$4000 WardiTV Team Liquid Map Contest Tournament 7

Team Liquid Map Contest #15 powered by Shopify is already well underway and that means it is time for a tournament! I am SO excited for this because I truly though I had run my last TLMC event and that we wouldn’t see the return of this staple event in the map making scene, which has such a large effect on the StarCraft 2 ladder and tournaments that we all love to watch day in and day out.

Every TLMC comes with a tournament so we can see the finalists in action before putting our votes in to help determine the winner. This will be the seventh $4,000 WardiTV Team Liquid Map Contest Tournament and we are aiming to make it better than before! Our aim is to get each map played as much as possible across a range of match ups and over the years we have had a few different formats to achieve this.

This time around we will be running a similar format to our last event, just with one less player in the Korean region and one less round in the gauntlet style playoffs due to some time constraints (there is SO MUCH StarCraft 2 happening all the time). We still expect to see over 100 games of SC2 during the tournament, so plenty of time to see these beautiful new maps! This format allows for less players to play more games, meaning it is more worthwhile for the players involved to learn the maps ahead of time and its likely they will see some maps multiple times in game.

Sadly, due to scheduling the only cross server play (EU vs KR) in this tournament will be in the grand finals.

Special thanks again to Shopify for helping to bring this Team Liquid Map Contest and hence tournament to us!

Check out the maps and the tournament info on Liquipedia!

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Format & Dates

Group stage will be Round Robin BO3, with 7 players in the EU group and 6 players in the KR group. Top 4 of each group will advance to the Playoffs, played in a gauntlet style: 4th vs 3rd, winner plays 2nd, winner plays 1st (this is separate for EU and KR.) The winners of the final match in each region will advance to play each other in the grand final.

Some matches during groups may be played simultaneously and replays cast at the end of the show to help with scheduling – full information will be set up once we have a proper match schedule in place.

EU Group Day 1- Tuesday, Jul 06 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) – 8 BO3s
KR Group Day 1- Wednesday, Jul 07 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) – 8 BO3s

EU Group Day 2- Thursday, Jul 08 3:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) – 10 BO3s
KR Group Day 2- Friday, Jul 09 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) – 7 BO3s

EU Group Day 3 & Playoffs - Sunday, Jul 11 4:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) – 3 BO3 & 3 BO5 (please note that this start time might change depending on WTL playoffs!!

KR Playoffs & Grand Finals - Monday, Jul 12 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) – 3 BO5 & BO7 Finals

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Prize Money

Every BO3 victory in the group stage will be worth $30, for a total of $1,080 to be won in the group stages. On top of this prize money is giving out to your finishing position :

1st - $1000
2nd - $500
3rd/4th - $250
5th-6th - $175
7th-8th - $125
9-10th - $85
11-13th - $50

For a total of $2,920, plus the $1,080 in the group stages to total $4,000.

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Streams

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