiser • Protoss Hurricane • Protoss Krystianer • Terran MarineLorD • Protoss Nice • Zerg RagnaroK • Protoss ShaDoWn
Terran BattleB • Terran Bomber • Protoss DisK • Protoss DnS • Zerg Erik • Terran Future • Terran Kelazhur • Protoss Nanami • Protoss Patience • Protoss PattyMac • Terran Percival • Protoss PiLiPiLi • Protoss Prince • Protoss Rail • Protoss Rodzyn • Protoss Spatz • Zerg TLO • Zerg TRUE • Protoss ViViD

Medals won per Race[edit]

RaceTotal
Protoss Protoss228265493
Terran Terran227181408
Zerg Zerg125132257
Random Random022

Medals won per Country[edit]

Medals won per Team[edit]

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

Trivia[edit]

  • The only players to have won two ESL Open Cups on the same (playing) day are:
  • With his wins in KR and AM #39, South Korea Zerg 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, Denmark Protoss 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, South Korea Terran 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. Denmark Protoss MaxPax became the second player to achieve this feat in July 2023 by winning KR Cup #186.
  • With his victory in EU Cup #5, United States Protoss Neeb is the first (and only) American player to have won an EU cup.
  • With her victory in KR Cup #11, Canada Zerg Scarlett is the first Foreigner player to have won one KR cup. China Terran 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 Denmark Protoss 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), Italy Zerg 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, Italy Zerg Reynor is the only player to have finished in money placement while fully playing Random.
  • The Europe 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 by South Korea Zerg Dark who won the KR Cups from #166 to #172.
  • The "most times first place" is 68 and it is owned by France Terran Clem followed by Germany Terran HeRoMaRinE at 58 and by Denmark Protoss MaxPax at 54.
  • The "Most Dominant Player" are:
    • Europe: Germany Terran HeRoMaRinE with 6 consecutive wins, tied with France Terran Clem;
    • Americas: South Korea Zerg Solar with 4 consecutive wins, tied with South Korea Terran Cure and Denmark Protoss MaxPax;
    • Asia: South Korea Zerg Dark with 7 consecutive wins.
  • The "King of the Region" are:
    • Europe: Germany Terran HeRoMaRinE with 57 wins;
    • Americas: South Korea Zerg Solar with 26 wins;
    • Asia: South Korea Zerg Dark with 31 wins.

Most EPT Points earned in a Season from Open Cups[edit]

2020/21[edit]

Players[edit]
Regions[edit]
  • 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[edit]

Players[edit]
Regions[edit]
  • 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[edit]

Players[edit]
Regions[edit]
  • 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).

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Second Place now gets 5 Points
  2. ↑ Changes on Prize Pool and Play day
  3. ↑ Asia Cups on Sundays again
  4. ↑ Changes on Prize Pool and Partnership with shopify
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