



The StarCraft II World Championship Series is the culmination of more than 30 eSports events run by Blizzard and tournament organizers. The goal of the StarCraft II World Championship Series is to identify a true global champion, as players enter and qualify through open tournaments starting at the national level. It will take place in the Ericsson Globe, in Stockholm.

About [ edit ]

Aerial shot of the packed Globe on day 2

Rachel "Seltzer" Quirico[1] & Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner will host the event. Artosis, Tasteless, Apollo, and Kaelaris will broadcast, while Adebisi acts as the events main observer.

Format [ edit ]

Double-elimination

All rounds best-of-three.

In the Grand Finals, the player coming from the Lower Bracket has to win two best-of-three series.

Map Pool [ edit ]

Prize Pool [ edit ]

$60,000, and six seeds* for the 2012 Battle.net World Championship is spread among the players as seen below:

* Because Stephano previously won the French National and thus a direct seed into the World Championship, an extra match at this tournament was played so as to determine the 7th place player, the winner of which receives the 6th seed to the World Championship.

Qualifiers [ edit ]

Full Qualifier List: 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series Europe Nationals

The participants are seeded from the different National Finals tournaments and one Combined European Continental Final.[2][3]

Participants [ edit ]

Results [ edit ]

Winners Bracket

Round 1 KrasS 0 Bly 2 MaNa 2 DeMusliM 1 VortiX 2 Noticimus 0 SortOf 2 Nerchio 1 sLivko 2 Grubby 1 Ret 2 JeaL 0 White-Ra 2 Orly 0 BabyKnight 2 Seiplo 1 Ziktomini 1 DarKFoRcE 2 LucifroN 2 Happy 1 Socke 2 Eeel 0 TitaN 0 StarEagle 2 Naama 1 Dayshi 2 Stephano 2 HasuObs 0 ThorZaIN 2 NightEnD 0 LoWeLy 2 JonnyREcco 1 Round 2 Bly 2 MaNa 1 VortiX 2 SortOf 1 sLivko 1 Ret 2 White-Ra 0 BabyKnight 2 DarKFoRcE 0 LucifroN 2 Socke 2 StarEagle 0 Dayshi 0 Stephano 2 ThorZaIN 1 LoWeLy 2 Round 3 Bly 1 VortiX 2 Ret 1 BabyKnight 2 LucifroN 2 Socke 0 Stephano 2 LoWeLy 0 Round 4 VortiX 2 BabyKnight 1 LucifroN 1 Stephano 2

Losers Bracket

Losers Round 1 KrasS 1 DeMusliM 2 Noticimus 0 Nerchio 2 Grubby 2 JeaL 1 Orly 1 Seiplo 2 Ziktomini 0 Happy 2 Eeel 0 TitaN 2 Naama 1 HasuObs 2 NightEnD 1 JonnyREcco 2 Losers Round 2 Dayshi 0 DeMusliM 2 ThorZaIN 0 Nerchio 2 DarKFoRcE 0 Grubby 2 StarEagle 2 Seiplo 0 sLivko 1 Happy 2 White-Ra 1 TitaN 2 MaNa 2 HasuObs 1 SortOf 2 JonnyREcco 0 Losers Round 3 DeMusliM 0 Nerchio 2 Grubby 2 StarEagle 1 Happy 2 TitaN 0 MaNa 0 SortOf 2 Losers Round 4 Bly 0 Nerchio 2 Ret 1 Grubby 2 Socke 0 Happy 2 LoWeLy 2 SortOf 1 Losers Round 5 Nerchio 1 Grubby 2 Happy 0 LoWeLy 2 Losers Round 6 LucifroN 2 Grubby 1 BabyKnight 0 LoWeLy 2

Final Bracket

From Winners Bracket VortiX 0 Stephano 2 From Losers Bracket LucifroN 2 LoWeLy 0 Losers Finals VortiX 2 LucifroN 0 Grand Finals Stephano 1 2 VortiX 2 0

7th Place Consolation Match [ edit ]

Bo3 Nerchio 2 Happy 0

Racial Distribution [ edit ]

Protoss Terran Zerg Round of 32 11 8 13 Round of 16 5 4 7 Round of 8 2 2 4 Round of 4 1 3 Grand Finals 2 Winner 1

View Games [ edit ]

Additional Coverage [ edit ]

Gallery [ edit ]

Crowd and Stage on Day 1

Hosts Seltzer and ReDeYe

Casters Tasteless and Artosis

Casters Apollo and Kaelaris

Observer Adebisi

The European Champion - Stephano

See Also [ edit ]