2019 StarCraft II World Championship Series

The 2019 StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) is the 2019 edition of the StarCraft II World Championship Series, the top esports tournament circuit for StarCraft II.[1] The tournament series' Global Finals were won by South Korean professional player Park "Dark" Ryung Woo.[2][3]

2019 StarCraft II World Championship Series Global Finals
2019
Tournament information
SportStarCraft II
LocationAnaheim, California
Administrator(s)Blizzard Entertainment
Venue(s)Anaheim Convention Center
Purse$700,000
Final positions
ChampionPark "Dark" Ryung Woo
Runner-upRiccardo "Reynor" Romiti

Format
Benjamin "DeMusliM" Baker and Jared "PiG" Krensel casting WCS Spring event
See also: StarCraft II World Championship Series § History

The 2019 StarCraft II World Championship Series was separated into two regions, WCS Korea and WCS Circuit. The format of the former remained consistent with the standard set in 2017, featuring three seasons of the long-running Global StarCraft II League (GSL) Code S with two smaller GSL Super Tournament events interspersed. The format of latter region, however, replaced one of the standard four large WCS Circuit events with WCS Winter, separated into WCS Winter Europe and WCS Winter America, two smaller tournaments with an online portion and an in-person playoff portion. Beyond this, the format remained mostly unchanged with three large WCS Circuit events and accompanying qualifiers under the WCS Challenger branding. Two shared World Championship Series Global events featured players from both regions prior to the Global Finals. All these events, excluding the second WCS Global event GSL vs. the World, gave out WCS Circuit and/or WCS Korea points that determined the seeding of the Global Finals.[1]

Seeding

Eight players from each WCS region qualify to the event based on their WCS points-based rankings. Winners of WCS Circuit stops, GSL Code S events, and IEM Katowice receive automatic qualification. The sixteen players are then seeded into four four-player groups for the first round based on their region-specific ranking. A draw is held for the quarterfinals bracket, with winners of each group facing second-place finishers of other groups.[1]

Results

Global Finals

The WCS Global Finals were held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California as part of BlizzCon 2019.[4] They featured a group stage as the first round of play, played out the week prior to the main event, followed by bracket play from the quarterfinals onward at the convention center itself.[2][5] For the first time ever, the event was confined to one of the two days the convention ran for, with all matches from the quarterfinals through the finals happening on November 1st, Friday.

Quarterfinals   Semifinals   Final
                   
Serral 3  
soO 0     Serral 2  
Reynor 3   Reynor 3  
Trap 2       Reynor 1
Rogue 2       Dark 4
Classic 3     Classic 0
Dark 3   Dark 3  
Maru 0  

References
  1. "StarCraft II Esports in 2019". Blizzard Entertainment. February 6, 2019. Retrieved Jan 8, 2020.
  2. "Dark puts South Korea back atop StarCraft world". ESPN.com. November 3, 2019.
  3. "Dark Wins the StarCraft 2 2019 Global Finals". Twinfinite. November 2, 2019.
  4. "WCS Global Finals: BlizzCon Viewer's Guide - StarCraft II WCS". wcs.starcraft2.com.
  5. "Top stories". www.redbull.com/us-en. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
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