Golden Championship Series 2015
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The Golden Championship Series 2015 is organized by Blizzard Entertainment's Chinese partner : NetEase, played at Shanghai, offline. For the first time, the NetEase ladder season ends with a tournament. Within the 16 best players of the ladder season are invited.
The chinese player Infi won, beating his country man 120 in final.
Format and dates[edit]
Qualifier[edit]
For the first installment, there were no qualifier tournament. Based on NetEase ladder ranking on 2015-12-31, the 16 best players are invited. With top 4 allowed to choose their opponent from 13th to 16th place[1].
Groupstage (16 into 8)[edit]
16 players are divided into four groups of four players each :
- double elimination,
- all matches are best-of-3,
- top two qualify for the playoffs.
Dates :
- group A & B : january 5th,
- group C & D : january 6th.
Playoffs[edit]
8 players in a double elimination bracket :
- group winners face runners-up in quarterfinals,
- semi-finalists are crossed into loser's round 2.
- earlier rounds are best-of-3.
- Grand Final is a best-of-5 (with an 1-0 advantage for the player coming from winner bracket final).
Dates :
- quarterfinals : january 8th,
- loser's round 1 : january 9th,
- semi-finals : january 10th,
- loser's round 2 : january 11th,
- loser's round 3 : january 22rd,
- finals : january 24th.
Map pool[edit]
Prize Pool[edit]
Main tournament[edit]
¥ 95,000 (≃ $ 14,439) are divided among participants as follows [1] :
| Place | $ USD | ¥ CNY | Player | Team |
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 1st
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$6,079 | ¥ 40,000 | Infi
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 Vici Gaming
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 2nd
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$3,040 | ¥ 20,000 | 120
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 3rd
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$1,520 | ¥ 10,000 |  ReMinD
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 4th
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$760 | ¥ 5,000 | Moon
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| 5th-6th | $760 | ¥ 5,000 | FoCuS
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| Fly100%
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 World Elite
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| 7th-8th | $760 | ¥ 5,000 | Romantic
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| Zhou_Xixi
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| 9th-12th | - | - | Tbc_bm
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| Colorful
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| LawLiet
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| Alice
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| 13th-16th | - | - |  Nicker
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| Check
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| Sok
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| TH000
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according to xe.com conversion rate on 2016-01-24 (¥ 1 ≃ $ 0.15199).
Whole event[edit]
The entire prize pool event is ¥ 152,000 (≃ $ 23,102) whose :
- ¥ 95,000 (≃ $ 14,439) from the main tournament (solo tournament),
- ¥ 57,000 ( ≃ $ 8,663) from the 2v2 tournament.
Participants[edit]
| Human (4)
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Orc (2)
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Undead (2)
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Night Elf (8)
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| Infi
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FoCuS
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Tbc_bm
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ReMinD
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| Sok
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Fly100%
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120
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Check
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| Romantic
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Colorful
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| TH000
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Zhou_Xixi
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| Moon
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| LawLiet
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| Alice
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Broadcasting[edit]
WoLv (Andrey Tokmakov)
Results[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
Group A[edit]
ReMinD InfiGroup B[edit]
120
FoCuSGroup C[edit]
Zhou Xixi MoonGroup D[edit]
Fly100% RomanticPlayoffs[edit]
Statistics[edit]
Maps[edit]
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| Amazonia | 16 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 16.7% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | - | 3 | - | - |
| Ancient Isles | 15 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33.3% | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0.0% | 1 | 3 | - | - |
| Echo Isles | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 66.7% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Last Refuge | 10 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | - | 1 | - | - |
| Terenas Stand | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 66.7% | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33.3% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Turtle Rock | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Twisted Meadows | 19 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20.0% | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25.0% | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60.0% | - | 2 | - | - |
| Total Sum (Σ) | 82 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 42.9% | 15 | 6 | 9 | 40.0% | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33.3% | 8 | 1 | 7 | 12.5% | 7 | 3 | 4 | 42.9% | 14 | 4 | 10 | 28.6% | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
Distributions (race & region)[edit]
External links[edit]
VODs[edit]
Playlist with Back2Warcraft VODs.- Playlist with Wolverine VODs.
- Page with NeoTV VODs (link in the bracket).