Format The Global Finals will place the top 16 players of the WCS Standings in a single elimination tournament. The map pool will be identical to that of WCS Season 3, and all matches will be best-of-five, except the finals, which will feature a best-of-seven series.
Seeding Each player’s placement in the WCS Standings represents the culmination of their efforts over the course of this year’s World Championship Series competition. We want to reward the performances of the highest scoring players by giving them the greatest advantage possible. Global Finals seeding will pit players ranked 1st and 16th against each other, 2nd vs. 15th, and so on, until all 16 competitors have been matched with an opponent.
On October 22 2013 04:53 StarStruck wrote: So is it still 6 hours for the round of 16 considering they are doing bo5 all the way through to finals? lol :O
If there have 2 streams, they can do it. Or they can chose not to show all matches.
Worth noting for qualification ties (aka Naniwa/Revival possibility)
Ties within the Top 16 seeded players Ties within the top 16 WCS players will be decided by cumulative points earned only in World Championship Series America, Europe, Korea, and Season Finals events. If a tie remains, it will be settled through points earned only in WCS Tier 1 events. If the players in question are still tied, seeding will be decided by coin-toss.
Ties for qualification to the Global Finals If there is a tie across the Global Finals cutoff, the players in question will travel to BlizzCon to play an offline, best-of-five match to decide who will be seeded into the WCS Global Finals bracket.
"Ties for qualification to the Global Finals If there is a tie across the Global Finals cutoff, the players in question will travel to BlizzCon to play an offline, best-of-five match to decide who will be seeded into the WCS Global Finals bracket. "
interesting to know if the trip will be paid by blizz, if y looser get free blizzcon trip not bad
Ties within the Top 16 seeded players Ties within the top 16 WCS players will be decided by cumulative points earned only in World Championship Series America, Europe, Korea, and Season Finals events. If a tie remains, it will be settled through points earned only in WCS Tier 1 events. If the players in question are still tied, seeding will be decided by coin-toss.
Ties for qualification to the Global Finals If there is a tie across the Global Finals cutoff, the players in question will travel to BlizzCon to play an offline, best-of-five match to decide who will be seeded into the WCS Global Finals bracket.
On October 22 2013 05:05 Killmouse wrote: "Ties for qualification to the Global Finals If there is a tie across the Global Finals cutoff, the players in question will travel to BlizzCon to play an offline, best-of-five match to decide who will be seeded into the WCS Global Finals bracket. "
interesting to know if the trip will be paid by blizz, if y looser get free blizzcon trip not bad
that was the first thing that came to my mind too. i guess they pretty much would have to pay it though. imagine spending a lot of money and time and energy on travelling all the way from Korea to Blizzcon just to lose one match and not even get to play in the actual tournament. kind of a dumb setup in the first place but whatever, there probably won't be a tie anyways.
Ties within the top 16 WCS players will be decided by cumulative points earned only in World Championship Series America, Europe, Korea, and Season Finals events. If a tie remains, it will be settled through points earned only in WCS Tier 1 events. If the players in question are still tied, seeding will be decided by coin-toss.
This means if Revival gets 1st or 2nd in his Challanger group, he's gonna surpass Naniwa ;( Which would mean that if even a single other player gets 3200+ points, Naniwa is out... T.T
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