



The Golden Championship Series - 2018 - Summer Season is the first part of the most important individual tournament in 2018. 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 July, the very best players of the world will fight in a double elimination groupstage before going into the single elimination playoffs.

Qualifiers [ edit ]

Players can earn Leader-board Points in the following three competitions : 4 Monthly Qualifier Tournaments, Top 32 Asian Players of NetEase Ladder will be invited 4 Monthly Ladder Races, ending on the 10th of each month 1 Seasonal Ladder Race, ending in July



2 European qualifiers for 1 slot each : European Qualifier #1 European Qualifier #2



1 American qualifier for 1 slot : American Qualifier



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 : June 04th, Group B : June 05th, Group C : June 06th, Group D : June 07th.



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 : June 09th. Semi-finals & Finals : June 10th.



Map pool [ edit ]

Prize Pool [ edit ]

¥ 98,000 (≃ $ 15,291) are spread among the players as seen below :

Participants [ edit ]

Human (4) Orc (3) Undead (3) Night Elf (6) Chinese Players qualified via GCS Point System TH000 Fly100% 120 Life Infi WFZ tbc_bm Colorful Korean Players qualified via GCS Point System Chaemiko FoCuS Moon Lyn LawLiet Qualified via European Qualifiers HawK Foggy Qualified via American Qualifier Hunter

Broadcasting [ edit ]

Results [ edit ]

Groupstage [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ] Semifinals Infi 2 Hunter 0 120 2 Chaemiko 0 Winners' Finals Infi 0 120 2 1st qualified 120 Losers' Round 1 Hunter 0 Chaemiko 2 Losers' Finals Infi 2 Chaemiko 0 2nd qualified Infi Group B [ edit ] Semifinals Lyn 2 HawK 0 Moon 2 tbc_bm 0 Winners' Finals Lyn 2 Moon 1 1st qualified Lyn Losers' Round 1 HawK 1 tbc_bm 2 Losers' Finals Moon 2 tbc_bm 0 2nd qualified Moon Group C [ edit ] Semifinals FoCuS 1 Colorful 2 TH000 1 LawLiet 2 Winners' Finals Colorful 1 LawLiet 2 1st qualified LawLiet Losers' Round 1 FoCuS 0 TH000 2 Losers' Finals Colorful 0 TH000 2 2nd qualified TH000 Group D [ edit ] Semifinals Life 0 Foggy 2 Fly100% 0 WFZ 2 Winners' Finals Foggy 2 WFZ 0 1st qualified Foggy Losers' Round 1 Life 0 Fly100% 2 Losers' Finals WFZ 1 Fly100% 2 2nd qualified Fly100%

Playoffs [ edit ]

Quarterfinals Foggy 0 Infi 3 Lyn 0 TH000 3 LawLiet 3 Moon 2 120 1 Fly100% 3 Semifinals Infi 1 TH000 3 LawLiet 0 Fly100% 3 Finals TH000 4 Fly100% 1 3rd Place Match Infi 3 LawLiet 0

Statistics [ edit ]

Maps [ edit ]

Distributions (race & region) [ edit ]

Race

Region

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

VODs [ edit ]

Articles [ edit ]