The WCS Europe Challenger League concluded the Bracket Stage of the tournament, with eight players winning spots in upcoming Premier League. The Challenger League will now move onto the Group Stage, where the final sixteen Premier League spots will be given out.

Challenger League Primer

Challenger League is comprised of 40 players: 8 from qualifiers, 8 from the previous season of Challenger League, and the 24 Premier League players who did not finish in the top eight.

Bracket Stage: 8 players earn Premier League spots

All the forty players are placed into a three round, single elimination tournament. Players who finished top 16 in the previous Premier League are seeded into the third and final round. The eight players who are victorious in the third round receive spots in the next Premier League.

Group Stage: 16 players earn Premier League spots

The 32 players who did NOT advance to the Premier League from the Bracket Stage move on to the Group Stage of the tournament, where they are placed into eight different four-man groups. Each group is played in GSL/Premier League double elimination style, with the top two players receiving spots in the next Premier League. The third place finisher receives a spot in the next Challenger League, while the fourth place finisher is eliminated and must requalify.

Round of 16 results - Full brackets on Liquipedia

Winners Advanced to Premier League Season III

MiA.Starbuck 2 - 1 (Z)

Liquid`Ret

Empire|Happy 2 - 0 (T)

Mill.Dayshi

mYi.StarDust 2 - 0 (P)

mouz.MaNa

Na`Vi.BabyKnight 2 -1 (T)

mouz.LucifroN

RoX|KIS.TitaN 2 - 1 (P)

Azubu.San

VP.BenQ.sLivko (walkover) (Z)

EG.Stephano*

IM_Mvp 2 - 1 (Z)

Roccat.DIMAGA

XMG.ToD 2 - 0 (Z)

dignitas.Tefel

*Due to the retirement of Stephano, Slivko automatically advanced to the Premier League.

While the winners advance to the Premier League, the losers drop down to the group stage where they will play the other bracket stage losers for the remaining sixteen Premier League spots.

WCS Europe Season 3 Premier League Players

Season 2 Top Eight (8)
(P)

duckdeok,

MC,

Grubby,

Welmu,

NaNiwa,

HasuObs,

MMA,

VortiX

Challenger League Bracket Stage Winners (8/8)
(P)

TitaN,

StarDust,

ToD,

BabyKnight, (T)

Mvp,

Happy,

sLivko,

Starbuck

Challenger League Group Stage Winners (0/16)
TBD

Shellshock

United States97277 Posts

August 15 2013 04:59 GMT

How could you lose, San TT

LiLSighKoh

United States588 Posts

August 15 2013 05:00 GMT

4 more toss!

MrMotionPicture

United States4327 Posts

August 15 2013 05:01 GMT

Babyknight vs Lucifron 2-1

bourne117

United States837 Posts

August 15 2013 05:04 GMT

Jesus out of the 16 players 10 are toss with more likely to come from group stages. WCS EU is going to fill the void left by PvProleague

partydude89

1850 Posts

August 15 2013 05:05 GMT

Its pretty interesting that europe seems to be holding its ground rather well, while NA has been flooded with koreans. not saying its a good or bad thing, i just personally find it interesting.

bokchoi

Korea (South)9498 Posts

August 15 2013 05:18 GMT

On August 15 2013 14:05 partydude89 wrote:
Its pretty interesting that europe seems to be holding its ground rather well, while NA has been flooded with koreans. not saying its a good or bad thing, i just personally find it interesting.

Ping. I feel like thats the real barrier to more Koreans in EU WCS. But wow, next season EU WCS is gonna be a PvP fest!

Gamegene

United States8308 Posts

August 15 2013 05:21 GMT

Ret

Daswollvieh

5553 Posts

August 15 2013 05:24 GMT

On August 15 2013 14:04 bourne117 wrote:
Jesus out of the 16 players 10 are toss with more likely to come from group stages. WCS EU is going to fill the void left by PvProleague

So it´s the legacy of the void?

bittman

Australia8759 Posts

August 15 2013 05:34 GMT

#10

So long as Mvp makes it I'm ok.

Be interesting to see how the U/D works for EU and racial balance.

mikumegurine

Canada3145 Posts

August 15 2013 05:38 GMT

#11

yea PING is the reason why chinese and koreans try WCS NA, less lag

and since internet infrastructure from europe to asia isnt going to get much better that fast

WCS NA is going to be where the koreans go, (making it more competitive)

AlbertHR

Indonesia65 Posts

August 15 2013 06:03 GMT

#12

Yeah Mvp !! I really liked his games against Dimaga though ! First game was Dimaga being a boss in the late game,,, and the last game was Mvp showing everyone how hellbats are still awesome even with the nerf

Sissors

1395 Posts

August 15 2013 06:08 GMT

#13

Too bad MvP made it, now hoping he gets taken out in premier league. Nothing against MvP (besides that I like Europe holding), but it is just too funny reading messages from all the people who claim they will uninstall SC2 everytime MvP loses from a European.

holmesgenius

Vietnam65 Posts

August 15 2013 06:33 GMT

#14

holytoss

XxDESCIPLExX

United States1 Post

August 15 2013 06:47 GMT

#15

so many protoss!

KOtical

Germany451 Posts

August 15 2013 07:25 GMT

#16

WCP EU again xD
WCP = World Championship Protoss

Naphal

Germany2099 Posts

August 15 2013 07:29 GMT

#17

On August 15 2013 15:08 Sissors wrote:
Too bad MvP made it, now hoping he gets taken out in premier league. Nothing against MvP (besides that I like Europe holding), but it is just too funny reading messages from all the people who claim they will uninstall SC2 everytime MvP loses from a European.

yes these comments no matter when and why are always so stupid... who are they threatening? the players wont read it and the other LR-thread viewers dont care, that being said i hope for Mvp placing top5!

boxerfred

Germany8360 Posts

August 15 2013 08:27 GMT

#18

"EU holds" is basically a false claim. EU does not have as many koreans as AM, which makes it easier for EU to hold.

I would love to have a region lock, but as long as that does not happen, WCS is just another KR tournament for me, with slightly weaker "qualifiers" than normally.

Ragnarork

France9034 Posts

August 15 2013 09:12 GMT

#19

Oh gosh... 10 protosses.

Seriously, I know that this race's match-ups have evovled (notably PvP) but I just can't watch this... Redesign the race, Blizzard... Protoss is way too boring....

Greendotz

United Kingdom2053 Posts

August 15 2013 09:42 GMT

#20

Well, there's the imfamous "wall of lag", this is a two-way benefit in that it makes it easier for the Europeans and less Koreans wanting to participate. The ones that do are of a lower skill generally (finale, tails and San aren't exactly superstar level of Taeja, Polt, Hero, Byul, Hyun, B4 ect) and the general skill level of Europeans is a little higher than NA pros so they can pull off the surprise win occasionally, like MC and San been beaten in the Challenger brackets or Mvp been knocked out of the RO16.

Don't get me wrong, I (and I'm sure a good number of other people) enjoy chanting "Europe holds" every time we have a small victory, I actually believe it's become a big part of WCS EU, but the fact is we had a lot of good fourtune thrown our way and the NA's got the shitty end of a lot of shitty stick.

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