The 2023/24 ESL Pro Tour concluded with Clem winning the world championship, sweeping Serral 5-0 in a first-ever best-of-nine grand final. The victory capped off a dominant championship run from the Team Liquid ace, who recorded a 18-2 overall map score while taking series victories over Serral (5-0, 3-0), herO (4-0), Reynor (3-2), and Classic (3-0).
The EPT World Championship—played at the 2024 Esports World Cup—awarded a record $1,000,000 total prize pool to the participants, with $400,000 going to Clem for his first place finish. Clem also won an additional $50,000 in prize money as the tournament's MVP.
No information was revealed regarding the continuation of the ESL Pro Tour during the tournament. As of now, only weekly Open Cups #241 and #242 remain as officially scheduled EPT events.
Clem's 8-0 over Serral in this tournament is pretty insane, mostly attributed to his amazing micro. The games were not bad, Serral played well, just not good enough for Clem's unstoppable performance.
Reynor almost took out Clem though, losing 2-3.
Clem must be super happy, this single weekend won him more $ than his entire career at $450k. Also, not sure if he will get a share of TL's prize money, I'm pretty sure Clem won TL a good few hundred thousand if not like a $1.5m additional prize.
- Showtime deserved so much better for what he displayed. We need a better format and a chance for the last chance qualifiers to prove themselves, (esp if youre going to give coffee and soul that many chances to qualify..) - poor herO he really had a chance to go all the way, he 3-0ed clem not too long ago and he was like one engagement away from knocking serral into knockout bracket. - someone check on oliveira plz lol - also wtf is "mvp" in a 1v1 game, just make first place 450k then, or split the winnings more equitably.
very well run tournament all in all, the trophy construction and key crushing was creatively cool and the prep players brought to a game this old was great. hope saudi fed buys esl or keeps the scene alive. i understand the economics don't work out but they have an insane purse ($63m) and are already funding teams directly and this would be negligible all things considered..
> I'm pretty sure Clem won TL a good few hundred thousand if not like a $1.5m additional prize. Yeah clem the first sc2 player to justify his roster spot on the team. across esports, teams dont get paid in this manner and every team loses $.
On August 19 2024 07:54 johnnyh123 wrote: Huge congrats to Clem, well deserved victory.
Clem's 8-0 over Serral in this tournament is pretty insane, mostly attributed to his amazing micro. The games were not bad, Serral played well, just not good enough for Clem's unstoppable performance.
Reynor almost took out Clem though, losing 2-3.
Clem must be super happy, this single weekend won him more $ than his entire career at $450k. Also, not sure if he will get a share of TL's prize money, I'm pretty sure Clem won TL a good few hundred thousand if not like a $1.5m additional prize.
The stage hosts already said if he were to win he won them 4mil, so it's more than u think.
A strange weekend for me. Having watched pretty much all the big events in the last decade, it was an odd feeling to search for things to do to distract myself from SC2. Although I followed along by checking the TL thread and Liquipedia from time to time (can you imagine not opening TL for 4-5 days? The agony)
Hopefully, there's a path forward for Starcraft 2 that doesn't involve going back to Saudi Arabia so that I'm at ease watching the next world championship, but I doubt it.
Anyhow, well done Clem, better luck next time Serral, and don't worry Ryung, I know you would have won that 400 k$ match.
On August 19 2024 07:54 johnnyh123 wrote: Huge congrats to Clem, well deserved victory.
Clem's 8-0 over Serral in this tournament is pretty insane, mostly attributed to his amazing micro. The games were not bad, Serral played well, just not good enough for Clem's unstoppable performance.
Reynor almost took out Clem though, losing 2-3.
Clem must be super happy, this single weekend won him more $ than his entire career at $450k. Also, not sure if he will get a share of TL's prize money, I'm pretty sure Clem won TL a good few hundred thousand if not like a $1.5m additional prize.
The stage hosts already said if he were to win he won them 4mil, so it's more than u think.
Nono, he wouldn't have won the $4m by him winning alone. TL has 2545 points rn, and Clem contributed 1000 points. Around 40% of the points thus far, and the event is not over yet, so probably less than 40% in the end.
There's no way TL will win #1 for $7m, but they might win #2 for $4m. So no, he alone did not win $4m. But he might have lifted them to #2 (if from #4, then that's $2.5m, I have mistyped, I meant to type $2.5m not $1.5m.)
So yeah, (if they did say so) stage hosts were wrong to say Clem won TL $4m, he contributed significantly for the potential $4m, not guaranteed. Even if they ended up with $4m, he alone did not do it, it was TL team from all the different games.
Finally, great showing from Clem, in this event, he is definitely the best player to show up. With SC2 player skills getting better and better, he is definitely, at this point in time, the best SC2 has ever seen.
On August 19 2024 08:01 luxon wrote: - also wtf is "mvp" in a 1v1 game, just make first place 450k then, or split the winnings more equitably.
From what I can tell, there's EWC-wide, Sony-sponsored MVP awards for every game, with team games being the focus. So for 1v1 games it basically just became a bonus for the champ, where the main intent is to reward the best player on the winning team in the bigger game categories.
MVP award should have been something like most entertaining game and split between the two participants. Or just divide into the total prize pool to give more to the lower placing players.
Clem absolutely crushed Serral that even if Serral was full time pro, he could have maybe taken 1-2 maps max. Team Liquid must be very happy about Clem.
Serral made few mistakes that I have never seen him make. And few really stubborn moves. But isn't it that better player crushing you makes you look like noob.
On August 19 2024 11:30 shadowyice wrote: solar scored 5-8, classic scored 4-9 and both walked away earning 20k while oliveria who scored 12-13 earned 15k
oh, i even forgot to mention that is exactly the same amount earned by heromarine (2-8), spirit (1-8) and coffee (0-8)
truly hilarious match format
It's an annual event with seedings based on the full year, not just a weekend tourney. Don't be dense.
On August 19 2024 11:30 shadowyice wrote: solar scored 5-8, classic scored 4-9 and both walked away earning 20k while oliveria who scored 12-13 earned 15k
oh, i even forgot to mention that is exactly the same amount earned by heromarine (2-8), spirit (1-8) and coffee (0-8)
truly hilarious match format
It's an annual event with seedings based on the full year, not just a weekend tourney. Don't be dense.
For the avoidance of same group encounter, group A lower bracket semifinal exit (Byun) and final exit (Oliveira) will face group B lower bracket round 1 exits (Classic and Coffee).
In a REASONABLE seeding, as Oliveira had a better result than Byun, Oliveira should be better seeded and be pit against the lower ranked Coffee.
Instead, they did a RANDOM seeding between the above players, making the progression from lower bracket semifinal to final completely meaningless so long as you cannot enter the 2nd vs 2nd match.
Truly hilarious seeding, for an ANNUAL event.
If the seeding mechanism has a better logic in it, please enlighten me.
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