Nine years have passed since the last WCG. There were no international tournaments of such scale since WCG 2010. Moscow 20th Anniversary Lan may come to your mind, of course, but this is just an open lan with European and Korean guests.

2019 will bring you WCG-class tournament rebirth.

Corrupted Cup 2019
until the final event.

US$ 5,000 prize pool guaranteed, and your contributions are very much welcomed;
Three paid quotas for Poland;
Two paid quotas for Europe;
Two paid quotas for North America;
Two paid quotas for Latin America;
One paid quota for The highest rated ladder player;
Two paid quotas for the Former Soviet States;
Eight paid quotas for Russians;
eOnzErG, g0rynich, spx, Dewalt invited;
No Koreans.

Moscow Grand Final Map Pool:

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Regional Qualification Map Pool

Circuit Breakers
Fighting Spirit
Cross Game
Overwatch
Medusa
Colosseum
Ground Zero

Please watch carefully and don't miss your region qualification match. Consult your regional referee for further information:

Yoda - Russian and Former Soviet Union qualification matches,
Gecko and Fischei - European qualification matches,
ZZZero - Polish qualification matches,
DocHoliday - North American qualification matches,
Fujikura - South American qualification matches.

Please check country list to determine which regional qualification you should apply for.
Dual qualification is expressly discouraged. You are not admitted to test your luck in both NA and LatAm.

There is one Online World Ladder quota for those players not eligible to qualify in either of six regional qualifiers (For example,

Australia,

New Zealand, Africa or Oceania countries). If you are one of these and you want to test your luck, please register a new account with Corrupted tag on Battle.net Europe server and proceed with you generic ladder matches (example: [Corrupted]Rus_Brain). The best player will get a paid quota for the final event. This qualification will last until July 31, 2019, 24:00 CET.
If the name is too long and you can't register that, shorten your name, but keep "Corrupted" part intact. Example: Corrupted-RB.

Corrupted Cup 2019 continuity bonus.
I do pledge myself to host alike cup in 2020, should the community achieve the goal to double up the prize pool.
Matcherino.com.

Miscellaneous:

Sponsored by eSport.fund.
Rulebook. Regional amendments may apply. Please consult with your regional referee.

Lumire

United States599 Posts

May 21 2019 08:54 GMT

Wow, this is amazing!

iRk-AGge

Sweden233 Posts

May 21 2019 09:29 GMT

Awesome initiative! gl to everyone

RAPiDCasting

Korea (South)500 Posts

May 21 2019 09:38 GMT

rus_brain does it again! Can't wait to see some amazing players qualify for this!

Szinkler

Hungary74 Posts

May 21 2019 09:46 GMT

Wow! This is huge! Big thanks to everyone for making it possible!
GLHF!

iFU.spx

Russian Federation170 Posts

May 21 2019 09:59 GMT

Rus_Brain

Russian Federation1339 Posts

May 21 2019 11:18 GMT

[sc1f]eonzerg

Belgium5701 Posts

May 21 2019 11:39 GMT

HYPE!

kogeT

Poland1434 Posts

May 21 2019 11:50 GMT

Oh god, HYPE. Why can't you let me retire.

Rus_Brain

Russian Federation1339 Posts

May 21 2019 11:52 GMT

#10

On May 21 2019 20:50 kogeT wrote:
Why can't you let me retire.

A titan's burden, sorry.
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iG.Arcneon

Finland333 Posts

May 21 2019 12:05 GMT

#11

Really good stuff

Rus_Brain

Russian Federation1339 Posts

May 21 2019 12:08 GMT

#12

I do really hope TL admins will make a proper coverage on the main page. Please feel free to make any edits and proofreads of my Eengleesh.

True_Spike

Poland3133 Posts

May 21 2019 12:12 GMT

#13

Sounds amazing

Great initiative!

tanngard

Norway1215 Posts

May 21 2019 12:32 GMT

#14

This is incredible! Brain is someone special for sure. Let's increase that prizepool to 10 000$ so that we can have another one of these next year (like Brain has promised if doubling of prizepool is met). Let's show our love of this game and its gamers. What do we have to lose?

Btw, Corrupted Cup is a funny name in a self deprecating way, but i think it will be a good idea to change it to something with more of a...Herculean quality? Or something simple and professional sounding perhaps. Will you take name suggestions Brain or is it set in stone? Cheers!

Rus_Brain

Russian Federation1339 Posts

May 21 2019 12:40 GMT

#15

On May 21 2019 21:32 tanngard wrote:
Btw, Corrupted Cup is a funny name in a self deprecating way, but i think it will be a good idea to change it to something with more of a...Herculean quality? Or something simple and professional sounding perhaps. Will you take name suggestions Brain or is it set in stone? Cheers!

It is already set for 2019. It is as well reported to the Fund's accounting.
The cup is made in Russia, the top-138 CPI, so the name is fair.

GeckoXp

Germany1873 Posts

May 21 2019 13:12 GMT

#16

On May 21 2019 21:32 tanngard wrote:
This is incredible! Brain is someone special for sure. Let's increase that prizepool to 10 000$ so that we can have another one of these next year (like Brain has promised if doubling of prizepool is met). Let's show our love of this game and its gamers. What do we have to lose?

Yes, donating is appreciated. It would be a shame if something drastically had to happen to convince to raise some money for the cup.

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SirGlinG

Sweden829 Posts

May 21 2019 14:30 GMT

#17

Awesome!

M3t4PhYzX

Poland330 Posts

May 21 2019 14:36 GMT

#18

Damn.. I would absolutely love to see Sziky or Draco come out of the shadows and participate.. but there is a very low chance for that, unfortunately.

This is going to be so good.. can't wait. Hope that coverage won't disappoint, too! NO KOREANS <3 Very good initiative, thank You very much Rus_Brain

dAiO

15 Posts

May 21 2019 14:39 GMT

#19

WOW!! Thx Russia!

Cele

Germany3626 Posts

May 21 2019 16:19 GMT

#20

Thats just awesome. People might wanna say whatever they think about Brain on a personal level+ Show Spoiler +

and a personally find Brain to be a super nice guy

, but there is no comparison to his offline tournaments . Just wow.

€: Also the "Quotas" or qualification spots available to the offline event seem pretty good to me. 8 qualification spots for Russia seems a lot, but if you really think hard about the quantity of top gamers we have these days from Russia, it makes a lot of sense actually.