







The European Qualifier is the only chance for european players to qualify for World Cyber Arena 2016 : one of the most important tournament and with the biggest prize pool of the year.

The ukrainian player Foggy won, beating OrcWorker in final.

Qualifier [ edit ]

An open qualifier on July 17th :

single elimination,

all matches are best-of-1,

top 8 qualify for the main qualifier.

8 others players are invited.

Groupstage (16 into 8) [ edit ]

16 players are divided into 4 groups of 4 players each :

double elimination

all matches are best-of-3,

top 2 of each group advance into the playoffs.

Dates :

group A : August 11th,

group B : August 12th,

group C : August 13th,

group D : August 14th.

Playoffs [ edit ]

8 players left in a double elimination bracket :

group winners face runners-up in quarterfinals,

semi-finals losers are cross into losers' round 2,

all matches are best-of-3,

Grand Final is best-of-5,

top 2 qualify for main event.

Dates :

quarterfinals and semi-finals : August 16th,

loser's rounds 1,2 & 3 : August 17th,

losers, winners and Grand Final : August 18th.

Prize Pool [ edit ]

¥ 100,000 (≃ $ 15,081) are divided among players as seen below :

Participants [ edit ]

Cechi replaces Happy, who refused to play because he is not allowed to stream the qualifier.

biko replaces Cash, who could not attend due to not having enough free time.

Broadcasting [ edit ]

Results [ edit ]

Groupstage [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ] Semifinals HawK 2 ShaDai 1 WarchiefRich 2 ThomasG 0 Winners' Finals HawK 1 WarchiefRich 2 1st qualified WarchiefRich Losers' Round 1 ShaDai 2 ThomasG 1 Losers' Finals HawK 2 ShaDai 1 2nd qualified HawK Group B [ edit ] Semifinals Rudan 1 WaN 2 Sonik 2 atheistP 0 Winners' Finals WaN 0 Sonik 2 1st qualified Sonik Losers' Round 1 Rudan 2 atheistP 0 Losers' Finals WaN 2 Rudan 0 2nd qualified WaN Group C [ edit ] Semifinals Cechi 2 TheMaSk 0 OrcWorker 2 HLA 0 Winners' Finals Cechi 0 OrcWorker 2 1st qualified OrcWorker Losers' Round 1 TheMaSk 0 HLA 2 Losers' Finals Cechi 2 HLA 0 2nd qualified Cechi Group D [ edit ] Semifinals Foggy 2 biko 0 yAwS 2 Sheik 0 Winners' Finals Foggy 2 yAwS 0 1st qualified Foggy Losers' Round 1 biko W Sheik Losers' Finals yAwS 2 biko 0 2nd qualified yAwS

Playoffs [ edit ]

Quarterfinal WarchiefRich 1 yAwS 2 OrcWorker 2 WaN 0 Sonik 2 Cechi 1 Foggy 1 HawK 2 Semifinals yAwS 0 OrcWorker 2 Sonik 2 HawK 1 Winners' Finals OrcWorker 2 Sonik 1 Losers' Round 1 WarchiefRich 1 WaN 2 Cechi 0 Foggy 2 Losers' Round 2 HawK 2 WaN 1 Yaws Foggy W Losers' Round 3 HawK 0 Foggy 2 Losers' Finals Sonik 0 Foggy 2 Grand Finals OrcWorker 2 Foggy 3

YAwS forfeited and withdrew from WCA European Qualifiers.

Map Statistics [ edit ]

Replays [ edit ]

(some) Replays available here.