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Australia18228 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/fIhDAP7.jpg) The competition is already roaring in Korea, and IEM Katowice will light up our first global tournament by the end of the month. We are pleased to present the complete ruleset for the 2017 World Championship Series. Below, we have summarized some major updates and information that are included in the ruleset.
WCS 2017 Official RulesYou can find the point and prizing breakdown for IEM Katowice here: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/G8v5Kzt.png) The following is the points and prizing for events in the Korea region: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/LtT6L7C.jpg) And the Circuit splits: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/yZbHepG.jpg) Further details about the GSL vs. the World event will be shared at a later date. The already earned points from IEM Gyeonggi and GSL Code S Season 1 will be added throughout today. Residency Requirements
The residency requirements for those wishing to compete outside of their home region have remained largely the same from 2016 to 2017. If you are a player attempting to compete in a region in which you do not have citizenship, please reach out to the Blizzard Esports Team at esportsteam@blizzard.com.
Regional Eligibility Changes for 2017Japan added to Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau Region 2016 was in the first year Japanese players were eligible to participate in the WCS. While we appreciate their contributions to the ANZ & Southeast Asia region, we’ve examined the player experience and decided that due to server location it makes sense to home Japan in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region. We hope this will provide a better experience for all players.
Official announcement: https://wcs.starcraft2.com/en-us/news/20563603/StarCraft-II-World-Championship-Series-2017-Announced/
The dates for WCS 2017 tournaments were also included in the document: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/89Xln4t.png)
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Australia18228 Posts
Also, GSL vs. the World will offer no WCS points
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Finally... Some rules and points awarded!
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On February 08 2017 14:13 Inflicted wrote:
Also, GSL vs. the World will offer no WCS points
will scarlett play for GSL this time? 
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Well it's earlier than last year's rule book. Nothing too surprising.
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so, will katowice basically be the last SC2 IEM?
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China6330 Posts
On February 08 2017 14:36 Executer08 wrote:
so, will katowice basically be the last SC2 IEM?
Carmac already confirmed IEM XII will have SC2.
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On February 08 2017 14:36 Executer08 wrote:
so, will katowice basically be the last SC2 IEM?
That's up to Carmac. Carmac has said in a TL interview that he's still passionate about SC2, but who knows what the future holds.
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On February 08 2017 14:13 Inflicted wrote:
Also, GSL vs. the World will offer no WCS points
WTF...
Why?
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That means 4 global events, right? Much nicer than 2016!
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Regarding to the posting only IEM Katowice is Global, isn't it?
Overall still a bit disappointed there aren't more WCS and / or Global Events ... it is a step back to the last years.
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Great to see the ruleset...wouldn't be surprised if SC is dropped from the IEM roster soon.  Feelsbergman.
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IEM Katowice, IEM Gyeonggi, Super Tournament 1, Super Tournament 2 are not region locked, so they are global, right?
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Italy3480 Posts
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nothing to get too hyped about yet. If they somehow manage to squeeze in some tournaments during the months with downtime, i would be hyped though. Still, it isnt that overwhelming amount of tourneys we had once
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So players who did well in the last IEM ggyongi had already WCS points?
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wait , where is DreamHack Open Tours (France) on May 6th to 8th ? It is not a WCS Circuit tournament anymore ? No point granted ?
So I guess there will be no StarCraft at DreamHack Tours ?
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On February 08 2017 16:51 Diabolique wrote:
IEM Katowice, IEM Gyeonggi, Super Tournament 1, Super Tournament 2 are not region locked, so they are global, right?
Super Tournaments and IEM Gyeonggi are WCS Korea, tho I guess if you're foreigner you can compete there anyway but you won't earn points in the WCS Circuit.
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I don't understand why this took so long tbh. They announced all those tournaments as WCS tournaments in December. It can't be that hard to figure out the point values.
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So is this the WCS 2016 Korea but for foreigners in 2017? 4 events total really?
It was 3 last year but with 3 extra DH, the Gold series, IEM shanghai and wcs copa intercontinental, so 9 events total for wcs points.
