$15,000 WardiTV 2023 Championship

Another year has gone by full of StarCraft 2 competition - including many WardiTV events which have been building up to the WardiTV 2023 Championship. Our goal throughout the year has been to make tournaments accessible to as many players as possible, with the promise of a grand event at the end of it all rewarding those who have performed well and consistently in WardiTV tournaments.

This years WardiTV 2023 Championship will feature 30 players and where the players begin in the tournament depends on their seed from the WardiTV 2023 Standings. 10 players will start in the seeding matches, which guarantees them a place in the Winner Bracket (where they start depends on how their seeding matches go!) The next 15 players from the WardiTV standings (6 from EU, 5 from KR, 4 from rest of world) will enter the group stages, where they are joined by 5 additional players from the open qualifiers.

All 30 players will walk away with some chunk of the $15,000 prize pool, which we have been able to raise above the expected $10k due to the generous sponsorship by Crate Entertainment, the developers of Grim Dawn. They are passionate RTS supporters and were also a big reason we were able to run such succesful monthly open cups throughout the WardiTV 2023 Circuit.

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Schedule
Full format can be found on Liquipedia

Qualifiers
Qualifier #1 (3 Qualify) - Thursday, Dec 28 2:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Qualifier #2 (2 Qualify) - Friday, Dec 29 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Seeding Matches

Day 1 - Friday, Dec 29 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Day 2 - Saturday, Dec 30 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Day 3 - Sunday, Dec 31 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Group Stage

Group A - Monday, Jan 01 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Group B - Tuesday, Jan 02 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Group C - Tuesday, Jan 09 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Group D - Wednesday, Jan 10 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

Playoffs

Day 1 - Thursday, Jan 11 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Day 2 - Friday, Jan 12 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Day 3 - Saturday, Jan 20 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Finals - Sunday, Jan 21 12:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)

The gap in Playoffs is due to the Masters Coliseum changing schedule.

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Players
This list of players is the players who have received invites - players have not yet confirmed their participation in the event - players will be replaced via WardiTV 2023 Standings when needed

Seeding Matches
ByuN - Clem - Dark - Cure - Solar - herO - MaxPax - GuMiho - Spirit - Wayne

Group Stages
Astrea - Classic - HeRoMaRinE - Oliveira - Scarlett - SHIN - Kelazhur - Ryung - Creator - Gerald - Harstem - MaNa - NightMare - ShoWTimE - SKillous

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Prize Pool

1st - $3500
2nd - $1750
3rd - $1250
4th - $900
5/6th - $700
7/8th - $550
9/10th - $400
11-14th - $300
15-18th - $250
19-22nd - $200
23-26th - $175
27-30th - $150

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