



The Golden Championship Series - 2017 - Summer Season is the first part of the most important indivudual tournament in 2017. With one the biggest prize pool of the year and the obligation to earn his place via a qualifier tournament, this is the most prestigious event.



It is organized by Blizzard Entertainment's Chinese partner : NetEase, played at Shanghai, offline. From 16th to 22th august, the very best players of the world fight in a double elimination system. At the end, the chinese player 120 won, beating his countryman Infi.

Qualifiers [ edit ]

Groupstage (16 into 8) [ edit ]

16 players are divided into four groups of four players each[1] :

GSL-style double elimination groupstage,

top two qualify for the playoffs,

all matches are best-of-three.

Dates : group A : august 16th, group B : august 17th, group C : august 18th, group D : august 19th.



Playoffs [ edit ]

Playoffs consist in a double elimination bracket within winners of the 4 groups face the runner-ups[1] :

earlier rounds are best-of-three,

Grand Final is a best-of-five,

semi-final losers are crossed into losers' round 2.

Dates : 8 into 4 : august 20th & 21st. Finals : august 22nd.



Map pool [ edit ]

Prize Pool [ edit ]

¥ 106,000 (≃ $ 15,909) are divided among participants as follows[1] :

Participants [ edit ]

* Happy declined his invitation and is replaced by Rudan

Broadcasting [ edit ]

Results [ edit ]

Groupstage [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ] Semifinals 120 2 OrcWorker 0 Infi 2 Colorful 0 Winners' Finals 120 0 Infi 2 1st qualified Infi Losers' Round 1 OrcWorker 0 Colorful 2 Losers' Finals 120 2 Colorful 0 2nd qualified 120 Group B [ edit ] Semifinals FoCuS 1 Foggy 2 ReMinD 1 Romantic 2 Winners' Finals Foggy 2 Romantic 0 1st qualified Foggy Losers' Round 1 FoCuS 2 ReMinD 0 Losers' Finals Romantic 2 FoCuS 0 2nd qualified Romantic Group C [ edit ] Semifinals Life 2 HawK 1 Fly100% 2 Moon 1 Winners' Finals Life 2 Fly100% 0 1st qualified Life Losers' Round 1 HawK 1 Moon 2 Losers' Finals Fly100% 2 Moon 1 2nd qualified Fly100% Group D [ edit ] Semifinals TH000 2 Rudan 0 Zhou_Xixi 0 WFZ 2 Winners' Finals TH000 2 WFZ 1 1st qualified TH000 Losers' Round 1 Rudan 1 Zhou_Xixi 2 Losers' Finals WFZ 0 Zhou_Xixi 2 2nd qualified Zhou Xixi

Playoffs [ edit ]

Quarterfinal Infi 2 Fly100% 0 Foggy 2 Zhou_Xixi 1 Life 0 120 2 TH000 0 Romantic 2 Semifinals Infi 2 Foggy 1 120 2 Romantic 0 Winners' Finals Infi 2 120 1 Losers' Round 1 Fly100% 1 Zhou_Xixi 2 Life 1 TH000 2 Losers' Round 2 Romantic 2 Zhou_Xixi 0 Foggy 2 TH000 1 Losers' Round 3 Romantic 1 Foggy 2 Losers' Finals 120 2 Foggy 0 Grand Finals Infi 2 120 3

Statistics [ edit ]

Maps [ edit ]

Distributions (race & region) [ edit ]

Race

Region

Show All Human Orc Undead Night Elf Random Round of 16 4 3 2 7 Quarterfinals 3 1 1 3 Last 4 2 1 1 Finals 1 1 Champion 1 China Korea Europe Other Round of 16 9 3 4 Quarterfinals 7 1 Last 4 3 1 Finals 2 Champion 1

VODs [ edit ]



Whole tournament :

Articles [ edit ]