Are they gonna announce more tournaments or is that it? Even counting global events it's like 70% of last years circuit prize pool.
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On February 08 2017 15:33 paralleluniverse wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 14:13 Inflicted wrote:
Also, GSL vs. the World will offer no WCS points WTF... Why?
because it will a kind of invitational thing based on previous result, which means giving points for this would just give more point to people who already have plenty?
I don't really know, just trying to guess...
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Mexico674 Posts
It is finally good to see the point distribution for this year.
On February 08 2017 14:09 Inflicted wrote:
Regional Eligibility Changes for 2017
Japan added to Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau Region
2016 was in the first year Japanese players were eligible to participate in the WCS. While we appreciate their contributions to the ANZ & Southeast Asia region, we’ve examined the player experience and decided that due to server location it makes sense to home Japan in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region. We hope this will provide a better experience for all players.
That's a pretty curious change. While the Japanese scene is small (basically  PSiArc and  Vaisravana), the Taiwanese scene has also been shrinking a lot. Adding a couple more players would not hurt, plus if it gives them better latency I'm all up for it.
EDIT: guess we're gonna call it the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau/Japan region now? Talk about long names.
On February 08 2017 21:33 ArtyK wrote:
So is this the WCS 2016 Korea but for foreigners in 2017? 4 events total really?
It was 3 last year but with 3 extra DH, the Gold series, IEM shanghai and wcs copa intercontinental, so 9 events total for wcs points.
Are they gonna announce more tournaments or is that it? Even counting global events it's like 70% of last years circuit prize pool.
This is something that I do not know why it was not discussed more when it was initially announced, the non-Korean world got sliced pretty bad there. While the ammout of seeds that WCS Challenger gives has doubled, the ammout of premier tournaments got decreased a lot. And why yes, one can also plays in all the Korean tournaments, the reality is that not very many players got the income neccesary to make it a reality. That is why last year WCS was so good for foreigners, having multiple opportunities to travel to tournaments, giving exposure to your region and teams that otherwise you would not be able to. Now you have 4 chances this year, good luck with that. The only thing is that Blizzard annouces more WCS circuit events during the year, but by the way the initial annoucement was written it was like there were not gonna be anything more that what was announced. If there are more foreign tournaments, I would expect them to not be part of the WCS circuit, which means no regional qualifiers for players to be able to participate in.
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On February 08 2017 15:40 Diabolique wrote:
That means 4 global events, right? Much nicer than 2016!
The only global events are IEM Katowice and GSL vs the World.
Last year they had 1 global event, this year they said they wanted more. So they went from 1 to 2, while only 1 of them gives points.
It's quite pathetic.
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On February 08 2017 23:00 DARKING wrote:It is finally good to see the point distribution for this year. Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 14:09 Inflicted wrote:
Regional Eligibility Changes for 2017
Japan added to Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau Region
2016 was in the first year Japanese players were eligible to participate in the WCS. While we appreciate their contributions to the ANZ & Southeast Asia region, we’ve examined the player experience and decided that due to server location it makes sense to home Japan in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region. We hope this will provide a better experience for all players.
That's a pretty curious change. While the Japanese scene is small (basically PSiArc and Vaisravana), the Taiwanese scene has also been shrinking a lot. Adding a couple more players would not hurt, plus if it gives them better latency I'm all up for it. EDIT: guess we're gonna call it the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau/Japan region now? Talk about long names. + Show Spoiler +On February 08 2017 21:33 ArtyK wrote:
So is this the WCS 2016 Korea but for foreigners in 2017? 4 events total really?
It was 3 last year but with 3 extra DH, the Gold series, IEM shanghai and wcs copa intercontinental, so 9 events total for wcs points.
