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China6331 Posts
SCboy is happy to present Douyu Cup 2020, sponsored by Chinese streaming giant Douyu.com. It is a 24-man online event with over $20,000 in prize money on the line.
Players
16 players will be directly invited:
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/GyaKZYL.png)
 PartinG, Dear, Trap, Zest, ShoWTimE, Astrea
 INnoVation, Cure, TY, Clem, SpeCial, TIME
 Solar, Serral, Reynor, Scarlett, soO
8 more will be determined by 4 server qualifiers:
4 from Korean qualifier: Armani, Stats, Dream, Rogue
1 from NA qualifier: Namshar
2 from EU qualifier: Bly, uThermal
1 from CN qualifier: Cyan
Players are only allowed to participate in one of the 4 server qualifiers, and are only allowed to play on the server of their residence.
Format
Group stage will be 4 6-man groups, played in a round robin best of 3 format, top 2 of each group advance to winners round 1, 3rd finishers to losers round 1.
Playoffs will be best of 5 double elimination, with the grand finals being best of 7.
Prize pool
1st: CNY 50,000 ($ 7,055)
2nd: CNY 30,000 ($ 4,233)
3rd: CNY 20,000 ($ 2,822)
4th: CNY 10,000 ($ 1411)
5-6th: CNY 6,000 ($ 846)
7-8th: CNY 4,000 ($ 564)
9-12th: CNY 2,000 ($ 282)
13-16th: CNY 1,000 ($ 141)
17-24th: CNY 500 ($ 70)
Total: CNY 146,000 ($ 20,596)
Schedule
All dates are in Chinese local time and are subject to change.
Qualifiers: July 2, 3, 6, 7
Group A: July 9, 10
Group B: July 12, 13
Group C: July 20, 21
Group D: July 27, 28
Playoffs: August 3, 4, 6, 12, 13
Stream
TBD, there will be English coverage on Twitch for sure.
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Germany3367 Posts
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Really nice stuff! What a great iniciative, but I must say I'm very surprised to not see more invites/spots for chinese players. Great tournament!
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Now THAT'S a tournament out of nowhere. Between ESL, GTC, the new team event and the usual GSL/EPT we are truly spoiled this year!
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The astrea invite is a little bit surprising to me but well deserved imo, hope he can perform well :D
Otherwise pretty solid invites maybe a bit weak on the korean zerg front, but we got solid foreigners for compensation 
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On June 17 2020 21:38 darklycid wrote:The astrea invite is a little bit surprising to me but well deserved imo, hope he can perform well :D Otherwise pretty solid invites maybe a bit weak on the korean zerg front, but we got solid foreigners for compensation
As far as I know, almost all the top Korean players have been contacted, but some of them don't want to participate.
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Serral participating? That's great!
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Poor Maru and SOS，betrayed by rouge
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On June 17 2020 22:15 Arceusl wrote:
Poor Maru and SOS，betrayed by rouge
What??
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Good to see more support from SC2 from SCBoy and China. That's extra revenue that the players can earn for themselves.
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On June 17 2020 22:17 Tastyyyy wrote:What??
The sponsor asked rogue whether Jinair will join the contest,rogue said they will not join. However, after they have checked the invited players, sos asked xiaose why didn't invite them to join the contest. He and Maru both have intrest on the DouyuCup but they didn't hear anything from rogue.
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On June 17 2020 22:17 Tastyyyy wrote:What??
Scboy asked Rouge whether jinair progamers wanted to participate, Rouge said Jinair didn't plan to participate, So scboy didn't invite them. However SoS said to scboy Rouge didn't mention this event to him and Maru......
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Oh well, they'll have to qualify normally then. Should be doable for Maru at least.
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Otherwise pretty solid invites maybe a bit weak on the korean zerg front
dark and rogue received invitation from scboy. rogue said he will not join. dark refused due to network problem as most games will be in am server
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Poland105 Posts
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Honestly,at first I didn't think it would come true,but now it does.Nicely done,GODFATHER. lol.
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On June 17 2020 22:27 Arceusl wrote:Show nested quote +On June 17 2020 22:17 Tastyyyy wrote:On June 17 2020 22:15 Arceusl wrote:
Poor Maru and SOS，betrayed by rouge What?? The sponsor asked rogue whether Jinair will join the contest,rogue said they will not join. However, after they have checked the invited players, sos asked xiaose why didn't invite them to join the contest. He and Maru both have intrest on the DouyuCup but they didn't hear anything from rogue.
Ah ok...thats a shame. They can qualify easily tho.
