In WTC 2021, teams are no longer required to field a player from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan or Macau. This opens the gate for teams from Europe and America to compete in the league, and with online cross server matches becoming the norm in a post-pandemic world, WTC becomes the first premier team competition in recent years to go global after the departure of legendary team events like Acer Teamstory Cup.

Regular Season

12 team round robin. Proleague format, best of 2 series for each match-up, with best of 1 ace match if needed. Top 5 advance to playoffs.

Playoffs

Proleague style single elimination bracket, best of 7 all kill format, best of 2 series for each match-up with a unique twist: in a 1-1 scenario, both players will be eliminated.

New faces and old fan favorites come together to form the most diverse and exciting line up in CTC history.

Alpha X
(P)

Zoun

Team Liquid
(T)

uThermal

Team GP
(P)

LunaSea

KaiZi Gaming
(T)

INnoVation (Z)

Solar

TIME

Team LaoPaoer
(P)

Jieshi

QzDdb

wanted

Team NV
(T)

sOs

DRG

HHs

Dragon Pheonix Gaming
(T)

Cure

Dark

Rogue

Zest

Good Game Gaming
(P)

Cyan

Dream

Patience

Shopify Rebellion
(T)

ByuN

Lambo

Scarlett

TLO

Invictus Gaming
(P)

Jim

XiGua

MacSed

XY

Afreeca Freecs
(Z)

Armani

Stats

Trap

TY

Team eXoN
(Z)

WTC 2021 will feature $49,000+ in prize money each season, with $98,000+ total prize money for the two season year. SCboy will also launch a merch campaign in the domestic market, with a share of the revenue being added to the total prize pool.

Seasonal prize money distribution (base):

1st: $12,560/￥80,000
2nd: $9,195/￥60,000
3rd: $6,123/￥40,000
4th: $4,600/￥30,000
5th: $3,065/￥20,000
6th: $2,452/￥16,000
7th: $2,145/￥14,000
8th: $1,839/￥12,000
9th: $1,532/￥10,000
10th: $1,073/￥7,000
11th: $920/￥6,000
12th: $766/￥5,000

WTC 2021 will be livestreamed on Twitch in multiple languages, 11:00 GMT (+00:00) every Friday, Saturday and Sunday starting March 26th. Playoffs weekend starting June 26th.

Scboy | Mage

Wardi | CreightonOlsen

CranK | Maddox | IntotheiNu | ELSStephenCurry

sneakyfox

8218 Posts

March 08 2021 14:40 GMT

Hype hype hype

We have two threads though.

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

March 08 2021 15:04 GMT

This looks hype af!

Tastyyyy

Portugal95 Posts

March 08 2021 15:28 GMT

Gotta love SCboy

Husyelt

United States839 Posts

March 08 2021 15:39 GMT

This sounds amazing great stuff

dbRic1203

Germany2655 Posts

March 08 2021 15:42 GMT

H Y P E
I feel like with so many great teams, they could have extended the playoffs by one spot.

osliang

China108 Posts

March 08 2021 16:30 GMT

Wow, 3 months of Starcraft 2 games? Can't wait :D

Andi_Goldberger

Germany1608 Posts

March 08 2021 16:47 GMT

oh boy this is nice!
Sad that team QLASH with a certain world champion and a pretty good poker player isnt participating

muppet70

Sweden72 Posts

March 08 2021 16:57 GMT

On March 09 2021 01:47 Andi_Goldberger wrote:
oh boy this is nice!
Sad that team QLASH with a certain world champion and a pretty good poker player isnt participating

Wishing for Qlash to partner with Ence for a collab team!

Edpayasugo

United Kingdom2223 Posts

March 08 2021 16:58 GMT

#10

KaiZi fighting!

And Wardi casting, great.

InfCereal

Canada1759 Posts

March 08 2021 17:41 GMT

#11

Interesting to see Taeja again

lepricon1992

105 Posts

March 08 2021 17:47 GMT

#12

Wish to have a offline playoffs.

SmoKim

Denmark10305 Posts

March 08 2021 17:53 GMT

#13

Is the the best news in recent times?

Finally a Team League! And the teams looks overall pretty balanced

Now we just need NationWars back

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19384 Posts

March 08 2021 17:53 GMT

#14

This is some of the best news possible for SC2. I'm really excited to see how the teams do. For a world team league we are missing some critical top players. As there still time for teams to pick up more players?

Malta Soron

Netherlands3 Posts

March 08 2021 17:57 GMT

#15

On March 09 2021 01:47 Andi_Goldberger wrote:
oh boy this is nice!
Sad that team QLASH with a certain world champion and a pretty good poker player isnt participating

Yeah, that's the disadvantage of having a small SC2 roster on a team. The same goes for most of the other top foreigners (Serral, Showtime, Heromarine, Neeb) and Parting.

dbRic1203

Germany2655 Posts

March 08 2021 18:48 GMT

#16

On March 09 2021 02:53 SmoKim wrote:
Is the the best news in recent times?

Finally a Team League! And the teams looks overall pretty balanced

Now we just need NationWars back

Well the Team league has been going for quite some time now, so nothing realy new. Just new Rules I suppose

Crocolisk Dundee

870 Posts

March 08 2021 20:15 GMT

#17

Is TLO actually playing? He is listed as part of the Shopify Rebellion roster.

warnull

United States280 Posts

March 08 2021 20:35 GMT

#18

On March 09 2021 01:57 muppet70 wrote:

Show nested quote +

Wishing for Qlash to partner with Ence for a collab team!

The idea of smaller EU teams joining together as one for the team league was explored, according to Xiaose on stream. Unfortunately it didn't pan out.

Swisslink

2958 Posts

March 08 2021 20:53 GMT

#19

I guess the regular season will be Bo5?

dbRic1203

Germany2655 Posts

March 08 2021 20:56 GMT

#20

On March 09 2021 05:35 warnull wrote:

Show nested quote +

The idea of smaller EU teams joining together as one for the team league was explored, according to Xiaose on stream. Unfortunately it didn't pan out.

I think its better this way.
Imagine Qlash (Reynor), Ence (Serral), Mouz (Gabe) and BIG (Showtime) formed a super team. It would be against the idear of teams and team leagues to begin with.

Yes it would be interesting to see an EU only team compete there and actually be one of the favorites. But not if we had to sacrifice actual teams, that invest into deep roosters for that.

purakushi

United States3303 Posts

March 08 2021 21:00 GMT

#21

Woot, all-kill format!

in a 1-1 scenario, both players will be eliminated.

oooh

Topin

Peru10128 Posts

March 09 2021 00:00 GMT

#22

i will keep an eye on this

esReveR

United States568 Posts

March 09 2021 00:14 GMT

#23

Some of these team lineups seem significantly stronger than others. I hope we can still get some good matches.

dbRic1203

Germany2655 Posts

March 09 2021 03:20 GMT

#24

On March 09 2021 09:14 esReveR wrote:
Some of these team lineups seem significantly stronger than others. I hope we can still get some good matches.

The Bo2 format usually is pretty underdog favoured, because steaking a Single map allready feels like a win. Especially some Chinese Players have been decent snipers in past seasons.