Are they gonna announce more tournaments or is that it? Even counting global events it's like 70% of last years circuit prize pool. This is something that I do not know why it was not discussed more when it was initially announced, the non-Korean world got sliced pretty bad there. While the ammout of seeds that WCS Challenger gives has doubled, the ammout of premier tournaments got decreased a lot. And why yes, one can also plays in all the Korean tournaments, the reality is that not very many players got the income neccesary to make it a reality. That is why last year WCS was so good for foreigners, having multiple opportunities to travel to tournaments, giving exposure to your region and teams that otherwise you would not be able to. Now you have 4 chances this year, good luck with that. The only thing is that Blizzard annouces more WCS circuit events during the year, but by the way the initial annoucement was written it was like there were not gonna be anything more that what was announced. If there are more foreign tournaments, I would expect them to not be part of the WCS circuit, which means no regional qualifiers for players to be able to participate in.
TaHKMaJa
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On February 08 2017 23:00 DARKING wrote:It is finally good to see the point distribution for this year. Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 14:09 Inflicted wrote:
Regional Eligibility Changes for 2017
Japan added to Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau Region
2016 was in the first year Japanese players were eligible to participate in the WCS. While we appreciate their contributions to the ANZ & Southeast Asia region, we’ve examined the player experience and decided that due to server location it makes sense to home Japan in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region. We hope this will provide a better experience for all players.
That's a pretty curious change. While the Japanese scene is small (basically PSiArc and Vaisravana), the Taiwanese scene has also been shrinking a lot. Adding a couple more players would not hurt, plus if it gives them better latency I'm all up for it. EDIT: guess we're gonna call it the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau/Japan region now? Talk about long names. Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 21:33 ArtyK wrote:
So is this the WCS 2016 Korea but for foreigners in 2017? 4 events total really?
It was 3 last year but with 3 extra DH, the Gold series, IEM shanghai and wcs copa intercontinental, so 9 events total for wcs points.
Are they gonna announce more tournaments or is that it? Even counting global events it's like 70% of last years circuit prize pool. This is something that I do not know why it was not discussed more when it was initially announced, the non-Korean world got sliced pretty bad there. While the ammout of seeds that WCS Challenger gives has doubled, the ammout of premier tournaments got decreased a lot. And why yes, one can also plays in all the Korean tournaments, the reality is that not very many players got the income neccesary to make it a reality. That is why last year WCS was so good for foreigners, having multiple opportunities to travel to tournaments, giving exposure to your region and teams that otherwise you would not be able to. Now you have 4 chances this year, good luck with that. The only thing is that Blizzard annouces more WCS circuit events during the year, but by the way the initial annoucement was written it was like there were not gonna be anything more that what was announced. If there are more foreign tournaments, I would expect them to not be part of the WCS circuit, which means no regional qualifiers for players to be able to participate in.
wanted to do the same comment when it was announced but i hoped they would just clear it up later, nope, that's all there is TT
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On February 08 2017 21:29 Elentos wrote:
I don't understand why this took so long tbh. They announced all those tournaments as WCS tournaments in December. It can't be that hard to figure out the point values.
I think it makes more sense to announce wcs points shortly before first wcs tournament of the year begins.
unhandily to announce the points when the first tournament starts 2-3 months afterwards.
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On February 08 2017 23:11 Wintex wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 23:00 DARKING wrote:It is finally good to see the point distribution for this year. On February 08 2017 14:09 Inflicted wrote:
Regional Eligibility Changes for 2017
Japan added to Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau Region
2016 was in the first year Japanese players were eligible to participate in the WCS. While we appreciate their contributions to the ANZ & Southeast Asia region, we’ve examined the player experience and decided that due to server location it makes sense to home Japan in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region. We hope this will provide a better experience for all players.
That's a pretty curious change. While the Japanese scene is small (basically PSiArc and Vaisravana), the Taiwanese scene has also been shrinking a lot. Adding a couple more players would not hurt, plus if it gives them better latency I'm all up for it. EDIT: guess we're gonna call it the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau/Japan region now? Talk about long names. + Show Spoiler +On February 08 2017 21:33 ArtyK wrote:
So is this the WCS 2016 Korea but for foreigners in 2017? 4 events total really?
It was 3 last year but with 3 extra DH, the Gold series, IEM shanghai and wcs copa intercontinental, so 9 events total for wcs points.
