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IeSF 2012 World Championship
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IeSF 2012 World Championship
League Information
Organizer:
Game Version:
Type:
Offline
Format:
Group Stage,
Single-elimination Bracket
Single-elimination Bracket
Prize Pool:
₩5,000,000 KRW
(≃ $4,490 USD)
(≃ $4,490 USD)
Start Date:
2012-10-03
End Date:
2012-10-04
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Participants
Number of Players:
28
12
5
8
Maps
Chronology
The IeSF 2012 World Championship is the fourth international e-Sports tournament held by the International e-Sports Federation. This event was held in Cheonan, South Korea from 2 October to 6 October 2012.[1] Khaldor and Wolf casted the event in English.[2]
Tournament Information[edit]
Official titles[edit]
- StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2
- A.V.A (Alliance of Valiant Arms)[3]
Women's Invitational Match[edit]
IeSF has also given the opportunity to federations of all countries to send a woman to participate in the Women's Invitational Match.[4] Winners (first, second and third place) receive a medal.[5]
Prize Pool[edit]
The official Rules of the Tournament[5] indicate the following division of awards:
- Composite Performance Award (1st rank nation, and 2nd rank nation)
- Awards for each title (1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place)
Composite Performance Award[edit]
The first two nations receive a trophy for Composite Performance Award. The rank of each member nation is determined based on the sum of points acquired from results of each official title, as follows:
Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5 - 8th | 9 - 16th | 17 - 32nd |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 100 | 51 | 31 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 5 |
The nations which participated in A.V.A continental preliminaries obtain 11 points.
Ranking of Nations[edit]
See full rankings on ie-sf.org
Place | Nation | Score | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SC2 | Tekken | A.V.A | Total | ||
1st | South Korea | 16 | 100 | 100 | 216 |
2nd | Austria | 100 | 5 | 0 | 105 |
3rd | Romania | 51 | 11 | 11 | 73 |
Awards for each title[edit]
A total prize money of ₩60,000,000, provided accordingly with ranking of each title, is announced in the official rules.[5] However, MSSA, the South African member of IeSF, announced the following prize pool for each title:[6]
- A.V.A: ₩20,000,000 (circa $18,000)
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2: ₩5,000,000 (circa $4,500)
- StarCraft II: ₩5,000,000 (circa $4,500), spread as follows:
Converted USD prizes are based on the currency exchange rate (taken from xe.com) on October 5, 2012: 1,000 KRW = 0.90078 USD.
Format[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
- 8 groups
- Best-of-one matches
- Top 2 players of each group to the playoffs
Playoffs[edit]
- 16-player Single-elimination Bracket
- Best-of-three from Round of 16 until Semifinals
- Final Match in a best-of-five
Qualifiers[edit]
Detailed information: IeSF 2012 World Championship Qualifiers
List of Qualifiers | ||
---|---|---|
Country | Announcement | Status of qualifiers |
Australia | English (Source: sc2sea.com) | Finished |
Austria | German (Source: esvoe.at) | Finished |
Bangladesh | English (Source: esportsbd.com) | Finished |
Belgium | Dutch (Source: gamelux.nl) | Finished |
Bulgaria | English (Source: bfes.bg) | Finishedd |
Denmark | Danish (Source: eSportDanmark.dk) | Finished |
Finland | Finnish (Source: sett.fi) | Finished |
France | French (Source: ffjvr.org) | Finished |
Germany | German (Source: twitch.tv/taketv) | Finishedc |
Israel | Hebrew (Source: forcefield.co.il) | Finished |
Kazakhstan | Russian (Source: next.kz) | Finished |
Malaysia | English (Source: lowyat.net) | Finished |
Namibia | English (Source: hwc-clan.com) | Cancelleda |
Netherlands | English (Source: esl.eu) | Finished |
Philippines | English (Source: facebook.com) | Finished |
Romania | Romanian (Source: pgl.ro) | Finished |
Russia | Russian (Source: resp.su) | Finished |
Serbia | English (Source: mydgb.net) | Finished |
Singapore | English (Source: thegamesxpo.com) | Finished |
South Africa | English (Source: mygaming.co.za) | Finished |
South Korea | Korean (Source: e-sports.or.kr) | Finished |
Sri Lanka | English (Source: gamer.lk) | Cancelledb |
Spain | Spanish (Source: lvp.es) | Finished |
Sweden | Swedish (Source: sesf.se) | Finished |
Switzerland | Deutsch (Source: games.ch) | Finished |
Taiwan | Chinese (Source: gamer.com.tw) | Finished |
a On 18 July 2012, the Namibian federation NESA disbanded,[7] and the Namibia Qualifier has therefore been cancelled.[8]
b The Sri Lankan Qualifier has been cancelled on the day it was supposed to be held.[9]
c HasuObs tweeted that Socke was going to represent Germany at IeSF.[10] However, whether this an invitation or the result of a qualifier is not known.
d Only a few players registered to the qualifiers, but nobody wanted to compete against Giantt, who thus qualified by default.
Participants[edit]
Protoss (13) | Terran (6) | Zerg (8) |
NightEnD | PoYo | Sen |
Welmu | VladoicA | SortOf |
Zanubis | Dreambunny | AlaStOr |
VERDI | Dayshi | FluNIgs |
Makouni | Reaper | Yekke |
monchi | Alinab | PiG |
Zeal | Giantt | |
Masterok | ||
Socke | ||
Squirtle | ||
PandaTank | ||
ThuoClao | ||
Ali Nizam Basheer |
- Azad Mammadli also participated to represent Azerbaijan, but which race he played is unknown.
- RiseN was replaced by Zeal, the runner-up of the Malaysian qualifier.
- Stellar, although he qualified, did not participate to the Main Tournament.
References[edit]
- ↑ The schedule of the IeSF World Championship 2012 iesf.org, 22 August 2012.
- ↑ Khaldor's tweet about the event schedule and cast twitter.com. Retrieved on 1 October 2012
- ↑ Official Titles of IeSF 2012 World Championship ie-sf.org, 22 August 2012.
- ↑ IeSF Notice for Members (Women's Invitational Match) IeSF June 2012 Newsletter, page 2. ie-sf.org, 10 June 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 IeSF 2012 World Championship Rules of the Tournament
- ↑ Prize Pool (post by MSSA). facebook.com, 4 August 2012.
- ↑ NESA to be dissolved nesa.org.na, 18 July 2012.
- ↑ Namibia Qualifiers Registration Details hwc-clan.com, Last updated on 17 July 2012.
- ↑ Cancellation of Sri Lankan qualifier
- ↑ HasuObs's tweet about the German representative twitter.com. Retrieved on 6 September 2012