OSC Championship 9

[e][h]OSC Championship Season 9

League Information

Organizers:

OSC
SC2Online

Game version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 5.0.8

Server:

Americas / Europe / South Korea

Type:

Online

Location:

World

Format:

1v1
Group Stage
Challenger
Playoffs

Prize pool:

$5,210 USD

Start Date:

2022-01-06

End Date:

2022-01-25

Liquipedia tier:

Major

Links

Player breakdown

Number of players:

41

19

12

10

Maps

2000 Atmospheres • Berlingrad • Blackburn • Curious Minds • Glittering Ashes • Hardwire • Pride of Altaris

Chronology

Season 8

The OSC (Online Sports Championships) StarCraft II League is an online global league comprising 500+ tournaments run over 2021 (Season 9). The OSC World Rankings represent the data and results from all those tournaments (along with other bonuses and competitions), and are updated regularly throughout the year for players, teams and fans to follow.

The annual Championship is open to all OSC Elite Rewards Club members. The format is designed to reward those players who finish highly in the World Rankings (Top 20 seeded directly into the Championship Bracket), as they have shown a combination of results and regular participation throughout the year (500+ events), earning a high seed! All other club members start earlier in the bracket, either Group Stage or Challenger Brackets. All who play, get paid, and the winner is crowned the undisputed champion of online SC2 competition for the year, securing themself the engraved trophy and a position amongst the games greats in the OSC Hall of Fame.

Format[edit]

Season ended on December 19, 2021 - 23:59 KST.
The Season 9 finals takes place from January 6 to January 25 2022.
All OSC Elite Rewards Club members who played at any point during the regular season are eligible to participate in the Season 9 Championship.
In the event of a tie on points, the player with the most scalp points will be awarded the higher seed.

Group Stage:
- Ranks 21-32 are seeded into 2 groups.
- Round Robin Format.
- All matches are Bo2.
- Top 3 from each group advance to the Championship Bracket.
- Bottom 3 from each group drop down to the Challenger Playoff Stage where they can (but not have to) play.

Challenger Playoffs:
- Challenger Playoffs consist of a mix of the 6 players coming from the Group Stage and the Club members who didn't qualify for the Championship Bracket or Group Stage.
- All Challenger Bracket series are Bo3, except the 3 qualifying series which are Bo5.

Championship Bracket:
- Ranks 1st-12th are seeded in Winner's Bracket according to their ranking.
- Ranks 13th-20th are seeded in First Round of Winner's Bracket.
- 3 Mid Season playoffs winners start in the Winner's Bracket.
- All matches are Bo5.
- Grand Finals are Bo7 with a 1-0 advantage for the player coming from the Winners' Bracket.

Map Pool[edit]

2000 Atmospheres LE	Berlingrad LE	Blackburn LE	Curious Minds LE	Glittering Ashes LE	Hardwire LE	Pride of Altaris LE

Talents[edit]

Commentators
- Chickenman (Montana West)
- Light_VIP (Lloyd Sanchez)
- Steadfast (Dave Loose)
- Wardi (Jonathon Ward)
- Yakuzaku (Dylan Tay)

Other Language Commentators
- Legendk (Sylvain Boursier)
- iNu (Park)

Prize Pool[edit]

Place

$USD

Player

Team

1st

$1,000

Zest

Dragon Phoenix Gaming

DPG

2nd

$500

ByuN

Shopify Rebellion

SR

3rd

$400

ShoWTimE

BIG

4th

$300

MaxPax

PSISTORM Gaming

PSIS

place 5 to 41

5th–6th

$200

Gerald

7th–8th

$150

Creator

Cham

9th–10th

$125

Solar

11th–14th

$100

Spirit

trigger

Rattata

15th–18th

$100

Bly

GuMiho

goblin

ArT

19th–26th

$100

PAPI

Ziomek

SpeCial

Bistork

Bioice

ForJumy

27th–32nd

$50

AqueroN

Prince

Quantel

MaNa

33rd–34th

$35

BattleB

Mixu

35th–37th

$20

HonMonO

Demi

CuKu

38th–39th

$10

Keiras

40th–41st

$5

Brat_OK

If a player had won the event starting from the Lower Bracket, an additional $350 prize would have been awarded.^[1]

Participants[edit]

Protoss (19)

Terran (12)

Zerg (10)

Winners of the Mid Season Playoffs (3)

Zest1

ByuN1

Spirit

Seeded into the Championship Bracket (17)

Seeded into the Group Stage (12)

~~Bekzhan~~2

Starting from the Challenger Playoff Stage (9)

¹ Zest won 2 of the Mid Season Playoffs thus the 3rd seed was awarded to ByuN who finished in 2nd place of the MSP#3.
² Bekzhan forfeited his spot in the Group Stage and was replaced by Creator.

Championship Bracket[edit]

Upper Round 1

UB Round 1

UB R1

Upper Round 2

UB Round 2

UB R2

Upper Round 3

UB Round 3

UB R3

Upper Bracket Quarter-Finals

Upper Quarter-Finals

UB Quarter-Finals

UB QF

Upper Bracket Semi-Finals

Upper Semi-Finals

UB Semi-Finals

UB SF

Upper Bracket Final

Upper Final

UB Final

Grand Finals (Bo7)

Lower Round 2

LB Round 2

LB R2

Lower Round 3

LB Round 3

LB R3

Lower Round 4

LB Round 4

LB R4

Lower Round 5

LB Round 5

LB R5

Lower Round 6

LB Round 6

LB R6

Lower Bracket Quarter-Finals

Lower Quarter-Finals

LB Quarter-Finals

LB QF

Lower Bracket Semi-Finals

Lower Semi-Finals

LB Semi-Finals

LB SF

Lower Bracket Final

Lower Final

LB Final

Racial Distribution[edit]

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Participants

19	12	10

Round of 32

19	7	6

Round of 26

14	6	6

Round of 18

9	4	5

Round of 14

7	3	4

Round of 10

6	2	2

Round of 8

6	1	1

Round of 6

5	1

Round of 4

3	1

Round of 3

2	1

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Map Statistics[edit]

		vs.				vs.				vs.				Mirrors
Map	#	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%
2000 Atmospheres LE	46	2	1	1	50.0%	9	1	8	11.1%	16	8	8	50.0%	4	1	14
Berlingrad LE	52	6	3	3	50.0%	11	4	7	36.4%	21	10	11	47.6%	1	6	7
Blackburn LE	30	4	1	3	25.0%	3	1	2	33.3%	9	6	3	66.7%	2	2	10
Curious Minds LE	32	3	0	3	0.0%	8	1	7	12.5%	8	3	5	37.5%	1	2	10
Glittering Ashes LE	37	6	4	2	66.7%	6	1	5	16.7%	12	6	6	50.0%	2	4	7
Hardwire LE	46	4	2	2	50.0%	6	2	4	33.3%	15	9	6	60.0%	1	7	13
Pride of Altaris LE	18	3	1	2	33.3%	5	2	3	40.0%	4	1	3	25.0%	1	3	2
Total Sum (Σ)	261	28	12	16	42.9%	48	12	36	25.0%	85	43	42	50.6%	12	25	63

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

Legendk
iNu

VoDs[edit]

CranKy Ducklings on YouTube
CranKy Ducklings on Twitch

References[edit]

↑ $350 bonus for a LB bracket player winning the event

[1] $350 bonus for a LB bracket player winning the event

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OSC Championship 9

Format[edit]

Map Pool[edit]

Talents[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Participants[edit]

Championship Bracket[edit]

Racial Distribution[edit]

Map Statistics[edit]

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

VoDs[edit]

References[edit]