Are they gonna announce more tournaments or is that it? Even counting global events it's like 70% of last years circuit prize pool. This is something that I do not know why it was not discussed more when it was initially announced, the non-Korean world got sliced pretty bad there. While the ammout of seeds that WCS Challenger gives has doubled, the ammout of premier tournaments got decreased a lot. And why yes, one can also plays in all the Korean tournaments, the reality is that not very many players got the income neccesary to make it a reality. That is why last year WCS was so good for foreigners, having multiple opportunities to travel to tournaments, giving exposure to your region and teams that otherwise you would not be able to. Now you have 4 chances this year, good luck with that. The only thing is that Blizzard annouces more WCS circuit events during the year, but by the way the initial annoucement was written it was like there were not gonna be anything more that what was announced. If there are more foreign tournaments, I would expect them to not be part of the WCS circuit, which means no regional qualifiers for players to be able to participate in. TaHKMaJa
Someone please name themselves that on BNet.
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On February 08 2017 23:42 Dingodile wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 21:29 Elentos wrote:
I don't understand why this took so long tbh. They announced all those tournaments as WCS tournaments in December. It can't be that hard to figure out the point values. I think it makes more sense to announce wcs points shortly before first wcs tournament of the year begins. unhandily to announce the points when the first tournament starts 2-3 months afterwards.
But the first tournament that gave WCS points for 2017 was 2 months ago.
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On February 08 2017 15:40 Diabolique wrote:
That means 4 global events, right? Much nicer than 2016!
Only one more global which is the showmatch that doesn't give any point. Blizzard is outright ridiculing anyone with their communication regarding globals even if to be fair Katowice looks better than last year KeSPA Cup.
On February 08 2017 18:16 FluoCrazyKenny wrote:
wait , where is DreamHack Open Tours (France) on May 6th to 8th ? It is not a WCS Circuit tournament anymore ? No point granted ?
So I guess there will be no StarCraft at DreamHack Tours ?
I'd have to guess at a smaller tournaments. Huge technical problem twice in a row affecting DH Open and WCS means that it's a logical move.
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All those six Japanese players got their wishes granted! after a whole season!
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When does WCS Challenger start?
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On February 08 2017 23:00 DARKING wrote:It is finally good to see the point distribution for this year. Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 14:09 Inflicted wrote:
Regional Eligibility Changes for 2017
Japan added to Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau Region
2016 was in the first year Japanese players were eligible to participate in the WCS. While we appreciate their contributions to the ANZ & Southeast Asia region, we’ve examined the player experience and decided that due to server location it makes sense to home Japan in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region. We hope this will provide a better experience for all players.
That's a pretty curious change. While the Japanese scene is small (basically PSiArc and Vaisravana), the Taiwanese scene has also been shrinking a lot. Adding a couple more players would not hurt, plus if it gives them better latency I'm all up for it. EDIT: guess we're gonna call it the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau/Japan region now? Talk about long names. Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 21:33 ArtyK wrote:
So is this the WCS 2016 Korea but for foreigners in 2017? 4 events total really?
It was 3 last year but with 3 extra DH, the Gold series, IEM shanghai and wcs copa intercontinental, so 9 events total for wcs points.
Are they gonna announce more tournaments or is that it? Even counting global events it's like 70% of last years circuit prize pool. This is something that I do not know why it was not discussed more when it was initially announced, the non-Korean world got sliced pretty bad there. While the ammout of seeds that WCS Challenger gives has doubled, the ammout of premier tournaments got decreased a lot. And why yes, one can also plays in all the Korean tournaments, the reality is that not very many players got the income neccesary to make it a reality. That is why last year WCS was so good for foreigners, having multiple opportunities to travel to tournaments, giving exposure to your region and teams that otherwise you would not be able to. Now you have 4 chances this year, good luck with that. The only thing is that Blizzard annouces more WCS circuit events during the year, but by the way the initial annoucement was written it was like there were not gonna be anything more that what was announced. If there are more foreign tournaments, I would expect them to not be part of the WCS circuit, which means no regional qualifiers for players to be able to participate in.
