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![[image loading]](https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/blog_header/9a/9ACIQE0NX3Q81545094694441.jpg) SourceIntroducing WCS Winter 2019
StarCraft II esports—the competition and the community—impressed and inspired us more than ever before in 2018, and today we are excited to shed some light on what 2019 will look like. We are still working out the details so some of this may be subject to change. Both WCS Korea and the WCS Circuit will continue in 2019, and we look forward to sharing the full details of both programs next year. In the meantime, we are pleased to announce WCS Winter.
What Is WCS Winter?
Serving as a prelude to the WCS 2019 season, WCS Winter replaces one WCS Circuit stop. This 10-week program will consist of a pair of 32-person online tournaments—one for the Americas (including Latin America, Taiwan, ANZ/SEA, and China) and one for Europe—each with a USD $60,000 prize pool, and with WCS points awarded as outlined below. Each tournament will culminate in a live, winner-advances battle between the top six, one for Europe and one for the Americas. See the full rules, including residency requirements, here.
WCS Winter Prize Pool and Points Distribution![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/z9abuEu.jpg)
Qualifiers
There are two ways players can qualify for WCS Winter’s two 32-person online tournaments.
The Ladder
Both the Americas and Europe will have eight of their 32 slots decided, respectively, by Americas and Europe ladder placements. The competition will take place between promotion windows and run January 10–13. For a full list of cut-off times per region, see the WCS 2019 ruleset.
Open Qualifiers
Europe: Three separate qualifiers will be held on the Europe servers on January 17, 18, and 20. The top eight from each will move to the European round of 32.
Americas: Two separate qualifiers will take place on the Americas servers on January 15 and 20. A third qualifier will be run on the Asia server on January 19. The top eight from the Asia server qualifier and the top 6 from each Americas qualifier will move to the Americas round of 32. Players who are eligible to play in the Americas region for WCS Winter but who are not in the China region may participate in all three of these qualifiers.
Sign-ups for both Americas and Europe qualifiers will be open soon; keep an eye on the StarCraft Esports Twitter for information.
China: Four players will be selected from a China qualifier and will move to the Americas round of 32.
The Rounds of 32, 16, and 8
Once the top 32 players in each competition have been determined, both regions will enter into their own GSL-style double-elimination groups, with a round-robin top eight.
In-Studio Finals—Round of 6
The top six players from both the Americas and Europe then will be seeded into two separate winner-moves-on tournaments—starting with the sixth seed taking on the fifth seed, the winner of which will fight against the fourth seed, and so on.
Korea in 2019
We’re currently putting the finishing touches on our 2019 plans for WCS Korea. Look for more details in the new year for the region that started it all.
We’ll have further information to share about the rest of the 2019 WCS Circuit soon. Next year the WCS will be streamed live at wcs.starcraft2.com, where you also can find the complete schedule for WCS Winter . Stay up to date with qualifier information, stream locations, and more via Twitter.
Following such a historic 2018, we can’t wait to cheer alongside you all as 2019 unfolds.
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As expected, they scale down WCS system a bit in term of finance but good news is WCS survives for another year.
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Fuck, you directly copied my edited post and posted it as yours lol :D nevermind 
But yeah finally some news about WCS. So excited!
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Announcements are pretty late in arriving because they had to get approved by the new CEO of Blizzard Entertainment. Whoever that is. I got $50 that says it ain't an electrical engineer.
User was temp banned for this post.
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Hm, this probably means no live audience and that Leipzig was cut, but otherwise a Winter season seems nice.
Players get a bit more money (120k vs 100k) and Blizzard saves a lot of money as well, so that's a good deal I guess.
Edit: I forgot the qualifiers, so it's not more money for the players!
It's a bit worrying that they are still working on the details for the main circuit and WCS Korea, but at least everrything is confirmed now.
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Cricketer12
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So Region Lock still alive?
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On December 21 2018 03:30 Cricketer12 wrote:
So Region Lock still alive?
Seems so. It would be weird for things to change between WCS Winter and the rest of the year.
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On December 21 2018 03:20 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:
Fuck, you directly copied my edited post and posted it as yours lol :D
But yeah finally some news about WCS. So excited!
Hey, you got it back!
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we're fucked. (I'm sorry if i was too much emotional).
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i'm too lazy to make an entire thread about this so i'll just stick it in here.
BTTV can receive funding from a War Chest purchase. This is fantastic news.
Congratz to Rifkin and BTTV. Rifkin and BTTV have earned it!
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On December 21 2018 03:37 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i'm too lazy to make an entire thread about this so i'll just stick it in here.
BTTV can receive funding from a War Chest purchase. This is fantastic news.
Congratz to Rifkin and BTTV. Rifkin and BTTV have earned it!
Every content creator can apparently, Rifkin just posted it first. Twitter is being flooded by Warchest links, everyone wants in on that
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that is great news i think. If this results in more War Chest buys due to a fan's loyalty to a certain content creator that is great stuff.
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On December 21 2018 03:37 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i'm too lazy to make an entire thread about this so i'll just stick it in here.
BTTV can receive funding from a War Chest purchase. This is fantastic news.
Congratz to Rifkin and BTTV. Rifkin and BTTV have earned it!
It's great news, but lots of other streams will have affiliate links too.
So you have to decide if you use the BTTV link, feardragon link, livibee link etc...
I hope TakeTV and Rotti have affiliate links as well.
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This means 120K is the same as 100K(Event) +2x10K(Qualifier) which I am realy happy about. They cut the costs of one big event, which is sad but we have to except it. The new format looks interesting but I fear the online events won´t reach more than 10K viewers, but more days of starcraft action. I just hope they know what they are doing, at least the Starcraft team the other teams messed up big times last year. I just hope the very positive trend of last year continues this year and please dont let wc3 mess up sc2, I see some problems coming with the release of that one.
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how much do you earn if you win that "10 week online-cup" and "in-studio finals"?
This article confuses me a lot.
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On December 21 2018 03:41 Musicus wrote:
I hope TakeTV and Rotti have affiliate links as well.
i hope one can "gift" a War Chest to a friend a get one War Chest from TakeTV and one War Chest from Rotti to support them both.
hey, what am i worried about? This is ATVI. They know how to take people's money.
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It's somewhat weird, that this time there is nothing about Korea, usually they announce everything. I wounder if it's good or bad. 
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On December 21 2018 03:45 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2018 03:41 Musicus wrote:
I hope TakeTV and Rotti have affiliate links as well. i hope one can "gift" a War Chest to a friend a get one War Chest from TakeTV and one War Chest from Rotti to support them both. hey, what am i worried about? This is ATVI. They know how to take people's money.
Hopefully that will be possible.
Actually I decided to buy it over Wardi's link. I am subbed to TakeTV and Rotti but haven't really supported Wardi yet. He will produce more online tournaments with the money he makes.
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