



Third and last opportunity for Asian players to compete at GCS 2017 Winter : the second part of the most important individual tournament in 2017 with one the biggest prize pool.



Players try to join 120, Infi, Fly100%, Life, FoCuS, TH000, Romantic, XiaoKK, Moon, Check & OrcWorker which are already qualified.

Preliminary rounds (32 into 12) : group A & B : october 12th & 13th, group C & D : october 14th & 15th,

groupstage (16 into 8) : october 19th & 20th : group A & B : october 19th, group C & D : october 20th,

playoffs : 8 into 4 : october 21st. Finals : october 22nd [1] .



Format [ edit ]

Preliminary rounds [ edit ]

Top 32 players (from NetEase ladder) qualify for the preliminary rounds[2] :

players are divided into 4 groups of 8 players each,

the groups are played as double elimination,

all matches are best-of-three,

top 3 qualify for the groupstage.

Groupstage [ edit ]

The 12 winners face Rank 5-8 from Asian Qualifier #2[3] :

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

the groups are played as double elimination,

all matches are best-of-three,

top 2 qualify for the playoffs.

Playoff stage [ edit ]

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

earlier rounds are best-of-three,

Grand Final is a best-of-five,

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

Conclusion [ edit ]

Top 4 qualify for GCS Winter 2017,

others players fail to qualify.

Prize pool [ edit ]

¥ 4,000 (≃ $ 604) are divided among participants as follows[5] :

Participants [ edit ]

Broadcasting [ edit ]

Results [ edit ]

Preliminary rounds [ edit ]

Here the players who respectively finished first, second and third of their preliminary round group, clinching a spot for groupstage :

Lyn, Colorful & Sini in group A, complete bracket here.

WFZ, Fast & Pingge in group B, complete bracket here.

tbc_bm, EleGaNt & Vila in group C, complete bracket here.

Lucifer, Yumiko & Sok in group D, complete bracket here.

Groupstage [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ] Semifinals Chaemiko 0 Sok 2 Lucifer 0 Colorful 2 Winners' Finals Sok 2 Colorful 0 1st qualified Sok Losers' Round 1 Chaemiko 1 Lucifer 2 Losers' Finals Colorful 2 Lucifer 0 2nd qualified Colorful Group B [ edit ] Semifinals LawLiet 2 Vila 0 tbc_bm 0 WFZ 2 Winners' Finals LawLiet 2 WFZ 0 1st qualified LawLiet Losers' Round 1 Vila 0 tbc_bm 2 Losers' Finals WFZ 2 tbc_bm 0 2nd qualified WFZ Group C [ edit ] Semifinals ReMinD 2 Pingge 1 Fast 0 EleGaNt 2 Winners' Finals ReMinD 2 EleGaNt 0 1st qualified ReMinD Losers' Round 1 Pingge 1 Fast 2 Losers' Finals EleGaNt 0 Fast 2 2nd qualified Fast Group D [ edit ] Semifinals Soin 0 Sini 2 Lyn 2 Yumiko 1 Winners' Finals Sini 0 Lyn 2 1st qualified Lyn Losers' Round 1 Soin 2 Yumiko 0 Losers' Finals Sini 1 Soin 2 2nd qualified Soin

Playoffs [ edit ]

Quarterfinal Lyn 2 WFZ 1 Soin 2 ReMinD 1 Colorful 0 LawLiet 2 Sok 2 Fast 0 Semifinals Lyn 1 Soin 2 LawLiet 2 Sok 0 Winners' Finals Soin 0 LawLiet 2 Losers' Round 1 WFZ 2 ReMinD 1 Colorful 2 Fast 0 Losers' Round 2 Sok 0 WFZ 2 Lyn 2 Colorful 1 Losers' Round 3 WFZ 2 Lyn 0 Losers' Finals Soin 0 WFZ 2 Grand Finals LawLiet 3 WFZ 2

VODs [ edit ]