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On June 17 2020 22:35 sylow wrote:Show nested quote +On June 17 2020 22:17 Tastyyyy wrote:On June 17 2020 22:15 Arceusl wrote:
Poor Maru and SOS，betrayed by rouge What?? Scboy asked Rouge whether jinair progamers wanted to participate, Rouge said Jinair didn't plan to participate, So scboy didn't invite them. However SoS said to scboy Rouge didn't mention this event to him and Maru......
That's weird. I see Trap is one of the players invited. So at least Trap from Jinair was invited.
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It s 5 days for playoffs ? (with 12 players)...
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Are players able to choose which of the four server qualifiers they play in? Because if so that likely means a bunch of European are going to try to metagame out who is playing in what qualifier to figure out if it's worth it or not to switch to the NA qualifier.
Not a huge fan of that sort of strategic decisions for qualifiers.
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Dark doesnt like cross server it seems.
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China6331 Posts
On June 18 2020 02:49 Shathe wrote:
Dark doesnt like cross server it seems.
His home internet is poor and doesn't play well outside of Korean servers.
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United States33662 Posts
Super glad to hear the "Douyu" Cup will still have a Twitch stream for English audiences 
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Italy3703 Posts
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On June 18 2020 03:15 digmouse wrote:His home internet is poor and doesn't play well outside of Korean servers.
I thought all of Korea had superinternet?
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want to see maru vs serral
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On June 18 2020 03:30 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:Show nested quote +On June 18 2020 03:15 digmouse wrote:On June 18 2020 02:49 Shathe wrote:
Dark doesnt like cross server it seems. His home internet is poor and doesn't play well outside of Korean servers. I thought all of Korea had superinternet?
It's possible Dark lives outside the city. I remember a few progamers complaining about the commute to the GSL studio.
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+ Show Spoiler +it says 21,000 in the title but 20,000 in the thread so which one is it
HYPE!!!!!!
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China6331 Posts
On June 18 2020 19:31 AzAlexZ wrote:+ Show Spoiler +it says 21,000 in the title but 20,000 in the thread so which one is it HYPE!!!!!!
Math is not my strong suit.
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On June 18 2020 20:14 digmouse wrote:Math is not my strong suit.
The RMB exchange rate will shoot up to 21,000 when the tournament happens 
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Well, we need some more zergs, would like to see bois like elazer, soo and Ragnarok qualify. Curious about where's neeb and kelazhur, the two players who seemed to be in good contact with scboy, but astrea performed pretty well and he's a part of GTC, maybe that's why he got invited.
And where on earth did they find that TIME's picture, I love it.
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Woah awesome SCboy what a legend! Let's go PartinG / Trap!
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Hope this event will be assigned to some other caster than Wardii. Of course, Tastosis would be best, but realistically hoping for Rotti, Creighton, and/or Maynarde
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On June 19 2020 03:53 seopthi wrote:
Hope this event will be assigned to some other caster than Wardii. Of course, Tastosis would be best, but realistically hoping for Rotti, Creighton, and/or Maynarde
I would imagine it's application based instead of "assigned" and they've been working together well with Wardi for years at this point. So most likely you'll have to live with whatever it is you don't like about Wardi, or mute the stream, or watch another stream as I imagine there may be other language streams too (maybe even multiple English streams, who knows?).
Tastosis casting this would probably be a sign that the world is actually about to end since I can't actually remember any online events casted by Tasteless off the top of my head at all.
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China6331 Posts
On June 19 2020 03:53 seopthi wrote:
Hope this event will be assigned to some other caster than Wardii. Of course, Tastosis would be best, but realistically hoping for Rotti, Creighton, and/or Maynarde
I definitely don't have an unlimited pocket.
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I hope my post didn't come off as rude or anything like that. When mentioned Tastosis it was a bit cheeky, but I was hoping Creighton or Maynarde are realistic.
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Nice!!
and TIME's photo!!!
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Nice! I am happy there is English coverage.
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Czech Republic12132 Posts
On June 19 2020 04:55 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On June 19 2020 03:53 seopthi wrote:
Hope this event will be assigned to some other caster than Wardii. Of course, Tastosis would be best, but realistically hoping for Rotti, Creighton, and/or Maynarde I definitely don't have an unlimited pocket.
We need somebody to do the hair analysis. Like realistically, let the progamers send their photos and ask Wolf to do a charity analysis
Seriously though, I miss Wolf 
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China6331 Posts
Updated OP with qualifier sign up links, please refer to the challonge link for actual start time.
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hope these qualifiers are stacked
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On June 19 2020 06:07 seopthi wrote:
I hope my post didn't come off as rude or anything like that. When mentioned Tastosis it was a bit cheeky, but I was hoping Creighton or Maynarde are realistic.
Creighton would be the best on this one.
Edit: At least one of the best..
