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Hell, It's Aboot Time
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Hell, It's Aboot Time
League Information
Organizer(s):
Sponsor(s):
Game Version:
Server:
North America
Type:
Offline
Location:
TorontoFormat:
Open Bracket
Group Stage
Single Elimination Bracket
Group Stage
Single Elimination Bracket
Prize pool:
$17,000 USD
Start Date:
2015-08-21
End Date:
2015-08-23
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:
16
4
5
7Maps
Hell, It's Aboot Time is the first offline tournament hosted by BaseTradeTV. It took place in Toronto, Canada, August 21-23 2015 and was primarily funded through a Kickstarter campaign.[1]
Format[edit]
- 9 qualifiers:
- 4 NA qualifiers, 1 last chance qualifier, 2 EU qualifiers, 2 KR qualifiers.
- Single elimination Best of 3 brackets.
- Winner from each qualifies for the tournament.
- NA qualifiers provide $250 USD for travel costs
- EU and KR qualifiers provide $1,000 USD for travel costs
- Last chance qualifier does NOT cover travel costs
- Open Bracket
- 64 player double-elimination bracket
- Top 6 qualify for group stage
- 16 player group stage.
- 4 Best of 3 double elimination groups.
- 8 player single elimination playoffs.
- Quarterfinals - Best of 3.
- Semifinals - Best of 5.
- Finals - Best of 7.
Casters[edit]
Prize Pool[edit]
- Seperately from the Kickstarter, BaseTradeTV also started an Indiegogo campaign to augment the prize pool.[2]
- The trophy is a championship belt.[3]
- $17,000 USD are spread among the participants as seen below:[4]
| Place | $USD | Player | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
 1st | $8,500 |  HyuN |  Team ROCCAT |
 2nd | $4,250 | Jaedong |  Evil Geniuses |
 3rd | $1,360 | Seed |  MVP |
 4th | $1,020 | Hydra |  ROOT Gaming |
| 5th-8th | $467 | MaSa | ROOT Gaming |
 Welmu |  | ||
| Heart |  Axiom | ||
 intense |  PSISTORM Gaming | ||
| 9th-12th | - |  Kelazhur | ROOT Gaming |
| HuK | Evil Geniuses | ||
| Semper |  Team Gravity | ||
| puCK |  Flipsid3 Tactics | ||
| 13th-16th | - | Bioice |  Team Ascension |
 Zanster |  Team Property | ||
 PengWin |  mYinsanity | ||
 Ret |  Team Liquid |
Participants[edit]
| Protoss (4)
|
Terran (5)
|
Zerg (7)
|
| Qualified Players (9) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Welmu
|
Semper
|
Ret
|
| Seed
|
Kelazhur
|
Jaedong
|
| puCK
|
HyuN
| |
| Zanster
| ||
| Invite from The Breakout Invitational IV (1) | ||
| Bioice
| ||
| Players from Open Bracket (6) | ||
| HuK
|
MaSa
|
Hydra
|
| intense
|
PengWin
| |
| Heart
|
||
Results[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
[edit]
 Group 1
| ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 22, 2015 - 10:00 EDT | ||||||
| 1. | Hydra
|
2-0 | 4-1 | |||
| 2. | intense
|
2-1 | 5-2 | |||
| 3. | Kelazhur
|
1-2 | 2-5 | |||
| 4. | Bioice
|
0-2 | 1-4 | |||
| Group 1 Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bioice | 1 | 2 | Hydra |
   | |||
| Kelazhur | 2 | 1 | intense |
| Bioice | 0 | 2 | intense |
| Hydra | 2 | 0 | Kelazhur |
| intense | 2 | 0 | Kelazhur |
[edit]
| Group 2
| ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 22, 2015 - 15:15 EDT | ||||||
| 1. | Jaedong
|
2-0 | 4-1 | |||
| 2. | Heart
|
2-1 | 5-4 | |||
| 3. | HuK
|
1-2 | 3-4 | |||
| 4. | Zanster
|
0-2 | 1-4 | |||
| Group 2 Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Zanster | 1 | 2 | Heart |
| Jaedong | 2 | 0 | HuK |
| Zanster | 0 | 2 | HuK |
| Heart | 1 | 2 | Jaedong |
| HuK | 1 | 2 | Heart |
Playoffs[edit]
Quarterfinals (Bo3)
Semifinals (Bo5)
Finals (Bo7)
Jaedong3
Jaedong
HyuNAugust 23, 2015 - 18:30 EDT
HyuN4
3rd Place Match (Bo3)
Racial Distribution[edit]
| Protoss | Terran | Zerg | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round of 16 |
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| Quarterfinals |
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| Semifinals |
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| Finals |
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| Winner |
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Map Statistics[edit]
| vs. | vs. | vs. | Mirrors | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Map | # | Σ | | | % | Σ | | | % | Σ | | | % | | | |
| Bridgehead | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Cactus Valley | 16 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25.0% | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50.0% | 3 | 2 | 1 | 66.7% | 2 | 3 | - |
| Catallena | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | 1 | 2 | - |
| Coda | 22 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40.0% | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50.0% | 6 | 4 | 2 | 66.7% | 1 | 2 | - |
| Dash and Terminal | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | - |
| Moonlight Madness | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | - | 1 | - |
| Terraform | 19 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 28.6% | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50.0% | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25.0% | - | 2 | - |
| Total Sum (Σ) | 76 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 45.0% | 21 | 10 | 11 | 47.6% | 16 | 9 | 7 | 56.2% | 5 | 14 | - |
View Games[edit]
Streams[edit]
VODs[edit]
External Links[edit]
- Tournament Thread on TL.net
- Thread for Qualifiers on TL.net
- Kickstarter Page
- Indiegogo Page
- Album of unique graphics made for the tournament by nicopower5000
- "Afterthoughts" blog by ZombieGrub on TL.net
References[edit]
- ↑ Hell, It's Aboot Time Kickstarter
- ↑ Indiegogo Campaign
- ↑ 10 August 2015 | Trophy Hype Video - Hell It's Aboot Time by BasetradeTV
- ↑ Prize Pool Distribution