Well, I did raise precisely this concern in the WCS 2017 Announcement thread, but I suppose quite a lot of people around here couldn't care less what happens to WCS. However, if the foreigner scene is down to 4 major tourney per year it clearly has one two major implications: 1. foreigners that want to stay pros simply don't have many reasons to continue playing starcraft anymore; and 2) Cutting the WCS from 10 (as it were in 2016) to 4 tourneys, WCS simply becomes uninteresting to follow. 4 competitions, what kind of circuit is that? Its such a tremendous failure of keeping an interesting circuit going. In 2016 players were fighting so hard throughout the year to be among the top 8, and it wasn't decided until the very last tourney who would make it. Now this is all gone it seems.
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wow Katowice has a sick prize pool O_O
the amount of points awarded is not proportional, however... not even close. sad!
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On February 09 2017 06:24 BaneRiders wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2017 23:00 DARKING wrote:It is finally good to see the point distribution for this year. On February 08 2017 14:09 Inflicted wrote:
Regional Eligibility Changes for 2017
Japan added to Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau Region
2016 was in the first year Japanese players were eligible to participate in the WCS. While we appreciate their contributions to the ANZ & Southeast Asia region, we’ve examined the player experience and decided that due to server location it makes sense to home Japan in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region. We hope this will provide a better experience for all players.
That's a pretty curious change. While the Japanese scene is small (basically PSiArc and Vaisravana), the Taiwanese scene has also been shrinking a lot. Adding a couple more players would not hurt, plus if it gives them better latency I'm all up for it. EDIT: guess we're gonna call it the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau/Japan region now? Talk about long names. On February 08 2017 21:33 ArtyK wrote:
So is this the WCS 2016 Korea but for foreigners in 2017? 4 events total really?
It was 3 last year but with 3 extra DH, the Gold series, IEM shanghai and wcs copa intercontinental, so 9 events total for wcs points.
Are they gonna announce more tournaments or is that it? Even counting global events it's like 70% of last years circuit prize pool. This is something that I do not know why it was not discussed more when it was initially announced, the non-Korean world got sliced pretty bad there. While the ammout of seeds that WCS Challenger gives has doubled, the ammout of premier tournaments got decreased a lot. And why yes, one can also plays in all the Korean tournaments, the reality is that not very many players got the income neccesary to make it a reality. That is why last year WCS was so good for foreigners, having multiple opportunities to travel to tournaments, giving exposure to your region and teams that otherwise you would not be able to. Now you have 4 chances this year, good luck with that. The only thing is that Blizzard annouces more WCS circuit events during the year, but by the way the initial annoucement was written it was like there were not gonna be anything more that what was announced. If there are more foreign tournaments, I would expect them to not be part of the WCS circuit, which means no regional qualifiers for players to be able to participate in. Well, I did raise precisely this concern in the WCS 2017 Announcement thread, but I suppose quite a lot of people around here couldn't care less what happens to WCS. However, if the foreigner scene is down to 4 major tourney per year it clearly has one two major implications: 1. foreigners that want to stay pros simply don't have many reasons to continue playing starcraft anymore; and 2) Cutting the WCS from 10 (as it were in 2016) to 4 tourneys, WCS simply becomes uninteresting to follow. 4 competitions, what kind of circuit is that? Its such a tremendous failure of keeping an interesting circuit going. In 2016 players were fighting so hard throughout the year to be among the top 8, and it wasn't decided until the very last tourney who would make it. Now this is all gone it seems.
Agreed, when I saw it announced for the first time I was kind of disappointed and was thinking about going back to studies but we will see how this year will look like exactly.
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meanwhile bw is growing and growing and just got a TEAMLEAGUE!!!
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if anybody has infos of when is wcs challenger that'd be neat
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Germany25657 Posts
On February 10 2017 23:02 CUTtheCBC wrote:
meanwhile bw is growing and growing and just got a TEAMLEAGUE!!!
What does that have to do with anything in this thread?
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