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Xiaose said he will give every amateur player who eliminate a professional player in China qualifier 1,000 CNY (about 142 USD) in order to encourage amateur players.:D
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On July 06 2020 20:22 sc2edeN wrote:
Xiaose said he will give every amateur player who eliminate a professional player in China qualifier 1,000 CNY (about 142 USD) in order to encourage amateur players.:D
Amazing idear. Who counts as proffessional player then?
Alligulac? MMR? Playing in CTC?
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On July 06 2020 21:13 dbRic1203 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 06 2020 20:22 sc2edeN wrote:
Xiaose said he will give every amateur player who eliminate a professional player in China qualifier 1,000 CNY (about 142 USD) in order to encourage amateur players.:D Amazing idear. Who counts as proffessional player then? Alligulac? MMR? Playing in CTC?
Xiaose gave a list in streaming, the 'professional players' list includes:
Cyan, Jieshi, MacSed, XY, BreakingGG, Silky, Firefly, Wanted, CoffeeMs, Jim.
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China6331 Posts
Dear forfeited his spot, and was replaced by soO who was voted in by Chinese audience after the conclusion of Korean qualifier.
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Italy3703 Posts
what are the starting times for the groups?
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China6331 Posts
On July 08 2020 01:48 CynicalDeath wrote:
what are the starting times for the groups?
Currently set for 7pm CST like usual, but they are still working on potential conflicts with WCTL I believe so not entirely set in stone, but it's safe to say it's 7pm CST/8pm KST/1pm CEST
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Italy3703 Posts
On July 08 2020 01:57 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2020 01:48 CynicalDeath wrote:
what are the starting times for the groups? Currently set for 7pm CST like usual, but they are still working on potential conflicts with WCTL I believe so not entirely set in stone, but it's safe to say it's 7pm CST/8pm KST/1pm CEST
thank you, I'll wait to see if tomorrow will bring updates to update LP
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Given the current situation and US at latest will put sanction plan in place on China on July 12th. The tournament payout will be .....abysmal imo. Purely speculation here. But ..........great to see XiaoSe always taking initiatives like this.
Sad times sad times.
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On July 08 2020 01:28 digmouse wrote:
Dear forfeited his spot, and was replaced by soO who was voted in by Chinese audience after the conclusion of Korean qualifier.
I wonder why Dear forfeited. Hopefully he isn't too down about his GSL results :/ I hope he's not about to retire.
Getting soO in is awesome though. I was sad when I saw he lost to Armani in the qualifier bracket.
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On July 08 2020 05:34 JJH777 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2020 01:28 digmouse wrote:
Dear forfeited his spot, and was replaced by soO who was voted in by Chinese audience after the conclusion of Korean qualifier. I wonder why Dear forfeited. Hopefully he isn't too down about his GSL results :/ I hope he's not about to retire. Getting soO in is awesome though. I was sad when I saw he lost to Armani in the qualifier bracket.
On liquipedia it says because of health issues but you never know ofc
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On July 08 2020 05:34 JJH777 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2020 01:28 digmouse wrote:
Dear forfeited his spot, and was replaced by soO who was voted in by Chinese audience after the conclusion of Korean qualifier. I wonder why Dear forfeited. Hopefully he isn't too down about his GSL results :/ I hope he's not about to retire. Getting soO in is awesome though. I was sad when I saw he lost to Armani in the qualifier bracket.
On Xiaose's stream yesterday,He said that Dear has to gove up the race because of his health issue
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Any word on an English stream?
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On July 09 2020 04:17 TheGoatPuncher wrote:
Any word on an English stream?
Group thread says Wardi
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On July 08 2020 04:55 PurE)Rabbit-SF wrote:Given the current situation and US at latest will put sanction plan in place on China on July 12th. The tournament payout will be .....abysmal imo. Purely speculation here. But ..........great to see XiaoSe always taking initiatives like this. Sad times sad times.
As long as the wire transaction is not banned (which would be crazy if it did get banned), I don't see a chance that there would be any problem.
And even if the sanction is rolled out, the only player that could be affected is Astrea tbh.
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wow what an event. players are absolutely stacked. hope the tournament pans out well.
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Looking forwars this tourney !
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The hype is real, some of these matchups are gold. Lets go!
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no bid for macsed? what a shame.......
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China6331 Posts
On July 09 2020 23:24 Alejandrisha wrote:
no bid for macsed? what a shame.......
It's only between 4 RO8 losers from Korean qualifier so he has to get there first lol.
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On July 09 2020 23:24 digmouse wrote:Show nested quote +On July 09 2020 23:24 Alejandrisha wrote:
no bid for macsed? what a shame....... It's only between 4 RO8 losers from Korean qualifier so he has to get there first lol.
i was taking a dig at macsed hehe don't mind me
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EPT![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/wxfh3Mx.png)
Douyu Cup/2020
