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Location:
Taipei
Format:
Single-elimination bracket
Prize pool:
NT$750,000 (≃ $25,000)
Overview[edit]
The 2014 Taiwan eSports Open is an offline tournament organized by Taiwan eSports League at the Expo Dome in Taipei, Taiwan. The event is casted by the famous duo Nicolas "Tasteless" Plott and Daniel "Artosis" Stemkoski with the help of Kevin "qxc" Riley. Benjamin "BreAKer" Novotny is the host and interviewer and is doing some commentary as well.
Qualifier:
- Open to any player ranked Masters or above on the Korea & Taiwan server.
- Four players will qualify after a single-elimination bracket and two group stages.
Invites:
- Top eight Taiwanese players from TeSL 2013-2014.
- Four international players will also be invited.
Main tournament:
- Single-elimination bracket of sixteen players.
- Matches are best of 3.
- Semifinals and third place are played in best of 5.
- Grand Finals is played in best of 7.
Prize Pool[edit]
NT$750,000 (~25,000 USD1) and 4,000 WCS Points are spread among the players as seen below:
| Place | $USD | $ TWD | WCS Points | Player | Team |
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 1st | $10,000 | NT$300,000 | 750 |  Sen |  Hong Kong Attitude |
 2nd | $5,000 | NT$150,000 | 500 |  HyuN |  Team ROCCAT |
 3rd | $3,300 | NT$100,000 | 375 |  Has |  yoe Flash Wolves |
 4th | $2,700 | NT$80,000 | 375 | Ian | yoe Flash Wolves |
| 5th-8th | $1,000 | NT$30,000 | 250 | Leenock | yoe Flash Wolves |
| Jaedong |  Evil Geniuses |
 Bomber |  Red Bull |
| Fist |  Wayi Spider |
| 9th-16th | - | - | 02 | TaeJa |  Team Liquid |
| 9th-16th | - | - | 02 | AK | Wayi Spider |
| 9th-16th | - | - | 125 | DeParture |  MVP |
| 9th-16th | - | - | 125 | Pet |  StarTale |
| 9th-16th | - | - | 125 | TRUE |  Jin Air Green Wings |
| 9th-16th | - | - | 02 | Cheetos | Wayi Spider |
| 9th-16th | - | - | 02 | Python | Wayi Spider |
| 9th-16th | - | - | 02 | Slam | yoe Flash Wolves |
1 Currency conversion is based on the currency exchange rate (taken from xe.com) on 2014-06-04. [NT$1 TWD ≈ 0.0332544 USD]
2 Players must advance one round in order to claim WCS points for that placement. Being seeded through qualifiers counts as advancing one round. Invited players who are eliminated in Ro16 receive no WCS points.
Participants[edit]
*DS forfeited and, following Hui retirement, the next players in line were Ball, Fly and Python. Fly and Ball also retired so Python was invited.[1]
Results[edit]
Racial Distribution[edit]
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Protoss |
Terran | Zerg | Random |
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| Round of 16 |
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| Quarterfinals |
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| Semifinals |
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| Finals |
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| Champion |
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