



The Golden Championship Series - 2017 - Winter Season is the second part of the most important individual 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. During november, the very best players of the world will fight in a double elimination groupstage before going into the single elimination playoffs.

The chinese player TH000 won, beating Foggy in final.

Qualifiers [ edit ]

3 Asian qualifiers for four slots each : August 31st - september 10th : Asian Qualifier #1. September 21st - october 1st : Asian Qualifier #2. October 12th - 22nd : Asian Qualifier #3.



2 Western qualifiers for one slot each : September 30th - october 1st : Western Qualifier #1. October 21st - 22nd : Western Qualifier #2.



120 and Infi are qualified as GCS Summer finalists.

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 will be played as best-of-three.

Dates : group A : november 13th, group B : november 14th, group C : november 15th, group D : november 16th.



Playoffs [ edit ]

Playoffs consist in a single elimination bracket within winners of the 4 groups face the runner-ups :

earlier rounds are best-of-five,

Grand Final is a best-of-seven

Dates : quarterfinals : november 18th. semi-finals & finals : november 19th.



Map pool [ edit ]

Prize Pool [ edit ]

¥ 106,000 (≃ $ 15,980) are spread among the players as seen below :

Participants [ edit ]

Broadcasting [ edit ]

Results [ edit ]

Groupstage [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ] Semifinals Fly100% 2 OrcWorker 0 Check 1 Soin 2 Winners' Finals Fly100% 2 Soin 0 1st qualified Fly100% Losers' Round 1 OrcWorker 0 Check 2 Losers' Finals Soin 0 Check 2 2nd qualified Check Group B [ edit ] Semifinals LawLiet 2 XiaoKK 0 Infi 1 FoCuS 2 Winners' Finals LawLiet 2 FoCuS 0 1st qualified LawLiet Losers' Round 1 XiaoKK 1 Infi 2 Losers' Finals FoCuS 2 Infi 0 2nd qualified FoCuS Group C [ edit ] Semifinals Moon 1 TH000 2 WFZ 1 Foggy 2 Winners' Finals TH000 0 Foggy 2 1st qualified Foggy Losers' Round 1 Moon 2 WFZ 1 Losers' Finals TH000 2 Moon 0 2nd qualified TH000 Group D [ edit ] Semifinals 120 1 Lyn 2 Life 2 Romantic 1 Winners' Finals Lyn 0 Life 2 1st qualified Life Losers' Round 1 120 1 Romantic 2 Losers' Finals Lyn 1 Romantic 2 2nd qualified Romantic

Playoffs [ edit ]

Quarterfinals Fly100% 2 FoCuS 3 Life 0 TH000 3 LawLiet 1 Check 3 Foggy 3 Romantic 1 Semifinals FoCuS 2 TH000 3 Check 2 Foggy 3 Finals TH000 4 Foggy 3 3rd Place Match FoCuS 3 Check 1

Statistics [ edit ]

Maps [ edit ]

Distributions (race & region) [ edit ]

Race

Region

Show All Human Orc Undead Night Elf Random Round of 16 3 6 2 5 Quarterfinals 2 2 4 Semifinals 1 1 2 Finals 1 1 Champion 1 China Korea Europe Other Round of 16 8 6 2 Quarterfinals 4 3 1 Semifinals 1 2 1 Finals 1 1 Champion 1

VODs [ edit ]

Replays [ edit ]

All replays provided by x3-DemoN, complete list here.

Articles [ edit ]