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Esports World Cup/2024Starting brackets for EWC have been announced. Keep in mind that EWC has a complicated format that includes double elimination, so this is just the starting bracket for players.
Group A is a must watch if you like TvT
EWC Starting Brackets Revealed
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Kreuger
Sweden786 Posts
Esports World Cup/2024Starting brackets for EWC have been announced. Keep in mind that EWC has a complicated format that includes double elimination, so this is just the starting bracket for players. Group A is a must watch if you like TvT
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Cricketer12
United States13989 Posts
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Balnazza
Germany1218 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17683 Posts
"Knockout Bracket: 13 players from the Main Stage and 2 players from the Qualifiers" ok so Shin and Showtime will be in the knockout bracket, I'm guessing top left and bottom left of the bracket so the top 4 will be made up of the 1st place from each group, the winner between the 2nd place from each group (with the loser going to the knockout bracket), and the last slot is the winner of the knockout bracket the 3rd place guy from each group has to play a ton of games to reach the top 4 lol | ||
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
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Blitzball04
191 Posts
My boy classic got unlucky facing Clem. Hopefully he pulls off some creative build and not garbage macro build that terrans stomps on every each game | ||
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bela.mervado
Hungary402 Posts
On July 11 2024 07:09 Die4Ever wrote: wait where is SHIN?? "Knockout Bracket: 13 players from the Main Stage and 2 players from the Qualifiers" ok so Shin and Showtime will be in the knockout bracket, I'm guessing top left and bottom left of the bracket so the top 4 will be made up of the 1st place from each group, the winner between the 2nd place from each group (with the loser going to the knockout bracket), and the last slot is the winner of the knockout bracket the 3rd place guy from each group has to play a ton of games to reach the top 4 lol yeah i think it's a bit too complicated could have been 4 guys from open, then group stage RR of 4x 5 guys, top 2 into playoffs with KO bracket or the top 3 advancing: 4x #1 goes to ro8 waiting for 4 guys: 4x #2-#3 (=8) into 'ro16' winners to play group #1 s with double elim bracket current bracket feels a bit weird imagine imagine a contest with 6 groups of 4 each where top 2 advances and additionally best 4 of the #3s also advances (4 out of the 6 #3s) would be silly innit? | ||
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Balnazza
Germany1218 Posts
On July 11 2024 12:15 bela.mervado wrote: yeah i think it's a bit too complicated could have been 4 guys from open, then group stage RR of 4x 5 guys, top 2 into playoffs with KO bracket or the top 3 advancing: 4x #1 goes to ro8 waiting for 4 guys: 4x #2-#3 (=8) into 'ro16' winners to play group #1 s with double elim bracket current bracket feels a bit weird imagine imagine a contest with 6 groups of 4 each where top 2 advances and additionally best 4 of the #3s also advances (4 out of the 6 #3s) would be silly innit? I hate this "best 3rd places advance aswell"-Bullshit with a passion. It is idiotic and especially in Esports completly unnecessary. Just do 4x6. Though initially it is a good thing we don't have any Round-Robin, since that way it is different from Katowice (where we in fact had 4x6). Generally EWC seems to try some more complicated, but interesting systems. The Counterstrike-Tournament is especially experimental. I also assume they tried to have different systems in every game. Atleast I just randomly opened a few on Liquipedia (~six games) and every single one had a different system, though of course with some similarities. Don't know if that is intentional or not, but it gives every game its unique vibe, which I quite enjoy as an idea. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany6981 Posts
On July 11 2024 12:15 bela.mervado wrote: yeah i think it's a bit too complicated could have been 4 guys from open, then group stage RR of 4x 5 guys, top 2 into playoffs with KO bracket or the top 3 advancing: 4x #1 goes to ro8 waiting for 4 guys: 4x #2-#3 (=8) into 'ro16' winners to play group #1 s with double elim bracket current bracket feels a bit weird imagine imagine a contest with 6 groups of 4 each where top 2 advances and additionally best 4 of the #3s also advances (4 out of the 6 #3s) would be silly innit? Haha I see what you did there <3 The CS2 bracket really gives some World Cup vibes: A lot of the usual teams are missing and instead there are a lot of "outsider" teams I've never heard of qualified through stuff like "middle eastern qualifier" | ||
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M3t4PhYzX
Poland4220 Posts
this format that they're using is kinda awful tbh.. but still somehow better than the garbage they've cooked up for counter-strike competition.. that one is a travesty. | ||
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jodljodl
175 Posts
actually am looking forward to all the r1 matches. Also i think, if serral doesn't win this it's because a group like group B. It's been a while but this bracket makes me really excited for a tournament. wowowowowo looking forward to so many many great matches. There'll be sc matches to watch for weeks! happy sc to all of you <3 addendum: let aligulac tell me the future. It's crazy how favored serral is against anybody. Great to see someone rise above and beyond skillwise. (Ofc not in all regards.. :> But...) It suggest that the skill ceiling for humans hasn't been reached at all, i think. | ||
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tigera6
3431 Posts
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2449 Posts
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Balnazza
Germany1218 Posts
On July 11 2024 17:54 Harris1st wrote: Haha I see what you did there <3 The CS2 bracket really gives some World Cup vibes: A lot of the usual teams are missing and instead there are a lot of "outsider" teams I've never heard of qualified through stuff like "middle eastern qualifier" As with everything, Saudi-Arabia (and Qatar) are trying to push into Esports from the Team-side of things aswell, so any game where it is justifiable to do a MENA-qualifier, they did. For SC2 though, it would have been way too much of a stretch. What's the last MENA-player who did something remotely noteworthy in SC2? Adonminus (not that Israel is usually part of the MENA-qualifiers...)? PandaTank from South Africa? I think in WESG, the MENA-slots always went to Stephano because he can play from Algeria, right? | ||
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Biedrik
United States94 Posts
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FCHK
202 Posts
non-korean points are adjusted somehow *the points on liquipedia are incorrect here and there | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16092 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25891 Posts
On July 11 2024 22:18 Balnazza wrote: As with everything, Saudi-Arabia (and Qatar) are trying to push into Esports from the Team-side of things aswell, so any game where it is justifiable to do a MENA-qualifier, they did. For SC2 though, it would have been way too much of a stretch. What's the last MENA-player who did something remotely noteworthy in SC2? Adonminus (not that Israel is usually part of the MENA-qualifiers...)? PandaTank from South Africa? I think in WESG, the MENA-slots always went to Stephano because he can play from Algeria, right? Tunisia if memory serves, it may not be and I stand corrected if not. Stephano definitely had ties with some North African nation But yeah that makes a lot of sense | ||
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JJH777
United States4414 Posts
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M3t4PhYzX
Poland4220 Posts
On July 12 2024 04:35 JJH777 wrote: I can't find info on this anywhere. Are the groups bo3 or bo5? I like that it's basically all KR vs World besides Serral vs Coffee and herO vs Solar. Nice bracket. If it's bo5 it will really tell us where the world sans Serral stands against Korea. from liquipedia --> + Main Stage: - 16 players into 2 Groups of 8 players each. - Double-elimination brackets. - All matches are Bo5. - Winner of each group advances to the Final Four. - 2nd Place of each group play a match, Winner advances to the Final Four. + Knockout Bracket: - 13 players from the Main Stage and 2 players from the Qualifiers. - Single-elimination bracket. - All matches are Bo3. - Finals are Bo5. - Winner advances to the Final Four. + Final Four: - Single-elimination bracket. - Semifinals are Bo7. - Grand Finals are Bo9. | ||
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